With a little help from our friends

Thanks Hound! Ill give it a run. heres a little update
Jan 29th 2008

Currently Have 8 transplanted kids to the 3in rock wool cubes and 3 more waiting to be transplanted.
Things seem to be going on schedule should be going into the veg tub here in a couple of days. Temps are not ideal but thats what I have to work with.
Cheers
V

Dude!!! I got the same thermometer runnin' at the same temp! LOL The little ones are lookin' healthy.

i seriously would not wait till the plants are 8 to 10 inches before flowering in this box. I have one and waited and now i have them growing into the light. 4 to 6 inches max.. and run co2 on week 2 to week 7 and you'll have a great grow. my 2 cents

LER-
Thanks for the advice I am hoping to get them into the veg tub here in a few days. I think I will need about 5 more for the roots to start poking through the 3in wool. Any other suggestions? Id be glad to here them
Cheers
V

well.. i took a good long look at the picture above.. yea.. i wouldnt wait a whole long time. try to prop the containor now as close to the veg light as you can.. it will seriously help.. and yes, about 5 or so days, when the roots come pocking out, put them in the veg part. just feed them a mild solution of nutes.. i dunno if you are using advance but like a 1/3 strength of whatever to get them going once in there, then follow the nute schedule for the rest of it.. but rememebr, dont let them get to yall in veg.. they can get to be a problem later because you have to shift everything around and bend the plants to make sure they dont touch the glass for the light...

omg.. i just went back and read your first post.. no way on that trashcan of water. props to people that want them but sorry.. go out to home depot or lowes and get yourself a inline carbon water filter.. get all the tubbing and fittings you need and make yourself a hose type water filter that you can screw onto a faucet and use filtered water.. like $25 and you'll see a major difference. dont bother letting water sit out like that because you wont use 30 gals every week and you dont want things growing in that water or letting it just sit and not aerate it. just filter the water, make sure it is 65-75 degrees and ph balance before you add nutes. i have a producer and it works great that way. you'll probably need only like 8 - 12 gals of water in the tube. if you go to a walmart you can pick up one of those 5 gal plastic water cooler bottles with a screw cap. very handy for when you have to drain the resivor and to mix up nutes in. only other thing i could say is make sure you have some air freshner and odor counteractant. I asume you have a hydro shop near you and you could get odor killer or something liek that.. prop it up behind the box by the air intake if you are using a odor killer setup.. you will get very little smell until about the 7th week. then depending on strain you might want to run a external carbon filter fan setup to help scrub the air.

hope it helps. good luck and let us know what the review on the bloom box is.

oh and i looked at the feeding chart.. your tank will probably hold about 8 gals of water.. you want the water level to be about an 1/2 inch from the bottom of the net cups.

2/19/08
I am now into my third week of flowering. Our current problems are two of the back left tomato plants roots have not made it to the water yet and we have a slight color on the leaves of one of front runners (nute problem?) Here are a few pictures let me know what you think.
cheers

What is your ppm??? I had some nute burn on my first grow that looked similar. Keep the water almost to the bottom of the net pots. When the bubbles break at the surface it should be splashing on the rockwool.

dude its already been said but ill say it again, thats some space age shit right there, but it looks to expensive for my taste

i cant wait till my bloombox gets here!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I do not have a ppm meter. I have been meaning to get one.
I just took a tds reading and got 50.
I am not sure what tds is or what it does I need to do more research ive been calculating kurtosis for stocks all afternoon so the last thing I want to do right now is research haha If someone wants to fill me in quickly that would be great!
thanks for the comments guys!

valais

I am assuming your tds meter is the one that came with the Bloombox (Green TDS Pen measures PPM), so it sounds like you are around 500ppm. This doesn't sound too strong but when in doubt, flush em with ph'd water, and mix up a new batch of nutrient solution at abou 350-400ppm (35-40 on your pen).

Thanks hound!
Always there to help me out. Yea I am using the green pen that came with it. I will be flushing this Friday as well as turning the lights off for 24 hours for darkness preparing them for there move to the flowering chamber.
Hope we have some fems!
cheers
val

valais said:

Thanks hound!
Always there to help me out. Yea I am using the green pen that came with it. I will be flushing this Friday as well as turning the lights off for 24 hours for darkness preparing them for there move to the flowering chamber.
Hope we have some fems!
cheers
val

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I like to follow the Bloombox journals because I'm just learning myself. I want this baby crankin' at full steam as soon as possible! I had a big problem with cloning in rockwool with the dome, but I bought a Aeroponic Daisy Cloner and it works great.

Did you put some PH down or add nutrients in the reservoir from the front and possibly not mix it up enough? I'm just wondering why its only happenning to the plants in the front.

Anyhow, when something similar happened to me I flushed them and everything turned out ok. As long as the new growth looks ok you should be on the right track. How tall are those babies?

Feb 22
They are still about 4-5in and have just been moved into the flower tub. I did the no light trick for 24 and flushed with phd water so hopefully that will keep them low. Here they are currently getting used to their new home.
Cheers
Valais

Looking good, looking good! Probably a little late now, but I generally recommend that the veg recipe (weeks 1-3) be kept in the 300-400 PPM range, so 500 might have been a little high.

Heyyyyyy,,, their not tomatoes.......... Thats,,THATS,, an illegal plant in most states,, hahahahahh......................................................................

Nice!!! I think that is going to work out pretty good. Hopefully they are all girls.

I'm lovin it!! I want a damn bloombox for myself!!! mmmm... box...Let's see an update bro!! How many females you end up with??

JD

aww man im waiting on sum updates to