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5*White Widow feminized. Coco.
Hello.
I stared my first ever grow of anything really a while back will from now on log it here for you that might be interested.
My setup is:
100*100*200 cm grow tent,
Coco 7litre pots (might replant to 13 litre later).
125W LE Veg light for veg and 600W HPS for bloom.
280m^3/h ventillation (controlled by dimmer) and a table fan.
Sorry for confusing all yanks with metric information hehe.
Anyway, my growth is logged day by day in a diary that will be continiously updated in this thread every 4-7 days or so so you all can follow my plants step by step in detail if you so choose.
Pictures will be added often as well natrually.
Right now they are in their 9th day above ground and are all doing well. They have slowed down conciderably in above ground growth the last 2-3 days but all look well so I asume that root growth is what they are concentrating on atm.
Here is the 1st link to my diary sheet.
Enjoy and all input is welcome, this is my first grow after all. :D
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Puffzter
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5*White Widow feminized. Coco.
Here are some pics from the grow so far:
Grow tent in my walk in closet:
http://i314.photobucket.com/albums/l...r/DSCI0339.jpg
All five above ground, all visible with a bit of good will.
http://i314.photobucket.com/albums/l...r/DSCI0341.jpg
Day 6:
http://i314.photobucket.com/albums/l...r/DSCI0346.jpg
Day 9:
http://i314.photobucket.com/albums/l...r/DSCI0347.jpg
That's just to start you started on my road to yield or failure. ;)
Puffzter
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5*White Widow feminized. Coco.
Just love it. Nice grow tent, first one I've seen the whole thing from the outside. Looks like something, I might want to try out! Plants look nice, green and healthy!
Will you use same for veg. flower-etc. through out grow? What is your light schedule, at present. I don't think I am a Yank, but guess that is what we all are to someone outside USA! It doesn't matter much on the west coast though! Anyway, the metric, does screw me up, I have to think! dah lol!
I will continue to enjoy your thread and your pics are very nice, please keep it up and as informative as you can be. I know a lot of these people are very experienced, but I am a novice and reading all I can and results to set up my room one time only--right! I've yet to see anyone that doesn't improve. But, my health says, one and only one! I appreciate you very much and keep posting bro! many thanks and please do not forget your nut schedule with the lights, etc??? If u don't mind?
Here's a tok to a successful gro! :thumbsup:
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5*White Widow feminized. Coco.
I did extensive research during a month before I started concerning almost all aspects of this.
Everything from medium to light, nutes, photosynthesis etc etc. I haven't taken anything as a fact until I have seen it from different sources that dont have the same origin.
My light is on 24h/day.
I have seen a few reports here about 20/4 being more effective but they all come from the same guy that did empiric research in the area.
I have found many other as well researched reports stating 24h/day as better so I went with that for this first grow.
However:
I am using a veg light of 125W LE. I also have a 600W flower light that I am contemplating to use for vegg as even though only 30% of that light is effective for Vegg it is still more than the 80% of the spectra that is effective for veg from the LE light. Any opinions in thios matter guys?
As for my pots they are 1.8 gallon pots and I use coco so dont need the vcolume you do when growing in dirt, however I will contemplate replanting into 3 gallon pots at a later point in time, maybe.
All information about day to day grow is in the excel sheet in my first post and it will show up in my posts now and then updated during this grow.
I have updated my sheet with conversions between US and metric systems so next time I post an update the information to do these conversions will be in the sheet.
Everything from watering, nutes, light, temp, humidity and specific plant day-to-day information are in those sheets. Personally I add this information every single day but I will only post a new file every 4-7 days or so so I don't flood you with posts and links.
:)
Puffzter.
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5*White Widow feminized. Coco.
Thanks, enjoy the info! Perhaps you should do some 'flooding' of posts to get your subscription site on to get more viewing! So far, any posts have been very informative. I read one grow that is over 150 posts (by all) and still going! If it is interesting and informative, it doesn't matter. REgardless of length, you cannot stop reading and viewing! Good luck and will be watching!:thumbsup:
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5*White Widow feminized. Coco.
Wow puffzter, i'm really impressed with the amount of hard work you've put into research, your setup looks wicked and the records you're keeping in the excel file are gonna be really handy (i'll have to install excel on my laptop so i can view it lol)
Good luck, tho i don't think you'll need it ;)
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5*White Widow feminized. Coco.
