150w HPS Mini Fridge {6x Diesel Ryder AF & 6x Apollo11/Green Giant}

[kho20]

man love the mini fridge and the plants the only thing id add would make a cool tube for the light and then heat is no problem man

 

[KolorBlind]

Hey KB. Glad the vacation didn't kill you and you got some herb out of it, nice.

Did the light bleach any of the buds, or just heat stress the leaves?

The little girls look great, little balls of fury.

I got pretty lucky, the bud still looks amazing, just curled up the upper leaves a bit. As far as I can tell there is zero bleaching of the buds

man love the mini fridge and the plants the only thing id add would make a cool tube for the light and then heat is no problem man

Thanks for the kind words & suggestion kho!

I actually found a Pyrex bake a round tube on craigslist for $5. I got to looking into how much they reduce light and figured if I can get away without one Id be better off. If I have to keep them ANY further than 5-6 inches Ill probably use it, otherwise I want to try and keep nothing between the bulb and plants.

 

[KolorBlind]

DAY 55 (Harvest Day)

Plant Stage: Flower [Day 41]
Light Cycle: 20/4
Light: 150w HPS
Medium: 75% Sunshine Mix, 20% Pearlite, 5% Bone Meal
Ferts: 1 Tbsp Molasses per gallon every other watering
Strain: 3x Diesel Ryder Females, harvest day for 2 of them


Well, amazingly enough it is already harvest time!! Not even quite 8 weeks from seed, man I love these autoflower babes!! I made my mind up weeks ago that I wanted to harvest before too many amber trichs formed, and that I would harvest both plants at the same time. It worked out very well. The shorter plant, Daria, has mostly cloudy trichs with probably 25% or more amber but only on the small leaves. The taller one, Ellie May, has pretty much 50/50 clear & cloudy trichs, with a couple ones starting to turn amber. Also the leaves are all starting to curl up and get crispy, even so the day after watering.

So the wife and I chopped them down, and took our time trimming them up nice & pretty to hang. We got 6 grams of trich covered trimmings. I tossed any leaf that didnt have trichs. The wet weight of Ellie May was 44.2g stem and all, and Daria was the fat little heavyweight at 48g. If I lose 70% I should end up with just shy of an ounce total. I am very satisfied with that considering the small amount of time from seed to harvest and the minimal space usage. I plan to have 6-10 females going if at all possible ext round. If I can keep them all roughly this small, I think we can live off of 3-5 ounces every 2 months no problem! And my fridge in the garage can be fore experimenting

Ok on to the pictures!! Here are the girls just before cutting them down. Ellie May, on the left, ended up at 9.75" tall, and fat little Daria only got to 7.75". The way I see it, why grow tall plants if only the top 6-10" gets good light, why not just have 6-10" plants?

Here they are hanging in the closet. It stays about 68F-72F in there and like 55%-60% humidity.

A closeup shot of Daria. The extra branch hanging is one that I accidentally broke off, minus the lower bud we picked for a little quickdry The weight was taken after stealing some, so it may have even been 50 grams!!

A closeup shot of Ellie May. This is the onemy wife trimmed, she had way too much fun

Thats all I have for now on the 2 harvested ladies, but I did snap a shot of the one DIesel Ryder I have left thats still in the mini fridge. She is right around 30 days old, and already looking bigger and badder than the 2 I harvested looked at 30 days.

So Im not sure if I will keep posting in this thread or start a new one. I need to make a couple modifications to the mini fridge and FINALLY get rid of my gnats once and for all before planting any new seeds. So I may start a fresh thread, if so Ill post the link in here!

Thanks to all for the interest in my grow. If you have any comments or questions feel free!!!

Peace
KB

 

[KolorBlind]

OK I decided to go back and take a couple macro pics of the top buds. Enjoy!!

Daria

Ellie May

Peace
KB

 

[kho20]

"ellie may" looks tasty , thats the girl off beverly hillbillys hahahhaa and "daria" looks great too

 

[KolorBlind]

OK so I decided this thread is finished. The total weight after drying and removing all the large stems was 25g of bud. I think about 14g came off Daria, and 11g came off Ellie May. Not too shabby considering they were started under CFLs, spent 2 weeks on 12/12 so that some non AFs could flower, then they finished early under the 150w HPS.

