Equanimity's 2nd Grow - The White Room - HPS & CFL - 3 Strains & Sex for Afters

re: Equanimity's 2nd Grow - The White Room - HPS & CFL; 3 Strains & Sex for Afters

How much of this unknown plant have you eaten? Notice I haven't asked you IF you've eaten this unknown plant. You know that I know that YOU KNOW you have chomped on the damn thing. If it is good enough for you, then it ain't killer for your lil' Josie. But ditch it, kill it, eat it, whatever.

As far as the Bloom Nutes go, I'm thinking stay on your nute schedule, but pick a rotation of no nutes to move your gals. You know I'm too lazy to look up just what your actual schedule is...but this is my two and a half seconds of thought process...put your girls into their next phase of life (stress) with a pure watering. After at least a sacred Night or two, another non nute watering, then back on schedule.

:love:
Marion
 
re: Equanimity's 2nd Grow - The White Room - HPS & CFL; 3 Strains & Sex for Afters

How much of this unknown plant have you eaten? Notice I haven't asked you IF you've eaten this unknown plant. You know that I know that YOU KNOW you have chomped on the damn thing. If it is good enough for you, then it ain't killer for your lil' Josie. But ditch it, kill it, eat it, whatever.

As far as the Bloom Nutes go, I'm thinking stay on your nute schedule, but pick a rotation of no nutes to move your gals. You know I'm too lazy to look up just what your actual schedule is...but this is my two and a half seconds of thought process...put your girls into their next phase of life (stress) with a pure watering. After at least a sacred Night or two, another non nute watering, then back on schedule.

:love:
Marion


On this occasion I stuck to schedule because I was late in asking that question (I'd already begun performing the post 12/12 feeding) so I'll just remember to get the bloom nutes in next time.

As for the unknown plant, i actually didn't eat any of it, i was so disgusted by it that aside from a brief stop to take that photo, it came out of the pot and went straight in the bin. I wasn't even prepared to compost it, i just wanted it gone from my life forever. I do expect to see it's descendants in Josie's pot before long though; Just like the girl it was named after, i should expect to see, and remove, "extra appendages" lol
 
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Crimeny days, I get to be wrong again. You really didn't eat it. I thought it was kinda like God making little green apples or rabbits making little brown turds.
 
re: Equanimity's 2nd Grow - The White Room - HPS & CFL; 3 Strains & Sex for Afters

Plugging a PC fan into the mains

...So this is pretty much for the benefit of erieflwr who made the grave error of asking me about it.
might be useful to others; who knows?

OMIGAWD! oh, I was so afraid to click on the link that I might blow up the world by accident. This really does and did work. I can't thank you enough, dude, this is genius for miniaturization, I am so sure!

First we get a PC fan:
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And an old 12v electrical adapter:
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The fan has three wires; black, red and yellow.
Red is Live, Black is Neutral, Yellow is for added control in a PC environment;
We will discard Yellow and proceed.

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We double check Adapter Output Voltage
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...and fan input voltage.
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After we determine that they are compatible, we thread it all together.
In this case, what i had were scraps and so i have had to bring in a length of cable to finish the job...



In the UK; Red and Brown are normally Live. Black and Blue are normally Neutral.
These colour schemes are never mixed in the same cable; (you do not see 'brown and black' or 'red and blue' together in this type of circuit).
Upon discarding Yellow we connect Red to Brown and then Black to Blue.

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We then move to the other end of the imported cable and connect the Brown to the black cable that has the dashed white line.
We connect the Blue to the remaining black cable.

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We then use black insulation tape to ensure that the live and neutral parts of the circuit remain seperate in the cable, and to seal up the join so that it looks proper, is moderately strong and stays that way.
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We then plug the adapter in the wall, cross fingers and turn it on and hope for the best.....
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It works!

In some cases, the wire with the dashed white line is actually neutral; in other cases neither are marked at all and you have to guess. fudging the polarity at such low voltages is normally inconsequential; in most cases nothing happens and you just switch em around. occasionally a fan will go backwards if polarity is reversed. I've done things like this all my life and never died. not once. i promise.

And here is the second room it was needed for... kind of had to throw it all together from shitty bits.

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Genius, simply genius! Now, point me back to the door...I gotta go back to my place and figure out what else I missed....Ok, I see the door and I see a trail of gluten free bread crumbs...
 
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Gluten Free... what a crushing bore that must be :(


In other news, today I have flipped my main crop to 12/12; beginning 31 minutes ago at 12 noon the girls will now bathe in 12 hours of darkness and spring back to life at midnight tonight. It is my hope that I can use my pollen on the two breeding candidates 3 weeks into flowering, which should be enough time for the two sex change patients to grow their balls (they've been in and under colloidal silver treatment for about a week now so it couldn't be too much longer).

I expect the girls to double in height which would put them between 1ft and 1.5ft tall after the stretch, which I hope will still give a few inches clearance between the canopy and the lights. Two of the girls were previously super cropped but have brushed it off. The two that were topped grew new tops in a matter of hours. I won't be topping again this time around; I'm going to save the aggressive training methods for my next grow where I'll have more 'to flower' plants to work with and more time to do so as, over the Christmas period, I will be too busy to tend to my grow, so it needs to be wrapped by mid December. It'll be a close one but I think 7 or 8 weeks will be enough time, which would bring me to somewhere between December 5th and December 13th.

