400watt Ceramic Metal Halide grow

[GigZ-16]

Nice job dude, +rep. Ive noticed though that any photo showing soil shows very dry soil. Just my observation.

[AugustWest]

great job man.. everything looks perfect!

[RichardDean]

thanks for the kind words, the Bubbleberry was chopped down Thursday and is hanging out to dry as we speak so expect some shots of that soon. The other 3 are going for about a week or so more and the smallest one the clone has 2 weeks at least left. Usually most of my shots were taken right before I did my watering or fertilizing so that is probably why you see dry soil in most of the shots. I usually let my plants go through a complete drying cycle and don't let them get bone dry but mostly dry to the point that only the bottom couple inches might still be somewhat moist. As we all know the soil draws in more oxygen as the water dries up in the medium. Hope to get new shots up here soon so be patient.

[harvester]

I'm not a soil grower, but when i did grow in soil I used to let it dry out as much as possible (without letting the soil dry too much it cracks).

It is also a good idea to get your fingers in and break up the top layer of soil before a watering. Cultivating the soil in this way helps the transition of the water.

props to your grow, as someone said earlier I like very much the LST technique you are employing.

[RichardDean]

thanks man and yes LST is a good way to get big plants in a smaller space as well as get better light distribution to all parts of it that usually wouldn't in a untrained plant. I also topped once at the 5 th internode to stunt the vertical growth even more. I was cultivating the soil at the top inch or so for awhile then I just stopped because I got lazy and like I said these girls are not at my location so it is harder to tend to them daily as I would like to. Can't wait to get my own grow going in my own place as soon as I get that ability to do so.

[curtropolis420]

everything is looking really good i can go non-stealth in about a month man so i'm going to save up some bucks and take your advice and grab a 400w CMH i'm feeling it how hot does it get is the only thing i wanna know that will make me set if i can grab my 195cfm fan back from my friend i could run my 250w and this if i get it

[highlymotivated]

I want all this.
Your doin a good job mate.

[harvester]

Originally Posted by RichardDean

thanks man and yes LST is a good way to get big plants in a smaller space as well as get better light distribution to all parts of it that usually wouldn't in a untrained plant. I also topped once at the 5 th internode to stunt the vertical growth even more. I was cultivating the soil at the top inch or so for awhile then I just stopped because I got lazy and like I said these girls are not at my location so it is harder to tend to them daily as I would like to. Can't wait to get my own grow going in my own place as soon as I get that ability to do so.

Well I know all about lazy... at least you got the excuse you can't get out to them much.

How did you find the kali mist? A friend of mine recently bought some and had a couple non germinate.

Wishing you a speedy end to your grow-space woes.

[RichardDean]

I was given the Kali mIst by a friend and then I made more seeds by forcing the one I had in my rubbermaid grow to hermie and it pollinated itself and the other and i got good solid femmed seeds from that process. I got about 50 or so seeds left that I am saving for later use. And thanks I will hopefully be ending those woes by the end of the summer for sure.

[RichardDean]

Originally Posted by curtropolis420

everything is looking really good i can go non-stealth in about a month man so i'm going to save up some bucks and take your advice and grab a 400w CMH i'm feeling it how hot does it get is the only thing i wanna know that will make me set if i can grab my 195cfm fan back from my friend i could run my 250w and this if i get it

in my setup I noticed that it was about 10 degrees fahrenheit cooler than the standard MH I was running.

[RichardDean]

sorry for no pics I had no digi to get them but I just found my old one so I will get batteries and get some close-up of the Kali Mist. In total we got around 7.5 ounces from the 3 plants and the one smaller clone. The small clone itself actually yielded 19 grams.