K1Ng5p4d3's Cardboard Box Grow (hehe)

GypsyBush

Well-Known Member
K1ng... I don't know what to say Bro...

I used 1 product... at 1/8 strength eyeballed...

Now I have 3 products, from the same line... and that is all... no toxic soups for me... I am too ignorant to know what is bullshit and what is not...

I went with something that was recommended by someone I trust and is carried at the local shop...

As for the soil stuff... I am no help at all.... I grew up throwing handfuls of seeds in various fields... I never worried about ph nutes or any of that... I let nature take care of that...

Sorry...
 

K1Ng5p4d3

Junior Creatologist
its cool man. I think that the damage is already done with this plant, and i am cuttin everything down to basics from here on out with my grow. Just gonna use big bloom for the rest of the grow on Corky n Dlylah, but i doubt its gonna do much for Dlylah. N for my new batch, im gonna just do grow big, n big bloom, n mayyyyyybe some of that humboldt counties own shit to finish the nuggets off toward the end. im goin up to take a look at their products this weekend, so maybe ill pick some of that up. N i NEEEEEEED to figure out the easiest way to PH soil, because it seems to be the problem with all of my soil at the present moment, even the plants that are doin reall well have a soil ph of like 7.2 ish, so i still dont know what the hell to do, even with flushing it wont lower...



Anyways, heres some pics that i promised. Just, before i post pics of Dying Dlylah, dont be all harsh man, i bin kickin myself in the ass for being too careless with her, and i already know i fucked up bad. worst comes to worse ill finish her off as best i can, n have some schwag quality bud to smoke on while im workin on my dank nuggets.

first pic - this is the worst of it. Basically all the leaves are falling off, and turning to rust, n crispy, n just fuckin brutal. I personally think shes about a day away from being a lost cause, but i hope im wrong...


n heres a few other shots...n the couple pics of nugs with no leaves on them, the majority of the leaves fell off, but i cut some of them, because they werent leaves anymore, they were just rusted crispy lookin things comin off of my plant. i waited until the absolute last moment possible to do this to them, so bare with me here.








But yes, even with dark clouds, there is still sunshine behind them...
Corky is coming along nicely. she started to have yellowing tips, but i flushed yesterday, and everything is lookin fuckin great right now. I love this girl man, shes gonna be a nice fatty bush. The only thing that pissed me off is that she took so long to flower. shes about 2 weeks behind Dlylah, but shes healthy as fuck, and i cant wait to see what shes gonna look like two weeks from now man, especially under my MH lighting. I might switch out for a couple days and let her soak up some HPS light too. I wonder if you can do that -- switch out the light every couple days from MH to HPS, just so they get both spectrums?? fuck it, i might just get a dual spectrum bulb this thursday from HTG, whatdya think???








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N heres a shot of the contents of my tent right now. I couldnt fit in all of the plants into the shot, but i have the final count of everything im growing right now, and i aint adding more, cuz i wanna do a ScrOG grow.
im growin 3 bluecheese, 2 twilight, 1 whiteberry, n 1 norther soul. I think thats a nice high yielding variety, and with the screen up, should fill up my tent nice n lushly. cant fuckin wait man..
check out the difference between Corky n Dlylah now man, its sad..





N last but CERTAINLY not least, i would like to introduce you to my babies. There are 4 here right now, because the rest are still waiting to make their above dirt debut, but i have one more twilight thats about to break surface, and the whiteberry and northern soul i just germed today, so youll see them soon enough.









- The biggest seedling is 4 days sprouted, and lookin good.

the other three have been above ground for 2 days, and are lookin real nice. that smallest one is the twilight, the other three are bluecheese, and like i said, the other three that your not seeing yet have yet to break surface, so gime a day or two n ill put them bitches up.

N check this shit out - i JUST started germing my whiteberry seed like two hours ago, and its already cracked and has a taproot goin. fuckin WOW right??

anyways, thanks for tunin in, i know it hurts to see one of my babies in pain like that, but either shell perk up, or ill put her out of her misery. any feedback, as always, is appreciated.

-K1.
 

GypsyBush

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Looks like someone is getting good with the MACRO shots...lol...

Kick ass pics man...

Thanks for sharing....
 

