DR120W 600W Multistrain-SoG

[Bud-O-Phile]

Greetings To Y'all and welcome to my growshow.

So this is how it all gets started. Been caring for these ladies for a little more than a week now and this is my first attempt at SoG-method growing so feel free to bump in and give me a good lecturing will you.

All the "right" kinda plants have been living in Bio Bizz All-mix soil and been fed with BioHeaven twice till now (2ml/l as it says in the bottle.) I just re-potted 'em yesterday into their final 2.5l sized pots and I'm thinking about flowering them real soon because 15plants will hog up the whole space in no time.. might have a chance to try some defoliation for the first time too in this run.

Enough with the chit-chat and lets get down to the setup.. So my tent is Secret Jardins DR120W which is 60x120x160cm LxWxH, the substituent for the sun is 600W dual-spectrum HPS and for the ventilation I have is a 360m3/h fan restricted to somewhat 40% of it's maximum power (can't sleep in the darn room otherwise.) The light-cycle has been 16/8 for the last 9days but since there's so many strains some were faster germers than the others we'll say their all 1week old for now. The temperatures have been holding somewhere around 25C/19C day/night at the level of the foliage and the winter has barely hit us yet so I think we'll see a major drop in the night temps and hopefully get some beautiful colors too. No idea of the RH but i keep spraying them every morning as soon as the light switches on with about half a liter of plain tap water to keep some moisture (we don't want any mites in there do we?)

The strains im running are as followed:
4x Bubblegummers
2x Diesel
3x Strawberry Blue
1x Sour Diesel x Jack Herer
1x Auto Critical
1x Auto Diesel x Auto Blueberry
1x Northern Lights x Chronic
1x Random Bagseed
1x Kandy Kush
The Kandy Kush has a big question mark over it since i ran out of All-mix during the seedling state and had to put it in basic black soil without any additives to make the soil fluffy.

So here's a couple of pictures showing where I'm going at the moment and a basic view of the setup.



And here's the second biggest pioneer at the moment and the little strugglin' runt called Kandy Kush. Good picture showing how crucial good soil is in the beginning.

 

[hamppuu]

Subscribed! Looking good bro!
I hope that kandy kush isn't a male.

 

[Bud-O-Phile]

Subscribed! Looking good bro!
I hope that kandy kush isn't a male.

Thanks mate!

All is well in the garden for the weeds at least with the exception of the little kandy kush runt. She/He hasn't grown at all but has maintained the healthy green color for the time being. Have to try and re-pot it to better soil even though I'm a little worried about killing it during the process cause there's no way it has rooted yet.

Sadly the other kandy kush died before dropping it's seed-helmet and one diesel didn't even make it to the surface but still.. pretty decent germ rates 15/17. Shame the Pakistani Citral Kushes I got from my m8 hamppuu didn't germ at all using the same wet toilet paper method I've used everytime.

Don't want to bother y'all posting pics where I'm at currently. Nobody's interested about the first weeks of vegging so I'm dropping updates in 1 week interval if nothing interesting happens. Like I said the girls are doing great. They are pushing their fifth nodes as of now and I fed them yesterday a bit shy with Bio Grow (1ml / 3liters of water.) Didn't want to risk it going with the Bio Bizzes recommendation of 1ml / 1litre cause there's no way in hell the soil has lost it's kick yet.

The one thing that is troubling me is the chillies living in the same tent. All three caribbean red habaneros have been hit real bad with aphids (the foliage ones.. thank god not those root-infecting impossible to kill m*fcks!)
They seem to be really picky about their prey cuz they haven't touched any other plant yet but I still want a confirmation before doing something irreversible so the question is: Would you dare to spray the whole tent with pyrethrin? I know I could just take the infected chillies out and spray 'em then but if they decide to upgrade their diet to weed I think I would have to use other means then.. Not gonna use any nasty pesticides when flowering.

These are the ones I'm babbling about:

 

[Bud-O-Phile]

a little weekly update:


top row: Bagseed | Bubblegummer | Bubblegummer | Bubblegummer
mid row: Auto Critical | Diesel | Diesel | Auto Diesel x Auto BlueBerry| Sour Diesel x Jack Herer
bottom row: Northern Lights x Chronic | Strawberry Blue | Strawberry Blue | Strawberry Blue


a better look under the leaves


the biggest strawberry blue

lights switched to 12/12 two days ago.

 

[killerweed31]

veri interesting project , plants lookin nice..ill be watchin this one!!!

 

[Bud-O-Phile]

veri interesting project , plants lookin nice..ill be watchin this one!!!

Why thank you dear sir. So nice to know at least someone else is watching this since I'm not a very decent grower and it has been around 2 years since my last attempt so all help and contribution is highly appreciated.

So I've ran across first signs of trouble as of now. The plants seem to be lacking some micro-elements, possibly magnesium at least according to Stitches lovely guide about sick plants. Nothing too serious but enough to set my alarms off. The tricky part is how I will manage to keep my girls happy from now on. What I'm trying now unable to get some epsom salt is upping the amount of BioHeaven to 1.5x since it's the only nutrient I have that contains any listed micro-elements. I also upped the pH around 6.0 (pretty tricky to get it right with a drop tester) since this might be a pH issue using too acidic feeding water because I usually go with medium acidic.

