Bengies 150w cab

[bengie187]

Quick question- It doesnt look like my plant is really stretching the way the other one did.....would me raising the light to lets say max height increase/induce stretching??

 

[catman]

Quick question- It doesnt look like my plant is really stretching the way the other one did.....would me raising the light to lets say max height increase/induce stretching??

Yes, but you wouldn't want to do that. If you need to boost your plants up just put something underneath of them.

 

[bengie187]

Day 9/65
Temps 76/76/72 flower/mom/room
Res 2450 uC/1250 ppm/19.5 C/ 5.96 PH​

Well its been another week and things are looking really well....I kinda started counting my blooming time a little late im thinking seeing as this time around at day 9 i have some very nice looking flowers but when comparing them to the 12/12 from seed its way further along by my lookings..which kinda puzzles my but anyways.....

1 week last run

she has also grown large enough to start with some training i should have vegged for a week or longer to fill up the trellis better but im playing with it and having fun making observations

these here are 2 shots of the training


Shes about 9 inches tall now and growing like a weed.....All in all im starting to get he hang of this fine hobbie of ours....until next time

 

[pontiac]

Bengie old friend... :friends: I'm LOVING the new modifications to the cab! Haha! I agree with Disco, I love the new chain-link fence.

Now that you have a ScrOG going, you can veg for longer without worrying much about the height issues I experienced; the ScrOG will convert much of the plant's vertical growth into horizontal growth if trained properly.

Anyway, I've been pretty busy lately but I'll check in on your diary whenever possible.

Take it easy bro!

 

[DiscoBiscuit]

I love that pic.

I also like the idea of weaving the bend through the screen, bengie. I failed to do that and my plant likes to wiggle around a bit. Nice job.

 

[bengie187]

Pontiac- .....yeah bro thanks for stopping in and yeah I made a mistake and shoulda vegged my girl for cpl of weeks to fill the screen a little then flip to 12/12....she doesnt seem to be streching anywhere near a much as the previous one but thats to be expected with being from 2 different seeds....its not that far in and showin really nice bud production already....

Disco- ....I was trying to find an angle that i could show the girl as well as the screen itself......but sadly it looks already that it has pretty much already stopped streching so i have removed the screen for this run......just gonna hand bend the limbs that get outta control.....i dont foresee any real problems when compared to my last one.....this ones only 12 inches tall

 

[bengie187]

Day 17/65
Temps 78/79/74 flower/mom/room
Res 3350 uC/1635 ppm/21.6 C/ 5.75 PH​

Well hello there its almost christmas time and all is well inside my cab...a couple of changes have been done though for this run.....the Scrog trellis i was planning on using had to be removed cause this one seems to be more short and stout dominant when compared to my previous run....only about another inch total height growth in the week and a lot more to the bud formations.......I was kinda fooling around with the white balence on the camera trying to get a really good shot of her


She is looking very tasty already...and her leave seem to be alot....i mean Alot.....darker almost to a blackish color on top.....im thinking that has come from the blueberry side of this strain.....im hoping to get a little purple color in the buds but i have no idea if it will change that much....anyways heres a couple of nice bud shots for yous

again me playing with the white balences on the camera


Oh yeah i added 4 days to the time because i have such advanced budding so early in its stage of growth i may have to add a couple more down the road......only time will tell now though.....well thats it this week.....:bolt:

 

[DiscoBiscuit]

Looks good dude.

 

[bengie187]

Disco- thanks man....it always nice to get encouragement from someone as exp as you......I shoulda cloned some more in my downtime to get a few more under the light.......but i really had no idea how she was gonna behave this way.....defiantly not the haze pheno....which excites me cause thats what i was looking for....But yeah for next run its gonna be scrog......2 weeks 18/6 under the hps im thinking for some vegging.....unless i stumble on some cash to wire in a Another ballest setup for a MH light ...

 

[250wscrogger]

Looking good


keep growing

 

[bengie187]

250wscogger- thanks for stopping by....My herb on the first round was so well liked that if i could produce a lb a month i still wouldnt have any to smoke......some things just come naturally i guess growing is one of those things for me...........so for now

 

[bengie187]

Day 25/65
Temps 77/77/72 flower/mom/room
Res 3000 uC/1500 ppm/21.6 C/ 5.89 PH​

Well here we are folks day 25 and not a whole lot going on here cept doing its thing......im in there daily and its very nice looking and starting to frost up a bit....definatly gonna do a 2 week veg time to fill up the screen and gonna run 2 girlys in there as well to maximize space availible to me this little plant seems to dwarfed when i think back to my first one.....Shes gonna resemble more of a sog plant but he she is.....

....I thought i had a full shot of here but i guess i didnt take one.....that side shots gonna have to do.....its where i made the first bend in the stalk to weave here through my trellis those short weeks ago.....

And a few shots.....




Sorry for the fuzzy shots but there seems to be a small smudge on the lensy that doesnt wanna wipe off....

 

[bengie187]

is all i seem to be doing this time around with the plant being so much smaller than its predecesor.....more better shots next time

 

[bengie187]

Day 33/65
Temps 77/77/72 flower/mom/room
Res 2500 uC/1250 ppm/18 C/ 5.45 PH​

....hahah I loce this face......Anyways not too much gpong on a whole lotta and not much else this system is pretty much letter go once you fill the rez check it every cpl of days and rez swap every 2 weeks with a top off in between....the Ph climbed from 5.75 to 5.89 when i swaped it today....I also changed the formula a little with putting in 80 ml of bloom and 50 mils of grow......gonna see if its gonna hurt her too much at these new levels......but being in week 4 i should start giving her more blooming nutes......I also have some photos for guys and gals following along with this grow

This here is as close to a full shot a i can get........damned Hps causeing such a glare


Top cola and #2 cola both are about 3-4 inches in length now


Macro shots of them

 

[DiscoBiscuit]

Nice and green

 

[VagPuncher]

Looking great Bengie

 

[bengie187]

Disco- Yeah man i was hoping she was gonna turn darker but she really greened up for sure.....I was a little worried about the random leaf curl thats taking place but i've started noticing it a bit while reading other ppls threads so i guess shes really healthy.......

Vag- Hey man thanks for stopping by in my little trip of learning......

 

[bengie187]

Well happy sunday to you all.....which i thought it was gonna be a good day but to my own avail it hasnt been anyways.....I got up this morning to check on the cab/ plants......you know the reg but when i got in there my hps was no longer firing.........and seeing as my town/city doesnt have a hydro shop here and most out of the ordinary parts you cannot get here i had to purchase a whole new 150 security lamp from Peavey Mart- 79.99......the only good thing is i have replacement parts for when sometihng else stops working in the lighting setup.....I have heard/read on here that the most likely part of your ballast setup that will fail is the ignitor so thats what i worked on first to fix....so i dimantled my new lamp and pulled the old one out and made the necessary connections and wow it works.....sometimes i even amaze myself.....i posted a help on the 150 resource but i dont really need any one to answer the problem has been fixed...............hopfully she wont be too pissed about this.......3 hours from finding light out to turning it back on......

 

[DiscoBiscuit]

Hey bengie, I saw your post in the 150 thread. Only thing I could think of was to try a new bulb, lol. Glad I didn't waste your time. Good job on the repair.

 

[bengie187]

Disco- Yeah man i had the reg base on hand so i quickly ran out to Home Depot for a converter mogul-reg 7.94.....and that didnt work so i remembered peavey mart carried a security lamp 150s i was looking at earlier so i just ran out a bought one.....