Club 600

[Don Gin and Ton]

I'm using fox farms tiger and big bloom and grow big. Actually I went very light on the nutes this grow. It's only been in the last couple of weeks that I've been feeding them full strength nutes. I also gave them a few doses of advanced nutrients big bud and molasses. I have also decided to not flush the plants the last couple of weeks. I've been reading up on uncle ben's threads and I'm trying my best to let my girls tell me what they need instead of trying to stay inside of the guidelines that most people seem to think they need to stick to. I'm trying not to get stuck in a rut doing the same things all the time. I'm giving my girls a dose of grow big this morning which is high in N even though I only have a couple/few weeks left. I have come to realize that the key is having healthy roots and leaves. If one can manage that, the buds will take care of themselves.

HEAR HEAR heads up thats my MO too i try to read up as much as possible and form my own opinion. for example i run coco n never have any run off yet everyone says oh how do you know whats going on in your ph and ec etc etc all i have to say is if it aint broke why fix it.

i read my plants i look at the leaves and and the overall growth and the girls will tell me if they're missing something. learning to read you plants is something RIU cant teach imo it truly comes with experience.

interesting pumping N in the last weeks id imagine it wuld be best at 3 weeks before chop to give maximum growth spurt while your using some sort of boost?! ive never heard of grow big?! whats the NPK?

welcome to 600 club man! your girls look great especially the two hiding at the back

 

[Don Gin and Ton]

I guess there are many ways to skin a cat. My buddy is an Electrical engineer and works on lighting systems for buildings, etc, etc. He was talking of designing me a low powere LED light system, using different powers levels being supplied to the different lights, he reckons he can cover the full spectrum easily....I guess there are units like that already, but nothing better than a cheaper home made imo. lol. He did say he would try and get me a liquid cooled fan, they sound the biz.

hahaha call me old fashioned but water cooling electric stuff just doesnt sit easy

id be interested to see an LED setup that really does what it claims so far ive not really seen anything to blow me away. full spectrum but enough of where it counts would probably do the trick

 

[DST]

Nice to have like minded fellows around. I am also not going with this run off lark (for me the less mess the better as well) I am just feeding small amounts of water frequently at the moment. I figure why not, my wife tells me I am in there all the time anyway, so it not like its a chore, lol. I also don't bother with ph (my bad I know), your plants will soon tell ya if something aint right. But then I think for organic growers it's easier to be like that...

 

[DST]

hahaha call me old fashioned but water cooling electric stuff just doesnt sit easy

id be interested to see an LED setup that really does what it claims so far ive not really seen anything to blow me away. full spectrum but enough of where it counts would probably do the trick

hahaha, that's funny, it doesn't seem right does it!?. But he is setting up big data centres, with racks of servers and blade servers, etc, they fit water cooling fans onto the back of the server cupboards (just the same as growing, but actually using the fans for what they were produced for - haha.) I am totally down with it if he gets me one....got enough water around, lol.

 

[Don Gin and Ton]

hahaah yeah less mess the better, my missus goes crackers with the shit i get everywhere haha

i read that coco needs to be wet constantly but the less water the better as it promotes more root growth. not seen any science to back it up tho

 

[unity]

Cheers everyone
Got a 600hps and thought I could squeeze my bud right in here, if yo don't mind that is lol.
Got some Blackjacks finishing up in about 3 weeks, good time to show them off

The girls had some early childhood issue (mg), but responded well to treatment, and should finish up nicely with hopefully only minor loses.

Peace, Unity

 

[DST]

Welcome Unity, good to have you here. A few casualties can be handled when you have this to look forward to getting your teeth into.

 

[Don Gin and Ton]

frooooosty man i looked at blackjack a while back its from sweet seeds right? i chose sweet afghani delicious and jack47 instead, might have to revisit

 

[DST]

frooooosty man i looked at blackjack a while back its from sweet seeds right? i chose sweet afghani delicious and jack47 instead, might have to revisit

yup, the ones I got were from sweet seeds.

 

[Don Gin and Ton]

new on the block sweet seeds but the pics looked immense, havent actually seen many grows yet tho

 

[unity]

Thanks for the warm welcome guys. I got mine from Nirvana, made good experiences with them in the past. Had only 5 femmed seeds though, of which I lost 4 during a windy day (perlite & soft seedling stem is not a good thing), left me with only one.... Couldn't play around with phenoms. Seems like I lucked out though

 

[DST]

1 out of 5, as long as you get one! I've got a couple sitting, they are also the fem variety.

 

[unity]

1 out of 5, as long as you get one! I've got a couple sitting, they are also the fem variety.

Cheers DST, if yours are anything like mine you will enjoy the grow. Great leaf to bud ratio, trimming will be easy
Unity

 

[Don Gin and Ton]

any signs of hermies? im always a bit wary of fems these days tho some strains you just take the risk with they look that good. ive had nothing but gems from nirvana. the ak48 and blue mystic especially.

so whats the score peeps we just going to show off our grows?! im shit outta ideas but really fancy a competition to spice shizzle up?

anyone any ideas?

 

[unity]

any signs of hermies? im always a bit wary of fems these days tho some strains you just take the risk with they look that good. ive had nothing but gems from nirvana. the ak48 and blue mystic especially.

Knock on wood so far, but we will see in about 3 weeks.

 

[DST]

The WOS NewYork Diesel X AK47 I got is looking like a lovely little seedling. Can't wait.

 

[DST]

any signs of hermies? im always a bit wary of fems these days tho some strains you just take the risk with they look that good. ive had nothing but gems from nirvana. the ak48 and blue mystic especially.

so whats the score peeps we just going to show off our grows?! im shit outta ideas but really fancy a competition to spice shizzle up?

anyone any ideas?

Competitions are always good, I have one on my thread to guess two clones for free beans, but have had about 4 guesses so far...no one wants anything free these dayz?

But I am all up for some fun and games. Need to go out and buy a weeding present but will try and come up with something. What you thinking, a 600 club comp?

 

[DST]

Or Perhaps an experiment or two?

 

[unity]

What do you guys think about switching to a MH late in flowering? And does it make sense with a conversion bulb (lumen loss)?

 

[DST]

Not sure about switching totally, but I am going to add a MH to my mix.