Just a little journal............

[mand]

Mand I have no doubt that this grow will exceed the first. Us girls have to stick together.....go get em honey!!!!

Thankyou K ..................we'll see how they go , mind you doing a journal type thing is asking for trouble, what if they all go and die on me


Eight days since staring germination ( I think ) they were holding themselves quite well but I deciced to support them with sticks just to be on the safe side However all sixteen are looking in really good health.


love mand xxx

[Sleek420]

Mand, can you move your light down closer to your plants? If I am seeing properly I think your plants are stretching and thats because lack of light, if you move it down they should grow healthy green lush.

[Marc Benson]

Hey Mand. Bet you wish people would stop telling you to move your lights down huh? All they have to do is read and see it's been beat to death already.

How many have you historically had end up being females from a planting of this size?

What watt MH?

And why the 18.5/5.5 light cycle? Never heard of that one before. Sure it works (as is evident by your past grows) but just wondered.

Have a good one!

[mand]

Hello Sleek I know love, I'm affraid it always happens, it's just my way
but by the time they get to around the fifth node they'll be fine and standing on their own. I've just got a thing about putting the light to close, I'm affraid of frazzling them


Marc ok love ....out of sixteen plants I would usually expect about nine or ten females.............usually

As for he MH lighting, 400 watts, now I'm going to get kinda technical here ................I read in my little book when I first started growing that a 400 watt MH would provide 30,000 lumens which is enough to cover an area of up to 35sq feet, well my grow area is around 36sq feet, so thats close enough for me

As for the 18.5/5.5 cycle, thats just me I thought I would give them a little bit longer light, sometimes I have run 19/5 before just out of intrest


love mand xxx

[mand]

Helllo just a little update

Well they are about two weeks old now. To tell you the truth I only find the harvesting bit intresting, the watching them grow is a bit like watching paint dry


Just a couple more pics of the progress


love mand xxx

[Marc Benson]

We missed ya Mand! Plants are looking good.

[digitaldog]

Hiya Mand
I`m looking forward to following your grow. I`m currently around 3 weeks into my second ever attempt so i`m just a week or so ahead of you. I have 4 plants doing very nicely ( i`ll post a few pics soon but i always have to borrow a friends cam)
Unfortunately my 1st grow was a bit of a disaster as i fried 2 with my 400W hps and the other 2 turned out to be males but it was a great learning curve and the 4 plants i have now are a lot more healthy and bushy.
It will be interesting to compare and see if urs grow quicker and bigger and if so i can maybe get a few clues as to what i`m doing wrong - if anything
Unfortunately i`m not sure of the strain i`m growing
Anyway keep posting hun & good luck with them
They`re lookin cool
Digi xx

[mand]

Hello Marc I've just had a few days at the seaside..............salt air, fish n chips and noisey seagulls to wake up too..........can't beat it love



Hello Digi oh dear love, thats why I always rather keep the light away a little, frightened of frazzling the plants
As it gets colder weather here mine will slow down on there rate of growing, it can get quite cool in my growroom during Winter, doesnt hurt the plants but it justs slows down there metabolism a little.
However at the moment the tempreture is fine and they are looking quite healthy, so it should give them a decent start

Look forward to seeing you're pics Digi and good luck


love mand xxx

[Marc Benson]

Hey Mand I was just reading through your grow here and noticed this.

"I read in my little book when I first started growing that a 400 watt MH would provide 30,000 lumens which is enough to cover an area of up to 35sq feet, well my grow area is around 36sq feet, so thats close enough for me"

Most 'experts' suggest that the minimum you need for minimum growth is 2000 lumens per sq/ft. Better to have at least 5000/sq/ft. Best to have 7500/sq/ft. If you have 36 sq/ft of grow area (which would translate into an area 6 feet x 6 feet) you'd need, as a minimum 72,000 lumens, better to have 180,000 and best to have 270,000. You have about 833 lumens per sq/ft. FWIW

That said it looks like you've been fairly successful in your grows so this may not mean a thing. Just thought I'd comment on this.

[mand]

Oh no Marc please not the technical stuff

So I would need 72,000 lumens (whatever a lumen is ? )....That would be two 400 watt lamps in my little growroom
I'd need a pair of welders goggles just to look in there


Marc how am I going to get you over all this worrying lark

Honestly Marc just trust me ...it'll be fine ......promise

love mand xxx