New Grow Log!

hopefuly you can get someone to add a larger fuse/breaker in the basement for whatever circut the garage is on . tell em you plan on getting like a 5 hp. aircompressor in the garage and need atleast a 20 amp breaker/fuse for it .
good luck
crispi

What I do when I use the heater is put it on a timer so it turns on about a half hour after lights go out and turns off a half hour before they come back on.
Adieu

These (like the rest of the pics) are taken with a mobile phone camera, pending an issue with the real digital. That should change soon.

The HID light spectrum causes the pic to be a little "wavy." Hope I don't give anyone a headache...

The close-ups are of nute burn of some sort. The pH in some of the buckets got higher than the rest of the system, so I think some valves - as per Crispi are in order.

Please let me know what you think :o

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I've been waiting for them to recover from transplant shock before switching to 12/12, but these babies gotta go soon. They're gonna be BBWs, if you know what I mean.

Anybody have any tips for the switch? I hear a lot of people advocating Superthrive at this stage...

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Sorry about the terrible quality... That will change :rastasmoke: :rasta: :pimp: :smokin:

These are diagrams of the grow. They show growth relative to light placement. In the first one, you can see that the HPS isn't perfectly centered and the plants on the left are growing taller and wider. The second diagram shows the relative heights of plants after the MH hood was added. Note the lateral placement of the lights, I tried to depict the scale as accurately as possible. Adding the 400w MH turned the "runts" into dominant-in-comparison plants within 2-3 days.

Obviously the lights aren't ideally placed, but I just wanted to point out how the plants reacted in this particular situation.

As soon as I can move the lights to a better positioning (a few inches to the left, I think) I'll make a new scaled diagram.

FWIW, the light spectrum emitted by a a MH and an HPS working together looks awesome.

Does anyone have any suggestions regarding topping or LSTing, at this point? If I'm planning on 12/12ing soon, is it too late for this? Does it look like these plants would see a benefit in any such procedure, given the setup/time/phenotype/etc?

I've always been a "Christmas Tree" man in the past, but it seems like a lot of people are big on the pruning these days...

hey b/l ,
i wouldn't top em first time around , if they blow up like mine do from it i don't think your lights will cover all 12 .

as far as your p/h flux. try adding 2 more holes n grommets in your 13th. bucket . 3 lines total , 1 for each row of plants . it'll be more apt. to draw nutes evenly from all rows of buckets then -n- recirculate more efficently.
peace
merry x-mas
the crispis

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FWIW, the light spectrum emitted by a a MH and an HPS working together looks awesome.

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Woo hoo! And there ya go. Shows once more how effective 5200K-7000K spectra are during veg. (I'm assuming your MH is a "daylight" bulb) Makes the plants do the YMCA dance.

I do the same thing with flouros. I sprout 'em under 2700K, mix up to mostly 5500K/6500K for veg, mix down to mostly 2700K for bud.