[Kit Kat]

Strain: (10) OG Kush (Old cut, maybe 15-20+ years)
Containers: (10) 2 gallon Air Pots (yellow bottom)
Room: GrowLab GL145L (5' x 10')
Lights: (2) 600w bare GE bulbs
Exhaust: 745 CFM 8" C.A.P. Valueline, 8 x 24" Phresh Scrubber, 8 x 24" Phresh Duct Muffler
Intake: Passive, just have an open window. But I won't do that again.
Water/Nutrients: Most of the House & Garden line (excepting Aminos and Algen), 32g trashcan elevated 2' for a res, and blumats.

Pictures!
Day 20 Veg
Day 12 Flower
Day 19 Flower
Day 22 Flower
Day 28 Flower
Day 40 Flower
Day 56 Flower
Day 64 Harvest


After my last grow had to be torn down due to flooding my entire life flipped upside down and I ended up a newly minted bachelor with a lot of extra space (and time) on my hands. Did a lot of reading and was blown away by the simplicity and yields of bare bulb vert, so I decided to give it a go with a couple of donuts around 600s and see how it goes.

The setup right now is five OG Kush (a cut gifted to me by a friend who's been growing it for a good long time now) per bulb in coco. Blumats are used for watering and are hooked up in a loop which runs back to a 32g trashcan. Using the House and Garden line and following the schedule for a four week veg and ten week flower.

With some help from another thread the climate is now under control, with air being pulled from outside and exchanged twice a minute the temps stay at 75-76 consistently.

They look a bit pissed right now unfortunately. I just realized tonight that my ph pen was off by .6 so these were getting water that was much higher than I'd like and causing leaf twists and folding.

Once that sorts itself out though, I'm a bit at a loss for next steps. If I don't plan on setting up a vertical scrog is there anything that really needs to be done other than letting them grow, and giving it the flip in a week to ten days? Or any other suggestions? I've never grown the strain or vertically, so I'm not quite sure how to proceed.

Right after installing the blumats (I wasn't able to get a copy of photoshop to clean these up, will do later for sure)

[Kit Kat]

Moved the pictures to ICmag instead of imgur

shotgun!

mate! this shits gonna be fun.. definitly subbed to this thread.

gd lk bro sorry to hear of your troubles happy days from now on tho ay?

[benzo]

Nice ! What is the silver thing passed your intake fan. Is that a duct muffler ?

Any plans to add a vertical trellis or cage to keep them from hitting the bulb ?

[Kit Kat]

Originally Posted by LEX-UK

shotgun!

mate! this shits gonna be fun.. definitly subbed to this thread.

gd lk bro sorry to hear of your troubles happy days from now on tho ay?

Thanks for stopping in to look! I can only hope I don't make anymore dumb noob mistakes.

Originally Posted by benzo

Nice ! What is the silver thing passed your intake fan. Is that a duct muffler ?

Any plans to add a vertical trellis or cage to keep them from hitting the bulb ?

Yep, it's an 8" Phresh duct muffler I picked up on a nice black friday sale. I was making them myself before, but this is soooo much easier to work with. I don't like having unmuffled fan noises going, and since my intake is an open window in a crowded community it was cheap to not worry about it.

I'm not sure if I should get a cage or a trellis yet. I'm leaning away from a trellis just because it looks like a royal pain in the balls, maybe stick some tomato cages in the pots instead? Willing to be convinced otherwise though.

[SecondAttempt]

Forget tomato cages... build screens like Ichabod.

https://www.icmag.com/ic/showthread.php?t=242646&page=3

[Kit Kat]

Originally Posted by SecondAttempt

Forget tomato cages... build screens like Ichabod.

https://www.icmag.com/ic/showthread.php?t=242646&page=3

I really love these. Definitely have this saved for the next grow, but unfortunately as soon as this one is done I'm packing up and moving across country so adding that much extra infrastructure on top of what I already have is a bit much.

Ended up getting a few cheap packs of bamboo stakes, and I'll make a little teepee on each pot here shortly to help hold things up.

Still haven't gotten Photoshop, so I'm not sure how to correct these otherwise but here are a few pictures from the 4th day of flower. They were topped a week prior, and flipped on the 15th. Every day I poke in there and prune out large fans covering bud sites and snip out any sucker branches developing along the bottom, and have just started to remove back branches that are obviously going to be crowded out as these get thicker.

[RipVanWeed]

Nice looking set up, Kit Kat.

I know the word is to keep the bulb so high during stretch, but I can't let all those primary lumens just bounce around. I imagine that I'm trying to blast my girls with as much energy as they take.

Try lowering the bulbs so that most of the bulb is below the tops, maybe just 1/4 of the bulb above.

Like I said...Nice set up, Good Luck

[Kit Kat]

Thanks, Rip! One of the things I really love about changing to a vert set up is how simple and clean the configuration is - provided I'm exchanging 2x and have a couple honeywells there isn't much more needed and working in there is easy as hell.

I was thinking about the bulb thing too... there's a plant in the far back left that just keeps stretching above everyone else and it's obviously getting denser since it's above the bottom of the light, but I can't help but see every single post DHF has ever made about where the bulb ought to be during stretch.

[Marlo]

Looks great Kit Kat