Oldbootz' perpetual microgrow

[oldbootz]

Hello

This thread will record my successes and failures in my small indoor area running 12/12 permanenly.

 

[oldbootz]

First, here is a pic of my grow area. Its very height restricted.

 

[oldbootz]

i have 503 watts of lighting in there at the moment.

1 x 250w hps
3 x 26w 2700k cfl
1 x 18w 2700k cfl
4 x 18w flouro tube
1x 85w 6500k cfl

 

[oldbootz]

some strains im running at the moment

3 different phenotypes of snow white F2 from clone

this is the sativa pheno of the snow whites


This is the indica leaning pheno of snow white


skunk #1 F2 from seed


mazar x master kush F1 from seed

and


white russian (i think its an F2) from seed

 

[oldbootz]

my plant medium is 1/6 worm castings 1/6 mushroom compost 2/6 vermiculite (have a perlite shortage here at the moment) 2/6 coco coir with 2 table spoons of lime and bone meal per square foot of soil. i pre-flush the coco before mixing it into the medium.

 

[oldbootz]

feedling schedule is not routine at all. plants only get nitrogen or cal / mag if they are showing deficiencies. sometimes i add a couple grains of superphosphate to get flowering kick started when i see head formation starting properly. nearly e v e r y time the plants just get plain tap water thats had 24-48 hours to sit out and let chlorine evaporate.

im going to be trying to track down some quality guano to substitute the bone meals and superphosphate but i live in an area where advanced plant ferts are not readily available.

 

[oldbootz]

i have a spidermite problem that im battling with. seems to be under control for the meanwhile. lets just wait till a really hot day weakens the microherd and the mites settle in again due to weak plants

 

[oldbootz]

one of the seedlings i planted turned into a mutant and is now flowering, its a local version of durban poison.



since its veg growth is super slow im going to just let this thing grow out and see what happens, im not loosing space by having it in there right now. it might need to take a hike when the next batch of indica leaning snow white clones are rooted.

 

[oldbootz]

bump

 

[oldbootz]

who wants to be the first visitor ?! any takers ^_^

 

[floydfanx6]

good job bro everything is looking nice nice mutant u got

 

[oldbootz]

hey floydfanx6 thanks for stopping by

im tryin my best hope that will be good enough

 

[oldbootz]

if you look carefully the mutants a girl

 

[oldbootz]

was trying a new grow medium today it looks like a pretty good coco coir substitute




this stuff expands like nothing i've used before... had to use 6.5 liters of rain water to get the right consistancy

 

[indifferent]

Looking good so far, I'm keen to see some SA sats indoors. Isn't that just a compressed coco coir brick? Or is it something similar made from palm trees?

 

[oldbootz]

it looks very similar to the coco coir i have been using so i dunno...

here's a pic of a swazi i finished indoors a couple months back

 

[African herbman]

Hey Oldboots,looking good bro. I know that palm peat shit. Get it here and I've had my eye on it for a while. Please let me know how it ends up working for you. What do you think of it so far? Like water retention, consistency etc.

Good luck with the grow¬ By the way, you do any outdoors at all? Places in Durbs like pinetown there is an outdoor plot everyware you look really. Makes me pissed thinking I live very inland. Forests, mountains, valleys, streams and everything is so fertile down there. I could imagine heavy Indicas maybe suffering from a bit of mold with the humidity though.

Actually just collected a bunch of seeds from some really nice Lesotho bud (surprise surprise) in assagay. what a fucked up name haha.

Anyway good luck with the grow!

Ah

 

[oldbootz]

lol ya, what a name. an assagay is a zulu name for a spear for all those who didn't know.

that palm peat stuff is working pretty much the same as the coco i've been using as far as water retention and consistancy goes.

my outdoor is limited to one plant at the moment down here but i have plans to start some outdoor inland at a place called mooi river, just have to sort out how they are going to get watered coz it gets very hot there and is about 1.5 hour drive from me

 

[Green Fairy]

Looks good.
Nice pic of Swaz at the top of this page!
Looking forward to seeing more

 

[floydfanx6]

bro u said yr battling mites,,get some floramite sc small bottle,,,battle over,,ul kill them all