Our First Grow . Any Advice ??

[Inspector420]

Wow those are looking great! Its been awhile since ive seen your grow they are coming along nicely, I know your excited Keep it up..

[MisterE]

They're growing tall fast, overall fast it seems to me
I took a few pics of my plants which are actually about the same age as yours, but stunted when they were tiny because I put them in the system before they were really ready I think. Plus before I had my meter, I'd no idea my ph was super high. (See how the first serated leaves are whacked?)

Theres nothing to really scale them by, but the tub is 10 gallon, and the width of the fattest "fingers" are about 2 inches.

I'm only using old flouro tubes right now, keeping the light literally about 2 millimeters from the leaves. I think thats why they're keeping such tight node spacing and good early branch growth.

ps: my camera is ancient and I'm no photog. I had to photoshop them just to make them look that "good" lmao

[latewood]

LATEWOOD ????

Yes we have been reading alot about cloning lately and have gotten the tools and goodies to make a cloning tub we seen linked here somewhere and got a pump from a old outside garden pond and went to homedepot and got all the pvc pipe and now just trying to find the spray nozzles if anyone can tell us where we can get some and link us to it ,, it would be great.
We still have alot of reading to do on cloning , but if you can give us a LINK to your best advice "latewood" it would maybe help us in this matter. AND man these plants has really taken off in last couple of days CAN'T WAIT ???

Jamie & Stacie............ just two crazy chicks with no date and nothing to do.................but find ur own fun and grow.............

p.s. any link to "SPRAY NOZZLES"

Link to tub we r making for cloning http://www.planetganja.com/highsocie...ad.php?t=29891

Zandor has an aero cloning thread in the growfaqs, and I think it explains how-to: cuttings, also. I have 3-4 different cloning experiments. bubble cloning, aero cloning, and straight into hydroton/bubbler. I will look for them. good idea. But I have to tell you, I have gone largely back to rockwool...I found it soooo easy. That is a personal preference. I found it more work, not less work after I started cloning with a machine; Especially since I wasn't going to root more than 4-8 cuttings each time.
Another note on pumps in rez...Heat. the pump runs continuously...At least on mine and Zandor's set-ups, and that creates heat in the rez. If you build a tub aero cloner. You need a big rez with "lots" of water to dissipate the heat..Got me?

More water=cooler rez for longer period of time. Good ideas all around. I will get back to you when I can find my threads.

[wildchick]

Here is pictures of our babies as of today 12/08/06 they have been under
12 /12 light for about 6 days nows and noticed alot of growth in them, still can't tell sex of them?? how long does it take to tell sex of them under 12 / 12 ????? Any advice at this point, hopefully they show sex and blooming soon??

Jamie & Stacie

[wildchick]

The above post should have read 12/ 07 / 06

Here is pictures of our babies as of today 12/07/06 they have been under
12 /12 light for about 6 days nows and noticed alot of growth in them, still can't tell sex of them?? how long does it take to tell sex of them under 12 / 12 ????? Any advice at this point, hopefully they show sex and blooming soon??

Jamie & Stacie

Any advice is sweet

[latewood]

It looks to me like you have your light too far away from your plants...What size MH are you using?

Don't ever put your vegging plants under 24/0...think nature. where on earth that is condusive to growing plants would there be "sun" 24 hours a day. the longest "Sun" day of the year I believe is just around 15 hrs...
plantsa need there rest, In order to have good photsynthesis.

[wildchick]

"LATEWOOD"


We have light about 1 1/2 to 2 feet above plants as some are not as tall as others and did not want to chance burning any of them. Right now we are using a 400 watt H.P.S. Light on them for flowering & blooming.
Is there something wrong or better we can do ????

Jamie

i know i know --- next time we rgoing with no less than 600 watt lights... like to go 1000 but $$$$$$$$$$ LOL

[burnable]

I'd have kept with the MH because it's more blue spectrum light which is what you want for vegetating plants. You may find them stretching under the HPS.

I've never seen my plants stretch under my 250w HPS. the internodes are so close together that when they start secondary growth you can't even see the stalk. but, I have close grow quarters and get 8 or 9 thousand lumens per sq. foot. the best is mh and hps combined assuming heat is regulated

[latewood]

Keep lights on 24/7 use liquid karma for ferts u can use it for the entire grow cycle no need to switch ferts when u flower, its the best stuff for your hydroponics system, i have the same setup as you i have attached some pics so u can see what u have to look forward to.

Liquid Karma is an additive(b vits and is considered a catalyst)...Yes you can use it by itself, but I don't think it will sustain an entire grow thru flowering stage by itself...Be careful when you make statements that newbs can mis-understand...Thanks for your $.02 worth...:smokin:

[latewood]

lower light until you feel a slight heat on the top of you hand when located right at the top of your plants. 16-18" is good usually, but If you have good fan blowing across top of plants and under the lamp, you can get it closer....the key is...you want your nodes to be closer together, anmd the closer then light the tighter nodal spacing will be and in the future...tighter buds.

A rule of thumb is: lower lamp until you cannot stand the heat from lamp after 30 seconds...then raise it 3" and check again...Hand at top of canopy...too hot! raise light.................Not hot! lower light. Now take note of distance from plant canopy and keep it there; raising it as necessary to keep lamp at safe distance...
remember...for every foot you have your lamp above cnaopy...You are losing 1/2 the light's potential intensity on the plants. peace