Grow log #2!

[Pedro de Pacas]

And the tally this Monday: one big healthy girl and three sprouts! I've replaced the CFL with the blue LED panel I used during my last grow (still awaiting delivery of the UFO) to provide the sprouts with more blue spectrum.

Very odd how one pot needed no water when the other three did... but no matter, I watered the three pots needing water. This is becoming interesting!

[Pedro de Pacas]

So this is what my setup looks like as of today (Day 38?)

Not perfect but...it'll do!

[Pedro de Pacas]

No pics today...this grow has turned into an oddball mixed HPS/LED grow...HPS for the flowering Oasis female and LED for the Afghani Special sprouts...

Give the Oasis girl her first haircut (some of the larger fan leaves were feeling dry to the touch and hogging most of the HPS light as well as obstructing airflow), treated her to a few pinches of the Shitz bloom ferts, rearranged the lights.

Today I checked on the sprouts; they are developping nicely if a bit scrawny (I know, they have plenty of time to grow yet) and I watered all of them. The watering should distribute some ferts to the Oasis girl...plenty of pistils and bud sites, not enough trichomes...ah the waiting game!

Average cabinet temps: 84F, humidity 42% ...

[Pedro de Pacas]

Okay...so we got HPS level pictures (Oasis girl) and LED level pictures (Afghani sprouts)...the LED sprouts look awfully leggy, but so did the Oasis ones so I'm not going to worry about that. So far, out of 5 Dutch Passion Oasis seeds, 3 sprouted, one died and one turned out male leaving me with only one female.

So far, out of the 3 KC Brains Afghani Special seeds, 3 sprouted...I'll reserve final judgement until they show signs of sex, but it's a better start than the Dutch Passion seeds and they (the KC Brains seeds) are a good $40.00 cheaper...you do the math!

[Pedro de Pacas]

Has it been that long? Man! :wtf:

The Oasis girl seems to need more water than the Afghani's -the afghani's soil still feels damp to the touch, the Oasis' is bone dry...also, the lack of trichomes worries me, so I gave the Oasis another pinch of Shitz bloom mix along with a good watering.

The Afghani special babies seem to be reacting well to the UFO, the leggy stems are thickening nicely...pics coming up! :thumbsup:

[Pedro de Pacas]

The pics!

[Pedro de Pacas]

Very very odd: the Oasis is showing more trichomes as you move lower; the cola has some but not as many as there were during the last grow...the Afghani Specials seem to be responding well to the LED UFO...

[jakezking]

Vote for Pedro! Your Oasis is looking splendid, and I was not expecting the size of the AS to be so big. Dude, you've got big AS on your hands!

Sweet grow so far - looks like the 12/12 grow will be a success for certain! I'm looking forward to following along with you.

[Pedro de Pacas]

Vote for Pedro! Your Oasis is looking splendid, and I was not expecting the size of the AS to be so big. Dude, you've got big AS on your hands!

Sweet grow so far - looks like the 12/12 grow will be a success for certain! I'm looking forward to following along with you.

Thx bro! As usual I'm not just experimenting with 12/12, but also with the LED UFO which provides light to the AS...so far so good!

I did have a bit of a glitch though...my timer malfunctioned so I had to get a replacement pronto...so Saturday and Sunday got about 8 hours of light (chit meng ) but things should be back to normal tomorrow - I relpaced the timer earlier today.

To take the guessing out of watering I installed one water globe per pot (it auto dispenses water to the soil)...

I also gave the plants a trim. I've had 0 incidences of hermies from pruning thus far, and the foliage was interfering with the air exchange so some fan leaves had to go!

[bigtopsfinn]

Must say they are looking very nice already :jointsmile: