WB's Grow#2 - CFL+Indica - New growspace - Comments welcome

O.K. guys/gals,

After more research I am even MORE convinced that I'm going to grow with scrog.

Here's some of my ideas in diagram and picture form.

The first picture is a diagram of the exact frame that I am going to build.



The second picture is one that I found that really clears up the "tucking" of the foliage mystery.



This last picture that I found amazed me. That's 2 plants, yes I said only 2 plants under a 1000 watt HPS. All I can say is WOW.

WOW...

That is some amazing yield. This is going to be a sweet grow. Don't give up on the scrog. I can't wait to see your results. Good luck and Godspeed to you.

Peace

Hi everyone,

I decided to build my screen this afternoon. I decided on 3'x3'. My 400 HPS will cover that. I used 3/4" pipe and 1/4" white nylon rope. For now it has 20" legs which I can adjust. I left myself 20' short on rope due to a figuring error. I'll finish it tomorrow but it's 95% complete. Pricetag = $23.00

Looks like some good handy-work. Very nice setup.

I would like to attempt a scrog on either my next grow or the one after that (depending on whether the current one is successful or not...).

Peace

Really looking forward to watching you scrog. Looks super promising! Keep us updated.
GG

Dude I cant wait to see how this works, bro your inspiring me to do the same on my second grow! Please post details on this becuase I have read up on scrogs (Never seen this or heard of this before you made this thread) And it makes so much sense to do.

After seeing a few pics of how it works and a few grows I am VERY impressed, not to thread jack but this looks great, cant wait to see your "Screen of Green"!

This is gonna be so cool to watch.

Thanks for the pictures and the kind words Robbie. You're right. It makes SO MUCH sense to scrog. However, I have some bad news..... today I have found that 3 of the 8 seedlings have died and I dont know why. I raised my light about 2 inches but I dont think it was heat. The fan blows right over the babies and the room stays at 76*. No worries though, I have plenty of seeds.

srry to hear aboout the seedlings mate! nice to knoow your last grow turned out well congrats!!!! i like the idea of the scrog for this grow,nice diy job. good luck


happy growing

As an update I have decided to try and save seedling #3. I had her on the bottom shelf about to be thrown out but I'm going to try and save her. She's the sick little thing with the heart on her cup.

The destiny of these plants is in doubt now as I have decided to order some feminized seeds from Nirvana.

Here is my reasoning. You MUST make sure that the plants your incorporate into your scrog grow are females. Therefore you must use clones or feminized seeds.

At first I was going to clone but I'd have to veg these 6 for 20 days or so, then take clones and wait 2 weeks for them to root. Also I'd 12/12 the original 6 plants as soon as I take the clones so that by the time the clones have rooted, I'd know the sex of their mothers which would in turn reveal the sex of each numbered clone.

This would put me somewhere between 5 and 6 weeks, but THEN I have the issue of having the original 6 plants in flower and a number of clones waiting to veg into my screen but I'll only have my 400w HPS and my 364 watt CFL fixture. I simply dont have enough growspace for the 6 original mothers and the scrog with the new clones.

See where this is headed?

Ordering feminized seeds seems to be the way to go when starting this scrog. I should have taken this into account before starting this journal but hindsight is 20/20.

I can complete the scrog with my current 6 plants but in my estimation here is what I'm looking at.

25-30 days veg original 6 plants. / sent into 12/12 after clones are taken
14-20 days for clones to root and be transplanted into soil/ original 6 will be showing sex by then

After 50 days I'll know the sex of my clones and I can begin my scrog.

If I order feminized seeds, spend 50 bucks and in 3 weeks I'm vegging female plants into my screen.


Thoughts on what we can do with these original 6 plants? It'll be 1-2 weeks before the feminized seeds get here along with germination time.

Sad news. Baby #3 didnt make it. I now have 5 seedlings left. Although I'm going to order Fem seeds I've decided I dont want to waste these plants. So what I decided to do was build a makeshift/ghetto 3x3 flower chamber ...I also built a new smaller CFL fixture that can hold (4) 42 watt CFL's which will enable me to flower clones from my 5 plants to sex them.

I can veg them for 22-30 days then take clones and flower the clones in the ghetto chamber. Within 2 more weeks I'll know the sex of the 5 originals. They will only be 14-16 inches tall when I get them sexed so I MAY be able to use them in my scrog.

Here's a picture of the light fixture hanging inside the chamber.



Here's a picture of the ghetto chamber.... believe it or not it's light proof. I'm going to staple white plastic to the inside of it. Oh what a guy can do with a roll of black plastic, some duct tape, and some thumb tacs. lol

I still have high hopes for this grow. Were still going screen of green right?

I'm definitely still going with the scrog. It just might take a little longer for me to identify the sex of the plants. No worries.

O.K. guys here's an update. I dumped the 6 seedlings. Waste of time.

I totally reworked my growspace. I ordered my feminized seeds today from Nirvana. I ordered PPP. It has outstanding reviews. The seeds will be here within 15 days then off we go!

PPP (fem.) (5 seeds) | Marijuana and Cannabis Seeds for Growing your own weed. Straight from the breeder.


Also I hung my CFL fixture from chains and put my scrog net under it to give you guys an idea of what it will look like. I'll veg with The CFL's and then switch to my 400 HPS which will be hung in the same spot as the CFL fixture. As a reminder, the scrog net is 3' x 3'.





No cloning needed until I want to take babies from the PPP females. It's going to be MUCH easier this way. Sorry for the delay folks.

So do u have a new journal or what? I was DEF looking forward to watching this!

robbie82 said:

So do u have a new journal or what? I was DEF looking forward to watching this!

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Dont worry Robbie.. this grow is still a go. I'm simply waiting on my feminized PPP seeds to get here and away we go!

The seeds should be here within the next 5 days.

PM dude when u get em and a new thread.