The Captain's Victory Garden

[CaptainViper]

All-Right Ladys and Gents, Here are a few pic's showing our Babys, and our set-up. Right now we are Growing 3 different types of Strains, 2 Northern Lights #5 x Skunk #1, 3 of a mexican-bag sativa, and " Guillen " A Clone from our very first grow, is also a nice sativa.

Here are a few of one of the N.L.5 x Sk #1, And little " Gullen".

Everyone of our "Babys" is grown indoors under 5 CFL's, All of them bought at the local "hard-ware / home store. Except for the last CFL, A 120 Watt w/ reflector for $70. From a local hydro store. We had lost a few "kids" during that heatwave last month, but we still have our 3 "mommas", and 5 of the "kids", in various stages bloom. By the way, The Electric bill for the "Garden" runs around $7. to $12. a month. I will try to keep up this thread w/ pic's. Enjoy!!!! CaptainViper

 

[THE BROTHER'S GRUNT]

Whats up Cap. Have you tried using the picture service located in the bud pic section of the forum?

 

[CaptainViper]

Finaly! Let's try this again, After heat-stress, our babys... first pic: our garden, small, but hey, its getting beter every-crop. pic #2 the veg area, Pic #3 is our "bag-seed" baby, an Sativa called " Fingers ", and an atempted close-up of one of our Skunk #1 x N.L. #4.

 

[CaptainViper]

heres some more ... Allright, My camera is crap, but as soon as i can i will take somemore. First pic: another "close-up" of our SK #1x N.L.#4, Pic #2 is an idea of the size of the BUDS on the Skunk x Northern Lights, and one last shot of Gullien, A very nice mystery Sativa from "Bag-Seed". ENJOY!

 

[THE BROTHER'S GRUNT]

Whats up CaptainViper. I see ya finally got your pics up. Not bad for a cfl grow not bad at all. How long ya got before you chop down the first set of ladies?

 

[CaptainViper]

Thank you, Brothers Grunt, Just 2 days ago we cut our mystery Sativa, and she's drying as we write this. , Our SK x N.L. still has 2 to 3 weeks to go before we start cutting. On a side note.... Only 1 of our " Desert Lights" survied the heatwave and HE was Nice, grew fast and strong,and had a wonderful scent. Soooo, we let him live, took the pollen and "crossed" him with our SK x NL, our "Fingers" and "Gillian". Hopeing that the stronger traits from the " Desert Lights " Will make The " Girls " happy. We've gotten some wonderful Seeds so far. . Waiting for the seeds to dry before we try planting. Once " Gillian" Drys a little more I will take a few Pics and post.

 

[CaptainViper]

Hey Folks! I've got some new pic's . You might notice the new light also. The New light is a "SUN System 4 " 175W MH w/ balist and hood. Sucker's BRIGHT. The Plant on the left is " Fingers", And Is'ent She doing well? We are Very proud of her. On The Right is our N.L.5 x Sk 1. Also Doing Well. . We have been useing some raw mexican sugar w/ Koolbloom liquid fert. and Superthrive.

 

[CaptainViper]

Must be The New Lights, Anyways, We are starting to see girth to our bud's now, We've been Messing around , experementing with CFL's, And receving very tasty smoke. But very little in the way of weight. Big colas, very "light" weight. BUT Now... We are starting to see / feel girth to our "babys". ,In some of these Pic's you can see how they are bulking-up!

 

[THE BROTHER'S GRUNT]

The ladies are looking great and they are gonna be very happy that you added that new light. Keep it up Cap.

 

[CaptainViper]

Hello, My Frends! New pic's Check them out. These are pic's of our N.L.5 x Skunk #1

 

[CaptainViper]

How about a few more A few shots of the " garden "

 

[CaptainViper]

And, what the heck, a few more.....

 

[THE BROTHER'S GRUNT]

Whats up CV. I see the ladies are looking very happy this morning and they should with all the love and care you give them. Keep it up man.

 

[CaptainViper]

Thank-you TBG, we're very happy w/ our Girls. One Problem tho, Friggin Spyder Mites!!! Our Sativa "Fingers" caught them. We are trying a homemade insecticide made by "brewing" some cig. Tobacco, straining, and foiler-spraying,will let you know how it works out. Need to do something before pay-day. then I can Buy some neem-oil.

 

[Tonto]

They look very nice!! It should give good hope to those who haven't yet gotten HPS lights. How many lumens total do you have? I assume the 175MH is about 9,000 itself?

 

[CaptainViper]

The lumens for the 175W runs 9,000 to 10,000 at 12 to 14 in. below the light, The 105W CFL runs around 10,000 / 11,000 Lumens at 3 to 5 in. below the Light. Also so far so good w/ the tobacco mite spray, Only finding Little Dead Mites. Still going to keep a close watch over our Girls.

 

[Tonto]

Glad to hear that you're stopping the bug problem. I have to wonder though, why did you go with Metal Halide when you're already in the flowering process? I would think that a High Pressure Sodium would have been the way to go. I can't hate, I have a 175MH
I'm flowering with only MH and CFL. We'll see what happens. My HPS light STILL isn't in, and I'm going to go through the whole process with the MH/CFL. I have clones from the plants though, and we'll see the difference when I use the HPS on them when it's time.

Edit- my 200th post!!

 

[CaptainViper]

Hey Folks, Had a couple of The "Girls" Ripen, here's some Before Cutting, After Drying, Before Cureing

 

[CaptainViper]

Here's a few more Pic's...Even-tho the "Girls" were Ripe, Heathly and densely packed W/ THC, after Drying,Testing,Cureing,Testing,and of course, running out of the rest of "The Other Pot", I am sad to Report that these Two Girls are Gone But I am also Very Happy to report That The Smoke Was some of Best That We've Growen So-Far,VERY TASTY, VERY SWEET, Realy Nice Taste of sweet Skunk, with Northern Light After-taste.

 

[THE BROTHER'S GRUNT]

Congrats on the harvest CaptainViper. How is the smell? Did you harvest everything or do you still have some going. Great job man, great job. Enjoy the smoke.