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Thanks man.
Nice to hear.
And I have no false beliefs that I am a good ganja grower but with seeking as much knowledge as possible on forums like these and beyond combined with taking notes of everything I do and what the consequences of it is I hope I in the future will be able to stay clear of a few problems.
And, it is so much fun. If someone told me 6 months ago I would start growing plants in my closet I would have laughed so hard but here I am enjoying every minute of it.
:D
Very hot day where I live and I am struggling to keep temp below 31 degrees (89F). A few leaves of the plants furthest away from table fan showing slight upcurling. Assuming early stages of heatstress. Might that be the case? I am working on getting the temp down a bit more.
Also the plants are really getting real branches now and the top ones on all plants are purple, is that normal on WW?
Have been reading through a lot of sites with symptoms of all kinds and it says that purple branches and stems are normal in some strains and can be a sign of trouble in others.
Any feedback welcome.
Puffzter
Yeah sounds like heat stress to me, lot of growers fight with temps in the summer. I think 90F is the limit i ever like to see mine hit, dreading a really hot week :wtf:Quote:
Originally Posted by Puffzter
Are you using the hps now? Lookin back over your log, pics in your new tent seem more yellow and you've got your veg light in the drobe? If so switch back to the veg light and save the hps till you need it.
I had red stems on my WW too tho i don't think it's normal for the strain. Never worked out the probllem, didn't seem to affect things much tho. I've read it's caused by a couple of deficiencies, Nitrogen and Phosphorus (think it was phos but check for yourself)Quote:
Also the plants are really getting real branches now and the top ones on all plants are purple, is that normal on WW?
:rastasmoke:
Yes that is correct I read the same, thing is there is no chance in hell I have a deficiency of either.
Plants looks super healthy (except for those two leaves with a slight upcurl) so I am more curious than alarmed. I can still se how leaves develop hour by hour so don't think I have a problem really.
And yes I am on HPS now, full ventillation through the cooltube though but still it gives off quite a bit of heat ofc. I will not change back though. My 125W LE is too inefficient compared so I will and am fighting the heatissue. The LE will be super for my small vegg/clone area I think but the tent is made for rapid and efficient growth so problems that arises I will have to fight now or later, might just as well be now. :)
Thanks for answere Hudson.
Yeah i didn't think it was a deficiency that caused my red stems either, i've got some G13xSkunk in veg now and their stems are nice and green, so maybe it's just a genetic thing and some strains are more prone to red stems from a little stress?? Like you said, no need for alarm but it would be nice to know why it was happening.
Good luck fighting the temps, i've got a feeling you'll need it ;) I understand why you don't wanna go back to the other light, but if you're gonna have a seperate veg and flower room you're gonna have to use them like that sometime.
I can just about keep my hps temps within acceptable limits through the summer when i'm on 12/12 running them through the night, but 18/6 would be a real struggle for me. It's do-able but it might get expensive if you need an a/c, i'd try adding another fan blowing directly on the hps and the other at the bottom pointed upwards. Have you got a lot of negative pressure in your tent? Sides sucking in under the pressure of the exhaust pushing air out of the tent? If so i've found opening the additional vents in the tent will drop temps a couple of degrees, (don't forget to close them in the dark period when you do it in flowering tho) Just thought i'd mention a couple of things i do when it gets hot incase you'd not thought of one.
Later :rastasmoke:
Two of the additional 3 vents at gound level are open.
I am running 20/4 now and lights off between 6am and 10am as thats when I am asleep for sure. :P Want to have free access when I am awake hehe.
I put the plants closer to the floor and lights 10cm further away and got to 30 C (86F) so I think its ok.
Damn these plants really grow like, eh, weed. Its insane to see how they develop even after just a few hours since last check :D
Small picture update from day 22 since germinated seeds were put with tails in the coco. About one week growth lost in the first tent but they are getting bushy now and already can smell them in the tent now. :)
All of them:
http://i314.photobucket.com/albums/l...r/DSCI0427.jpg
Plant 4
http://i314.photobucket.com/albums/l...r/DSCI0425.jpg
Puffzter
Pufftzer,
Your plants are looking very healthy!
I did notice you are using an HPS for veg. Is there a way to get a MH? Possiably a conversion bulb! I am just suggesting this because they grow much better under the blue light of the MH during this stage of growth.
Sorry I did not read the entire log but what is your light schedule currently?
By looking at the pics they look very healthy and deep green in color (maybe hard to tell with the HPS light) so you seem to have a good nute schedule so far.
JG
Thanks for visiting my log m8.
Yes I do have a blue veg light but its a 125W LE not a MH. When I compared the graphs of the spectrums my 600W HPS turned out to be much more effective even in the blue spectrum from pure "horsepower". My HPS has a spike in the blue as well but far from what a real veg light has. The 600 watts pushes it higher even there though than my other light so I'll stick with it until its time to start to use my veg/clone-chamber, there I will natrually use a designated light for that.
All plants are very healthy with not a single sign of trouble at the moment. They are growing insanelly fast in the coco with the nutes I give them and the light they recieve. :D
Puffzter
Well while cancom has been down some stuff have happened at my place.
I started to germinate 4 Hindu Kush and 4 Jack Herer that I got from a friend who bought seeds in bulk from a very cheap seedbank.
Cannabis Seeds - Cannabis Celebrities
It was so cheap it was worth trying out even though some suspicion was present.
Now they have been in germination for 2½ days and 2 out of 8 seeds have popped and barelly so. Even the ones that popped so far have only pushed out 1/6 inch tails. Seeds seems to be crap but I will go on and try to get a good pure indica and a pure sativa going together with my WW in a close future if these don't deliver.
The plan is to keep 9 plants in flower constantly in the future so I can harvest about 3 plants of 3 different strains every 3 weeks or so. It's a bit into the future now though as it seems, I will know in the coming few days.
My WWs are doing great though. Still growing mad and the topped/FIMed one has developed 4 stems, maybe even 6. There are 2 small ones that are growing tops just like a main stem but they are still small. 4 have become big already though.
A week from now I think I can get 1-2 good clones from each plant to save until I know which plant(s) perform best in flower phase so I can choose one or two good mothers for my future WW grows.
My Excel sheet has been developed to handle more paralell grows and I also invented a naming system for all my future plants. All info in the Excel file under "System and Information".
In short the naming template will be:
xxx-xxx-xxx-yymm-S
First 3 numbers show strain and the following clusters of 3 x's are different generations of clones. yymm indicated year and month when they were named (for seeds when they break ground and clones as they are taken) and the S indicates sex.
001-099 = White Widow (Dutch Passion)
101-199 = Hindu Kush (cannabisseeds.com)
201-299 = Jack Herer (cannabisseeds.com)
Exemples:
003-0807-F = a WW that was named in july 2008 and turned out to be female. Grown from seed.
105-002-008-1002-M = A hindu Kush. 8th clone from the second clone that was originally cloned from plant 105 that was grown from seed. Male.
This will in the future make it possible for me to follow the history for each and every plant very easilly is the plan.
I have a register where I will write the outcome of every plant. Yield, if it was killed off and why. Quality of product etc.
I am just growing on small scale but still fun to organize things like this. :D
The enhanced Excel file with information up until today is last in this post.
Here are some pictures from today.
Day 25 since I planted the seeds. (one week growth lost in the poisonous tent):
http://i314.photobucket.com/albums/l...r/DSCI0431.jpg
http://i314.photobucket.com/albums/l...r/DSCI0429.jpg
Link to Excel sheets with info up until today:
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Cheers
Puffzter