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"So why do you have a key lock on that bedroom door?" My mother inlaw asks me while she was here visiting recently.
So you don't open the door walk in, have a heart attack and die on the spot! I keep large highly venemous snakes in there, no cages, they just hang from the ceiling fan!
As for the rest of you here, welcome to my grow! You have a key to the room. Enjoy.
Be nice!
Here it is, my very first grow log. My hope, is that by posting this, I will be able to get some great criticism, as well as be able to maybe help some other folks out as well.
So lets get to it.
The rundown on this show.
I am running,
-10 Master Kush (Nirvana) From Seed
-10 Aurora Indica (Nirvana) From Seed
-3 Lowlife Lowryder Mystery Indicas (Freebies)
-1 Green Crack (Fingers Crossed, very likely a Feminized Seed, I do have
Reverse)!
Lights
- 2x 400 watts, (Alternating them on off, 24 hour Veg)
- 2x 400 watts, HPS Flowering
- 1 T12 (For Mommies, clones)
Soil
- FoxFarm LightWarrior/FoxFarm Ocean Forrest
Nutes
- Advanced Botanicare Pure Blend Pro Grow, (If needed)
- Advanced Botanicare Pure Blend Pro Bloom (Soil & Hydro Formulas Both
Available)
- CalMag/ Liquid Karma
Ventillation
- A big fucking can fan, it sucks big time.
- A big fucking carbon filter, w/ can fan for exhaust
- A 6 inch inline duct fan, as well as a booster in the closet of my
bedroom blowing air into the ducting. The 6 inch in line is in the
grow room at the end of the ducting for intake
Temps
- Maxing out @ 85*, as low as 75* if I am lucky. (Maxing at 85 with 1
running, if I run both then they max out at 89-91, which is why I am
running just 1.:(
Misc
- For now I am using RO H20, this may change in the future. I am not
sure yet, I keep debating, my tap is horrible at about 380ppm around
8.5 ish ph! Once they get more mature I may feel better about
switching them over to it. Plus, getting and lugging the needed amounts
of RO is going to be a pain in my ass soon.
- I have a large recessed window area in the back of the room, this is
covered by a large piece of panda plastic, it will be my mom/clone area,
I will just have the window behind it open to get air in and out of there,
it's not 100% air tight, but it's pretty much air tight. I have yet to test
it for 100% light tight, (if it is not it will be though. It will be tested.)
- The flower area is in the main area of the room, which is now where I
am vegging these seeds. Once I am ready to flower, I will be taking
cuttings from the females, moving them to the "nursery" and veg them
out to get 2 moms of each strain. From there I will be running clones
from those moms after that and putting the clones into flower.
Purpose
- Pretty well covered it above, just to get a nice harvest for one, but to
also capture some of these genetics as mums, and run straight from
clones in the future.
That's it. If I forgot anything just ask. Here are some pics of the general setup and overview.:jointsmile:
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I am going to say this is at Day 1 veg.
Really they were started from seed, so they are now at the point of having 5 sets, or getting there 5th sets in as I type.
I had a little trouble a week or so ago, they were originally germ'd in RR, in 16 oz party cups, in addition to ph issues (too high) they also became root bound before I realized it! They did stunt for a week, and some lower leaves went brown and dry, but they have since recovered amazingly, and have been transplanted to 1/2 gallon pots, with FFOF, Ph runoff is at 6.8 with the RO H20 in at 6.6-6.7, nothing added, just 1 drop of superthrive per gallon. They have had 2 watering (1 at transplant) and yesterday with superthrive. They have greened up and rejuvinated well. Growth is now vigorous. Temps may have also played an issue early on, as I was using both 400 watt lamps, and the temps would get as high as 91, and as low as 86. I have since cut back, thinking that may have been overkill anyway, and my temps are now more acceptable at the highest 85, but maintaining around 82 to 83.
Here are some pics of the plants.
The first are the 10 AI
The second the 10 MK
The third an AI, #4 I think, it has always been lime green for some reason since it popped.
