New Grow room

[oldjarhead100]

Thanks all I like the idea of sleeping with them , My wife has never raised her voice to me in 20 years but I think she would if I told her I was sleeping with the plants lol. Thanks for the ideas for closing the cellar off ,I like some of them but I have to be able to get through it to get to plants ,

[oldjarhead100]

I figured that I haven't posted pictures of my runty Autos lol
first picture is of a sour hound ,I dont think I've ever grown a 4 inch plant before lol .The buds are very hard and almost golf ball size 40ish days
the second is of the two sour hounds both are very small . I think the lesson here is that don't grow this strain unless optimal conditions are achieved and maintained , cold shuts them right down
The next two are of my two criticals they are about 70 days and as you can see no pistals yet
The last is of my black domina it to is in bloom but stopped growing same age as critical.

Thoughts I guess this answers the question whats to cold to grow in 58-66 is lol, at least the bloom room is good its been 68 to 73 for a couple of days now with a RH of 33 to 49 ,

[Californiakid]

OJH I started using my germination mat under the fabric pots to heat the roots up some. It works great.
So much that I bought another one to ensure all the girls have a place to keep warm. So the air temp is not as crucial. I'm only down in the 30s.

[Locrian99]

How long do you wait after watering to place them or do you not water to run off? Idk the idea of a wet pot sitting on the mat seems problematic.

[oldjarhead100]

Locrian no I do not water to run off I try to get my girls on a 3 day watering schedule so I can give them nutes and just water in the same week

[oldjarhead100]

I bought a pack of 100w light bulbs hung one in each side of the tent ,I like that idea Cali I have a few of those mats ,think I will check and see witch one draws less elec.

My low water cutoff on my boiler failed so I called oil company ,I talked to the service guy (Known him for years),then left to go to my dads about half way there I get a call from him saying he tripped a circuit breaker and that he went to the panel to turn it back on ,he said he reset it but that power was still out and nothing else was tripped shit, so I flew home and found that he did trip the breaker for the boiler and the main on the box,I have a separate electric meter for my common areas with a 60 watt panel .this is what he tripped ,this tells me I'm drawing close to 40 watts .he saw my grow room because he said it was still running.anyways he said that since it was legal he has been seeing grow rooms all over the city .lol

I also took three of my bloom plants I have one left to harvest, I figure I didn't get bud swell cause they were busy growing seeds, yield was way down a couple of ounces per plant instead of the normal 6 to 10, the brite side is that I get a bunch of new seeds/strains the male plant was a Limpin Louie and it pollinated a kush bomb, Limpin Louie and Gorilla glue and I have 6 plants that have been in the room for 4 weeks already,pistils are popping out everywhere

[D.A.A.S.69]

Hey CaliKid what kind of mat is it, does it have a name, an a place you can order some. That's got to work great. It's cold down here. Thanks

[Californiakid]

D.A.A.S.69
Amazon has em for a good price . They have thermostat for em too. "Super sprouter seedling heated mat" is what mine say on the box.

[Jr83]

I am also very jelly of ur legal status but it's looking good for this year in our state of misery

[BlueBudz]

I have been suggesting this for a while. The only problem is I like to have the pots on grates of some sort and they don’t provide much heat to pots of the pots not right on top of it

[oldjarhead100]

thanks Blue my experience with heat pads was with some my sister gave me to use and they did not do good so I figured all were like that ,well I just ordered 6 from vivosun

[Californiakid]

I put a towel on a milk crate then the heat mat then my pots. Its up off the ground, water can escape but I don't water to runoff.

[RagWeedDWC]

I used these under my DWC tubs, they were ok until the temps really started dropping and then I had to switch to aquarium heaters. They are awesome under a cloning jar or red solo cup :-)

[redbeard]

How are ojh. U got u a real nice lab there. I'm in their cold country not by ur up north standards but it been cold as shit. I like them heat mats plus I got there mats u put together for their kiddies to play on . I got a big area of it in my kids play room that's also in my basement tile over concrete noticed how much warmer it was so put it in their bottom of my tent. Keeps my ladies legs warm. Hope they blizzard ain't to bad for uall. Happy gardening

[oldjarhead100]

heres a bud picture not the best bud I've grown but still smokable lol and the reason for the small bud size is the last picture, apparently the girls all went out to the seedy side of town and got themselves in trouble lol

Good for me though now I have 2 New and 1 (cant think of name) so we are looking for new names for the strains
1 cross between LImpin Louie and Kush Bomb=???
2 cross between Limpin Louie and Gorilla Glue = Gorilla Lou, this could change
3 Limpin Louie and Limpin Louie= Limin Louie WTF is it called when a certain strain is crossed back with itself

Limpin Louie is a cross between Budda Tahoe and Big Bud and its named after me ,and yes I do Limp lol

[oldjarhead100]

thank you St. buds thats exactly what it does

[Jr83]

I limp too so call it LBJ limpin louie jarhead and its the initails for prez lindin b Johnson if that's how i spell it

[PaganRich]

oldjarhead100 Morning Ojh...wishing you all the best at this time of year mate...I`ve got one of those bud trimmers but never had the balls to put my buds through the process. Did you find it damaged your buds much?

