Second Attempt At Indoor Grow With Boomslang

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Hiiigh all you great 420 peeps.

Lovely morning here from the west coast of south africa. Even though autumn started we are experiencing some heat that should have been here in February.

The urge to start a new grow was to great and I couldn't resist it anymore! I previously said I won't be starting a new journal soon due to lighting issues but my fiance psyced me up as she ordered a grow tent for me and I have a better light in the pipeline.

So I have decided let me give this a go again. Like she said before: jy het rooi miere in jou gat en kan nooit stil sit nie. (you have red ants in your arse and can never sit still) lol.

So what am I'm planning for this grow.

I have germinated 3 x big buddha cheese where by one has started to push the soil on top to say hi to the world. It has not pushed through completely but is getting there. Awaiting the other two to peek through and say hi to me aswell.

Soil: I will be trying a new soil mixture a good friend has given a recipe of that he has been making himself and had real awesome results from. Mixture will be 20% coco, 60% earth worm compost, 10% perlite and 10% vermiculite. I will also add a bit rock phosphate to the mixture and use mycorizzha for the roots when the root balls are formed.

Water: I will be starting off with plain tap water that I will be ph'ing for between ph 6.4 - 6.8 with a aerator in the bucket to add some oxygen for the little seedlings and will also then start to make compost water as they get bigger.

Nutes: nutes will be compost water and I will be using nutrifeed as I did with my previous outdoor and it gave me great results on those plants. I will also be looking to start adding mollasses when flowering.

Pots: seeds has been germinated into polystyrene cups and will keep the plants going in it for the next 2 - 3 weeks for the roots to develop in a solid ball before transplanting into 3l plastic pots where by this will go into 15l plastic pots for its final transplant.

Lights: currently seedlings will be under my diy light and 25w full spec for the next 2 - 3 weeks where they will go under a full spec 1000w grow light that I will be ordering soon.

Grow area/tent: currently seedlings is in my first indoor diy server case and will be moved into a mammoth pro 120 tent to venture in for the rest of its life span. I will be adding venting etc to the tent to keep temps correct as this will be my first tent grow.

Pesticides: I won't be using shop bought pesticides as I love to keep thing organic. I will be using my old method of chopped onion, crushed garlic, 2 drops of dishwashing liquid mixed in water in a spray bottle. This has given me great results and have been used in a few generations of my family.

For now this is it and hope to make a succesa of this grow.

Something for the eyes:

 

[Bill284]

Hiiigh all you great 420 peeps.

Lovely morning here from the west coast of south africa. Even though autumn started we are experiencing some heat that should have been here in February.

The urge to start a new grow was to great and I couldn't resist it anymore! I previously said I won't be starting a new journal soon due to lighting issues but my fiance psyced me up as she ordered a grow tent for me and I have a better light in the pipeline.

So I have decided let me give this a go again. Like she said before: jy het rooi miere in jou gat en kan nooit stil sit nie. (you have red ants in your arse and can never sit still) lol.

So what am I'm planning for this grow.

I have germinated 3 x big buddha cheese where by one has started to push the soil on top to say hi to the world. It has not pushed through completely but is getting there. Awaiting the other two to peek through and say hi to me aswell.

Soil: I will be trying a new soil mixture a good friend has given a recipe of that he has been making himself and had real awesome results from. Mixture will be 20% coco, 60% earth worm compost, 10% perlite and 10% vermiculite. I will also add a bit rock phosphate to the mixture and use mycorizzha for the roots when the root balls are formed.

Water: I will be starting off with plain tap water that I will be ph'ing for between ph 6.4 - 6.8 with a aerator in the bucket to add some oxygen for the little seedlings and will also then start to make compost water as they get bigger.

Nutes: nutes will be compost water and I will be using nutrifeed as I did with my previous outdoor and it gave me great results on those plants. I will also be looking to start adding mollasses when flowering.

Pots: seeds has been germinated into polystyrene cups and will keep the plants going in it for the next 2 - 3 weeks for the roots to develop in a solid ball before transplanting into 3l plastic pots where by this will go into 15l plastic pots for its final transplant.

Lights: currently seedlings will be under my diy light and 25w full spec for the next 2 - 3 weeks where they will go under a full spec 1000w grow light that I will be ordering soon.

Grow area/tent: currently seedlings is in my first indoor diy server case and will be moved into a mammoth pro 120 tent to venture in for the rest of its life span. I will be adding venting etc to the tent to keep temps correct as this will be my first tent grow.

Pesticides: I won't be using shop bought pesticides as I love to keep thing organic. I will be using my old method of chopped onion, crushed garlic, 2 drops of dishwashing liquid mixed in water in a spray bottle. This has given me great results and have been used in a few generations of my family.

For now this is it and hope to make a succesa of this grow.

Something for the eyes:

Sounds like a good plan my friend. I'm doing my first soil grow outside this year.
I'll follow along and see how it's done if that's ok.

