250w HPS Club And Help Guide

RCgrowerman

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Greeting friends and neighbors. Just got back from a weekend trip. Catching up on the posts. Hope everyones girls are doing well. I seem to have recurring gnats. I watered using NEEM last week. Maybe the couple hundred dead gnats in the water trays were from last week. I don't see any live ones today. I took everything out, cleanded the tent with alcohol and lysol, now satisfied that there are no critters chewing on my ladies. I did find a Sciarid Fly carcus, with a strange growth on it. Through a hand scope I saw tiny stem like growths with a ball on the tip..I am thinking some kind of mold..couldn't find anything on the www that looked like it. Any Ideas, you guys?? This was in the saucer that catches the run off from watering the soil. My humidity ranges from 45 to 55...it has spiked to 60% but I had overwatered and it was about 86F in the grow tent that day. I have since improved ventilation. It is good to be back...I missed my girls.
Im currently battling gnats as well hopefully it will be over soon though.
 

Hettyman

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I can't stand waiting hours every morning for my lights to come on and see how my ladies are coming on...... FFS Hurry up!!
 

Dr. Kundilini

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Brettsog and Hettyman..Thanks for the nute advise. I have probably overfed a little, but not enough to cause burns yet. Istarted with 5/10 in the second week of flower, but only one time every 5 or 6 days apart. I think it was around the 5th week that I began 8micro/16 bloom So, I can feed a weaker mix more often and not risk burning up some developing buds. I like the GH products, but have very little experience with them. The girls are now in the 7th wk(42 days) of flowering. They have been getting 20 oz. H20 every morning, but now I have cut the H20 to every other day, when the top soil is dry and there is no water in the drain pan.(less water now help lower the humidity to around 40-45%. The nitrogen is depleted, fan leaves are yellowing and falling, the buds are beginning to fill in....life is good. I can't speak enough about the good help and friendly advise I have gotten here in the 250W Club. Good on Ya'll.
 

Hettyman

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My pleasure, I hope that it was good advice, cos I have absolutely no recollection of this at all :)

Must stop smokin so early :)
 

RCgrowerman

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Outdoor bag seed coming along very nicely.

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Mazar kush twins and a clone I took from them 4-5 weeks ago. I had some minor burns although Im not sure why.
I have not had a problem with it on these plants until now. The gnats are on full retreat and should be 100% gone
in a few days.
 

10acjed

Active Member
Nice looking outdoor you have there...


I think my drying box still needs some work, they are feeling pretty close to ready, at least this am they were. Will be clipping today and jarring some. Only took 4 days, so seems too fast. But the buds are rather loose, not tight or dense at all.

Either way the taste of this batch is way better, nice fuely/fruity tasting and smelling.
 

Hettyman

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Hmmmm maybe too fast, they can be deceptively wet inside still, break snip a nugget off and break it in half, see how dry they are inside. If needs be, leave the rest a day or 2. It took me ages to realise that I don't have to put all the budds from drying to jars at once. Seems obvious, but funny how the brain works, or doesn't, sometimes
 

ace720

Active Member
Hey Hettyman, I'm thinking about using my BioBizz for my next grow. Lol
By the end of the grow I have going on now I'm gonna need some more
nutrients and I was thinking shit I got some already. :) so I took my
lil plants out of the rock wool and put them in soil, so I guess I'm gonna
the BioBizz another try. I will be brewing mine with some fungus and
other mycors and just feed like that everyday. I hope it works out:o
 

Hettyman

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Hey Hettyman, I'm thinking about using my BioBizz for my next grow. Lol
By the end of the grow I have going on now I'm gonna need some more
nutrients and I was thinking shit I got some already. :) so I took my
lil plants out of the rock wool and put them in soil, so I guess I'm gonna
the BioBizz another try. I will be brewing mine with some fungus and
other mycors and just feed like that everyday. I hope it works out:o
I hope it does too, cos my harvest due in 2 weeks is terrible, and i'm about fit to give up growing altogether. OK so there was major cal/mag def left unchecked for weeks, and spider mites, so it's hard to blame the nutes, but i'll be lucky to save enough money on budd to cover the outlay on soil bulbs and electricity.

