Growing Cannabis 101: Mint Chocolate OG, HSO, Organic Super-Soil, 25% Perlite, Gaja Green Organics, 3 Mars 300s &1 Mars 144, Equal Par Wall To Wall

[DeanWest89]

05/26/19

SMALL UPDATE

today not much going on, I’ve been really busy this weekend so I’m lucky I got to do what I’ve done with the grow.

She seems to be bouncing back from the transplant and the one main that I bike sees to be recovering nicely, I was a little worried when it broke it. But I think the worst is over.

Sorry for the burpple picture lady’s and gents, like I said I was lucky to get the time in that I have.

She’s filling back in from the defoliation


With this new led set up I am running I am finding it hella lot easier to maintain my optimal temps and Rh it really has been a game changer for me.


This is a little smd led I salvaged from a light just gonna put it with a clone and see if it’s worth using in my pc grow box project I am going to do , or maybe it will be a good light for over my humidity dome for clones and starting seeds

It has a veg and a bloom switch and is passively cooled, but it only uses 25 watts and I have no pr meters so I’m doing a test with one of the mint choc OG clones


Anyway thanks for your time lady’s and gents
Have a great day and as always happy growing

 

[KingJoe83]

Everything’s coming along seems like you’ve been getting some help from
These green thumbs here lol


Will talk soon bud

 

[DeanWest89]

@Kingjoe83 yes I have brother this place has been a ton of help I am really happy you turned me on this family of growers alike

 

[DeanWest89]

05/27/19

So today I came home from work to find this package in my door, a member from this community has gone above and behind to help me out, I just wanted to thank this person so everyone else can know the generosity and how good of a heart this guy has, I can’t thank you enough for all you’ve done for me, I am lucky to be able to call you friend , thank you @Kingjoe83 you’ve gone above and beyond my friend.

Like this is saving me 100s of dollars I am still in shock over this, what a blessing to be apart of this group and for the people I have met along the way

 

[DeanWest89]

05/27/19

UPDATE-2x2x5’3 ( the punisher)

so today I think it’s safe to say she is bouncing back from the transplant/defoliation/me dropping the light on her which was such a stupid move on my part , whenever I’m am messing around with a light I am going to move the plants underneath before hand.

The canopy is starting to look nice again


She’s still got a relatively even canopy still




our temps are sitting at 24 degrees Celsius and a relative humidity of 58% which is something I couldn’t achieve with my old setup, so I think the plants are a lot happier with this new set up,


The punisher emblem I got for a dodge truck decided to put it in the tent


Everything’s going pretty good now
Real happy with how things are going



Thanks everyone for your time I hope you enjoyed this update, I just want to say to everyone , be kind to your fellow person, treat people how you want to be treated and good things will happen for you .

Anyways until next time have a great day and as always , happy growing

 

[Carcass]

Looking good in the tent,Dean-She looks totally recovered from "the incident"
Nice pile o' goodies from @Kingjoe83 ...That heat mat looks just like a waterbed heater...
The punisher emblem reminds me of my "midlife crisis" Corvette that I had about ten years ago...

 

[KingJoe83]

Hey bud

Glad to have helped you out . Pay it forward when you see another man down on luck .

What I was taught here , sharing is caring . Now grow those beast out!

 

[DeanWest89]

05/28/19

Big changes in the “punisher” (my grow tent)

so today I decided to start tying the branches down and I took clones , branches I thought wouldn’t keel up to the rest , there were 3 of them.

I also removed some lower growth and did some minor defoliation.

Just a little thing I was pretty proud about, I was always using ph drops to check my ph and I thought I was in between 6.5 and 6.5 that’s what I always water at, and when I tested my ph with a digital ph pen I was at A ph of 6.8 . So atleast ive been getting something right

I also hung up my mars hydro 144 reflector and a mars 300 , I used a lux meter that’s comparable with led specifically burble ones, and I got my lux into the 25000 range. I’ve been doing some reaseach they say veg can go up to 45000 does anyone have any knowledge of this , I got some new toys and want to learn how to use it to get results in the garden. But I set it to 25000 and want the plants to adjust to the increase in light intensity,


I think she’s gonna be happy with more room and better airflow , and now with a higher light intensity I can’t wait to see what happens next , I would like to start flower in the next couple weeks or so


I can’t believe how much rooms she’s taking jo now

I just used rubber coated garden wire from the local dollar w
Store and bamboo clothes pins to tie down to the smart pot , the bamboo is a lot stronger

So I set the one light up and took readings with the lux meter along all canopy’s and decided it wasn’t enough light for wall to wall coverage

I added the second light , and I lowered the lights until I got 25,000 ish lux readings , now I just started to read and research about proper levels of lux for canabis

He’s a picture of the tent with the new lights in it

These guys won’t be struggling for light anymore yay



Thank you for checking out my update and I am trying to improve on keeping more up to date stuff , if you have any information for me or have any question please show some love ,

I hope you all enjoyed this as much as I do, have a good day and as always
Happy growing friends

 

[DeanWest89]

Thanks again @carcass it’s like it never even happened eh. I was in such a panic I took your advise and everything is alright

 

[Carcass]

No problem,Dean,I'm just glad it went back together so well-The wind blew a
branch off of my outside plant,but there was no saving it-it was laying on the ground
about a foot and a half from the plant...no amount of zip ties or ductape can bring
them back from that...
When that plant of yours fills back in,she's gonna be a monster!

 

[Lowrider72]

Looking good Dean, nice score from joe.
Still good,peeps out,there.