The next batch I have going is a SOG run of Diesel Ryders in the mini fridge. I have many friends that use ICMag, and they have been asking me to post stuff about the mini fridge there for a while now, so I am starting that thread over there. If I had the time I would try and keep one going on both sites but Im afraid I dont have the time.

For anyone interested in following that grow, the link can be found HERE. I currently have 20 seeds planted in 16oz party cups, all in the mini fridge. They will be under the 150w HPS from seed to harvest. I hoping to get a BARE minimum of 6 plants, and at least 3oz dry off the run. If I get lucky with the females and get more, I could see this run yielding 6 ounces or more dry Man that would be LOVELY!

Thanks for all the support guys, and I will still be hangin around here on RIU, I just may put off starting any new threads for a while, we'll see. I'm still up for answering any and all questions, and if you still feel like commenting feel free! Thanks again guys!

Peace
KB

 

[jigfresh]

KB.... man.... I have no idea how I missed the harvest. Just saw it. Bro, what a nice haul for the time, space, and energy used. Excellent work.

You said:
"why grow tall plants if only the top 6-10" gets good light"

and I totally agree with you... that's why I'm going vertical for my next grow. I'm really excited to see how it works out.

Great trimming you guys did. Your wife did an excellent job... sorry, but I like hers better. My wife helps too. We are lucky men.

About you going to icmag, we're sorry to see you go, but it's cool your friends are there. It's fun to grow with friends. Just promise you will come back and check on us every once in a while.

 

[KolorBlind]

KB.... man.... I have no idea how I missed the harvest. Just saw it. Bro, what a nice haul for the time, space, and energy used. Excellent work.

You said:
"why grow tall plants if only the top 6-10" gets good light"

and I totally agree with you... that's why I'm going vertical for my next grow. I'm really excited to see how it works out.

Great trimming you guys did. Your wife did an excellent job... sorry, but I like hers better. My wife helps too. We are lucky men.

About you going to icmag, we're sorry to see you go, but it's cool your friends are there. It's fun to grow with friends. Just promise you will come back and check on us every once in a while.

Hey Jig

Sorry for the late reply, missed your post somehow haha! Maybe we smoke too much? ...nah!

Thanks for all the kind words, I have probably 3-4 grams left of the 2 girls and its still gettin better by the day. My wife was very happy to hear you liked her trim job, she worked very hard on it

Ill still be hangin around RIU every day, just probably wont be starting any threads for a while. I still have my large fridge thread going (which I need to update horribly) and I just dont wanna overload myself.

I appreciate all the nice comments & overall good karma youve passed my way, it has helped me stay focused and motivated!

Peace
KB

 

[jigfresh]

Glad I can help. I get inspiration from you... so it's only fair to give little back.

Props to RIU and to the mj growing community in general.

 

[Joan.figgens]

1st of I'd just like to say, Phenomenal Grow Kolorblind! The ladies look absolutely delicious!

I just finished reading your thread. I'm getting ready for my 1st grow with a AK47xLowryder and couldn't help but notice the quality of your LRs and was hoping to produce something similar myself.

That being said, I was wondering what soil/nuts you used for your LRs. If i read it correct, you used

Sunshine Mix (75%) is that Sun Grow: Sunshine Mix? and what #? there seems to be 1-2-3-4 dif mix types of the Sunshine Mix
Perlite (20%) I'm assuming scotts will do just fine..
Bone meal (5%) is that easy to come by at a gardening store?

And than a Tbsp of Molasses every other watering day


It seems like a pretty simple soil/nut set up. I am a first time grower and was hoping to start off on the right foot without getting too crazy with nuts and grow-micro-bloom ect. I'm actually not even sure if LRs are suppose use nuts like that... idk

But great grow! def an inspiration to me.. hope to get my own up and growing within a few weeks here after a few more purchases of the soil/nuts

Hope to hear back from ya

Joan Figgens

 

[KolorBlind]

1st of I'd just like to say, Phenomenal Grow Kolorblind! The ladies look absolutely delicious!

I just finished reading your thread. I'm getting ready for my 1st grow with a AK47xLowryder and couldn't help but notice the quality of your LRs and was hoping to produce something similar myself.

That being said, I was wondering what soil/nuts you used for your LRs. If i read it correct, you used

Sunshine Mix (75%) is that Sun Grow: Sunshine Mix? and what #? there seems to be 1-2-3-4 dif mix types of the Sunshine Mix
Perlite (20%) I'm assuming scotts will do just fine..
Bone meal (5%) is that easy to come by at a gardening store?

