1000w flower 600w veg 8 strains organic soil grow. lets see how this goes

which strain are you watching?


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RetiredMatthebrute

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Hello RIU,

This will be my aproximatly 6th grow heres the details

8 strains:

Kandy Kush (not sure of breeder) reg seed (either DNA genetics or Reserva privada)
Critical Kush, Barneys Farm. fem seed
blueberry gum, G13. Fem seed
Fruity chronic juice, Delicious seeds. fem seed, onto clones now.
Blue cheese, Big budah. fem seed, on to clones now.
White widow x Big bud (unsure of breeder) fem seed. good chance the breeder is female seeds but not 100%
Blue OG, G13. fem seeds
White lavender, G13. Fem seed.

ok so the WW x BB and the Kandy Kush were a gift from a good friend i met on RIU some time ago. the rest i ordered from the tude, the blue OG and white lavender were UFO freebies.

Equipment:

1x 1000w Apollo HID digital dimable ballast.
1x cool tube
6x4 grow room, i built the room
32x32 cheap chinese grow tent.
360w CFL DIY fixture.
600w apollo digital dimmable ballast (coming soon when tax refund gets here, right now the CFL fixture is in the then this light will be going in)
aircooled hood, cheap chinese got it with a cheap 400w light kit i ordered and the ballast is jusnk now.
i am using a booster fan to cool both rooms, 240cfm i believe
ducting and all that other shit.

i have alot more equipment but its all general shit like rockwool and propogators, fans blah blah blah..not worth listing every thing. I plan on upgrading to CO2 soon and getting my charcoal filter in place once taxes come in i will be dumping about another $1000 on equipment should make my grow complete.

Medium/nutrients:

Fox Farm Happy Frog soil. Was using ocean forest but you get 25% more happy frog for same price so i switched.
General Organics GO lineup.
Espoma garden Lime for PH stability
Espoma garden tone as a organic amendment.
Fresh worm casting, i made a worm farm and they produce my castings.
Perilite, right now i have black gold brand but have used all different brands. i try and go with organic perilite and stay away from MG perilite.
clonex solution for cloning.
general hydroponic bloom nutrients (for a hydro project i will be trying soon, DWC)
PH up and down again for the hydro project i will be trying soon.


and i think that about covers it. I just harvested a fruity chronic juice and blue cheese plant on friday. ended up with around 5 oz of dry material, 2 ox from the blue cheese and 3 from the fruity chronic. I know i can do better than that. i made a couple mistakes by flowering way too early and did not utilize the space in my room well. I have up and coming around 14 plants from seed and clone that are currently vegging under the 1000w MH and my flowering plants which are 2 fruity chronic clones and 3 bagseed plants (these will be the last bagseed plants grown in my grow, the guy that owns the house where i am growing wanted to grow his own so i said go for it. from now on he will be given clones) are all under the 360w CFL fixture in the 32x32 tent and are doing just fine up there and will soon have a nice 600w HPS, they will probabally finish out thier cycle in that tent as i will be doing some training in the 6x4 and flipping the light to flower all the vegging plants at the same time.

before i flip i will be taking clones of everything and filling up my veg room again to do it all over again. I would eventually like ot get a nice perpetual style grow going so im going to try and leave room in the 6x4 for upcoming clones.

i am going to be starting something new with my feedings and that will be putting my general organics nutes into a AACT to brew instead of just watering them in. I will start my brew on thursdays and feed on saturdays. 1 feed a week for plants 2+ weeks into flowering. probabally plain water for veg plants untill they show me they need some more food. the soil i use is pretty rich in organic fertilizer so they should be good to run out a 6-8 week veg cycle without any extra nutrients.

i use 1/2 a bag of espoma garden tone to every 2.0 cu yd bag of happy frog, 1/4 of a bag of perilte and 1 cup of garden lime. this is the soil mix i have been using the past 3 grows and it is doing me well. i want to try making subcools super soil one day but not today.

The plan:

so the plan is pretty simple, im going to build some shelving in the grow room, LST the seedlings and ScROG the clones. i currently have 3 fruity chronic juice clones and 2 blue cheese clones. they will be going into the same screen. all the seedling plants will go onto the shelving so that they can compete with the scrog plants for light.

heres some pics of the room i built and the tent.

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Here are some pics of my old setup with the 6x4 flower and the tent veg, i was running out of room fast in the veg tent and my flower room looked empty so i did the switcheroo. these pics are a few weeks old and in the flower room the 2 biggest plants are gone now,

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heres som epics of after the switch and now vegging in the 6x4 under the 1kw MH and flowering under the CFL rig. and some pics of the DIY CFL rig i made a year or so ago.

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and last but not least a few pics of my last harvest.

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and a nice selfie pic so you guys can see who your talking to.

