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  1. Joan.figgens

    Illinois Outdoor Grow

    I had decided to simplify the whole process buy just using some mushroom compost, perlite, vermiculite, and espoma added to the native soil. I've started the girls inside this week. 2 Exodus Cheese, 1 Super Haze, and 1 LA Woman; all feminized The Cheese and the Haze seeds were fresh and...
  2. Joan.figgens

    Illinois Outdoor Grow

    I found a way to start inside and make it work for a month without the wife knowing. I got a grow space of 6ft wide x 4ft tall x 1.66ft deep. I have lots of wood laying around so I'm going to build a box the same style as the LED Grow Cab ASAP. Line it with mylar, constant air exchange, hollow...
  3. Joan.figgens

    Illinois Outdoor Grow

    Wow that looks phenomenal! Just 1 plant? What did you pull down from that? She smokes, she's just a total tweak in all senses of the word and afraid that the world is out to get her. It works out though. How big of a hole did you dig for that? Recipe?
  4. Joan.figgens

    Illinois Outdoor Grow

    Shopping List for 3 (60 gallon) holes: (6) 1ft³ Bags of Mushroom Compost $4/per = $24 (2) 4ft³ Bags of Perlite $19/per = $38 (1) 4ft³ Bag of Vermiculite = $25 (x) 4lb. Bag of Espoma Tone Plant Food $8/per = $8(x) Total: @ $100 Definitely not to shabby thus far. I just thought of 1 more...
  5. Joan.figgens

    Illinois Outdoor Grow

    I do still have the LED but the cab was at a different house and has since been destroyed. I'm trying to minimize the amount of time spent indoor growing to avoid detection from the supreme ruler aka the wife lol. She doesn't want anything like the last set up I had going on in the new house...
  6. Joan.figgens

    Illinois Outdoor Grow

    ***Update*** Thus far April's weather averages: Temp High/Low: 59°F/37°F Precipitation: 0 inches/ per 11 days So temps are still too cold and still haven't received any rain. Still looking like the 1 week of May for D-day meaning I'd be starting inside the last week of April. Giving the girls...
  7. Joan.figgens

    Illinois Outdoor Grow

    Hey thanks again to everyone for all of the responses and in put thus far. So with these recent developments and me realizing again just how poor I am, I've decided to detour from the Sub Cool Super soil mix and go with your recommendations of using the natural soil. Also I've decided to go a...
  8. Joan.figgens

    Illinois Outdoor Grow

    Thanks Shizz, I'll def add some perlite to the native soil.. and I was thinking about mounding up the soil as well, now that you said it I will most definitely do so. And I know I thought the same thing about the circle, I was hoping some rain would bring out some grass in the circle and make...
  9. Joan.figgens

    Illinois Outdoor Grow

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  10. Joan.figgens

    Illinois Outdoor Grow

    ***UPDATE 04/09*** April 9th: Daily High:Low = 61°F:32°F Previous 5 Day Average = 58.4°F:32.6°F So I've just prepared the site for the grow. I dug the 2ft x 2ft x 2ft hole and was really impressed with how nice the soil was all the way down. Nice and moist, falls apart in your hands, filled...
  11. Joan.figgens

    Illinois Outdoor Grow

    For those of you who had followed my Indoor Grow Op. you know I like to do some research before I start an Op. and go in with a solid plan. Just for starters here's some info: Location: Northern Illinois Strain: LA Woman by DNA Genetics # of Plants: 1 Seeing as this is my 1st outdoor grow and...
  12. Joan.figgens

    3 weeks from chop and dying!!! Help

    Bump I hate to pry for info but my little girls only have 18 days left in their little lives.. While pulling a plant would tell me whats wrong and whats going on.. it kinda defies the purpose of these last 7-8 weeks. And I obviously plan on harvesting both little girls and trying to salvage as...
  13. Joan.figgens

    3 weeks from chop and dying!!! Help

    Hello all, So I've read through many of the stickys and looked at as many examples as I could but I still need verification if you will.. So I have 2 "Big Devils" going in 5 gal buckets under a 90w UFO (81°F 50% humidity.. constant air flow.. ect..) The soil is SubCools super soil mix...
  14. Joan.figgens

    Custom Grow Cab with 90w LED Tri-Spec UFO

    Wow.. so it has been a very long time since my last update! Let me start off by saying im sorry to keep you all on the edge of your seats haha I didn't take that many pictures from about day 35 through about day 70.. I was just simply too busy to snap pics and update the journal.. but I'm...
  15. Joan.figgens

    Custom Grow Cab with 90w LED Tri-Spec UFO

    Hey Train, Sorry I defiantly missed an update or two, was out of town with work and extremely busy. But happens to the best of us right? For most of us thats just the same shit with a different shovel. anywho, back to the journal I got ya.. this update is for day 35.. although today is day...
  16. Joan.figgens

    Custom Grow Cab with 90w LED Tri-Spec UFO

    Appreciate all the kind and encouraging words.. ***UPDATE DAY 25 PICS*** Temps and Humid. still holding beautifully.. the little babies started to get a little yellow, needed to be transplanted a few days prior to when it was actually done. The autoflower shed here first two sets of...
  17. Joan.figgens

    First Grow Box Build/Grow 660w CFL

    Thanks for all the compliments... I really put a lot of thought and inginuity into the design of this box.. and am already learning new ways on how to improve for next time. However, the plans on this particular thread where slightly altered as was the lighting arrangement. It currently is (@...
  18. Joan.figgens

    Happy Frog or Ocean Forest?

    wow this thread is getting hot haha... I decided to start off the seedlings with a mix of Light Warrior and Ocean Forrest... and then plan to transplant them into a hotter soil mix consisting of... Ocean Forrest, MG Organic, Perlite, Blood Meal, Bone Meal, and Dolomite lime.. Feed with...
  19. Joan.figgens

    Custom Grow Cab with 90w LED Tri-Spec UFO

    **UPDATE DAY 15 PICS** Temp. and Humidity are holding at 79°F and 54% respectively The light is an even 12" away from the tops of the plants Cups have been rotated and raised with coasters so that they are all equal distance from the light.. also cup #6 is no longer with us... a moment...
  20. Joan.figgens

    Custom Grow Cab with 90w LED Tri-Spec UFO

    ***UPDATE PICS*** Day 8 Temps: 79°F Humidity: 49% Light: 12.5" away (moved up 1 link) I rotated the cups as well.. numbered the new arrangement in the pic. Wow, what a difference already... I'm justice in awe of nature at its best =) The babies are growing very well, around...
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