And than a Tbsp of Molasses every other watering day


It seems like a pretty simple soil/nut set up. I am a first time grower and was hoping to start off on the right foot without getting too crazy with nuts and grow-micro-bloom ect. I'm actually not even sure if LRs are suppose use nuts like that... idk

But great grow! def an inspiration to me.. hope to get my own up and growing within a few weeks here after a few more purchases of the soil/nuts

Hope to hear back from ya

Joan Figgens

Heya Joan

First off, thanks so much for the kind words. Im very happy with how this turned out. In fact I was so happy that I started a Diesel Ryder SOG in the mini fridge right after this grow. I have a thread going on ICMag due to more friends on that site. HERE is a link if youre interested. Im currently 2 weeks fro harvest and should be posting a pic update tonight.

As far as the sunshine mix goes, the bag is not real specific. Here is a picture to help ya out, just ignore the other stuff its for my herb (Basil, Oregano, Thyme) garden. The bone meal I got from a local nursery.

And as for the perlite, yeah any perlite will work. Just try to avoiding the miracle Grow stuff because it has nutes added, which will sometimes fry the plants.

With the molasses, I recommend any brand of Black Strap Molasses. Black Strap is more heavily processed and contains more micro nutrients than any other kind of molasses. I add it every other watering while Im using nutes, then when I stop using nutes (2 weeks till harvest) I use 2Tbsp per gallon every watering. I read this helps the plant produce more resin before harvesting. Always give your plants a good flush with only water they day or 2 before harvest though.

Good luck on your grow, and feel free to post a link if you get a thread going for it!! Let me know if you have any other questions.

Peace
KB

 

[crazytrain14]

yo kb

long time no talk. i just checked out your grow that is going on now on the other forum. looks very very nice, i would have posted on there but i didn't feel like signing up and creating a new thing. good luck i'll be checking it when you harvest.

peace bro

 

[wonderblunder]

Just out of curiosity, in those first pics, how were you flowering and having ll your seedlings in there? 12/12 from seed?

 

[crazytrain14]

Just out of curiosity, in those first pics, how were you flowering and having ll your seedlings in there? 12/12 from seed?

he is growing anauto flower strain so he is using 18-6 of 20-4 light schedule . youuse the same lighting though out the whole grow doesn't matter like a normal plant

 

[KolorBlind]

he is growing anauto flower strain so he is using 18-6 of 20-4 light schedule . youuse the same lighting though out the whole grow doesn't matter like a normal plant

Correct. Thanks for stepping in Crazy


Autoflowering strains do not need a 12/12 light regiment to flower. I had my fridge on 20/4 for that entire grow. Since then I have found that I like 24/0 for the first 2 weeks, and 20/4 till harvest better than 20/4 for the whole grow.

It seems that the plants grow more in the first 2 weeks with 24 hours of light, and they even started showing sex sooner, at 12 days from seed!! I also got more females when using 24/0 for the first 2 weeks but Im sure that was a coincidence.

Peace
KB

 

[greenearth5]

damn man that looks good

 

[pimpdaddy84]

why did you scrape offf the white enamel paint? its an exxelent relfector like aluminum foil.....? just wonderin

 

[kushykushkushy]

that diesel ryder looks tasty. i hope mine turn pink/purple for a lil bag appeal

 

[KolorBlind]

damn man that looks good

Thanks bro!!

why did you scrape offf the white enamel paint? its an exxelent relfector like aluminum foil.....? just wonderin

I didnt scrape any paint off. i scrapped out all the foam to reveal an unpainted surface and I applied a couple layers of flat white automotive paint. Even 2 layers didnt look good but it apparently reflected just fine

that diesel ryder looks tasty. i hope mine turn pink/purple for a lil bag appeal

Thanks man, yes it is very tasty! Especially after a week or more curing in a jar! The purple, however, is mainly caused from heat stress. And if it gets too hot it will burn like my most recent Diesel Ryder SOG did. Every top was dark purple then one day I noticed a lot of the leaves and even a little bud was starting to get burned. So make sure you dont get it too close to your lights and you should be fine. I hear very low temps can have the same purple or pink discoloring effects, but can hurt your plant if you aren't careful.


Peace
KB

 

[Sathigh]

You have the starts of a good setup. Have you thought of using C02?