Time to pop my cherry! I recently grew 6 clones I took from a mother plant of Doc's The Dope and currently have another mom who was stunted a bit, by bad ventilation and lack of air circulation, while I was changing around my setup. She is now 3 weeks old and has fully recovered after upgrading her living quarters. I will chronicle growing her to cloneable size, cloning her, then flowering out her clones. I will simultaneously, obviously it will be about a month behind The Dope mother, do the same with Dr.Greenthumbs Chemdawg X G13. I am to prove that Dr.Greenthumb has the best Genetics on the planet and that I can properly yield 1 gram dry per watt of flowering light used. Note: I have a flattened cervical column and multiple subluxations in my back and neck. I grow strictly for my own personal use. It helps me to get through the tough pain and sleep at night. I will soon be a card carrying patient/caregiver. I have learned alot spying on you guys and leaching info from various threads. Now I am here to show what I have learned. Thank You I will post pics asap.
Ok. One picture is my The Dope mom who was stunted, but now recovered, in her new home for only moms. Then My small cloning area with a double 2 foot t5 strip and mondi propagation chamber. I only will cut 3 clones of each totaling 6 clones to flower so I do not need a large space to keep them. Then we have the Chemdawg x G13 seed. As I only take the exact number of clones I need, I have 100 % success rate, I also only germ 1 seed. These are feminized and as I have stated, the best genetics on the planet. It will be slow to start as I will wait for both strains to be ready as to clone both at the same time. Next update with Chemdawg x G13 seedling.
Any advice or feedback would be appreciated. Though I am confident, I am fully aware I am proficient but not an expert by any means.
All under a 400??? Fuck me silly. That's AWESOME. Why do you run a MH/HPS switch in the flower room? Do you use the MH while flowering? Also, what size room?
Yeah it seems to work good for me. It just so happens to get like 83 during the last few weeks of flowering b/c of all the greenage. The mh immediately drops the heat down 3 degrees minimum and I have heard mh for the last days will help harden up buds so i have always done it anyways. even if heat was not an issue i would do it. As soon as I start two week cleanse, i switch. Can't teach an old dog new tricks. lol. Plus its nicer light to look at my ladies.
As you can see, those last two pics that say day 49 are under mh, they had 10 days left at that point.
So you start your 12/12 under HPS and switch to MH the last two weeks? Do you have a grow journal I can follow? I am looking at setting up a 4x4 using a 400watt HPS. What is the size of your flower room?
So you start your 12/12 under HPS and switch to MH the last two weeks? yes Do you have a grow journal I can follow? Hahaha! This is my journal. What is the size of your flower room? roughly 36x42 inches Good luck!
and yes a 400 will work great, but it will get very hot in there if you dont have adequate ventilation. 400 is the biggest you could go with in that area unless you have very high ceilings,but there is not much room to install fans/venting on either side of the light. If you are 100% set on that space get the 400 but know you will need to air cool that bulb and have cool air intake and decent exhaust.
Yeah, I fully plan on setting up proper ventilation and will have plenty of cool air intake. Check this out... I won one of these from my local Hydro store Sunleaves Sunspot 6" air cooled. Sunleaves Sunspot 6" Air Cooled Reflector - GrowLab - Grow Tents - Greners.com
that will be perfect. how did you win it? just entered a drawing or something? More pics to come soon...
It was a facebook contest... "Whoever post the most on our page over the next two days wins..." I actually came in second place. First place prize was a complete 1k system. I won this hood and a Pioneer JR T5! [ame=http://www.amazon.com/Pioneer-IV-Jr-Foot-Bulbs/dp/B0015PG0TY]Amazon.com: Pioneer IV Jr 2 Foot - 4 Bulbs T5: Patio, Lawn & Garden[/ame]
Pic 1: Porn shot. Pic 2: flowering setup. Pic 3: Dr.Greenthumb's Chemdawg x G13 of course only germed 1 cuz I know 100% success rate with The World's Best Genes. only 12 hours later it has a tail. Rockwool has soaked in rockwool conditioning solution phd to 5.9 for 18 hours. Will plant bean in rockwool tonight then place in the moms room. Pic 4: Mom The Dope in with her older lady friends. Most days I will put her in their in the morning so I can shut off the 250mh to conserve power until lights out. Pic 5 and 6: Dont tell me my roots have black stuff on them, I love nitrozyme, but it looks nasty sometimes. Pic 7: My thingy. As you can see for about the past week my room has never dropped below 77 degrees or 39 % humidity, and has never been above 82 degrees or 42% humidity. This consistency makes a huge difference in total final yield. imo. Well it is not letting me upload any pics right now but as soon as it does, I will.