From Novice To Expert, a Journey through the Green

They needed to be watered anyways, and are only in 8oz party cups at this point so they should dry out pretty fast.

Tent has been getting up to the 87degrees(at the canopy) during the hotter parts of the day, so going to install my other inline fan tomorrow which will hopefully help keep it safely under 85. Ambient temp in the tent during the hotter times has only been around 83-84, so I'm not overly concerned with it.

Bought an ez clone 60(was on sale for the price of the 30!), and it finally came today. They forgot to include the misters though :mad: so itll be another week before I can practice some cloning. Plan to eventually cut 2 clones of all of the plants(3 of the better looking ones as room allows) and flower the mature plants. This way I'll be able to choose my mother based on flowering time/finished product/taste/smell and whatnot.

So all in all its been a pretty bad day, but hopefully things can just go uphill from here :thumbsup: I'll post some pics in a few minutes.

Few pics of the seedlings that are looking the worst. Then a pic of the 3 cotyledon seedling and a shot of my new cloner.

Some pics of whats in the tent so far, 2 little ones just got moved into today. One of them has had a problem with yellow tips for over a week, but no brown spots yet. Flushed it as soon as I noticed the yellow tips. One on the far left of the group shot is the runt thats always been a bit deformed, but making a comeback :thumbsup:.

Atleast for my next grow I'll be able to prevent pH problems :)

Annnnd a pic of all my seedlings. Sorry for the bad pictures I'm just starting to get used to this camera.

Transplanted the seedlings that hadn't been flushed into some 4" pots. All of the seedlings haven't show any yellowing/spots so hopefully the new soil, and correctly pH'ed water will keep these ones healthy.

Temps when the lights on during the day have been hitting the 87-89ish range, so going to pick up a window ac unit for the room tomorrow. Will a 5000 Btu window unit be enough in a 10' by 11' room with 2 600w and a few fluorescents running(3 t12 shop lights now, plan to switch to 3 4 bulb T5s when I have the money)? Don't need an extreme drop in temp but would like to keep them more in the 80ish range, 85 at most.

The seedlings I flushed have no sign of problems on their newer growth so I'm hoping I corrected the problem. One or two of them are still doing poorly(especially the only one that was germinated in rockwool), but it wouldn't be too bad if I only lost a couple.

On a side note! Dropped a roll of duct tape on one of my older plants. Only hit one fan leaf which broke off, but I'm not too concerned. <<< what happens when you don't smoke for months!

I'll get some updated pics soon.

Havnt had a chance to post been busy for the last few weeks. Most of the seedlings seem to be doing great now. Look more light 2 week old plants then 3-4 weeks, but that is expected with the problems they have had. I put my older plants into flowering about 2 days ago. Was going to take some clones, but they were already around 2 feet tall and I was afraid they will outgrow my tent during flowering if I waited any longer. Got my cloner weeks ago but was missing a few parts(finally got them today). Preflowers just starting to appear but too early to tell what they are. Going to set up my second light tomorrow and reroute my old ducting(is running to the vent at the bottom of the tent and going to run it to the one at the top to give the plants some more room. I'll get some pics after I get the ducting all set up. Older plants are looking great, a bit root bound atm but have some 5 gallon pots ready when they dry out a bit. The smaller plants in flowering are only in 1 gallons atm, and will be moved to 3 gallons when they are ready.

Ordered two 4 bulb t5's. Going to be using these for the vegging plants. Not sure exactly which light I'm going to use for mothers yet.

I think I'm going to be ordering a 23 w t5 for my cloner. BGH has one for around 40 dollars. Anyone have any experiance with this. Sound like a good light for a 60 site ez clone?

Sorry for the looong wait between updates. Been busy planning my transition to hydro. The "seedlings" are doing great now, all around 8-12". Took a few weeks to really begin growing again, but finally look healthy. Would have killed them off awhile ago and started over, but mandala isnt offering new seeds till January so stuck with them.

As for the flowering plants 2/5 ended up being female, and they are doing great. Waited waaaaaaaay to long to put them into flowering so they're huge now. Ones around 56" and just starting to stop growing, the others more in the 40" range(was quite a bit smaller when flowering started). Big ones in a 5 gallon, smaller ones in a 3 gallon. Had some light leaks the first week of flowering(my darkroom was defective, was full of light leaks on the seams). Took that down and exchanged it. Havn't set the new one up, as theres no way the large plant would fit in it under the light now. Unfortunately since the tents down, I have to move them into a closet during the dark cycle. Been a major pain moving the big plant twice a day, but I've been extremely careful and no signs of stress yet. Check the plants over daily for nanners and none have started to form yet, so think I'm in the clear on the light leak issue. I've been extremely busy lately but I'll try to get some updated pics.

As for my transition to hydro! Going to be keeping my moms in dirt, but everything else will be hydroponic from now on. Have a 4' by 4' table for my veg and flowering areas. Plan to root about 40 clones in the Ezclone, choose my 25 healthiest and sink them in six inch net pots full of hydroton in my veg table. I'll allow them to veg for a week(two at the most strain Dependant), and move them to a bed of hydroton in my flowering table. Following the K.I.S.S rule for my first few runs, and only using the lucas formula with AN micro and bloom along with RO water and calmag. Probably use some molassas as well.