Come Grow With Me: A Beginners Guide

Thirvnrob said:
What the hell, let’s open another can of worms. What has been your experience with HPS vs. LED? I’m curious about why HPS in the flower tent?
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I used HPS on my 2nd grow & did pretty good with it. Then I switched to Blurple LED's for about 2.5 years & the last year has been all Mars Hydro. But I guess me & @MochaBud got a slight difference of opinion on whether or not an LED can match an HPS. I say YES; but I think he says NO (or at least he hints at that). Never the less he's a great grower for the methods he uses. So it is winter & cold outside & my Flower Room is an outdoor shed. HPS puts out a lot more Heat so a great time to use it. My little space heater rarely turns on in the shed. The lights heat it. I just adjust my exhaust to get to a decent temp.
Anyway, I used 900 watts of LED last grow to flower 3 plants, (probably less because they were on about 85%).
Now I'm using 1250 Watts of HPS. Let's see how things do. Obviously not a direct comparison but just to get a general idea. Like I said. I like to play with things & experiment. Learn all kinds of stuff that way. Some Good, Some Bad.
 
Man oh man, I was just looking at the Peyote Wi Fi clones when they were in the solo cups; not long ago. What a difference. I'll get some pics up tonight. The ladies are kickin' butt !
The mom in Flower is a Monster. I'm thinking a pound from her but have to see what develops. Never did this strain before.
 
Thirvnrob said:
What the hell, let’s open another can of worms. What has been your experience with HPS vs. LED? I’m curious about why HPS in the flower tent?
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This is why :slide:

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GDP x LH "Daddys Bitch"

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DB again

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Liberty Haze...almost done

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Liberty Haze (done)

Gorilla Zkittles @6 wks

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GoogleGenie said:
Hey Buds.

What’s your favourite way to grow? If space, equipment, back ache, weren’t an issue. Which way would you go?
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I just prefer a soil grow because I can be kind of lazy at it if I want. It's probably the only way to grow if you want to water your plants & disappear for 2 - 3 days. I don't have to worry so much if I get a Power Outage which could devastate DWC / Hydro. Just so much easier overall. You get slightly bigger yields with Coco & Hydro. But not enough to make it worth the time I have to put into that type of grow.
 
Buds your journal is the best I've read for all levels of cultivators, so hope you keep it up.

If I ever get my shit together I am going to run autos in my 4×2 tent, so I can simultaneously veg. in the same tent.

Looks like I have a lot to learn about heroines.

Looking forward to your autos.

Below is my medium sized GC about to get the chop.

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Farmer Reading said:
Buds your journal is the best I've read for all levels of cultivators, so hope you keep it up.

If I ever get my shit together I am going to run autos in my 4×2 tent, so I can simultaneously veg. in the same tent.

Looks like I have a lot to learn about heroines.

Looking forward to your autos.

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From what I can see in the Blurple lighting she looks really good ! Looks like some nice chunky Cola's there.
 
Finally got my Blue Lab pH Pen last night. Been wanting one of these for 2 years but didn't want to pay $120 for one. Found a New one (open box) for $40 so I swooped it up quick. These are excellent pH pens. However, you have to recalibrate them every 30 days according to the instructions. It doesn't come with the pH Calibration (4.0 & 7.0) fluids or the KCI Storage Solution so had to buy that at the Hydro store. Only $12 for all of it. These pens you have to keep wet by adding a few drops of Storage solution to the little sponge thing in the cap. From what I'm told these pens are really accurate so I want to see how far off the cheapo pH meters I have are by comparison.
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Buds Buddy said:
Finally got my Blue Lab pH Pen last night. Been wanting one of these for 2 years but didn't want to pay $120 for one. Found a New one (open box) for $40 so I swooped it up quick. These are excellent pH pens. However, you have to recalibrate them every 30 days according to the instructions. It doesn't come with the pH Calibration (4.0 & 7.0) fluids or the KCI Storage Solution so had to buy that at the Hydro store. Only $12 for all of it. These pens you have to keep wet by adding a few drops of Storage solution to the little sponge thing in the cap. From what I'm told these pens are really accurate so I want to see how far off the cheapo pH meters I have are by comparison.
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I use that exact pen, works great, but yea you should check once a month just to be safe.
 
