Howsjosh's LED Soil Grapefruit, Strawberry, Blue Dream, Blue Widow Grow

[Jurf]

Hey dude quick question. DO you use sunglasses or anything for dealing with your tent? I find my light is so goddamn powerful it hurts my eyes. I actually ordered some sunglasses that should get here soon, but jsut wondered if you or anybody else is on the same page

 

[howsjosh]

Yeah you want green grow glasses the stuff is bad for your eyes I found some pretty cheap ones I think on eBay called Grow1 they were like $25 I think... I take all my pics with my iPhone through the lens of the glasses or else everything would be purple and you wouldn't be able to see much

In my first journal I think in the first post it has more information about my setup... my setup changed a little when I moved but not to much

 

[ItsNatural]

I got those same glasses. Took my pictures the same way.

 

[howsjosh]

Day 42: Well I took everything out of the tent and took some pics of each of the plants...

Grace

Barbie

Summer

Bonnie

Grapefruit clone

Strawberry Cough clone

then I swept up the floor of the tent and wiped it all down with 3% hydrogen peroxide... tried to put in the scrog net... found out it was still to big so I cut it down more... put it in this time I got it pretty tight... Then I put the fan back in and then the plants... I started with Summer, then Bonnie, followed by Grace, and last Barbie... I tucked them under the net as I put them in then I took some more pics...

then I decided to pull the net down farther... then I took another pic...

The whole process took about 2 and a half hours... What do you guys think?

 

[ItsNatural]

I Think you need to move that fan as the 2 in the back are going to need much more room to expand if you want to do this scrog right. Of course you could just let them grow up thru the scrog now, but that really isnt a scrog, its more of a skeleton for the plant to brace itself. You need to keep filling the net out up until a week or so into stretch. (im sure you know all that. Just dropping Knowledge for your readers) Anyway. Those 2 plants in the very back that are side by side need to more space to spread. Take that fan out and move the back left one in its place. Im saying all this of course without knowing exactly whats in your head. So as per usual. Take my advice with a grain of salt.

Plants are looking great. Very healthy looking. Your doing a great job.

 

[howsjosh]

Yeah I will still need to move stuff around the plant in the back right doesn't even really reach the net... but the net is only 19" from the ground maybe at its highest point... Also I'm going to put the ones in the front outside in a few weeks... then I will move everything again raise my net (maybe) and will go from there... I might have to veg them a bit longer after I take the rest out to fill up the tent more when the others are out of there... But seriously thanks for the advice I'm probably going to go back and read that post when I'm closer to flower I was curious when I should stop tucking and that answers that... Right now I'm just kinda using the net to get light into more places and let the middle of the plants grow up more... Grace wasn't getting any light under her canopy and everything in there was starting to get light colored and yesterday I noticed them already starting to darken up... and the little clones up front are going to a friends

 

[Jurf]

Plants in generallyl are looking good. Barbie is the one that was growing top-heavy earlier on right? If soo, it's looking well now. You topped it a couple times or something?

 

[howsjosh]

Plants in generallyl are looking good. Barbie is the one that was growing top-heavy earlier on right? If soo, it's looking well now. You topped it a couple times or something?

Barbie is the frontish left she looks almost exactly like summer now (back right)... I just topped and defoliated her and she bushed out... but yeah she was the "Christmas tree"

 

[howsjosh]

Day 45: Today I watered the girls when I got home from work and then turned on my exhaust fan so my humidity doesn't spike again... the only downside is that it cools the tent down to about 70 which sucks... but I'll take cooler temps over high humidity.... I think I want to start feeding soonish... I don't think I could make a big enough batch with one 5 Gallon bucket and I don't know if the small pump I have is really enough to bubble then enough... but maybe I could just do like 4 gallons and not have any runoff... I still don't think the pump is good enough to bubble that but I suppose it will have to work for now...

 

[ItsNatural]

Day 45: Today I watered the girls when I got home from work and then turned on my exhaust fan so my humidity doesn't spike again... the only downside is that it cools the tent down to about 70 which sucks... but I'll take cooler temps over high humidity.... I think I want to start feeding soonish... I don't think I could make a big enough batch with one 5 Gallon bucket and I don't know if the small pump I have is really enough to bubble then enough... but maybe I could just do like 4 gallons and not have any runoff... I still don't think the pump is good enough to bubble that but I suppose it will have to work for now...

You could put them on different feeding schedules. Bubble enough nutes for 1 or 2 of them today, feed tomorrow, make another batch tomorrow, feed remaining girls with it. Basically you will be bubbling nutes everyday but its not like YOUR actually bubbling them lol. So shouldnt be a biggie. I was using a 5 gallon bucket when I first started but got tired of scooping it out, and couldnt really dump the bucket straight into the plants due to scrog. Plus my girls were wanting different stuff. So I went to 4 milk jugs. That way I can make different strengths of Nutes for the different needs. plus, like I said, I was getting tired of using a Wendys cup to scoop out the nutes. Im sure there is a better way to get them out of the bucket but that seemed the fastest.

As far as run off goes. Iv read several different theories on that.

1 states that one should always water and feed till run off. So there becomes no hot spots in the soil, and all soil is soaked evenly. Also helps keep from the build up of salts. As well as other reasons Im sure lol.

2/ states that one should never feed until run off as its just a waste of nutes. In this method you feed them about 60 or 80 percent (i may have JUST made that up) before runoff. And when you water, you water until you have plenty of runoff to avoid salt build up.

3/ states that one should never feed or water until run off, Just flush between veg and bloom, and then again before harvest.

