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recovering from pc grow, back to the tube

igrowone

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Time to shift gears on my current grow setup.
I've had a very miserable experience in micro growing with cfls.
It wasn't the cfls that gave me grief, but the small pots.
So back to my 'roots' so to speak. 2 gallon pots and my previous setup.

The setup is 38 x 15 inch tube made from aluminum flashing.
Flashing from home depot, pre-painted white on one side.
The fixture is a steel pizza dish with 3 27w cfl's in sockets.
This setup treated me well the 1st time, see how it goes for the 2nd.
Really a pretty micro setup, but compared to the PC grow i was trying, it's a monster.

So the 1st pic, a nl#5 clone that was limping along in the PC.
We'll see how this recovery goes, a jock horror is still in PC chamber.
Hope to have the 2nd tube going next week.
 

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igrowone

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what's your medium? it looks familiar...may be good to use in a Hempy style rez

MG Organic Garden soil, 1 tbsp dolomite and 1 tbsp MG Organic bone meal, and %15 perlite
worked well in my previous grow in this setup
Hempy rez? is that the same as a Hempy bucket? i have read good things about those, working my way through so many choices
 

igrowone

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Day 05

Day 05

from the pc back to my grow tube
i feel reborn, 1st pic was of tortured clone just out of the pc
this pic is from being in the tube after 4 days, enough said i think
 

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igrowone

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Day 08

Day 08

kind of amazing what a week can do
i feel like creating some kind of song damning small pots
i'm convinced that was the source of my grief
of course i have seen others do better than i did with them
but i'm just glad to have a healthy plant again
 

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#1cheesebuds

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Ok ok now we talking.
looks like U have found ur growing style. A

Here we have a nother small grow cab that I might have to try one of these days.
well heres to good luck on this clone.
and ur other gro tube.

bc.
 

igrowone

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Day 11

Day 11

yeah cheesebuds, i have returned to my roots

the grow has recovered, so now the flowering question, i.e. when?

first the nl#5 clone, the first pic, it's up to 5 inches tall
looks like a good 6 nodes, this is where i flowered the mother
that grow went from 5 inches to 29 inches during flower
from what i've read, the clone will probably stretch less?
so i'm sweating the decision, suggestions welcome

now the the tube grow, and the new girl?
this is the jock horror that has recovered from the pc hell
2nd picture, and looking not bad, all things considered
this will have to be flowered very soon, at around 4 nodes
i suspect this strain will stretch more than a nl#5
thinking another couple of days at most in veg
 

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#1cheesebuds

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hey they r looking great so far. good to see that 2ed one recover.

so now the flowering question, i.e. when? yah I have that same problem all the time.
 

igrowone

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Day 14

Day 14

what a difference 2 weeks can make
the sick, twisted clone has shot up to a healthy plant
shot up so fast, the flowering switch has been pulled
clone is at about 7 nodes and 7 inches, mom was flowered at 5 inches
so i hope she didn't get away from me, more compact flowering from clone?
she's the 1st pic

and the jock horror, pretty much the same recovery story
small pots seemed to be my trouble in both cases
threw the horror into flower too, not sure where it(she?) will end up
that is the 2nd pic
 

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igrowone

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Day 17

Day 17

hell yah dude. they R rocken and rollen right along.<br />
woo hoo.<br />
happy holidays bro.
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seasons greetings to you too cheesebuds, hoping to check out your latest update, been a little while

first the nl#5, i wondered how much difference there would be between seed and clone
quite a difference, going to be a lot shorter and bushier this time around
think it's going to be like a barrel cactus, and the first pistils are showing
she's the 1st pic

and the jock horror, another happy story, really speeding up
no smell yet to speak of, i'm told the lemon pheno is the best one
and i think i see pistils, wouldn't that be something
i'm not that skilled yet in scoping it out, but it does look female
she(maybe) is the 2nd pic
 

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igrowone

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Day 20

Day 20

it feels much nicer to have a grow that isn't pure pain

anyways, nl#5 is bursting, 10 inches and a bush is shaping up
seen nl grows that had this shape, the mom was different though
pistils just starting to form, keep the 5500k going until they're obvious
that's the 1st pic

jock horror, seen plenty of jock grows, and some do have big indica leaves just like my jock
it's 9 inches, kind of on the squat side, big indica leaves and no odor
didn't think you could have a plant with less odor than the nl#5
i stand corrected, this jock doesn't smell at all, of course flower may change that
2nd pic
 

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igrowone

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Day 23

Day 23

looks like 1 female, and 1 male
damn, the jock horror is a male, pretty sure at this point
but i do want pollen, just don't want a completely seeded plant
so a move of the jock horror is the plan, hoping to collect some pollen for future breeding

the nl#5 looks fine, thank god for reveg/cloning, with just a few plants, a 'barren' crop is way too easy
the jock horror looks great too, if you have a thing for males, which i don't
nl#5 is 1st pic, jh is the 2nd
 

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#1cheesebuds

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holy moly dude they look great. Its to bad about getting a male.

atleast it showed itself quick for u. once I had to plants and the one thet ended up male didn't show for a long time and the plant got huge. and when finding out I was so so flpen mad.

but now I am back up with 2 ladies flowering agen.
 

igrowone

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a late showing male cheesbuds? not so nice, kind of sucks actually
this male has no smell, i'm hoping it will spill its 'seed' soon enough for a cross with the nl#5, just a small branch
and nice to have to stop by for the look thisbuds4you, i'm reasonably happy, i knew it would be at least 1 female, and the male may not be total loss
 

igrowone

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Day 26

Day 26

hey there Boleman, saying you need to try new things?
i've been doing that with a vengeance, probably have too much of a bent to experiment

new year, new bud, the nl#5 really took a jump forward
budding up much faster than the seedling mother
but i guess this is how it's supposed to work, clones mature faster
15 inches tall, think it may not get larger than 20 inches
the seedling version finished at 29 inches, but was flowered at the same height as the clone
the jock horror, as i feared, it's a male
so he's been shoved to another room by a window, going to try to freeze up some pollen
 

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igrowone

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day 29

day 29

my one plant(sigh, was really looking forward to 2) is budding along
17 inches tall, lower buds are really looking promising this time around
a few burns from keeping the cfl's too close
the male jock horror has been quarantined away, waiting for a pollen harvest
the odor is just like my 1st grow, peaks at the end of veg then drops down to near zero during flower
still thinking it will stop stretching a bit under the 29 inches(1st grow height)
 

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igrowone

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Day 32

Day 32

2 1/2 weeks of flower, and it's interesting where she is
at this time when the mother was done from seed, there were no white pistils obvious
now you can see plenty of white, just plain ripening faster as a clone then from seed
18 inches tall, looks shorter than seed, so as i have read, a clone ripens faster
 

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