My First Grow Journal...EVER! 600W MH/HPS Bubbleponics Cabinet Grow

[Graff420]

Freaking pretty pretty lmao im high af gotta imagine rinding around the leaves and chilling licking some tricomes lmao

[ellz]

09/08/2017:

07:30PM: Checked on the girls today and they are doing better now that they aren't hitting the light. I have to adjust a couple of branches later but for the most part they look like they will be okay if they keep going up now. I have attached some photos below of today's progress. You can see in a couple of the pictures the bud damage done by the light but it's only in a couple of places and very small. If anything, it likely forced them to stop getting taller and focus on fattening up because there is little or no new growth coming up in those places. Also, you will see that I have a couple of 9-finger leaves among the bushes! Thanks for reading!

[ellz]

09/06/2017:

10:00PM: The plants are growing into the light so I removed the ratchet system and replaced it with zip ties. The carbon filter is now sitting on top of the light and is held in place via being snug! The inline fan is blocking the light from going any higher so I will have to adjust that for the next grow. The plants look good other than where they are touching the light. Those parts are looking light burnt as you would expect and the leaves and buds are curled up.

09/07/2017:

11:00PM: I decided to buy some magnets with hooks on them rated at 9 pounds each since I had to do something about the plants touching the lights. I put two hook magnets on each side and pulled the main stalks over to the side allowing them more room to grow without touching the light. These magnets are great for this! I might buy more of them for the next grow! I also had to add about 2 gallons of pHed, HydroGuard water to the reservoir since it was low. Thanks for reading! Photos of the past two days below.

[ellz]

Nice set up! Thanks for sharing! I have a temporary fix I am going to try tonight. I haven't updated the main post yet but I will soon.

[Graff420]

Yea this is my wireing for the lst iv got going on i just used the same wire i use for the lst lol forgot to post pic yesterday but it allows me to pull the stems where ever i want them and i can pop my lid completely off and carry it across the room without disturbing my lst

[IanHale]

Same pump I have

[Graff420]

Thats what i did with my soft plant ties i hooked it onto the lid and made it cross 4 times so i had hella places to hook on my lst ties to lol ill take a pic in morn and show you what i mean

[ellz]

I can tell you this much....next grow I am installing places I can tie down on the sides! That way I could pull them over to the side and buy them more space. This should also help support sagging buds like I had earlier. I was thinking of installing a trellis along the sides but vertical along the wall rather than horizontal for training.

[Graff420]

Damn idk what id do about that either id either look into bending them hella far down but thats why i went more indica only a 5 ft tent so i have 4and 1/2 ft to grow with the res takeing up a foot leaveing me 3 1/2 ft of growing area

[ellz]

09/05/2017:

10:45PM: Went ahead and did my weekly reservoir change with week 9's schedule for feeding. I may duplicate that one next week depending on how far along these girls are. I used a new battery powered water pump today and it was awesome. You can learn more about it here: https://www.amazon.com/TERAPUMP-Bate...eywords=TRHA01
As of today, they are over-growing the light! Many colas have reached their Sun and some are growing past it now! All I can do is hope for the best with that because the light is maxed out. The inline fan is blocking it from going up any further so that is something I will have to adjust next grow. I will likely relocate it higher or over to the side. As you can see in the pics below, I am almost out of space in my cabinet! They are about 4-foot tall or so right now and still have a while to go so I don't know what to do!

[ellz]

09/04/2017:

06:30PM: Checked on the girls today and the tallest parts of the plants are now touching the grow light glass or growing past it on the sides. I am going to try to raise the light up tomorrow by taking the ratchet parts off and just hanging the light hangers off the eye bolts instead. That should give me at least another 3 inches. Beyond that...they are just going to have to touch because they are almost at the top of the cabinet itself!! That's right....they are almost 5 foot tall if that happens! CRAZY! Anyway, here are the photos from the end of week 9 (day 63) from seed...and thanks for reading!

[ellz]

I had to end up removing the fly paper today because it is too close to touching my plants. I might try to cut it shorter but when I checked the plants today I didn't notice any moths.

[Californiakid]

Your fly paper should work. I occasionally find one on my sticky yellow cards. I freak out first sign of any bug in my room lol.

[ellz]

I have fly paper up to catch them but the only other thing I could do would be to spray them with Neem oil.

[Californiakid]

Moths lay eggs that grow to larva that may eat your plants. Just a thought. I'm not sure about that particular moth. I just don't like them in my room in general.