Oh I have done research and collected tons of knowledge from it in theory.
I do however need to translate that into a practical "feel" for growing and learn to see tendancies and read signs.
That will natrually be easier with the teoretical knowledge as a base.
I hope it will turn out well but I have no illusions it will be problemfree. hehe
Puffzter
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5*White Widow feminized. Coco.
With some extra calculations done it seems my 600W HPS is many times more effective than my 125W LE veg light.
In the blue spectra I get aprox a 100% gain from pure wattage. But in the rest (and yes plants even in Veg use a lot of light outside the blue as well) the gain is about 8-10 times.
So, in no spectras is the gain less than 100% and in the rest the gain can be multiplied many times.
Only loss is that I have to run 600W instead of 125W 24 hours a day which is a bit more expensive but electricity is quite cheap in sweden anyway. Grow grow plants.
I'll take my cooltube apart later tonight or tomorrow and get the sun for my plants tuned up a bit hehe.
Puffzter
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5*White Widow feminized. Coco.
Puffzter, I am already a fan of your log. I'm looking at setting up an indoor system at some point, so I'm interested in not only the growth of your plants, but the setup as well - much like painretreat, I'd like to set up an indoor grow 1 time (mainly because I'm lazy and won't want to continually mess with it).
Your detailed note taking will come in handy, no doubt. As for the lighting issue, I've seen a lot of people use MH for vegetative stage. Does your cooltube support a MH conversion bulb? I have much research to do on lighting before I decide on anything.
Good luck, and thanks for starting up your log - I will be following along!
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5*White Widow feminized. Coco.
Thanks for the support.
About MH conversion I don't know. It was always gonna be HPS for flower and then I stumbled over this LE in the grow shop that was plug-n-play with my cooltube so I got it to try out.
Now after some further research it seems HPS is better all the way so I will change. However, if I had a 250 LE it would be doubtful if it had been worth to change.
A MH would be good for sure but then again I could just as well go with HPS. A HPS gives as much light (and more) so the only reason for MH over HPS in my book would be if you could save money by using them and I just cant see that as they need high wattage to perform just as a HPS.
So for me it is either a high performance LE for vegg or HPS all the way.
About my excel sheet:
Does it hold all information you guys would like on a day to day basis or should I add something?
This is my first grow and I want a diary I can work with for many growths so before this is over I want a template that is close to complete and that dont need any major changes so I can collect and compare data from earlier grows in an easy way.
I was thinking about saving each grow in a folder with a completed excel sheet and all pictures (dated to show progress in different stages).
After a while these folders might be valuable to find out if something new I try out is good or bad compared to what I have done before. Made accessible to the community as large they also might make life easier for first time growers in the future, as I am now.
I don't know, I guess I just like numbers and organizing stuff. :P
Puffzter
ps, I also love writing a lot, snap me on my noose if it becomes too much guys
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5*White Widow feminized. Coco.
Haha, don't worry about writing too much, i do the same at times, especially when i've been smoking :)
Yeah the data you're gonna be collecting will be invaluable i'm sure, especially in the learning process, it seems a lot of the more experienced growers do it with feel that they've developed over years and for some of us noobs it's kinda hard to get into at first and while there'll be a lot of variables, strain, temps etc it should provide a good guidline for others and give you a quick and easy reference as to what works and what doesn't, i reckon your stats are gonna help a lot of people :thumbsup:
Now i just need to find my excel cd so i can install it and have a look at your spreadsheet :stoned:
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5*White Widow feminized. Coco.
Yeah that "feel" I wanna develop as well. Still would continiue to collect hard data though.
I lost a link by the way. Its from that experiment that dude made aboyt different photo periods during vegetative growth.
He tried all from 16/8 to 24/0 and had reports on what the plants yielded in the end.
Anyone seen it and know where I can find it again? I will go 24/0 no matter what but I have a few friends I promised to show it and I totally lost it and forgot where I found it to begin with. Read so much the last month, lol
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5*White Widow feminized. Coco.
As soon as I read about your spreadsheet I thought (I wonder if that will be available as a template?)the sooner the better I say. Thank you for all the research you have put into it.
Good luck
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5*White Widow feminized. Coco.
