Growitup Greenhouse 2011

mrcartoon said:
Always impressed! I'm pulling up a chair for this one!
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Welcome cartoon, theres plenty of room.

gumball said:
That looks like a great training plan cruzer. Your gonna need it, you still have about 11-12'ish weeks of veg left, lol :) Its all good though!
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Ya had to remind me huh? Well, I'll tell ya what. These girls are staying in the green house this year, I'm making a ceiling out of chicken wire to hold the monsters back!

cannabis420420 said:
damn i need to invest in a green house :) seems like it's worth every penny :)
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Its a lot of fun man. I thought growing in a cab was fun, this rocks!
 
Well they are over 2 feet now. Time to top and get two main branches going. Screen height will be about 4 feet. After they get started I will start on the lower stuff. taking clones and selecting a couple lower branches to fill directly above the screen.


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I put that Mazar seedling out there too I think she will be fine. I wanna get the cab ready for clones. Gonna try those oasis cubes.
 
Hell yeah looking good! I hear ya on them clones. You should keep one of each of the TD's around till ya get to smoke each, they all seem to have good genetics. A couple are a bit more stretchy, but if those give the best meds whose to complain. That is if it's as good as it's said to be.
 
I got that screen up as a ceiling now,

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That should hold them, Hopefully it will only be formed colas that get that tall and I will just bend them over and follow up. Thats the plan anyway.

Starting them on nutes, 400ppm flora vida grow at pH6.5 Well my filtered tap is like 250 ppm and I added 150 ppm of the nutes for now, there is a lot of nutrients in that soil mix already. Between feedings I figure I'll use the hygrozyme with water at 5 mil per gallon and sm-90 once a week.

Here is this weeks video I shot this morning.

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I topped the plants today and realized something.
Last year I had that Casey Jones that really out produced the others. I thought the only difference was she started later and I topped her a bunch but it wasn't.
I was looking at last years journal and saw she had a different mix. I was out of FFOC so I used all black gold and I didn't use those water crystals either.

Makes me wonder if that was what made the difference...
 
Medium is definitely key, I'm using coco coir in my greenhouses. I would like to see how Black Gold stacks up against FF!
 
lonestand said:
sounds like its time for a test grow!
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Good idea.

NewGrowth said:
Medium is definitely key, I'm using coco coir in my greenhouses. I would like to see how Black Gold stacks up against FF!
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Really, I've heard good things about coco and wanna try it but I've seen grows where people have had problems. I guess I should read up on your journal.

Yeah, I agree with a comparison grow.
I don't know about doing it all summer long out there but I could take a couple cuttings and put them in smaller pots and flower them in my cab.
 
The light is coming down today so I moved them to the center where they get the most light.

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Shot of the topping, I did them all the same.

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Got a good clean cut and it healed overnight.
 
Holy crap cruz, they are flying up out there lol. You're gonna have to man handle those ladies to keep them at a decent height! The topping should slow them a touch though at least :D
 
Looks good cruzer, keep it up. I checked my outdoors today and they are getting big. Should be a good fall for all :D
 
WOWgrow said:
Holy crap cruz, they are flying up out there lol. You're gonna have to man handle those ladies to keep them at a decent height! The topping should slow them a touch though at least :D
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No kidding man, there about twice the size as last year but I think I got a handle on it.

gumball said:
Looks good cruzer, keep it up. I checked my outdoors today and they are getting big. Should be a good fall for all :D
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Thanks man, Outdoor? Gumballs got an outdoor this year? Gonna have to check that out.
I know you enjoy your little grows but I have always kinda felt sorry you never get much. I hope it works out for ya bro. "A good fall for all" I like the sound of that.
 
My journal is not very up to date but when I get my computer back up I'll snap a picture. We're doing 300gal 'smartpots' filled with coco coir. All the indoor is coco too, and I agree it can be a problematic medium for the inexperienced hydroponic grower. It's mostly figuring out a proper feeding schedule and 'charging' it before use. I always like to see the difference between mediums it's cool stuff. Plants look great cruzer! :peace:
 
cruzer101 said:
Thanks man, Outdoor? Gumballs got an outdoor this year? Gonna have to check that out.
I know you enjoy your little grows but I have always kinda felt sorry you never get much. I hope it works out for ya bro. "A good fall for all" I like the sound of that.
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I just posted up a couple pics check 'em out! I feel bad to, but I know I could do better if I just stuck with soil snd quit screwing round with things. But I will learn and get better. And you know what, I have stayed right medicated off my own grown buds for close to the whole year, and don't foresee running out :mrgreen: Take care bud :weed:
 
3eyes said:
Very easy to over water in coco, that's my only problem with it.
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I mix quite a lot of perlite in mine so I've never had that problem. Some of the guys are mixing a bit of hydroton into their mix as well to get better drainage.

It's all about finding what works best for you though isnt it, some people do amazing in soil and hydro, some people just can't do wrong in any medium.
 
NewGrowth said:
My journal is not very up to date but when I get my computer back up I'll snap a picture. We're doing 300gal 'smartpots' filled with coco coir. All the indoor is coco too, and I agree it can be a problematic medium for the inexperienced hydroponic grower. It's mostly figuring out a proper feeding schedule and 'charging' it before use. I always like to see the difference between mediums it's cool stuff. Plants look great cruzer! :peace:
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Thanks man, maybe you could answer a question I have about large smart pots.
I've used them with soil and grew pretty large plants (over 10 feet if not trained) in a 10 gallon size. Considering how they work, the root pruning and all, when you go with these larger pots are you not defeating the purpose of the cloth sides with all that soil? It just seems to me the roots will not grow large enough to benefit from it. I guess it depends on the size of the plant. What do you think?

gumball said:
I just posted up a couple pics check 'em out! I feel bad to, but I know I could do better if I just stuck with soil snd quit screwing round with things. But I will learn and get better. And you know what, I have stayed right medicated off my own grown buds for close to the whole year, and don't foresee running out :mrgreen: Take care bud :weed:
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Thats what counts man. Keep you medicated at a fraction of the cost. Right on bro.

WOWgrow said:
Most of us guys in the UK are using coco instead of soil and I'd say it is a very forgiving medium, a lot more so than soil or DWC anyway.
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3eyes said:
Very easy to over water in coco, that's my only problem with it.
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WOWgrow said:
I mix quite a lot of perlite in mine so I've never had that problem. Some of the guys are mixing a bit of hydroton into their mix as well to get better drainage. It's all about finding what works best for you though isnt it, some people do amazing in soil and hydro, some people just can't do wrong in any medium.
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Yeah, I think I'm gonna have to pass on the coco until I read and understand better about using it. I see they make these chunks, looks like about 1/2 in square that look good, my only question is how would they hold up over time? The loose stuff I got don't look like it drains well. So yea, I would wanna go with some perlite or hydroton if I used that. And now New growth tells us we need to charge it. Where the hell do I get a charger? Ha! JK. I assume that means nutes.

I understand it is important to wash out the nutrients between feedings. Do you guys do this in a drain to waste or do you recirculate it.
 
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