Thundercat

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Well king corky is lookin pretty nice man, sorry that dlylah has been dieing on you that sucks. Those seedlings are also lookin real nice. I imagine they are gonna take off. How high you have your light? Just curious, but with your cool tube once those seedlings get a few more leaves on them, I'd prolly be lowering the light.
 

K1Ng5p4d3

Junior Creatologist
yeah, basically im gonna chop her down if she dont show signs of improvement in the next day or two. ill try to salvage what i can, and dry n cure the buds, n hopefully will have some shwag grade nugs that at least gimme a buzz, lol. MY PH METER IS WORTH COMPLETE SHIT. those cheap 7 dollar plastic meters with the two prongs that measure soil ph, moisture, and light, are worthless. Mine was reading that my soil was well over 8 in ph, but whenever i stick it into distilled water, it reads off the fuckin charts, when its supposed to read 7. distilled should always read 7 no matter what.



So i have my cooltube about 7 inches above my seedlings right now, as there is next to NO heat whatsoever coming off of it, because im using such a high cfm fan. When Corky is in there with the plants, i keep the light literally an inch above her, which leaves the light a little under a foot above the seedlings, but as soon as i put corky to sleep, i slide the light down about 7-5 inches above the seedlings, and they fuckin love the light man. Its so cool that i can do that - i was so worried originally that it was gonna be a problem with a 600w bein too hot for the plants no matter how high up it was because my tent was so small.

so, anyways, i hope my shit perks up in the next day or two, but ive already goten over it, it was just my 1st grow, and i wasnt expecting much from it. if i can salvage some buddage from it, its a success still in my book - that and corky is gonna be a nice yield for sure , shes fuckin beautiful. Im goin out to pick up a real thermometer/hydrogemeter(LOL) on friday, the one with the censor you stick into the tent and leave the readout outside of the tent so you dont have to open it whenever u wanna check the temp. Also, gonna pick up a digi timer cuz the one i have for the tent is shit, n probably gonna pick up a couple of other cool things just to make life a little bit easier too - check it out:

gonna pick up a GREEN GENIUS
- an automated watering system for somethin like 50 bucks from HTG. fuckin sweet, 10 plant watering system. all i gotta do is hook up a rez outside of the tent, and fuckin hook the tubes up into the soil, n BOOM, automated watering. It has a programmer set into the unit, that allows you to put in a watering schedule, from every 6 hours, all the way up to once every 12 days, n it can water up to 800 ML of water each watering. Not too bad man, lol.

Also gonna pick up a FLORA MIST machine for humidity

cuz its a little humid in there, but its mostly just hot. So if i add the mister into the room, itll increase the humidity and create more ideal conditions for the plants to live in.

Also gonna put in the DIY C02 setup that was posted on riu a couple days ago, using sugar, water, n yeast, mixed up in a series of 2liter soda bottles, and all tubed up, n set up to where you just shake up the bottles, close the rubbermaid holding the soda bottles, n walk away. only need to refill the bottles once every week or two weeks.


other than that, i have a complete setup and dont need anything else, god willing. I MIGHT pick up a dual spectrum HID bulb from HTG supply, theyre only 99 bucks, but i think i might need a little more feedback on how they perform. If i get it, ill only be using it for veg, n then just go straight to my HPS for flowering, i think that would be better personally, but i dont have any experience. I just wanna create optimal conditions for these girls. theyre gonna be treating me right in the long run, so pampering just seems in order to me. So if you guys can think of anythign that im missing or forgetting here, cmon n lemme know cuz i wanna pick it up while i got the cheddar to do it. Im definitely gonna pick up a new digital ph meter, but i dont know which one yet.

other than that guys, thanks for the feedback as usual, n ill let you all know if im gonna be chopping my shit down or not. its only gonna end up bein like a 1/4 oz dry if i do chop it, which is disappointing, but ill deal with it man, it aint the end of the world. Just some smoke for me to puff on early while im waitin for everything to get off the ground n runnin, lol.


N even though id be choppin it early, itd still be smokeable right?? id get high off it still eh? i mean, it has some nice trichomes still, and my fingers get sticky after i pinch the bud, so it has ThC content, n i plan on curing everything properly for AT LEAST two weeks, so i dont see why it wouldnt gimme a buzz, no???