 

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Can't wait to see these results.. I'm following this one mate

 

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Sounds like a good plan my friend. I'm doing my first soil grow outside this year.
I'll follow along and see how it's done if that's ok.

Welcome bill284 firstly congrats again on the member of the month for March. I am by no means a expert on soil grow but will do my best to give as much info here for you to try or use as a guideline for your outdoor grow.

Can't wait to see these results.. I'm following this one mate

Welcome welcome mr squiggs. Great having you along for this grow.

 

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Just an seedling update. Nothing much happening. Only 2 of the 3 buddha cheese sprouted so far. One sproited very weirdly. But will see what happens to the baby.

 

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Morning 420 peeps. I'm a bit worried about my one buddha cheese seedling. It has germinated but has been more than a week and I haven't seen any small leaves developing out of it. Tho it seems to still look as if it is taking in the water and hasn't shown any signs of dying. Is there any reason to be of concern if this plant will develop or not? Other seedling came out freakishly but seems to develop some small leaves. Just worried about the other one.

 

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High all,

Some news. I have ordered a 1000w full spec burple light and should be coming in this week if the damn couriers will just collect it. Lol... Can't wait for it to arrive. My wife has also ordered a 120x120 grow tent and awaiting on confirmation on that. She has also purchased a durban poison seed for a test run as I am currently already busy with the buddha cheese grow but will throw the DB in as well. N

Nothing has changed really on the buddha cheese. The one seedling that fell over when sprouted has formed its first 2 nodes small leaves. I am still bit unsure about the second one as it hasn't formed any leaves what so ever but still seems to be alive and taking in water. This one probably will be a fail and I will have to pull the plug on it.

They have been under the light for 18/6 cycle for more than a week now. Conditions are fine in the cabinet but it seems to be developing slowly.

I will take some pictures later today to post here.

Have a smashing day all!

 

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Some news! Received my 1000w yesterday through the post and it has been installed over the big buddha cheese. Have seen an improvement on the one seedling over one night.

I have been just giving normal ph'd water to the seedlings and will be adding small amounts of nutes within the next week for better development.

Im still concerned with the 2nd seedling as there is still no small leave development. Does anyone have some advice on why this happened? The seesling seems to take in the water as it has not died yet and looks weird to see only the main stem and the two helmet like lobs on the sides.

Light is about 30cm away from top of seedling. Do you guys think I should move it up higher?

Here with some pics:

 

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Morning peeps.

Week two of vegging. Not much has happened over the two weeks. Received the new light and I could immediately see a change in growth on the seedling. This showed me that the current light I had was not that strong. The new light has been used less than a week and the new growth seems to come along quicker. I still just water with normal ph'd water till it is stronger to start adding nutes.

 

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Howdy all you awesome growers over the world!
This is week 3 update on the buddha cheese.

The one seedling unfortunately didn't make as much as I tried to keep it going it never developed any leaves and it started dying so I pulled the plug on the baby. Really sad about it. However the one that sprouted and fell over is still going full steam and seems to be much happier since I upgraded my growlight.

I'm still watering with normal ph'd water without any nutes and this baby will start getting some light nutes in from today. It is still growing in its small cup for root development before it gets transplanted to a 2l pot where it will be transplanted to its final 15l pot.

The light cycle is on 18/6.

I have also added a unknown strain which I suspect could be a boomslang strain that I got from my best friend as it came out of a bag that he gave me when he had the strain that time, in the cabinet that was meant for outdoor grow that should never have happened this time of the season as we moved into winter time. It seems that this plant is enjoying the indoor enviroment and I will just continue it with the big buddha cheese. I will add its updates within this journal. It is also the same age as the big buddha.

The cabinet temps are between 23 - 26°C.

The nights are getting colder but seems the grow space temps stays constant and haven't gotten below 23°C.

I've checkes my lux on the phone and it hovers at 49000lux. Think I need to change the light a bit higher up to get lux at 30k for now.

Please people any advice or critic will be appreciated here as I am still see this as a learning curve for me to get use to indoor growing.

Here is some snappies of the babies:

Big buddha

Unknown buy suspected boomslang

Big buddha

Unknown suspected boomslang

Hope all is keeping safe and happy growing.

Skottelgoed

 

[Bill284]

Howdy all you awesome growers over the world!
This is week 3 update on the buddha cheese.

The one seedling unfortunately didn't make as much as I tried to keep it going it never developed any leaves and it started dying so I pulled the plug on the baby. Really sad about it. However the one that sprouted and fell over is still going full steam and seems to be much happier since I upgraded my growlight.

I'm still watering with normal ph'd water without any nutes and this baby will start getting some light nutes in from today. It is still growing in its small cup for root development before it gets transplanted to a 2l pot where it will be transplanted to its final 15l pot.

The light cycle is on 18/6.

I have also added a unknown strain which I suspect could be a boomslang strain that I got from my best friend as it came out of a bag that he gave me when he had the strain that time, in the cabinet that was meant for outdoor grow that should never have happened this time of the season as we moved into winter time. It seems that this plant is enjoying the indoor enviroment and I will just continue it with the big buddha cheese. I will add its updates within this journal. It is also the same age as the big buddha.

