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surffreak23
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before and after pics...
before and after pics...
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That's a nice lil harvest ya got there homie. I am experienced I. These micro environments. Lst wise. Not breeding the bagseeds. Just for smoke and practice. Growing bagseeds help me to learn to try to read my plants by not knowing what they require. I think its prolly tougher to grow mixxed bagseeds to their potential for that reason. I dunno. Just my opinion. I'm breeding mixxed short stuff autos. I'm going to do a ten plant party cup run. Don't feel like buying that many seeds simply for a novelty run. Experiments are fun right? 
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nastrada
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Looking sweet as...
Loving the video, you gave us a nice tour there. Just an idea, it would be cool if you did a video with you explaining your setup and grow. I've been following your thread but it would be cool if you explained how you built your box and explain how you are doing your LSTing etc etc
That would rocK, peace.
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fosho homie.. i just have to find something that will mask my voice... i have what you call a very distinguishable tone/voice... easily identifiable i should say... lol... but your right and i do agree... just one of the things im not 100% comfortable doin yet... not till my state is legal/medicinal at least... i can however answer most of your questions in text...
my plan for lst is to simply keep the level of the canopy manageable... if that means retying every shoot down more, i will... lol.. simple as that.. i prefer to use twisty ties for lst, but didnt have any this time around, so i used zip ties very loosely allowing room for stem to grow without strangling itself... which literally almost happened to my last micro lady... real scary.. especially because it was at the base of the stem... i guess i couldve lost my whole lady due to this... lesson learned... zip ties (very loose), rubber bands, and twisty ties are the way to go for sure...
as far as building my cases.. hmm... its simple-ish... i gut my boxes... keep all fans... look at the layout of the box gutted and figure out what light setup will be most effecient (watt and space wise)... lol.. basically it does no good to have a 150 w hps if i have no room to grow out the ladies... lol.. for these reasons, i avoid hid and go with cfl... on my flowering box, i ran two power strips in the top and used those clever lil plug in light sockets... at first i was trying to max out wattage with these strip setups (i was pushing 182 watts in less than 2 squared cubic feet... lol.. then i found out that the light intensity and heat were actually bleaching my leafs... being the next lady i grew in it was an auto, i decided to got with an even amount of diffrent spectrums... i have 60 watts of 6500k and 78 watts of 2700k... being it is mostly used to flower i figure i should go with a higher wattage of 2700k... lets see... besides that, i installed 2 intake fans and two exhaust fans completely opposite of each other.. intake being at the bottom and exhaust by the lights.. i also have an intake on the back of my box at about max canopy level to stir the air around a lil more... i am actually considering going with only exhaust or intake... not sure which would be more beneficial.. guess i got some trial and error to go through... lol... after all these items were mounted and installed, i lined my flowering box with chrome duct tape (trial... happened to work out decent)... then its timers and plug and play basically... oh yeah... forgot to mention, the computer fans were wired to 9 volt cell phone charger chord... two fans per chord... runs same speed as one fan per chord...
with my veg/clone/breed box... i basically used the same principals, only diffrence is there is no third intake canopy level fan, only one exhaust, and the fact that there is a dimmer wired to the ballast of a 55 watt flat square shaped cfl... dont know how awesome the light is, but it def keeps em alive and healthy... doubt i could flower with this amount of wattage (successfully at least), but it is perfect for what i want it for... oh yeah.. one more diffrence is the fact i actually used foil tape to line that box... couldnt get the sliding computer door back on after the mods, so i simply found a piece of card board that was white on one side and brown on the other... measured it out to where it fit... cut it, then got a peice of duct tape, long ways, put half of it on the top of the box and the other half on the piece of card board i cut out... if you look in the video, there are slight light leaks around the sides of the box.. i place a painting up against the card board, then a box against the painting.. lol.. it actually adds to the stealthiness of it all...
anyways bro... hoped this helps.. any suggestions for the voice masker?
my plan for lst is to simply keep the level of the canopy manageable... if that means retying every shoot down more, i will... lol.. simple as that.. i prefer to use twisty ties for lst, but didnt have any this time around, so i used zip ties very loosely allowing room for stem to grow without strangling itself... which literally almost happened to my last micro lady... real scary.. especially because it was at the base of the stem... i guess i couldve lost my whole lady due to this... lesson learned... zip ties (very loose), rubber bands, and twisty ties are the way to go for sure...
