Thundercat's Groooooooow

Thanks alot King, I appreciate the input man. I'm gonna be harvesting the last week of June, and the first week of July. That will put my Sativas at 13-14 weeks. The WW, and Kush should be done the last week of June with about 11 weeks on the WW, and 10 on the Kush, but I might let them all go till the fist week of July, it depends on how they look.

I still havn't decided on what type of Ebb and flow system I'm gonna run, partly cus if I go with one table it will make it hard, if not imposible to give the plants a proper flush. But I want what ever I do to fit under my 1000w, which is why for the time being I'm not gonna go with multiple flowering tables, like the 4x8 or 2, 4x4. I know I could proly get by with them, but I'm realy gonna try to maximize my use of the 1000w. What ever I get it won't be ordered online, I'll get it from a shop. The link I posted was just an example of the type of thing I was looking at. I found a similar system I think its called a turbo garden or something, which has room for 14 plants in 5 inch pots, and was just under 200 bones, which wouldn't be too bad. That would only be a grand if I got all 5 like I was talking about. We'll see how much money is gonna be available after this grow, I got a kid on the way, and I'm moving out of state in August, so money is gonna be very tight.

As far as the camping trip goes man, all you have to do is send the email, you know I'm in. We'll both have some dank, and I'll have some fun guys I'm sure, it'll be a blast.

O i know itll be a blast bro. Whats REALLY funny is that my prospect chop dates are right around the same as yours man. Mine will actually be right around the last week of june, god willing, if not a little sooner. Im at the end of week 2 of flower right now, with pistils showing around day 4 really. Im pretty damn syked that it happened like that. I gave them a whole day of darkness before i switched, n 4 days later 3 out of 7 showed, n then by day 10 all of them were showing. So im about 1 week of OFFICIAL flowering for most of the plants, the rest im at about day 10. Im keeping a calendar this time counting the days down, so i know exactly where im at, as opposed to last time around, i just kinda guessed what week i was in, after the buds got big as hell, i had to go back n find the post in my journal where i said i had trichs, lol. But fuck that shit though man, i got it all programmed into the calendar on the iphone. I aint doin no dumb ass shit this time around. I was resin-encrusted fuckin DANK nuggets. I dont wanna see one single white hair on my buds. Hell, i dont wanna see any hairs at all man, i want my shit to be pure WHITE from all the trichomes,


-As for the Turbo Garden, go for the gold bro. You gotta do what works for YOU for sure, so dont pay any nevermind to what im sayin, lol. Fuckin i put one 1000w light over my 3x6 n it barely takes care of everything in there. But thats mainly because the bulb i got in is a Growbright MH, which is a piece of shit n not even as bright as my 600w mh is. Fuckin sucks, but i gotta use what i got right now, cuz i dont got the 70+ bucks to shell out to get a decent replacement, thatll use all the watts im pumping through it. So i just threw the 600 up next to the 1000 last night, so both tables have their own light. Fuck it right?? lol. Ill have both 1000w's free for the tables here in about 6 or 7 weeks, so i can wait. At least the HPS bulbs are Agro's n bright as holy hell

-So, as promised, i got a group shot of my girls, plus a shot with the lights off so you can see the canopy without the hps interfering. I wanna see what a wideshot of your canopy looks like man. You got some pretty big, strong plants there, i wanna see how good your light penetration is gonna be. Anyways, here

All 7 plants:


n the Canopy:


--I got alot more pics in the journal if you wanna check out how the dro is doin. Comin along slow, but i got everything tuned in now, so i figure that now that the water is done bein fucked with, and i got more light in there, everything should pick up pretty soon. I also went from flooding twice a day to just once, because i think that i might be oversaturating my rockwool, n that might also be playing a big part in them growing so slow. Giving the roots a chance to actually have to stretch to search for moisture is definitely what i should be doin, at least im pretty sure anyways, cuz im not a rockwool officionado, so i dont know how differently plants react to dryness in that stuff as opposed to soil. This shit is complicated when your starting out man, lol. Youll see. Cant wait to see you up n running in some dro dude. I wonder just how much of a difference the end result has between the two methods...


anyways dude, sorry for the novel n the hijack. Just bored n its early as fuck man. Ill get atcha later on. Hit me up whenever.

-K1.

Man, this is the best named thread on RIU!

I really want you to get into breeding and name your new stock after ThunderCat characters

I would love to be smoking some Snarf, Mumm- Ra, WilyKit, or some Tug-Mug in a couple of years

King your girls are lookin great man, I checked out your journal last night, so I got to see the rest of the pics. Thats sweet you put up your 600 over the other table, I'm sure you've got great coverage now. As far as my light penetration, the sativas have good penetration, cus the fan leaves are so much skinnier. But I've still trimmed a couple fan leaves off the tops of the ww, and kush, to alow light to get down to the lower bud sites. The indica leaves are just to fat, and so dense, not much light makes it past them. Next grow I am gettting a new bulb for my HPS thats for sure. I'll have two harvests on this bulb, and I get the light second hand, so I have no idea how much they used it. It is an eye hortilux though, so its still pretty bright.

Downonwax, thanks for stopping by man, always glad to have some new company. I'm glad you liked the name, I thought it was clever. As far as nameing my strains after the charectors, I LOVE the idea, I just have to find out if its all copy righted, or if I can get permision to use the names if I'm gonna be able to actully sell them some day. But that is now on my list of things to do, cus I'd love to.

