RacerX's 10/11 Update

[Racerx]

Just thought Id share some pictures with a little update. Babies are...well they are awesome. Just about the start the ferts. I am using Advanced Nutrients, with Gro, Bloom, Micro, Vita Boost, Big Bud, and continuation of Growth Excel. Ive actually cut down on the GE use because they have been out of control, just awesome. All are atleast 2 feet tall. I even decided to not trim the lower shoots in hopes that it will slow the main stalk.

From the stuff I did trim, we made 40 clones. Half are larger, half were small little guys that I am experimenting with (various gels and methods). All are surviving. The first 20 are rooted, but not showing roots out the bottom yet.

Also got 10 Cindy 99 clones, a couple more Purps for mothers, and a special Romulan. The other operations are going well. Planter box is finally thriving the way it should be. Got another 20 Cindy 99 clones sharing the light. They are spindly, so hopefully they were firm up soon and we can put them under direct light. All in 1 gallons.

Finally, some pics from some of the G13 dried. Came out with a little less then 2 ounces, happy enough with the yield. Very happy with the potency. Its one of the stickiest plants Ive broken up.

[peace plz]

Looking real good! Keep up the good work.

[BlueBear]

How many C99 did you cut? How long veg and how long flower?
Good job
Adieu

[bud breath420]

holy crap that sweet!!

[Bodom Children Of]

Glorious!:smokin:

[JEFFAR420]

Beautiful setup, It must be hard getting to the back corner..

[Racerx]

Beautiful setup, It must be hard getting to the back corner..

watering wand.

We have 30 Cindy 99 clones and 2 mothers. They are vegging for 1 week (just enough to get some roots going and strong enough for the HPS), then flowering. We have limited vertical height and its a sativa.

The room with the TW in 3 gallon square pots has an ambient temp of 70* F. Its beautiful. Nice and dry too. There is a ton of airflow and a 16" oscillating fan and a fan to keep air circulating around the pots. They go about 4 days between waterings. The soil is 50% Foxfarm Ocean Forest, 35% Perlite (the Ocean Forest already has 10%), and 15% of our own worm castings from our compost piles.

Were having a little trouble with our mother room at the moment. The temps have gone up significently over the last few weeks in the room, but not outside. So were not sure what is happening (probably just not enough airflow through the cooltube). So were either going to give it a 6" inline fan, or were going to double up the squirrel cages so they both are pulling. I personally dont think that will work but my roommate does. The temps are not bad but we are watering the plants almost twice a day, also because most of them are still in 1 gallons and are very rootbound. Tomorrow space opens up for flowering some of the mothers so we can transplant the rest into 3 gallons as we can only fit about 12 3 gallon pots in the room and we have 22 plants in there right now (partly mothers, partly new clone).

The Cindy 99 are a difficult plant to get started. They are not very woody and the stems are rather small. This seems to be the case with most C99 I have seen. Ive been keeping a lot of them outside and they are finally starting to strengthen up. This weekend they go under the HPS, but probably in indirect light at first.

I just want to mention that I have been EXTREMELY impressed with the 600 watt Digital HPS systems. I can literally lay my hand on the glass. There is no heat on the back of your hand, 1" away from the glass!!!!!!! If you havent read my other updates, both hoods are pulled with a single 700 cfm Vortex fan. To get the light pattern we want, we had to pull the lights a little farther away from the canopy then I normally like. However, because there are so many lumens with the digital (almost as many as a normal 1000 watt), we are still getting good node spacing and the only stretch we have is from when the outside plants outgrew the flurescents during veg.



Few more pics.