Building single-plant growbox, I want your opinions!

i noticed that a little late...

here's a pic of my own plant...

the first pic: it's about 30i days old any day now(not sure), 8th day of 12/12....notice the bottom leaf is having issues, i'm guessing that's a root problem, so any ideas on how to cure that? or should I just let em fall off...? they also don't get any side lighting so it may be lack of light, since my plant started getting bushy after I topped it, that was 4 days ago, (i did it cuz it was reaching my lights so I just went for it, it seems to be doing ok.).... opinions, suggestions are welcome....

second pic is the same plant as the first....another angle, close up... if anyone sees indications of sex let me know...

the last pic: I also have another plant in the box, it was my first one, it has been heavily stressed, little light when it was small, under AND overwattering.... I ddn't expect it to live.... you can see some leaves heavily nute burned, i guess a root reached some of those nute balls in the soil, but it's healing nicely and apparantely it's gonna make it... it's about 1.5 to 2 weeks older than the other one, yet it's not nearly as bushy or healthy, it also seems to be another strain..... i've got that one 12/12 too, might produce buds, only one way to find out....

opinions, suggestions are welcome....

peace!!!

so r u going to flower it fractus?

Fractus said:

Now the plant is centered in the box, i just tossed the male this time instead of trying to use it again lol. Also on 12/12 now and as you can see the lights were all changed to 3000K - 3500K

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That is post #337, I started flowering that day. And in the most recent pic I put up, you can tell the budsites are starting to produce. At this rate, in a few more days I'll have pictures of little buds for sure.

redivider-
My plant showed early preflowers so I knew she was a girl before flowering. I'm surprised that after 8 days you still don't have any sign... It may just not be mature enough yet, you probably could have held off a while on flowering. And it probably would have made more sense to top them and then keep vegging so that you get your multiple tops developed before trying to bud them, in my opinion. I could be wrong though. Topping isn't something I have tried.

The lower leaves with issues aren't necessarily anything to be worried about, it's natural for the first lower couple of leaves to die off as the plant gets bigger. I know mine did, and my plant is far from unhealthy. I just pulled off the dead bottom leaves. No big deal.

You probably should start a thread about your issue, you'll get more responses there than here. Cheers man

ur probably right, but i dnt have much room in my apt anyways, and the plants are pretty tall since they were under llit in the begining.... you cn see the lil tops growing on the sides, this weekend i'm gonna be out of town, and where my plants are staying they are going to get a lot of side lighting, so it's gonna grow more, and i'm giving it a lil bit more nutes before I go, rite now i put about a teaspoon every other day, and they are doing GREAT (even though some "experienced" grower told me I was over feeding them, when I stopped they looked sad, jeje, its a mix of a little bit of 24-8-16 and mostly 15-30-15, not full strength) so before I go i'm putting in 4-5 teaspoons.... someone told me sometimes it takes up to 14 days if you flower them very early like I did....i'm praying to god that's what's happening jeje.... i know this weekend is going to be great for them cuz the "under leaves" are gonna be receiving about 3800 lumens of light, even more than the top ones (this is on purpose, cuz the top leaves are pretty big, and I want the "under leaves/growths" to receive more light so they thrive)... i'll let you guyz know how this weekend goes for the babies... i hope I don't get one female and one male and have the male pollinate the female... that would be the shit hitting the fan.... PEACE!!!

Hey man this is all just my opinion. take it for what it's worth. I'm sure some of the guys will agree with me. First of all, giving it a bunch of side-lighting is not necessary. Leaves are flat and grow outwards for the purpose of catching light coming from straight up. Giving it a ton of light from the sides is a mistake I made at the beginning. It may not hurt the plant, but it can. The undersides of the leaves are mose sensitive to the tops so be careful where you have your light.
Next, your nute situation. 24-8-16 sounds like miracle-gro to me. That's what I use. About once a week I mix like half strength into my water (just less than a teaspoon), and feed it. I water every second day (approximately, I go by drynees, not on a schedule) and I only feed it every third watering. So it sounds like you are already overfeeding like the "experienced grower" told you. If you give it 4-5 teaspoons it will more than likely be dead when you come back. I think you should starve your plants and watch them use what nutrients they already have in the soil. Water properly, don't feed for a week. And keep your lighting on the top. Instead of pumping 3800 lumens into the bottoms, double up the light hitting the top. My box is hitting around 10 000 lumens from 4 bulbs directly overhead and you've seen my results. Just some tips man, I'm no expert.. You might wanna hear what some people say before feeding though, that's for sure.

