2x2 ebb and flow hydro unit
400 watt light
8 plants
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2x2 ebb and flow hydro unit
400 watt light
8 plants
Setup and plants 1 week veg
Started 12/12 after 1 week of Veg...
first two weeks of 12/12 used 2ft eight bulb t5 blue light to help prevent stretch...
some more pictures:
looks nice bro...i saw your titile and was about to post where's the pics and i figured they wold be following so i backed off and viola...pictures!
never heard of purple diesel....do you know what purps is crossed with the diesel? just curious as there always seems to be something new every time you turn around:jointsmile:
lollipop SEG:
Thanks!!!
I keep a grow log on Paper. I use a moleskine weekly diary. This grow is comming nice so I decieded to post some pictures and keep a semi-log online.
I am at day 30.
I need to take some shots with a different light.
Day 30 flowering
Looks great!
Do you air cool your bulb?
Thats a good question!!!
This is the first grow I am not. I used to air cool my light. I would have the exhaust fan suck threw the light and expel hot air.
I decided to to take the glass off my light.
I was working on another grow with two lights. One was air cooled with a glass the other was not. I noticed (this could be my imagination) better growth and more trichome development under the light with no glass. So I decided to remove the glass from my hood and see if i can keep the temperature in check without it being air cooled. So far so good. I run my lights from 6 at night to 6 in the morning. I like the drop of temperature the plants get early in the morning when the lights go out. Anyway, the temp has had a max of 83 F. It stays in the 70's when the lights are on and in the high 50's and mostly 60's (sometimes 70's) when lights are off. I live in Northern California.
nice looking setup...they call SF Norcal...haha...to us in the way up Norcal we think it ends at Red bluff...haha!
Do you still have the hood sucking air for exhaust because i am sure that will pull some of your heat out from the bulb..but interesting thought on the glass!:jointsmile:
Yes
I still have the exhaust set up very close to the bulb. In reality I could have left it attached to the bulb and just taken the glass off. I would have done that but my light fit better when I removed the ducting to the hood (this tent is very small). It is still kept very close to remove as much heat as possible.
The truth is I am from So cal, but moved up to Berkeley for school. People here do refer to the bay area as Nor Cal. I am honestly just glad I am away from way down south. There is way to many really expensive trucks down there that I can't afford... With really huge dirt tires that are really clean and never seen dirt...:cool:
thanks for the laugh....i know those trucks...you don't see many up here...we use our trucks :jointsmile:
my moms dad was masters grad at UC Bezerkley....know the place well :thumbsup:
look forward to watchin your grow demo:smokin:
cool!!!
I look forward to the LED Grow Show.
Might see me with an LED sometime soon. :thumbsup:
This grow I am happy with the way I pruned my plants. I did some measuring today and the top of my plants are 1 foot from the bulb and the bottom of the buds are 2ft. Lollipoping my plants seemed to work nice. Each plant is growing one, 1ft long bud. Each a perfect distance from the light.
The plants are in 5 1/2 " pots filled with rockwool cubes. The smaller pot size seemed to help with stretch, along with using the blue light the first two weeks of flowering.
I really want to take some nicer pictures.
hey bro...get yourself some Bushmaster in there an no worry about the stretch ever...puts your girls into flower faster and better yield at the end with one application before putting them into flower...martyr has good write up using it in his EPIC BLUE DREAM grow...he has it well documented :thumbsup:
I own bushmaster. I have used it quite a bit. I only use it in emergencies. It does work really well. One thing I noticed is it seems using it my plants lack quality in the final product. This could possibly be due to the fact that the plant skips the stretch, finishing the plant a couple weeks early. I noticed a slight decrease in quality of final product. I do not like rushing my plants. In my opinion the slower the better. Like Organics. It takes longer yet usually comes out better.
I do use bushmaster only when I have to.
side note: i own gravity and purple max as well. i was thinking treating half my plants with purple max this grow and half not. just to test it out. I use it in every grow yet never compared end results.
right on:thumbsup:
i have the same...purple maxx i think is really good in helping trich development...but gravity is one of those products that sits in the cabinet and i wonder if i should use it or not...i,ve had some issues with it in the past with bleaching out the tops and ruining that nice top cola:wtf:
Gravity. If you have kind of tight buds it will make them rockhard BUT if the strain does not have hard or dense bud. Then it will stress them bad with little to no results. I stopped trying to make fluffy strains rock hard.
Interesting stuff there.
I think what i shall do then is test the purple max on half and gravity on half of the ones treated with purple max and half of the ones not treated with purple max.
so i get only purple max, gravity-purple max, only gravity.
this will be a nice test.
