2019 Community Grow Off

OldSchoolGrower/BobbyLee Entry Ticket

Seeds: : 5-Reg. Scooby Snacks/Mystery Van Seeds

Environment : Seedling/Early Veg 2’x4’ Closet
Mid,Late Veg/Flower 12’x14’ Grow Room

Medium : Scotts Hyponex Potting Soil

Growing Container : SoloCup to 5 Gallon Fabric Pot

Nutrients : MegaCrop/Scotts Super Bloom/Epsom Salt

Lighting : 33W LED Shop Light/Seedling, Early Veg
Mars Hydro SP-150/Mid, Late Veg
Hao Fst 300W 6x COB LED/Flower

Method Of Grow : Topping, LST, Super Cropping.

Dropped Seeds : 01/01/2019 6:30pm
Water Temp. 69.2°F pH 6.5 w/Couple Drops h2o2
Placed covered on seedling heating mat

UPDATE: . 01/03/2019

Checked seeds earlier today. Took 48 hours to crack, but they did. Placed them in a paper towel in a Ziploc Bag. Placed the bag on the heating mat and covered it. I expect seeds will be ready for the Solo cups by morning.

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**Update **. Jan. 6th

2 of the Scooby Snacks broke the surface. Looking around at their new world.
Had to use some BS soil that I’m not very happy with. Every place is currently out of my Scotts Hyponex potting soil that I generally use. We’ll see how they do until I can get some different potting soil that I like.

Update: 01/08/2019

Well my 2 Scooby Snacks “Daphne & Thelma” are up and going. Watered lightly and then back filled the cups to give them some added support.

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Update:. 01/10/2019

Daphne & Thelma seem to be doing well. 2nd set of leaves just beginning to form. They will get a plain pH’d watering tonight.

Daphne

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Thelma

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Hello and welcome,
It was a hard decision between OG Kush and pineapple haze. Now being a contest and all you would think I would pick one or the other which I will and it is Pineapple Haze. So I can only fit 4 plants with a scrog so. I really want to grow the OG Kush but if I do I lessen my chances I suppose.

Strain: Pineapple Haze (2plants)

Type: 70% satvia and 30% indica

Breeder: ILGM

Grow Space/size: Shed 4x6x7

Lights: 4 Roleardo LED COB 400watt. Draw from wall is about 196watts. Probably get a meter to test as for the results are not my numbers but what I have gotten from an other grower.

Germination Light: T5 4bulb 2ft length

Medium: Soil # 4 nectar for the gods

Nutrients: Nectar for the Gods, Azos, Mykos, extreme gardening tea

Grow Techniques: 5 gallon fabric pots

Training: Topping LST

Germination soak seeds for 24hrs unless there is a tail. If no tail after 24hrs it is in a damp paper towel it will go. After tail has emerged then straight to soil in solo cups.

Update 1/5/19

Seeds are dropped two pineapple haze.

I found these shot glass size cups perfect for soaking a seed. Aren’t they cute had to have them.

Update 1/6/19

Seed are still floating and just waiting till they sink. Hoping for tails this afternoon and if not they I will transfer them to a paper towel and zip lock. Then that will go into a clothes draw till they pop. Then it is off to get soil ready for there new homes.

Update 1/7/19

Seed were still floating before bed and gave them a tap and they sank. No tails yet. Probably go with the paper towel now. It is 3am and I have to work today so I hope they crack soon. Would like to get them in some soil. Well I just stuck them in a paper towel and see what happens hopefully they will pop today when I get home from work.

PM Update: Seeds both cracked and had a bit of a tail. So off to the nursery and into some soil.

Update 1/8/19

No movement as of yet. Check once before going to work to make sure they are damp enough. Been able to keep humidity at about 80% while the rest of the room is in the 30-40%. Temps are low 80s so I cracked the vents and will check the temp as well. I figure sometime today they will pop and when I get home hopefully they will have broken the soil.

Update 1/9/19

One has broken the surface. Waiting for the other one which hopefully will pop soon. I will be kind of bummed if I have to start another seed.

Update 1/10/19

Still waiting for the other one to pop out of the soil.

Update 1/11/19

I see green on the second plant it is just about out of the soil. So by the time I get home from work It should be above the ground.

