Nismo's First Grow - 2 x 600 Watt - CKS Purple Kush - 4x4

[Nismo12]

Looking good bro. Just a suggestion but is there anyway you can get your temp and rh gauge up to canopy level? It's on the floor which is likely more cool itself but the canopy is even higher. In a tent even a few inches can have major temp differences. I noticed this in both of mine. My canopies are at about 72 in veg and 73 74 in flower. Looking good tho bro!

TBH I have 3 thermometers and 4 hygrometers in there lol. That is the only one you can see when I take pictures. I have one about the lights, one on the floor one the height of the canopy off to the side a bit and an additional hygrometer hanging out on the rim of a pot just for curiosity.

 

[OEF Vet 11B]

Gotcha! Heck yeah man I may get a few more

 

[Nismo12]

For some reason last night my tent decided to spike to 90 degrees. I have no idea. Then today it stayed the same. So I turned my lights down so they wouldn't create as much heat. I went out and bought a 6" inline fan. Capable of 250 cfm. It is much less than the exhaust so I still have a negative pressure inside the tent. After doing this it has come down to 84 as of 2 hours. I don't know what could have made this happen? ideas

 

[Nismo12]

Well that fan did wonders. My tent is in a closet passive intake was an issue with the door closed. Now just for temporary purposes I have the intake fan and duct work just running out of the room. Well it is working wonderfully. Currently sitting at 78 degrees and 42% humidity. I turned the lights back up and normally it would be mid 80s and 30% humidity. So it's working.

Girls are looking really happy and are fighting the LST so I had to tighten them up. But it's cool that they stretched for the light so soon. Down to watering every 48 hours on the big girls. Will have to put them in their 7 gallon smart pots very soon!

 

[Nismo12]

Good day to everyone! The girls are looking great! I transplanted the 2 big girls yesterday and they were looking sad last night but this morning they are happy as can be! No transplant shock to be seen! I'm going to tie them back down and probably top one more time. Let them grow out a bit then flip the lights! I don't think I'm going to use a SCROG on this one since the other ones are 10 days younger and are smaller. So I will have 2 with 6 weeks in veg and 2 with just over 4 weeks in veg. I think I'll be looking pretty good.

Oh and 7 gallon pots hold a lot more soil than I thought so I have to get more. Original plan was using 3 gallon pots so I ran out in a hurry.

I'll swing over and check on everyone else's grow. Hope they are going well.

Also as a side note, last week I ordered some Crop King Seeds Super silver haze (I wanted a good sativa [75%]) and some crown royal which is a mix of this purple kush. Should be exciting. Also, never received my order from herbies so they sent out another package yesterday. It's going to be like Christmas here in a week or so!

 

[Nismo12]

Well here is a picture update!

Elaine root ball

Claudia root ball

Elaine

Claudia

Group photo

Also got a light meter today. I measured 42,400 lux which is 54,000 lumens given the distance to the top of the plants.

 

[Nismo12]

Hello fellow growers! Its been a few days so I thought I would check in.

We are 8 days away from the flip! That will make the big girls 6 weeks and 2 days old and the younger ones 5 weeks old. I think we will turn out just fine.

Not a whole lot has changed in the last few days other than they are growing at an astounding rate. The girls I transplanted got tied back down last night to try and even it out a bit. I want as many tops as I can have so the light penetrating down is a must. Was thinking about defoliating a little bit. Didn't know if that is ok. I planned on doing it after the first 2 weeks of flower. But if I could pluck a few fan leaves to help them out.

Well I got my Crop King Seeds package in the mail today. It took 7 days door to door. Not too shabby. Ill be starting these in about 4 or 5 weeks. So once my girls are half way done flowering ill start them in my other tent. Can't wait! Crown Royale and Super Silver Haze. Both feminized.

Also my tracking said it was at customs for 8 hours and they went through it. The beans were loose so they had them. Kinda was pissed when I saw their tape on it saying they searched it. But hey, everything is accounted for so we are good to go! Just waiting on my resend from Herbies.

I plan on transplanting the two younger girls next week. A few days before I flip them.