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some of these pics are a couple weeks old, im going to go ahead and get some nice updated photo's later on tonight. I currently have 2 fruity chronic juce clones that are 2 weeks into flower, a bagseed reveg clone that i lollypopped and supercropped about 3 weeks into flower. and 2 bagseed seedlings 1 is on week 1 of flower the other has not shown sex yet.

so along with some good training on the veg stuff i should have some good bud porn coming up shortly :) hope to see some new faces as well as some old friends here. feel free to post whatever you want but lets keep it mature and clean guys. i have no issues with people posting thier opinions and debating over methods but i dont like name calling and childish crap. If someone is incorect in thie rposting feel free to correct them in a mature and informative way.

thanks for stopping by
RMTB
 

RetiredMatthebrute

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i added a poll to the thread just for fun, if your here to watch particular strains please vot. this will help me when i do my updates to make sure i cover the strains you guys want better.
 

aCiDjEsUs

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White widow x Big bud (unsure of breeder) fem seed. good chance the breeder is female seeds but not 100% <---- Matt the breeder is female seeds.
 

RetiredMatthebrute

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yippeeeeeee, getting some visitors woot. hopefully we see some new faces in this thread. no offense guys you know i love having you here :) just like to meet new peoples :P
 

aCiDjEsUs

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Damn Matt!!! Everything looks great! :weed: I swear man soon you'll be pulling lbs from your grow :weed:
And Thank you for some close up pictures of KK and WWxBB ;) LOOKING freaking nice there!
 

doubletake

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Do you plan to do perpetual in the 6x4 room or are you just going to flower the big ones soon and put those little ones back in the veg tent?
 

doubletake

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Also those plants at the end looked beautiful I'm on the last week and I'm dyeing not just trimming them I keep saying just one more week I'm letting them go 9 not the usuall 8 I'm usually so impatient I can't wait longer than 8 weeks haha so im hoping that this last week packs on some density and gives my stuff a little harder couch lock hit
how maney weeks were those plants when you trimmed them and also what strain, sory if I missed the strain Its probley back there on the first page
 

RetiredMatthebrute

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Excellent Work M8.

Thanx for sharing the grow:weed:

Peace

Asmallvoice
thanks for stoping by VOICE, glad you like :)

Do you plan to do perpetual in the 6x4 room or are you just going to flower the big ones soon and put those little ones back in the veg tent?
the ones in the 6x4 will stay in there untill its time to flower, when i flip them to flower the ones in the small tent will come back down and the tent will be used for incoming clones. Im only using the flower room to veg right now because i want to make sure i fill the room out to its max potential this time. last flower i did in there i was not utilizing my space well and my yeild suffered because of this.
yes i plan on having it be a perpetual but some things in the future might put me out of growing. as the peoples house im growing at may be moving.

Also those plants at the end looked beautiful I'm on the last week and I'm dyeing not just trimming them I keep saying just one more week I'm letting them go 9 not the usuall 8 I'm usually so impatient I can't wait longer than 8 weeks haha so im hoping that this last week packs on some density and gives my stuff a little harder couch lock hit
how maney weeks were those plants when you trimmed them and also what strain, sory if I missed the strain Its probley back there on the first page
the 2 strains i just harvested were fruity chronic juice by delicious seeds and blue cheese by big buddah seeds. they both went 8 weeks. @ 7 weeks the fruity chronic was done but i held in there and let it go till 8. the vlue cheese while still excellent smoke did not grow out the way i wanted it to, verry dense buds but small. so instead of leaving it in there for another week i just chopped so i could move things around. i have 1-2 clones of the blue cheese that im going to grow out but probabally wont be cloning it again. if i have sucess with it on round 2 ill reveg to get some clones back but im thinking its just a lame pheno and needs to be erradicated from the room. I have enough strains going right now where i have plenty of choices and even though i really enjoy the smoke its not worth taking up room in the grow with a bunk pheno so i may just order some more seeds in the future and try and get a decent pheno back.

this was the first blue cheese i grew out


hey guys, just figured i would share, a situation came up that forced me to chop a bit early



ok so the girls are chopped and trimmed, i seriously almost cried chopping down the blue cheese since she had around 3-4 more weeks


i have a few others that are just starting to flower that arent worth chopping so ill reveg them outside for the summer.

weighed them and wet weight was....

Blue cheese: 277.3 grams

Frisian dew: 165.2 grams

Bag seed: 28.9 grams (i already chopped the tops off it was letting it get a little more weight on the lower nodes)

so a grand total of 471.4 grams (wet) if i get 1/2 that in weight ill have 235.7 grams, 8 1/2 Oz so lets say 6 Oz to be on the safe side...not too shabby i guess for 2 plants. that blue cheese was going to be a fucking monster and probally would have been well over 600g wet alone if i could have let it go another 4 weeks....

cant really complain about chopping the frisian dew as it was pretty much ready as you can see in the pics.

anyways heres the pics, frisian dew is up first..




and heres the blue cheese, not sure whats up with the darker one in the middle, maybe it was closer to the UVB bulb or something, i realize its turned the opposite way of the others but it is distinctly darker than the rest.




hope you guys like, im saddened but also pleased with my results, if i could have waited another month no doubt in my mind i would have done over 1g per watt so i must have done something right
 

RetiredMatthebrute

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the pic i wanted you to see is on the second row first pic. theres a huge difference in the development of the buds on this pheno than there was on the one im currently running. If my outdoor didnt get jacked i would still have this pheno up and running.

heres another pic of 3 clones of it i was growing outside, some crazy LST going on this plant had some goood potential.

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