man what a craptastic week this has been.

1. Had to flush all the plants.. pain in the ass and time consuming.
2. HPS bulb goes bad after only 2 weeks!!!! Had to buy a cheap replacement ASAP.
3. Burned my hand on ballast. You really don't know those things are hot until your hand is right next to them. I accidentally smacked my hand against it while installing my carbon filter I made.
4.Went to check room Temps about 1-2 hours after I installed said Carbon filter on the exhaust Axial Fan (box fan) and an A/C filter on the intake fan (also an axial box fan)to help reduce light leak and the temps jumped only from 78 degrees 8" away from the canopy to 82 degrees 8" away from the canopy.

Oh that's not the crap part. Upon backing away from the cabinet I manage to spill 3/4 of a brand new bottle of sweet. I haven't even gotten to use it yet let alone open it. I have no idea how it just spilled open.

5. Girlfriend doesn't seem to understand the meaning of "please do not turn on the lights in the bedroom" and now it looks like 2 of my plants are having problems flowering from what I'm guessing is light leaks. They have a few pistils here and there but overall they just aren't progressing like the other 3 plants. Now that I've sort've remedied the light leaks I'm going to give them about 2 weeks to see if they start kicking out some pistils and swell a little bit.

Pictures will come this Saturday. Despite the holes I drilled in all the pots my soil is still moist. I'm hoping they are dry enough to water again by this weekend.


Update I'm sure most people will enjoy. I have about 10-12 colas right now that are about 1-1.5ft long (these are side shoots that turned into main colas.) and has budding all the way from the top down to the main stem!

Then I have about another 15 colas or so that have budding going down for 8 inches or so. This is just on one plant.

My other 2 plants that are looking healthy look like they're going to have about 8-12 colas each that will probably have at least 1 ft of buds on them each by the end of harvest.

I'll take pics. They haven't progressed much since I flushed them but I'll take a pic or two of the foot longers. Looks like it's going to be pretty decent yield my first time out.

From 6 plants I'm hoping for 10-12 oz. For 3 plants I'm hoping for 8oz or a little less.

My big plant that has 30+ colas. I've calculated it and let's say that each cola only yields about 1/4 oz dry weight. That would still be about 7.5 oz dry. I'm being conservative and will be happy to get 3-4 oz off that one plant.

However this is my first grow so I'm not really expecting much. Mostly because I don't know what to expect at all as far as yield goes.