I do not expect to pull LBs from this grow; the main part of it was really to get myself some seeds for the next grow (which will be more quantity focused). I also needed to test out my new grow area to see how well it works at every stage and to iron out any issues which, for the most part, I have done. I still need to look at how it performs during flowering though.



Meanwhile; the father plants have begun their stretch with Kerry sitting a few inches higher than julie which is to be expected as the Lemon Kush has been taller than the Blue Dream from the start. There's nothing new there.

One thing that concerns me though is droop. The droop seems to occur with the pair while the lights are off; I noticed it yesterday when I had to open the door and do the colloidal spray early because I was out for the rest of the evening.

When I came home, the lights were back on and leaves had risen back to the "praying" position.

I checked again today and the leaves are drooping again.

A pattern is emerging; I'll know for certain tonight after 8 when the lights come back on.
 
re: Equanimity's 2nd Grow - The White Room - HPS & CFL; 3 Strains & Sex for Afters

Some photos

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Had some good growth the last few days, the strongest and the weakest are clear.
I can see me needing to feed again soon; the pots are still heavy but i'm going to have to add more nutes than last time.
 
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Shit's gettin real!

hell yea . now we get to see what shes really made of .. i still love the measurements on the wall .
 
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So long as the stretch stays below 2ft i should be ok. It looks like it will be fine though :)
 
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I'm less than impressed by some of them; mutations, small form, lack of hardiness etc.

The images above are both Blue Dream, the two remaining after Julie went off for her sex change.
In the first, Leanne is showing some lettucy type growth after having been accidentally topped (i was supposed to top Josie)

Josie is depicted here as well. One leaf appears to be missing a segment entirely at first glance, however, closer inspection reveals that the opposing leaf has three segments and therefore the fourth is an extra, rather than it's counterpart segment being missing.
The new growth, however, is perfectly symmetrical, which i enjoy for some unknown reason.

Since leanne is now looking like some sort of cabbage, I have switched out the breeding candidate to Josie who, deapite a small mutation, is looking much better and has caught up with leanne in terms of node count and overall size.

Kimberley is still the Lemon Kush breeding candidate, however, some crisping around the leaves on a lower node suggests a lack of hardiness; all the girls are fed the same meal and should handle it the same too, especially when all input and output pH ratings were almost identical. Christine was previously one of the slower plants but has now almost matched Kimberley and is looking likely to take the top spot, though Carla is also showing promise.

Joanne is a depressing sight; having shown no growth in three days, the node second from the top has shrivelled a little. This is possibly heat related but she was joined on the front line (in the middle) with the top two Lemon Kush plants and therefore has no excuse to be crying.

The dark horse; Loretta (super silver critical long name strain) looks healthy and hardy with absolutely no discolouration or mutation of any kind and is of similar stature to the best of the rest.

Cheryl; the triple sprouted Lemon Kush actually looks well. The plants have not yet reached any sort of equalibria and continue to fight; a clear dominant has emerged from the pack and the best the other two can hope for is second place, though both seem quite even presently.

Samantha, my competition entry (in the 9floz baby's bottle) is stalled; i fear it might be because of the upset to her day/night cycle in which she had 12 hours of dark, 25 minutes of light, an hour and 35 more dark and then 12 hours of light. Next time I operate several grow areas I will make thwir clocks more compatible.
Samantha has four nodes; the newest of which is producing a pair of five segment leaves. It has not yet entered stretch but the visible root mass at the base has thickened, so it's definitely trying hard to live.

The Breeding pair in the blue rokm are yet to show me any sex but are fully engaged in the stretch.
Spotting has appeared on several of the larger leaves; this is my fault as I keep spraying the colloidal silver when the lights are on. I know i shouldn't but I just don't feel at ease opening the door during sleep; though if the spotting gets worse or i start losing the leaves I'll stop and just darken the whole room before i open the door to spray them.

I will shortly furnish you with pictures, as yesterday's were bollocks but i was in a rush as i was still being cluster fucked by my headache which is still lurking in the background but isn't at the point where walking up the stairs, coughing or turning on a light ruins my life.
 
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Thought i'd do a video instead; to test the concept.

The result is: signing up a completely anonymous google account is a bastard and the whole youtube process is a fucking pig.
 
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Thought i'd do a video instead; to test the concept.

The result is: signing up a completely anonymous google account is a bastard and the whole youtube process is a fucking pig.

i tried this also but i hate my voice on camera so it got deleted .
 
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I stripped the audio to remove any environmental sounds and to reduce the file size. 216mbs took an hour to put onto youtube. That's piss poor for 2014.
 
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Jesus lol I turned up my computer to see if you were saying anything too hahaha
 
re: Equanimity's 2nd Grow - The White Room - HPS & CFL; 3 Strains & Sex for Afters

When growing outside of soil it's all about that perfect number that the roots will absorb all the nutrients and be able to use them. There really isn't a grey area in hydro. It's all about what the strain needs including that perfect pH. The new growth looks fine. But they just need more nutrients. Those dying fan leaves and supporting the new growth. The new growth SUCKS the nutrients out of the fan leaves, that's why I say they're used as storage.

To support the new growth and fan leaves you need to up your nutrients, maybe double. They're getting big enough, they can handle it :)
 
re: Equanimity's 2nd Grow - The White Room - HPS & CFL; 3 Strains & Sex for Afters

I'm already putting 8mls of each nute into 4 litres of water...

Reckon i should go to 16?
 
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