Second 400w MH/HPS Journal. Pineapple Express & more.

Someguy15

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Thanks for checkin' out my second medical grow journal. If you're interested check out my first grow. Hopefully I can learn a few more things and improve my environment further this round. This will be my last grow from seed as my mothers should be huge by the end of this grow. My third round I plan to run 4 pineapple express clones and 4 LA Woman clones.I am really happy with pineapple express, amazing growth, beautiful buds and delicious smell. I plan to run at least a few each grow for the foreseeable future. I hope you'll subscribe and learn with me on this grow-venture.

Strain: 2xPineapple Express Fem, 4 'Kermit' Reg, and 2 Layne's Fruity
Medium: Seeds in Rapid Rooter cubes. Then into 50% Hydroton, 50% rockwool mini-cubes in 2 gal smart pots.
Growing style: Hand watered then Flood & drain
Methods:
SCROG, FIM
Base Water: City tap, EC .35-.4 mS, Ph 8.5
Nutes: Ionic Grow/Bloom/Boost & Mother Plant for my mothers
Additives: Snow Snow Ultra (4 doses in flower weeks 2-6)
pH: 5.5 to 6.5, using GH Ph Down
EC: Starting .7 mS working up to 2 mS
reservoir size: 18 gallons filled to 15 with nutrient solution.
Flood volume: 7-10 Gals depending on pots/flood height
Feeding schedule: Hand watering with drain to waste for veg. Plants I plan to flower will receive Ionic series, mothers vegging with them will get Mother Plant.
Lights: 2 - 85W CFL 6500K for clones/mothers (8,400 lumens); 400W Hortilux Metal Halide for veg; 400W
Hortilux HPS in flower room.
Light Schedule: Clones - 20/4; Veg - 20/4; Flower - 12/12
Temps: 80-83 degrees f lights on; 66 degrees lights off.
Humidity: Low currently, 30%
Circulation: Box fan on low, 6" clip on fan for now, hoping to upgrade to 400 CFM Can/Vortex fan in the near future.
Size of grow rooms: Veg/clone room - 2' x 2' x 6' space in closet; Veg/Flower room - 4.5' x 2.5' x 8' (73 cubic ft. of space).
How long Veg'd: 4 weeks or 6-8".
Expected harvest: 12 plants, 3 mothers. 2 Fem, 7 regular (expect 3 fem). Expecting around 5-6 plants and 6-8 oz. I'll have to donate the surplus to a fellow patient to stay at the 2.5 oz legal limit.

Day 1 - 1/30:
Seeds were soaked last night and have just been placed in the root riot cubes. I'll mist them in a few days to ensure they stay moist. Hopefully they pop in a few days, then it's over to the 400w veg room along with the mothers. Planning to run 20/4 with my veg this time. Now that I've got light distance and cooling down I think the extra hours of light will help them grow faster. I would go 24/0 but I believe in improved root development in dark, so I'll give this a run.

Some pics will follow in a week or so, when there's some action.

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damargentina

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Attitude... it's a top seller there actually. Probably not the pineapple express, but I really liked the genetics my first grow.
huh, i ll check it out... the exchange ratio does not favor me though, but your pics look good. anyway check out my grows and tell me wot u think :weed:
 

Someguy15

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Day 3 - 2/1:
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One sprout in each cup today! That makes 4/7 have at least broke the surface. Here's an overview shot, there's a couple mums in there vegging too.
 

YaK

just some guy
subscribed!

congrats on what looks like a very nice harvest. that's what it's all about.
 

Someguy15

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Day 4 - 2/2:
All 7 have sprouted now :) One of the Kermits is bright yellow though??? Seedlings can be strange I guess, we'll see how many make it to veg. Plan on misting the cups today to keep the cubes moist.
 

Someguy15

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For suuuuure my next round. I was going to this round but my mothers were just too small. But yeah I got the root riot, clonex & humidity dome for when I'm ready. Oh, and the clones from my bubble cloner were both a success! They just got transplanted into a pot and are growing a good amount. Starting seed grows sure are boring haha, hopefully there will be some more action soon. -SG15
 

Someguy15

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Day 6 - 2/4:
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Opening up the cups now to harden the seedlings off to the lower humidity. 7/7 sprouts so I'm happy about that, look I got an albino baby. I'm done with the paper towel method, from now on it's soaking seeds overnight and then strait into root riot cubes. These things put rockwool to shame from my experience so far.
 

Someguy15

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Day 7 - 2/5:
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Roots were coming out of the cubes into the cups like crazy, they have all been transplanted into their final homes. I'm watering every day now and the plants seem to be loving it. Everything is doing really well except one of my pineapple clones that was recently transplanted from the bubble cloner. I'm not sure if she's gonna make it, but her sister is doing excellent. Got 12 right now, I'm sure a few will fall; being male or otherwise.
 

kali love

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ok well this is starting great i cant wait to see what is next and by they way how did te pe turn out was it very resinous how was the high and how did it smell like pineapples mmmm but keep it up
 

Someguy15

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Pineapple is delicious, definitely 60/eighth type stuff if it were street sold. Not incredibly like pineapple, but fruity and skunky with tons of trichs on the buds. Really can't go wrong with it ;)
 

Someguy15

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Day 9 - 2/7:
The yellow kermit stopped growing so I decided to just pull it and not waste my space or time. No recovery on the pineapple clone, so looks like I'm down to 3 pe (2 seed 1 clone). I'll probably pull the remaining clone out into the mother room when flowering starts. Want to make sure I keep the same phenotype of that around because it served me very well last round.

Seedlings - 0.8-1 EC Ionic Grow + Hormex
Mothers - 1.5 EC Mother Plant

Edit: Dead clone also pulled, roots looked all brown. Much different then they looked 5 days ago when I transplanted them. Dryness didn't seem to be the issue root rot did? Anyways, down to 10.
 

Drella

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Day 9 - 2/7:
The yellow kermit stopped growing so I decided to just pull it and not waste my space or time. No recovery on the pineapple clone, so looks like I'm down to 3 pe (2 seed 1 clone). I'll probably pull the remaining clone out into the mother room when flowering starts. Want to make sure I keep the same phenotype of that around because it served me very well last round.

Seedlings - 0.8-1 EC Ionic Grow + Hormex
Mothers - 1.5 EC Mother Plant
things seem to be moving along, goo dwork bro.
 
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