400w Closet SOG (24 plants)

Hellooo RIU.

As you can see I am excited for this one.. I would consider this my third indoor grow, and I finally switched over from CFL's and got myself a 400w cool tube for flowering.

For this grow I am without a doubt doing a SOG, with 24 flowering plants.. and room for a few more incase they take an extra couple weeks. I was trying to decide on the best container to use for this all soil grow.. and I finally figured out that the cheapest way is also the best way.. Im using 2L soda bottles cut at 6" for the smaller clones ontop of the veg box, and 2L bottles cut to 10". This way I can reuse the bottles everytime!

The Dimensions of the closet/box are:
Its the bottom half of the closet..

54"w
54"h
30"d

and inside of that space will be a smaller box for mothers and rooting clones. The smaller box also serves as a way to level the canopy between the 2wk&4wk clones and the 6wk&8wk clones.

The dimensions of the beg box are:

20"w
24"h
30"d

Ive got a few white skunk plants in veg right now along with a couple of bagseed I picked up.. that I am hoping turn out female.

I also have 6 feminized seeds on the way, all different strains.

1x Church
1x Blue Cheese
1x Whiteberry
1x DP Blueberry
1x Pure Gold
1x Blue Venom

Im hoping to get a few good mothers out of the bunch.. and I plan on keeping them small with plenty of clone sites so I can mix up the strains every few weeks.


Im waiting on my TD-150 fan that should be here on thurs before I start building. I got my cooltube yesterday and Im excited as hell!

I also have 5 Thai x super skunk

ohh yeaa, and a fem power kush is also doin pretty good in the box.

i just threw some more bagseed in a ptowel.. i dk if they'll crack though

Seeds are here!!

got everything I ordered, plus a free fem Blue Venom and fem Diesel.

heres a pic of the diesel ryder that just came out of my rubbermaid.

Awesome line-up you have there!! I am sure you'll be very happy with the 400!(<--what did you pay for that?)
That is also a great looking cured bud---and by cfl??<---not much exp w/those.
Did you get your fan yet and is it going to be enough?--- I see I better go look at your other journel as most of the ?'s are probably answered there(what soil/nutes you use etc..).

Well great journel here, KillHit!! I 'd like to follow this and see how it goes! Great luck and +rep4u!

growinman

I got my fan late last week the box should be complete on thurs.. I have just ordered more supplies poly, mylar, a ph tester with up n down.. a clone tray with dome.. some wrapped cubes for clones.. and some clone gel.

I will keep you all updated!

and btw, its not cured yett.. i just cut it yesterday.

So I was looking around my shed for things I could incorporate into my grow room, and I found these two cages that my family used to a rabbit or something lol. I figured since one was two small, and two on top of eachother was too high... I cut a section from the top cage and am planning on securing it to the blue one. That will be the frame for my Veg chamber. That will house my clones and hopefully four mothers in square pots on either sides of the cloner.

Im gunna mount one of my 200w enviros directly in the middle of that frame and I hope it will be enough to start the clones and veg some healthy moms.

In the middle is where I am putting my DIY aerocloner.

Do you think I have enough bubbles?

Theres one large pump for up to a 100gal tank and a smaller one for a tiny tank.

also do you think theres enough height for mother plants? All small indica strains.

.......whata are the measurements of that cage? It's kind of hard to tell for sure but looks pretty small......but I am sure it can/will work; just keep'm extra small...are the measurements at in the first post w/this veg unit?

That's an 'aero-cloner?'<--do you mean bubble cloner? A few things will help. First, you dont want it clear so light can get through. I used bubblers for years and just now am on my first run with a diy aero-cloner. With the bubbler I think you'll want the water to have more depth. I am not sure how you are planning to do your cuttings but I always had the water level to just beneath the lid so my cuttings were always in the h2o and by the water having more depth the air bubbles sread out a bit better than when shallow..... But you have plenty of air going in there, just, imo, not enough water for it to become as oxygenized as it needs....... making any sense?? I am rambling.....
I think your with a good choice of light since you wont be wanting too fast of growth; the cfl's with produce tight nodes and heavy veg......

just my $0.02.......

growinman

its 25"w x 22"h x 15"d

yes, it is a bubble-cloner.. and I will be covering the clear tub. As for the water line.. I have always heard the purpose of the bubbles is to pop and give just the right amount of water and oxygen to the roots, without submerging the stem.

nice grow

ill be following this one as im running a 400 watt closet set up myself nice job so far!

Got a new bin for the bubble cloner, and bought two this time for a domee-piece. annywayy here's an idea of the veg chamber... kinda like a skeleton without its skin, which will be a poly cover.

The fan on top of the frame will be blowing across the small 2wk old and 4wk flowering clones sitting on top of the veg box in a small containers, like the sport water bottles in the pic.. The fan will essentially be blowing across the entire canopy. I purchased a few ducting pieces so that I can direct the active intake air flow towards the mature flowering plants on the other side of the flower chamber.

this will all make sense in a bit.

ok so here's a better layout for everyone..

I also found this tray in my shed I guess it was used in the bottom of a puppy kennel, bottom line is my dad doesnt like throwin shit out! lol

well anyway it worked out perfectly bc both the tray and veg box fit pefectly in the closet beside eachother like thiss.

And again, you can see the fan on top of the veg box with some bottles arranged to give you a better idea of what I mentioned earlier.

On the tray will be the 2L bottles that will contain my various 6wk and 8wk flowering clones.. and it just so happens I have a little extra room to play around withh. So I've also decided to do a mini scrog in the rubbermaid bin, I haven't decided what strain to use yet.. but the power kush looks damn healthy.. or maybe two smaller healthy white skunk, we'll have to see about that..

if any of you have recommendations or requests of what strains I should use where let me know.. Im using the (*)'s for the SOG though so dont say those haha!

This is what I have to work with..

3- white skunk vegging now
1- power kush vegging now
2- healthy indica bagseed vegging now
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SOG momma options:
*1- Blueberry seed
*1- Church seed
*1- Bkue cheese seed
*1- Whiteberry seed
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Courtesy of Attitude:
1- Blue venom seed
1- Diesel seed

use the kush for the scrog nice short plant and will flower out just right for it

its like 5" tall right now.. but tite internodes starting to branch out. How big does she have to be to flower her in a scrog and yield a good amount, like apprx 2 ounces.

i know she sounds small but shes got huge fan leaves, making her look almost prehistoric.. fern-like.

Here's some pics..

the power kush is the short wide fucker..
and the other pic is of white skunk topped with three main colas beside a healthy indica dominant bagseed i picked up in virginia.

Here's some pics..

The power kush is the short wide fucker..

and the other pic is of white skunk topped with three main colas, beside a healthy indica dominant bagseed I picked up in virginia.

They are not nearly as yellow as they appear in pics.. the kush has that one yellowing leaf due to a ph problem.

it needs to be big enough to fill the scrog up, use one plant per square and you can do it today. so I guess with just one it depends on how big you want it????

Im going to have no choice but to do it when the closet gets coverted next week, due to lack of space in the veg chamber.


So I will have to send them into flower as is.. I suppose I will scrog the Power kush.. How much taller can I expect her to get during flower? i would like the canopy to be 1'x2'.