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

[ellz]

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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]

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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!

 

[Graff420]

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

 

[ellz]

I am considering cutting off the burnt ends and toking them! LOL!

 

[ellz]

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Closeups of the buds with my Canon T2i...

 

[ellz]

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09/09/2017:

11:30PM: Added 4 gallons of pHed, HydroGuard water to the reservoir. I adjusted the magnets a bit so the main stalks are pulled away from the light but there is still a lot of light burn going on. Lesson learned: Don't let the plants get too tall in a controlled space! Apart from the leaf and bud burn from the light, the rest of the plant is growing nicely. The bud sites are frosting up and expanding so that is a good thing! Below is a pic of the overall look today and a shot of the leaf damage due to the light burn. Thanks for reading.

 

[ellz]

HOLY SHIT WE ARE FINALLY BACK UP AND RUNNING! SWEET! I am not even going to start now on my shit....since it's been almost a month! Instead, I will be backing up everything I have done and posting it to my own blog. This can't happen again! I needed my info and this site let me down BIG TIME!

 

[alltatup]

Keep a hand-written journal.

 

[ellz]

Kinda defeats the purpose of the forum then but yeah....I did that after this bullshit started.

 

[alltatup]

Good luck with your blog.

 

[Daskahn]

Hey can I have a link to your blog.. I've been out of reading material since before the cane... and well I've went nuts lol

 

[ellz]

Daskahn...it's a private blog right now until I finish it but the link is: https://theherbcultivator.wordpress.com/
I am going to try to keep this grow journal going out of convenience but I was really pissed about missing a month of updates so I am still steaming.

 

[ellz]

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Basically all I have is photos. I don't have shit to update beyond that because I didn't write it down! I was using this as my grow journal and the site crashed. Beginner mistake on my part.

Images below are from 09/10/2017 to 09/20/2017

 

[ellz]

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The following images are from 09/21/2017 to 09/30/2017

 

[ellz]

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10/01/2017: The top growth of the plants is touching the glass on the light. The bud sites are pretty small, very under-developed but they have a lot of trichomes so I am just going to cut them and take my losses before I lose them due to light burn. Plus, the light is being blocked to the rest of the grow cabinet so there is too much shading from this growth. You will see in the photos below before and after cutting as well as how they look trimmed and drying. I had to do this earlier on as well while the site was down but those were REALLy underdeveloped. I am attempting to cure them now but I doubt they will be worth much more than a cough or two. Plus, it's barely a gram or 2 dried. The cuttings in the photo below are more like 3 or 4 grams total.

The following photos are from 09/30/2017 through 10/01/2017.

 

[ellz]

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The following photos are from 10/02/2017 to 10/04/2017. Other than adding pHed, HydroGuard water every couple of days and feeding week 10's schedule the past 3 feedings, not much else to update. I did add a bunch of 9lb. magnet hooks all over the case to tie my plants to. Seems to work great! Last added more water on 10/04.

 

[ellz]

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10/05/2017:

08:00PM: Finally caught back up after the site outage. Today I adjusted the larger colas because they were leaning against the sides pretty bad so I wanted to get light (and air) all around them. I added more of my magnet hooks (I love these things!) and tied off several stalks and colas. There is literally growth EVERYWHERE! It's awesome! I am guessing I might just end up with my goal weight of 8 ounces from both plants! Only time will tell but the larger colas are really big! You can't tell from the photos but the left and right large ones are over a foot long and about as wide as a 1 liter bottle in places!

 

[ellz]

Side note on my reservoir...the front right plant (looking from the front of the cabinet) is dropping down into the reservoir. I have it pushed back up for the most part but there is a small gap that I couldn't get it to go into. Does anyone think the light bleed in that gap will hurt things? I could try covering it with something but the canopy is doing that too.

 

[ellz]

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Bud close-ups from day 95. I am concerned a bit about the yellow spots on the bud leaves (seen more in the second photo).

 

[ellz]

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10/06/2017:
11:00PM: Added about 3.5 gallons of pHed, HydroGuard water to the reservoir. Likely will be doing a change Monday. Might have some root rot forming...not sure why because the water temps are low (60ºF - 65ºF) but I may have waited too long to do a nutrient change so that could be it.

10/07/2017:
06:00PM: I bought a dehumidifier for my garage because there are a number of times at night when I have to redirect my exhaust inside (to warm the garage...overnight temps are in the mid 30s lately) and the humidity builds up because of that since I have to close the windows. This thing is a 70-pint Frigidaire and it basically reduces the humidity by 10% within a few minutes. My only worry is running it during the light period because it draws as much as 7.5A and that might pop the breaker! So I have only been using it when the light is off for now but I may test it later just to see if it trips anything. The humidity is only getting up to a max of about 56% in the middle of the plant growth at it's highest so it's not too big a concern at the present moment. There are several times that it drops down into the upper 30% range (37-39%) so it swings quite a bit. It's very difficult to keep precise because we have VERY LOW humidity where I live (about 20% or less most days) so I have to almost make humidity then remove it. It's a PITA but the plants are doing good with me doing that so I can't complain too much! Photos of the past two days below with a close up from today. Thanks for reading (those of you who are still reading...looks like I lost all my subscribers).