HumboldtHunny's 1st Journal

[HumboldtHunny]

Howdy!
Welcome to my garden!! I have never done a grow journal before & I'm looking forward to it. This is my 2nd solo indoor grow. Please feel free to comment/critique on what you see (or don't). It will only help me to become a better gardener. Thanks for dropping by, it's truly appreciated.

Room: In a home. 11'x13'x8'. Max of 8, 3'x3' tables. Multiiple 12" fans running 24/7. Has a 3'x7' closet which I converted to a mini clone/veg room. Temps run 72-74 F at night, 78-82 F during day in main room. CO2 during veg and flowering until the last 2 weeks. Humidity: 50-60% veg, 45-50% during flowering using dehum. BTW the girls have 24/7 Country/Western music at a moderate level.

Lights: Up to 8, 600w HID's which are air cooled. MH during veg, Na+ for flowering. Schedule: 16/8 veg, 15/9 transition (1-2 weeks), 12/12 flowering.

Medium/Pots: Soil-60% Ocean Forest, 40% Perlite. Pots-Gradually increased in size from 4" to 1 gal. to 3 gal.

Additives: Basic feeding with Cutting Edge, 3 part-Micro, Bloom, Grow, +1tsp molasses/gal of pH adjusted H2O to 6.5 after all additives are in mix. Uncle John's & Fossil Fuel added once a week. Fossil Fuel will be stopped 1 mo. before end of flowering. MOAB bloom enhancer (Mother Of All Blooms) per directions during flowering.

The Girls (Finally): Bought 5-Early Skunk #2, 5-Green Crack ("Cush"), 5-Blue Cross all in 4" pots 3 wks ago. Then bought 10-Soul Train ("New Train"), 5-Trainwreck 2 1/2 weeks ago. Soul Train in 4" pots, TW in rockwool cubes only. All plants into 1 gal. 2 weeks ago. All but 3-5 have been topped and had initial thining. Clones taken from appropriate plants. All were purchased at my local club, and all came with moderate spider mites and bad fungus gnats. All have been dunked twice with GreenLight Lawn & Garden Spray with Spinocid (organic). I'm also using blue sticky's
for the adult gnats, 2 to a table, and haven't seen a flyer for 3-4 days! 1 more dunking should do it. (At least for awhile.) lol Clone closet has 83 babies all of which still appear healthy and viable. I plan on switching to Transition lights and feeding at the next watering, Thurs or Fri. probably. Then wait for 3-4 days and do another trim/prune/clone job. ;-)
Well, here's some pix I took last night of the girls and babies. Please let me know what ya think about any- and everything, or if I have forgotten anything. Thanks again for taking a look-see. HH

[Deb-HAS-grn]

Very nice start of your journal,, you sure know what your doing and everything looks wonderful to me... Thanks for sharing your grow journal and I will be looking forward to following as you go along,,, Great going and Happy safe growing to you

[DieAbetic]

wow very nice. looks like this will be a good journal to keep an eye on :-).

i have some green crack now! it tastes pretty good, not at potent but i think the grower messed up something about it (im assuming so since the dispensary had it on sale at the 'low-end' side - $25 a 8th). or maybe there were seeds in some. good sativa high though, id get it again

and i love anything that has Trainwreck in it. "Snow Wreck" my fav so far, never tried the Soul Train whats in it? (it a 50/50 or more sativa?)

[chuckd420]

Sounds like you've got a real nice grow goin', I'm interested to see how some of the strains you are growing turn out.

[Hatch]

Looking Good in The Neighborhood !!!!!,,Great Little Set-Up, I'd Like To Wish You The Best Of Luck & Karma On Your Grow, Can't Wait To See More..

[HumboldtHunny]

OK, so yesterday when I got up things were very dry. Perfect for the first dose of transition nutes. Also I reset the timers for a fifteen/nine hour cycle. Then got down to business with the last of the first pruning/thinning and taking clones. Will be putting those clones into plugs today. They're all Blue Cross and Early Skunk 2. No signs of shock today with them, even with that heavy trimming. Still have to do the first trim/clone on the straight Trainwreck. They were very small and in poorer condition than everything else but have started to come around nicely. Hmmmmm.. must be the C-W music. The rest of the girls are growing fast now and starting to shade each other, so I'll be opening up three more, 3x3 tables tomorrow, each with 600w light. All the lights will be switched to Na+'s for the duration of blooming. Still haven't seen anymore flyers or new spider mites but I'll dunk one more time again tomorrow anyway. Anybody have any suggestions please give a holler. Hope you're all enjoying life. GL HH

[tabasco]

Wow, they look awesome, HH. Did you say this was your first grow or your first grow journal. Either way, your rockin it. Either way I'm following you like a bill collector, especially the BIg Blue!

