Death by Radiation

[KAOSOWNER]

great thread!!!! Very interesting cant wait to hear the rest........

 

[skunkushybrid]

Hey skunkishy I watched a movie last night where he used like 100 and something of these lights to cook a guy alive.....It was fucked up.

It made me think of this thread and you......LOL...J/K

yeah, i watched that movie the other night too... strange, as when the guy was being melted alive in the sulphuric acid I thought of you...

must be some kind of a psychic link.

 

[Unique]

Not sure if anyone mentioned this yet or not....because of the whole radiation thing and the fact you already named fat man....I think little boy would be appropriate for the other name.

 

[skunkushybrid]

Not sure if anyone mentioned this yet or not....because of the whole radiation thing and the fact you already named fat man....I think little boy would be appropriate for the other name.

i already named it skinny... but thanks for the thought.

 

[skunkushybrid]

DAY 3, Vegetation:

Well, there are no emergencies to report… no sudden deaths during the night. In fact things have markedly improved. The stretch has stopped, and Fatboy… well, allow me to let the pictures speak for themselves.

Here we can see that the lowering of the light to 11.5 inches and the upping of the fan has drastically improved the vigour of both plants, but Fatboy in particular. Fatboy’s stem is now much sturdier and appears to have straightened up nicely.

 

[skunkushybrid]

Here we have Skinny, and from looking at the leaves it appears that the medium may be drying out, and I’ll need to add more feed, at 0.4ec.

Height: 76mm
L.C: 13mm
R.C: 9mm

Notes: The left cotyledon has not gained any significant length. The true leaves seem to be hooking downwards away from the light.

 

[skunkushybrid]

Not the best of angles for Fatboy.

Height: 65mm
L.C: 11mm
R.C: 8mm


Notes: Fatboy is now catching up with skinny in height showing a large increase during the night, although likewise to Skinny the left cotyledon has not improved in length… with the right gaining a similar improvement.

 

[skunkushybrid]

This morning's conclusion is that the true leaves are going to now take over in providing the plants with their main source of photosynthesis. So I should next also start to measure the true leaves.

 

[skunkushybrid]

There hasn’t been anything much to report throughout the day… except one slight thing that has concerned me. Skinny, in particular, has what appears to be a transparent sheen forming on the real leaves. I rubbed at the sheen with my finger and couldn’t feel anything untoward… the transparent sheen does appear as though it is able to reflect light. This sheen is concentrated in the centre of Skinny’s new real leaf growth while the outer edges of the leaves look purple or black… and slightly crinkled upwards towards the light.

In this picture all seems well… aside from Fatboy (nearest) having difficulty strengthening the stem.

 

[skunkushybrid]

In this picture we can see the translucent sheen I was talking about on Skinny’s true leaves. The leaves are also much more rounded and, at this moment in time, I don’t think the next sets of leaves are going to appear. I’ve looked and can see no sign of them.

My earlier euphoria at the amazing growth of the two plants has now subsided… although the transparent sheen has perked my interest.

Height: 80mm
L.C: 13mm
R.C: 11mm
Left True Leaf Length: 13mm
Left True Leaf Width: 7mm
Right True Leaf Length: 12mm
Right true Leaf Width: 6mm

Notes: The transparent sheen has caused some interest. Could this be a survival mechanism? Could the sheen actually work to repel UV?

 

[skunkushybrid]

Fatboy has likewise developed the transparent sheen, although not as much. Also, the leaf edges do not have the purpling discolouration yet.


Height: 71mm
L.C: 12mm
R.C: 10mm
Left True Leaf Length: 12mm
Left True Leaf Width: 5mm
Right True Leaf length: 11mm
Right True Leaf Width: 5mm


Notes: Fatboy seems to be the one that is having the hardest time adapting, but I think this is down to the early stretch, and the fact that it may also be a female. I’m not holding out much hope for these plants to survive much longer.

Well there’s another day done. Night-night! See you on day 4 of vegetation!

 

[crazy-mental]

do you think the plants go sheeny, to protect there selfs.
thicker skin for stronger light.

 

[skunkushybrid]

do you think the plants go sheeny, to protect there selfs.
thicker skin for stronger light.

Well the substance or discolouration of the leaf does seem to serve as a reflectant. The light I'm using is high in UV-A and UV-B... most likely the sheen is a deterrant against the UV-A.

 

[crazy-mental]

like you say to reflect.
as aposed to thin tissue like leafs grown under normal flos.

 

[skunkushybrid]

like you say to reflect.
as aposed to thin tissue like leafs grown under normal flos.

Here's a link to some test results done on the bulb that I am using, although it did come second in the test you will be able to get some idea of exactly what this bulb is.High UVB Mercury Vapour Lamps in Zoos - Osram Ultra-Vitalux - ReptileUV Zoo Mega-Ray test results

 

[KAOSOWNER]

Sloooow Roasting those ladies... That is an interesting theory about the sheen, I would love to look at it under 60x-100x microscope.....

 

[skunkushybrid]

Sloooow Roasting those ladies... That is an interesting theory about the sheen, I would love to look at it under 60x-100x microscope.....

I did do exactly that... but found nothing remarkable about it which is why I didn't bother taking the pic's.

I did the same thing to a section of ordinary leaf and it seems all leaves have this sheen, obviously on normal leaves we cannot see it with our eyes, but all leaves have sections of sheen. The only thing a pic' would have shown is that the sheen covers more of an area on the leaf.

I was very disappointed.

The normal leaf I tested as a comparison came from a plant vegging under MH... so this might account for the low sheen. Anyone ever looked at a leaf grown under HPS and noticed this sheen?

 

[potpimp]

I always like to name my plants… even though these guys have been under constant UV now for over 20 minutes; I’ve still saw fit to name them.

Romulus and Remus?

 

[KAOSOWNER]

I look at my leaves all the time under the scope, Weed is so interesting under the scope, i was so ready to burn the hell out of a plant with UV to see what it looked like. You just saved a life skunky!!!

 

[NO GROW]

yeah, i watched that movie the other night too... strange, as when the guy was being melted alive in the sulphuric acid I thought of you...

must be some kind of a psychic link.

LMAO, Aww thanks man. Did the movie give you the idea for this thread? That was a pretty good movie.