LordHighLama : Multi Strain Grow

Possible strains to be seen during this journal...

ak47 / Northern Lights / Satori / OG Kush / Granddaddy Purp

Currently vegging two ak47 beans and two bag beans.

Just ordered Nirvana Northern Lights and Mandala Satori from attitude.

Waiting on clones from a buddy of the OG Kush (which I have smoked some that he's grown and it's amazing) and Granddaddy Purp.

During this grow I will be doing things a bit differently than last time. I have converted a shop workbench into my veg/clone box and it has two 3ftx3ftx3ft sections. Height will have to be watched during veg since I vertical space is limited but the stealth was hard to pass up. One side will house my vegging mothers, while I house my bubble cloner on the other side. I will be putting my 400w into the veg box and stick a few cfl's on the cloning side.

With the addition of my 600w digital ballast I can start using that in my new flower space (not yet built) but I invision a 12sq/ft area for flowering. I don't need to worry about that for a bit since I will be focusing on vegging and cloning for a while.

Not only have I made some changes to my vegging and flowering locations, but I have also purchased some new tools of the trade. I got real tired of using ph test strips so I purchased a Milwaukee PH pen, I also sprung for the dry FF line of supplements so we'll see how they work with my liquid trio.

I know a local farmer that has a organic soil mix that he says is the best thing since sliced bread so I will be trying it out with this grow.

Ok now for the first set of pics...


Local organic soil


Close up of soil mix


some of my new tools

The hood I'll be using to veg my moms


My two ak47 - the one on the left is 13 days old, the one on the right is 8 days old.


These pics were taken 05/03/09 so they were actually only 9 and 4 days old.

exciting man, can wait! granddaddy purp :hubba:
your lucky you got those new rooms thats great news
ill keep my eyes fully peeled on this grow, make sure to include tons
of pics

I don't have any pic's of my two bag beans but they are just a few days behind my second ak


side shot of my biggest ak


the little one all by itself

That's all I've got for now,, comments, suggestions, or just general banter is accepted and welcomed.

thedonofchronic said:

exciting man, can wait! granddaddy purp :hubba:
your lucky you got those new rooms thats great news
ill keep my eyes fully peeled on this grow, make sure to include tons
of pics

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Come on now... you know me I love pics.
I'll give some sneak previews of my grow rooms in the near future. Until then... :48:

cant wait to see how our grows will turn out this time...
i forgot how much waiting was involved
but at this age i can usually wake up and see changes every day,
which is nice maybe ill finally have a bpotm entry in a few months.
im going to probably keep all the mothers short and stout, then get some
clones going, then once theyre all the same height, flower em all.
will probably be adding a 250w hps soon. or by the time i flower.
later lama :ciao:

yo lama,
whats up,
good to see you have started another g,j!
about time!
your ak's are comming on well,
so how much did you spend on seeds this time?

thedonofchronic said:

cant wait to see how our grows will turn out this time...
i forgot how much waiting was involved
but at this age i can usually wake up and see changes every day,
which is nice maybe ill finally have a bpotm entry in a few months.
im going to probably keep all the mothers short and stout, then get some
clones going, then once theyre all the same height, flower em all.
will probably be adding a 250w hps soon. or by the time i flower.
later lama :ciao:

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sweet sounds very similar to my plans for this grow,,, short bushy mothers producing loads of clones. :hubba:

What light will you be using for your mom?

swiftgt said:

yo lama,
whats up,
good to see you have started another g,j!
about time!
your ak's are comming on well,
so how much did you spend on seeds this time?

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I didn't spend to much this time, I just wanted to get my feet wet not dive in. :baby: But you know me I wont be able to stay away.

I'm pulling up my chair.

lordhighlama said:

I didn't spend to much this time, I just wanted to get my feet wet not dive in. :baby: But you know me I wont be able to stay away.

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cool,
so are you just starting to plan your new flower room?
did you just buy that digi ballast or did you have it last grow?
what lights are you veggin with now?
what else are you planning to buy for this grow?

I've already got it designed in autoCAD for the most part.

Digital ballast is brand new, I haven't even plugged it in yet.
Bought it to take over flowering duties.
I'm still just using my 400w to veg and probably wont put the 600w in use until I have some clones.
I'm really hoping to not have to buy much else for this grow since the wife is already on my case about it. She still doesn't know I've got beans yet, that should be interesting!

lordhighlama said:

She still doesn't know I've got beans yet, that should be interesting!

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uh oh, so if you disappear suddenly, at least we will probably know what happened to you!:angrywife:

so your vegging with a hps or mh now?

Vegging under mh and I'm still using my cooled hood. I'll put the sun soaker reflector on it when I move everything to my workbench.

Here's a preview of what my flower box will look like...

materials needed to get the box built...

Got my nutes in the mail yesterday. I bought them from igrowhydro, they had the cheapest price I could find after shipping anywhere on the internet. Got em' for $77.94 after shipping, $67.95 before.






This is the arsenal of nutes and water. I have two containers both ph adjusted to 6.5. One will have veg nutes mixed when I start feeding and one will be plain water.

looking good

I did the math on your 600 in the 4x4 room=5625 lumens per sq. ft. That works!

Hey 420benny thanks for dropping in, your welcome anytime.

Actually though that box design is for a 4x3 12sq/ft box. So I'm actually gonna have 7500 lumens per sq/ft

I've been flowering my last few crops under a 400 in a 8sq/ft space so this will be a little upgrade.

wao looks like your getting well stocked up lama!
looks like you planned it out well!
what power fan are you going to use?

I've got two 250cfm inline fans and will run one with the air cooled hood and one for the box exhaust. Then I'll probably just have a passive intake at the bottom of the box.