9 Strains with a 150w Hps

[Barnt]

Week 4.

Got some good smells comin from the girls. Lots of variety. Lemon Venom is incredibly lemon--crazy to think its bud. Purple Urkle x Rom and OG Kush x Mendo Purps just smell of purple goodness. SD and SB are nice and sour. The Double Purple Doja x Bubba Kush pre98 is starting to turn purple but smells like pepper? Never smelled bud like that, so far can't say its desirable compared to the other strains. Purple monkey balls smells of sweetish candy fruit??? Hard to describe but it smells great. Quirkle doesn't have too much smell right now.

 

[catman]

Looking good man.

I hit my ladies with 1TB BB, 1tsp TB, and 1/4tsp Beastie Bloomz tonight at day 32. This was the first time with the Beastie Bloomz and I was wondering if you still could explain how you use yours in a little more detail :] I think I'm probably a week late on the Beastie, but I just picked it up the other day. I got Cha Ching to complete the line and I'll go light on it as you have advised, but when do you switch to it and stop to flush?

My plants smell of skunk, but nothing like Bubble Gum yet. I'm mighty jealous of all your strains, especially the sour varieties! I got a sour sweet tooth and its aching!

 

[Barnt]

I basically follow their schedule http://foxfarmfertilizer.com/soilfeed.pdf

Note: 5ml = 1 tsp

Last week (week 3) I fed this:
6ml grow big, 6ml tiger bloom, 10ml calmag, 12ml big bloom, 1/4tsp beastie bloomz

After this feeding I noticed a few clawed leaves and 1 leaf on 1 plant that had a few signs of burning. I couldn't imagine how fried they would be if I used 10ml of grow big and tiger bloom as they say to. Essentially, I only feed a max of 10ml, be that tiger bloom, grow big, or a combination.

So a few days ago, with week for, I gave them this feeding:
4ml grow big, 5ml tiger bloom, 12ml calmag, 12ml big bloom, 1/4tsp bestie bloomz

I backed off a bit on the grow big as I think that is probably what caused the clawing of some leaves. I haven't seen any signs of burn so far, so I think this might be the limits of my plants (or at least that 1 plant).


Depending on when you stopped adding grow big, you should have added some with your last feeding. If you fed grow big into the beginning of flower, don't give them any more. If that is the case, I would recommend using 2 tsp tiger bloom (or a little less if you want to be extra safe) with your 1/4tsp Beastie bloomz.


I am going to let my strains go 9-10 weeks so I am going to feed all the way to week 7. Following the FF schedule, that means I am done with beastie bloomz, and the next 3 feedings will be using cha ching. And as I said, its hot, so I will only use 6-7ml of Tiger Bloom with the 1/4tsp of cha ching.

Hope this helped, otherwise ask again

 

[2tokesnpass]

awsome grow dude got me watchin this one..i plan on getting a 150w hps so im lookin to see wat they can do and if its worth moving up from a 70w (im growing on a huge budget)

2tokes

 

[catman]

[Updated needed]

hehe

 

[Barnt]

UPDATE!!! I hear ya guys I hear ya hehhe. I was gone last week on break, left the girls for 5 days with a big watering just before leaving. Unfortunately they got too big and even though they lasted 5 days on the previous watering, when I returned they were all wilty. I fed and watered quickly but some of the leaves did dry out and burn. None of the buds got damaged thankfully.

So week 5 pics dont exist, so I took some pics tonight. Basically all is well except the SD is showing a nice MG def. Some of the SB is as well, next watering they'll be given 15ml/gal of calmag. Been watering with 10 and thats not cutting it ha.

Lets start with the ones behind. Today they are week 4 flower.

OG Kush x Mendo Purps:

Bubblegum (I think she is about week 3 here. She delayed a little into flower since she was topped prior to being put into 12/12):

The rest are at day 39, just shy of week 6.

Lemon Venom:

Purple Monkey Balls--startin to purples:

Sour Bubble:

Double Purple Doja x Bubba Kush--also gettin purply:

Quirkle with a little leaf burn from wilted leaves...

OG Kush x Mendo Purps:

Purple Urkle x Romulan:

Sour Diesel:

Some PMB with SB:

 

[thebandit777]

Awesome man, those strains are in good hands I see, take care brother Barnt! A+

 

[catman]

Those ladies got me all turned on!

Great pictures as usual man.

I'll probably update with a bunch of pictures tomorrow.
They just started to pack on the bud and the frost! I'm so excited!

 

[free radical]

Really starting to pack on the buds now. Looks awesome.

Did you start these from seed or clone? If seed where did you get the seeds? Thanks.

 

[Wacky Tobacky]

wow very impressive

 

[Barnt]

All were from clones.

Little off schedule on updates, oh well.

The box:

Day 33 for these 2 guys:

OGxMP:

Bubblegum:

Day 44 for the rest...

