Here we go! White Widow, Nothern Lights, Lemon Cake, Ak-47

day 13 ... 8.11.10

added a mother chamber today... the little girl on the right is space crush ... the right is zeo electric (which was accidentally topped by the CO2 tank in transport)...the grow tent is a cube about 76" I think. I bought a 160 usd tent off of amazon.com the lattice structure they gave me wasn't enough to hold a real reflector so I made my own out of 1 1/2" pvc..then I got a flimsy reflector that will doesn't need a bigger lattice oh well.... they will be the mothers for my next harvest.... how long should I wait before I start cloning off of her? 'til she preflowers?

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Generally takes the plants 6 month to fully mature, meaning you will see better results by letting your plant reach the age of 6 months before harvesting. This can be done by letting your mother grow for 3 months then growing your clones for 3 months. However there may not be a large difference, but when you cut your clones they keep the same age as the mother, so when your mother reaches 3 months then everything from then on out should reach full maturity even with replacing the mother with one of her clones.

I don't wait just cut and go when you're ready, no preflowers means it may take a little longer for them to revert to flowering but not much difference. I would wait until the mothers are at least 3-4 weeks old.

When checking runoff, if your pH is 5.3 or lower, run ro water through until it is closer to your feeding ph, and if the tds exceeds the strength of your feeding solution then run ro water through until it is at your feeding tds.

As nutes accumulate in your soil your pH in your rootzone generally lowers and tds climbs, which is why you flush (to prevent lockout). Feeding until runoff helps to remove excess salts, but if you are not watering for long periods after wrenching your soil, your roots are sitting in water and are depleting it of dissolved oxygen, which will suffocate roots and slow growth. I prefer to water daily and lightly, with a weak solution so that way I only need to check runoff when I see problems with the plants.

When checking runoff, if your pH is 5.3 or lower, run ro water through until it is closer to your feeding ph, and if the tds exceeds the strength of your feeding solution then run ro water through until it is at your feeding tds.

As nutes accumulate in your soil your pH in your rootzone generally lowers and tds climbs, which is why you flush (to prevent lockout). Feeding until runoff helps to remove excess salts, but if you are not watering for long periods after wrenching your soil, your roots are sitting in water and are depleting it of dissolved oxygen, which will suffocate roots and slow growth. I prefer to water daily and lightly, with a weak solution so that way I only need to check runoff when I see problems with the plants.

night 29 ... They are looking crazy

DAWN 36



The close up is a lemon cake... they are finishing faster than the other plants

night 38 ... I have been checking my probe regularly in a reference solution and for the first time it was not as accurate as i wanted it to be. It is labor day weekend so all of the hydro shops are closed so i can't get a cleaning kit...FUCK! oh well i used a clean reference sample and recalibrated the probe without cleaning and i will redo it again ... this is most likely due to me being a little groggy last time i was watering and i left the probe in a feed solution on over night...

Shits lookin spectacular. that lemon cake looks the best to me. go big or go home.

so that probe was 0.3 off at pH 7.0. I ended up putting a liter of 6.0 pH (try to keep my nutes around 6.3) on my plants followed by a liter of RO the next day they didn't show any new signs of stress so I think I'm ok....getting close...

In the mother chamber 6 new autoflower seedlings were transplanted from soil plugs into solo cups. The mothers are about to be transplanted from 3 gallon pots to 18 gallon rubbermaid totes. In addition to the autoflowers I found 1 seed in a hp of my favorite sativa hybrid, snowcap. This seed, fast to germinate, healthy food supply for big seedling leafs, has also been transplanted and is looking very healthy and beyond my expectation for "bag seed".

The camera has been stolen/returned and I have to wait at least a little bit before I ask to borrow it again but I will post some pictures of the changes soon

Can people see the pictures? what's up what do you think?

Very Nice!!!! I love the pics from "dawn 36" fucking incredible. The HID really set it off great stuff man!!! I gotta see the end of this round and the beginning of the next hopefully I'm sub'd.

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Man that shit looks good...my ww look look like swag compared to yours ...but heat killed me...plus rep

night 61

Dawn 62
I had to buy a dehumidifier to suck the moisture out of the air. I dropped my co2 to 1000-1200ppm and my humidity down to 45% for the ripening. I hit them with the final phase about 8 days ago and they have been geting nothing but water ever since. I have been partially harvesting some of the Lemon Cakes; they are getting better every extra day I let them flush. Needed the money for electricity oh well more light for the others.

6 seeds that I germinated. 1 snow cap seed-1 plant, unknown sex; 10 spyder seeds-9 cracked-6 sprouted-5female. Spyder is Space Crush X Low Ryder. They are flowers in my veg room

Correction.... Spyder is Sputnik and Low Ryder

How did the grow turn out? I guess it went well seeing your still with us Any pics?

lolollolool great timing!

White widow