White Rhino - Coco grow with FLuero Tubes.

harth234

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not really an option.......Im going to try construct a tent out of what i got. Just bung some 2x4 togehter for a frame and use builders plastic for the walls, then just spray it with a high sheen silver paint. Sound like it would work or complete waste of time?
I guess you could try that but im not sure how much that will raise the temp.
 

skiz1989

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6 June 2010

Gave the girls a full strngth feed and full root tonic yesterday. It was by mistake though as i was meant to only give half strength but just wasnt thinking. Hope things will be ok. I would have thought nute burn would show up quite quickly and today was no sign of damage so ill just have to wait the week out and see.

My major concern (well one of many) is that im not to sure if my feeding schedule is too much? I used some calculator thing some guy posted:

http://smokengrow.com/

In it he lists the amount to give on a weekly basis so i thought thats wat i was meant to do. However weekly feed seems like a shit load?


Ive got ~3 weeks left till i should be getting my new MH/HPS and with any luck slap a tent together next weekend. Ill make it outta just plain 2x1 pine with builders plastic acting as the wall. Ill then coat the plastic in either foil or high sheen paint. Ill make it to a normal grow tent size (2x2x2) and bung a heater in there to boost the tempts a lil. I noticed my tempts are getting as low as 13C atm with an average of 17C.
 

skiz1989

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PIC TIME


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These are the biggens. I got another 5 small ones and transplanted them into the bigger 6" pots. SO that makes 11x 6" pots now. The rest ill leave in thier cups till i either run out of room or they start to get TOO root bound.

This weekend i PLAN on doing my grow tent so i can add a heater to raise tempts and still looking at 3 weeks till i can get my ballast. Either way im happy with the growth they are getting as i woudl say its tripled in size in just the last week :D
 

skiz1989

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hmmm must not be an interesting thread. O well, in case people wonder about its growth and what not heres an update.

Gave them another feed today (thier weekly saturday feed) and also moved all the plants i no longer have room for into the compost.

Things seem to be fine so not much to really report.

original bigs 1.jpg (original set of plants i planted out in week2, cups no longer exist as they been moved to compost)

new bigs.jpg (new set of big plants i planted out into larger pots, those small cup ones no longer exist as they moved to compost)


compost1.jpg (compost weed planted out today, doubt they will take but its either this or just chuck them and this is free anyway so why not?)
 

strain man

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subbed and just started my first coco grow too cant wait to see how it goes

just member coco holds water extremely well so whilst still you no need to over water as long as your water is pH bal`d it should be ok as coco gives you a good buffer im only watering my babies 50ml X 2 a week and 150ml on the third water
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these are only 3 weeks since putting the seeds in im on an EC of 1.6 now have just slowly ramped it up and hope to have them feeding on EC2.0 within a week then they should just go bammm
 

skiz1989

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Wow for three weeks under only fluro (looks like that....dont think your light is MH?) They doing great. What tempts you got in your grow area?

Yer i only feed once a week. Let the soil run a little dry so the roots go looking for water :)
 

jimmy130380

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Hey Im still watching skiz
I just moved my clones from the floruos and I know why they are shitty for anything other than cloning
they were streched thin and dead under the main leaves
great for clones but dude I'm done with em
you would need a lot of them to do any real damage
not saying ya can't but they are not for me
now go to my thread and bag me lol
I need a hit
 

skiz1989

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Hey Im still watching skiz
I just moved my clones from the floruos and I know why they are shitty for anything other than flowering
they were streched thin and dead under the main leaves
great for clones but dude I'm done with em
you would need a lot of them to do any real damage
not saying ya can't but they are not for me
now go to my thread and bag me lol
I need a hit

Mine dont seem to be doing TOO bad under the fluro. 29th of June i get my 400w though :D
Mate you have several KW of light...you need to learn to manage it better lol.

