Flowering 2 Master Kush

[Opie Yutts]

JackHerer, the calibration solutions are available on line or at hydro shops. You should calibrate at least every 6 months, 3 is more safe. Also do not use old solutions as they can be wrong (found out the hard way). Grab the farthest one back on the shelves, not the older ones in the front that they want you to buy.

Everyone, I've had pretty good luck with my Control Wizard brand stuff. Inexpensive, durable, and accurate (I think). I want to buy a real nice expensive one some day soon, but my separate PPM and PH meters have done me real good so far. Also low batteries give false readings. I found that out the hard way as well. The batteries that came in my PPM pen were almost dead. I took it back and they gladly replaced them. And those batteries can cost almost as much as a new pen.

[Opie Yutts]

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

In case you lost your directions, I'll save you some trouble: You calibrate the 7 first and the 4 second.

[JackHerer]

Cheers Opie & WH will get some of those solutions over the next couple of weeks, then I'll be back with the how, when & you really mean questions.

Thanks I consider your comments a sincere compliment WH all I have learned is that as was explained during my grow log along with the extra tips on how to use the search function here. I am just happy the time I am spending learning is proving worthwhile & glad you like me midget mommie.:jointsmile:

I dismantled my cupboard & put the clothes back into it to much a security issue with the gas engineers doing an annual service on the boiler next door to it. Hence the two tents I just bought on ebay today, skint again but no worries there just getting my share of the cash before the children have it all for christmas.:rasta:

I'll of course get some pics going of my new strains when they start popping up, but I'll probably do a current growings on type thread ala Xcrispi as I can't garauntee posting regularly enough to make a grow log worthwhile to the community.

[Weedhound]

Have had several things happen in the last week. Guess c-dot isn't the only one going through changes. :wtf:

First is Kushette. I'm afraid she is no more. I had been noticing that she was starting to take longer and longer to drain water and I was starting to get VERY concerned about flooding since that seems to be a favorite trick of my plants in the w/fs. I drilled several extra holes in the sides of her bucket but I noticed that it really was NOT seeming to make much difference. If you look at the pics below I'm sure you will see why.

While I knew she was living on borrowed time I DID have an VERY unexpected thing happen which made my mind up for me. I found SEEDS in my most recent grow....KUSHETTE SEEDS!!! :yippee: So far I have found SIX beautiful big looking seeds with a sem-thorough look through my stash and there may very well be a few more.

This is the first time EVER I have found seeds in my plants. I've always trusted Reverse to take care of that issue for me....and until now it always has. Why did I get seeds this time? No clue. But I DEFINITELY consider it my own little X-mas present from Kushette. :thumbsup::thumbsup:

:jumphappy:

[Weedhound]

So with the help of my VERY good friend X-C (*hug*) I've FINALLY managed to accomplish making my waterfarms a recirculating system and may I say it has been worth the wait. :thumbsup: I LOVE this new sytem and so do my plants.....they have commenced to growing like giant redwood trees in a speedrace or something. This is a strain that X-Crispi got 19 oz off of one plant and while I don't think mine will be doing anything along that line they certainly are NOT wanting in the bud department. And they are only HAFLWAY towards the finish mark.

The system is pretty much jerryrigged. I was seriously too afraid to drill holes in the w/f's to accomplish a daisy chain effect so I had to work something out that would pull the water from the buckets without simply pulling the water from the original rez and putting it back (the "path of least resistance" theory) so in the end I set things up on a timer with the tubing set up in such a way that the path of least resistance was from the buckets to the pump and not from anywhere else. I FINALLY got that to happen the way I wanted. :yippee:

The ph has stabilized very well.....goes up about 0.3-0.4 a day which is a HUGE difference from before. The ph would EASILY rise a point a day during this stage on out in the grow and this appears to have held that in check. I adjust ph once a day from ONE bucket.....just like X-C says.....and no having to lift the plants out of the w/f's to check things.......how NICE for my back. :thumbsup:

Right now I have the system set up to run once every four hours (six times a day) but with the cute little digital timer I can do it up to 12-14 times a day if needed. So far every four hours seems to be working wonderfully so it may be awhile before I change that around and see if more or less works better.

[MVP]

Good stuff WH, I tried twice to get a recirc system to work but I have such a small space it is not worth the hassle - the tubing bends were too sharp and nothing could be moved around at all. Must have wasted $50 and a weeks worth of free time trying, but the space constraint kicked my butt.

Good news is that I have enough supplies to try it again once I reconfigure my grow space. But instead I have decided to try my hand at a SCROG, since that approach seems most well suited to my small area and 400W HPS lighting.

P.S. Love that Kushette left behind gifts for the holidy season... Stop by my new log sometime as I am just getting the BD's set to go into the area today or tomorrow.

[Weedhound]

Thanks MVP....you should have seen my face when I found one. I was grinding some weed in a strainer and there was one little seed sitting there. At first i didn't even recognize that it WAS a seed......it's been so LONG!!! And the sloooooow trip through my brain that:

1. It truly WAS a seed
2. The seed was a female
3. The seed was from Kushette
4. THERE MAY BE MORE OF THEM!!!!!

And it snowballed from there.

[Opie Yutts]

Oh happy day.

[JackHerer]

You have a lot of very interesting stuff happening WH glad its all in the one thread. Nice christmas present from your plant.
Can't wait to see a 19oz plant.

[Opie Yutts]

Kushette... I'm afraid she is no more.

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BITCH

Now I'm pissed. I know this is your fault, but I can't help feeling responsible in some way. Sometimes lately I've been wondering if you ever really did love our baby. Get out! Just pack your shit and leave. Now!