The rest just individual pics. Nothing very note worthy as of yet. The small light colored pots are the LLLR MI, I have treated them like red headed step children, they were free. So we will see what happens I guess.
I also have 1 greencrack baby in there, it's up at the front, non distinguishable from the rest really, it actually suffered the most early on and I thought that it was a goner. Somehow it pulled through though, and the new growth looks good now. It looks like it only has 3 or 4 sets of leaves, but the cotelydons, and 1st set completely dried and fell of before I transplanted.
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Above, the 4th pic is an AI, and the 5th is a MK.
Here are some more pics of my "palm tree farm".:jointsmile:
The 4th pic is the GreenCrack that had a near death experience.
The 5th is a MK, that has looked all fuct up and retarded ever since it came out of the ground. It is continuing to grow, just looks weird.:wtf:
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Looking good...KUSH...:thumbsup:
Only minor thing I can add...would be to introduce fresh air as often as possible...:twocents:
Good Luck....:greenthumb:
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How exciting! Thanks DP, I forgot to really explain that.
The ducting underneath the carbon filter goes back to the back wall of the closet. Through it, and attached to a flange that is in the back wall of my bedroom closet, then in front of that in my bedroom closet, I have a big ass Lasko blower trained right on the 6 inch hole, forcing all the nice a.c. air from the master bedroom, into that ducting, into the grow room. 24 hours a day. I did add a 6 inch inline right in the end too to help enhance the air flow into the room, the lasko fan pushed a ton, and the exhaust alone without the intakes creates a significant negative pressure situation, but with the 2 fans working together, that is really the jist of my intake air. I do have the house a.c. vent in the grow room as well, but that doesn't amount to too much. (It's on and off)
I have thought about getting a couple of more flanges, cutting a couple holes in the panda plastic over the nursery, and fitting some more ducting onto that. Then just letting that act to 1., move air through the nursery, and 2. act as an additional passive intake for the main flower area. I would love to just chop up the walls a little more, but my wife already had a friggin' hemroid over the 6 inch hole in the ceiling for exhaust to the attic, and the 2 6 inch holes in the backs of both the closets. So doing any additional will have to be through that nursery door taking advantage of outside air, just not sure if I can do it and keep it light tight. Not to mention it was about a 100 friggin' degrees outside today. But I know that later on this year it may pay off big if I can make it work.
On a scale of 1-10, how "critical" do you see this? Given the exhaust and intake are both running 24/7? I really have no idea what the air exchange rate is in there, but it does get a constant supply of fresh air from the living areas of the home through that intake. Do you think it may need more? I know it would help to get my temps down likely, but as far as the plants future health? (As they get bigger and respirate more?) Let me know in your professional opinion sir! Thanks again, I feel very privileged to have your 2 cents! I welcome any and all suggestions that you may have!
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Growing indoors, in hot weather is a major challenge. I don't even attempt it. I only grow in the fall/winter/spring.
I used my house ac/heating system to supply my small piss-ant grow room with fresh air, too. I just opened a window in front of the intake of my central air system. All air in my grow room, came from this source. It supplied the fresh air, added heat when necessary, added RH when necessary and added cooling when necessary.
Your #1 objective is to maintain: 70-85 degrees between the canopy and the lights and 40-60% humidity. IMO.
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Gotcha!
Now if I could figure out a way to get both lights running and keep the temps under 85.
Maybe later this year once avg daily temps get down, I will bite the bullet and try to get a passive/light-tight intake setup through that nursery door. Not looking forward to it. I'll be more pissed if I go through the trouble and it still doesn't get my temps low enough! With my luck, that is what will likely happen!
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IMO, you don't need both 400 HID lights for vegging. Are those MH light bulbs?...they look very "white" light. I use T12 floros for the first 2-3 weeks vegging before I switch to a 400 watt Hortilux HPS or lately 400 CMH bulb.