I did get around to taking some pics of the plants in the Veg Tent so far. All is going well. 1st up are the 3 Peyote Wi Fi Clones I kept. I'm just feeding them 2 gr. per gal. of MC. About 32 oz. every 3 days. No training yet. I did top & Remove the 1st node early on so I had 4 nice branches coming out. So this morning I topped each of the 4 branches at their 3rd nodes. That's it for topping. I'll start training, trimming & defol after I up-pot. Shouldn't be too long from now as I'm starting to see roots coming out the bottom of the 1 gal. pots.
I plan on topping & training all the plants I've got in Veg the same way. Only difference will be is when I top. I want the main stem from each plant to clone so I'll probably wait till there's about 6 - 7 nodes to top. I'll top between the 4th & 5th nodes still. Just a longer stem for cloning.
The Clones I will Root & put on 12/12 to determine the sex of each plant before I flower it.

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Buds Buddy said:
I did get around to taking some pics of the plants in the Veg Tent so far. All is going well. 1st up are the 3 Peyote Wi Fi Clones I kept. I'm just feeding them 2 gr. per gal. of MC. About 32 oz. every 3 days. No training yet. I did top & Remove the 1st node early on so I had 4 nice branches coming out. So this morning I topped each of the 4 branches at their 3rd nodes. That's it for topping. I'll start training, trimming & defol after I up-pot. Shouldn't be too long from now as I'm starting to see roots coming out the bottom of the 1 gal. pots.
I plan on topping & training all the plants I've got in Veg the same way. Only difference will be is when I top. I want the main stem from each plant to clone so I'll probably wait till there's about 6 - 7 nodes to top. I'll top between the 4th & 5th nodes still. Just a longer stem for cloning.
The Clones I will Root & put on 12/12 to determine the sex of each plant before I flower it.

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Looks great nice neat clean setup. 26% rh wow dry in Arizona, I'm up to my ass in snow here. :thumb:
 
Here are the "Cherry on Top" ladies. I'm not really keeping track of time so not sure how old they are. As long as I can see the leaf reaction I'll know when & how much to feed. I'll know when I want to Flower them by their size. So their age doesn't really matter to me.
As you can see I've numbered each pot. That way I can match it up with the clone I take by giving the clone the same number. Once I flower the clones I'll eliminate the male Plants. Debating on letting the Clones in flower pollinate to get some seeds. That would be cool if it works.
Hmmm, something else I got to test .... lol.
Anyway, today I started feeding these girls at 2 gr. per gal. also. They are getting 24 oz. about every 3rd day.
I also cut off the 1st node on all 6 because the bottom leaf's were touching soil.
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Bill284 said:
Looks great nice neat clean setup. 26% rh wow dry in Arizona, I'm up to my ass in snow here. :thumb:
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It's been raining all week too. You see what the high RH was. 72% at lights out with no humidifier. So I just run my 6 gal. humidifier in my room (close to the tent) when the lights are on. It gets it to 45 - 50% after about 1.5 - 2 hours. Best it gets though. If I put a humidifier in the tent, at lights out I get 90% + Humidity so that's even worse.
 
Sorry about the double pics above. Not sure what I did.
 
Last but not least we have the Baby Girls (I hope). The 3 Glue Cookies. These lil gals just get 100 ml. of water every day or two.
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Buds Buddy said:
Last but not least we have the Baby Girls (I hope). The 3 Glue Cookies. These lil gals just get 100 ml. of water every day or two.
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Looks amazing brother. :cheer:
 
Lots going on now. All looking great :thumb:
 
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