Update 1/13/19

So I am still waiting for the second one to emerge from the soil. It is strange I can see the 2 round leaves and that is all that is sticking out of the soil. Very strange I may be dropping another seed. I have had runts before and they never really seem to work out. Always a low yield or fluffy buds. It is slow going so I give it maybe a day or 2 then need to decide. Plant #2 is doing fine growing like it should.


So no idea what is going on with this one.It has been like this for a long time. Definitely stalled in growing. I had to dig it out and it is barely growing. I am thinking I will be dropping another seed. I give it a day or two…maybe haha


Crappy pic but you get the idea it is growing at least.

Update 1/14/19

Dropped another seed this morning. The one that is barely coming through the soil is going way to slow and no improvement. Even if it does grow I just have that feeling it is going to be a problem and have issues. The other plant is already getting a second set of leaves.

Good thinking on my part to drop another seed. I just checked on it and the tail was still in the seed the only thing that came out of the seed was the round leaves everything else was still in seed.

Update 1/16/19

Well the seed finally got a tail and so into the soil it went this morning. It is going to be a strong grower so hope it pops by the time I get home from work.

Update 1/19/19

Well it didn’t pop when I got home from work. The seed itself was sticking out of the soil and didn’t look to good. So I covered it up with some soil and sprayed down. Now that was Thursday . So then I get the flu and down and out. Never got back out to check on them until this morning and I was surprised to see it up and looking good. It is going to be a winner.

Update 1/21/19


This is the one that just popped and is behind but not a problem. There will be no special treatment for her she lives she lives and oh she will.


This one is doing well and it is getting almost to big for the dome. Which leads me into a project I am working on in the nursery. I trying to shuffle around harvesting drying finishing and nursing these little ones. I have to improve nursery but need supply and will have to do that soon.

update 1/27/19

Transplanted to gallon pot. Hit with some nutrients. So far going good.

update 2/4/19

So they have gone from the one gallon pot to the 5 gallon bags. They now are under the big lights. Transplant with mykos and azos and added some nutrients at the same time. So far things are lush and green.

update 2/5/19

They are very happy in there final 5 gallon bags.

update 2/17

I think I am a little late on the update but here we are. They are doing very good the topping has taken nicely. LST is going good for the first time.

Plan on vegging for about 25 days or so. Then switch light schedule.

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GreenThunder’s entry

Srrain: JamaicanBerry Super Auto

Breeder: Flash Seeds/Stitch

Type: 95% Sativa 5% Ruderalis

Grow Space/size: 4x4 tent (after starting in germinating closet, 18x18")

Lights 85w QB to start; 2 260w XL QBs are in the tent

Medium coco with perlite

Nutrients: GH Flora trio with the Lucas formula; cal mag; hydroguard; Flying Skull z7

Grow Technique: autopot (first timer)

Training: top or fimm plus scrog


My Jberry seed was dropped at 12:07 on Jan 1, put in a rooter the next day and surfaced today (Jan 4) after a bit of assistance (she was breech and had to be turned with tweezers)


**Update January 8 **

Being an auto, I wanted to plant Jberry directly into her autopot but it won’t be ready for a couple more days. She was getting too tall for the germinating tray so I put her in a solo cup. Since she’s a super auto, I think (hope) she can handle the repotting. She’s sporting the dewdrops of happiness today


Update January 14

Jberry was put into her autopot a few days ago, though she will be top fed for a couple weeks. She’s still under the 85w QB and has been given a name: Veronica

Jberry is in the back.


Update January 19
Day 16. She was moved into the veg closet a couple days ago. I had been obsessed with her daily dewdrops of joy and forgot to cover her up after a photo shoot one day. Her leaves got a little burned but she’s still growing. Every day I’m happy to see her alive :sunglasses:


Day 23

I (finally) turned on the air pump a few days ago, probably should have done it a week ago. She seems to like it

She’s had her last top feeding; the res and AQUAvalve will be added tonight.
She’s been getting less than half strength nutes (Lucas formula) with sensical plus hydroguard. I adjust the pH to 6.0


UPDATE February 5

It’s been more than a week since I’ve updated so I must be out :thinking::no_mouth::speak_no_evil:
But I’ll post one last update anyway :upside_down_face:

Jberry day 33

She started showing pistils and has been moved into the tent. Also, her autopot is fully connected to the res and I love this system!


