MY LITTLE GROW...or What not to do 101A

talisman · 05-29-2008, 11:22 PM

It's great that you live in the country. The girls look really healthy. Now if I remember you believe they will continue to flower? I am so curious to hear from you on that. Good thoughts going your way for you and yours.

jangel · 05-30-2008, 09:12 AM

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Originally Posted by talisman

It's great that you live in the country. The girls look really healthy. Now if I remember you believe they will continue to flower? I am so curious to hear from you on that. Good thoughts going your way for you and yours.

Thank you Tal for the good thoughts. Things are going well and it is all good.

Yes, Tal, for the girls they will think it is fall. And continue to flower. This lot where first planted in February/March and are well old enough to flower. They have only ever seen 24 hours of light until I put them in the closet. I will let you know as they grow how it goes. Thanks for the encouragement. If you look on the first page these are the ones that looked so sick and sad! That makes the point to not give up on your plants even if you think they are dieing, like mine where. MJ is pretty tough if they came back like this!!! I am pleased and it is all due to the wonderful people here and their help!

jangel · 05-30-2008, 10:20 AM

Okay, some changes in the grow room that I will show you now. My man had a heart attack and has not been feeling well for weeks before that. He is home now and it is all good. Just God pinging him in the head he says, but we are blessed. It could of been fatal. So though I have a vortex fan I do not have it connected yet. I will also show how we have camoflauged the window to make it stealth from the outside. What we did for the window is just cut a piece from a bigger blind and scre it to the outer most side, leaving the window open. Then I got from the nursery some garden cloth, used to block weeds under mulch, cheap and cheerful and cut a piece, nailed and tacked it all around. I put it in double. Air can go through no problem but it serves as a sight barrier and will not let any metal glints come through to the outside. We have also painted all the vents flat black before installing them. Just can't see a thing. Will add a pic when I take it later today from the outside.

I have passive cold air coming into the room from the garage, and will add pics of that later today. I have 2 - 4 inch ducts bringing in fresh air down to the floor, and I leave the door to the room open when my daughter is not home. The temps have been stable at from 70 to 79f but the humidity is high. I cannot run the de-humidifier until I get the vortex in, as it adds fatal heat to the room. I ran it one night and it went up to 86F. So until the fan is up I just have to try and keep the door open. They are not in full flower yet so hopefully it will not cause a problem. No sign of mold or any other problems related to humidity.

We needed to make more room to build the wall to light proof the flower area so I wanted to move my old outside table sideways. This is a pretty old plastic table with an umbrella hole in the middle. I like it as when I water the plants on the table all the water runs to the middle and down the center hole. PERFECT! I have a bucket under this to catch the water and I reuse it on my house plants or even my smaller plants. Nothing but some food possibly, from the soil from the plants as I only feed occasionally due to my soil mix. I have hung a heavy piece of plastic in between it and my balast which is on a milk crate now on the floor, so it will never get splashed and have them both raised up off the floor to avoid any danger. It works really well. I had to cut a few inches off one side of the table for it to fit so I just used our sawsall. easy peasy. fits great now and the plants get lots of light right under the light and to the sides. I have thought about extending it with a board but the hole won't work then. It is fine for now. I could even, if I needed more hieght, take the legs off the table and just support it on milk crates. That woud give me another 2 ft aprox. of hieght. Time will tell if I need to do that.

pine boy · 05-30-2008, 12:51 PM

Lovely

jangel · 05-30-2008, 12:59 PM

Here are some shots of the vent in the garage and what the window looks like from outside the house. It opens into a garden right in the front and the plants will grow up and block the window from sight in the full summer. We where lucky as there was already a vent in the garage to vent the cold room when it was first built. It had been blocked off by me when my daughter at one time used it for a closet. We have also covered the garage vent holes with double layers of ordinery black window screen. This not only blocks line of sight views but keeps bugs out. I have also on the inside put 2 layers of screen over the bottom of the vent pipe as some of the light from inside was going up the pipe and was visible on the outside. in through the vent cover. This was just enough to make it undetectable now.

ISO2BWELL · 05-30-2008, 01:26 PM

Looks to me like you have no worries at all! Beautiful work..

Can't wait to see it all in operation!

ISO

jangel · 05-30-2008, 01:34 PM

Thanks ISO. It is slowly coming together but it has been manageable so far. I want to add a carbon scubber to the venting fan,(I got a 6 inch vortex) but we need it for both sides, eg. flower (which will have a wall and door so will put vent through wall) and veg area. I am not sure how to do this though as the can scrubbers I have seen fit on the ends of the vent pipe and we want to "T" it to fit both sides. I really don't want to have to get two, one for each side. If anyone thinks of something let me know. We will also have a vent passive air intake on this window as well.

jangel · 05-30-2008, 01:52 PM

All right, now here are the outdoor plants and a few pics of our "back yard". First few pics are the girls and the damage on one of them, looks like it is just a few fan leaves so I won't worry about that.

You can see in this shed that we have used this for past years to grow our clones we planted outside. We have 2 barrels we use for water from our creek and plastic to keep the temps constant. No roof on the shed so far. I have the girls in this red stand so if it is going to frost at night I can cover them up to protect them.

The next 2 shots are of the boys. CAN YOU FIND THEM? Where is Waldo anyone? There are 12 boy pot plants in amongst the weeds. Now they are in full sun and will plant them soon into the ground. All doing okay but I have ignored them pretty much as I don't care much about them. They will shoot their pollen, I will save it then they will be chopped up into compost. STILL doing well though! I plan to try putting nylon stockings over the pollen sacks as they get ready to shoot so hopefully I will get a lot. All 6 varieties I have males for.

Last 2 shots are of the field before the creek and after. Our property goes farther than the eye can see.

jangel · 05-30-2008, 02:25 PM

Now here are some LST shots. I have also shown how I have almost broken some stalks of a couple of plants and how I fixed them and what they look like once they have healed.

FOLKS, PLEASE REMEMBER YOU must TAKE THE TAPE OR WHATEVER OFF THE PLANT OR YOU WILL KILL ANYTHING ABOVE THE BANDAGE. As the plant grows the stalk expands and the tape or whatever you use will strangle the stalk and eventually kill the plant. I use electrical tape, I find it has stretch in it, and does not stick to the plant stalk, which duck tape does. It is easy to remove. I just leave a little folded down so you can get a grip on it and unwind it. I have included a pic of a tree in my front yard that my ex did that to with string, to hold up a honeysuckle. I never knew it was there so it killed one of the cedar trees in my front garden just to one side of the window. This is the same thing.

jangel · 05-30-2008, 03:26 PM

LST shots up next, one of them a Lethal Purple that hermied on me and now has so far gone back to being a girl. Tried to get more side shoots to grow by LST'ing her and she cracked so her stem is one of the plants up above. Not really going in order but you catch the drift! MUST BE A STONER!!!!

I am finding that once the plant's stem gets to a certain thickness it is harder to bend and more likely to crack. I am pleased with the side shoot developement and the added bud sites developed with a lot of them. One turned out to be a boy so he is with the boys but I learned a lot on him! Nice lateral growth. Taken clones off some of the females and they are part of the girls I put outside. These shots are of them before that as I "unbound" some of them before putting them in the dark. I left the hardware in the planter so I would know "who" was "who"!

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