First Grow - Dr. Atomic - Atmoic Northern Lights

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titleistbudz

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Day 12

Temperature: 77(low)-81(high)
Humidity: 35%(low)-55%(high)
Light Schedule: 24 hours

Not much exciting to report here really. The girls were watered again today, and they are really starting to stretch out. It`s going to be perfect timing to put the 600W MH up on Saturday. They are going to take off.

They will be replanted next week sometime.

Here are the pictures, closeups of all the girls.
 

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Looking good man. I think that big ass 600w MH should stop them from stretching too far. I`ll check back Saturday to check it out.
 
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I love your journal-- you are a bit ahead of me, and I'm just using CFL, but the precise way you track and report will lend to interesting comparing.
Good choice with picking Canadian seeds, anything that furthers the progressive cause!
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your girls look great.....ok ok ok....so I'm a little ahead of myself....but......go with it ok? hahahahaha....looking good!
 
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titleistbudz

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tahoe58 said:
your girls look great.....ok ok ok....so I'm a little ahead of myself....but......go with it ok? hahahahaha....looking good!
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No, you're not ahead of yourself. There are 9 girls in the room, whether they want to dress like girls or not is up in the air right now :joint:

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I love your journal-- you are a bit ahead of me, and I'm just using CFL, but the precise way you track and report will lend to interesting comparing.
Good choice with picking Canadian seeds, anything that furthers the progressive cause!
GG
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Thanks for the kind words. Hope your grow finishes well.

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Looking good man. I think that big ass 600w MH should stop them from stretching too far. I`ll check back Saturday to check it out.
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Sounds good man, I've been watching yours also. Haven't been posting but I check everyday :). I moved the one plant that was stretching to the sky out from underneath the fluorescent tubes and put it under a single 23W CFL with daytime light to make sure it stops stretching. The plant is about 1/2" under the light, no heat stress.

Will have more pictures of the ladies on Saturday or Sunday!
 
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titleistbudz

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Day 15


Temperature: 77(low) - 86(high)
Humidity: 35%(low) - 50%(high)
Light Schedule: 18 hours on/6 hours off
Well today was a busy, and the most stressful day for the girls thus far. They were given a small feeding (if you even call it that), of 0.1mL Advanced Nutrients Barricade per litre of water. The water was pH balanced to about 6 and the PPM of the distilled water + barricade was around 190PPM. I'm basically testing the plants. They were also SOAKED today, and will not be soaked again for three or four days. They will be spot watered until then.

Finally got the 600W Metal Halide lamp up, and started it at 36inches above the tops. It was on them for about 6 hours and after the lights went out I lowered it to about 30 inches. I will continue to lower it slowly depending on how they react.

We plan on vegging them for 2-3 weeks under the metal halide, then switching to flower. They will be transplanted this week into bigger pots (probably within the next few days).

Anyways, here are the pictures. One of our plants (stretch Armstrong) didn't look so good today, but hopefully she kicks back. There was our last seed to sprout/runt of the group thats in there and not doing much. She will probably be pulled if she doesn't speed up in the next few days.
 

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Still looking good Titleist- I bet there gonna explode after a couple days under that MH. Good Luck- I`ll be checking back for an update. Oh, hey I know your using GH Nutes but have you started any yet? If not, when are you planning too?
 
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i have a question one of my plants is becoming yellow around the edges of the first leaves it grew what could be the problem. Not feeding anything but regular water and light with 24hours
 
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exiledottawa said:
i have a question one of my plants is becoming yellow around the edges of the first leaves it grew what could be the problem. Not feeding anything but regular water and light with 24hours
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Have you been pHing your water? What kind of soil are you using? Is it your tap water or Distilled water?
 
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beennoobed

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need to ask this... why do people use MH for flowing instead of HPS? when HPS is usually the lamp used for flowering?
 
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beennoobed said:
need to ask this... why do people use MH for flowing instead of HPS? when HPS is usually the lamp used for flowering?
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Sometimes you gotta work with what you have. If it came down to buying a MH or an HPS and I could only choose one, I'd pick the HPS. Then just pocket some cfl's from WalMart :)
 
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titleistbudz

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oscarmiya said:
Still looking good Titleist- I bet there gonna explode after a couple days under that MH. Good Luck- I`ll be checking back for an update. Oh, hey I know your using GH Nutes but have you started any yet? If not, when are you planning too?
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Hey man, I will provide an update tonight with more pictures. They are being transplanted into their final resting grounds (3 gallon pots). I haven't started the nutes yet, other then AN Barricade, but will likely be starting next week in the new pots.

exiledottawa said:
i have a question one of my plants is becoming yellow around the edges of the first leaves it grew what could be the problem. Not feeding anything but regular water and light with 24hours
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Could be soil/water pH. Also, I wouldn't worry about yellowing on the first leaves as long as the new growth is healthy. Post some pictures up in the GENERAL GROWING section of the forum and you'll get it diagnosed within hours.

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need to ask this... why do people use MH for flowing instead of HPS? when HPS is usually the lamp used for flowering?
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MH lights give off UV radiation from what I've heard. Both HPS/MH are adequate for either stage of growing however. Check out the Advanced Growing Techniques forum, they have a very detailed thread in there on the effects of UV radiation and the possibility of more resin production. For me, metal halides provide more BLUE light, which for me makes sense in the growth stage. I will be using my ArgoMax HPS for flowering, because it has 30% more added blue light, and 95,000 lumens. My metal halide only has 75,000. Same amount of electricity, 20,000 more lumens. Makes sense.
 
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