Im a fan of the first. I like to make sure that ALL of my soil is getting all the rich nutes and Microbes that it can get. I also, if I have time, like to give them about half or so of the nutes, wait a bit to allow the salts to break down a bit, so when I give it the rest of the nutes, It washes away as much salt build up as possible without a solution. This of course is just how I do it and none of which, as far as I know, are based on any actual science. Just Bro science. Im actually interested to get other peoples take on this subject. As some people dont really do any of those 3. Some give a small bit of water or nutes everyday. And seem to have great plants. So I have no clue whats right or wrong.

 

[howsjosh]

You could put them on different feeding schedules. Bubble enough nutes for 1 or 2 of them today, feed tomorrow, make another batch tomorrow, feed remaining girls with it. Basically you will be bubbling nutes everyday but its not like YOUR actually bubbling them lol. So shouldnt be a biggie. I was using a 5 gallon bucket when I first started but got tired of scooping it out, and couldnt really dump the bucket straight into the plants due to scrog. Plus my girls were wanting different stuff. So I went to 4 milk jugs. That way I can make different strengths of Nutes for the different needs. plus, like I said, I was getting tired of using a Wendys cup to scoop out the nutes. Im sure there is a better way to get them out of the bucket but that seemed the fastest.

That's a good idea and now that I think of it I think Grace is probably the only one that is ready to be fed... I'm still trying to come up with a plan of what to feed and when but this is what I have started so far on that

1 tsp grow 1/4 tsp bloom 1/4 tsp big blooming guano 1/2 tsp micro 1 tsp catalyst 3/4 tsp cal mag 1/2 tsp hi brix


1 1/2 tsp grow 1/2 tsp bloom 1/2 tsp bbg 1/8 tsp god silica

Grow Bloom Bbg Catalyst Hi brix

Grow Bloom Bbg Calmag

Grow Bloom Bbg Micro

Grow Bloom Bbg Catalyst Hi brix

Grow Bloom Bbg Calmag God silica

 

[howsjosh]

Day 49: I was looking in the tent and I noticed some powder mildew on Barbie and it seems tone spreading so tonight just before the lights go out I'll have to spray them with neem oil and keep my exhaust fan on... I just don't get it though like why do I keep getting these problems... maybe I should always be running my exhaust... but then it would be cold in there it's a mind trip I feel like my environment should be in control enough to keep this from happening... Also spraying the plants when they have a mildew problem seems kind of counter productive but I guess the neem oil kills the spores... so I pray that shit works I don't wanna deal with another messed up crop... I've kinda been afraid of stuff like this since I started back up... I was going to spray them last night but I fell asleep... we will see how this goes tonight

 

[howsjosh]

Well I sprayed the plants with a neem oil soap water mixture 1/2 tsp neem 1/2 tsp dish soap and filled up my sprayer with warm water... (the warm water is the trick to getting it to all mix together right)... the world didn't end everything seemed fine in the tent this morning so I turned on all the bloom switches to the lights and left my exhaust fan on the lowest setting hopefully the extra light will heat it up a little in there... I will spray all the plants again when I put the plants outside... and hopefully I can keep the powdery mildew from coming back... I'm going to have to watch them like a hawk because I can't have this stuff messing up another grow...

 

[howsjosh]

Day 50: also when I looked in there Bonnie looked kinda thirsty so I watered her and Summer because her pot felt light enough also the clones a little under 2 gallons all together... I'm going to wait on the other 2 in the big pots... keeping the exhaust fan on... we will see how things go...

 

[howsjosh]

Well I guess today is a day of updates I forgot to add I did even more trimming on Grace yesterday to once again try and get some light down in the middle... I also decided to take some pics since it's been a while...
The group

Grace

Barbie

Bonnie (hard to take a pic because of all the light glare on my phone screen)

Summer (also difficult in the back corner)

Strawberry Cough clone

Grapefruit clone

Side notes: I can't wait to get some of these girls outside so I can move stuff around and make some more room... Strawberry Cough clone is growing quite well...

 

[ItsNatural]

Your tent is looking great. Very beautiful plants homie. And I would at all times have my exhaust running. Even if its just barely going. As long as its moving a little air in and out of the tent. I think it should help with some of your problem. Like I said earlier, If you have a cold problem, you can always hang some covers up to make some cheap walls around your tent. Maybe leaving 4 or so feet on every side of the tent. And then just put a cheap floor heater in there and put it on low so it only kicks on if the temps fall below a certain point. I have mine on 2. Just in case the temps fall, it will kick on before the temps drop too low. Just a thought. Its mainly for when your lights are out. To maintain a decent temp.

 

[howsjosh]

Watered Grace yesterday before work and then Bonnie after work... Bonnie was looking pretty thirsty which is surprising because I just watered her 2 days prior... the soil was so dry the water went straight through at first... I know I've been saying this but I think they are all ready for nutes now... so I will have to start making batches soon... they seem to be going through water pretty quick so I should probably just make a batch tonight or something and use it on which ever plant dries first... My temps and humidity ranges seem ok it's about 68 at night and normally gets up to 81 at some point in the day but fluctuates from 73-81 during the day... humidity ranges from about 40-50... my exhaust fan will stay on for the remainder of the grow... I'll have to post more pics soon maybe after work... but right now I have to eat lunch then get back to work...

 

[howsjosh]

Oh and here is a little blue print I made for a green house I might build for the plants going outdoors

 

[Jurf]

I think having the exhaust on 24/7 is really important. Glad you decided to keep it on.

 

[howsjosh]

Yeah it was stupid of me not to then I wonder why I have problems... Live and learn I guess...