As for your topic i posted :D....i didnt sub as my inbox is nearly always full as is, but its favourited so will check it out constantly :D
 

strain man

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no MH here yet i only have 4X2ft flouro`s going on 18/6 im using house&garden coco neuts as-well as the H&G multizyme (which since adding they are just pumping)
my veg box has a constant temp of 25-26 deg and during lights out at night will drop to about 18-20
 

XxNinjaxX

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These girls are doing well Skiz, nice & healthy.
I see in the right hand side of the picture u have urself one of them Cheapo Bunnings gauges.. Do urself a favour - find a main road & throw it into traffic.. They're about as accurate as a Psychic Gypsy phone service..


Wat did ur Dad have to say about his Compost patch being stolen?
 

skiz1989

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These girls are doing well Skiz, nice & healthy.
I see in the right hand side of the picture u have urself one of them Cheapo Bunnings gauges.. Do urself a favour - find a main road & throw it into traffic.. They're about as accurate as a Psychic Gypsy phone service..


Wat did ur Dad have to say about his Compost patch being stolen?
hahaha yer i used that meter for my last grow and thought it was complete shit. Dont worry i dont use it. Its just up with the rest of the garden supplies.

AS for the compost he doesnt care....he has the other side to play with :P
 

skiz1989

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21st June 2010

First pic is the younger plants, second is some of the compost plants i moved to the bathroom where its hotter and sunnier, third is compost, fourth is close up of one of the bigger plants and last pic is the older plants.

right bank 1.jpgbathroom.jpgcompost.jpgclose up.jpgleft bank 1.jpg



 

skiz1989

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well i gotta say they look nice
when is the date for the hps
Just spoke to the dude today. With any luck ill get the HPS Thursday/Friday :D Also ordered my MH retro conversion which comes in tomorrow or wednesday but got exams so wont get it till thursday. What space can you do with a 400w?...and whats that roughly work out to in terms of plants? For memory i think 4 plants for a 400w right?

The rest will be put into the bathroom as they seem to like it there. Not to mention the smell is great....i seem to triple my bathroom breaks though :P
 

jimmy130380

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400 = 900x900
the size of your shower base
thats what i used for a while ,when they need a flush turn the tap on
 

skiz1989

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400 = 900x900
the size of your shower base
thats what i used for a while ,when they need a flush turn the tap on
But i need my shower to actually shower in :P

The ones in the bathroom getting no artificial light anyway. ITs all natural light and i think they actually going into flower lol.

As for the plants under the lights though, they will get the HID this friday (with any luck) but i dont think i will be able to fit 14 in only a 900x900 area so will probably only select the best 4-6 and put the others in the bathroom too. Good thing with the bathroom is its a north facing window so ALOT of light and when it gets a lil smelly in there just pop on the extractor fan and smell be gone :D

Thankfully its my own bathroom though so noone should really have a need to use it so that helps keep it "stealthed"

Had to hide the fuckers though yesterday when the cops came to check out a break and enter lol......madly dashing with 7 plants drippin with water was a good adrenaline boost :P
 

rocksteady6

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Skiz just catching up on your grow. Looks like you have found a way to save most of the seedlings. How many have you inside under the lights and how many lights you have now??
 

skiz1989

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Hey rock,

yer i just dont wanna throw them away. I mean if i can save them and they produce shit or nothing at all its cost me about an extra $10 for materials so hardly any skin off my nose. As for under the lights i was actually JUST up there to check on them. Unfortuantly they grew a little in the past few days and have bent a little as they have hit the lights and had to grow to accomadate this....kinda like a fucked up version of a ScrOG. I took 2 of them down to the bathroom as they are a little too damaged so will need "rehab" to straighten up.

Therefore i know have 9 in the bathroom and a further 12 or so under the lights with a bunch in the compost too. Im still only using 4x 36 watt tubes (two at the back facing forward and two hanging down). I had another two hooked up at different angles but they were kinda on a balancing act and were always close to falling and smashing so i got rid of them.

Tomorrow i get my 400watt HPS though :D ...i just bought my MH retro conversion today :)
 

rocksteady6

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Cant believe you are turning your back on CFLs and going HID. Your buds will now tower over mine. I am going to look into anibolic steroids... sorry if my spelling sucks.
 
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