as far as building my cases.. hmm... its simple-ish... i gut my boxes... keep all fans... look at the layout of the box gutted and figure out what light setup will be most effecient (watt and space wise)... lol.. basically it does no good to have a 150 w hps if i have no room to grow out the ladies... lol.. for these reasons, i avoid hid and go with cfl... on my flowering box, i ran two power strips in the top and used those clever lil plug in light sockets... at first i was trying to max out wattage with these strip setups (i was pushing 182 watts in less than 2 squared cubic feet... lol.. then i found out that the light intensity and heat were actually bleaching my leafs... being the next lady i grew in it was an auto, i decided to got with an even amount of diffrent spectrums... i have 60 watts of 6500k and 78 watts of 2700k... being it is mostly used to flower i figure i should go with a higher wattage of 2700k... lets see... besides that, i installed 2 intake fans and two exhaust fans completely opposite of each other.. intake being at the bottom and exhaust by the lights.. i also have an intake on the back of my box at about max canopy level to stir the air around a lil more... i am actually considering going with only exhaust or intake... not sure which would be more beneficial.. guess i got some trial and error to go through... lol... after all these items were mounted and installed, i lined my flowering box with chrome duct tape (trial... happened to work out decent)... then its timers and plug and play basically... oh yeah... forgot to mention, the computer fans were wired to 9 volt cell phone charger chord... two fans per chord... runs same speed as one fan per chord...
with my veg/clone/breed box... i basically used the same principals, only diffrence is there is no third intake canopy level fan, only one exhaust, and the fact that there is a dimmer wired to the ballast of a 55 watt flat square shaped cfl... dont know how awesome the light is, but it def keeps em alive and healthy... doubt i could flower with this amount of wattage (successfully at least), but it is perfect for what i want it for... oh yeah.. one more diffrence is the fact i actually used foil tape to line that box... couldnt get the sliding computer door back on after the mods, so i simply found a piece of card board that was white on one side and brown on the other... measured it out to where it fit... cut it, then got a peice of duct tape, long ways, put half of it on the top of the box and the other half on the piece of card board i cut out... if you look in the video, there are slight light leaks around the sides of the box.. i place a painting up against the card board, then a box against the painting.. lol.. it actually adds to the stealthiness of it all...
anyways bro... hoped this helps.. any suggestions for the voice masker?
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I.m about to go take a bunch of Piks. Be on later to post em!
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Dang. Had to dig this one up. Lol. Anyways never got a chance to upload pictures. Internet has been down for a sec.
On to the news. I have began hitting the first short stuff auto that showed sex as a female with colloidal silver for a few days now. Two other autos have shown as female as well. Waiting on last to show sex. I am hoping for a female as well. If I do, I should have one selfed lady and three pollinated by a female. That's what I am hoping for at least.
My flowering photos are doing fine. I am thinking the topped one will prolly be yeilding me around three quarters of an o, and about an o and a half of the bonsai beast.
If these two guesstimations are correct, I will consider this grow more than succesful.
Lets see. Other good news is I just ordered a magic flight launch box. Extra batteries and the tube/whip and mouthpiece. Lets see how certain their two day shipping is. Lol. Alright fellas, when connection is good again, I.ll post new Piks of thevbeautiful ladies. Thanks for looking.
On to the news. I have began hitting the first short stuff auto that showed sex as a female with colloidal silver for a few days now. Two other autos have shown as female as well. Waiting on last to show sex. I am hoping for a female as well. If I do, I should have one selfed lady and three pollinated by a female. That's what I am hoping for at least.
My flowering photos are doing fine. I am thinking the topped one will prolly be yeilding me around three quarters of an o, and about an o and a half of the bonsai beast.
If these two guesstimations are correct, I will consider this grow more than succesful.
Lets see. Other good news is I just ordered a magic flight launch box. Extra batteries and the tube/whip and mouthpiece. Lets see how certain their two day shipping is. Lol. Alright fellas, when connection is good again, I.ll post new Piks of thevbeautiful ladies. Thanks for looking.
