Thank you Sir!!
make sure ur tap water bubbles for at least 24hr to get rid of most of the chlorine, but if you dont know what the PH is it easy to get ur PH way off and lock out certain things. maybe a cheap pool PH test kit will get you in the ball park. at least so u can see what ur tap water PH is?
when using good quality soil should have enough food to feed ur girls for a while worm castings, meals, guanos, ect.. i would recommend sea kelp for sure though mixed into ur water.
Now with the led light hight its hard to say because i dont know what brand u are using? ive tried a few different types of led lights in my time and they all like different heights. I know the better/stronger GLH lights are a good idea to start off high and work ur way down, to harden off ur plants.
As far as the dome it worked wonders for my one girl, the others came back with just good micro life i believe? but the dome i just sprayed R/O water on the inside and put it over my girl and took in of every maybe 3-4 hours and left it off for maybe 15-30min and put it back on. the moister in the dome is what keeps the plants from transpiring allot.
When cutting the leaves its best to cut some of the fingers off that are the older growth and that are too big and bulky for the roots. dont cut the whole leaf off just the fingers. just like you see with allot of clones when you get them from a good cloner.
Now please dont take my advise as the right and only way of doing things. this is just my opinion and what i would do. in no means am i saying this is the right/only way of doing things. you must take peoples advice and run it threw ur head to see if it makes sense and do some Google searching. the last thing i want is to be at fault if somthing i said messed up their plantsbut this is what ive done and what worked for me.
by the way from the looks of the 1st pic you have the dreaded "CLAW" i have no clue what it means for 100% sure, but ive read before it has something to due with Nitrogen, but maybe do some goggle reading on "the Claw with cannabis plants". or something like that.
from what ive rad the root will grow down and out
ive seen almost 1lbs plant in 5 gal DWC buckets.
Well i tried the dome and she doesnt seem to want to grow at all... Green as can be but for some reason the growth doesnt want to go vertical, maybe the clone was too short? and theres not enough internodes to branch? (thinking as im typing) but the other ladies are thriving, so thinking of cutting them down to 4 when it comes time to flower... then vegging the strugglers for longer. And of course ive been reading around everywhere, but since there isnt much out there in the land of LED, you had the best ideas!!
Also decided to start my own grow journal as i didnt want to hijack yours with 2 grows already in it!!
anytime my friend.
yes sir, ill tell you that tea is some bad ass stuff, ive never had plants that green not one thing wrong with them so far. i just flowered the casey Jones today so soon we shall see some bud, the Jacks are next.Just reading along
Great to see both sets of plants so happy and healthy!
thanks my friend very kind words.
A few observations (see table below)
- The wet to dry weight loss ratio is about 62% for this LED grow as opposed to the 75% rule of thumb that most people are used to. Water loss was remarkably consistent on a plant to plant basis.
- The final g/w results (less any hash setting sun makes from the trim) were 3.6 times better for HGL than HSS when compared on a g/w basis
- The gross weight results were 2.4 times better for HGL when not normalized for wattage differences.
- The HSS costs $495 or $2.61 per watt, the HGL costs $475 or $3.77 per watt.
- Depending on whether one is concerned about the fixed cost of initial purchase or the ongoing cost of electricity differential, the HGL outpaced the HSS light by a multiple of between 2.4 and 3.6; depending on how strongly the reader factors in his fixed costs.
- HSS should get more hash as they had much more trim (tbd)
- The biomass ratio (finished buds divided by total wet weight of the plant) was about 50% better for the HGL compared to the HSS. Essentially 15.2% of the total growth was bud for HGL while 9.1% was bud for HSS
- The oddball sativa phenomenon did not skew results as its output was tucked neatly near the median for all measure categories
- The HSS was more consistent for all plants grown, albeit to lesser weights (see the coefficient of variation and standard deviation values in table)
i here you bro, use what u got and see if it suites ur needs? thats all that matters bro. when i was saying scammed its just stuff i seen in the past that leds companys have done to 1st time growers and made hyped up claims and they spent a ton of money and got screwed. i understand the business stand the stand point, but its still not right because if the product dosent work them dont put it out until the bugs are worked out, not just try to makes as much money as possible and screw over others, because in the long run its going to hurt their sales. i respect HSS because they did come on here trying to make up BS about the end results, they took it on the chin unlike other company's i know. they also seemed to have changed their web page and took off the claims. so thats cool. my feeling towards the light in flowering is the same until i see it others wise.
me to my friend.
