usuf
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Here are the links to my first 2 journals if anyone but myself is keeping track. Im just getting the hang of doing these so hopefully they'll improve over time, if not then fuck it at least I'm posting as bunch of cool pics.
https://www.rollitup.org/grow-journals/132221-my-first-grow.html
https://www.rollitup.org/grow-journals/140281-250-watt-closet-update-master.html
[FONT="]It's been too long since my last entry and a lot has happened since then so I'll get started.
Well the ladies had outgrown their first pots so I replanted them in larger ones, the new ones hold about twice as much. The benefits of using a Metal Halide conversion bulb for vegging are evident in the size and health of my plants.
Plants in their old pots (day 27).
[/FONT] [FONT="]Plants in their new (day 32), bigger pots, nice and bushy with room to grow ;D[/FONT]
[FONT="]Right after the transplant I realized that the plants were getting a little too bushy on the underside and that translates to a waste of valuable nutrients and growing power! I decided to give them a new look and had my buddy over to give me a quick overview on how to prune the girls. It didn't take long and he hack and slashed everything just under the dense canopy.
Post-makover pics. Freshly pruned and looking daaamn good![/FONT]
[FONT="]Welcome to the Jungle baby! (day 37)[/FONT]
Now the past couple weeks haven't been without their trials.. Up until about a week ago I was using regular tap water to water the and they started to go a little yellow. I consulted by buddy and he steered me over to this site http://www.icmag.com/ic/showthread.php?t=11688&highlight=mynamestitch which I found to be very helpful. It said that I had either a nutrient deficiency or a nutrient deficiency due to too much PH. I went out and got myself a PH testing kit ($10) and some PH Down($
. I tested my tap water and it clocked in at a whopping 8-9... shit. A few(50) drops of the Down in my milk pitcher-turned watering-can and I was back down to between 5-6, phew.
39 Days in and finally the sun is a nice orange haze ;P The flowering has begun! I changed up the bulbs from my MH convo to a 250 Watt High Pressure Sodium. The glow from the HPS bulb is 'fire' orange and I caught myself a couple times thinking that my closet was on fire until I got used to it. The Noma timer I bought from Canadian Tire was a massive pain in the ass. It fucked up if I had more than 1 program stored in the damn thing, took me a while to figure it out but I got it eventually. Shouldn't be long now..
On a side note I still haven't been able to get rid of all of the fungus knats. Their numbers are low and I don't see them that often but I know that they're there because my yellow sticky pads catch the odd. They don't seem to be doing anything detrimental to the plants so fuck it, sticky pads are working well enough.
2nd day of flowering (day 3
I realized that they needed to be pruned again once I changed the bulbs so I did. For shits and giggles I took some of the clippings and am going to attempt to get them to take root in a glad bag with a moistened paper towel in it.
https://www.rollitup.org/grow-journals/132221-my-first-grow.html
https://www.rollitup.org/grow-journals/140281-250-watt-closet-update-master.html
[FONT="]It's been too long since my last entry and a lot has happened since then so I'll get started.
Well the ladies had outgrown their first pots so I replanted them in larger ones, the new ones hold about twice as much. The benefits of using a Metal Halide conversion bulb for vegging are evident in the size and health of my plants.
Plants in their old pots (day 27).
[/FONT] [FONT="]Plants in their new (day 32), bigger pots, nice and bushy with room to grow ;D[/FONT]
[FONT="]Right after the transplant I realized that the plants were getting a little too bushy on the underside and that translates to a waste of valuable nutrients and growing power! I decided to give them a new look and had my buddy over to give me a quick overview on how to prune the girls. It didn't take long and he hack and slashed everything just under the dense canopy.
Post-makover pics. Freshly pruned and looking daaamn good![/FONT]
[FONT="]Welcome to the Jungle baby! (day 37)[/FONT]
Now the past couple weeks haven't been without their trials.. Up until about a week ago I was using regular tap water to water the and they started to go a little yellow. I consulted by buddy and he steered me over to this site http://www.icmag.com/ic/showthread.php?t=11688&highlight=mynamestitch which I found to be very helpful. It said that I had either a nutrient deficiency or a nutrient deficiency due to too much PH. I went out and got myself a PH testing kit ($10) and some PH Down($
. I tested my tap water and it clocked in at a whopping 8-9... shit. A few(50) drops of the Down in my milk pitcher-turned watering-can and I was back down to between 5-6, phew. 39 Days in and finally the sun is a nice orange haze ;P The flowering has begun! I changed up the bulbs from my MH convo to a 250 Watt High Pressure Sodium. The glow from the HPS bulb is 'fire' orange and I caught myself a couple times thinking that my closet was on fire until I got used to it. The Noma timer I bought from Canadian Tire was a massive pain in the ass. It fucked up if I had more than 1 program stored in the damn thing, took me a while to figure it out but I got it eventually. Shouldn't be long now..
On a side note I still haven't been able to get rid of all of the fungus knats. Their numbers are low and I don't see them that often but I know that they're there because my yellow sticky pads catch the odd. They don't seem to be doing anything detrimental to the plants so fuck it, sticky pads are working well enough.
2nd day of flowering (day 3
I realized that they needed to be pruned again once I changed the bulbs so I did. For shits and giggles I took some of the clippings and am going to attempt to get them to take root in a glad bag with a moistened paper towel in it.