 

[DeanWest89]

Nice to see ya @Lowrider72 thanks brotherman, yeah man I am still shocked at all the stuff that was given to me, joes a sweet cat

 

[DeanWest89]

05/29/19



Grow update- not a whole lot going on today, but with they new light meter I have optimized the amount of light going the canopy , again thanks @Kingjoe83 for all your help.

All my plants seem to be really responding really well to they new increase in light intensity.
I opened the tent to see a noticeable amount of new growth, on all of the plants but the mint chocolate OG,
Temps are around 26 degrees and R/H is about 50% which isn’t bad for my place .


So everything looks really nice today I am super happy , things are getting dry so I watered at a ph of 6.7 just to change things up , I’ll work my way down to 6.5 ish then work it back up , I’m not watering until I get run off yet until I know the roots have taken the space from the transplant

But I really love this new light, and I am noticing a difference in just one day.

As you can see she has filled back in nicely I was shocked to see how much new growth there was today , so happy

R/H and temps are nice today


Here’s a little canopy shot from the canopy to the light , looks nice




So that’s all I have for today , needless to say I am very happy with everything and this new lux meter, has made it so I can get the same amount of light all around.
- I have a few plants started in the old space bucket, I am still planning my next journal that I am going to do in the space bucket: I am going to give a full breakdown in the space bucket build and also my d I y carbon filter, and I am going to do a full grow start to finish in it , I am going to get that started soon as possible and hopefully I plan it out so I don’t have to put it in a bigger place , but all the details will be announced st s later time, but I will be finishing in the bucket , now I have sativa clones and indica clones which do you think I should use


I will pull the girl out this weekend and take some real nice photos.
Anyways thanks for stopping by and showing me some love, I wouldn’t be doing this if it wasn’t for all of you fine people , have a great week until next time ... happy growing folks

 

[KingJoe83]

Awesome job!!

Dude that is going to take off

I’ll text ya you back tomorrow

Hey!! do you think there needs to be more hrs in the day ?

 

[DeanWest89]

Thanks for stopping by joe always a pleasure to have such a prestigious grower show some love, frig the days are already long enough and I still can’t get all my shit taken care off , same boat I guess brother man , was nice to hear from ya buddie enjoy your day

 

[DeanWest89]

06/03/19

GROW UPDATE -



hey everyone I just want to apologize for my lack of updates, life is just so busy with such little to do. I didn’t get any time this week to spend on the grow until Saturday , all I was doing was watering dechlorinated water ph’d @6.5-6.8 all week.


So it’s safe to say she has fully bounced back from transplanting and my accident of dropping my led light on her. I am very happy with how things are going

I added un sulphured molasses to my water and oh’d @ 6.8 today just to boost/ feed microbial life .





I started bending branches down to widen out the canopy , and I got rid of a lot of lower small growth,

She looks really nice, so impressed with the gaja green line of amendments

I started defoliation on this sexy girl

she looks really rough after and your probably thinking I did something stupid but this plant really responds well and seems to put growth into hyperdrive after defoliation



Now I can really see what’s going on and can position things better to optimize light pen and coverage

After all said and done she looks really nice




So I will update photos tonight just to show you how fast she bounced back from defoliation, it’s one of the best tricks I have learned with growing , and it really keeps my node spacing really tight , when I let it grow in things seem to stretch more when lower stuff isn’t getting enough light penetrating the canopy ,

I have also lowered my light and were sitting around 33000 lux and she is loving every bit of it

She is a monster and I can’t wait to see what glowing brings , thanks for taking the time to reading my journal
I hope your enjoying it as much as I am and also learning as much as I am along the way , I hope everyone has a wonderful day , and as always

Happy growing growmies

 

[Carcass]

It's like a bad haircut-looks like hell right at first,but it grows back soon enough....
She's actually looking good-nice even canopy,lots of tops...another couple of weeks,and she's not going to fit through the door...
Looks like she's close to 3 feet wide now?

 

[DeanWest89]

@carcass yes brother it’s in a 2x4 so it’s atkeast 2’x2 ‘squares, but I will be installing trellis before flower so I will lay the plant right out hopefully I can fill 75% of the trellis up and the remaining spot will be for a few clones going right to 12/12 ( possibly I wish I had more room) she’s getting big man , I just ordered a new ax infinity t4 in-line fan with thermostats and humidity control so the fan speeds up and slows down to maintain a certain temp and r/h so I am very excited to get it , I will hook up my new mountain air carbon filter and theni will switch to flower ,I will be running a few other plants as well but I have to take clones off the black dog , and 3 blue kings before flower, my wife got mad at me and said I had to get rid of a bunch I am o lot allowed 4 and I had 16 including clones so I have to figure out what I must have and the rest will be given away or put outside somewhere. But this has been a long veg time and I am ready to flower. I wish the laws were different I wish I could cut up 1 plant space it out and run the clones from 12/12 and I’d probably get the same yields but with 60 days less in veg , it’s the long turn over time that kills me, but I need to get a veg tent so I can just pop a new plant into flower every 30 days or so , I want to have a steady supply and be able to harvest a plant every 30ish days. But I have spent my budget so until I round up some extra cash flow this is how it’s going to have to be

I should just use the space bucket for begging plants .

Anyway thanks for stopping by cass , I really appreciate the positive feedback brother. Hope all is going smooth brotherman

 

[DeanWest89]

This is the fan , I have a 20% off promo code if anyone else is interested in getting one , this is a game changer for climate control in our grow rooms , no more expensive controller systems , I am so excited

 

[DeanWest89]

I have nothing to do with the fans just found a promo code , I don’t buy anything regular price lol