-K1.
 

K1Ng5p4d3

Junior Creatologist
N yeh Thunder, its gotta be because i keep that fucker so close to the seedlings that theyre doin so well. I at first was scared to put the light so close to them, but as each day went by and they didnt get burnt by the heat, i moved it closer inch by inch. The biggest one is my Bluecheese seed that was cracked from shipping damages. I planted her because i figured that it wasnt gonna germ, and it did, lol, so it surprised the shit outta me. Shes only like 3 days older than the other ladies that are already sprouted, so in about 3 days ill have 5 plants that have 3 nodes, and two plants that are comin along man. I cant fuckin wait to see how fast that Whiteberry grows man, she germed in 3 fuckin hours dude!!!! ive NEVER seen a seed germ that fast, fuckin EVER man. its fuckin awesome. do seeds that germ that fast typically take off like a bat outta hell?? i better pick up that screen within the next two weeks, lol. I dont know why man, but im more excited about this grow than i was doin my 1st one, its kinda wierd, cuz i was straight up stoked that i could keep plants alive the 1st time around, but this time its different cuz i kinda know what im doin now.

I mean, Dlylah aside because i failed miserably with her, and couldnt figure out why i killed her, i think im doin an alright job with growin. Hope my shit turns out to be some killer man. If i have another incident like this with this grow, im gonna be one sad, sad man. believe me, my ass is knockin on wood as we speak, lol.

-K1.
 

420weedman

Well-Known Member
sorry about ur plant dude, im sure youll be able to get some sort of high off of it.
i got my attitude seedlings coming up too ... take care of em !
 

K1Ng5p4d3

Junior Creatologist
hell yeah ima take care of them man, lol. Im pickin up some 4 gallon pots on friday, drillin a shitload of holes into them, n then pickin up some airstones n airpumps if i can afford to with everything else im gettin. I hope i can get everything i need by friday cuz im gonna transplant them once into their final pot sizes n thats it. I aint gonna move them fuckers a second time man. So if i cant get all of them, then maybe ill do half my plants with a airstone n half without, just to see if theres a difference in yield n size.

reguardless, im definitely gona be takin shit slow with the nutes this time around man. Im gonna start at 1/3 strength with my growbig, n work my way up from there. gotta do it that way man, i aint tryin to burn nothin or even make nothin look SEMI fucked up ,lol. I want nothin but leafy green shit on my plants, i dont wanna see no crispy, browning bullshit on my leaves this time around. Im gonna keep the foliar feeding down to a minimum, n im gonna do things right. Shit, i might even go pick up some DIFFERENT nutes, just to make sure im gentle with my shit. I heard Humboldt's own nute line is some of the best shit you can possibly use on your plants. HTG has the full line of Humboldt nutes, so i might order a couple things, n keep the FF on the back burner. Its just fuckin eXPENSIVE is all man. well see though. Im on a budget with the rest of my shit since ive spent like a G in the last two weeks on everything, lol.
 

-=4:20=-Guy

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Wow its to late for me to read from the last two days but I did a quick skim over and wanted to note a few things.

First your PH tester is soil only no water solution will register corectly.

Second its allways the runt that makes the fat buds.

Third Are you veging in the tent or flowering? 16hrs MH veg, 12hrs HPS flower"."

I think she will live, well maybe part of her, the break is the reason for the damage I think (shock), have you checked under the bandage?
 

K1Ng5p4d3

Junior Creatologist
hell yeah that shit is nice gyps. Nice diy dude, looks like you took your time n did it right for sure. i like the flap that rolls up in the front too, just one door instead of havin to unzip your shit in 4 places to get the fucker open, lol. n gotta love that cooltube in there, its lookin sexy man!!
 

K1Ng5p4d3

Junior Creatologist
Wow its to late for me to read from the last two days but I did a quick skim over and wanted to note a few things.

First your PH tester is soil only no water solution will register corectly.

Second its allways the runt that makes the fat buds.

Third Are you veging in the tent or flowering? 16hrs MH veg, 12hrs HPS flower"."