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Yes sir. MH's
I figured for the vegging that both were overkill, (at least that's what I kept telling myself after I stopped running both, good to get an expert opinion too, makes me feel tons better about cutting the second one out!)but looking ahead to flower, that's when I would like to use both 400 watt lamps, with the HPS's. I just keep agonizing in my mind over how I will get the temps down, and trying to rationalize whether or not it would be worth it.
If I have to keep the lights higher than desired, then I will have stretching, too low, heat stress, so I dunno. That's why I want to figure out now how to get the temps down.
Down the road, once I get past this first run and into flowering, I probably won't be using the MH's for anything. The nursery behind the panda plastic wall, will have some cheapo t12 lights, one, maybe 2 to run moms and clones, but like I said, I really want to run as much as possible with the HPS. I just don't want to get into a situation where I am hitting a point of diminishing returns if I have to compensate for the heat in some way. I know what the best solution is, but I don't have the cash on hand now to get a larger wattage, sealed, air cooled hood and new ballast to push it.
My local hydro shop does have the air cooled hoods, they already have sockets, but they are set up for digital ballasts, and both my 400 watts are the old style, with the cords hard wired to them. So I don't know if splicing is even an option, I am thinking not. I am not sure if I would be able to get my current sockets in the hoods either, and I don't want to buy one and then find out I can't!
I have been keeping an eye on craigslist. But I hate to go buy anything off their, then have to go to some weirdo's house that I don't know, ect....
I could just run my flowering with just 1 400 watter, and keep the other handy for backup. But I would rather get both of them running, the coverage for 1 isn't that great for the table I have, but 2 will get the job done.
As for the "whiteness", I dunno? But yeah they are MH's. It may be all the panda plastic? I have the tray underneath my table, it's pp, and pp all over the floor, of course the walls are just flat white, so maybe it's just the light reflecting alot, or my camera, or the way I took the pictures? Now that you say that, the pics do look really white, in the room it doesn't seem that white when you are in there, but I agree, those do look really white.
Thanks for the input! Keep it coming! Anything, any little thing at all, no matter what, as this log grows, be sure to let me know. I want to fine tune everything as much as possible, don't want any air buds, I need nice tight, dense nugs! :thumbsup:
My last run, I finished 2 plants and got 4 oz, it was so bad, and I am so spoiled I guess, that I just turned it all into QWISO, I couldn't stand burning the flowers! I don't ever want that to happen again.:jointsmile: On the bright side, I learned tons from it, and I know I won't be making those mistakes again, but hopefully now, with your help and the help of the other green thumbs here, I won't make too many new mistakes either! That's what I am hoping anyway! I have some high expectations for this round, and the rounds to follow, luck is not an option for me!:D
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MH's give off a "white" light...better for vegging. I've seen enought pics to see the difference between MH and the yellow/red of HPS lights...:D
I would kill to have two 400 watt'ers....for flowering. But, first you got to get though this tricky veg cycle. You say, "old style" 400 watt lights?...magnetic ballasts?...if so...I think, they are better, more dependable that digital ballasts. CMH bulbs work great in magnetic ballasts.
...anyways...the Uv rays from MH's are tricky...watch for leaf burn. I found it's better to "offset' plants some, under the light. Seedlings are very, very tender. And rotate plants, too. (but, not with the light on, I burned my knuckles doing that...:D)
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Originally Posted by Dutch Pimp
MH's give off a "white" light...better for vegging. I've seen enought pics to see the difference between MH and the yellow/red of HPS lights...:D
I would kill to have two 400 watt'ers....for flowering. But, first you got to get though this tricky veg cycle. You say, "old style" 400 watt lights?...magnetic ballasts?...if so...I think, they are better, more dependable that digital ballasts. CMH bulbs work great in magnetic ballasts.
...anyways...the Uv rays from MH's are tricky...watch for leaf burn. I found it's better to "offset' plants some, under the light. Seedlings are very, very tender. And rotate plants, too. (but, not with the light on, I burned my knuckles doing that...:D)
Magnetic yup, that's dem.
