I have two rooms that I could be using, both are exactly the same size, 4'x4'x6'. I have a 315w CMH, and a junk mars LED panel in one room, figure about 415-425w of light all in one room. In the other room I currently just have my 4' 2 bulb T5 running, but I also have a 400w HPS that I would run in the second room in place of the T5.
Are shwag seeds in reference to a good breeder or something? I've grown a handful of bag seed now and I've had some really tasty, nice looking, and dank smelling bud, however I've never had one where the initial effects lasted longer than 15-30 minutes. That guy must have had some amazing luck, or great stock to start from in my opinion.
I've kind of always looked at it the same time way to be honest with you. I've had a couple of plants span across one light into the next, and you are able to tell the difference in bud size between the junk LED panel and my 315w CMH. I'm planning on replacing the junk LED panel when I get a bit of extra cash. I considered throwing the HPS and CMH light into the same room, however that creates a whole new set of problems.
I've done a bit of shopping around to figure out which strains work well for me, and I did pick up 3 clones (spent $150) that I've sampled before and seen lab results on, Chemdog '91 (SkunkVA Cut), Do-Si-Dos (Norcal Cut), and Bubble Chem. I'm just hoping that 100% perfection is not required to achieve something that will work for me. I always seem to miss a day later in flowering that causes my leaves to burn ever so slightly on the tips.. lil nute burn, but nothing serious and typically caught within 24 hours. Besides something like that happening during a grow, there's nothing else that typically usually happens in terms of deficiencies or anything. I grow hydroponically in 5gal bubble buckets, and every week I like to change the bucket for a clean one with fresh water and nutes.. keeps everything clean and without major deficiencies.
That's exactly what I meant.. thank you!
That's what I have gathered from growing out my bag seed. It didn't matter how many times I cloned it and tried to grow "better", the end results where always the same potency wise, granted the buds got denser and trimmed better over the different trials, lol.
That's why I'm still posting in the Newbie section.. I've been achieving some mediocre results. Granted, I've been cloning and growing the same crap bag seed over and over for years now, however once I have my first harvest that's actually "Fire".. I'll graduate myself into the general growing section of the message board.
Dang, at the time I made this post I didn't know there was a nutrient line called "advanced nutrients". I was referencing more at the elaborate, multi-part, and expensive nutrients verses the basic General Hydroponics A&B that I have been using since I started. To be honest.. I kind of feel like a little bitch when I walk into the store to purchase those, however it's what I've used from the start and it has grown some good looking, smelling, and tasty weed.. just without the potency that I wanted. Does nutrients really add anything, or much to overall potency when it comes to hydroponics?
I've grown every bag seed that I've come across within the last couple of years, which surprisingly was not too much, however like I mentioned previously none of them had given a high that lasted longer than 15-30 minutes after consuming 0.6-1g. If I can't keep a decent feeling from smoking that much for longer than an hour.. then I don't want to keep smoking that strain because of how often I'll be medicating. It didn't matter that the weed looked, smelled, and tasted like top shelf quality.. it didn't have the "oomph" I was looking for in my medication. I've been smoking about 2-3 grams of top shelf quality a day for the last couple of years without any real kind of tolerance breaks, maybe a week when I had bronchitis, but I was still making edibles so that doesn't really count. I wish that I could have enough strains where I'd have to get rid of one because of room sake.. we all can't be so lucky.
I understand that it's not about the percentage of the THC, however I feel like that's what has been lacking in grows since I started years ago. I would actually like to be able to medicate with my own supply for once, and I've put a bunch of time, and money into doing it over the years, which all of it was simply wasting the time and money. There's no reason why I should be paying to grow and still "donate" to dispensaries to achieve what I need.. and I suppose that's the reason I finally broke down and purchased a couple of clones.
I'm treating a whole slew of things all in one shot with cannabis. I have been diagnosed with OCD, ADHD, and also suffer from anger and impulse control issues. Apparently, I can get stressed out extremely easily, and when that happens I can get impulsive.. kind of like trying to stop my stress/issue. I also have rotating hips, with a crooked spine, and deteriorating bones and joints (cracks and pops with every moment. I also struggle to sleep at night without medicating with something heavy beforehand, otherwise I'm tossing and turning and just decide to wake up at 3-4am.That's only the main stuff that I'm treating, but we all have our issues and honestly I'm getting tired of typing at this point.