It is a crude sheet man.
Just erase my data and put in your own. Make it better or do with it as you please.
I made it for my own use but thought that while I was making a grow diary it would be an easy way for me to help present my project in an easy to follow and instructive way.
Once my grow is in it's late stages I do hope I have it customized for my future needs so I have a template to use over and over.
From then on I am planning to compress and upload complete folders after every grow with spread sheet and pictures for anyone to download.
However be aware to take my data as a guideline on how to grow, I am a beginner you know. ;)
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5*White Widow feminized. Coco.
Plant 1, 3 and 5 showed early stages of nute burn tonight so all five got a good flush and I will redo my feeding watering schedule a bit for a while as a result of this.
Tip of 1 leave on one plant and two leave on 2 plants showed this sign.
I will change to feeding every other time to 15% runoff and every other time with pure water with little or none runoff.
This will according to my plan slowly build up nute levels in the coco again until I see the plants are fine and can go up to 2 times feed and 1 time water on their way to a full fed schedule again.
I will keep nutes on 40% of recommendations though.
Coco contains no nutrients in itself so it is a fast medium to correct mistaces in and I am not at all worried, just a hazzle to have to flush.
Anyway, info is recorded and next time I will have a better understanding on how to start nute build up in the early stages of the grow.
Puffzter
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5*White Widow feminized. Coco.
So it was a hectic day with a lot of time and work spent on my grow.
After the flush last night I have slowly built up nute levels in the coco again.
I also changed from 125W LE to a 600W HPS and by god the sun is shining in my tent now. The problem is that I had to put on the active ventillation to keep temperatures on a decent level now and since the plants are so small they don't give off enough moisture to the air yet to uphold the climate. Humidity went down as a stone and I constantly need to add more by dusting the air.
Gonna pick up a humidifier in a couple of days I think.
For the rest I hope all is under control now but until I know for sure all is fine I keep an hour by hour watch on them.
Peace out.
Puffzter
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5*White Widow feminized. Coco.
stumbled in here from your post on my log...
lovin the setup man, nice choice on the tent ;) here's hoping your girls grow to be nice and tall :bonghit:
DrSpiggity
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5*White Widow feminized. Coco.
Puff: This is why i assume alot of people say grow with soil and learn, soil react a bit slower then other mediums therefor having a good soilmix will make it easier till you learn.
It sounds like you have a realy good thing going on though so GL and im hoping the best for your grow.
sidenote: jevla hinsidas, i danmark e ström sååå kostigt...
Anyways just look at the plants feel the plants and their sorta telling what they need ( i learned from outside pot grows and inside/outside regular plant grows and then i research/ask questions in here and other forums.
Where did you get the tent cause i just have a room for it but that tent looks SWEET! keep it up
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5*White Widow feminized. Coco.
DrSpoof: Thanks for coming by and for wishing me good luck <3
Well Danish I am at home around the clock almost always so fast reaction is no problem in itself for me.
Soil does have a buffert effect and do react slower but that also goes the other way around. Once you have gone so far as to see you mistace it takes some time to reverse it and get balance back.
I don't know whats correct. On the Swedish grow forums I'd say probably about 50% or more start with handwatered coco these days because of the relative simplicity and the good prospect of big yield.
Soil is some dirty, heavy shit as well to have indoors and since I am in wheelchair since a few years I don't want a lot of heavy stuff to drag in here. I alone know about my grow.
I can stand up if I hold on or lean against something so Imagine the exhaustion and difficulty in setting up the tent and ventilation in there. lol lol
It took me 2-3 hours to get just the tent up.
The ventillation was a bit easier. Vent house is hanging with wooden stick in a very secure way. All I needed to do once I came up with the idea was to lift the house up, put in the stick and let go. Biggest problem was the charcoal filtre that is quite heavy and has to be put in place by lifting it, holding it still and strapping it in place.
Some rewarding but hard work for me indeed. :D
I went over to 20/4 last night after all. My plants looks exhausted from the last days of problems and I can't say exactly why, I just feel that they want a few hours a day without the pressure to perform in the light. They did indeed look better after 4 hours of dark so this will be their light/dark cycle from now on. I understand that there are risks involved with changing daylight cycle for a plant like this but this early in their lives they will adapt I am sure. Not like I'm gonna make a hermie out of a seedling. hehe
Puffzter
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5*White Widow feminized. Coco.