I'm gonna keep trying with BioBizz, cos if my mates smoke any, they don't shut up about the taste, even with no flush!!! But i'll stick to slightly smaller pots and plants, as I have more success this way.

HOwever, my new Aurora Indica seedlings may be fed with the Hesi samples I have, and see if I have the same deficiency issues. I just can't give up Biobizz altogether yet, so will keep growing my Blue Mystic with it, as that amazing fruity taste is worth the lower yields :) ...just!!

Fungus and Mycors?? You're a braver man than I
 

10acjed

Active Member
Success!! :mrgreen:

Packed the hitter as I trimmed the excess leaf. Smooth, fuely taste, nice pungent fuely/skunky smell. They are still pretty soft and sticky, but burned nice and even so its dry enough for me already. Have most of it jarred, still alot of lower growth to trim up, it seemed a bit damp so I will finish it off tomorrow. Going to use a bunch of the little popcorns to make some brownies...

Havent weighed yet, doing 24 closed/12 open in the jars, then will pull it out again and weigh... Have one big jar full of tops, and another smaller of the 4 - 5 nodes below the tops. Still have enough lower growth to fill 2 more small jars too..
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TheWiseInfidel

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i'm waiting on seeds for my first grow which will be done under cfls for its seedling life then vegging under a nice 250. i'll probably veg 4 under one light then add the second light 3 weeks into veg for another week depending on height and when i put my plants into their final pot size. i am cool tubing the lights but ive been real on the fence about it trying to be cheap. this is my grow space here

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only about 2 feet across in width. i'm lookin to grow them babies to 3 1/2 feet max.
 

10acjed

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i'm waiting on seeds for my first grow which will be done under cfls for its seedling life then vegging under a nice 250. i'll probably veg 4 under one light then add the second light 3 weeks into veg for another week depending on height and when i put my plants into their final pot size. i am cool tubing the lights but ive been real on the fence about it trying to be cheap. this is my grow space here

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only about 2 feet across in width. i'm lookin to grow them babies to 3 1/2 feet max.
My footprint is 2' by 2.5' and I fit 4 plants. I ended up with alot, and im not kidding, alot of popcorn bud with 3' plants, probably only the top 12 - 16" was really nice... But it can come in handy for various things. Im doing a batch of brownies..

Just be sure to keep it cool, its tough in a confined space...
 

Hettyman

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Success!! :mrgreen:

Packed the hitter as I trimmed the excess leaf. Smooth, fuely taste, nice pungent fuely/skunky smell. They are still pretty soft and sticky, but burned nice and even so its dry enough for me already. Have most of it jarred, still alot of lower growth to trim up, it seemed a bit damp so I will finish it off tomorrow. Going to use a bunch of the little popcorns to make some brownies...

Havent weighed yet, doing 24 closed/12 open in the jars, then will pull it out again and weigh... Have one big jar full of tops, and another smaller of the 4 - 5 nodes below the tops. Still have enough lower growth to fill 2 more small jars too..
If i don't start getting harvests like this soon, i'll cry....nice work!!!
 

10acjed

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Yep, just checked your link, you got a far better harvest on your first go then I ever do :(
I'll credit it to luck more than anything. Any skill that went into it was just from suggestions here.
This plant came out the best, it had the least nute damage. Probably around 1.5z from her. And its gooey sticky...

I dont know what to do with the last bb, she is looking rough. Going to cut her tonight and hang. May end up being a hash experiment.

PS: I just love your sig.... LOL
 

Dr. Kundilini

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I'll credit it to luck more than anything. Any skill that went into it was just from suggestions here.
This plant came out the best, it had the least nute damage. Probably around 1.5z from her. And its gooey sticky...

I dont know what to do with the last bb, she is looking rough. Going to cut her tonight and hang. May end up being a hash experiment.

PS: I just love your sig.... LOL
Very nice job there, 10acjed. I would be very pleased if I have a couple of buds turn out like yours. I am at 46 days flowering, with lots of white hairs, but not much trichs yet. My target date is 10/20, but if it isn't ready, I will be patient and wait until it peaks. That would put then at 11 weeks of flower. (Sativa/Indica strain of bag seed).
 
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