CatfishBilly's 400w sog soil grow. 2011

Hi, its only been like 19-20 hours since my last photo update, check out the growth, does it look on par?

Veg cab...




My fem Cheese... shes catching up, and shes almost a week behind.


Flowering, had to add another table, the plants were growing over top of themselves.







On this pic, seems like i had my light too close and it melted? Could it be something else?



I carefully checked the leaves with a magnifying glass, nothing crawling, looks clean. I hope its just melted and nothing else. Seems to only effect that leaf.

they look nice and green to me man, i can see the new growth well done......

Thanks for checking in on me Philo, wish a few more would gain interest, the last couple journals i did had a lot of hype, this one is by far my most hard working grows, and i have less than a quarter of the subs that i did. When i gain enough knowledge to be sure about the info i post, i will help as much as i can, i try to anyway, doing research for other people, drawing diagrams, etc. I will not loose faith in riu, because i know theres a lot going on in here. May just take some time to get some subs. (like when i will post juicy nugs that make your mouth water later on, i hope) All i know, if it wasn't for the subscribers i had in my previous journals i woulda just committed serial homicide on my babies.....

In the veg cab went from under-watered, to slightly over-watered, need to add 10% more perlite to the next mix, along with a unknown amount of dolo lime. (They are the little pellets) I tried to make a tea with fish ferts and dolo lime, in 24hour tap water, with a strong air pump for about 12 hours, didnt seem like the lime broke down any in the water, so my next test will be either adding what i think would be enough to the soil mix, or adding to the top of the soil mix, just slightly covering the top.

Peaces.

Flowering...




Veg...




If anyone is watching, do you know what this is?

i have those same things, mine were from water burning in the lights...how far into flower are you?

Philosophist said:

i have those same things, mine were from water burning in the lights...how far into flower are you?

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yea, i think where i had to goto work and the soil was semi dry, i just used a water bottle and sprayed the surface, mighta got it on the leaf. My lights are around 10inches from the plants, going to move them up 2 inches tonight.

I am currently 6 days into flower, no signs of sex..

so i am not moving.. i told a "friend" about the place and he went over my head and got it. I swear.. I try and try to be the good guy... look what that gets me.. not anymore.

CatfishBilly said:

so i am not moving.. i told a "friend" about the place and he went over my head and got it. I swear.. I try and try to be the good guy... look what that gets me.. not anymore.

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thats a bunch of bullshit...friends can be the worst enemies.....

Looks really good..and lots of pics.....rep...happy growing

Philosophist said:

thats a bunch of bullshit...friends can be the worst enemies.....

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Thats ok, i know where he lives... haha ::flings a bag of feces at his door:: kidding..

DSB65 said:

Looks really good..and lots of pics.....rep...happy growing

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Thank you DSB65, thanks for the rep. Stop by anytime u want! :]



Popped 3 more seeds this week, one is breaking soil. They are two Himalayan Gold, and one EZ Ryder, all feminized. That will give me a total of 4 strains i can rotate to find the one i like. I plan on keeping a mother of the Cheese for the first "legitimate strain" Then HG and then EZR. I want to try and run the same strains to keep my canopy uniform. Its going to be hard with 3 sets of 2 clones. Got to find a tri-level metal rack somewhere, ill hit up the thrift shops tomorrow.

So far only one out of six is showing sex, which i think it looks like it will be a male. Most of the times i can tell before by what they look like(tall and lanky compared to its opposite) But not these. Its only day 7 of flowering, from the way it looks in there, might be day 9-10 before i am sure. i fimed i think 3 of them so they are bushy and have a LOT more nodes than my last grow, and the leaves can cover my hand!

Thanks again for stopping by..

Why ez rider with the other ones its a auto and likes more light.....

To my knowledge, the ezr was just plain fem. Ive had these seeds for 3 years if that makes a diff.

catfishbilly said:

to my knowledge, the ezr was just plain fem. Ive had these seeds for 3 years if that makes a diff.

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its a fem auto flower and needs 20 hours to grow its best...

hey broseph.... im wondering how well your vegging would be if you had double those lights? Im planning on starting a 2week cycle grow next month, and am only gona Veg for 4 weeks. Will those lights get them big enough? Gonna Uncle ben top and flower under 1k HPS.

DSB65 said:

its a fem auto flower and needs 20 hours to grow its best...

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DSB65 said:

http://www.cannabis-seeds-bank.co.uk/easy-ryder-aka-lowryder-2-x-ak47/prod_442.html

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Well, i guess i jumped the gun, it looks like its a Lowryder 2 x AK47 Feminized Auto Flowering Dwarf. What a waste of money. I cant give it 20 hours of hps. (electric bill) Thanks for clearing that up. What should i do with it? I mean its getting 20 hours of cfl light lol...

Thanks for checking on that for me. ;]

Philosophist said:

hey broseph.... im wondering how well your vegging would be if you had double those lights? Im planning on starting a 2week cycle grow next month, and am only gona Veg for 4 weeks. Will those lights get them big enough? Gonna Uncle ben top and flower under 1k HPS.

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Imo, the 8 100w equiv cfls i have keep nodes tight, plenty of light. If i had 16 of them in there (double) the heat and energy usage would be like a MH. So if your going to go with anything, get a 150 mh. It cost me about 40 dollars for the bulbs, splitters, and power strips.(for the So double that and...http://cgi.ebay.com/HPS-150-Grow-Light-SYSTEM-Bulb-sun-sodium-150w-w-/400178977797?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item5d2c869c05 About the same price.

I ordered a 2ft 4bulb t5 ho the other day to add to my veg chamber, mostly for clone rooting and a week veging, while the cfls keep the moms happy.

And i vegged for two weeks also, day 8 in flowering and they around around 12-20 inches tall, 10 inches wide. From seed that is.. if it was from clone it would be much bigger.

Pics tonight.

Just let it grow....

Nice set up bro! sub'd +rep!

Looking good Subbed and +rep.

~Drew~

Time for a update, plants are looking good. Found one male that i am sure of. Theres another that im not sure about... the others are not showing signs of being males yet.....

Transplanted one of the solos into the pot that i had that male in. Running low on planters.





Did some modification to my veg cab.. added t5s took off the bulky fan thing that i had....




Flowering cab. Now have 5. Culled a male.






Can u tell?









EDIT: So i decided that that one was a male, so i chopped him to pieces and used the planter for something i had in the veg cab. So i am down to four, but the light is hitting much of of the lower growth now.