Damn damn damn damn.
My problems are because of the grow tent. Hydro Hut.
There is an issue with poison being emitted by the canvas o_O
Plant show signs of bot nitricient deficiancy and over nuting at the same time. Burned tips, and yellowing leaves to the virge of becoming white, slowed or stoped growth as well. Moved out they recover fast if not pushed to far in the tent.
Hydro Huts manufacturer in China used some chemical that emitt some gas when under strong light and/or heat, that's why they are looking better after darkperiod every morning and then deterioate even further the next day.
Good game. I will try to sort this shit fast as hell because I need a tent where I am living to be able to grow. It has to be sorted fast as well since I dont wanna start over by buying new seeds and start from scratch again. Shit shit shit shit!!!!!!!
International Cannagraphic Magazine Forums - Hydrohuts killing plants... it's finally over
Problem is I am not in the states but in EU and here I am at the whim of my growshop. I really hope this guy will fix it without problems and delays.
I'll be back with more information asap.
Puffzter
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5*White Widow feminized. Coco.
Ok, so here's the deal.
Plants were obviosly dieing. Took two out of the tent as a control group yesterday in the early AMs and they were almost ok today except for the dead "tissue". Greeening up and looking up from the down calwing. I then pulled the other plants out as well since they were actually turning white as a piece of paper at some parts. Now that is some sick shit.
The ones that got better I put back in the tent under close observation and already 6-8 hours later they were dieing again.
Pulled all out, tore the tent down.
Picked up a Secret Jardin Dark Room 100*100*200 (cm) pro tent. Pricey but very pro shit. Mylar coated on all surfaces on the inside and very sturdy frame. On top of that they are very versitile with many different ways to direct the airflow in and out of them.
Picture below is taken 1-2h after the tent was up and running with the plants in them.
*** LOOK AT BACK RIGHT AND FRONT RIGHT PLANT***
Rear one was one of the plants out of the tent for a 20 hours or so it looked like the front right almost before that. The front right was going white as a fresh piece of printer paper. Same with some of the others.
http://i314.photobucket.com/albums/l...r/DSCI0394.jpg
Since then they have taken close to an Inch jump in half a day and are starting to look up again. Bare in mind that all the way through they have been fed the same nutes from my reservoir of mixed nutes I did a week back (40 litres reservoir).
I have made no changes. Temp, humidity is the same and everything. Fuck that tent!
Anyway I have faith in my plants again and we'll see what the coming days have to offer.
Secret Jardin Dark Room in walk-in closet
http://i314.photobucket.com/albums/l...r/DSCI0380.jpg
New link to my data sheet diary for the grow with information all the way through this shit 'til now.
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That's all for now.
Puffzter
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5*White Widow feminized. Coco.
Hey glad to hear your plants are getting better, thats some strange shit with the hydro hut. I've got a secret jardin too, only the cheap street version but it does the job.
Good luck getting back on track and growing them little uns into monsters! :D
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5*White Widow feminized. Coco.
Thanks.
Seems like they are trying to make up for lost time right now. DAMN! Almost an inch in a day, leave popping out all over the place and humidity up 10%. They are drinking mad for being so small but ye until this afternoon they barely drank at all.
I am sure all is fine now. :D
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5*White Widow feminized. Coco.
Things are still well now. Plant bounced back beautifully and I just seem to have lost about a week and a few leaves in the end. Than god for these communities that made me aware of possible tent poisoning and fuck companies that don't test their products.
Well, my plants are developing their 3rd and 4th set of real leaves now and I am starting to look to the future again. I will not scrog these. And actually I dont think I will even snip tops on them as I need clones (this is my first grow) I don't want to interrupt them any more than needed.
What do you think about just letting them grow as they please?
5 WW on 1 square meter.
Good things with this and bad?
I will post more pictures soon and an updated grow diary as well. Anyone had a look at the diaries yet?
Do you think I should alter it in any way or is the information enough for me to use in future grows and for you to follow what I am doing?
Cheers
Puffzter
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5*White Widow feminized. Coco.
Ok time for an update again.
Since the tent tried to Zyklon B my plants things have turned around as you might have read.
