New and Improved: Featuring Sour Northern Lights x Nevilles Haze

[daihashi]

I had a bit of time to kill. So I wrote my outline as promised of my current setup.. and my goals/objectives. I wrote it down as things popped into my head so forgive me if I seem to run from thought to thought; but it gives a good idea of where I stand, and where I want to be.

Outline:

Current Flower room

• 4.5'x4.5'x7' Hydrohut
• 1 600 watt HydroFarm xtrasun HPS
• 600 Watt Eye Hortilux bulb
• Cool Tube w/ 6" 424CFM inline fan
• 6" 424 inline fan Ventilating the room
• 1 clamp mounted Circulatory fan, small (6 inches)
• 7 plants, 6 in 2 gallon pots and 1 in a 1 gallon pot
• Canna Coco substrate
• Full Canna Coco Nutrient line
• 12 hours of light; on from 9pm to 9am
• House Thermostat set at 75 degrees; Hut Temps sit at 77-82 depending on the temperature outside
• Panda Film duct taped over the windows to prevent light leaks. I've left about 2ft untaped so I can get my hands to the windows to take advantage of the cold weather that will be coming at night soon.

Mother room:

• One 2.5x2.5x 6ft cabinet with shelf (which I will either remove or lower.. currently the shelf sits too high for me to use it as a clone area like I wanted to)
• Home to 1 Mother (SNLxNH) currently undergoing LST
• Will house 2-3 more mothers soon, so far on my to do list is Master Kush, White Widow and another to be decided strain.
• Currently running 4 23 watt CFL's. Will expand this up to 10 23 watt CFL's.
• Running on 24 hour lighting. Will be changing to 18/6 and maybe even 16/8 for electrical savings.
• Plan on using Liquid light to get the mothers going due to lack of light intensity. This should help get the lower parts of the plants get some decent clone sites.
• Canna Coco Substrate
• Full Canna Coco Nutrient line
• 1 Box fan on highest setting acting as an exhaust (moves 2300 CFM supposedly)
• Panda film curtain to black out the room and prevent light leaks from hurting the flower room.

Goals/Objectives

• Get 2-3oz dry weight per plant in my current grow and future grows.
• Fill the 4.5'x4.5' area with the maximum number of plants for this area (I believe this to be 16-20)
• Grow immediately from Rooted clones to obtain the fastest harvest times. (Still deciding on either 1 gallon pots or 2 gallon. With coco you can get away with smaller pots)
• Prevent hermies on the SNLxNH strain through the use of Reverse and Penetrator
• Utilize cool Fall/winter Air to cool my grow room. Save money on electrical costs.
• Get more tools (TDS/PPM meter, RO water setup, etc etc) to be able to better control my grow. Though at this point I'm not sure I need an RO setup.
• Install Radiant Barrier and more blown in insulation to help keep the temps down as temps climb up in the spring time. This will benefit me outside my grow also.
• No intentions of growing through late spring/summer months. The heat where I live is just too intense and my electrical bill will be out the roof.

[d4twamp]

I hear you D, about the no growin in summer it's too damn hot here as well...I just hope to harvest enough in the cooler months to get thru the summer...but that didn't happen this last year, outta meds...:sadcrying...then there is outdoor for the summer, might as well take mother nature up on her offer for free light and co2...

got any pix of the SNLxNH mom in bondage... I want to try LSTing a SNLxNH mommy once I get my ass into gear...

D:jointsmile:

[daihashi]

I hear you D, about the no growin in summer it's too damn hot here as well...I just hope to harvest enough in the cooler months to get thru the summer...but that didn't happen this last year, outta meds...:sadcrying...then there is outdoor for the summer, might as well take mother nature up on her offer for free light and co2...

got any pix of the SNLxNH mom in bondage... I want to try LSTing a SNLxNH mommy once I get my ass into gear...

D:jointsmile:

No pics yet.. right now it apears I lost power at the house (it's pouring down here); but as soon as lights come back on I'll snap a shot of her. Nothing impressive yet. I may try throwing her under the HPS for a few hours a day to try to speed up the process until I can get my hands on some liquid light.

I would try outdoors but I don't even know how I would grow around here (I live in one of the 4 largest city's in the US) in addition to this I'm a bit paranoid traveling to and from a place that is not my home. Especially since I drive a luxury car and don't own a truck. Would look odd driving in the middle of no where in a high end car.

[d4twamp]

I'd like to try the liquid light too, I keep hearing good things about it...

D:jointsmile:

[Weedhound]

I've had issues with LL.....vague ones, but they bother me. My plants leaves just seem to start drying out after a few uses.....even at half strength with the lights turned off until they are dry.

[daihashi]

I've had issues with LL.....vague ones, but they bother me. My plants leaves just seem to start drying out after a few uses.....even at half strength with the lights turned off until they are dry.

Thanks for the heads up.. I've been thinking anyway just to throw the mom's under the HPS in the flowering room for a few hours (6-8) a day to get some intense lighting and then back under the CFL's for the remainder (10-16 hours) until they get nice and bushy.

don't have to spend anything extra on nutes and I get to utilize some of the extra space I have in my grow hut that I'm not using at the moment.

[Weedhound]

X-Crispi uses straight hps in veg and ends up with some very nice busy stuff when he turns it. More light!! Can't have too much light! Ever!

[daihashi]

Forgot to mention, 5 out of 7 ladies have shown me their hoo-ha's...

The other 2 are a bit smaller than the rest and are probably playing catch up.

:hippy:

[SnSstealth]

Cant wait to see em!
whiskeytango

[daihashi]

Cant wait to see em!
whiskeytango

eh.. nothing worth really looking at right now. I had to really scour around for the calyxes/pistils.

They probably won't start looking sexy until week 3 or so. Which is when I start feeding them some Boost, then in week 4/5 I'll feed them PK 13/14 which is supposed to make them explode in sexiness.

It's my first time with the canna nute line so I don't know what to expect.

I'm mostly thrown off because the Canna Nutes Part A and B are meant to be used in equal parts.. something even the experienced coco growers over at ICmag recommend. However the Canna Nute Part A contains an N value of 5 at the recomended dosage I believe or higher.

I'm probably going to give the plants a really GOOD flush at the end of week 3 right before I start feeding with the PK 13/14, but I am jumping the gun here.. Let me get to week 4 before I start contemplating the sexines to come :stoned: