my outdoor grow in india (12 latitude)

keshmonster said:

Hey this a bit off topic but I recently went to hoskote to score and I was wondering if you guys could post pics of some of the stuff you got. I want to know if what I scored is good and what to look for next time. I hear the stuff gets better in Nov.

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elchupacabra said:

you don't need pictures to decide whether what you got is good or not

also, november is one upgrade for hoskote, but the real big fish come in jan/feb. i know every dealer in and around hoskote, so if you give me a name i'll tell you when the best stuff gets out from that guy

i used to pick up 500g to 1000g every week from one person there and when you do that for 6 months a year, a bond becomes between to people...lol

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elchupacabra said:

gotta give me the name of the dealer mate, or I can't tell you much. either way, 40g for 1500 is an expensive deal, and i only know one guy who sells at 1500 at this time of the season, but I don't buy from him because he's a bit too cocky...you can get 100grams for 2000 from the other dealers, better stuff.

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elchupacabra said:

looking very nice, garden guru nutes?

from the pics, the ak48 should be chopped asap...of course, i prefer the upbeat head high...
you could wait for a maximum of maybe a week to get the trichomes darker and get a real
stone...

the ww can go for at least a week, i'm guessing 2...?
i'm still yet to get a grasp of how plants mature under an hps bulb...
the second pheno (big) does look marginally ahead of the smaller one...

do let me know how much you get per plant wet : )

i'm still having small issues here and there, making a comparatively large indoor
grow room in a humid climate is a handful...

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Blackhawk149 said:

Yes. GG nutes. I checked the trichomes. They have just started to turn amber on ak48. And are still all cloudy on white widow. So I guess I'll chop when I get about 15% amber.

Thank you. What are you growing now days?

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elchupacabra said:

i've got the prests under control, i had fungus gnats but they're splattered all over the sticky traps, and the neem is keeping them from coming again, ive been spraying for about a month so the effects have just about kicked into power. i daresay my ventilation is fine at the moment, my plants are (at the closest point) as little as 2" from the bulb and no problems. one of them got a bit close last week when i was out of town and just about started touching the bulb and man that leaf is fucking toasted. i wonder

i made the biggest possible mistake when i went out of town - i left a single cfl on in the flowering room, by an idiotic quirk of fate (read: stonedness and stupidity) and although the plants have each grown at least 4" in the past 6 days, only two of them have preflowered, and they are two of the africans which have already experienced some ridiculous photoperiod fluctuation from their seedling days and have decided that they're decidedly male, which is irritating. one of them is my healthiest bushiest plant as well.

on the plus side, i watered half the plants with hesi coco bloom and a PINCH of epsom salt per litre cause they were showing a rapidly developing mag def...and i must say, the ones that were watered with a combination of my piss and sannie's beneficial bacteria are doing just as well as the ones watered with hesi nutes. kind of interesting but i guess one feed isn't enough to show a massive difference. again,. thread starting soon, i just want some good pictures first.

going to germinate seeds of sour diesel (from a cali cut), afghan skunk haze (from mr.nice) and safari mix (mandala seeds - perhaps one of my favorite packs of mixed seeds of an extremely high quality on the market! works out about 1Euro/seed excluding shipping. normally, at least half of the females are keepers. some of them even seem to exhibit some degree of hybrid vigour.

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elchupacabra said:

i'm having trouble getting seeds to germinate. i'm in a new part of india that's very very humid and after my first few african landraces that germed perfectly, i'm having trouble germinating anything else properly. this was the LAST of the problems i expected. Just to make sure it's not somethin with me, i've ordered sannie's spongepots to see if that makes a diff. if it works in those then i'll know i'm an idiot and will have to hit the drawing board again

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Hermanos said:

Hey guys,

Im looking to start my first grow in south India(chennai)..Im looking to grow indoors(outdoor not an option) but i have no clue if its possible here with the humidity/temp.
I could really do with some pointers regarding setup/lights and seeds from someone who has done it in the south.Ive been looking into LED lights(Blackstar Hydro 135w LED) aswell as HPS.
Im looking to start with 3-4 plants..Im pretty sure HPS will generate too much heat for an enclosure to handle in chennai.

Looking forward to some inputs from the Pros..!

Cheers

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elchupacabra said:

i asked because i was trying and am still trying my hand at chemicals at well and it really isn't going anywhere as good as the organic. for a lazy fuck like me something like organic where i have to do work only once and then just water works easier. if i miss the feed by even a day or two, the plants start to show it. and i have issues with the plants needing nutrients but the soil still has plenty of water, so i need to keep working on getting a different feeding schedule or worst case, make my medium sandier for more drainage.

i am growing ethiopian landraces, a couple of personally developed and modified strains from belgium, NL, cali and New Zealand...as well as the recently (successfully!!!! ) germinated colombian gold x pakistan chitral, afghan skunk haze, and lady cane. Half will be organic half will be chemical, we'll see what happens. i have nutes from hesi and advanced nutrients, i want to compare to GG nutes and see. whats your feeding schedule like?

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elchupacabra said:

there are some basic things you should consider...

1) your grow size is not defined by the number of plants but by the area and height of available space for growing. naturally, your lightbulb also depends on this. so first thing you should do is decide what area is available for your growing purposes and how much vertical space in that area that you have. it all depends on that. you can easily fit 25 plants of the right strain comfortably in one square metre (if its your first grow i'd stick to 15 though) in a SOG style, or you can grow one plant in one square metre SCROG style, and then again there's the option of growing 40-50 per square metre in a VSOG, which i would not recommend given our humid climate.

2) likewise, your ventilation source and the size of your fan that you use is dependent on two things: the size of your room, and how you plan on ducting the fan (if you are ducting it, which i frankly think is a waste). remember, ducting with bends and curves has a massive impact on airflow through the duct so remember to compensate for this.

3) I would like to use a dehumidifier for my grow. Unfortunately, at the moment, i'm testing in a 100 sq foot room. I say testing as I am only utilizing about 12 square feet of space under (or rather around) 1 400w HPS bulb. The problem with a 100sq foot room is it requires a massive amount of airflow. If I have such a huge amount of stale air being pulled out and fresh air being sucked in, unless i route the intake through the dehumidifier, it makes no sense to have a dehumidifier as fresh (and naturally, humid) air from outside is always coming in while the stale (dehumidified) air is always being sucked out. I would require a ductable dehumidifier to route to the straight 6" intake duct that i've got and those are upwards of 40-50k. a portable dehumidifier just sitting in the room is not an option, as for the amount of airflow i've got, i would need a dehumidifier that costs around 30k and it would be perpetually running in an environment it's not designed to run in and the elec. bills would stack up.

However, since your grow is much smaller, i think a dehumidifier would go quite nicely if you're willing to make the investment. remember, you'll need one that is intended for about 5 to 6 times the volume of your grow zone. so a dehumidifier intended for about 100 sq feet should serve your purpose nicely.

4) to construct it yourself, I would personally advise you to build a wooden frame and cover the outside with tarapulin, and use a reflective surface (i personally like buying the things people put on their car windscreen to reflect sunlight) for the inside.

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