I like the set up. I'm a newb to this whole thing myself but I have to agree with the concerns over heat. Now, granted i have a lot more light (8 bulbs ranging from 23 watt to 27 watt cfls) I heat tested my cabinet (2 1/2 W by 1 1/2 D by 4 1/4 H) without the ventilation and in 2 hours I had 98.8 degrees. I added 4" H/O fans for in and output and It helped but i still have to upgrade one of the fans to keep my temps in the low 80's. this is probably a little older thread and you probably know better but I figured I'd through in my 2 cents. sorry. If you have this all finished-please let me know how it worked out-very curious.
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about the feedng, i put a teaspoon in the soil, a tea spoon as in 6-7 drops of the mix I make... i'm doing the mix now cuz the stems started turning purple and since i started with the mix they turned greeeeen...... and it's not every other day, it's on tuesdays and thursdays, a few drops on the soil, which hardly even moistens the thing ..... but ok, i wnt feed it tomorrow.......my plant food is miracle grow, the flowering and the normal one..... in terms of watering i stick my finger in there, and water accordingly, but i dnt think i over water cuz i live in a DRY ass place and water has NEVER reached the tray below my plants.... i also dont have the $$ to buy all the materials, i think they look great considering i've only spent 60 bucks on my setup,.... 60 bux isn't much for some ppl but i dnt even have 60 bux in my bnk acct, can't even spare 20 bux at once to buy decent fans, so i'm happy for nw, if not i have about 40 more seeds here i can try, that's just the first two

Thread jacker lol.

Does it have an oder Fractus?

Oh does it ever. If I lift the cover for 5 minutes my room reaks. But that carbon filter is working flawlessy. No scent gets through it, nothing. I love it to death

Hell yeah, thats what I wanted to hear lol

GypsyBush said:

Where did you get that???

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ya low STRESS training low chance, im not tryin to scare him, just saying that cutting leafs off(someone sugested) isnt a good idea right now

it looks really good, this is probably my favorite grow to follow. im sure its like this for you too, but every time i look in your box im surprised how much its grown

i saw these same coolers the other day ta cumbys and pictured a plant inside

haha yeah i'm always amazed to see it. It grows so much in the run of a day.. When the lights are out for 12 hours she stays dark, but when the lights come on I check on her and I'm always amazed. I definitely won't need to be doing any cutting. But where my main cola is going to be, it's right between 4 lights with the vent right over top of it so it should be okay, but it may get too close. In which case, I'm going to raise the lid (by putting some sort of spacer in between the two coolers)

I just read this entire thread, and my vote is to have it made into a romance novel involving bitter rivalries and love triangles =P

But seriously, very cool grow. I am currently in my mental fritz stage of not knowing what the hell I should do. Best of luck to you and keep us posted on how things are going!

Buy another cooloer and cut a section out and duck tape that on top of it then put lid on. Would give you ample space for that beaut.

are the cfl's you've been using manufactured by feit?

My 6500's are made by GE, and my 2700s/3000s are made by Sylvania. Why do you ask?

husa-
Great idea, but that would cost 10$. I bet I can do it for free If not I'll be doing exactly like you said. Thanks for the tip dude.

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Decided to go with imageshack to keep the full resolution so you can get a better look. My cellphone isn't the best camera in the world but unfortunately I'm not going to go purchase a high quality camera so I can show the world my weed plant. I hope you all understand.. haha. Cheers

Fractus said:

My 6500's are made by GE, and my 2700s/3000s are made by Sylvania. Why do you ask?

husa-
Great idea, but that would cost 10$. I bet I can do it for free If not I'll be doing exactly like you said. Thanks for the tip dude.

Taken today:

Decided to go with imageshack to keep the full resolution so you can get a better look. My cellphone isn't the best camera in the world but unfortunately I'm not going to go purchase a high quality camera so I can show the world my weed plant. I hope you all understand.. haha. Cheers

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WOW Fractus...u have plenty of bud sites..and ur plants look super healthy! lookin nice homie!

i 2 read the whole thread epic! setup looks good gonna do somethin similar 4 my 1st grow probly make the box out of somethin else though, lookin 4ward 2 seein the end result!

So if your carbon filter works well...can you tell me how you made it please?

10 bucks, comin Fractus give that girl a little bigger appartment. Hell. lol