Attack of the Clones, first journal!

[kawehio]

Hi all! We're going to try out this journal thing and hope you guys get the same enjoyment and pleasure we get when growing! We're going to be growing 2 different plants. Blueberry and White Widow. Later we'll add maybe a new breed to hopefully in the future start our sea of green.

We custom build the whole HPS flowering area and build the veg chamber and vegging area. We spent probably in all about $700 for the set up. Our thanks goes to JonnyBlunt88 cause helped and donated his extras to us allowing us to get set up fast. Thanks again dude. This is going to be a good one!

Anyways...We have 15 girls under the 4 100w cfls and 2 80w floral tubes. They are just past week 4 are looking healthier then ever!

We also have 4 girls sitting under our 1000w flowering area that have about two to three weeks till they'll be flushed and moved out for 8 of the girls in the veg.

I'm going to post pictures of the whole process from the beginning to now! This is how it began

It only took them over night to set this up!

They came to us on on 3.22 already two weeks in veg. Nothing a little nutes won't fix!

Maintaining 54-65F

03/25/08

03/27/08

03/29/08

We bought a 1000w hps flowering bulb. We have 4 girls under there right now; two Blueberry mothers and two BB clones. They have about two to three weeks till we flush them to make room for 8 of the clones in veg. Im just going to give you the currents on them for right now. These we're taken before they went to bed this morning.

These are our BB clones. Both are about a 1ft tall and won't get any taller either.

These mothers have only grown a couple inches since they went under this light so i only expect them to get pretty plump!

This a favorite of mine

Feel free to make comment or suggestions, cause we'd love to hear them! Anyways...Enjoy we'll keep posting our updates!

 

[Hemperor]

WOW. TOOO KOOL !!! I waz gonna mention about di$tance from CFL'z, but ...... ju$t 'cau$e every inch iz lumen lo$$, that'z ONLY important to NON-1000hp$ people, like me

Do 'da rule'z allow me to type Jack Herer - Popular Mechanics ???

 

[naturalmystic420]

Awesome pictures. Do you have any of the whole flowering room...

Nice setup, subscribed.

 

[kawehio]

Our 1000w is the hps flowering light, we have 4 100w cfls and 2 80w floral tubes for the veg! We put together a new reservoir for our veg that works properly and it'll replace the one we have up there now! I'll post pictures soon!


As requested here are a couple of the pictures I have of the flowering area! We still have a few things we need to add but can't till we can afford it just yet. Oh well all good things come with time huh...Hopefully we'll get Mylar around the area

Updates when the girls in veg wake
Thanks for checking it out!

These are old pictures...i now only have the 2 BB mothers and BB 2 clones

 

[kawehio]

Heres a couple shots of the girls. They're looking nice and healthy! We've been feeding them with Fox Farms Grow Big and are eating it up!

 

[cerveza420]

looking great, i have a few questions for you, how often do you water and how much do you give them, and do you follow the dosage given on the foxfarm website? thanx

 

[kawehio]

We feed the girls twice a day for a half an hour cycle. We don't go by the doses given on the foxfarm website though, we basically just go by eye and the TDS meter. Once the meter reads where it needs to be we leave it at that! We make sure our reservoir reads between 600-800ppms before feeding. I hope that answers it. If not feel free to ask anything else! Thanks for stopping by!

 

[JonnyBlunt88]

Good info K...The girls are loving life.

Can't wait to start flowering some of those...
They should be well established by the time
our flowering chambers are done, and make
for some massive buds...

Keep watching out for balls on those WW1's...
I caught that last one just barely...

 

[kawehio]

Yea i checked them again this morning and will continue every time i see them! Thanks Jonny!

 

[kawehio]

Well the new veg was just put in last night and I took a couple pictures of it. The girls are on day 22 of veg on 18/6.

The BB clones were further along then we had thought! We will start flushing them after they wake up tonight for 5 days until they are cropped, dried and cured for another week!

