Cheers 2easy, If I wasn't so paranoid I'd be posting heaps more photos, and talking about my 5'x4' veg room with 2 x 600W Lucagrow+digital ballasts, and my flower room with 4 x 600W Lucagrow+digital ballasts. I have 6 CoolTubes keeping all the Lucagrows cool, and the rooms are air conditioned via a split-system. Everything is hand watered, and there's a slope in my floor with the runoff making its way back to the doorway where I mop it up. I'm going to get a wet-vac to make life easier. I also have most of the stuff I need to add CO2. Smells are kept at bay by a 800x300 carbon can, which an 8" centrifugal fan is attached to it. I also have a 1000mg/hr ozone generator to help keep on top of things. I designed a pretty cool collector box that takes all the 150mm ducts from the CoolTubes, as well as a 8" duct sucking from the top of each grow room. The carbon can and ozone generator are mounted inside the collector box, so the box acts as a mixing chamber for the ozone. The ozone also cleans the carbon filter. An extra chamber at the back of the collector box houses the fan, with lots of foam surrounding it.
I have 330mm pots I picked up at K-Mart for $2 each (bargain!), which are all filled with perlite. I've always run 100% perlite and had sensational results, although I do use Grodan cubes for cloning, along with Yates Clonex. Anyway, I'm using Growth Technology - Optimum A + B which rocks IMO. I've used Canna, Flairform, and Growth Technology, and IMO the GT was the best performer, with Canna maybe a smidge better, but less yield. Flairform was tops too. I also use Canna Rhyzotonic and Cannazym. I have their PK 13/14 for the 5th week of flowering. It's supposed to be made up of some super expensive form of P and K that boosts yield and quality. Anyway, I didn't want to skimp on the supplements, and Canna is excellent when it comes to quality.
This grow I have 3 Dinafem - Critical Jack Autos and 2 Barney's Farms - Pineapple Express, as well as 1 Auto Seeds - Berry Ryder. The Berry Ryder looks sooo Indica (very dark, very fat leaves). I germed 25 autos seeds, but I don't seem to have much luck with OS seeds, and only managed to get 6 to do anything. They all split, but didn't have enough juice to make it any further. The same applies to the permanent additions to my grow, where I only managed to get 3 strains from the 6 strains I tried to germinate. I have a Sensi seeds - Jack Flash #5 that is just amazing to watch grow. It's loving the conditions (photos soon), and I also have a DNA Genetics - Kushberry, as well as the Positronics Seeds - Blue Rhino. I have plans to get another strain (Sensi Seeds - Northern Lights #5 x Haze or DNA Genetics - LA Confidental).
My back is shot, so I pretty much move and I'm in pain, and about 5 months ago a friend introduced me to I ndica, and my pain went away. I'd smoked Afghani before, but it always put me to sleep, but this time it woke me up. My theory is when yu are able-bodied and you smoke Indica, it couch-locks you, but for those of us with a shitty-body that gives you pain all the time, that couch-lock body-stone is relief. I've never got so much done as the time I had an ounce of Indica (strain-unknown). Now I'm smoking OG Kush, which was all I could get, and it really doesn't come anywhere near the Indica, but it helps. Anyway, knowing I couldn't get the relief I needed on a steady basis when I was relying on others, I decided the ONLY way I could get any stability in my life was to grow my own medicine. I also need to experiment with what works, so I can find what works best for me, so growing/trying different strains is important to me. I love a super-creative all-Sativa just as much as the next person, but I can't handle that sort of stone all the time, whereas the Indica lets me think clearly, and I can smoke it pretty much non-stop. I smoke when I wake, just before I go to sleep, and pretty much non-stop in-between... and I like it.
Anyway, I'll keep posting photos of the progress. So far, the Critical Jack Autos and the Jack Flash #5 are the stand-out performers.
