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Very nice Shovel!
Thank you my friends, I do try hard.
This is the first grow in quite a while where the fan leaves didn't start dropping early in bloom cycle. They are just starting Week 11 and the fan leaves on some of the plants are just starting to color up. Nice rich soil and good nutrients will do that. I think I'm onto a good feeding diet/schedule. I also notice that the buds have continued to push out sugar leaves like crazy. I'm not sure that's so great, time will tell. Trics are still mostly clear but I will check again soon. These strains were 8-10 weeks last time I ran 'em so the diet seems to keep them growing and healthy longer. I did taper the feed to 50% about 10 days ago and just aerated water with a little molasses since.
Besides the change in soil and all organic nutrients I started to get fussier with pH measuring and correction. I'm still improving on that. Next grow I hope to do better still.
One of the Cyril variety. They haven't done much in many weeks but the smell wicked good. A pitifully small harvest but hoping for that something special.
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Shov -
I've been keeping up on your log and I love it. I just re-read everything before I asked, what kind of lights are you using? My new HPS is a 600 watter and she's going to be here today (can't wait) but what bulbs are you using?
Two 400 watt MH / HPS magnetic ballasts with small reflectors. One four tube T5HO 54w. For both systems I have various lamps for veg and grow. Now I'm finishing with two HPS and Bloom Cycle T5HO tubes.
I start with either a 2x4' T8 shop-light, the 4x4' T5HO or 2 CFL spot reflectors running cool white CFLs in 26w and 42w. Add additional light as needed during veg and flower depending on the number and size of the plants. I crowd them right in sometimes.
Looking great Shovelhandle! On that last picture, what's the scoop on the curling leaves? I had an OG Kush (supposedly..) that had similar looking leaves and pretty much appeared to be a mutant.. ugliest plant I ever grew and was incredibly weak. Yours looks much better from that standpoint.. :jointsmile: Farmer Rich
I meant more specifically which bulbs you were using. Mine is coming with an earth grow which is 90k lumens, 2.2k color/temp which I'm fine with, but I'm trying to figure out if I should get a different one and use that as a spare. From what I've read I need to replace them every few months to ensure maximum lumen output, so should I just stock up on the $30 90k lumen output lights?
My veg is still going to be pure CFL, but I've got the 600w plus 8 42w 2700's in flower. This should produce roughly 115k lumens for my flower stage in a 2x4 footprint (LOL) talk about excessive.