I think she will live, well maybe part of her, the break is the reason for the damage I think (shock), have you checked under the bandage?
yeah, she healed, but everything was dying off, so i had to chop her down. But enough about her - Im vegging 24/7 in my tent right now. In the morning i bring my big plant down into the tent, and at night i put her back up into her box for darkness. so shes flowering in the same room that all my other plants are vegging in. its actually workin out pretty well.
 

Thundercat

Well-Known Member
Sounds like things are coming together nicely. I can imagine you are more excited this time, cus with everything you have learned, and getting the first grow out of the way, you have alot bigger hopes, and goals this time, cus your doing things right. Trying the air pumps on half of them might be a good experiment, to see how much more they actually grow with them.

I've seen that co2 setup you were talking about, and it can't hurt to try it, but I've been told by a few people, that it doesn't really produce a large enough volume of co2, though maybe for just your tent, it will be enough. I'm sure we'll get to see how it goes. catch ya later
 

Thundercat

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Still won't let me rep you again King. I'll get a journal up, once I get the ball rolling. I'm a few weeks out on the seeds now, since I had to put tires on the car this weekend. I'm gonna start picking up some supplies in the mean time. I need the baskets I'm gonna use, and the air pumps. I want to get a cool tube real bad. I need to pick up my soil, and nutes. I also really need to get another bub for my light. I have a 1000w eye hortilux red, and I really want to get a 1000w eye hortilux super blue dual arc hps. If I have to veg under the red bulb I will, cus I'm certain it will be better then using cfl's....any opinions on this are welcome. But I really want to get the blue bulb. I have to find a hydro shop (the closest I know about is about 60 miles away) and get a price on the blue bulb. The ones I found online have been like 250, and I need to find one cheaper then that. So anyway I'm workin out some kinks in my plans, but its gonna come together, and you guys will be the first, and only ones to see it lol.
 

-=4:20=-Guy

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Im vegging 24/7 in my tent right now. In the morning i bring my big plant down into the tent, and at night i put her back up into her box for darkness. so shes flowering in the same room that all my other plants are vegging in. its actually workin out pretty well.
You cheater. Your hired.
 

K1Ng5p4d3

Junior Creatologist
lol, conserving electricity, and getting a better result all at the same time.

so i hit corky with some epsom salt today, shes definitly goin through minor bout of mag def, but i think i got it taken care of. plus i got some cal mag on the way from htg. Tonight im clickin the light off for the first time since i bought it and threw the plants under it, to give everyone a nice 6 hour rest from the light, n maybe be able to stretch their roots for a little while. maybe grow a bit hopefully too. my fuckin whiteberry that had just broken ground died, due to unexplainable reasons. I fuckin looked at it just a little bit ago, and her head was limp. i looked closer, and half the shell was still on the head, but the other half popped off. i touched it, and the whole damn head just lopped off. i didnt even like TOUCH it, i just brushed up against that shit light as hell with my fingertip.

Oh well, i aint sweatin it. Germ another one n move on, lol. i just gotta keep track of all the different start dates of my plants now, cuz theyre all about a week apart from each other. my 1st blue cheese is a week apart from the other two, my twilights are 2 days behind the BC's, the Northern is 3 days behind the twilights, and now my fuckin whiteberry is 3 days behind the northern. fuckin bastards. N i also moved my light up a little bit. over the last day ive had literally no growth at all on any of my already sprouted seedlings. My 1st bluecheese is just a tiny cluster of leaves, already makin its 4th set of true leaves, but its only like 2 inches tall, lol, n none of the leaves have spread out and formed the cool lookin canopy yet -- you know ^ <--like that, lol. So i figure that
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maybe if i let them breathe for a few hours and chill in the dark with the fans blowin, they can maybe pull up a lounge chair, n stretch out for a lil bit - i think thats how it works anyways, lol. i know they dont NEED any rest during the seedling phase, or the vegetative phase for that matter, but its nice to give them a "thank you" every now n then, with a nice rest, lol. Yeah, thats right. im batshit insane.


So anyways, ill be doin updates on Corky pretty much in here from now on, but for dexterity purposes, i think im gonna be doin all my other in my new journal, cuz i made it, n its all empty n shit. So ill be back here tomorow with an update on Corkster.

N up there, where you see the arrows but it don tlook liek what the fuck i typed out, i basically just meant about how the fan leaves stems actually stretch out. Damnit!!! you know what i mean.
 
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