J's basement grow (progression)

[JMORGAN]

whassup. well first I'll start with all my equipment.
Started out with:

400w MH lamp
400w HPS lamp
Jiffy Peat pellets
Sunlight supply reflector hood
Digital Switchable ballast
General Hydroponics Gro, Micro, and Bloom (1qt each)
Bagseed Purp.
Soil PH/Lumen/moist meter
Expanded Clay Pellets
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after I got the basic stuff, I set up my room. A little over a month in and here is where I'm at. I have a bubblebox consisting of two purp clones, rooted in Jiffy Peat pellets, then placed into 4" net pots with Expanded Clay Pellets. The other 5 Clones were placed into soil with ~15% perlite. Also received a bagseed Kush seed. All plants are placed under a 400w Metal Halide lamp, with 2-68w CFLs (2700k). The MH lamp is set for 18/6 and the two 68w CFLs are set for 24/0. after a month it is obvious to see that the bubblebox is growing faster than the others in soil. I'm looking at another month of vegging, then I'm going to start flowering all clones except the one placed into my homemade earthbox, she'll be my clone mother. hopefully the bagseed Kush will turn out to be female.

****I'll have pictures as soon as I have the hookup for my camera to computer.

JMORGAN Reviewed by JMORGAN on 08-12-2009. J's basement grow (progression) whassup. well first I'll start with all my equipment. Started out with: 400w MH lamp 400w HPS lamp Jiffy Peat pellets Sunlight supply reflector hood Digital Switchable ballast General Hydroponics Gro, Micro, and Bloom (1qt each) Bagseed Purp. Rating: 5

[JMORGAN]

All plants are at least 8" tall now, thinking I'm going to wait until they're 12"-14" before I start the 12/12 light schedule and switch over to the HPS lamp.

[JMORGAN]

Veg Cabinet: 18/6
small deskfan for circulation
Flowering Room: 12/12
Temp: 73-78F
Humidity: 40-80% (how should I keep the humidity down?)
400w HPS
250CFM exhaust fan pulling air through the light(soon to be hooked up to carbon filter)
Oscillating Desk fan for circulation
Using General Hydroponics 3part nutes
-just bought a ppm meter and Superthrive

Just Flushed my plants, I have 7 purps and 1 kush(yay it's a girl!) flowering. Kush stretched like a madman when I flipped the lights from MH@24/0 to HPS@12/12. Most of my flowering plants have been tied down for more light penetration. I think I may have some mold on my bubblebox purps, probably going to remove them soon. I also have little black gnats hanging around the soil, so I am going to wally mart tomorrow to acquire a no pest strip. my veg cabinet is currently holding a few clones of purp and a few of kush, 2 of my kush clones and 2 of my purp clones are in an Ebb and Flow system I rigged up( be careful installing/testing the water pump.. when I tested mine it shot straight up to the grow lights! :cursing: ). My purp mother is also in the veg cabinet with my clones, she is has been LST'ed for more light penetration.

[JMORGAN]

10/4 (Day 41 flowering)
Temps: 70-79F
Humidity:70% ( just fixed this today, gonna keep it real low with an industrial dehu)

Well somehow I ended up with seeds in all my purp buds... only way I can say I got seeds is when I flowered the grow before one of the two plants in a bubblebox turned out to be male, so I killed it, and reverted the female purp to veg, cut clones, and now that's what is flowering, 7 clones of purp, and 1 bagseed kush. so my question is, if it got pollinated when I cut the male plant down from the grow before, would all the corresponding clones end up with seeds? This is how it seems to be turning out, that and I have not spotted any seeds in the bagseed kush I started on 8/21, whereas the 7clones were cut on 8/11. I got some yellowing on my leaves... all except the bubblebox, which is just really short and is turning into one bigass bud. I am feeding with GH 6ml micro 6ml bloom per gal. pH:~5.5 ppm:650