Shov Winter 2013-2014 Sativa Grow

[Chromophore]

shovelhandle I also had a light stay on for 24 hrs at about day 21 and luckily I noticed no ill effects. I read a story recently about a guy who discovered his timer was broken and was turning the lights on and off randomly for varying amounts of time. He had no idea how long it had been that way. He noticed that the small flowers had stopped developing and indications that male flowers were forming. He ended up tossing the entire crop as he could not get them to resume normal flowering. All because of a dumb cheapo timer. I guess the lesson is we shouldn't scrimp on quality when it comes to timers. I routinely check my flower room during dark cycle to make sure nothing's on. I admit to having a fair amount of anxiety about it.

[Shovelhandle]

OMB, maybe you meant to say sativa dominant strains and equatorial light time? Mango Haze is mostly sativa and most of my phenotypes are sativa dominant. I don't know what you are referring to as far as 12/12 cutting 2 weeks to a month off the turn. The total time for the grow, start to finish will be somewhat less, the difference between running lights for 12 hours vs 18 hours for the early part of the grow saves a bit of energy. But you would expect a decrease in yield, all things being equal. But when one has height restrictions and growing haze strains one needs to do things a little differently. I usually veg for eight weeks but this strain would have been difficult to train, even with topping and LST. These strains can flower for an unbelievable long time too. Some phenotypes (with the real good sativa traits) can go 16, 20 weeks. So I'm now finishing week 15 from germination and I have a couple of phenotypes looking to finish soon. And there is one that will be the last bush standing, It should be the largest by height and weight and hopefully have the goods I'm after.

This cold snap, sub zero Fahrenheit temps for days at a time, is creating some serious challenges. With the strong wind last night the house temperature dipped below 60º! This is a well insulated home, thermal pane windows etc. The hot water circulator runs non-stop. The grow area gets up to temperature easily with lights on but at night it needs more heat so I'm using a space heater during lights out. I also warm up the plant's water to >80º.

[Shovelhandle]

Some odd plants... sorry for my poor photos. too busy to move out from under the HPS.

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[Chromophore]

shovel what kind of camera are you using? I might be able to explain to you how to correct for that awful HPS color cast.

[Shovelhandle]

that's ok chromo. neither of my digital cameras have a light setting that will overcome that yellow. I've been through all that. sorry again

[catbuds]

You have hot water base board heat? That's the best! I grew up with it. But fridgid temps & driving winds can defeat the best insulation. I think we should all move to Weezes house! I HATE WINTER! LOL1.

[catbuds]

that's ok chromo. neither of my digital cameras have a light setting that will overcome that yellow. I've been through all that. sorry again

No auto white ballance? Most digital SLRs have that feature in the menu.

[Chromophore]

I know it's a pain to put these images through a software editor, but even the free ones like Picasa will allow you to correct the white balance. I use Lightroom, but that's because I do a lot of photography so I just routinely process everything through it. Digital SLRs have WB correction, but phone cameras and pocket digicams sometimes don't, esp older ones. The images I take in my flower room are really hard to correct because I have a combo of HPS and T5s, and the color casts are different as well as powerful. Goofing around with color balance I've achieved some fairly psychedelic images.:hippy:

[tlranger]

that's ok chromo. neither of my digital cameras have a light setting that will overcome that yellow. I've been through all that. sorry again

Since some of us have been though the same, and the fact you almost always go to the trouble of taken them to natural light has always impressed me.

They look killer in whatever light, betting they will smoke that way too, even in the dark, and that's the real goal, right?

[Shovelhandle]

Back to topic.

Just photos of the plant closest to harvest.

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and one of the cat's, Moxie

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