Flowering 2 Master Kush

[Opie Yutts]

What lighting do you have Opie?

I've got a 400W MH cool tube and a 600W HPS sealed hood (basically a cool tube, without the tube shape). Been tossing around the idea of trying an all CFL veg cycle though. My plants in veg grow way faster than I need them too.

[Weedhound]

That's funny....I want mine to grow FASTER!! Bigger!! I'm really excited about my new lighting and maybe I got spoiled by starting off with a an mh (my 1 kw ballast is switchable) and have never really been happy vegging with cfls. Hope you like them better.

Hey Jack....long time no see.... What are you growing these days?

[xcrispi]

Hi Sis .
You wern't kidding about the 2 Snl x N.H plants . They're crazy diferent . All 4 I did here looked very very much like the 1st. of your pics a cpl. posts back . The only other plant in the room at the time of the breeding was a single Church plant and we didn't see any nanas on it , you may have a Snl / N.H x Church ? Only god really knows . Either way they look real good . :thumbsup:

Your Weedhounds mix / Indica Dom. plant here is going nutz btw , even after me torturing it like I did . Buds all over it on 13th day of bloom . When we do the crazy dirt grow this summer I promise I'll tryn make you a mess of femin. seeds from this strain , maybe "Daddysgirl" also .

Maybe we'll get somemore feedback on your strain in the near future . Santa sent 9 strains / 60 beans to our Big Blue furry Brother up there by the Northpole to try out , 10 of which were W/H Mix .

God Bless Sis .
Xcrispi -n- Juicy J :jointsmile:

[JackHerer]

Hey Weedhound

Yea has been a while since I posted regularly, been a lot of rumors around my area that our version of your DEA had got tech savvy. Personally I think it was just some folk fishing my friend who I helped get set up to see why they are no longer smoking the solid plastic But better safe than busted & our sadist officers do like kicking the doors in on christmas morning.

Finished my run of clones before going to the Dam. Only real plant I have just now is my attempt at a bonsai mother. Have added some pics. It is in soil now but it didn't start that way. Did the usual with the clones plonked them in the 1" rockwool cubes then the 4 " cubes and hand watered untill the roots show through. The extra 2, I put in pots with hydroton surrounding the cube & hand watered. After the first lot of LST & shaping I re potted one cutting all the hydroton & roots off untill it was back at the rockwool cube then stuck it in a pot with soil. My friend is having a go at doing me the clones for my next run & I am germing some Super Silver Haze, Crimea Blue & Violator Kush. Going to try something similar with those in the mothering cabinet I am working on. On top of that I need to get two grow tents, the cool shade etc.. so its time to spend cash again. Great hobby/addiction but it costs almost as much as another child, no wonder we call the plants babies.

If the clones that are being prep'd for me take ok then I was thinking of flowering this mother, then re vegging it. At the end I was thinking of finding a nice place outside for it where I could stick it & let it go wild. Would like to see a natural strain develop where I live.

[Opie Yutts]

That's a lot of green in a little space. Nice LST.

[JackHerer]

Cheers Opie, I wouldn't show you the original cabinet I had her in out of shame. Wasn't any bigger than she is now so I guess the build up of green was probably helped by the fact the lights weren't so much above her as in the middle & surrounding her.

[MVP]

It's taken me a few days to get the problem identified but it comes down to my (hanna) meter being screwed up and giving me the incorrect ph on all my plants.......despite the fact that it calibrates dead on for both 7.01 and 4.01. I love that. :wtf:
It's been reading way low....I believe because of colder temps in the w/f buckets. I was finally able to figure it out by pulling out my OLD hanna and calibrating and working with that. (the "old" hanna is actually the better one but more of a hassle to use.)

I have a new ph meter on the way that i'm excited about...supposed to be the bees knees of ph meters. It will be WONDERFUL to be able to trust what the damn meter is telling me. :thumbsup:

WH, I'm interested in this since I believe we are using the same gear: so what PH pen are you using now? And the bad Hanna -- I want to know what model it is that has been giving false readings. Also what is the new meter you are getting?

Thanks

MVP

[Weedhound]

SO......I've learned a few painful lessons about the ph and tds meters in the past week or so. First my hanna model # 98130 starting flaking out with ph measurements. I changed the battery and probe recently so no excuses there....simply erratic readings that cause me to adjust the ph too high (reading way low) even though I checked it frequently and it read calibration solutions dead on. Sometimes the reading was correct....sometimes not. Sometimes it would read the same thing two different ways within a few minutes It was reading the ppms fine though.

So second meter...a hanna 91829 WAS working fine but then crashed out yesterday leaving me with no way to measure ppms and although the ph function worked....it had to be recalibrated every few hours (and checked constantly to make sure it was still calibrated.) So here is what I have learned so far:

1. I hate my hannas and will never buy a hanna again.
2. You need to have a back up ph tester for your f*cking back up ph tester Buy some drops to have on hand......at least those are consistent.
3. I hate my hannas and will never buy a hanna again.

I have a truncheon ph tester on the way....somewhat pricey but I have heard NOTHING but great things about them and am sick to death of wondering if the ph tester is working TODAY and these came highly recommended. Between calibrating the stupid SECOND hanna every few minutes and the drops I'll make it until it arrives......

I picked up an oakton tds tester today also. Very basic....only reads tds....not e.c but super easy to calibrate and very easy to use. If I find I miss having an e.c. reading I'll buy another meter since I have discovered it doesn't matter HOW MANY you have on hand....you never have enough. I don't usually go by e.c. though so not sure if I will miss it or not.

[JackHerer]

Sounds like your having a bad week for gadgets WH. Are these testing solutions widely available my PH meter came second hand read the bottled water as the 7.0 printed, but I never thought it could be off.

[Weedhound]

Hi Jack....you know you turned into a growing monster when my back was turned....what's up with that?

Yes....they are standard solutions that you buy and include some with a ph of 7.01 and 4.01 (some ph meters require a 2 point calibration.....which I don't understand what that means but you have to use both solutions with 2 point calibration) and also tds and ec solutions set at a standard strength (i use tds 1500) to keep your meters calibrated and working correctly.