MeNtAlPaTiEnT's 400w HPS Box Grow

MeNtAlPaTiEnT · Feb 14, 2010

Yeah, screw bugs. Good for nothing!

February 14

Some pics!

the chef · Feb 14, 2010

Juicy looking cola mental! Oh btw, how long did ya let your whiteberry go before chop? Thanks buddy.

MeNtAlPaTiEnT · Feb 15, 2010

Thxs chef! I let all my white berries go usually 45-53 days. I don't think I've ever let any go farther past day 53 to be honest. I always get too excited and chop 'em down lol.

MeNtAlPaTiEnT · Feb 18, 2010

February 18

Some recent pics. The girls are fattening up. :watchplant::watchplant:

The big tall girls in the back are in 4 or 5 gallon buckets. They have a very sour, but juicy smell to them.

The last picture, she has a close relationship to the tall plants smell-wise, but it's sort of more of a bolder, darker kind of smell, but also fruity smelling.

The mostly indica strain, has the classic white berry smell, quite pungent and reminiscent of a juicy fruit candy.

Most of the ladies are in week 5.5 I believe now.

the chef · Feb 18, 2010

Sweet jeebus mental! Looking very greenage my friend! Man those are some fat fans!

MeNtAlPaTiEnT · Feb 18, 2010

Thanks chef for the kind words! There's always some greenage going on here

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Locked · Feb 18, 2010

Very nice Mental....you got a jungle going on.....

MeNtAlPaTiEnT · Feb 24, 2010

February 23

Just posting a few pics. The majority of the ladies are roughly... week 6 - 6.5 maybe, sort of estimating here.

Going to let the big lady in the back fatten up really nice before I chop her. She's developing the biggest cola I've personally ever grown...

I've got a big plant out in front, sort of out under the light because she has/had a somewhat bad mite infestation and I didn't want to pack her in there with all the other ladies. I was about to harvest her early because there were little tiny webs and stuff on a few of her leaves, and there seemed to be mites everywhere. But I sprayed her down good with insecticidal soap and trimmed her bottom where a lot of them liked to hang out, and she seems to be doing well now. I wonder if it's safe to put her in there yet? I think I'll probably spray her down again before I do that though...

The vegging room is doing fine. Took a bunch of clones recently. Got a few vegging under the light and I think one is almost ready for the flowering room. I'm more-so looking to grow single cola plants, instead of a few big plants. But I've also been thinking about flowering one of my mother plants... We'll see how things go.

the chef · Feb 24, 2010

Massive! Good looking Mental. How long have you had your mother?

MeNtAlPaTiEnT · Feb 24, 2010

the chef said:
Massive! Good looking Mental. How long have you had your mother?

Thanks chef! The one in the back is certainly going to be a killer cola in the end. I've had my mothers for about... 4 months or so. They are nice and bushy, plenty of clones to take from them

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February 24

Pics.

v35b · Feb 24, 2010

They look very healthy!

chuckdee123 · Feb 24, 2010

lookin seriously good mp... keep up the good work and keep the pics coming!

loolagigi · Feb 24, 2010

sweet jesus, what strain is the one with the natural/non hps light? looks delish!!!!

MeNtAlPaTiEnT · Feb 27, 2010

loolagigi said:
sweet jesus, what strain is the one with the natural/non hps light? looks delish!!!!

Not sure what to call her. She's one of the various phenotypes of the seeds that came off a pollinated White Berry last year. The father was an unknown strain, but it appeared to be a sativa strain more than anything. All the plants I have going are from that seed stock. Thanks for taking a look loolagigi!

And also thanks to everybody else for the kind words! Much appreciated

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February 27

So I harvested three of my ladies... the big one that used to be in front, and two smaller plants. The biggest plant yielded roughly 60 some-odd grams wet, and the other ones yielded about 20-30 grams wet. I'm looking forwards to seeing how much the big plant in the back yields... I'm going to give her about another week or so. I went a little rough on nutes on her... her leaves seem to be drooping a bit even though she's got enough water. I'm sort of assuming the nutes have developed a hostile environment in the soil and she needs to be flushed. Not too sure.. maybe somebody more experienced can elaborate?

The lady in the second picture has roughly 3 more weeks to go... which means she's going to be fat!

I have recently put one of my mother plants into flowering. She's in the last picture. She's only in a 19 liter trash bin, but I'm at least hoping for an ounce or two from her! I topped her about a week ago, and it looks like she's going to have a very even canopy going on. Can't wait to see her in action!

I have been pondering flowering my mother plants just for a good harvest, and veg a bunch of clones while they are in the other room. I'm planning to have a fair bit of clones for the summer and I'm assuming a couple of months veg time on a few clones should yield me enough clones for outdoors. We'll see.