Haha sweet! Our VK are only 2 days apart from germ. Same progress so far here! I got a touch more of the second node, but I think the 2 days could more then make that difference. Will be tuned, may post a pic if they are identical if u don't mind haha
Yo - that's so awesome - I hope you can stick around for this entire grow and post some pics here to compare - I really appreciate it! It's not a race or anything, but hey - the more the merrier - I already know this strain is steller, I just hope my results this time are 'as good' as last time when we had it in soil...right now, all others are eventually compared to it, as we consider it our best result so far, together with the Acapulco Gold, which we've almost for sure got on next year's list already.
well it appears that my vanilla kush is about 4 days behind yours! happy growings!
Right on! Keep following along - if you have a journal, feel free to share!
Hey Dayzt, looking great! Question though; did you perforate any extra holes in the drip ring? It seems as though my waterfarm isn't getting any water to the middle of it where the seedling would go. I'm afraid once she's in there she's not going to get much moisture. At what angle do you have the holes from the drip ring? Are they suppose to be totally vertical facing down or at an angle so it reaches more the middle of the grow medium? Thanks for any feedback.
As Mr2 said, no modifications need to be done to the drip ring at all - just be vigilant in the first few weeks and pour 5-6 cups of water (from the water-level tube) through the top, right down where the seedling's root is - everytime you check on it. Once it's a bit stronger, that won't be necessary, as the hydroton stays moister further down - the light will always dry out the top layer of hydroton, and when the seedling is young, most of it's root is in the top part... hope that makes sense! Basically, once the root reaches the bottom of the growing chamber and pokes through, your golden!
Looking great What kinda bulb are you using for veg? If you can, you should take a picture of the full setup once they get under their own lights.
Drip ring should stay facing down, in the first days to week or so pour a little water around the seedling every few hours or so. Be careful though as it's just a seedling and can easily be damaged.
I have (had) a pair of the coily 60w cfl bulbs (one warm, one cool - red/blue) on each seedling until they had well developed first leaves, then they were removed with the big 600w light started up. As long as I can keep the temps no higher than 80-85, it will be fine according to past experience. I'll be getting all my ducting done up this weekend and setting up the new filter and blower fan, so sometime next week both lights will be running and I'll be 'tweaking' things to keep the temps in there below 80. So to answer your question, I'll ultimately have each plant under it's own 600w HPS light - I decided to just use the HPS lights through both veg and flower this time - seemed to work pretty good last time! My HPS lights also have a larger amount of blue in them than regular HPS lights, so...
I'll for sure get some over-all pics of the setup once that's done - right now it's kinda of a 'disaster area' as i've been lazy and need to do some cleanup in there..lol.
Ha, seems like a lot of people are running with VK right now. I've heard great things about it. Pretty sure I should be able to find a good clone mother from among the ten beans I have on the way. Any thoughts on what traits/pheno I should be looking out for?
Looking good, Dayzt. I bet that Ace of Spades pulls through just fine.
Finding a good clone from this strain shouldn't be any problem at all - last time I germed 5 fem seeds of the VK and all of them made it - very impressed with Barney's once again.. and now look at this little biatch out-performing the AoS so far..lol.. but she does have the advantage of being in the 'seasoned' waterfarm.
As in most strains, I'd look for a pheno with good branching (will thoeretically perform better under the screen) and tight nodes, but that can have alot to do with how you train her early on. I plan to keep my light as low as I can with this one, so it stays nice and tight - then once it's big enough, she'll get bent over and spread out just like the last one. The AoS, I'm expecting to be much 'stouter' than the VK, but from the vids and pics from Subcool, it should still push out some nice side-branching - we'll see what kind of pheno I get - not much choice when running only 1 plant, but I've had some pretty good luck so far! If the AoS doesn't end up working out, I think I'll be popping in my 'Creme Caramel' (Sweet Seeds)..
My linen closet is right below the attic so I'm gonna make a small 6'' hole on the ceiling of that linen closet and have the grow box in there with an exhaust fan and filter to the attic to control the smell and the temps (also with a couple of 6 inch holes at the bottom and sides with 6'' fans but not turned on; with the negative pressure alone from the exhaust fan they should spin just from the pressure inside (this also helps with the compression of the box itself). As far as materials go for a custom box itself, what would you recommend? Also in SCOTTYBALLS first grows the PA express he says his cabin is 50 something inches tall...is that the entire height of the box or of grow space; because it seems way taller?
) so with 3 oz it'll last me the time it takes me to grow another one and thus have a eternal supply. Although I might just do what another friend suggested to have a mother and just clone her all year round that way I know I have good bud, yet one doesn't want to be smoking the same bud all year round so we'll see what I'll figure out.
Not tooting my own horn but if you don't have a lot of space like me and want some nice bud, go read my grow journal. I still think you should get a 400w. I was like you when I first started, I planned on growing a with a 250w but the 400w is only ~15 extra a month which is nothing and the yield will be sooo much better. If you decide to up the wattage pm me I'll give you the links to where I bought everything.
No worries... I don't mind. 
