Emmies Grow Log - White Widow

[emilya]

Today is a good day. Yesterday we turned the corner and rapid growth has restarted on all the babies. There seems to have been no apparent shock to the transplant done three days ago. Deep green is replacing the pale green and the yellowed leaves are all starting to fill in with color again, with the possible exception of the first leaves on #1 and most of the cotyledons. All the plants are turned upwards toward the light again and appear to be thriving. Yesterday in a 6-12 hour period I could visibly see an astounding amount of growth at both the very top and the new bottom leaves coming in on the two biggest plants. It is remarkable to me that when things are going right, the plants respond so quickly and visibly.

New growth at the bottom of #1


Watering is being done at about 3 day intervals now and I am carefully measuring 1/4 cup each time. No thoughts are even being entertained as to adding anything else to the plants, the new soil should be taking care of it. Soil moisture content is being carefully watched with a meter as I try to learn to "feel" the pots with the lift method.

In an effort to completely control the environment, yesterday I worked on the humidity. I have purchased a cheap vaporizer and installed it with a timer in the grow tent. I have it running for 30 minutes every hour right now and the humidity has risen from 25-30% to about 50%. Temperature is carefully controlled at 78-79 during lights on and 74-75 at lights off, still running a 18/6 light schedule. The new tent is allowing for a very good amount of air exchange in the tent and I am working on the vent to the back porch through a DIY carbon filter. I also worked on plans for my scrog table yesterday and have a good drawing now to try to build that will give me 3.5 sqm of SCRog. I have tried to plan for the ability to flush in place without flooding the room as well as structural soundness and ease of access. We will see how well I have done with this plan as it develops! This is fun!

If things continue to advance as rapidly as they did yesterday, we will have shrubbery here very soon instead of little plantlings. I am very excited to see this and now am working on my patience. The plants are very good teachers... my training is coming along very nicely.

Here are today's pictures!

Look at the runt gooooo! :thumbsup:


Our odd but seemingly very happy #3


Compare the pictures from yesterday... much more green and upward thrust on #2


Our big boy who was impacted by the root problem more than the others
because of his larger needs. A bit of green is creeping in to those big
leaves now especially at the veins. He may not lose them after all. We will see.


Have a wonderful day everyone!
Emmie

[RAINHAZE]

Lookin' Good Emmie!

..I don't know for sure, but watering them with only a ¼ cup might not be quite enough. I read somewhere that it may cause the roots to turn up to reach the water. Don't let your overwatering episode scare ya, they need to completely dry out, and then have a good run off when watering.

[bigsby]

Not sure about your thinking for the scrog but something that work very well is to construct the frame out of 1/2 or 3/4 inch PVC piping and elbows. You can see an overly complicated version here:

http://boards.cannabis.com/hydroponi...ml#post1743543

All you need are four elbows, some piping and the screen (2" x 3" suggested) and some zip ties to secure the screen. Don't bother with pipe glue. There's no need and moving it at a future date will be easier.

[emilya]

Not sure about your thinking for the scrog but something that work very well is to construct the frame out of 1/2 or 3/4 inch PVC piping and elbows. You can see an overly complicated version here:

http://boards.cannabis.com/hydroponi...ml#post1743543

All you need are four elbows, some piping and the screen (2" x 3" suggested) and some zip ties to secure the screen. Don't bother with pipe glue. There's no need and moving it at a future date will be easier.

My first thought was of PVC... I have used it before to good effect making Ham Radio antennas. But I thought I read somewhere here that PVC was dangerous to use around plants because of gases that are expelled from the plastic in a hot situation. I thought that I might be alright since I am not using "hot" bulbs... and it certainly would be easier to work with than the aluminum I was thinking of using. Any thoughts about this?

Emmie

[LetsSeeYa]

My first thought was of PVC... I have used it before to good effect making Ham Radio antennas. But I thought I read somewhere here that PVC was dangerous to use around plants because of gases that are expelled from the plastic in a hot situation. I thought that I might be alright since I am not using "hot" bulbs... and it certainly would be easier to work with than the aluminum I was thinking of using. Any thoughts about this?

Emmie

Funny you bring this up Em, as last night i was thinking of how i want my tent set up. I thought about just using wood to build a shelve at about 2' high off the floor, but then extend the corners to fit a screen that would slide or attach to the 4 corners. This way i have a place to use for a shelf and when they get to the hight i want them, i then just slide the screen on and its 12/12 time. I also thought about putting hinges on the back to simply flip down when im ready or leave it when i lollipop some, which are my plans. I was thinking 1x2's to build it, but just thinking here, my tents not here yet. Dang



Plants look great:rasta:

[Rusty Trichome]

Got half a clothes closet...?

[bigsby]

Nice setup Rusty. And happy new years back at you. Wishing you and the wife all the best.

My first thought was of PVC... I have used it before to good effect making Ham Radio antennas. But I thought I read somewhere here that PVC was dangerous to use around plants because of gases that are expelled from the plastic in a hot situation.

I read somewhere about not using PVC for irrigation systems due to this issue. I have not see this issue posted anywhere though under a 1K light I'm sure you could make the argument. I have not faced any issues. But then, I don't have a crazy hot light either. I would use wood before messing with aluminum. That's way too much work! Just nail together a few 2"x3"s. Let's look into the PVC thing further. It would be a good question to have answered. Anyone else have thoughts?

[Alantae]

Nice! Hoping to see some strong stems soon! How long will you have them in vegetative state? :hippy:

[emilya]

Nice! Hoping to see some strong stems soon! How long will you have them in vegetative state? :hippy:

That is a very good Question! I'm a newbie... I have no idea! My only answer to give you is, "However long it takes!" Actually, the plan is to get them to 4 internodes and FIM them, get them up to 12" or so after that and take some clones somewhere in there... When things are going well again... then I will flip the switch. I also want to play with determining sex early with a 12/12 cycle on one branch with a black bag. I'm here to learn all I can man!

I'm guessing another month? It may surprise me... but I'm ready... all geared up and ready to go... come on babies... grow grow grow!

Emmie

[neonzr]

lookin good! Glad to so see you got the yellowing/watering situation worked out. I really cant wait to see how the experiment portion of this turns out as far as the early determination of sex goes. All in all they are lookin quite happy, keep up the good work and happy new year!