Colorado High - Soil - CFL - Super Skunk - 2013

Nice grow so far, CH. Good job on the troubleshooting, I was going to ask if your steer manure mix had been outdoors exposed to water. If not, the nitrogen stays right there, keeping it as 'hot' as brand new. I overdid the nitrogen on my potatoes last summer, dang near killed them. Who knew donkey manure was so rich? :eek:

I want to have a get-together for Colorado growers sometime this summer, we can swap stories and buds. :D
 
The manure/compost mix was stored in its original packaging exposed to extreme temperatures, -20 to 120 degrees, but did remain dry. I thought that age and the temps might have mellowed it a bit, I guess I was wrong. Overfeeding N has been the bain of my grows so far. ;) I like your idea of a get together, somewhere in the mountains sounds ideal to me!!
 
Yep. Now that the grow box has only one upper intake open for ventilation, I decided to add supplemental CO2 at least during vegging and possibly during flowering as well. It allows me to run the grow environment hotter which might allow me to run a grow during the summer. That in turn would allow me to complete at least 3 grows a year instead of the 2 I can complete now with no summer grow.
 
Seahawks must be cheating, unreal :helpsmilie:
 
How you handling these brutally cold temps? -16 here today. I had one of my big plants go limp and start to yellow under the screen. Guessing it got under 60 in there yesterday. Added a heater looking good today......growing in a garage sucks!
 
It's about the same here, got first stages of frostbite in my hands after only 20 minutes of being outside clearing off snow. It was extremely painful for about 20-30 minutes, been a while since I felt that sensation! Temperatures in my grow box range from a low of 58° to a high of 92° at soil surface, so far the plants do not seem to mind the temperature extremes or 45° swings. RH fluctuates between 20%, after exhaust cycle, and 80%, during lights off, but otherwise stays between 50%-60% during lights on. It's good that this dip in temperatures is only for a few days.
 
Day 57 since the start of germination and progress is still slow and steady. The plants are 10" and 6" in height and the environment remains unchanged since the last update. I have given the plants only 1/2 gallon of molasses water since the last update. I have removed a few more of the lower fan leaves on both plants to allow more light to the lower side shoot areas. Some of the small leaves on the bottom side shoots of the larger left plant are yellowing and showing signs of nutrient burn on the tips so it appears that the soil is still hot for these plants. I believe that this is due to the roots expanding into areas of the soil where it is still nutrient rich. They might make it to flower without any additional D&S Step 2.

Group shot of the plants on day 57 since the start of germination -

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Single shots of the left plant at 10" in height -

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Single shots of the right plant at 6" in height -

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Close-up shots of the bottom of the left plant showing nutrient burn and yellowing leaves on the side shoots -

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At this point during my last grow, the plants were starting to mature and begin flowering. Although this grow's progress is far behind my last grow, the plants appear to still be growing and maturing. It is anybody's guess as to when they will become mature and start flowering. I hope that they get to a decent size before that happens so that the yield isn't too greatly affected, that's assuming that they are females of course.
 
Not that im a grow genius or anything but i had the same issue with hot soil in my first grow. I used mg soil and i had to let the pot dry out real good and give a small watering with 30ml/gal to 7.0ph water. I seemed to two problems in the beginning. First my runoff had a ph of around 5.0 and i just assumed that the slow grow and discoloration was due to crappy looking roots. A few days after i feed with just pure 7.0 water and my plants took off like rockets! Then i returned to normal feedings and didn't have any other issues. Might not work for u but sure did for me
 
Not that im a grow genius or anything but i had the same issue with hot soil in my first grow. I used mg soil and i had to let the pot dry out real good and give a small watering with hydrogen peroxide 30ml/gal to 7.0ph water. I seemed to two problems in the beginning. First my runoff had a ph of around 5.0 and i just assumed that the slow grow and discoloration was due to crappy looking roots. A few days after i feed with just pure 7.0 water and my plants took off like rockets! Then i returned to normal feedings and didn't have any other issues. Might not work for u but sure did for me
 
I used MG soil during my first grow and had issues with the soil taking forever to dry out on some of the plants but I had nowhere near the nutrient burn issues I've been having with this grow. Add in my eagerness to try my new nutrient system and this is where I am now. A hard lesson to learn but in my experience, the lessons you learn the most from usually are the hardest.
 
Yeah, that really surprised me since there is only a 5% difference in indica/sativa between Super Skunk and Easy Rider, which was much more indica looking. Easy Rider is 70% Indica / 30% Sativa, Super Skunk is 65% Indica / 35% Sativa according to the seed dispensary from which they were purchased. Now that you brought that to my attention, I'm wondering if I'm looking at a more sativa-like grow as compared to my Easy Rider grow.
 
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