Not my first grow but first grow log!

[Pedro de Pacas]

Awrite, the Oasis babies seem to agree with the 24/0 light schedule:

the stubby one with heat damage (remember the home made fixture that fell apart? It kinda fell on it! ) seems to be repairing itself quite nicely,

Leggy #1 and #2 (the one with the second sprout that I thought was dead & grew anyway) have grown bigger an healthier,

KC seems to be getting a bit more height (though the lower leaves were showing signs of yellow, I'm hoping the feeding I gave them yesterday will help that);

And the little baby in the same pot as Leggy #2 is developping nicely...not sure if the seed is one of the KC 36's or Oasis that weren't germinating...but I don't dare move it at this stage.:hippy:

[d4twamp]

hey pedro, love the name wheres Man

[Pedro de Pacas]

hey pedro, love the name wheres Man

:S2: Still waiting for Dave meng! :S2:

[Pedro de Pacas]

Tried an experiment yesterday...since the plants can benifit extra Co2 on a 24/0 schedule, I tried this:

Turned off the exhaust, and lit up one of those 10" incense on a stick inside the wardrobe (planted it in the soil of Stubby, which has the most free space) and let it combust for 30 minutes.

Agreed, it released equal parts of CO as well as CO2...and the temperature shot up nearly 10 degrees, and the humidity went up about 2%, but... (and maybe it's just my imagination)

The leaves on all plants seem to have grown this tiny bit fatter, Jr definitely is growing new leaves (then again a 24/0 light schedule will do that too, and I did feed the plants a few days back).

As well, the added vermiculite & perlite is doing a fine job in preserving moisture in the pots; I haven't had to water the plants since I fed them!:thumbsup:

[Pedro de Pacas]

Got notice of delivery of the HPS light today! I can't wait to compare the results...general consensus seems to be that HPS lamps have better light penetration, better efficiency, etc... the fact that I'll be using a 150 watter as opposed to a pair of CFL's totalling 170 watts should also help keep cabinet temps manageable...

I'm stoked!

[Pedro de Pacas]

150 watts HPS and blue LED panel (since I'm still vegging at this point) and I can see firsthand what the deal is with HPS...OMG is that ever bright! Inner cabinet temps are at about 83F (after 8 or 9 hours uninterrupted) and the humidity is around 63%.

It was a bit of a challenge to install the remote ballast outside of the cabinet, but I figured it out. It is lukewarm to the touch, out of curiosity I placed a thermometer near it and it reads just under 73 F...

So far so good, and the babies seem to like it! :thumbsup:

[Pedro de Pacas]

At the suggestion of the love of my life, I lowered the light to about 2' above the tallest plant to concentrate more light on the babies...I also added a Glade plugin gel near the exhaust fan.

While the smell is nowhere near the smell of ripening females, the 'green smell' is still noticeable, and I managed to find a bunch of plugin gels for cheap so I thought I'd give it a try.

I read on another board that adding ground charcoal (about 1" to the soil) can help control grow room odors too...I have to wonder what that would do to the plants though!

At any rate, this is what the cabinet and plants look as of today:

[Pedro de Pacas]

Okay, decided to initiate 12/12 earlier today. It may be a bit early for the Oasis plants but the KC36 has been vegging for 6 weeks.

The dark cycle seems to be agreeing with the babies (then again this may be an optical illusion!) as they're looking bigger already...we'll see. Since marijuana plants can double in size during flowering I might as well do it now.

Yeah, I'm nuts for doing the 12/12 before sexing...but hey, come what may.

:hippy:

[bickeybammer]

Okay, decided to initiate 12/12 earlier today.

Yeah, I'm nuts for doing the 12/12 before sexing...but hey, come what may.

:hippy:

its never to early to flip the lights... i have 4 purple erkles that are 12/12 from seed and all 4 came out female..... i have a purple voodoo and g13/hashplant and 12/12 from seed that came out females.... but the only plants (besides my clones) that i didnt 12/12 from seed came out to be 1 female and 13 males ... BAH .... o well

your grow is looking very good .. i veg with cfls to .. seems to work good for small cabs..

[Pedro de Pacas]

its never to early to flip the lights... i have 4 purple erkles that are 12/12 from seed and all 4 came out female..... i have a purple voodoo and g13/hashplant and 12/12 from seed that came out females.... but the only plants (besides my clones) that i didnt 12/12 from seed came out to be 1 female and 13 males ... BAH .... o well

Then it sounds like my instinct was right! This is my first time flowering with HPS and LED for extra blue spectrum (okay, so I might not need it during flowering...but a bit of extra light can't hurt! )

your grow is looking very good .. i veg with cfls to .. seems to work good for small cabs..

Thanks! I'm learning more and more at every grow!

My concerns about HPS lights were unfounded: the 150 watter generates less heat than the combined 170 watts of CFL's I used for vegging, the ballast generates less heat than I expected (it gets lukewarm at worst - the 125 watt CFL was so hot when I took it out I nearly burned myself, so no worries there!) and I use less electricity... lesson learned!

If all of the things I've read about flowering with HPS are true (denser buds gorged with resin), I can't wait for the end of October!