Hi everyone. This is my third grow and third grow journal. My first two were on another site that can't seem to get its crap together, so I'm going to try RIU to see how it goes!
**I just wrote a whole lot and the forum ate it by making me log in again. Not a good way to start a new journal. So I will post mostly the pictures and dates and not as much commentary for this entry.**
My first grow was a 2 plant Nirvana Wonder Woman under 400MH veg. I started with 3 seedlings
I removed the center one due to a bucket leak. I started flowering under 400w HPS and then switched to 600W a couple of weeks later. The end result looked something like this
which I harvested and ended up with 7.8oz of grade A and 1.2 oz of grade B bud.
My second grow was a White Widow (almost single plant) grow and ended with 8.2oz. I had problems with dud beans, and so only one plant was ready to go in.
Now that that's out of the way we can start this journal. I got a free Dinafem Blue Widow seed from the attitude so I decided to run these. I run semi-perpetual, so as soon as the previous plant comes out of the flower cabinet a new set goes in. The veg process of the Blue Widows overlapped the flowering of the last one, and the White Widow overlapped the flowering of the Wonder Woman.
11-06-11
I think this is when I took cuttings for the Blue Widows. I was going to do a coco run, because last time the roots got tangled in the veg tub and I decided coco might be a better way to go.
11-21-11
Had the "genius" idea to install a wall in the tub to keep the roots separated in veg, thus enabling me to try DWC for another run. This ultimately failed.
11-28-11
Moved the Blue Widows into the Veg DWC tubs.
Here's the one that didn't make it into DWC
12-05-11
12-13-11
12-22-11
12-26-11
12-31-11
The plant is definitely overgrowing the cabinet. Did aggressive supercropping and continued until I could move the plant into flower.
1-22-12
I finally got the Blue Widow into the main cabinet. In doing so I found out that the roots of the two plants had busted their way through the silicon and were somewhat tangled but not much. I cut them apart and stuck them in the flower cab.
Here you can see the incredibly distinctive pattern that occurs due to heavy lst when the plant is very young.
01-25-12
Right before the flip. On the night of the 25th, these plants got their first darkness.
Here is some weird discoloration, could be a deficiency or maybe just from spilling nutes on the plant when it was very young. If you know what it is please let me know
01-27-12
Two days after the flip to 12/12
01-28-12
Which brings us to today. This morning I awoke to find the light was off. At most they lost 2 hours of light. I'm not sure if it was the ballast or the bulb, because I swapped out both to a 400w hps and lumatek switchable ballast. If a bulb goes out should the ballast go cold or stay warm if it has power? My ballast was cold, if that means the ballast is dead I'll probably just run a 400w this time around. If it was just the bulb I will replace it.
Well that catches everyone up, I'm sorry there aren't as many descriptions of the various days as there should be, but I typed them out and they got destroyed. If you have any questions about anything please feel free to ask, or just general chatter is welcome on my journal. I hope you follow along and thanks for reading!
So that's what you missed on glee.
**I just wrote a whole lot and the forum ate it by making me log in again. Not a good way to start a new journal. So I will post mostly the pictures and dates and not as much commentary for this entry.**
My first grow was a 2 plant Nirvana Wonder Woman under 400MH veg. I started with 3 seedlings
I removed the center one due to a bucket leak. I started flowering under 400w HPS and then switched to 600W a couple of weeks later. The end result looked something like this
which I harvested and ended up with 7.8oz of grade A and 1.2 oz of grade B bud.
My second grow was a White Widow (almost single plant) grow and ended with 8.2oz. I had problems with dud beans, and so only one plant was ready to go in.
Now that that's out of the way we can start this journal. I got a free Dinafem Blue Widow seed from the attitude so I decided to run these. I run semi-perpetual, so as soon as the previous plant comes out of the flower cabinet a new set goes in. The veg process of the Blue Widows overlapped the flowering of the last one, and the White Widow overlapped the flowering of the Wonder Woman.
11-06-11
I think this is when I took cuttings for the Blue Widows. I was going to do a coco run, because last time the roots got tangled in the veg tub and I decided coco might be a better way to go.
11-21-11
Had the "genius" idea to install a wall in the tub to keep the roots separated in veg, thus enabling me to try DWC for another run. This ultimately failed.
11-28-11
Moved the Blue Widows into the Veg DWC tubs.
Here's the one that didn't make it into DWC
12-05-11
12-13-11
12-22-11
12-26-11
12-31-11
The plant is definitely overgrowing the cabinet. Did aggressive supercropping and continued until I could move the plant into flower.
1-22-12
I finally got the Blue Widow into the main cabinet. In doing so I found out that the roots of the two plants had busted their way through the silicon and were somewhat tangled but not much. I cut them apart and stuck them in the flower cab.
Here you can see the incredibly distinctive pattern that occurs due to heavy lst when the plant is very young.
01-25-12
Right before the flip. On the night of the 25th, these plants got their first darkness.
Here is some weird discoloration, could be a deficiency or maybe just from spilling nutes on the plant when it was very young. If you know what it is please let me know
01-27-12
Two days after the flip to 12/12
01-28-12
Which brings us to today. This morning I awoke to find the light was off. At most they lost 2 hours of light. I'm not sure if it was the ballast or the bulb, because I swapped out both to a 400w hps and lumatek switchable ballast. If a bulb goes out should the ballast go cold or stay warm if it has power? My ballast was cold, if that means the ballast is dead I'll probably just run a 400w this time around. If it was just the bulb I will replace it.
Well that catches everyone up, I'm sorry there aren't as many descriptions of the various days as there should be, but I typed them out and they got destroyed. If you have any questions about anything please feel free to ask, or just general chatter is welcome on my journal. I hope you follow along and thanks for reading!
So that's what you missed on glee.
