First try: 400 watt, cab grow

[BHO]

Hello ….
I have been keeping other grow logs on 1 or 2 other sites, but after a lot of lurking here, it was time to join. The knowledge base here is clearly immense and I hope that some of you will pull up a seat and watch me finish off my first real grow. I am going to give some details about what is going on and then I am going to post some pics from throughout the past 8-10 weeks or so. I hope you all enjoy looking as much as I have enjoyed the process.
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I started with 5 girls but sadly the blubonic turned out to be a male. However, I was left with a Cin Diesel, a Hashberry, and 2 Strawberry Coughs.
I am growing organic soil in a 2’ x 3’ x 5.5’ box, 400 Watt air-cooled HPS, passive intake with a very strong exhaust fan and temps are running around 68 @ night and 70 (lower branches) / 85-87 at the canopy. Also, humidity has been sitting right around 40-50% since flowering started. pH has been pretty cosistant around 6.5 or so and for nutes I am using foxfarm.
Also, I just leeched the soil 2 days ago to deal with a potential salt buildup situation.
-Lastly, I am 46 days into flowering and I am planning on letting 2 of them go for 8+ weeks and the coughs for 9 weeks. The pics are a little outdated but I will put new ones up very soon
**Sorry about all the info, but I wanted to get as much info across so some of you experts can chime in with any advice or comments. If I left something out, please let me know and I will give you more info.

Anyway, on to the pics…

Here was the box being built:
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Here was once I got some girls and was picking which were best.
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Here were the girls on day 2 of 12/12
Strawberry Cough 1
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Strawberry Cough 2
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Diesel
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Hashberry
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And here are some shots from the past week or so…
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And here is my post from a few days ago, from now on things will be done in real time.
Things are looking a little droopy from the leaching yesterday but I think it will be for the best.
First up is the diesel. There are 3 fan leaves that have gotten yellow. They are still firmly attached to the plant so I figure not to cut them. I could use the extra space for other nugs thou so if it wont hurt the plant, could I cut em off?

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The next 2 are the hashberry
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And here is one of the coughs, still in the box
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[BHO]

Tomorrow is the end of the 7th week of flowering. Things are really starting to fatten up all around. The trichs are pretty much milky on the Diesel now and I just started the flush. The hashberry got its last feeding before I start its flush and the coughs still have a little while to go.
Here are a few pics and a close up of the diesel for ya...
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And I know I should not have done it, but I snagged the smallest of the branches of the diesel and the cough. Oh well, the BHO i made is deff worth it.
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[CheebaMonkey]

Damn those plants are beefy especially for a 400W! Let me know how the strawberry cough smokes I want to try that next.

Were you feeding with every watering throughout flowering? I ask because I got 2 plants in early flowering right now and I'm not sure if I should be giving them pure water once in a while or not. The tips aren't burnt. I plan to flush before harvest though.


And I always snag a few buds before harvest. It's a guilty pleasure.

 

[Calimad]

sorry to hear about the blubonic sounded good. cant wait to see thta cough mature a lil more

 

[Jobo]

wow man. very nice for a 400 watter

 

[CheebaMonkey]

Hey BHO, is that Strawberry Cough from Dutch Passion?

 

[BHO]

Thanks guys...
Cheeba, I feed everytime that I am watering, but you should flush every two weeks if you are using store bought nutes. That will help with salt build up and all of the problems associated with it. And it is from DP and it is a pretty nice strain, but only grow it is you are VERY patient. It takes a LOOOONNNNGGGGG time to grow. I think it wont be done until about 10-11 weeks.
-philly

ps. today is the 8 week mark!!!!!!!

 

[Calimad]

any pics?