K1Ng5p4d3 said:

. I also went from flooding twice a day to just once, because i think that i might be oversaturating my rockwool, n that might also be playing a big part in them growing so slow. Giving the roots a chance to actually have to stretch to search for moisture is definitely what i should be doin, at least im pretty sure anyways, cuz im not a rockwool officionado, so i dont know how differently plants react to dryness in that stuff as opposed to soil. This shit is complicated when your starting out man, lol. Youll see. Cant wait to see you up n running in some dro dude. I wonder just how much of a difference the end result has between the two methods...


anyways dude, sorry for the novel n the hijack. Just bored n its early as fuck man. Ill get atcha later on. Hit me up whenever.

-K1.

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have you guys seen the utube vids "How to grow green" with the green dude ?
that was the vid that really lit a fire under my ass to start growing
any way i remember he had the ebb n flow for the flowering room and had the timer set for 15min 3 times per day... same timer i have with the pegs that you slide in .
he didnt have them in cups they were in the 4x4 rockwool and all covered with the orchard/hydroton rocks

Glad I saw this thread!

Subscribed and +Rep

I havn't seen that vid yet, but I'm gonna go look for it. I appreciate the info weedman, for me and King, lol. I don't need it yet, but I'm tryin to absorb as much as possible.

As I said before downonwax, glad to have ya.

i just watched some again ... lol
search for Mr.Green .... vid #4 is when he does the ebb n flow ... he has drip for veg but does that 3 times a day as well

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Shipinit, I'll go take some pics right now, the load them up. It doesn't look very impressive right now, I've only got one tray going. I've got another one in my incubator, along with a bunch of jars that are colonizing. I also added 4, 3.5lb rye grain spawn bags I injected with spores last week. I'm hoping they all colonize well, I'm kinda counting on it. I have fairly detailed instructions on everything I did back in the first half of the thread. I'm gonna go get those pics. Peace guys. TC

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Ye, I read the whole thread....was just curious on how you had it set up. Think I shall gather the necessary gear and place an order from ralphsters and give it a go....thanks for the info/pics.

No problem at all man, glad I could help. It hasn't been to tough, but theres been a couple times when I've gotten rather frustrated with them for not growing, or getting contamed. I just had a whole tray I had to throw out before it even fruited once, cus it got contamed some how.

Hey TC.. just a thought...

If you really want the option of a flush...

I actually have a small tray (1pot x 8pots)that is long and skinny...

I use this tray to flush the plants that start showing the sings of nute burn...

I run my res really HOT so it happens sometimes...

I just have a separate tub ...

When I need to use it, I just bring the pump from the normal res into this "flush" res, and swap plants around to put the "needy" ones on water...

Did that make sense?

So in theory, you could have a flush tank and tray...

Depending on how many will be done at a time, you could get by with one or two skinny trays...

Or it could be a DYI thing too....

Decisions...

I mean, you could still do 4 tanks.... just make sure they are big enough to be stable...

I had considered that too Gypsy. I was thinking about doing something along those lines. your right though, so many decisions.

So I still havn't taken the new pics of the plants yet. I will tomorrow for sure, its been 1.5 weeks since I took the last ones. Its gonna be pretty obvious how much they've changed, lol.

I have been harvesting my 3rd flush from this KS tray for the last 24 hours. It looks like it should be about another 15g once its dried, not awesome, but atleast they are flushing, and didn't just contam like that Ereal tray last week. Still no growth on my rye bags, I really hope they do something, I'd be pretty dissapointed if I spent the money on them, and on the spores I shot them with, and didn't get anything from it. That was like 100 bucks between both things. I still have about 3cc of each of the new strains, I'm gonna shoot into some jars, so hopefully those colonize too. I also just put a new tray of burmas into the fc yesterday, so with any hope it will flush better then the first burmas I grew, and I can get some spores from them cus if not, I will have lost that strain. But frankly if they don't flush I don't care if I loose it cus they had a lame flush the first time too.

Well anyways Not much else goin on, so I'll talk to you guys latta, and I'll take those pics tomorrow. Peace TC

Looking forward to seeing the pics Thundercat!

SMOKEDATKU$H said:

Looking forward to seeing the pics Thundercat!

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+1 I am sure there will be a noticeable difference

I'll try not to disappoint!!

looking good. Subsrcribed.

Are those your shrooms in your av thundercat?

Yep that was about half of the first flush from the first tray I did as part of this project. Honestly it was actually the best flush I've gotten from any of my trays. It was almost 2 oz from that one flush. I had picked half of them the night before I took that pic, thats why I said it was half the flush.

So I just got home from work, and I'm gonna go take those pics, and I'll be back to post them up for you guys to check out. Here comes the bud porn!!

Ok well finally several hours later, I have the pictures uploaded. I'm about to head out, but I wanted to toss them up real quick.

1. group shot
2. WW over view with HPS on.
3. overview of PP #2
4-5. Overviews of WW with HPS off.
6-8. WW buds from differant angles.
9. overview of PP #1
10. overview of large power skunk
11. PP #1 bud
12. Powerskunk bud

The sativas have all been in 12/12 for 5 weeks in 2 days on sunday. The WW turned 3 weeks yesterday, and the Kush is at 2.5 weeks. It just started to show flowers so I didn't bother with a close up. Well guys hope you enjoy. Due to financial constraints, I'm not going to be able to get the beastie blooms, and prolly not the cha ching either, we'll see how things look in a few more weeks. Do you guys think it would be good to keep using the open sesame in place of the beastie blooms, or just cut it out, and ramp up the normal bloom nutes?

lol I forgot to link the pictures. Here they are in the same order I posted above.