400w White Rhino SWC

[benjuanman]

Hey there ICMaggers thought I'd let you guys have a look at my journey to some buds. The strain is GHS White Rhino(clones) and is the second time I've grown it.
Here's a list of my equipment:
400w Sunmaster HPS with an Adjust-A-Wing shade
4 inch passive intake
6 inch exhaust
Carbon filter
12 inch fan
2x 0.5Litre dehumidifiers
50lpm air pump with 12inch airstones
3x 25Litre tubs with 6 inch net pots( 3 plants per tub)

The space is 1.5m x .9m x 1.3m high and the Scrog is 1.2m x .6m.
I'm using General Hydroponics 3 part Flora with silica, Zone, Liquid KoolBloom. With a pH of 5.8 and EC 1.4. Environment is 19-25 degrees Celcius and 45-60% RH. I had a potassium deficiency about 10 days ago due to the RH being down to 30% but have bounced back now and doing well
This is only my fourth grow so any advice or help when needed would be much appreciated. So yeah not to exciting at the momment but anways here I am @ day5.

 

[who dat is]

That's a damn hedge! Can't wait to see colas.

 

[benjuanman]

Yeah thnx heaps bro. Ive managed to get a more even canopy this round so should hopefully be a nice hedge of colas as you put it.

 

[westg]

Hey Benny bout time you had a thread, yer I know im late getting here too.

Things will pick up in here once some bud pics start popping up. How often you going to update the pics btw?

 

[benjuanman]

Weekly updates for this show bro. I know not much happens the first 21 days but its more for my own notes and comparisons. Ive got a couple of plants under my 1k as well so will chuck up picks of them when I see fit. After this cycles done I'm going to be using a 3x1.5.2m tent with a DIY undercurrent setup with 20litre buckets. Still dont know if I will go vert with the tent or not. Thnx for dropping by man the replies always help with the self esteem. Peace out

 

[westg]

I do the same bro from scratch, what i meant was peeps will pop in more once the bud pics start happening, I know this from my threads too.

At the start


Then when buds start appearing

 

[benjuanman]

Day 14

Day 14

Hi everybody another update to have a look at. Not a great deal is happening yet, mainly just the pistils shooting out and budsites popping up. The rooms temps are sitting between 21 and 28 degrees celcius. Humidity is still moving between 35-55% and will only get drier as it gets more like the typical Aussie summer weather. pH relatively stable ranging from 5.5-5.9 and EC 1.6-1.8 I'm definately noticing a difference the silica is doing to rigidness of the plants this time. So much more sturdy and healthy appearing. I'm not much of a photographer and the room is in a tight spot so cant get many views anyways. Peace

 

[killerweed31]

really healthy green plants, look'n jungle there grower!!!
k+

 

[benjuanman]

thnx 4 dropping in Killer, and yeah the girls r lookin even healthier now. So they're at day 21 of 12/12 and doing well, except one clone which I pulled a couple of days ago as her roots didn't develop properly and stunted her. Temps are still sittin at 21-28 degrees but RH is 37-62%. The humidity has gone up due to one of the dehumidifiers shittin itself, so the room is relying on the one. The pH is still 5.5-5.9 and EC 1.6-1.8, I just do water addbacks to keep it within the right range. Well heres the pics so hope enjoy

Here's some root porn for u guys with devious fetishes lol

 

[westg]

Looking good Benny, plenty of bud sites

I got the munchies for bean sprouts now after looking at them roots, been along time since i have had them.

 

[camoxnhx]

damn man thats one hell of a dense garden of green. there looking really good and nice and healthy. how many clones you got in that one area? i tryed to count but i got lost in all that green. looking good for sure.

have fun be safe
-Camo-

 

[killerweed31]

the root shot scare me dudee, excellent job!!!

 

[benjuanman]

Thnx Camo, appreciate the comments. Yeah I've got 8 clones in there so should get a decent harvey.
If ya can't be good, be good at it

 

[benjuanman]

Day 25 pics

Day 25 pics

Well thought I'd throw up some pics from day25. It's actually day30 so will probably just do another lot of pics in a couple of days. So room temps are slowly rising as does the ambient temps, sitting between 22-29 and RH 35-55%. I've cut out the Grow part of nutes and cut back on Micro and increased Bloom. Not much else to add except they probably could have done with less N the last week or so. Enjoy and Peace

 

[killerweed31]

hey start swell done bro, great buds coming fat soon!!!

 

[benjuanman]

Day 34

Day 34

Ohh yeah got some signs of buddage now Temps are luckily still sitting between 21-28 degrees and 30-55% RH, which has surprised me coz the ambient temps have hit 30 a couple of times. The more the plants progress the more I'm convinced that flowering has been set back about 5-7 days due to a N toxicity. I was looking in my album and this same strain last run were about a week more advanced in development at this stage so is that right, too much N slows buds down?
But on a whole I'm happier this round with more consistent canopy size and density. I apoligise for the mediocre pics but hopefully Santa brings me a Nikon D3100 for Xmas. Nuff talk heres some pics

 

[Scrogerman]

nice lil grow mate. One thing i noticed from post #1 is that your intake is only 4" & your exhaust is a 6". You'll need to at least triple the intake area to 12" by rights. Rule of thumb= double intake to outtake area(minumum).
(edit)personally id run with just the micro&bloom, the micro has enough N in it, 5-10 M/B &or 8/16 M/B mls p/gal as per 'Lucas', might fix you up, they do look a lil dark, no claw/rams-horns, so not quite N tox yet id say, certainly an over abundance!!
G'Luck

 

[benjuanman]

nice lil grow mate. One thing i noticed from post #1 is that your intake is only 4" & your exhaust is a 6". You'll need to at least triple the intake area to 12" by rights. Rule of thumb= double intake to outtake area(minumum).

Thanks bro. With the intake I'll give it a go and post up how it went.

 

[Scrogerman]

Your welcome bro, thats standard, should help all round. are you feeding off a chart? I dont see many people running the Flora 3 part, majority of peeps i know running GHF series, run lucas or heads formula, just M/B. might fix your N issue up. G'luck!

 

[w2008]

looking great benjuanman, i am keen to see how long they flower for, hopefully only the 9 weeks gh says, cheers oz