I did see some burn early on, thought it was temps, but that's good to konw too about the spectrum itself, what you are saying makes me feel better about not having the lights "all over them" like I wanted to initially! That would explain some issues I had during my last run. I kept thinking to myself, "how the hell is this happening," my temps were spot on, but I had both the 400 watt lamps in a 4x4x8 tent, so there was no escape!!! Might explain why this run so far is going significantly better than the last too! Good! I love it when I accidentally do stuff that is good! As for the knuckle burning, been there, been doing that! I just accepted it as part of the process, just like bass thumb from a productive day of fishing! It is better now though, I did start rotating the dim side of the table, took me a handful of ouchs, but I am not exactly the sharpest tack in the box some times.:D
Love your album BTW! You hardly ever see anyone put anything in the pics to give a reference/perspective on size. Surely you have gone through that by now and are on to something new! I won't ask, I know your policy! Whatever you are doing, I hope it turns out just as good or better than the last batch! That looked great!:thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup: I hope I get as lucky as you did with my female to male ratio!
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I am gonna go do some digging on CMH's now, thanks! Obviously you like eh? I know nothing about them. But I will read up!:jointsmile:
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I thought you would never ask...:D...http://boards.cannabis.com/indoor-li...-ballasts.html
I'm not trying to change anyone's mind...just want them to see the light.
(you have to have a 400 watt magnetic HPS ballast, or forget it)(not even a switchable magnetic ballast)
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LOL! I am already on page 2!:S2:Thanks sounds pretty good! Don't ruin the end for me! I still have some life left for a while in my mh's, but may make the change!
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:)Obviously worth a shot! When I go to re-up on a bulb, I am gonna give it a shot!
I really like the part about less heat, even if it's just a few degrees, that's all I need!:)
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One more thing: considering the heat problem...I would switch to 18/6 light cycle. I have used 24/0, 20/4, and 18/6 and they all worked fine.
18/6 would help with temps during the heat of the day. IMO.
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I thought about that, and then just running them with the 6 hours off durinjg the day, but I just have a supersticious belief that 24 hours is better. I know that there really isn't any solid reason to believe this, I just find it comforting for some reason. IDKY?
That being said, temps today maxed out at 83. Not too bad, and ran down as low as 79, these are canopy temps.
The ambient room temp is usually right at about 80, which is pretty good, my a.c. for the house is at 77. I really shouldn't be bithcing too much about the temps, like you said, I am going to concentrate more on good air exchange for now.
New growth everday now it seems. Leaves are getting broader, new sets come in daily! Very pleased for now. I will update pics probably late tomorrow night, maybe tuesday.
Thanks for tuning in!:D
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So,
um,
I am getting ready to water again late tonight, maybe tomorrow.
I am using RO, and am kind of wondering if I should start to supplement in some cal mag and liquid karma? Any thoughts out there? I hate to do anything right now, considering they are looking really nice, you know "if it ain't broke?"
I am using FFOF, I know that it is chalk full of goodies, the plants seem to love it, and I wasn't planning on using any of my Botanicare Pro Grow for a while yet. But I wonder if the FFOF has the micros needed? And Liqiud Karma, is supposed to be a catalyst that helps in the absorbtion of these micros, that would be the thinking of adding them both. Recommended dose is 4-5ml per gallon, I was going to start with 2ml of each per gallon. Any thoughts, suggestions, before I start dicking my plants around!:D
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Well, here we are a few days later. All is well in cannaland. The plants continue to grow, leaves broaden, etc.
I watered today, I was kind of surprised that they needed to be watered, but they were nearly dry.
Watered in RO h2o @ 6.7 with 1ml/gallon of calmag, and 1ml/gallon Liquid Karma. Very very very weak, but I didn't know if I should even be using either. I have always read that with RO h2o you need to use calmag, and the LK, is just a supplement that is supposed to enhance nutrient absorbtion. So hopefully those low doses will not harm them, and they will get something positive from it.
