Low Budget Startup Grow

RollingJoints said:

Not if the container you collect the rain with is clean there should be no bug or egg problems. Its looking good bro

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Nice....Thats what I needed to hear. I cleaned the containers well...I think it will be all good.

I have only FIMed these for now...the ones in the flower room I experimented with super cropping....It is an excellent technique. I will definitely incorporate some super cropping.

I have one in flower that used supercropping and topping....One I used super cropping and one I let go with very little pruning. The one I let go is the tallest and the plant that is the youngest.

The most full plant is the one that I super cropped and topped...it will yeild the most but is also the original clone mom.

The state of medical MJ here is going to get better my friend....At least for us

ya bro im gettn pretty organized w/ our state..my girlfriend is my caregiver...and im the caregiver for 2 of my patients...giving us a total of 24 plants...were only runnin 9 in bud now, and 1 in veg...but im working on an electrical project at the crib thatll allow for a lot more and a./c very soon.

i think supercropping is 1 of the better training tools..being the broken piece becomes more nobby, thus holdind more bud wieght...and lowers have time to gain equal canopy room..+ if ur having hieght issues they dissappear quick with this technique allowing for closer hid lighting= more yield.. so great once u committ to breaking some boneS

slipperyP said:

Nice....Thats what I needed to hear. I cleaned the containers well...I think it will be all good.

I have only FIMed these for now...the ones in the flower room I experimented with super cropping....It is an excellent technique. I will definitely incorporate some super cropping.

I have one in flower that used supercropping and topping....One I used super cropping and one I let go with very little pruning. The one I let go is the tallest and the plant that is the youngest.

The most full plant is the one that I super cropped and topped...it will yeild the most but is also the original clone mom.

The state of medical MJ here is going to get better my friend....At least for us

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tilemaster said:

ya bro im gettn pretty organized w/ our state..my girlfriend is my caregiver...and im the caregiver for 2 of my patients...giving us a total of 24 plants...were only runnin 9 in bud now, and 1 in veg...but im working on an electrical project at the crib thatll allow for a lot more and a./c very soon.

i think supercropping is 1 of the better training tools..being the broken piece becomes more nobby, thus holdind more bud wieght...and lowers have time to gain equal canopy room..+ if ur having hieght issues they dissappear quick with this technique allowing for closer hid lighting= more yield.. so great once u committ to breaking some boneS

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I'm running short of my limit right now. It has taken time to get going...I will be glad when this is a perpetual harvest. It is forcing me to make harder decisions

I am going to move 4 vegging plants to flower even though there small....Im gonna work on putting some nice little cola buds on them to get me by and get the harvest cycle going....Im shooting for a harvest a month.

I'm gonna do another veg feeding and move them over....they have only been transplanted less then a week...I don't see the point in moving them to 5 gallon buckets like the rest? Hopefully it dosen't become a problem...I think i will transplant in week 3 of flower when they get a bath of water and a hair cut? I don't foliar feed...not yet anyway...

The other 6 plants are going to stay in vegetative. 4 are clones same as the flowering majority. One of the seedlings is a certain female and I believe the other is also, It needs another day or two then I will be for sure.

Then in four weeks I will have some bigger plants with more veg time ( 8 weeks) That should make a better harvest. I will have some new clones of the afgani seedlings to start vegging by then and with good luck the cycle will continue.

My grow is consuming my laundry room. I built a new mothing chamber....no more laundry room...not with a laundrymat down the street. At least till i score a nice little stacked unit? I will have plenty of room in there for 3 good sized clone mothers. I just need to pick up some sheet rock....in a week or so, i still have sometime since im moving 4 plants from veg.

I just realized i have been typing for a while...I should probally post...The pain killers can make me ramble....I love the perkecet...I'm gonna kick them once I have constant smoke, Im not going to take them daily anyway, they work better when your tolleance is down.

The new mothering room is on the right wrapped in plastic for now sitting empty.

hell ya bro...nothing better than building ur own shit..i think that puts a beatn on buyn a tent for sure..good job...im tearn in2 other shit 2 right now.. im going to build an all out veg room 2 later..but im more focused on gettn my bud room perfect be4 anything else..since i have access to big clones. and cheap..