UPDATE February 16 - Day 44

Ok I guess I’m not out… yet.
Jamaican Berry is beautiful and healthy

She is in an autopot and shares a res with LSD. They are fed with the lucas formula plus hydroguard and calmag. I’ve also recently added liquid koolbloom. Ppm is generally around 1200 and pH 6.0 (sometimes a bit lower to balance the leftover res which has higher pH)

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I had not checked on my grow for a couple days. We are now showing green! Attempting to do an Arduino controlled grow room hence not checking. Will explain it at end of grow off if successful.

Apparently I’m late for the party about updates. After reading other posts I realize there are posts with same title after I couldn’t find MY updates. Now I’m confused as to which is which.

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Ausgrow
Strain- pure indica (more to come)
Lights- 600whps, 250wmh
Vent- 6” carbon, 4” carbon
Space- 4x4x7, 2x3x5
Medium- coco with coco chunks
Technique- LST and scrog
Nutes- Tank, Cyco, Rock

One popped. Sucess. I’ll drop 2 more at the end of January I think. Let’s see if my order comes in time. If not it’s going to be 2 Afghan from ilgm.


So I planted my rock wool cube in coco and coco chunks tonight. This pure indica is going into a 10L bucket due to space issues. It’s going to be kept small in a scrog I made for it. The plan is to keep it moveable.


27.1.19
My order has arrived and I’ve dropped 2 auto northern lights from ilgm

So one had a 15mm tail and the other was just cracked so I dropped both into rock wool cubes. Here’s some pics. And a couple of the pure indica snail seedling. :snail: :seedling:

Ok so only one northern lights auto popped but has since stopped moving all together. I’m going to drop more seeds tonight to ensure I’ll have a couple plants for this competition. Ugh
Ok so I have dropped 2 amnesia haze auto and 2 super skunk fem at 11pm on jan 31. Hopefully I can keep a plant in this thing.

Today I topped the pure indica. The northern lights and both super skunk are alive as well. :call_me_hand:t2:

So I’mDown to one NLA one SS and one PI. I’m on the slow burn for sure. Waaaay too hot. But anyway. The PI has responded well to being topped. The others are struggling but will provide weed in the end either way. :call_me_hand:t2: Here’s a pic.

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Im in! So ill be using my ViparSpectra LED 450 with 5 gal Vivosun Fab pots. I got my closet veg room and then she’ll enter the flower tent which is Vivosun 4x4. Im going with Happy Frog soil and the strain will be
Gorilla Glue #4 by ILGM!!!

Ok so for an update im just gonna do it on my original for today.

So I was a little confused but I think I got it right. I used my preferred method for germinating, peat pellets. I dropped it directly into my five gal.

I wasnt sure if i wanted to do Bruce Banner but I kept with my GG decision.


Happy Frog Potting Soil
So I decided for the fun of the challenge/competition i’m going to use my recycled soil from my recent Bruce Banner harvest so hopefully this little experiment goes well hah

I love Peat Pellets so much



So I went to Lowes and bought a grow light bulb and put it in the stove light. That with the constant heat coming off the pilots I think it makes for a great germination area hah hopefully.

20190116-21:26

Look at this fool yall :joy: I came home after work and he figured it out tho. Looking like the baby aliens from Alien.



Well so far so good.

20190124 - 22:56

Ive named him Drewsiah and he seems to be happy thus far. Nothing much to report…

20190131 - 21:33

Drewsiah is looking beautiful and hes growing slow but good. Now this his roots are established I expect a huge growth spurt.

20190208-11:14

This fool looks so beautiful. So today I topped him and will prob not be doing much more LST. I have to reread the rules but I dont believe weight is judged. Ill say this tho, ive noticed planting directly into the final pot seems to have much better results then doing the transplanting method. I shocked the god awful hell out of my four other GG plants that im doing a different journal for. They all recovered but still dont look as sexy as the competition plant.

20190218-18:20

So I topped her and im happy with the amount of new sites so im now going to let it grow prob until the first of march and then make the switch to flower.


This is my first grow in this closet so im gonna keep it small.

