Shnkrmn's Pickle Bucket Hempy Grow 2009

I watered all my veg plants yesterday. I cleaned and rearranged too. Gave em all a little insecticidal soap spray and they were happy.
Here's row one with the mother in the middle and her biggest daughters almost caught up in size

Row 2, more of the same.

And here's the third row:

The entire family together:

On the bloom side I've chopped the biggest two plants:

They yielded 23 ounces wet weight.



I'm chopping three more plants today and shutting down my lights for a week. Time to clean, fumigate, repot, then start over again.

Summer has been just too nice to bother with this journal much, but here's what's going on just now. I still have 20 plants in veg, just getting bigger and bigger, got no light to flower em right now. If I get one more light, I can flip my veg room to flower and use my current bloom room for clone propagation.

I put 15 plants into flower on July 1. I should really only have done ten but I was . They look like this.


I am battling spider mites big time. Insecticidal soap at 3% is working pretty well, but it's much work to totally mist each plant with water, totally mist each LEAF with soap, and then rinse. Every 4 days. Progress is being made but some leaf damage is occurring. I'll get some permethrin spray too.
Buds are looking nice

That's what I've got. Not sure if anyone's looking at this journal anymore, but I might as well just keep going. It's getting repetitive though; maybe I should invent a new sythesis of aeroponics and soil growing just to keep it interesting.





NOT!

Get the bed lice spray from the drug store or wallyworld.
It has a high concetration of permethrin.
Spray the underside of the leaves to get the permethrin on the eggs.

This will stop the cycle
and cure your bug problem.

It is best to do this before the flowers are dense,
but you can expect the permethrin to be broken down completely in a couple of weeks.
UV light will speed the process.


If i give them a spray just at the start of flower,
I can get by without needing further applications when there are buds.

I can go through a lot of bed lice spray with 35 large plants! Conditions are just too perfect for them right now. My next bloom won't start until temps have dropped in September/October which should slow the lil bastards down; first time I've ever looked forward to winter!

Its a pain in the ass to get the spray under the leaves,
but you can do it.
I would think a couple of cans would do 35 plants.
$15.

looking good! I feel ya on wishing winter would get here.
"Knock on wood"!!!!! I have had no problems with mites yet, but the temps are a pain to manage. I have 2 400 watt MH going in flower, and a 250 HPS with 6 CFL's in vegg.
Gotta run three osc. fans in there to keep it right in there. I'm on the brink of installing A/C in the room just for the plants.
I want to get an early jump on another hempy bucket this fall when the temps go back down and can be managed with a heater.

WOW looking good brother Shnkrmn I am waiting on the temps to fall also before starting another grow. I decided to take the summer off from growing and I think I did the right thing. We have had on HELLUVA hot summer and I've had alot of foot traffic throught the casa (if ya know what I mean).

lilmafia, whats up bro? I installed a seperate a/c in my grow last year cuz it was so damn hard to control the temps. The a/c was good, but it brought my humidity down to zero. It did take some tinkering bit it all ended up working out fine.

Good to see you guys

~Boneman

I'm coming up on six weeks and things are looking good. So glad I put in a RO machine. I need 20-25 gallons each time I water right now. That would be a lot of hauling!

I'll get some pix up soon.

I've though about a/c, but venting it would be a challenge. I don't want to exhaust into the basement because that would heat up my whole house and be a monster energy suck to boot. Temps should be heading downwards now, so I won't really have to worry about it again til next year.

Thanks for dropping in guys.

shnkrmn said:

I'm coming up on six weeks and things are looking good. So glad I put in a RO machine.

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RO is priceless. if i ever have an extra dollar i'll need another unit myself.

looks like you've really got ur hands full now. hopefully all that R&D pays off
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The veg side has just gotten out of control. First, I switched the bloom and veg operations because the room I built was just too hot with two 600s burning. Yea, I should get cool tubes, but I just don't have the dough right now. So, instead, I have 22 plants vegging in there now under a 600w MH conversion bulb and a bank of 65W cfls. I know I should just have bought more light and flowered them all, but now I have a room full of 4 foot high bushes!


Sorry about the quality, all I have is my cell phone right now. My wife's travelling with my camera and I didn't want to wait til she came back.

On the bloom side things are going pretty well. I've had the mites, they are really knocked down now, but the plants show a lot of damage. The buds are getting nice though. 15 plants. I'm feeding them tiger bloom and cha ching and cal-mag plus.

Again, sorry about the picture quality; cell phone only today.

looking gr8 in there man. can see a lot of people having fun with the mites, including me.lol glad you've got rid of them.
i'll just be lurking till the budpron is on.

Boneman said:

I am waiting on the temps to fall also before starting another grow. I decided to take the summer off from growing and I think I did the right thing. We have had on HELLUVA hot summer and I've had alot of foot traffic throught the casa (if ya know what I mean).

lilmafia, whats up bro? I installed a seperate a/c in my grow last year cuz it was so damn hard to control the temps. The a/c was good, but it brought my humidity down to zero. It did take some tinkering bit it all ended up working out fine.