H2O runoff tonight, dun dun dun, 6.8. I didn't water really heavy, and got a smallish amount of runoff, so I combined the runoff from AI # 4,5,and 6, to come up with an average. Hopefully this is ok. I dunno. Seems to make sense to me. Temps are doing well, maintaining at 80 to 83, I did get a spike up to 84 today, but shit, it was almost a 100 here! So I am happy with that. Don't really see any signs of heat stress, maybe there are and I am missing them. So that's where you all come in, here are some new pics.:D
Pic 1 and 2, one of my Lowlife Lowryder Mystery Indicas
Pic 3 My Beefy MK
Pic 4 More MK
Pic 5 More Mk
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Pic 1 The 3 Leaf Freak, Don't know if you can see it, but it's growing 3 Main leafs per node. Also my best developed, 6 sets, and the only one that has 5 point leafs. Also kind of weird, I mentioned this before, since it has sprouted, it has always been a totally lighter shade of green?:wtf: Seems healthy though, and continues to grow, actually is developing faster than all the others from either strain.
Pic 2 More AI
Pic 3 More AI
Pic 4 My sole GreenCrack, keeps on chugging away! Can't believe it lived.
Pic 5 Shot with GC, AI, and MK. In the foreground in that order. All AI in the background.
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Pic 1 More MK
Pic 2 Side shot MK foreground, AI background
Pic 3 Best Developed MK
Pic 4 Another of the Lime Green 3 Leaf Beast
Pic 5 Another AI with some Fatty Fat Fat Leaves
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Pic 1 A more "narrow" leaved AI
Pic 2 A "broad" leaved MK
Pic 3 Another shot of the Beasty MK, I think she is #4?
Pic 4 Another MK
Pic 5 My favorite picture of the night.
Good night!:)
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Well, very late Day 5.
All the plants seem to be very well.
The cal mag and liquid karma did not seem to hurt them, hopefully it helped.
Today, I decided that I wasn't doing enough to fuck up this grow, so I added a very very low dose of Botanicare Pure Blend Pro Grow. 2ml, per gallon, plus the same 1 ml per gallon of cal mag. My ph in was 6.6-6.7, my ph out was 6.9. I know that this is a little high, but it's a victory for me compared to where it started. The plants don't seem to mind either, so we will see what happens eh?
I did figure out what I am going to do for flower, to get both of my lights in on the action at the same time, I will be purchasing to sealed air cooled hoods, that are supposed to be able to work with my existing light sockets. They are from HTG, and were an option when I originally purchased the lights that I did not take advantage of, but I am just going to bite the bullet and get them now. I will have a pic below. I hope that they do work well, I will be pulling air through them with a 6 inch can fan, hooking them up in line together. Hope it works well enough so that I won't need to keep my lights 3 feet over my canopy! If anyone has any feedback on these please let me know if I am about to waste my money.
Pics below, of the light, and various plant pics. :jointsmile:
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Well, I bit the bullet and got a couple of the "euro" air coolable reflectors on the way. Once I get them up and installed I will post a pic and let you know what if any difference this makes as far as how close I can move the lights and the temps. Hope everything works out well with them!:jointsmile:
As far as the plants go, 24 hours later, no signs of nute burn on any of the plants leaf tips so that's good I guess. I will just start little by little working up the doses of pro grow I guess. I am going to plan on continuing with the calmag for now every watering except for a few plain water days ( just to give the plants a break), I have only been doing 1ml per gallon, and will keep it that way for now unless anyone with experience comes on here and tells me otherwise. However, I don't anticipate anyone coming onto this thread based on previous history.:(
Since I have done my last 3 waterings with a little bit of added supplements and or nutes, I will probably just water next time, (Sunday) with plain ol' ph'd RO H20. I am really just trying to baby these as much as possible and avoid adding more than I need to, especially since the soil itself contains a good amount of nutrients in it, just don't know how much micro nutrients it has? If anyone knows, please by all means chime in, or if anyone sees anything glaring that I am on the verge of fucking up then please don't wait for me to do it! This was kind of the whole point of posting a "real time" grow log, so that I could get feedback as I went to hopefully avoid disaster!
