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My First Grow Journal...EVER! 600W MH/HPS Bubbleponics Cabinet Grow
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ellz
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08/08/2017:
08:00PM: Checked on the plants after I got home from kayaking and they are still going strong! I made sure the light wasn't too strong on them and it is still maxing out around 76k on the lux meter. The lower end is around 45k so that is good as well. I posted some photos below of how they look on day 2 of flowering (day 36 from seed). Still not sure about the sex. Not seeing any indicators just yet. I hope to by the end of the week. I also plan on checking the reservoir tomorrow because they will likely be down about 2 gallons each. Will update the post then. Thanks for reading!
08/08/2017:
08:00PM: Checked on the plants after I got home from kayaking and they are still going strong! I made sure the light wasn't too strong on them and it is still maxing out around 76k on the lux meter. The lower end is around 45k so that is good as well. I posted some photos below of how they look on day 2 of flowering (day 36 from seed). Still not sure about the sex. Not seeing any indicators just yet. I hope to by the end of the week. I also plan on checking the reservoir tomorrow because they will likely be down about 2 gallons each. Will update the post then. Thanks for reading!
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08/09/2017:
06:30PM: Checked on the plants today and they are growing strong! I had to add 2 full gallons per reservoir or pHed, HydroGuard water. I pHed the water to ~6.3 because the reservoir was already around 5.9 and I like to have the pH go up and down so that all the nutrients get absorbed. I actually ended up adding 2.5 gallons to each one since there was room for more water in the res. Still no indication on sex yet. I guess they will let me know when they are ready. I decided to defoliate the plants a bit today since they were getting very bushy. I only removed the large fan leaves and only in places where there was excess shade from them. On some of the plants, I only removed one fan leave instead of both due to the fact that the second one wasn't really blocking anything. I ended up pulling off about a half-gallon ziploc bag's worth of leaves but the plants are still very full...just a bit more open. I have attached photos of both groups of plants below, as well as before and after of the defoliating. Thanks for reading!
08/09/2017:
06:30PM: Checked on the plants today and they are growing strong! I had to add 2 full gallons per reservoir or pHed, HydroGuard water. I pHed the water to ~6.3 because the reservoir was already around 5.9 and I like to have the pH go up and down so that all the nutrients get absorbed. I actually ended up adding 2.5 gallons to each one since there was room for more water in the res. Still no indication on sex yet. I guess they will let me know when they are ready. I decided to defoliate the plants a bit today since they were getting very bushy. I only removed the large fan leaves and only in places where there was excess shade from them. On some of the plants, I only removed one fan leave instead of both due to the fact that the second one wasn't really blocking anything. I ended up pulling off about a half-gallon ziploc bag's worth of leaves but the plants are still very full...just a bit more open. I have attached photos of both groups of plants below, as well as before and after of the defoliating. Thanks for reading!
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ellz
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Thanks! As for the temps, the canopy temps are still staying in the low 80s and the reservoir temps are sitting around 70-71ºF. The groundwater temp has dropped the past few weeks making it easier to keep the reservoir temps down now. The water starts off in the upper 60s instead of the upper 70s now so that helps a ton! The new bulb is much warmer and brighter than the MH one so I turned my vortex fan up to high and it blows against the back wall then bounced to the light and over the canopy. I also adjusted my top two clip fans to blow down on the canopy. I will likely have to move the light frequently and then monitor the temps closely when I reach the max height of the light but that should still be some time away...I hope!
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08/10/2017:
06:30PM: Checked on the plants today and I believe I have at least one female so far! YAY! The other 3 aren't showing sex yet but I noticed on one of the White Poison seeing some tiny little pre-flowers starting on one branch and they look female. I have attached a photo below of the plants today and that one close up but it is hard to see the preflowers in the photo. I tried to mark them as best I could so they are a bit easier to spot. I can tell you this much, the smell coming out of that cabinet is very promising! I will likely need to top off the reservoir again tomorrow with another 2 gallons or so each. I will update the thread then. Thanks for reading!
08/10/2017:
06:30PM: Checked on the plants today and I believe I have at least one female so far! YAY! The other 3 aren't showing sex yet but I noticed on one of the White Poison seeing some tiny little pre-flowers starting on one branch and they look female. I have attached a photo below of the plants today and that one close up but it is hard to see the preflowers in the photo. I tried to mark them as best I could so they are a bit easier to spot. I can tell you this much, the smell coming out of that cabinet is very promising! I will likely need to top off the reservoir again tomorrow with another 2 gallons or so each. I will update the thread then. Thanks for reading!
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08/11/2017:
06:30PM: I checked on the plants again today and I am now seeing signs of females on at least 3 of the plants (one Rug Burn OG and 2 White Poison). All four have crossed stipules and 3 of the four are starting to show the right shape preflowers (still no pistils yet) so fingers crossed! Still hoping to know the final sex by the end of the weekend. As for the reservoirs, both are down about 2 gallons each so I am making up some pHed, HydroGuard water to pour in them later. Will likely over fill them again and hope they last through the nutrient change on Monday. The roots are looking strong down below...very large root balls and very white and healthy! Temps are still staying in the low 70s in the reservoir and only up to the mid 80s in the foliage area. Humidity in the cabinet is around 48% but I have the swamp cooler's fan on only so there is no extra water being put into the atmosphere. I sometimes turn on the water just to bring up the humidity to around 60% since they haven't started budding just yet. Once I see buds forming, however, I will likely keep the humidity down around 50% or so. Pictures of day 39 are below, along with 3 photos of the preflowers. Thanks for reading!
