Dr.Payne's & Dr Shaggy 's 250Watt Cfl Grow Journal (Picture Heavy) D.I.Y

[WeayLay]

That's a shame to hear. Maybe contact one of the moderators and find out what's wrong?

-Lay

WeayLay Reviewed by WeayLay on 06-19-2012. Dr.Payne's & Dr Shaggy 's 250Watt Cfl Grow Journal (Picture Heavy) D.I.Y Hello and Welcome to Dr.Payne's & Dr Shaggys Grow Journal! So settle down, grab a with us and enjoy the ride Please Excuse Us if days/pictures are missing we never intended to start a journal it also gets rid on the NOTHING NEW on days when there not much to report The Info bit ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Start Date : 02/05/2012 Rating: 5

[Dr.Payne]

[align=center]Greeting again WeayLay its good to see you still keep dropping by

We can not contact a moderator because we do not have permission to Send a Pm... apparently...so instead we used the contact us at the bottom of the site and wrote direct to the admin...or so it tells us.

Heres a Picture of the current set-up Minus...plants due to being hosted on a free image site... safety and all!
Its Shows that we now have our current 250watt CFL mounted in the shade and a 125w mounted for under foliage growth (Maximizing light coverage)!!

As you can see we ran into some trouble....4 of the 8 tubes failed to ignite for some bizarre reason, So...we unplugged the light and plugged in back in....no luck, changed the Cable....still no luck each time the anger levels increased untill after a :stoned:. So we decided F*ck it we'll buy another 125w to take us back up to 375watts! Thats was Sunday

Untill today... with the task of cleaning up the garage underway and things being un-plugged and plugged back in we decided time to do a check up. So we opened the doors and BAM heat loads of the stuff came rising out....and then we saw it...all 8 tubes.............WORKING!!!! (got to love the little suspense added there :P)

The only explanation we can come up with is a lousy ass crap plug....on our main Lead in....damn thing!
Nearly cost us £30 for a replacement when one wasn't even due!!

CLICK THE PICTURES FOR A BETTER LOOK!
Picture to is of the bulbs off! just so you can see them!
So this time something worked in our favor!!! (Unlike the picture uploading here)





Thanks
:hippy: Dr.Payne :hippy:[/align]

[WeayLay]

Wow, it's frusterating how one little thing can ruin the whole thought of the light eh? Haha, I'm glad it's still working, and they look like they can grow some seriously nice cannabis! They look huge too! I never thought that they were THAT big.

Nice update, still in tune for the plant update.

-Lay

[Kalidank1]

Looks great man I'm going cfl also but couldn't really find those kind of cfl s here wondering where I can locate some myself

[WeayLay]

Look at your local hydroponic supply store, and if it's not there, then you'll have to order online. You can find the answer on google.

[Dr.Payne]

[align=center]

Looks great man I'm going cfl also but couldn't really find those kind of cfl s here wondering where I can locate some myself

Greetings thanks for stopping by

Yes Just as WeayLay said look at a local Hydroponic store on google or just simply google 125w or 250w cfl, we would link a link but the forum restricts links to outside stores (as we found out after a warning).

UPDATE:

DAY 48

So after some root-bounding that happend over the last few days we set about re-potting them into 10liter pots.

We also mixed Bat guano ( a new thing for us) into the soil to help with the Potassium (P) rating when flowering!

S#2 has responded well to the topping, but we think it took 48h to figure out what was going on!
S#1 hasnt stopped growing, we've removed the LST on the main stem and started the LST on the side branches of both plants!

No Signs of sex from any of the plants, but they are entering flowering from Sunday at 6am.

We are going to go down the 12/12 road, its worked well for us in the past so we'll stick to it!

We are going to carry on the Plant Magic Oldtimers Grow 5-3-3 (NPK) Rating, For the first two weeks of flowering, (The major stretch time) then use Plant Magic Oldtimers Bloom 3-5-4 (NPK) for the following weeks until the last two weeks.



Still no pictures due to the site still messing around :S if there is some safe way to host them please get in touch!

Question time:
1. How long would you recommend for flowering?[/align]

[align=center]Thanks
:hippyr.Payne & Dr.Shaggy:hippy:[/align]

[CFLhydro]

We are going to carry on the Plant Magic Oldtimers Grow 5-3-3 (NPK) Rating, For the first two weeks of flowering, (The major stretch time) then use Plant Magic Oldtimers Bloom 3-5-4 (NPK) for the following weeks until the last two weeks.

I like your style. You've obviously grown before and listened to the plants. Looking good so far!

[Dr.Payne]

[align=center]Greetings all!
Sorry its been such a gap in the updates, life has made it hard to get time!



Things that have happened:
We re-potted them into 10l round pots, and then set there flowering cycle, which started on the 24/06/12
We are using the standard 12/12 route, the currently sleep between the hours of 6am-6pm and then are awake from 6pm-6am, we figured being outside we will have the lights on between 6am-6pm due to the cold patch that hits around 4-5am.
The days are usually hotter so we don't need to worry so much about the heat!


Ok so we have S#2 after its 1st night of sleep, which has been topped & LST'ed , there are some extreme differences between the two (Topped v Non-Topped)


we have S#1, after its 1st night of sleep, this one has not been topped hence the (Topped V Non-Topped) this ones slightly taller aswell as more close nit bush wise!

As of today, they have been re-potted once more, into 50l rubs for the depth and width (as-well as a case re-design...*so much work*, picture will be added soon, they are also in the last night of sleep for week 1 into flowering, No signs of sex yet, but its still early, they have shot up over a week by 2-4".

We mixed Bat Guano into the soil (first time for us) and they have seem'd to respond quite well. We have also trimmed back some of the fan leaves due to them shadowing other head sites, we have decided not to remove any of the leaves just trim them down to allow more light down in!

Sorry for no pictures yet of there current state, but we can say they are looking good,
we will upload pictures as soon as possible!

Thanks again all for stopping by, if you have any questions you would like to ask feel free to leave a PM or reply below!

Thanks
Dr.Payne [/align]

[WeayLay]

Any updates? It's been a while.