Sorry guys, I have been a slammed with work, cultivation, harvesting and life in general. I will tell you, I knew it would be fun trying to juggle outdoor and indoor, keep outdoor pests out of my room, trimming etc. Everyday when I get done outside I shower and then go to the inside girls. I haven't taken any pics in a while, I will work on that. My outdoor Super Bud lives up to the name. It is all my wife and I have been smoking for the last few days.
Last night was the first sleep night for the flowering ladies. I have noticed that the 8 plants in the hydroton look greener and healthier than the rest of the plants in hygromite. They all look healthy, but I can tell a slight difference. I topped them 5 days ago and they are just 8-10" tall. This will be the shortest vegged grow I have done yet, so I am looking forward to see the diffence in yeild per plant with the short veg and more plants. I ran 18 last time, this time there are 32 (16 per tray). Last run was 7 week Veg, this time 10 day veg. So it will a good comparison of methods.
So to catch yoiu up on this run. I am flooding my trays every 2 hours during lights for 15 mins and every 4 hours during lights off. I used Hygromite ( lava rocks) for medium, but ran out after 24 plants were potted. So, I put the last 8 in hydroton. That is one tray of 16 plants in hygromite and the other split 8 in hygromite and 8 in hydroton. Nutes at 800 ppms, CO2 at 1000ppms,Reservior temps -68 deg, Room ambient temps/RH (Lights on 78-80 deg, 50% RH) (Lights out 72-74 deg, 55% RH). I have kept two OCD and two PK as mothers for the next run. I am trying to decide if I am going to do a solo pk run, run both the ocd and pk, or pop a couple pinapple espress seeds. I will have to decide soon. lol
I oedered some Eagle 20, which is a systemic pm treatment. I am have treated the girls with Excel LG another systemic treatment. I also bought a sulfer burner. I really want to stay ahead of pm since it will be getting more humid and wet outside. I was stoked on using the burner until I read that it can clog up the sensors on the CO2 monitor and that if the sulfer gets into the reserviors it can be toxic to the plants. So now I am thinking I will just use the preventative methods and if it does pop up I will use the burner. If anyone has dealt with pm and/or experience with the burners in a hydro set-up, please share your experience.
Anyway, I am on a Super Bud High, which makes me ramble. lol Almost seems like it is more than 40% sativa. So I will stop rambling for now and try and get some pics up soon.