The cabinet temps are between 23 - 26°C.

The nights are getting colder but seems the grow space temps stays constant and haven't gotten below 23°C.

I've checkes my lux on the phone and it hovers at 49000lux. Think I need to change the light a bit higher up to get lux at 30k for now.

Please people any advice or critic will be appreciated here as I am still see this as a learning curve for me to get use to indoor growing.

Here is some snappies of the babies:

Big buddha

Unknown buy suspected boomslang

Big buddha

Unknown suspected boomslang

Hope all is keeping safe and happy growing.

Skottelgoed

Hello my friend, cute girls.
The girls in green pics look ok.
Pink ones can't tell.
Are you having a problem?
Bill

 

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Hey bud, no luckily not at the moment touch wood. Lol. These two are okay for now. I keep an hawks eye on them. I have no idea if it is female yet as it is reg seeds. But hoping they're both are females. With reg seeds you take the risk of not knowing. Lol

 

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Started building grow space frame from off cut t's from the wifes work. This space will allow me to grow up to 10 plants. On the top will be the venting, carbon filters and fans for fresh air. Still has alot of work to do on this.

 

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Hey guys. So just want to put a small update on the durban poison seed. I have germinated a fem dp and she has shown her tap root yesterday. I will be doing her soil today to be planted.

I will upload a pic later today and will run her journal within the current one.

Super excited about her!

Keep safe!
Skottelgoed

 

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Hey guys,

Durban poison has been planted in her soil and watered with ph'd water. I have put an half bottle dome over her cup for more humidity.

She is not directly in the light as the heat generated in the cabinet will dry her soil out too quick. I am working on to get the new grow space finished as this baby will need to go in there for space.

The big buddha is doing well and I have started to feeding it with light nutes mixed with ph'd water.

Ph is between 6.2 - 6.7.

Here is some pics:

 

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Good morning all

Girls are doing good still. I did some light defoliation on the boomslang lady. I will be soing some lst today on her. She is growing quite wild and the shocking thing is she is the same age as the big buddha cheese.

The big buddha cheese os coming along slowly and haven't shoot out as I wanted it to have. Don't know what is going on as it does not show any signs of struggling. Maybe just a late bloomer. She prob will shoot out like a beast soon. Will give her more time.

The durban poison shot out in the soil and doing well. Still a small baby.

 

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Hey guys,

Small update:

The boomslang is starting to shoot out like a beast. I have upped her feeding and she is doing well.

The big buddha cheese only started to shoot out with growth now and I am feeding her with light nutes to get her going.

Durban poison is coming along and have started with second leaf growth. She is still being watered with only ph'd water. I will start with light feeding when the 3rd set of leaves develop.

 

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Hey guys, been a while that I last updated this journal. Work has been hectic for this last few months for me.

Just an update on the 3 plants. I have a bit of sad news regarding my durban poison. She is not doing to well because we have this thing in our country called loadshedding. Loadshedding has been screwing with my light cycle times as I am on a 18hour schedule to keep the lights on but unfortunately thanks to our power producers they can't keep the lights on everyday.

I have replanted the durban poison to her final pot to check if I can't get her to bounce back. I really hope she can bounce back and that she didn't take too much damage, but highly doubt it. Only time will tell.

On the boomslang, this plant has shown that she is strong in tough times and just keeps going. She is really close to be flipped over to the 12/12 cycle for flower. I want her to keep going for till the end of the month whereby she will then be flipped for flower. I have upped her nutes slowly every two weeks.

The big buddha cheese has shown tremendous strength and have bounced out of the slow growth and has been going like a beast now. She still has a lot of time to go in vegging even tho she is the same age as the boomslang. I am really happy with how she has performed since.

I have worked on my grow space over the weekend and 60% of the space has been completed. I will be doing work on the space every evening after work to get it done for the end of the month in order for the boomslang to moved in the new space for flower so that I can keep the other two going on vegging.

Here with some pics of the girls. I haven't taken any new pics of the durban as she looks bad but you will be able to see her on the one photo of the other plants.

 

[Paul Squiggle]

Hi mate.
What a shame that you can't rely on your energy producer. But she should bounce back. Do they give you a warning when they are going to switch off the electricity? Everything is looking good and healthy still ..

Good to see you back on the forum mate.

 

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Hi mate.
What a shame that you can't rely on your energy producer. But she should bounce back. Do they give you a warning when they are going to switch off the electricity? Everything is looking good and healthy still ..

Good to see you back on the forum mate.

Hey squiggs. Yes they do send a sms but by the time I receive it I'm already at work and each town is on different times. So it's not always same times. The app is also not as reliable. My town info does not ipdate correctly. Its really crappy what we as south africans goes through each day with the loadshedding. I am currently looking into a strong inverter ups for the grow setup. I really hope she bounces back.