LED/T5 Veg + 1200w LED Flower

Recently did some changes to my setup in order to simplify and fix some issues I was having. Used to grow all DWC (water farm) and Coco hempy buckets but recently switched to soil. I also went all LED in my flower tent and repurposed some older LED's for the seedling/clone area. Vegging under 435w T5.

Currently running a bunch of Humboldt Blue Dreams that I grew from seeds that came from a female that reversed on my last year. Lots of great, viable seeds though! Cool to see the heterogenous expressions that have come out of them. Everything from super sativa-dominant, stretch, razor-thin leaves to weird, squatty, bushes. Also have a Humboldt Desert Diesel and Delicious Sugar Black Rose in flower.

I feed with the following:
- Nectar for the Gods Medusa's Magic, Gaia Mania, Zeus Juice, Herculean Harvest
- CaliMagic (CaMg)
- Humboldt Verde (N booster)
- Terpinator
- Bushdoctor Microbes + molasses to feed them (NftG is also full of microbe food)
- House & Garden Magic Green foliar twice a week

I don't use anything fancy for soil. Just whatever catches my eye at the store.

Really pleased with the results I have seen using soil and these nutrients. Still pretty cool in my basement as I am in a norther climate so growth definitely slows to a steady pace. But warmer days are starting to get them going.

I have been flowering under the Mars II for about a year now and it has produced some magical, frosty, dense buds. The 300w reflector-style light was previously used for veg but I put it in the flowering room to get some more coverage and light over them. 1200w of LED (900w of 5w diodes and 300 of 3w diodes) and so far they are responding beautifully to it. These have all been under these lights since day 1 of flower.

I'll post updates to this thread as they progress and as future plants cycle into flower.

Man glad to see you back around. Was wondering what happened to you. Sounds like you've done some upgrading which is always awesome. Still growing those dank HSO plants. Can't wait to see what everything is looking like.

akhiymjames said:

Man glad to see you back around. Was wondering what happened to you. Sounds like you've done some upgrading which is always awesome. Still growing those dank HSO plants. Can't wait to see what everything is looking like.

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Yeah dude! Good to hear from you

Here is what I have going on in Veg currently:

These two Blue Dreams are very, very similar. All of the BD's came from seeds from the same reversed female.



Kind of a squat, bushy pheno for this BD. Thick branches, but super short and leafy.



Did some LST on this BD. She's taking to it nicely.



Larger plants are under a 432w T5, little ones are under a combo of 150w + 135w LEDs

Here is the flowering room situation.

900w Mars II (full spectrum) + 300w reflector-style LED (full spectrum)



Sugar Black Rose



Blu Dream (front left)



Desert Diesel (front right)

Humboldt Desert Diesel @ 2.5 weeks into flower

Humboldt Blue Dream @ 3.5 weeks into flower. Great stretch and bud development. She is already sticky out to the tips of the leaves.

Sugar Black Rose @ 4.5 weeks into flower. She was my test subject using new methods, nutes and all that. She was sprayed with Floramite after a spider mite infestation and that shit annihilated them apparently. She is amazing. She is a clone from a SBR that I grew from feminized seed a while back. The mom was funky-fruity with very Indica body-relaxing effects.

Humboldt Blue Dream #1

Blue Dream #4. Weird, short pheno. Put her into the flowering tent because she isn't really getting bigger and figured, why not, let's see what happens to her in flower.

Humboldt Blue Dream #5. LST'd out.

Humboldt Blue Dream #2

Group shot of the, now four, plants in flower. The little BD is in the back right.

Bad bitch.

Blue Dream is looking amazing. Crazy ass LED pics though

Sugar Black Rose is bulking up. About three weeks to go so hoping she packs on some weight. Very, very sticky and starting to smell nice and powerful.

Desert Diesel stretching up and starting to get some great looking buds going

HSO Blue Dream @ 4.5 weeks into flower. Coming along nicely. Love the structure of this plant. I wish I would have taken a few clones, but I have so many seeds left I didn't take clones from any of the Blue Dreams so far. I hope I find another like her in the mix. Definitely leans toward the Haze (HSO Blue Dream is Blueberry x Haze) at least in growth and structure. Very thin, long leaves and nice large blossoms developing. I imagine it is going to take longer than 9 weeks on this one. But she is already getting a nice coating of trichomes. Total beauty.

HSO Desert Diesel @ about 3 weeks into flower. Just starting to develop nice little chains of buds up the beautifully stretched tops. I have heard a lot of great things about this strain. I have tried twice before with plants I grew from Fem seed (this is a clone of one of those) but both happened to land right in the middle of all my catastrophes and both never made it all the way. But this one definitely is going to and she is looking great. I made sure to take a great little clone of her so I will keep this strain going if it lives up to the things I have heard.

What is amazing is that this is the tiny, piece of shit clone I was able to somehow keep going when one of the original DD moms was dying that is now this plant pictured above. Goes to show you how resilient these amazing plants can be. It took some time, but that little Whoville-looking clone, grew into a big thriving plant that looks like it is going to provide some great ganja.