McToker Grows Again ~ CFL/HPS Hempy Bucket ~ Bag Seed

[killa12345]

2 more AK sprouts showed up. Both are from the most recent batch we planted.

Not using any nutes, other than what is already in the MG perlite, yet. But I'm considering adding 1/4 strength Calmag to the R/O water.

Nice verse bro....hey id really consider hitting them with nutes within 5 days after sproating....i start off around 550-600 ppm and go up like 100-150 ppm a week....the perlite and the vermiculite dont retain nutes so the MG nutes will be gone with in a day or two! feel free to ask any other questions...I hit my babies with nutes starting about day 2-3 after sproating....after a few day of no nutes they will start to show deficiencies....




This is the size of the plants when i hit them with nutes...Sorry about the pic but wanted to show you how small my plants were and how early you need to start hitting them with nutes

[McToker]

Thanks for the info killa. Since I already watered them today, I'll hit 'em with some nutes tomorrow.

The BA's sure have a nice dark red stem.

[McToker]

There are now a total of 8 seedlings in their hempy buckets.

1 Bagseed
3 Blue Apollo
4 AK-47

2 more Blue Apollos sprouted this morning. 1 will go into a hempy bucket and the other into soil. Any others that sprout will go into soil.

This will give us a total of 9 in hempy buckets. The remaining plants, in soil, will eventually move outdoors.

We started the 2 oldest ones on 1/2 strength nutes today. The rest should start in a day or two.

I'll post a new pic later today.

I forgot to add that we are now running 21 CFL's in Frankenlight.

[McToker]

Here are today's pics.

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looking good mc!

i didn't infringe on your copyright on purpose, but my new light looks mighty similar......brilliant minds i guess!

can't wait for the action to pick up.


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[McToker]

Not a problem shake. My light is a combination of ideas from others on the forum, as it is. I'm actually looking forward to running an HPS for flower as it will be fewer watts of electricity.

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i hear ya about the HPS. i wish i would have just bought one to start with! this little experiment has taken on a life of it's own!

i guess that's why they call it experience.


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[McToker]

You got that right, shake.

I'm seriously considering going with not only an HPS for flowering but also running an MH for vegging. Right now I'm using 483 watts with the CFL's. I can get roughly the same amount of lumens by running a 250 watt HID along with 4 CFL bulbs and use over 100 fewer watts. I'm wondering if it might actually be cooler, as well.

[headshake]

it should run cooler. i've read that CFLs run hotter than HIDs. it's just the heat is spread out over more area.


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[McToker]

I've been looking at a Lumatek digital ballast with an air-cooled reflector. I hope I'm reading things correctly, in that, since the Lumatek can burn both MH and HPS that all I'd need is one system and just switch between the MH and HPS bulbs.