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Small update. All four autos were female so I decided to cs the smallest two of the four. This way if the cs doesn't work, I will not have wasted my biggest autos on experiments and still have a decent auto harvest . However, if tfhe cs does work, I should have a good bit of fem seeds from it. That's ultimately my goal from my breeding case. A good supply of female auto seeds for a 16 cup party cup run.
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Really good grow log. I dont know how I missed this before. Its pretty neat what you are doing in such a small area. I will be following along.
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lookin good mate... keep up the good work! :smokebuds:
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big picture update!!!
so.. lets see... my autos are doing great.. like wise so is the clone... for being in a box that small and splitting 55 watts between the five of them, i am impressed... not to mention the autos are in 16 oz cups... the two smallest ones closest to the fan are the girls getting "cs'd"... one has been gettin the treatment for about a week now... the other about half that... not hoping for much bud outta that box... strictly seeds... fingers crossed that cs stuff works... it was store bought, but 500 ppm and kept out of the light at all times... fingers crossed it works, or its fifty bucks wasted...
my photo period ladies are lookin great.. the hogs breath has been flowering a few days over a month... im so glad i got a clone off this lady.. she is hands down one of the frostiest bitches i have grown out yet.. i may try to breed some purple into her later on... the hawaiin skunk is doing good... not as frosty as the other, but still nice.. she has a sweet mentholy watermelon smell to her if that makes sense at all... neither one of the ladies have a strong odor unless "gently" squeezed.... i will be happy when i harvest these two for sure.. pretty certain i will get two completely diff. stoned's off of em... lol.. not sure if that was a word, but it works and im sure you get what i mean... lol... i am also very curious which short stuffs i am growing out... who knows, but pretty glad four outta four were females... im just hoping now i still have some fems left in the mix pack... be kinda shitty if the rest were just one sex... unless they are all fems... which i sorta doubt, but who knows...
anyways enjoy the piks... btw, got my mflb the day after i ordered... its sweet... i have rigged up an icee cup with the hose coming out of the bottom to make it seem as if i am sipping an icee when i ride around... with my wife driving of course... the perfect trick for long road trips...
jm... thanks for posting... i swore to myself that if i came back to this thread today and know one had posted, it was to a new forum i went.... lol.. so thanks john for posting and lettin me know people are watching...
so.. lets see... my autos are doing great.. like wise so is the clone... for being in a box that small and splitting 55 watts between the five of them, i am impressed... not to mention the autos are in 16 oz cups... the two smallest ones closest to the fan are the girls getting "cs'd"... one has been gettin the treatment for about a week now... the other about half that... not hoping for much bud outta that box... strictly seeds... fingers crossed that cs stuff works... it was store bought, but 500 ppm and kept out of the light at all times... fingers crossed it works, or its fifty bucks wasted...
my photo period ladies are lookin great.. the hogs breath has been flowering a few days over a month... im so glad i got a clone off this lady.. she is hands down one of the frostiest bitches i have grown out yet.. i may try to breed some purple into her later on... the hawaiin skunk is doing good... not as frosty as the other, but still nice.. she has a sweet mentholy watermelon smell to her if that makes sense at all... neither one of the ladies have a strong odor unless "gently" squeezed.... i will be happy when i harvest these two for sure.. pretty certain i will get two completely diff. stoned's off of em... lol.. not sure if that was a word, but it works and im sure you get what i mean... lol... i am also very curious which short stuffs i am growing out... who knows, but pretty glad four outta four were females... im just hoping now i still have some fems left in the mix pack... be kinda shitty if the rest were just one sex... unless they are all fems... which i sorta doubt, but who knows...
anyways enjoy the piks... btw, got my mflb the day after i ordered... its sweet... i have rigged up an icee cup with the hose coming out of the bottom to make it seem as if i am sipping an icee when i ride around... with my wife driving of course... the perfect trick for long road trips...
jm... thanks for posting... i swore to myself that if i came back to this thread today and know one had posted, it was to a new forum i went.... lol.. so thanks john for posting and lettin me know people are watching...
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