Good to see you guys

~Boneman

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Bone, I am in a concrete room 8 feet underground..........i always have outrageous high humidity no matter what. I ride abou 50-60% normally, but it takes alot of fans to get it there and stay!!

shnkrmn said:

.......I've though about a/c, but venting it would be a challenge. I don't want to exhaust into the basement because that would heat up my whole house and be a monster energy suck to boot. Temps should be heading downwards now, so I won't really have to worry about it again til next year.
Thanks for dropping in guys.

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Shnkrmn,
If your op is in the basement, you would be able to tap into your A/C duct work that is exposed in most basements, and run flex pipe to your room. It's so much easier if you can do it that way. Thats my plan for next summer. And it also brings you heat in the winter, from the same duct work in case you get too cold down there. I know your pain......see above post about where my op is....
--lilmafia

I live in an ancient house. I do grow in my basement. I have no a/c in the house; we heat with radiators, old school. My foundation is limestone. I have one opening into the garage which is where I'm venting my carbon filter. Unfortunately, it's only about 12 inches high and wouldn't fit a standard window a/c unit. I could easily just park an a/c unit on the floor of my garage, but how would I get the cold air into the basement? is there a way to adapt duct or hose to capture that? (Actually as I typed that a vision of the ductwork aisle at Menard's just came into mind.)

I always have high humidity too, well, except in winter when it's zero %. I run a dehumidifier to keep condensation from dripping from all the plumbing.

lilmafia513 said:

Bone, I am in a concrete room 8 feet underground..........i always have outrageous high humidity no matter what. I ride abou 50-60% normally, but it takes alot of fans to get it there and stay!!


Shnkrmn,
If your op is in the basement, you would be able to tap into your A/C duct work that is exposed in most basements, and run flex pipe to your room. It's so much easier if you can do it that way. Thats my plan for next summer. And it also brings you heat in the winter, from the same duct work in case you get too cold down there. I know your pain......see above post about where my op is....
--lilmafia

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shnkrmn said:

I live in an ancient house. I do grow in my basement. I have no a/c in the house; we heat with radiators, old school. My foundation is limestone. I have one opening into the garage which is where I'm venting my carbon filter. Unfortunately, it's only about 12 inches high and wouldn't fit a standard window a/c unit. I could easily just park an a/c unit on the floor of my garage, but how would I get the cold air into the basement? is there a way to adapt duct or hose to capture that? (Actually as I typed that a vision of the ductwork aisle at Menard's just came into mind.)

I always have high humidity too, well, except in winter when it's zero %. I run a dehumidifier to keep condensation from dripping from all the plumbing.

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There sure is.......If you are good at working with your hands, and creative, you can buy a end cap for what they use to close off the ends of cold air return trunk lines. They are usually like 12x6 or other sizes. Then cut a hole the size of a 6 or 4 inch start collar for HVAC,then add metal duct work the same size, or buy the flex pipe( dryer vent hose).

pack the bong, grab a pencil and paper, and start designing.

Here's a nice shot of one of my tops at 45 days flowering.

They are looking pretty good in the aftermath of the bug wars. 3% insecticidal soap drench repeated three times at 5 day intervals. I have a microscope and watched closely. There are now no bugs, no eggs, nothing. Die, you fuckers! lol. Leaf damage, sure. But compared to the leaf loss and bud shrinkage I got earlier this year, it's nothing, a flesh wound, no more.

A gallon of this shit (I think it's enough to make 124 gallons) and a pressure sprayer.
I also hung up no-pest strips in both bloom and flower rooms.

So I've taken one side down on my veg (formerly bloom) chamber. It was doing nothing for me except trap heat. Since I removed half of one side the plants have grown several inches. Some of them are at eye level now. I had to put the MH right up against. the ceiling joists.

Someday I'm going to bloom these plants. But today, I'm cutting clones. That should reduce my height problems. My current run is due for harvest in another week or two (we are on day 50 right now) and after that, these 20 will take their place. I'll keep two in veg of course.


These are at eye level, lol

My buds are swelling big right now. My question for any readers is this: I've been using Cha-ching for a couple of weeks and my buds are getting horns as they swell. Is this from the high P or is it from excess heat from the lights? I've seen some references to 'foxtailing' and I'd like to know more what people mean by that term. Is that what these buds are doing? The first two are the same cola take 5 days apart.

Just finished cutting 26 clones (that's how many rockwool bits I have around) They should go into bloom on January 1 to mark the beginning of this journal (and the new year) damn I wish I could plow up my whole yard. I probably could make 500 clones right now.

I know how ya feel! My backyard would be a jungle if I could do it.

man i really dig ur setup nice small scale commercial grow