The Making Of A Monster!

looks great

That's a lot to manage information wise, how do you keep up with it bud? Keep a notebook or something?

love the garden

whswakboardz71 said:

i am flowering under a 400 watt hps and i kno to trim off lower branches but how high up? i heard half way up my plant if its a 400 watt.

btw im asking u this because i have been following your grow and love every new post. learning a lot. but yeah a 400 watt doesnt penetrate far so not to waste growth on the bottom how high should i trim? thanks a lott

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I am not the cutting authority. i simply dont cut my plants. those little branches dont bother me. i flower early. on a 400 watt light i feel 14 inches is max penetration therefor i make sure 0 vegging days on clones. this insures plants 12-17 inches. at this height most of the lower branches are equal to the tip or main cola

So in my formula i use a 400 watt 12 inches for 2.5 x 2.5 of good coverage. i
could flower 4 larger plants or 16 smaller.

16 was the key for me max harvest

Ok let me give you a overview. i have not been able to do alot of media because time and photobuckets bulk loader has been on the fritz. let me go see if i can even upload today before i claim a new update let me go see.

it is starting to get a bit hetic.. you will soon see

Ok i am days behind so i am going to rewind aa bit and try and catch things up.

The garden is getting very hetic. mid december we grabbed a few clones and revived this garden. The garden has many different area's

it was a rush to get plants flowering, in this grow there are lot of cuttings that have to make many many plants. rather then cut everything to peices i have used a progression to help space out harvests. The goal is to pound out a Qp a day. This is easy and i have easily surpassed this mark before, however this time we have even more obisticles to over come. Now that there are a few trays flowering you can see the need to replace ones sent to flower.

The hardest part of showcasing this grow is all the different rooms. At this point i have set up 5 trays and some are still largely vaccant. but they keep moving around so it hard to keep track of the plants.
let me flash some new media

So here is about 4 days ago or so.

nearly 2 weeks into the cycle


Here is the adverage girth of these plants

right next to it you can see that trays is nearly 10 days behind

Since we have been rushing to fill these trays these plants are not quite as bushy as i like however they have great root systems.

here is some natural light

At this point i will Give a heavy feeding, i actually want to see a little curl so i know where to draw the line! then i will taper off a tad. as these plants explode i want to ensure lower but adequate levels of npk

Not all my plant use food the same so its important to see who is starving and who is ok. in a few weekswe will need to make food for specific plants not the entire trays.

If you look closely in thr pictues above you can see the plants
Showing the effices of heavy feeding. the next watering is a heavy flush
With 3/8 strength nutes. from this point. it is easy for me to maintain lush green plants

I really down want heavy yellowing till week 5-7

i'm lovin the op...

can't wait until i can see it running how you liike =]

lumberjack_ian said:

i'm lovin the op...

can't wait until i can see it running how you liike =]

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look again later tonight. 3000 watts flowering now
another 2 weeks there is nearly 6000 watts veggin total
however we are really only covering 2600 watts veggin right now!

7000 watts flowering

at the end of week 11 there will be 19 trays flowering nearly 15,000 watts
it might fit the monster title at some point.

i dont need any extra attention right now!

this tray is very healthly right now. lets hope it stays that way.

Ok here is the update from 2 days ago now

Same room same trays only 2 days after the heavy feeding. this is the day they get the big first flush

This was the 2 week mark no need to flush the first week of flower IMO

heres one of the vegging tray most are clones just in from rooting, the large black pots are new unsexed plants




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