hipster's first grow journal, ww seedsman fem.

[john]

Hey hipster, i like the mylar, is that the new blue shiny stuff that gives out more blue spectrum for vegging? LOL, only messing.

Looking good.
If you put a jug of water between your plants, it will help with humidity, until 2 or 3 weeks into flowering.

[hipster]

I watered them this morning until I got runoff. I've changed my mind about using ph adjusted tap water. I'm taking this all the way with distilled water! I figure that will cost me about 30 to 35 bucks max for the entire grow. That works for me. I don't need any water "issues", plus it's easier.

[hipster]

Originally Posted by mcgillicutty13

looking good man, i'm definatly pulling up a chair for this one..
although i'm thinking that dark tarp you have under the plants may be absorbing a lot of your light

Thanks for stopping by! The waterproof tarp is primarily so I can mop up the water runoff. I'm still tweaking this room but hmm, you might have something there, thanks!

[hipster]

Originally Posted by john

Hey hipster, i like the mylar, is that the new blue shiny stuff that gives out more blue spectrum for vegging? LOL, only messing.

Looking good.
If you put a jug of water between your plants, it will help with humidity, until 2 or 3 weeks into flowering.

LOL John. I'll try that water idea! No mylar yet. lol

[hipster]

Originally Posted by mcgillicutty13

looking good man, i'm definatly pulling up a chair for this one..
although i'm thinking that dark tarp you have under the plants may be absorbing a lot of your light

Thank you SO much! You were dead on about that tarp. I took it out to see if it would make any difference and it looks like the temps are down a couple of degrees.

+ rep

[hipster]

The gurls are "asleep" and I just flipped the timer to 12/12. The gurls get an extra long nap tonight.

I wanted to get them settled into their new digs and light before I flipped it, they've done that. The reason I did it this way is because I wanted to get any possible "stress" that might happen kept on the veg side and out of the way, because these seeds are feminized. What is this? Day 24? LOL They're ready.

I've read they only need two weeks to veg from some advertising and I'm beyond that. And 8 weeks in flowering. But I don't go by week times anymore, I go with what they "look like". These gurls are ready!

[hipster]

Originally Posted by john

Hey hipster, i like the mylar, is that the new blue shiny stuff that gives out more blue spectrum for vegging? LOL, only messing.

Looking good.
If you put a jug of water between your plants, it will help with humidity, until 2 or 3 weeks into flowering.

Thanks, John. I put a pitcher of water between the plants. I've un blocked my return air vent now, that was a dumb move I think blocking it. LOL

Can't hurt, I'll see what happens.

[hipster]

So, Walmart got some more of my money today. Does it ever end? LOL

I got another tarp. This one is reversible. Blue on one side and silver on the other. Silver side up of course. For just under $5.

Finally found the Mylar Emergency Blankets. Bought 5! I wanted Diamond Mylar but that doesn't seem to be easy to get where I live so fuck it! lol I think I'll wrinkle the $hit out of it and hopefully will get a similar reflection pattern. I think I have a good idea about how to use it. More on that later if it works, with pics! lol

The temps are looking GREAT! I actually saw 77F today, bitchin' lol

[john]

I haven't used emergency blanket before for reflective material, but i wouldn't wrinkle the blanket, having it flat may work better.

[hipster]

Originally Posted by john

I haven't used emergency blanket before for reflective material, but i wouldn't wrinkle the blanket, having it flat may work better.

Good point. I don't see anyone else here doing that and I'm sure it's been tried before. lol Flat it is!

[hipster]

In the last week they've maybe grown an inch in height. They look great and are loving the light but they just kind of ran out of gas height wise. That's why I flipped it to 12/12.

The teenagers on day 3 of 12/12, I think. lol

[hipster]

This is the one I topped and that's an 11 1/2" pot. It's a monster!

[john]

They're looking big an healthy hipster.

[hipster]

Originally Posted by john

They're looking big an healthy hipster.

Thanks John. They're starting to take off now height wise again. I had the light set at 17" and let them grow into 16". I just checked and they're at 15" so I moved the light back to 16". There's going to be a whole lot of that going on for awhile.

I've got 6 more WW seeds and I'm probably going to slide them in the Flowering Room as soon as these finish if they all germintae that is. I've got another room and I'm going to set up my MH in there I think. I might even start with CFL's in a closet prior to the MH. I've probably got another 5 weeks to get those started.

[john]

Originally Posted by hipster

Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity.

ROFLMFAO


Yeah, it's nice having separate places for each light and stage of growth, helps having the chop and change lamps/ballasts.