Well due to some illness (think I had some sort of pneumonia) that I think I picked up at a hospital while I was visiting a friend, I was unable to do much of anything beyond the bare minimum. It's been a horrible month & half for my family & friends. I digress....
Well, the pics I have are 12 weeks from seed & 3 weeks in flowering.
I started using the Lucas formula in week 9. General Hydro nutes. I still haven't been able to get an EC/TDS meter. I fill the res. with 15 gallons of tap water that has sat out for at least 3 days. I ph it to around 6 then add my nutes, then check the ph again, it is almost always 5.5-5.6 after adding nutes (I've gotten pretty proficeint @ reading ph with the drops). I let the ph drift to 6-6.2, which by that time is when I do a res change.
I've built a little flowering room for them when i got my 400w hps from HTG. The room is 4'6"x5'6"x6'6" tall. I made it with the wood that I got from tearing down the basement ceiling (it was 1x4's with stapled tiles) along with some 6 mil black & white poly.
At first I was having humidity problems becuase I didn't intsall ventilation (over 95% RH) due to $$ problems. I found an 8 " clamp fan, so I clampped it to the framing @ the top corner of the room, designed a light trap (since I have no ducting) for the fan and the passive intake. Now my RH stays between 45 - 50%. Temps. - around 73 F with light on & 62 with light off.
For the most part I havn't knoticed any problems except a few leaves on an ordinarily healthy plant are looking wierd to this newbie gardener they have a drooping canoe shape. You can see it in pic 7 on the top.
Any ideas on this issue?
By the time I was able to start flowering them they were on average 20". 3 weeks in and the tallest is 43. My light can only be raised another 7". I'm thinking about taking it out of that res & putting it into a shorter dwc bucket with a bubbler.
I started with 6 in the res but 1 turned out to be male (5 outa 6 aint bad).
Oh yeah 1 other strange thing, some of the side shoots over grew the main cola. Not sure why or how, I didnt do any topping, I just trimmed some of the bottom stuff.
Any Ideas?
I have 5 still vegging in the beige tote.
Without further adue here are my ladies. Whatcha think?
. I installed a curtain inside the res to stop leakage, but the only tape I had on hand was medical tape. Well, I was doing a res change last night and found mold forming on the tape 
. So I removed the curtain and tape and washed the lid and tub (it wasn't a lot of mold) and used some poly for another curtain with no tape, I just folded the curtain over the top of the lid and tucked it in the netpot holes (pic 1). Seems to be working, no leaky leaky. 