08:45PM: Added 2 gallons of pHed, HydroGuard water to each reservoir. They plants are drinking about a gallon per day so that is good! I also moved the light up four clicks on each side (about an inch or so) because the top of the canopy was getting over 85k again! The center is the hot spot so I monitor that now every couple of days to see if I need to raise the light. After raising the light this time, the max reading was around 84k but only in one specific spot. The rest are back down to around 76k or so.
08/11/2017:
06:30PM: I checked on the plants again today and I am now seeing signs of females on at least 3 of the plants (one Rug Burn OG and 2 White Poison). All four have crossed stipules and 3 of the four are starting to show the right shape preflowers (still no pistils yet) so fingers crossed! Still hoping to know the final sex by the end of the weekend. As for the reservoirs, both are down about 2 gallons each so I am making up some pHed, HydroGuard water to pour in them later. Will likely over fill them again and hope they last through the nutrient change on Monday. The roots are looking strong down below...very large root balls and very white and healthy! Temps are still staying in the low 70s in the reservoir and only up to the mid 80s in the foliage area. Humidity in the cabinet is around 48% but I have the swamp cooler's fan on only so there is no extra water being put into the atmosphere. I sometimes turn on the water just to bring up the humidity to around 60% since they haven't started budding just yet. Once I see buds forming, however, I will likely keep the humidity down around 50% or so. Pictures of day 39 are below, along with 3 photos of the preflowers. Thanks for reading!
08:45PM: Added 2 gallons of pHed, HydroGuard water to each reservoir. They plants are drinking about a gallon per day so that is good! I also moved the light up four clicks on each side (about an inch or so) because the top of the canopy was getting over 85k again! The center is the hot spot so I monitor that now every couple of days to see if I need to raise the light. After raising the light this time, the max reading was around 84k but only in one specific spot. The rest are back down to around 76k or so.
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Wow, you must be able to watch the grow! I'm on my first ever coco run, one week since I flipped to 12/12. Last night I checked them at lights on and I swear they had grown an inch after 3 hours. It's something to see when this great plant is growing vigorously. Anyhow, looking real promising on the sex. Nice crossed stipules!
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Thanks. Yeah, they are growing like mad for sure! I almost wish I had a web cam installed in the cabinet so I could watch them grow! That may be something I add next time since I had no idea they would grow this quickly!! 
The crossed stipules make me very happy but I still want to see those pistils coming out of the preflowers to be certain. I definitely don't want to get my hopes up just yet but I am almost positive they are all girls. That would be awesome, but I wasn't expecting it to be honest. I planted four thinking that I would end up with at least 2 females, lol.
The crossed stipules make me very happy but I still want to see those pistils coming out of the preflowers to be certain. I definitely don't want to get my hopes up just yet but I am almost positive they are all girls. That would be awesome, but I wasn't expecting it to be honest. I planted four thinking that I would end up with at least 2 females, lol.
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08/13/2017:
06:30PM: Wanted to condense the weekend posts into one since not much went on with the plants the past two days. They are still growing along nicely, but it looks like I may have a boy in the mix!! One of the Rug Burn OG plants looks like it may be forming pollen sacs and not buds. Still just a bit too early to tell since the preflowers are still very small but I posted some photos below showing some closeups of the plants where sex was starting to show. I also have included a picture of the roots under each plant as they sit today, along with a photo of both groups of plants yesterday and today. They are getting so large that individual reservoir photos are somewhat redundant so I will stop posting those since the group shot shows both plants nicely. Thank you for reading and I will update tomorrow after my water change!
08/13/2017:
06:30PM: Wanted to condense the weekend posts into one since not much went on with the plants the past two days. They are still growing along nicely, but it looks like I may have a boy in the mix!! One of the Rug Burn OG plants looks like it may be forming pollen sacs and not buds. Still just a bit too early to tell since the preflowers are still very small but I posted some photos below showing some closeups of the plants where sex was starting to show. I also have included a picture of the roots under each plant as they sit today, along with a photo of both groups of plants yesterday and today. They are getting so large that individual reservoir photos are somewhat redundant so I will stop posting those since the group shot shows both plants nicely. Thank you for reading and I will update tomorrow after my water change!
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You mean the crossed stipules? Yes, you're right; best to wait until you're sure they aren't calyces forming. This pic is how my male plant looked right before I removed him from my grow box. I took the picture with my SuperVision+ app on my iphone which was the only way I could get a close enough look at that point.
You mean the crossed stipules? Yes, you're right; best to wait until you're sure they aren't calyces forming. This pic is how my male plant looked right before I removed him from my grow box. I took the picture with my SuperVision+ app on my iphone which was the only way I could get a close enough look at that point.