See you Sunday, (and by you, I mean the naked girl at the top of the page I guess!):jointsmile:
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Update,
First, I apologize in advance, no pics tonight. It is too damn late, I still have some ironing to do and then it's bedtime.
Tonight/(last night) I watered with 1 ml per gallon Liquid Karma, and 1 drop per gallon of superthrive, in ro water ph'd at 6.6.
I transplanted 7 of the bigger plants tonight which is why this posting is so short and late! They went from half gallons to 1.5 gallons, next stop, 3 gallons (cross fingers and hope that's enough!). I was surprised at how well the roots had developed on the 7 that I did transplant, like angel hair pasta! I am thrilled all seems to be going smoothly! (Knock on wood). I also transplanted the 3 lowlife lowryder myster indicas from their puny pots into half gallons. I maybe should have just put them into the 1.5 gallon pots too, but oh well.
So I walked into the show tonight, and the distinct smell of dank weed hits me! I am shocked! After nosing through each plant, I realize it's the lowryders! They smell great folks, I hope they give me a little appetizer while the Master Kush and AI finish!
I will post pics tomorrow!
Good Night!:D
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Picture update!
Here we are, Day 12 Veg, Plants are all looking super duper with the exception of the "GreenCrack", I don't know if it will make it. It's pretty runty, and the root system was very underdeveloped as compared to the others.
I have transplanted all into 1.5 gallon pots, I am still amazed at the root systems that I saw on these plants, they were only in there small pots for what 10 days or so? Unbelievable! I am hoping that these 1.5 gallon pots will contain them for another 30 days or so. There is some secondary branching developing on the Master Kush plants, the Aurora Indicas have not done the secondary branching as of yet, but they are keeping up with the MKs as far as nodes go. Leaf sets are looking nice, big fat fan leaves, some with 5 points, a few with seven. I do have a few leggy plants in their, and of course the circus freaks as well.:D
Pic 1 Most of the AI
Pic 2 Most of the MK
Pic 3 The light green 3 leaf freak
Pic 4 The Big MK w/ secondary branching (This one is going to be bushy)
Pic 5 The really fatty fat fan leaf AI next to the 3 leaf AI freak!
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dammm they R looken really killer.
loven the 3 leaf plant the best.:thumbsup:
cant wate to see how they turn out.:thumbsup:
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Hey thanks for stopping by! This has been really lonely!
Yeah I like the 3 leaf freak alot! It's really odd in developement and color? It has been that weird vibrant green since the day it popped out of the soil, and has never changed? I guess it's ok, it appears healthy otherwise. I do have another freak, but it looks kinda weak, leaves are all shrivled and look really small and dry or brittle even though they are soft. It's a MK though. The circus freak is nice to because it hasn't done any stretching, developing nice and short and kinda bushy!
Keep on comin' by! Don't let me love these things to death, it's only my second grow so I want to avoid any disaster mistakes if possible, any help you can give is appreciated! Thanks again for the kind words!:)
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Just for you hydro! Thanks again for the kind words, I hope that you and many more will jump on here and subscribe!
Growth from Day 1 Day 3, Day 5, Day 12.
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No pics tonight, feeling lazy. I watered last night with ph 6.7 ro, 1 drop per gallon ST, 1 ml/gallon calmag, 1 ml/gallon LK, 2 ml/gallon Pure Blend Pro Grow. We will see what happens. I watered to runoff, wanted to make sure they got good and saturated, it had been since about Sunday since most had any water, that was during transplant. I have yet to see any "transplant shock", even in my previous grow. My plants really haven't missed a beat at all. I may post some pics tomorrow night at day 15. I am hoping that I will be able to take a couple clones from each in a few weeks. I am a little worried, most all the AI seem to be doing the single cola thing which is great, but I am not sure how I will take clones? None of the AI's are really developing any significant side shoots, while the MKs are more so. We will see though, I still have a few weeks, hopefully, if all goes well, I will flip them around Oct 15th. I would love for them to start showing sex on their own so I could thin out the herd!:D I am damn near outta room.
