Building single-plant growbox, I want your opinions!

She was getting pretty bushy and I'm pretty sure she was too bushy, it was almost shading some of the bud sites. So I decided to do some tying. My anchors are fat little screws that I screwed into the styrofoam, works great. AND i can tighten the screws to tighten the strings lol. That's a cool feature

I like the tying...

It will serve you right...

Did you chop something off the top?

No actually I haven't chopped anywhere. I didn't top it or anything, just let her do her thing. Looks a lot different all sprawled out like that though. Doesn't even look like the same plant lol. Definitely making a lot better use of the space available though.

Oh and I thought I would let you know that the temperature in this apartment hasn't gone below under 80 degrees in a couple weeks, some days it has been as high as 100. My plant isn't even showing signs of heat stress. She must be adjusted to it... Not having any troubles whatsoever. If I was having problems you would have been the first to know lol

have you been trimming any leaves?

obviously not

well that might be a good idea to do along with tying it
give your bud spots more light

i wouldnt do anything like that, even this little LST puts you plant at minor risk of going herm, so trimming leafs might have an adverse effect.....

I just moved the fan leaves out of the way as much as possible. It's looking alright now, they all have pretty good light access. I don't think I hurt her, don't think I'm stressing her too much at all. Pretty sure I'm safe It is my first time tying, but I've done tons of reading about it so I know I did it right.. And I don't want to trim any leaves because then I'm messing with my plant's root-foliage balance lol. I don't wanna stunt it. Just gonna let her keep her equilibrium.

KaleoXxX said:

i wouldnt do anything like that, even this little LST puts you plant at minor risk of going herm, so trimming leafs might have an adverse effect.....

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Where did you get that???

KaleoXxX said:

i wouldnt do anything like that, even this little LST puts you plant at minor risk of going herm, so trimming leafs might have an adverse effect.....

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LST=Low STRESS Training..ill be tying off and bending like that soon
and i always topp.

wow looks like ur styro grow is turning out pretty damn good! and to think..people were bashin u the whole time!

Yeah lol, but I wouldn't be where I am without the criticism I got. I avoided all the newb mistakes because I did my homework before doing anything, And because I posted everything here so anyone else could catch any mistakes I made. I mean look at step 1 of my box and look at it now? It has evolved and now I think it's perfect lol.

Also, since I tied it a few hours ago, all15 of my budsites are now curved up towards the light again, that didn't take long at all! I'll post a new pic tomorrow night to show the difference, she's growing so quickly =D

damn...makes me want to give one of these a test run...maybe ill put one together for my first lowryder grow! But yeh ur right, ur box has significantly changed from the first step until now! and your plant looks beautiful...looks like she loves being in there...so basically it speaks for itself!

+rep!!

SimplyBaked said:

wow looks like ur styro grow is turning out pretty damn good! and to think..people were bashin u the whole time!

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.Na..not bashing..just advising...without gypsy guidance he would have heat issues that would slow down growth or kill the plants...lookin damn good now though!Cant wait to see these flowering!

hey thought I'd check in, ur plantslookin good... mine are doin fine too, i never bought any fans, it seems the big hole on top of my box where my old fan used to be + the two holes on the side are enough passive vent to keep the temps down,but i'm getting a 6" fan w a carbon filter cuz my apt smellz, even though I put some carbon sheets on my a/c unit and i think sm of the smell is gettin outside :S.... .....mine aren't as bushy as yours yet, but thee getting there... andhave a lil less soil and have gone to hell n back.... I also topped them, seems to have worked...........currently on 8th day of 12/12 using 2 42 w soft w, 1 19 watt softwhite and 1 19 watt daylight and still no sex showing....... gotta have patience... i also got a mechanical timer frm HD for 12 bucks and its the shit, cheap and pretty accurate, the most it's deviated so far is 10-13 mins which is fine for me.... talk to ya later, peace!

made a mistake, most the timers deviated is 1-3 mins... jeje...peace

Just wanted to post a quick note; forgive me if it's been brought up before (been on the thread for over an hour and I'm only on page 18 of 40 lol).

I used styrofoam trays to start seedlings this year (veggies actually). I noticed that the roots were drilling into the styrofoam by the time I transplanted them.

The concern I'm bringing up is that if you don't use a pot your plant roots will eventually drill through the bottom of your cooler. When that happens you might get water leakage.

I hope this helps!

Purpdaddy-
I do have heat issues, and for whatever reason it isn't hurting my plants lol. I think 75 - 85 degrees must be an optimum temperature for best growth and being higher than that isn't necessarilly harmful at all, because my plant is doing just fine and most of her life has been spent above 90 and lots of times at 100 or higher. She doesn't have any discolouration or abnormal leaf curving that would indicate stress. Maybe she's just a tough girl But I do agree, I wouldn't be where I am without Gypsy

redivider-
Sounds like you're learning as you go, keep it up haha. And for future reference, there is an "Edit" function on these threads so you don't need to double post

ArBleiz-
Yeah this has been a long journey, hence a long thread. Good point though. Roots are tough shit. I think I mentioned when I killed my first male that I lifted up the plant and pulled out ALL of the soil in one piece lol, it was ridiculous, first I lifted up the whole box by the stem, then I held the box down and pulled it harder and lifted all the dirt clean out of the box. But the roots didn't appear to be penetrating at all, just turning back in when it hit the edges. I couldn't believe the network of roots I had. This female is more mature than the first plant now so hopefully her roots don't go through. Only time will tell. The stryofoam used to make the cooler may be more dense than that of your trays.. lets hope anyway

I took this 1 minute ago:


She looks happy

r2fs said:

Hi Fructus, ive been folowing your thread since you started posting with interest, sorry your 1st plant was male by the way.
are you sure that there wasnt any old bud or resin left in your vapouriser as i was under the impression there was NO thc in males?

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Males just have less THC.

We forgot but most the weed smoked in the US and Canada in the 60s and 70s were males. Growers kept the sin semilla (without seeds / females) for themselves.

That's why medias always say that weed now is stronger. Strains are stronger yes, but mostly the majority of the product is females whereas even just 15 years ago 'sinsemilla' was considered rare even in Europe.

Fractus: it smokes harsh mainly because it's not dryed or cured. Females would taste just as bad 'fresh off the vine'. The curing process is the most important part in making it smoke smoother.