A Change from LED to HPS- Path Worth Taking!

littlegrower2004 · Apr 27, 2011

thanks for subbin up genuity! always glad to have good growers around my parts! most the beginning is shit so only the last few pages are worth checking out.

day 42 12/12 i think but really like 35 days flower after my slight problem in week 2.

Pure Kush ^^^

XXX OG ^^^

Sour Diesel ^^^

GDP ^^^

Grape Romulan ^^^

Skywalker OG ^^^

Bubba Kush ^^^

SCCA · Apr 27, 2011

Nice looking buds little grower! they really dont any worse for the wear. the trichs are packing on beautifully!

littlegrower2004 · Apr 27, 2011

thanks SCCA! doing pretty good this round but still got some bleaching going on which i need to try and work on next run. also may up the pot size if i plan on doing larger plants like this run since i feel that some may be root bound and are starting to wither on some leaves. still got a couple weeks before i decide which direction ill go next run, dam whodat has got me pondering my hydro set up. also been looking into some atami bloombastic to add to my nute schedule but no shop in so cal seems to have a connection to get it. ive been meaning to stop by your thread and right up a comment on that last post which looked real good.

whodatnation · Apr 27, 2011

Hey lg, frosting up nicely bro! Have you considered using a light spreader?

littlegrower2004 · Apr 27, 2011

i never considered it since my area is so small and didnt find it necessary. another grow i was following the guy used one though, not sure if it made a noticeable difference. my hood only has about 4 inches on each side before hitting the doors or the wall and i figure that the spreaders are more for the width and not length since they are made to disperse the light out more along the sides. did that make sense ahah? kind of confused myself.

whodatnation · Apr 28, 2011

lol yeah it made since. just trying to think of a way to stop the bleaching...

littlegrower2004 · Apr 28, 2011

whodatnation said:
lol yeah it made since. just trying to think of a way to stop the bleaching...

basically just raise the light haha. i just feel that closer light will get bigger buds and better penetration but i guess its strong enough even where it is and could still go a bit higher for some. most likely the best solution would be a scrog in which the plant heights are restricted and i can figure the right distance that the light would need to be to prevent bleaching. just havent got the erge enough yet to go and make a screen and reduce my plant number as well it would be hard for me to water since i couldnt necessarily move the plants to reach other ones.

ghb · May 1, 2011

subbed for real now, thats some quality strains you have going there, all looking forsty as hell.

littlegrower2004 · May 1, 2011

ghb said:
subbed for real now, thats some quality strains you have going there, all looking forsty as hell.

thanks man! i had 11 different strains in flower but got rid of one snowcap soil plant since i suck in soil! my DOG and killer queen that are in soil also look like shit but i didnt have the plants ready to replace them and just left them in for now. as of right now my keepers are GDP, Sour D, and Snowcap but i will also have to save my DOG to make sure i dont have to pop another seed. i may be moving in a few months so ill take what i genetics i dont want to lose and buy new clones of the others that i do leave behind. still got to look into some BB!

littlegrower2004 · May 1, 2011

well i got myself an order placed for some Atami Bloombastic so it should be here in a week or so. still will have some time to use it hopefully!

ghb · May 2, 2011

i'm sure you will be surprised how much they swell after a good ol' dose of bloombastic, 1ml per litre is more than enough, if using it along side your base nutes i would go with .5ml per litre.

are you in coco? or a hydro guy?

littlegrower2004 · May 2, 2011

ghb said:
i'm sure you will be surprised how much they swell after a good ol' dose of bloombastic, 1ml per litre is more than enough, if using it along side your base nutes i would go with .5ml per litre.

are you in coco? or a hydro guy?

yeah they still have majority white hairs so im sure ill have a couple good waterings with it before a flush. i use heads formula from icmag which is General Hydroponics micro 6ml and bloom 9ml per gallon, in coco. some guy on there was using 2 ml of BB with the same formula so ill go with 1ml per gal the first couple than up to 2ml before the flush. i water every other day so would you recommend using it every time i water or does it cause a lot of build up?

ghb · May 2, 2011

well i use 1ml per litre so 2ml per gallon is way safer, i don't think you will encounter salt build ups if you have well developed roots. use it every feed, i'm sure you will be good

strap yourself in and get ready to press the fast forward button

littlegrower2004 · May 2, 2011

well the BB has been shipped so it should be here with in the next 5 days hopefully! shits expensive for sure so i only got 80ml for now but if im impressed ill get the next size when i need it.

heres the girls as they got watered

Sour D ^^^

GDP ^^^

Pure Kush ^^^

Skywalker OG ^^^

Grape Romulan ^^^

Sour D ^^^

Bubba Kush ^^^

ghb · May 3, 2011

looking sweet my man, any chance of a view into your grow space?, i would love to see all your babies in their full glory.

80ml?!?!? am i reading that right?, i think 80ml is a sample size, it won't last long thats for sure, then again, you should get this harvest out of the way.

i have a 1.3 litre bottle that cost me £130 (around $190) it will help me grow about 100 plants i think. my first bottle was 325ml and has grown 30 plants.

littlegrower2004 · May 3, 2011

ghb said:
looking sweet my man, any chance of a view into your grow space?, i would love to see all your babies in their full glory.

80ml?!?!? am i reading that right?, i think 80ml is a sample size, it won't last long thats for sure, then again, you should get this harvest out of the way.

i have a 1.3 litre bottle that cost me £130 (around $190) it will help me grow about 100 plants i think. my first bottle was 325ml and has grown 30 plants.

yeah ill take some photos that get a better canopy view, just my camera is a Droid phone so its not great at getting the quality of all the plants compared to the close ups. haha yep 80ml!! that was $30 with shipping since i couldnt find it around my area. i figure 2 ml per gallon at a rate of two gallons per watering with 3 waterings per week used in the last 4 weeks should last near two grows. roughly 48 ml per flower cycle. i really just wanted to see how much of a difference it will make before getting that 325ml which was around $70 if i remember right. im sure ill be able to use some this round probably only 20 ml at most and then will have plenty for another flower cycle. as long as my watering cycle doesnt change.

ghb · May 3, 2011

haha, you already got it all worked out, great stuff.

how do you find the yields with the hps compared to led?, did you ever flower using the leds? i don't think i've seen a grow completed on them things

littlegrower2004 · May 3, 2011

yeah i did a few flowerings with the LEDs and they were terrible compared to the HPS. i still have not gotten a heavy yield from the HPS but its been much better than what i recieved when i used my LEDs. cant be sure but i think the best i ever did with the LEDs was like 4 oz off two of them in a hydro set up. they work great for veg and was disappointed when mine went down a month or so ago. i still need to work on finding my right method for the HPS though cause i feel that my yields could and should be higher. but theres always next grow to work on getting more.