Got my euro air cooled hoods in, LOVE THEM. REally easy to set up, work perfect with my existing ballast and socket. I initially set it up so my can fan was blowing through them, (I have them daisy chained together), but it didn't work all that well, so now it is pulling through them and pushing exhaust out into the attic, where it is going through a carbon scrubber. Damn near put a hole in the ceiling of my grow room when I was in the attic. I was standing on the dry wall and not the joist, ooops. Now there is a hair line crack. Luckily the dry wall is supporting the carbon scrubber, which was a biatch to get up there and set up right, (I think it weighs 35 or 40 lbs?!)
So far with the new hoods, my temps are maintaing at about 83ish degrees, but that's with both lights running! (I know it's a little overkill for veg, but I want to get an idea of what the temps will run in flower with both lamps).
83 doesn't sound that great, but when you consider that it was up to 91 92 with both lamps on with the ol' bat wings, you can imagine the tingly feelings I got in my legs!:D The lights are also about 6 inches closer to the canopy than they were previously too, so all that considered, they are doing their job! Now I just have to hope like hell my can fan doesn't go to shit due to the higher operating temps! It says on it not to exceed 80 degrees Celsius, I am no math wiz, but I think that's like a bizillon degrees Fahrenheit?:wtf:
The footprint from the hoods are much better too, getting a better coverage area than I was with the crappy ass bat wings! Will post pics tomorrow night!:jointsmile:
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Damn near put a hole in the ceiling of my grow room when I was in the attic. I was standing on the dry wall and not the joist, ooops. Now there is a hair line crack.
...been there ...done that...:D
really, nothing I can add...everything looks to be on schedule...:thumbsup:
I'm watching.
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Originally Posted by Dutch Pimp
...been there ...done that...:D
really, nothing I can add...everything looks to be on schedule...:thumbsup:
I'm watching.
Yeah! That's one of the things I never want to do ever again! All hunched over, sweat pouring off me, can't see a damn thing, cramps in my feet, legs, and back, and the moment I take a breath and kind of re adjust so that I don't feel like shit run over twice, I hear this soft, crack! Shit! Like I said I am just glad it can support the can fan, the last thing I need is to go in there and find my can fan on the floor of my grow room, and a big ass fucking hole about 26" wide in my ceiling! Boy, that would piss off the wife lady. I haven't mentioned the crack yet, maybe she won't notice, and I will be able to get some shit to plaster over it!:D
Thanks for coming by! Stay tuned! Don't let me do anything dumb! That's going to be a big job!:D
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[attachment=o202192]Not much to add, didn't do anything today, I did murder a male lowryder yesterday, and may have 1 more homicide to go yet, we'll see. Good news is that I did get 1 female.
The AI's and MK's are still growing like weeds. I do have a pic posted of some MK leafs that are showing signs of heat stress?
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I guess, the temps are lower than they have ever been, it may be light stress, what Dutch had talked about earlier on in the thread. I have been running both lights for the last several days since I got the Euros in there. It's steadily at 82, maybe 83 or 84 at the very peak of very very hot days, but steady at 81 82, and getting down well into the 70's in the wee hours of the night and morning as temps drop off outside. I couldn't be happier with them. I have also been rotating them daily, so I am really at a loss as to what it might be from? Are they thirsty? I can't fathom it's that, the pots aren't dry? Maybe low humidity? Other thing is, it's only on the MK plants? Odd huh? Any help here would be great!
I don't suspect they are really serious problems, but who knows?
Female lowryder sexy parts!:D
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The rest are just general shots of the garden and I will also post additional pics of individuals in the next post too. Thanks for stopping by and drop a line if you have any good suggestions!
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Just a few more, I took'em, might as well post'em!
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Excuse me if i seem rude, but how the hell you get them to grow so fast?
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Originally Posted by hahaitsdoogle
Excuse me if i seem rude, but how the hell you get them to grow so fast?
You can grow some serious buds with two 400 watt HID lights, plus all the other toys...:thumbsup:...ideal conditions, and a little knowledge on how to make it work.
"I shit you, not"-SSG Barnes (Platoon)....:D