1st grow, how does it look?

reddiamond · Sep 8, 2013

Yesterday was end of week 6 so approx 3 weeks to go

Colours look screwed because i used my proper camera this time instead of my phone

legallyflying · Sep 8, 2013

What are your temps and humidity level?

Leaves look a little heat stress

raiderman · Sep 8, 2013

Lookin sweet Red,yure on top of yure game up in there .looks sharp bro.Rdr.

reddiamond · Sep 9, 2013

legallyflying said:
What are your temps and humidity level?

Leaves look a little heat stress

Day temps are around 27-28c and night time around 17-18c humidity is 60% day but spikes to around 85% when lights go out.
I would like to have more control over my temps but as i am essentially growing in a cupboard and need stealth its difficult

Also they were due to be fed, it was 24hrs since last feeding.

Gotta ask, who's that in your avatar?

blackstoneinstitute · Sep 9, 2013

That looks amazing! For a first grow you hit it out of the park. I want some of the mojo you got.

reddiamond · Sep 9, 2013

Thanks, i did a LOT of reading before i got the chance to grow and as space was at a premium i decided topping was my best chance of getting a good yield

dlftmyers · Sep 9, 2013

reddiamond said:
Yesterday was end of week 6 so approx 3 weeks to go
Colours look screwed because i used my proper camera this time instead of my phone

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I Would take these any day nice work

Droy87 · Sep 9, 2013

reddiamond said:
Some pics as of today, i gave her 24hrs dark on the 26th and timer kicked in on the 27th for 12/12
Stretch starting already and its only been 6 days lol
Still looking mg def so gonna up the magne-cal+ a bit more and maybe foliar spray with some epsom salts.

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She's a short bushy girl

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Trimmed a few of the under branches and small stuff off to get better airflow, she has nice thick stems so hopefully good things will come
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I hope my first grow comes out half as healthy, props cuz!

legallyflying · Sep 9, 2013

I wish I knew who that was in my avatar! Lol. Just a random hot as fuck woman smoking weed. I am going to ask one of my GFs to pose naked in one of the rooms though, kind of on my bucket list.

The plants look great for sure. But those temps are high, if you want to grow the dankest weed possible you should find some way to cool it down. If you have an adjustable ballast I would dim it down, or raise it up. I always raise my lights for the last 10 days or so. About 18-24" for AC 600's. blasting the plants with light makes them grow big, but it also tends to fry the trichs to a crisp. If you ever run a scrog or have an even canopy you will see what I mean. The plants along the edges will have more trichs than the ones directly under the lights. If your rocking 600w HPS you could throw a 400 MH in there.

These are just the finer points that people don't tend to hash out over and over.

Still though, legit for sure.
You DO have a dehu or something to dry them with right....?

reddiamond · Sep 10, 2013

legallyflying said:
The plants look great for sure. But those temps are high, if you want to grow the dankest weed possible you should find some way to cool it down. If you have an adjustable ballast I would dim it down, or raise it up. I always raise my lights for the last 10 days or so. About 18-24" for AC 600's. blasting the plants with light makes them grow big, but it also tends to fry the trichs to a crisp. If you ever run a scrog or have an even canopy you will see what I mean. The plants along the edges will have more trichs than the ones directly under the lights. If your rocking 600w HPS you could throw a 400 MH in there.

These are just the finer points that people don't tend to hash out over and over.

These are the kind of pointers i like to look out for and keep a note of

As this is my 1st grow i don't have anything dialled in yet and we had some crazy temps in the UK over summer that we don't usually have to take into consideration so she did get a bit hot

legallyflying said:
You DO have a dehu or something to dry them with right....?

Erm no, i dont have a dehu for drying. I have been thinking about that recently as i'm coming towards the end and have been looking/reading for the best ways to dry and cure. Any tips are most welcome

hbbum · Sep 10, 2013

reddiamond said:
Erm no, i dont have a dehu for drying. I have been thinking about that recently as i'm coming towards the end and have been looking/reading for the best ways to dry and cure. Any tips are most welcome

You may not need a dehumidifier for the cure. Where I live it is regularly over 70% RH and I do not use one. I dry and cure in the same room as my flowering, I keep the humidity in the flowering room under control with a lot of airflow I have a fan that circulates air but does not blow directly on the buds and I have my inline fan and carbon filter. The RH in the veg room just because of the filters and scrubbing stays ~55%.

reddiamond · Sep 10, 2013

Thats not a bad idea, there should be plenty of room until the new mainline clone gets fully stretched

Here my clone as of today, got 8 heads now

I will start a proper journal for her once i get a bit further along.

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rikcherron99 · Sep 13, 2013

Look great for your first attempt seriously tho keep up the good work subbed cant wait to see the rest

reddiamond · Sep 13, 2013

Thanks, tomorrow is the end of week 7 so approx 2 - 3 weeks to go. Gonna drop the nute strength over the next week so she can use up the chemicals and then hopefully just flush for the last week. Will update pics tomorrow and post up here

rikcherron99 · Sep 13, 2013

what soil are you using for that clone before you put it into the soilless pot because that plant is super healthy nice strong stems already(if i remember correctly thats what you said you were doing)

reddiamond · Sep 13, 2013

The original seed was started in seedling compost and then transplanted into coco/perlite mix at 50/50.
The clones went straight into coco/perlite mix after a dip in clonex but i kept them small by keeping them rootbound with low ppm nutes and low light levels, you can see them here:
https://www.rollitup.org/grow-journals/722730-2nd-grow-gonna-try-mainlining.html

Dates are in the photo names.

raiderman · Sep 13, 2013

ns job on the clones,very green and vigorous ,I see ya Red.

reddiamond · Sep 14, 2013

Thanks mate, i seem to find cloning easy but i dont know why, maybe it because i don't fuss over them.
Took 4 and rooted 4 :-)

killed 2 cos i didn't need them :eyesmoke:

reddiamond · Sep 14, 2013

End of week 7, i've had some issues this week, had a bit of nute build up which caused the runoff to be almost 3000ppm / 5.1ph :-o

i haven't been checking as regularly as i should have and temps have been a little high too, some leaves have burnt from heat and some tips from high ppm also got some canoeing going on on top leaves, i gotta take better care of her :mad:

Flushed yesterday and today with 500ppm 6.0ph and got runoff back down to 1100ppm 5.8ph so we'll see how she copes, also changed my inlet fan from a 4" to a 5" to help with temps.

Got her out of the cupboard to flush so took some pics in normal light (well with flash on phone)

raiderman · Sep 14, 2013

She's a BEAST.great job on her ,yure definitely the man,lol,,,looks to be haf lb or more ..So is that a hempy bucket?

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