I have the room and perfer to build myself....I am glad to get the extra space. Is that spot in your garage where your going to build your veg room. I think im just going to run 40 floro tube lighting in the mother room with 1/3 nutes.

my veg is in the house now..dont like it.. ur right on the money..my veg room will soon be a homer picknick table from home de pot . i will throw it in the garage and veg for now in the open ...soon. its better than the temps in the house with lights...ambient temp in the garage is much cooler..garage and basement grows to me are the best

slipperyP said:

I have the room and perfer to build myself....I am glad to get the extra space. Is that spot in your garage where your going to build your veg room. I think im just going to run 40 floro tube lighting in the mother room with 1/3 nutes.

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Here is the latest numbers from the plants:

Bloom Feed
225 PPM
6.4

CLONE 1 :
PH 5.6
PPM 920

CLONE 2 :
PH 5.5
PPM -

CLONE 3 :
PH 5.7
PPM 945

CLONE 4 :
PH 5.5
PPM 1021

CLONE 5 :
PH -
PPM -

CLONE 6 :
PH 5.5
PPM 1130

CLONE 7 :
PH 5.7
PPM 1130

CLONE 8 :
PH 5.6
PPM 1170

Seedling 1
PH 5.5
PPM 1090

Seedling 2
PH 5.7
PPM 945

I put in a table spoon of garden lime to help with the PH....I belive that it will level the ph level to where I want it.

Well its done...I moved some plants even though there not as big as I wanted. I started some bloom tea today for feeding tomorrow. Everything is moving slow but seams okay.

slip P my boy, lookn good bro for real..love how u keep track of ur feeding..that info is invaluable when u need to look back and review usage vs results..

got my a/c in...

how u feel bout those 5 gal homer buckets..im runnin similiar size poters, and ive decided watering and flushing this big of a contanier is more of a pain then i want.. i will be using the tall version of the 3.5 gal pots.. a basic aspen tree pot, its a little deeper, but not nearly the circum., of a 5 gal. there easier to water and flush. i find them dirt cheap at local nurseries..they always ask wut im using them for...hahha got some trees to plant..get at me

Becoming an expert bro haha. Your shit is looking good, I think im going to try cloning on my next grow, dont see why not if I have everything I need.

RollingJoints said:

Becoming an expert bro haha. Your shit is looking good, I think im going to try cloning on my next grow, dont see why not if I have everything I need.

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I would defiantly clone. At least you don't get as much variance between plants and it is faster. Thanks for following along. I gave the new flowering plants a week 1 hair cut...I am a madman with the siccors sometimes. Hopefully I didn't go to far with them.

tilemaster said:

slip P my boy, lookn good bro for real..love how u keep track of ur feeding..that info is invaluable when u need to look back and review usage vs results..

got my a/c in...

how u feel bout those 5 gal homer buckets..im runnin similiar size poters, and ive decided watering and flushing this big of a contanier is more of a pain then i want.. i will be using the tall version of the 3.5 gal pots.. a basic aspen tree pot, its a little deeper, but not nearly the circum., of a 5 gal. there easier to water and flush. i find them dirt cheap at local nurseries..they always ask wut im using them for...hahha got some trees to plant..get at me

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I think the buckets are good esspeicially for a low budget grow...I have finally found a source of free buckets....Kincoman Soy Sauce Buckets. There actually a better bucket and have a pour spout...I have been using them to collect rain. I finally got a trough built on the house to collect.

I haven't had to deal with flushing this large amount of soil yet. The fertilizers im making seam very mild? I hope I don't need to flush...

I saw the nursery buckets...I think they might do a bit better? I have some square buckets...They are less cumbersome, I figured a foot of depth for each foot of growth for outdoor...so indoor optimaly cant be that far away?


Any of you who have good experince supercropping...do you do this in veg or in flower...I did some in veg with good results....anyone supercrop in flower?

Not supercropping but in my next grow im going to top my plant a week into flowering to get 2 fat colas!

This is a you tube video on Super Cropping That I want to find more information about and haven't gotten to. Every time I start I get side tracked.

These are some nice plants for 2.5 weeks of veg. He is talking about breaking oxens this way and that. I bent and broke mine to control the canopy.