[operator1]

brings a tear to my eye... wish I had plants that looked like that, and the room to work like that would be great too. Certainly looks like you have everything under control and are well on your way to greener things in the future.

[tabasco]

HH, What kind of material is that on the closet? It looks like what I need.

[Zigzagman]

Looking good H.H.
BTW
How did you get started on on a 15/9 transition? I've never heard of that before... Do you mind explaining how you think that's different then switching to 12/12 ??? Thanks and good luck.

[HumboldtHunny]

Thanks all for the kind words and the visits. The closet "door" is made with overlapping sheets of panda, the white on the inside as this is my "veg" room if I'm flowering in the main room. It's mainly closed with one of the "stick'em on" 8 foot zippers. Cost approx. $20. I don't remember exactly what they're called but all our grow stores carry them. This is my 1st journal but my 2nd "solo" grow. When I first started I sort of hired a guy to help/teach me the ropes. Turned out he talked a good story but knew less about growing "anything" than I did. Unfortunately it was beyond a total disaster for two runs. It's a sordid story to say the least. So I threw him out. Anyway my first solo grow was successful for which I'm thankful, and hopefully this one will be as well. Interestingly the last I heard he's still having failed crops!! Called himself the "God" of pot. LOL! So I'm on my own now and having a great time, loving life and gardening, and talking with folks like you all. Hope he learned not to try to take advantage of an almost 60 year old woman. I told him when I kicked his butt out the door, Karma can be tough. Guess he's finding that out the hard way. Anyway,enough about the garbage.

So about transition. The food I use has a "transition" period of 1-2 weeks where the "Grow" (NTG) is somewhat decreased and the "Bloom/Micro" (K+/Phos) is increased, before you start the full "Bloom" nutes. This supposedly caused less stress and stretching according to the manufacturers of the food. I'm just sort of taking it to the next level with the light cycle. Since we all know that light cycles don't just switch from 16/8 to 12/12, I'm incorpoating a "transition" in the light cycle using a 15/9. Hopefully it will do the same thing in reducing stress. It didn't appear to hurt them at all when I did this on my 1st grow.

Anyway, off to the girls room, one of my neighbors wants 15 of my clones min. and I need to check the new ones I took last night. I have 5 trays of the little cuties, of which 3 trays are ready for new homes! Gotta open up those tables as well. Pix later. Thanks, again, everyone and GL...HH

[I8ntLucky_UR]

Very nice HH good luck with your grow. It looks like you are well under way. Excellent pictures of happy and healthy plants.

[Uncle Zeek]

they look good but a little on the stretched side but thats my own opinion though since all my plants are so dam bushy its hard to get a clone off there with out cutting something else. GL and may they be phat girls that just need to be smoked.

Till laters

Zeek

[HumboldtHunny]

Yes, I see why you would think that. My pruning method is multi-phased to cause the least amount of shock to the plants. I 1st remove all the lowest branches and top them (new clones!) while still retaining the fan leaves except for the bottom 3" or so closest to the soil. At the same time I'm leaving only the largest 4-5 topmost branches to actually flower. Then they veg for another 1-2 weeks. This forces a lot more top growth in those branches. The next pruning, I remove all the bottom most fan leaves from the ground up to 15-18". The canopy continues to fill out and by this time I'm 1-2 weeks into flower. I have a couple more steps but I'll wait to explain until the plants get to that stage and I can take pix. The last two plants in the second set of pix have not had any pruning at all. They were in miserable condition when I got them and hadn't been vegged at all just sitting in a rockwool cube. Really nothing but "budcicles" without the bud. Now they're 2 weeks down the line and I can get on them. They were 5-6" tall and very sad. lol Anyway, off to get those other tables opened up. Thanks for all the comments. GL HH

[tabasco]

Hey HH, How's the Big Blue coming?

[alibuds]

from one humboldt hunny to another...hope all is well
did that blue cross for awhile-it was good...
cutting edge is bomb-new organic line coming out or may have hit stores that rocks...no rockwool-go to coco

[CaliWildViolet420]

Hi Humboldt hunny...Hey I just added something to my thread about cutting edge.....
we only use and have only used cutting edge..You know they are based out of your area..if you are up north...Santa Rosa....I love the products..

I just put a link to a chart on my grow journal...

www.cuttingedgesolutions.org...

[bonelessme]

nice grow you have going