I believe i've spotted a deficiency in one of the BB mothers. It started with just one top and seems to have done it to two others now. Anyone know what may have caused it? I thought it was just too close to our 1000w but we have a taller plant that doesn't have the same problem! Anyone know?

Our new veg chamber

BB clones that will start being flushed today

Heres a shot of the bud with the problem and a shot of what its suppose to look like!

 

[kawehio]

I guess just normal. Thanks anyways

 

[kawehio]

The girls are at day 24 now of vegging. Most of all the deficiencies have healed and are looking good! They're still on 18/6 until the girls in flowering are done flushing and the area sanitized in a couple days. I can't wait!

I made a sad discovery upon visiting the girls yesterday morning when I came home from work. I heard water dripping and noticed it was coming from the attic. Ran up there only to find our biggest mother had toppled over and fell to the floor (Too heavy)! We weren't worried since they'll be harvested Saturday and there was no evidence of damage but it was still a sore sight! We also found one of the BB clones can no long support its own weight and is now getting light from the tilted over angle, which might benefit this last 2 day stretch, I'm hoping it'll get a little fatter just before crop! Anyways I took a couple pictures of them they're on day 2 of being flushed and we're getting giddy!

Happy Growing!

Couple more days and these girls will be put under the 1000w

This is the mother we sadly found on the floor yesterday!

This is the other girl that couldn't support her own weight haha!

Here are a couple others!

 

[naturalmystic420]

The girls are plumping up nicely. That cam brings
out some great colors with the hps on. Can't wait
for harvest...I'll be around.

 

[JonnyBlunt88]

Tie them up Quick!!! Those colas must be getting massive K.
That KoolBloom must be packing on the weight. Your pics
never seize to amaze me.

 

[kawehio]

Tie them up Quick!!! Those colas must be getting massive K.
That KoolBloom must be packing on the weight. Your pics
never seize to amaze me.

Thanks Jonny! Thanks again for all your help! We didn't tie her cause shes getting a little more light then she did before. I'm sure she'll be fine till tomorrow when they all get cut!! You put the fear of having a male up there so I still check them everyday after work to see if one will surprise us and pop up again!

Well The tallest girl in veg hit 10 inches on day 25. The two tallest are mothers though so its expected! The smallest dosen't seem to be doing too well at 4.5 inches. We're hoping she'll pull threw though! I'm looking forward to seeing if these white widows will produce something good and make jonny man proud this time around haha!! We lost one of them to being male but I believe we still have 3 up there still kicking and the tallest sitting at 8inches!

I'll post the last pictures of the 4 girls in flowering. We'll be slaughtered tomorrow and hung to dry for a couple days till they go into their curing jars!

 

[kawehio]

Well we moved out the 2 BB mothers and 2 clones and are going to start to sanitize the Flowering area. The clones in veg are now on day 27. It'll be a couple days till we can move the 8 new clones out of veg and into flowering. The other 6 are moving to a different location.

Its was a sad parting but a beautiful yield! I took the finial shots of them before and after we slaughtered them. Once they're dry in a couple days we'll put them in mason jars to cure. This buds definally going to be stoney! What do ya think?

Heres some of the pictures we took of the girls we chopped! Enjoy!

The tallest Mother

Future Hash

 

[kawehio]

Stoney......woot!

 

[kawehio]

One of the mother clones has taken a turn for the worse. We went up and found she wasn't getting any water ultimately she isn't looking to good right now! We're still holding on to hope though, she could make a turn around. Anyone know of anything that might help her?

Heres a couple shots. They're at day 28. We've almost sanitized all the flowering area. We most likely won't move them till all deficiencies are healed or given up on. We'll keep our fingers crossed

This is the dieing mother

 

[kawehio]

We finally sanitized the flowering area and moved 8 clones out of veg and into flowering. They were at day 30. We now have 7 Blueberry Clones and one white widow under our 1000w at 12/12. We're flushing them till the ppms drops and then we'll then start adding the nutrients.

Heres the only White widow

 

[kennethcrack]

hey man that hps must get hot how do you keep a small area like that so cool im working with a closet right now and i could use some advise