 

[STIHL LOGGER]

Damn Nismo! Plants look great brother!Niceeeee. Shitty on the CKS order gettin raided.. Kinda makes me not wanna order from them.. That and they want 30 fuckin bucks for shipping and all my shit gets jumbled? That blows bud.. Hope all else is well my friend! keep on keepin on mang!

 

[Nismo12]

Damn Nismo! Plants look great brother!Niceeeee. Shitty on the CKS order gettin raided.. Kinda makes me not wanna order from them.. That and they want 30 fuckin bucks for shipping and all my shit gets jumbled? That blows bud.. Hope all else is well my friend! keep on keepin on mang!

I still got my order. They didn't take anything. Just wanted to be snoopy

 

[STIHL LOGGER]

I still got my order. They didn't take anything. Just wanted to be snoopy

Ya true.. Id probably feel more comfy just orderin 1 strain at a time from them.. I got some ocd.. Lol i dont like my shit mixed up. I definitely would like to grow some Candy Cane and Purple Kush. Cant wait to see how yours turn out brother! As of now I got some super good beans comin from HAZE.IO. They got a killer sale on some beans now. 1/2 off CH9.. Buy one pack get one free on Auto Mazar.. Good stuff!

 

[Nismo12]

Ya true.. Id probably feel more comfy just orderin 1 strain at a time from them.. I got some ocd.. Lol i dont like my shit mixed up. I definitely would like to grow some Candy Cane and Purple Kush. Cant wait to see how yours turn out brother! As of now I got some super good beans comin from HAZE.IO. They got a killer sale on some beans now. 1/2 off CH9.. Buy one pack get one free on Auto Mazar.. Good stuff!

That sounds awesome. Will have to check it out. Only have of the seeds were out. So I still know which is which. But I want to try them all!

 

[STIHL LOGGER]

That sounds awesome. Will have to check it out. Only have of the seeds were out. So I still know which is which. But I want to try them all!

Man i definitely hear ya on wantin to try em all! My next order is in the waiting.. 26 different strains from 10 different breeders.. Man, this is gonna be a fun summer!

 

[Nismo12]

Oh and a correction! Customs opened the main package but did not mess with the seeds. So just opened saw it wasn't blatant contraband and sealed it back up

 

[Nismo12]

Well today was a productive day. I went out and got ingredients to make my own soil. Soil, peat moss, perlite, blood meal, and earthworm castings. I found that it is loads cheaper to make it than it is to buy it! Granted FFOF did great, but for the cost for 1 cu. foot its a third of the price making it yourself. So I have to custom concoction mixed up so I felt I should use it. The 2 younger ones were going to get transplanted mid next week, but they were dry from their watering yesterday! So the transplant happened today. Gave them a half strength of nutes. full strength for the big girls last night. I will start some LST on them in a couple days to make sure the transplant

Finally got the environment dialed in. The girls are doing great.

 

[Nismo12]

Well this morning I tied down the girls. They have already started bending towards the light.

Well here is my security keeping an eye on things while I'm tying up one of the girls

And here is last week in a time lapse. I sped it up to get it as short as I could. 60 frames per second and a picture was taken every 30 seconds over 6 days. Oh and the 2 on the right got their first taste of nutes on 3/1. So they are the ones to watch!

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that's all for now.

 

[Nismo12]

Well my order from herbies came today after the resend. 7 days. Just wish I got them the first time then they would be this run. But now I have more room and can make these girls bigger.

Barneys pineapple chunk, heavyweight fruit punch, heavyweight fast and vast auto, dinafem cheese, dinafem og kush, and afghani regular. So I now have a good selection to choose from. In a couple weeks I think I'll start 5 girls then throw the auto in since it takes 60 days germ to harvest.

I'll update in a couple days.

 

[MaxHeadroom]

Nice time-lapse video. You can really see when the feed kicks in.

 

[Nismo12]

They just take off!

 

[MaxHeadroom]

They just take off!

Yeah, it's great to see.

 

[Nismo12]

I know I said it would be a few days from an update, but it has warmed up here lately and I turned on my whole house fan and holy cow it made an difference. I thought it would suck the humidity but it did the opposite. It lowered my temp and raised the humidity. They are loving it!