[Budpirate]

Hi guys!

So last week i started up a new grow project and i thought i would post pics here during this grow for your enjoyment!


Ill be growing five feminized barneys farm blue cheese, i also had some auto hindu kush seeds from lowlife lying arround and got one of them to germ so also popped that one into the tent! Always loved barneys blue cheese so figured it would be lovely to have some of my own homegrown to smoke!

Im growing in a 100x100x200 cm tent, got a 400w sunmaster dual spectrum HPS sitting in a cooltube in there which is hooked up to a carbon filter sitting in the tent, have an inline fan + fan muffler sitting outside the tent.





The germed seeds were put into jiffys eight days ago today, i mixed soil and put the jiffys into the 15 litre pots yesterday. Got them growing in soil mixed with some perlite and vermiculite and also a bunch of small and big clay pebbles, also have a layer of clay pebbles in the bottom of the pots and on top as you can see on the pics. I dont know the exact volume of the pots, did a rought calculation and came up with about 15.6 litres on the outside diameter. I currently have the lights about 50 cm from the top of the pots, temps are about 23-24 degrees C measured in the shade between the pots.

When setting my grow up i realized i had purchased too little vent hose to lower the lights far enough to utilize the light properly. So I was either gonna have to get more vent hose in order to lower the cooltube further - or raise the pots, i went with the cheaper solution of raising the pots, got some plastic buckets and boxes that i put the pots on top of, raises the pots about 45 cm.



Regular updates will be coming!

[mack 10]

Good luck. Interested in how Barneys Blue cheese is these days.

[Budpirate]

Plants seem to like the new pots, however the auto hindu kush barley grew anything the last few days while the blue cheese plants are coming along nicely.



the auto hindu kush:

(was hard to get a good pic of it with the hps turned on xD)

Ill be using biobizz nutes for this grow, havent tried em before but always wanted to.


So the plan is to have the plants in 18/6 about a month or so before switching over to 12/12. I think i will be topping the plants at the third node and using some LST to keep em nice and low.

[Budpirate]

Decided to chop down the auto hindu kush cause it was growing so bad, also cut down the cheese plant growing the worst to focus on the four blue cheese plants doing the best.



They are about 15 days old now, topped them today.

[MJINC]

Tried some blue cheese from Barneys a little while back and it was a very nice smoke. Looking forward to seeing how your grow does. Good luck

[Budpirate]

Growing on nicely after the topping!

[Budpirate]

Growin on nice, about 24 days old now! I have also started some LST now. By accident i broke one of the branches on a plant while adjusting the LST, seems to be healing up tho, gonna take it easy with that plant a few days so it can heal up before i start training it again.

Before LST was started a few days ago:


Few days after:


The two closest plants seem to be a bit more stretchy than the others, they were easier to work with when doin LST, the other two were way more compact and bushy.

bushier ones:


Also noticed im starting to get some ganja-smell inside the tent now


Gonna be keepin em in 18/6 a couple days more before going into flowering.

[Lethal]

Hi Budpirate,

hope you won't mind if I will lurk through this thread occasionally You have same setup in terms of space, but I am going for 6 plants instead of 4 in bit smaller containers and hempy style. Seems you are having really good grow rate I should be topping also probably this weekend.

looking forward for next update

Lethal

[MJINC]

You going to take any clones off those before flowering? Looks like you could get a few

[Budpirate]

Hey guys!

So plants are 31 days old today! I started flowering the plants this monday when the plants were 28 days old.




They are growing on nicely and starting their flowering-stretching. Becamy very bushy down between all the branches so i have done some pruning down there last few days. Also gave two of the plants their first nutes today, some weakly mixed bio grow. Gonna be starting with bio bloom and topmax in the near future.