After super cropping how long till you stick them in bud. Probably when the canopy is even?

ya for sure i supercropp in veg..all the way thro and stop week be4 flower..i dont have experience with breaking no branches in flower..it keeps ur light closer..creates nasty knots at the break for more eventual support during budd..and it promotes the lowers gettin more light..great technique... i like the smaller pots like the 3.5 cause u can get more of em in ur footprint then the 5's..plush when u do flush you'll c why they are more difficult..for sure...theres upsides to im sure to root growth in veg with the 5's

slipperyP said:

I would defiantly clone. At least you don't get as much variance between plants and it is faster. Thanks for following along. I gave the new flowering plants a week 1 hair cut...I am a madman with the siccors sometimes. Hopefully I didn't go to far with them.



I think the buckets are good esspeicially for a low budget grow...I have finally found a source of free buckets....Kincoman Soy Sauce Buckets. There actually a better bucket and have a pour spout...I have been using them to collect rain. I finally got a trough built on the house to collect.

I haven't had to deal with flushing this large amount of soil yet. The fertilizers im making seam very mild? I hope I don't need to flush...

I saw the nursery buckets...I think they might do a bit better? I have some square buckets...They are less cumbersome, I figured a foot of depth for each foot of growth for outdoor...so indoor optimaly cant be that far away?


Any of you who have good experince supercropping...do you do this in veg or in flower...I did some in veg with good results....anyone supercrop in flower?

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I have been trying to keep updates so I have a record of growth esspecially since it is a bagseed grow, and clones that have lost there name. I don't know how long I will keep growing it, I have been fiending for the smoke the seedlings are going to produce, it kicked some seirous ass.

I need to get some real genetics within the next few months, I don't want to get to many going and get stuck with hard decisions with limits on plants. I also picked up some hindu kush seed...It was very tasty.

It was nice day so I drown some worms...and dug a few hundred for my vermiculture bin...we'll see if they take...I think some my be night crawlers....anyway they were free.

Here are some pics...the buds and leaves are putting on more resin crystals each day.

I don't know if its true but a friend told me about someone who got a mushroom in there lung from nasty bong water. Is that possible? Nasty

I have always loved a nice fresh clean bong so i have always changed my water frequently and clean frequently.

I have met people who NEVER change there water or clean there equipment. That shit is just pissing me off today. I took and left a bong at my friends house because I refuse to use his anymore...

SlipperyP's Bong Cleaning Method

1. Go to the sink and get the water really hot.

2. Heat up the bong by running the water on the outside of the bong.

3. Use hot water and rinse and dump the best possible.

4. Take rock salt....About a table spoon...Its just an abrasive. Dump it in the bong with no water in it.

5. Add 90% rubbing alcohol...Dump a reasonable amount..you want the salt to be able to move around and clear the resin.

6. Use hand to block the holes of the bong and shake vigorously. I generally shake for about a minute...you can shake it more times then I want to count in that time.

7. Dump and Imeadiatly rinse with super hot water. I like to fill and shake for a minute with hot clean water.

8. Fill with water...Load...And get some good clean tasting medicine.

I have seen all kinds of things for sale to clean pipes and bongs...this has been the method that works best for me. If anyone has any other methods that work please post.

nothing worse than a shitty bong...i try to shake mine out with hot water ever couple days

Bublonichronic said:

nothing worse than a shitty bong...i try to shake mine out with hot water ever couple days

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Yeah...I like to do that in between cleanings..I like to take a hit when i get up then go clean it.

Have you ever used warm water in your bong? It sounds ridiculous but I have a patient that insists it gets him higher and with less weed? I tried it...He might be right? Anyone ever hear anything like this before? I will probably need a new post for this.

Im gonna break down and get a vaporizer but I am not giving up the bong.

slipperyP said:

Yeah...I like to do that in between cleanings..I like to take a hit when i get up then go clean it.

Have you ever used warm water in your bong? It sounds ridiculous but I have a patient that insists it gets him higher and with less weed? I tried it...He might be right? Anyone ever hear anything like this before? I will probably need a new post for this.

Im gonna break down and get a vaporizer but I am not giving up the bong.

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nahh bro i use coooold water, sometimes i put my zong in the freezer before i blaze if im not to lazy, and i like to put ice in it also

Bublonichronic said:

nahh bro i use coooold water, sometimes i put my zong in the freezer before i blaze if im not to lazy, and i like to put ice in it also

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Nice Bong...Its a bit to fancy for me...I am kindof a function before looks kinda guy.

I like a single stage with a straight draw...The zig zag is perfect for Ice.