First dedicated dryer grow 6 Norhterns and 3 Afghanis

[Mrs. Greenjeans]

I'm reading your thread, I swear I'm paying attention but I still have a question: What medium are you growing in? I keep looking, and I know you're using Advanced Nutes, but are you using soil, hydro, or aero? I must be missing something.
edited to say: Thanks for the link!

[Chronic Chrissy]

i'm using sunshine mix 4, it's peatmoss, perlite and vermite(sp?). Anyways it's like soil but since it is pH balanced and has no nutrition in it it is called a soiless mix.

[Mrs. Greenjeans]

Ahhh, thanks

[Chronic Chrissy]

Well 3 weeks into flower and my room is FULL. All 7 plants are closing in on eacother. I am very temped to trim some of the whispy under branchs off with very little buds. That way I can pull some of the bulk out and concentrate energy towards the top buds. Then I can stick those branches in as clones And play with reverting them back to veg and seeing if they will clone. Then I can still have one of every strain and might be able to replace some of my messed up clones.
The other issue I'm having is those bushy northerns of mine. The fan leaves are so big and they are so compact that there are little buds in the shadows. I can't pull them out of the way to expose the buds because the I just cover up another bud. So I was thinking maybe pull a few blades out of the leaves.
Either way they will be choking eachother out soon, and it should help with my bulk.
As for my purpling problem it has slowly spread a little but only now that the pots are drying out, so I could keep my nutes the same and make it worse, or increase my nutes and make it worse.
I think I have to change around my setup a little. While the rooted clones are doing fine in the stage one dryer drum, the fresh clones keep drying out way too fast. I also think that the cold night temps are slowing things down. So I figure I want the clones in the stage one drum under the flouro with the heater at night. So that means I'll have to move the rooted clones into the stage 2 dryer with the 400MH bulb.
But that causes another problem because I am down a timer because I need it for one of my flouros in the flower room, and I also wanted to move the heater to the flowqer room since the temp goes from 80 during the day down to 62 at night. Oh so much to do so little nap time.
Urg I want to be downstairs working on my garden but K is up and her naps are cutting back. The time will come very soon when she will have to get used to the idea that I can't always be in her sight. I quit my job to be home with her but we are seriously hurting for cash so this hooby has o not only pay for itself but I need to have enough to help a buddy out so we can help ourselves out.

[Mrs. Greenjeans]

so this hooby has o not only pay for itself but I need to have enough to help a buddy out so we can help ourselves out.

I'm right there with ya. I'm concerned that I've just picked up an expensive hobby. I'm seriously considering, since I've come this far, expanding a bit, and raising enough to make Christmas money every year. The thought of selling though makes me paranoid.

[Chronic Chrissy]

Well with swtching around a few cords and by shutting off the flouros before lights out manually(even a little early is fine, the plug them back in when we get up in the morning) I can support my set up. as for the selling part I hhave 2 ld buddys who have faced to cops for me in the past and have kept their mouths shut at their own expense. These are the only two people I will deal with here. I have one more friend in a small dry city an hour away. And he is the one exception I am prepared to make. I may talk H into picking up a 1000w hps after this crop. Then I'll build one more large room out of Panda plastic for flowering, and that's it I refuse to have any bigger set up than that except for some side lighting and basic improvements. I really just want to get us out of debt, we're only about $10,000 behind but after three years of working at it as we pay one thing off another pops up out of H's past. I would like to get to the point were we can be caught up on basic bills, make minimum payments on the rest, and have $200 in the account. Our first annaversary is tommorrow and I don't even have anything for supper, never mind be able to make a nice dinner for when H get home...

crying babe, be back.

[stinkyattic]

Hey for the undergrowth... 3 weeks in and you still have a chance to make those crap budsites into clones.
Trimming lame low shoots is not a bad idea for a couple reasons; they often die anyway due to lack of light, the buds are dumb, and the plant can focus energy on the 'real' buds!

[Chronic Chrissy]

Thanks stinky. I'm rearranging my set up as we speak and I think I have a few solutions to help with my night temp problems and clone problems without altering the light cycle. After that I think I'll try to get organized enough to take clones and snip a few blades today or tommorrow. Busay, busy busy....

[Chronic Chrissy]

Big changes...1st wedding annaversary today(without even 2 cents to rub togather)... baby on nursing strike...sleep deprived...purpling solved...ready to clone and trim flowering plants......so much to do........so so tired.......tommorrow new day.....zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz:microwave:

[Mrs. Greenjeans]

[align=center]!!!HAPPY ANNIVERSARY!!!
Piffle on some $$$ .
Find someone to babysit:thumbsup:
Make some ramen:eat:
Get a 6 pack:glugglug:
Smoke one:jointsmile:
AND HAVE FREAKY LOVING SEX! :s3: [/align]