PU x ROM:

Sour Diesel:

Sour Bubble:

Lemon Venom:

PMB:

DPDxBK:

Quirkle:

OGxMP:

Also made a lot of pics for the Stereoscopic 3D pictures in that thread like the pic below...

 

[Squeeky]

Barnt, I need your help

Barnt, I need your help

Barnt,

I apologize for posting this in your thread, however I do not have the ability to PM (if anyone knows why let me know). I have a questions about your ventilation setup. Your last post in that thread was over 3 months ago, thats why I came here.

I was curios if you are still using the lasko setup and carbon tray?

I am finishing my cabinet and purchased a lasko after seeing your thread. From someone that uses it, do you feel it moves over 100cfm? I am looking to use 330 watts of remote ballasted PL-Ls in 11 cubic feet. Do you think with your cabron setup it would still push 80 CFM on high.

Do you run yours on high or low? Also how large tray you built? The foam that you wrapped around the output, did you just tape it on, and tape it to the wall of the cab in order to make air/light tight? Are you still using rubberbands to mount the fan and how?

Basically I want to copy it identically but possible run two if need be. This think is soo much quiter then my pc fans in current cab. I want to do this right but with little noise and cost. You can't beat $15 when compared to $100 inline.

 

[rebo]

Great photos.. Those plants are lookin tasty Barnt.. nice job.

 

[Barnt]

No problem Squeeky. I still use my setup I posted. To start off, yes, even on low it pushes well over 80cfm. I've felt many computer fans that push ~40cfm and this feels much more powerful. I don't run it on high for noise reasons.

Lately I have been having a few smells issues. I am pretty sure it is because how I have the cardboard taped to seal the seams. While this isn't a horrible idea, I think that using cardboard makes it not work. I was planning on using compressed 1/4" particle board to build the fan shroud but I got lazy and decided to leave it as is for this grow.

I'm going to try and use aluminum baked tape tonight instead of packing take to hopefully make it more air tight. The other issue that could be at hand is my carbon has been used for about 4 runs. It might be time to change it out, but with only 2 weeks left I'm just using some air fresheners I bought from Safeway.

As far as the foam goes....the 1" open foam that I have right now does little to absorbing the sound. It instead helps reduce sounds from echoing. To absorb sound, a heavy dense material is needed. I have since lined the back of my cab with aluminum backed tar for roof repair (http://www.lowes.com/lowes/lkn?action=productDetail&productId=154017-81326-PS625&detail=&lpage=none). This has helped the most with reducing the noise and with the re-design of the cabinet I was planning on tripple lining the room surrounding the fan. I will still use the foam to isolate the exhaust, especially since the foam significantly reduces the sounds of the fan coming through the exhaust.

I used hot glue to mount the foam to the fan, and used hot glue again to make an airtight seal with the foam to the box. I used hooks that screwed in the sealing that I then hooked rubber bands to that held up the fan. Even if one fan wasn't strong enough on high, you could easily run 2 side by side (still above the carbon) and it will create double the suction. As long as your intake was big enough it would double your cfm at nearly the same noise level.

Make the tray as big as possible. Carbon scrubbers are circular for a reason...surface area. I previously used a homemade scrubber that was 6" diameter and 16" long. That was 300 square inches of surface area. My tray is now 19" by 11" which is only 209 square inches. I previously used only one 8x8 louver, however I found that my door sucked shut easily and thus was the cause of restriction. So even by downgrading surface area, it was not the limiting factor. Since then, I now have two 8x8 louvers. I'm not exactly sure where the limiting factor is now, but everything seems to be fairly balanced.

 

[Barnt]

Day 52. Expected chop: 65 days. Yum

Double Purple Doja x Bubba Kush

Purple Monkey Balls

Quirkle--Not too much purple now, but I know it is a purple strain. It might need that extra push with cooler temps, but my room maintains the low 70's.

Purple Urkle x Romulan--Turning out to be my favorite

OG Kush x Mendo Purps--My second favorite. The aroma of the PUxROM is more pungent and is why I like it more

Lemon Venom--INSANE smell. Lemony chemically cleanery?? CRAZY!

Bubble Gum--11 days behind

Sour Bubble--Dont know why the leaves are drying up like this. They do share pots with other strains, but their partners aren't having any issues.

Sour Diesel:

 

[Barnt]

Day 59

Start off with a few group shots

PMB

Ok, which money brought the bananas?

Purple Urkle x Romulan showing off some colors

OGxMP

Quirkle

DPDxMP

 

[catman]

The variety makes me so jealous!

You flushing yet?

 

[Barnt]

I began to flush on the 2nd. They will have 2.5weeks of water before they are chopped. And the rest of the group...

Sour Bubble

Lemon Venom

Sour Diesel

Bubble gum at week 7

 

[Seismic]

Looking good Barnt, looks like you'll have a nice harvest, especially for a 150w.

 

[growMEDS]

Great grow and awesome variety!