All stage grow log w/ lots of pics

[jamstigator]

Well, I tried the tilt, and didn't work, plant's too big now. I guess you need to start on that earlier, so the plant builds up some extra strength in the stems and can take being basted in light like a turkey. But damn, that's a cool idea. Next time I have just one plant flowering for any reason, I'm gonna try it from the start!

Anyway, pardon the interruption, and back to your regularly scheduled broadcast.

[harris7]

So we've noticed a bunch of small red ants around the apartment. But only in the two areas in which plants are. IE grow room and bath room.

We seem to have some mysterious problems. Plants with good pH and getting good nutes having leafs die off. most of the plants have some sort of Minor problem. And these ants are everywhere so we're thinking they might be the mysterious cause?

any thoughts?

[harris7]

Today was a busy day. Dutch.lover and myself transplanted 7 plants (3 clones 4 seedlings). The clones are champagne and three of the seeds are BC big Bang and 1 is just a Bag seed.

We also are running out of room. So we refitted the other chamber with the 400W HPS and moved 3 plants under there (18/6 lighting still). We need to buy another timer and then were flowering them. Maybe just two now. And hold out as long as we can for the third. Itâ??s just that our room in the veg chamber is under high demand now. We also have 8 plants needing to be repotted soon but they can last in the smaller pots for a while longer.

We also treated all the plants with neem oil. Were thinking we got some type of bug problems, probably thripâ??s.

How are our two clones looking? Any thoughts

Thanks

[harris7]

so now that we've got both lights going things are good. But, the flowering chamber is getting a little too hot, up to 90 F at one point. So we need to beef up the vent system some how.

Currently the intake exceeds the exhaust, hmmm what to do.

I've read that a 90 degree bend in a duct will reduce air flow by 60%
(Grower's bible, jorge cervantes)

is this true. I trust jorge

To counter this I plant to replace the aluminum 5" duct i have, see pic above. The one that bends 90 degrees for the exhaust. And replace it with a 8-10 inch one. I'm thinking this would increase flow.

As well i'm going to replace it with a plastic one. AS the aluminum transmits the fan noise. (i actually think it echoes it and makes i louder) It makes it hard to sleep.

[dutch.lover]

I'm back! That was one of the longest weeks i have ever had to endure. Being able to read posts but not say anything was torture!! For anyone wondering why I was banned, I was tryin to help out a fellow Canuck but alas *sigh* I have never read the forum rules. lol. My fault. Anyways, I'm glad to be back!

[dutch.lover]

Update on the bug problem: there are lots of issues. First off, there are still a few mini-ants running around, however we aren't sure they are affecting our plants. Also, today we found a couple little (like a couple mm's long)crawly yellow worm-looking creatures on the leaves of our bagseed seedlings (the plants we saw these on are seperated from all of our big plants, so hopefully they don't get that bug too). To top that off- all of our houseplants (non-cannabis) have a major spider-mite infestation!! yikes! Good thing we have neem oil and insecticidal soap, we have been spraying the plants we can see bugs on with the soap, and then all the rest with neem oil every day. We are getting it all under control.

[dutch.lover]

This is a totally random post but oh well.... I am in LOVE with LSTing! Our plants that have been LSTd are doing great! There's so much new growth, bigger side shoots, etc. Plus, the tying is strengthening the stems of the plants which is really good, because we dont have much of a fan blowing on them. Anyways, thats my two cents!

[harris7]

hey,
we could use some help. got some bad def. that i cant seem to get rid of

some help would be great
http://boards.cannabis.com/showthread.php?t=92382

[dutch.lover]

Just put three of our largest plants into flower.

[dutch.lover]

PLEASE HELP WITH BUG PROBLEM- POST IS ON PLANT PROBLEMS FORUM


recap: little yellow wormy things eating the shit outta our plants.