i also water with tap water and before i got my 30$ ph tester i used strips (which im not so great at) and come to find out the ph of the tap is around 8.7ish . also used half potting (but could have ben topsoil) and half dirt from the ground (fairly rich dirt though) for my soil. the plants...
a 150 watt hps light is only like 70 bucks (usd) with shipping included from htgsupply.com
sorry if this seems like i work for htg or something i just know i have only ordered my lights from them and they have great prices. not the verry best in quality (the htg brand lights) compared to some...
http://htgsupply.com/viewproduct.asp?productID=46447
i just orderd two of those (one for flower and one for veg). i had 2 4in fans on out take, (one on veg and one on flower rated at 80 cfm) passive intakes, and depending on the room temp up to 93*F(if the room temp was 80*f the rooms would be...
i also ordered blue mystic from nirvana. im waiting for them in the mail. i was wondering if they actually take on a purpleish blue hue at the end of flowering (with temps between 68-77* F?)
the first two are males. they are each from different bag seed. the first one is 6 1/2 ish inches the second is about ten inches. they are on pretty much on the same node the shorter one is just much more compact and also has the same amount of foliage. (also the first one has this oily skunkey...
start out a lot of seeds, select for the best mothers (2-3) at about a month and a half, then clone all the plants. mothers and not mothers. throw all the not mothers in the flower just in case their is an incredably dank plant that you can grow into a mother.
then continue on with a sog taking...
dam those are still hight temps. you neeed to extract more air from the vegg room. ideal temps are %75-85
your plants also look like they have sufferd from the heat. just try to lower the temps but if you cant try and mist the leaves frequently to try to get eveporation to cool down the...
i orderd the random 15 auto flowering pack
got it very fast
and the germination rate was UBER SHIT
ive had WAY better germ. rates from shitty mishandled regs form antoher country than from these guys
and 4 seeds were broken on there way over