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Im uber late as well but just marking my spot before the doors shut.

Purps Official Entry

Seeds: gorilla glue x white widow, pink kush, berry bomb (will start 2 because the regs) n two mystery seeds (same starting 4 cuz… regs)

Medium: dirt

Nutes: fish sh!t, mole ass, cal mag, recharge

Lights: DIY EB strips. One 200w and later 2 additional 100w

Techniques: just keep em alive

Start date: whenever i get the frigging seeds

Expected placing: FIRST CHUMPS!!!

Ooo sh!t! Its onnnnnn


GGxWW seed somewhere around my house. 3 days to be found before count begins.


Ok First Real Update

Had horrible start. Now we ready. Entrants
Pink Kush, Berry Bomb, KB 13, GG x WW, and Auto Dark Purple (double lemon pie is being a real bish… 2 seeds no starters) all sproutlings up and saluting. Pics later

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I found it but its still not letting me do any thing so ill just start off with what kind of seed im using i have 4 sour diesel i grow in a soil of my own it is a mix of peatmoss sand perlite and lime water i use is tape ph to 6.5 and the nuts i use is fox farm i just started mainlining so if thats not allowed let me no and ill put some pic of the ones iv started and every week ill add pic the two big one have a few week befor i put them in to flower and the other 4 small ones is the ones im going to u just want to show off my work one them the little ones got put in water on new years day

finaly picked witch one im going to use and started mainlining 2/2/2019 new updated pic 2/8/20192/13/19 2/18/2019

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@Bubblehead hey bub, woah on the posting in this forum please

Off topic conversation including bashing and banter is welcome in the off-topic grow

@PurpNGold74 welcome to the grow off. Thanks for your entry!! I hope your grow is awesome like everyone here!!

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Hey @garrigan62 is there any way to pin this topic somewhere it’s easy to find?

I think some have lost it and dont know how to find it.

Quick everybody bookmark it now

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@basementstealth I try to bookmark it and get an error code 500. It will not bookmark for me.

@garrigan62 would you look into this? Idk how there could be a problem with bookmarks

@HJL

are you clicking on the three dot’s and then clicking on the black square type looking thing ? It bookmarks everything that I click it on

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@garrigan62

When I try to bookmark the entire page it gives me a error code 500. I just tried to bookmark my entry with the three dots and that works fine. Thanks for the help.

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Great news I’m so glad it worked for ya. I tested it myself 3 times before I sent you the message just to know that it did work and it did … for you that’s awesome !

Will

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@garrigan62 , @Greasemonkey could use some help here. Just tried the three dot method to bookmark my spot and POOF , last my entire spot. Didn’t even get a chance to see any kind of square thing before it happened either.

#5 and #43 Update grow todays date Feb 11
Critical purple auto planted in Jan doing well. GL from Jan 1 doing well. Not huge. Still working on dialing in the nutes. Lots of root growth going on. Shes gonna take off if i can just leave her alone for a week

Update feb 17

I now have 7 nodes of vertical growth

My plan is to allow for enough remaining leaves on the top so when i top my gold leaf i can use the top as a clone :crossed_fingers:

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Thanks for getting us out of the great 2019 grow forum “lock out.”
My grow “Story” short version recap.
I started the great 2019 grow contest.
I somehow blew up my journal to deletion. @garrigan62 saved my ass. But we lost pix.
I don’t need to get too pix heavy by reloading /re editing all my old missing pix so here it goes.
I had some ILGM NLA seeds a planted them; they grew into small weeds within weeks; I had names for them, Maureen (Mo) she was the first to spurt up and grow. She grows tall and spindle like.
Then there is Lily (Larry) Lily was the runt of the three, she took forever to start and she grows squat and bushy. Finally there is Shirley (curly), she grow tall but not like Mo. I’ve hit her hard with LST with good response. Here are the latest pix.


Per the contest rules, we are supposed to pick a single plant at flower time. Well growing autos, I’ve already got Mo and Shirley well into flower, but I predict that the shrub that’s coming out of my runt plant is going to be the kick ass champion, so my money is on her. Here’s a pic of her and one with her taller lanky sisters in the background. Welcome to the contest Lily.

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Post #4 and now #45 as well.

February 18th - Topped before and after photos.

Side View

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