Growth can be followed hour by hour now, actually can. :D
I went up to 50% nutestrength and then after talking to an experienced coco grower I went to 100% of recommendation as well. No bad reactions from the plants to the contrary, they are thriving.
Posting some pictures and in the end an updated diary from the grow, with detailed information from this project day by day.
First pic(repost) is from 1-2 hours after plants were pulled out of the poison hut:
http://i314.photobucket.com/albums/l...r/DSCI0394.jpg
This one is from 2 days after that, plants are noticing that they just might make it :)
http://i314.photobucket.com/albums/l...r/DSCI0402.jpg
4 days after growing mad:
http://i314.photobucket.com/albums/l...r/DSCI0412.jpg
6 days after :D :D :D
http://i314.photobucket.com/albums/l...r/DSCI0415.jpg
All plants are on same location all the way through this but have been turned on quarter on the last pic.
I very visably have seen a difference in one of them now from the others. One have much thinner and stretchier leaves than the others and also is more lime in color. Guess that means that plant might end up stretching a bit more in bloom as it seems to be a bit more sativa dominant. Correct observation you think?
I have no worries anymore now. Not at the moment at least. My grow is 100% where I want it at the moment and that feels really nice after what I went through before.
Got some Hindu Kush and Jack Herer seeds today as well so its time to build a vegg/clone chamber soon. These are not feminised so I will need to start them, make them show sex, get clones etc etc before I can dream of getting a harvest worth the name out of these but that is gonna be a nice project and it adds 2 more very nice strains to my grow as well.
Anyway, here is the updated grow diary (excel):
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Peace
Puffzter
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5*White Widow feminized. Coco.
I FIMed the Sativa dominant #5 plant. It is the first grow after all and even though I had basically decided to let them grow as they wanted I came to the conclusion that it is better for future references to try some stuff out at least and since I have one that is more stretchy than the others it got the snip. :P
Now, in retrospect it seems I might have topped it instead of FIMed it though. Close call but never mind, it is a learning process and I will just have to see how many stems that will eventually grow from the cut.
Puffzter
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5*White Widow feminized. Coco.
Incredible change in the plants since you got rid of the tent of terror. ;)
I've never got the hang of fimming, tried a couple of times but never quite worked how i would of liked.
Keep it up :thumbsup::thumbsup:
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5*White Widow feminized. Coco.
Hudson: Ye I cut a bit too low and I am quite sure it became a topping instead but never mind. If so I know for next time, hehe.
I prepared my vegg/clone area today. It's got room for 9 7 litre pots (aprox 2 gallons US) or a lot of smaller ones natrually. I will enclose the area a bit better when its time to start to use it but basically it will be like on this picture I think.
Need a small fan in there as well to swirl the air around and make those stems a bit stronger. :D
Pretty good use of a cramped area, right?
http://i314.photobucket.com/albums/l...r/3059d683.jpg
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5*White Widow feminized. Coco.
Sweet ;)
I've got a drobe next to my flower tent, but i use an old diy tent for my vegging. That may change when i've a bit of time, it'll save me some space :)
Funny how i didn't think of that before, thanks for prompting me :D
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5*White Widow feminized. Coco.
Puffz, I'm glad to hear you figured out the issue with your tent. I hate to hear you had problems with it in the first place, but thanks to you I know you have kept many others on this forum from winding up in the same place! I have been looking at tents for awhile, and you just kept me from going down a dark alley in a bad part of town, bro! I can't wait to see your WWs completely triched out! Keep up the outstanding detailed work too! I know your results will be amazing, my friend!
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5*White Widow feminized. Coco.
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
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5*White Widow feminized. Coco.
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
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5*White Widow feminized. Coco.
Quote:
Originally Posted by Puffzter
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?
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:
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.
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Also the plants are really getting real branches now and the top ones on all plants are purple, is that normal on WW?
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)
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5*White Widow feminized. Coco.
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.
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5*White Widow feminized. Coco.
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:
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5*White Widow feminized. Coco.
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
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5*White Widow feminized. Coco.
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
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5*White Widow feminized. Coco.
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
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5*White Widow feminized. Coco.
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
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5*White Widow feminized. Coco.
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.
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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):
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Link to Excel sheets with info up until today:
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Cheers
Puffzter