[oldjarhead100]

Son Of A Bitch hope I got this little fella soon enough, the fourth picture is of a break that I didn't notice and its still growing lol

My radiators stopped hissing so I went and checked boiler and it was out of water my wife filled it about midnight,

[DingusKhan]

Hey OJH, I just read your thread! Thanks for all the work you put into sharing your grow, OUTSTANDING! But I'm so sorry about your dad's fall.

[oldjarhead100]

Thanks Dingus My dad is healing well, but it looks like things will never go back to the way they were before

[RosettaStoned]

Unfortunately only our spirits stay young....glad he's healing up

[oldjarhead100]

I finish defoliating my bloom plants no more ball thank god lol

So I checked the Auto room temps yesterday and low was 64 and high was 75 ,taa daa .the cold snap is going to break today but Ill be ready for the next one lol

[Dutchman1]

I grow mine in my heating room OJH so I get wide temperature swings from day to night (61-79). I never really planned to grow at this time of year cause I knew it would be a problem but its so much fun I didnt want to take a few months off. Its been a challenge with my present grow even though there only a few weeks old.

[oldjarhead100]

my cellar has two separate sections in it and my room is in the back section , I bought 2 of those cheep thermometers in each section the front by the furnace is at 46 degrees the back section is 64 degrees outside of closed rooms in the rooms my temps fluctuate fro 64 to 75 now , I put my exsaust fan on for 15 off for 15 that added 2 or 3 degrees then I put fins on my heating pipe that added a couple more then I hung 100 watt lights in with the girl that added a couple then I also added heat pads after all that the cold snap is over and temps will be normal lol

[oldjarhead100]

I got my heating pads in Monday so I put them in yesterday ,I put down 2 pieces of 3/4 inch plywood and 1/2 inch rigid insulation on the floors , the back two on left and the two criticals that have been in the room for over 70 days, the second in from the right is my black domina it should be done in a couple of weeks ,the front left are 2 sour hounds and they also should be done soon they wont have a big yield but they yielded good experience lol the ones on the right are 3 Jack Herer the one in back in in bloom so the other two are not far behind the cold really slowed growth down to a crawl,

Given that yield will be small I decided to start some more seeds 7 afgan kush ryder and 5 northern lights AUTOS all their tails popped so its root cubes today

[D.A.A.S.69]

Morning OJH, you got your hands full from now on, where did your NLights come from ? They can grow huge.

[oldjarhead100]

I got them on seedsman but IDK the breeder

[oldjarhead100]

this is the pile of snow in front of my boat stall on my barn, just thought I would share to show all you southerners what it really looks like lol

[Jr83]

Ok so that's what snow looks like lol

[D.A.A.S.69]

It's pretty to look at for about 15minutes after you get up, then I don't like it, my toes get cold in that white sh-t.
We don't like it down this way to much.

[RagWeedDWC]

I loved to see snow................
On the news, while I'm sipping bourbon down in the Keys.

[oldjarhead100]

Oh ya I put 7 afgan kush ryders and 5 northern light into root riots with 1/2 inch tails I can see them trying to raise above the riots , I put heating pads under them right from the start going to try and do a non stress grow with the Autos to see how that helps

[Locrian99]

So you don’t even top your autos?

[oldjarhead100]

I'm not topping 3 Jack Herers they are 6 inches tall and went into bloom ,everything thats in Auto room is stunted because of cold temps in the room .

[Dutchman1]

I hear ya OJH, had a little trouble that way myself also.. Temps are now good though eh bro? 58 degrees today.

[Dutchman1]

Good luck with the new batch OJH

[DingusKhan]

Hi OJH, have your girls responded visibly to the increased heat yet?

[oldjarhead100]

5 afgan kush ryders are up and 4 of the northern light so I can transplant them in a few days

[alltatup]

Congrats!! Hope weather will be much better for them.

[D.A.A.S.69]

That's good news, the ones I grew like that were fast growers, I hope those do too.