Thanks guys!!!
"I noticed (this could be my imagination) better growth and more trichome development under the light with no glass."
This is not your imagination. I've had to prove this many times to people by using any simple light meter. Fixed bulb, fixed meter, piece of optical glass from an expensive flat bed scanner. Got the light placed where the meter read 1000. Put the glass in right against the bulb, dropped to about 900. Moved the glass down by three inches, 500.
Glass reflects, after all. :)
Good info. Thanks!Quote:
Originally Posted by khyberkitsune
If you take a clear piece of glass and look at it edge-on you will see the true color. Some are bluish, some are greenish. Many are greenish (like the scanner bed glass, it acts as a green-balancing filter to the scanner) and thus they actually cut down on usable red and blue light while transmitting more of the green light.Quote:
Originally Posted by demoreal
do you use gravity regularly? i have a bottle and it scares me...ive bleached too amny tops with it but that was long ago and under HPS and i had no way of raising the light any higher than it was...so maybe have to do my own experiment inder the LED's...does it increase yield with your grows?Quote:
Originally Posted by demoreal
great avatar :thumbsup:
I am not sure about gravity or purple max. I know for sure bushmaster works. You know that too.
I have used gravity and purple max every grow so i have nothing to compare it too.
This grow I will do the test.
2 plants = nothing
2 plants = purple max
2 plants = gravity
2 plants = gravity and purple max
the purple maxx is good stuff and can be used weekly....i do know that...but the gravity...that one''s got me...so i was just wondering what you experience has been! :jointsmile:
i will be following to see the results...thanks! :thumbsup:
From what I understand, under LED, gravity should work fine. It's typically HID users that have issues as the plant becomes less tolerant of heat. (This is why it is not recommended for plants that bear fruit, as it'll force fruit dropping, similar to heat issues for most other plants.)Quote:
Originally Posted by stra8outtaWeed
Today I top fed 4 of the plants with 2ml/(4l water) of purple max
will post some new pictures soon...
Nice Air flow between flowers:
4 two liter bottles in between plants and one on floor with a bubble counter so I know when to add sugar and yeast.
bubble counter: 1bubble/sec
solution: 4 days old
they are filling in nicely....and a little Co2....nice :thumbsup:
hey you got you links fixed...right on..so it worked
Thanks!!! str8outtaWeed for leading me to bigtopsfinn for the computer technical help. I would rep both of you but I need to spread some rep first. I owe you guys.
Looking quite nice! I've thought about CO2 supplementing in my PC box but I wasn't exactly sure with the current airflow. If I sealed the case entirely, I'd put a box of dry ice with a tiny hole in there and let that roll instead.
Gives me something to ponder for next time :)
If you do use dry ice let me know what it does to your humidity.Quote:
Originally Posted by khyberkitsune
I have my fans on a controller that turns my fans on at 80 F then off at 73 F. I want to bump up the heat to go on at 85 and off at 78. I am not going to do this until I buy those throw away co2 testers to make sure there is enough co2 to make the extra heat beneficial.
The sugar yeast method did not mess with my humidity to bad. I wish I had a 20lb tank...
purple maxx test:
used 2ml/ 4L
purple maxx again to 4 plants
this is the second watering of it
Doesn't do too much, instead it will actually dry out the air as pressure from the expanding CO2 gas pushes the regular air out of the cabinet.Quote:
Originally Posted by demoreal
Did this again tonight, will wait a few days then increase dose to 3ml/4LQuote:
Originally Posted by demoreal
Day 39
Could have grown one more plant in center
All plants look the same, will add more purple maxx to test plants soon. At the rate of 1ml/L
trichomes getting cloudy
2 plants = 1ml/L purple maxx
2 plants = 1ml/L purple maxx .25ml/L gravity
2 plants = .25ml/L gravity
2 plants = no gravity, no purple max
My purple diesel plant is not purple. My temps even get down to the 50's at night. It has purple smell, but no purple. I do not really care, just an observation. It looks and smells amazing.
Quite often a 'purple' strain is just crossed with the purps and doesn't actually purple. It maintains some unique characteristics like the dark dank fruity smell but just doesn't retain physical characteristics like visual purpling.
Fed 4 plants 1ml/L of purple maxx and 2ml/L of sweet
I feed all the plants sweet I just gave the ones being treated with the purple maxx a little extra along with the dose of purple max.
I was going to give another dose of gravity today but ran out of PH testing solution and did not want to risk it. I will get give another dose in 2 days.