white widow in soiless under 250w HPS - my second grow

hey all,

this is my second indoor grow and hopefully it will be more successful than my first grow which was done in an aerogarden and ended up with a pretty bad mold problem. anyway, this grow is being done in a soiless mix and we are at the beginning of week six. here are all the details:

My soiless mix is 1/3 Peat, 1/3 Perlite, 1/3 Vermiculte with a good handful of dolomite lime mixed into each pot. for lighting I am using a 250w HPS w/ a MH conversion bulb used during veg. For nutes I am using Fox Farm's Grow Big for veg and Tiger Bloom for flowering. I started with six White Widow seeds which all germinated, plus I germinated twelve bagseeds and nine of them popped, only six made it into pots due to lack of room. The six white widow seeds are in 1.5 gallon pots and the bagseeds are in .5 gallon pots. Like I said before we are at the beginning of week six and I started them on 12/12 two days ago. With twelve total plants under a 250w HPS I am pretty tight for space, so i want to get the males out of the picture as soon as possible, plus I am hard up for bud right now so I decided to start flowering. the tallest plant is about 1 1/2 ft and the rest of them are about a foot tall, everything looks healthy so far except for a few light spots on one of the WW plants. (see pics) which is only happening on one plant. what else? for vent i am using two honeywell turbo force fucking hurricane fans (that is the actual name) which are incredibly powerful and I got them on amazon for less than $25 shipped i would highly recommend these. I have one fan pointing straight at my HID bulb and it keeps my temp pegged at 80 under the hood. then I have the second fan circulating air out of the closet.

I wasn't planning on using anything else besides Grow Big for veg and Tiger Bloom for flower, but lately I have been reading up on molasses and I think I may start using it. I have some unsulphured molasses that my wife uses for baking, does anyone know if that will do the trick or do I have to buy blackstrap or agricultural molasses?

please enjoy the photos, and feel free to pick me apart!!

cheers,

wordsandwich

here are the pics of the leaves with the light spots. like i said, they are only on one of the plants and have been there for a few weeks, i have done some searching on common nute/plant problems and cannot seem to peg this. they look almost like tiger stripes...

anyone??

uuummm iron? are they still gaininig size?

funny i just picked up some mollasses today its unsulphered but itll still provide carbs andother nutrients also i heard the flavor was better with mollassas:jointsmile:

yeah i have heard that about the taste also. to answer your question, yes the plant is still gaining size. it's actually one of my larger plants. the ph is fine, and it is in the same soilless mix and nute schedule as my other plants...kind weird but i'm glad it's just one plant!

I have ID'd most of the males, unfortunately I have only two female plants from the WW seeds, and four from the bagseed (i think, the male flowers were less pronounced on the bagseed plants so I am goin to keep checking) so i have decided to take some cuttings. I took four from a healthy male because this is my first time cloning and i wanted to get the feel for cutting, then I took four from my healthy WW female. all of the cuttings were dipped in rootech rooting hormone and placed under a cfl where they will stay for 24/0. These plants were already one week into flowering, does anyone know how long it will or should take them to get back into veg? also, let me know how they look (too high, too low etc.) as this is my first time cloning.