Perhaps I could try some foliar feeding with BioHeaven and push the pH up a little bit more around 7.0-7.5 since that seems to be where the micro-elements are best absorbed?

Here's a few pictures of the leaves. The plants are a little less than 3 weeks old

 

[willyweed]

hey bud o phile ,just had a quick look at your latest photos and my guess is that it might be a nutrient lockout looking at those leaves ! i had something similar and my plants lost all their colour ,they were bright yellow had to flush them out for 10 days before they would take any more food ! what does it say on the feed bottle to feed them and what is the ph feed range please?

 

[shagdawg420]

damn this is going to be good

 

[Bud-O-Phile]

damn this is going to be good

shure hope so.. been away from the girls for five days but my good mate is a real dr. greenthumb and he promised to take good care of them ladys when I'm away for a while. (hope my nightmares won't come true and he wont be shagging my old lady too 2 keep her happy also.)

Tomorrow he's gonna go check on 'em and give a little feeding using his hifi gadgets so hopefully i have a real jungle to meet me when i get back. My gf was tripping that the bushes aren't looking so good when i called her but that wasn't anything major according to my m8.. just a little pH fuck-up caused by me what i described a few post ago so the next pictures are going to be a major update on the progress so far.
(i've heard that their starting to reek pretty good.. have to buy a new scrubber soon since i cant change the carbons on the one i'm using now.)

keep ur pants on till next year then!

edit: so sorry i missed ur post willy!
yeah i think it was caused by a pH lockout since i really can't measure it right using a drop tester after putting the nutes in. my guess is my pH was off the charts on the acidic side since i just learned that biobizz nutes are pH buffered and i've been using pH-down also with the feedings. maybe hamppuu will share some light tomorrow on how acidic the waters been cause i left a pre-mixed feeding bottle for my gf to give em when im gone and he can measure it right with that electronic pH thingy.
some of the leaves showing deficiency in the last post have burned a little crisp on the edges but hopefully they will bounce right back without a need to flush.. we'll just have to try and make the next feeding a bit more alkaline?

and for the record my plain tap water is holding somewhere about 8.2 pH

 

[Bud-O-Phile]

So here we go, 3 new pics whats going on. Got back yesterday and the ladies were wilting pretty darn bad. Some phosphor deficiency here and there and the magnesium problem hasn't been fixed yet too.. Will get to it once I get some epsom salt nothing too serious.

Gave the gals 3ml/l biobloom and boy were they hungry, took about 6.5liters to feed them all

 

[hamppuu]

We need to give them a little dosage of epsom salt in next watering!
Good thing was, that we (well I ) found the problem. (PH)

"hope my nightmares won't come true and he wont be shagging my old lady too 2 keep her happy also."

ahahha wtf mate.....

 

[Bud-O-Phile]

argh, damn internet connection is killing me!
managed to upload a few pictures so check them out if you don't mind them being couple of days old already.

end of week 1

with flash:


with hps:


interesting thing i noticed playing with my camera. you can get pretty neat colors when you adjust the white balance to match the lamps yellowness and use flash also when filming under the hps. here's a few shots which are pretty much straight from the camera

 

[Bud-O-Phile]

Day 17

Bubblegummers


Diesels


Strawberry Blues


NL x Chronic


Family Photo

 

[Bud-O-Phile]

Sour Diesel x Jack Herer


Bagseed


Auto Diesel x Auto Blueberry


Auto Critical



getting nice and frosty

 

[Bud-O-Phile]

End Of Week 3

some slight difficulties with nutrients.. think i dropped the grow out too soon and they're suffering from some N def. Pretty much all of the lower fan leaves on the main stems come off with a slight touch but that's not too bad.. was going to defoliate them anyways since theres practically no light penetration because of the thick foliage but now it's done naturally so well just see how it goes and leave the plants alone.

gonna give one more dosage of grow next time I'm watering but thats it! just have to up the dosage of bloom and hope theyll swell good with only that.
The autos are looking pretty good, the diesel x blueberry doesn't seem to be a heavy hitter judging by the trichomes but it's swelling a decent size cola so maybe the yields gonna be good. Not giving any more N to these gals.. gonna start flushing in a week or so to get all of the nasty nutes out from them and have a pleasant smoke in about 3weeks.

enough with sh#t and lets see some pictures!

first up is the bubblegummers tall stretchy pheno whose getting some nice coloration


all in the family


auto diesel x auto blueberry


possibly NL x Chronic, not 100% sure

 

[Bud-O-Phile]

Introducing once again: the mighty Auto Critical (boy this is getting frosty!) will try and hit her with some bloombastic in the next watering and start flushing.

main cola


few close-ups of the lower buds


and a 80% crop that i almost got in to focus. dropped my damn +4 close-up filter on the ground and it didn't like it.. getting some majorly bad softening on the edges and the AF doesn't know where it's aiming anymore

 

[Bud-O-Phile]

End of week 4



Bubblegummer


Strawberry Blue


Diesel

 

[Bud-O-Phile]

Auto Diesel x Auto Blueberry


Sour Diesel x Jack Herer


NL x Chronic


Bagseed


Auto Critical

 

[Bud-O-Phile]

still spammin' heres some week 5 pictures



auto critical | bubblegummer - indica pheno | bubblegummer - sativa pheno x2

 

[strass]

Any updates?