Green Crack & White Cookies: Mainlining Under A Sunplix CMH

bignugz420 said:
I have the new sunsystem air cooled hood they came out with a 315w lec that has 8" ports to cool down light, I have a great connection for them ballest is included in light and it cost me with bulb (4K) for 575.00 and that's a steal now granted my total bill was 1200.00 Bc I got new tent carbon filter, inline fans, gallon size nutes so, but I am sure I can make a call for you

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Yeah those sunsystems looks nice been waiting that someone brings them to europe not willing to pay the import taxes to goverment haha plus i don't want custom fuckers to know anything they might give tip to cops don't want to be pig slayer hehe jokes aside

i really like the vertical mounted reflectors using them my self with HPS at the moment i really thinkg vertical bulb is much better than horizontal since on horizontal you waste one side of the bulb

i can always buy just 315w ballasts and use my old reflectors but can't fit 3 of them in my tent so have to buy 3 smallers ones just have to buy convertor that converts the 315w bulb to E40 socket
 
Awesome journal and plants. Definitely looking forward to seeing your girls grow under the Lec. I got a few hps lights and am looking to both led and cobs to help with heat issues. I usually top bt have seen people have success with the mainline technique bt didn't have the patience for it lol definitely subbed!

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Jgrowlove said:
Awesome journal and plants. Definitely looking forward to seeing your girls grow under the Lec. I got a few hps lights and am looking to both led and cobs to help with heat issues. I usually top bt have seen people have success with the mainline technique bt didn't have the patience for it lol definitely subbed!

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I have noticed so far they definitely have more of a smell under the CMH versus the LED (not a high end one), growth has improved, and the node spacing is tighter. Pretty happy so far!
 
3/17 evening photo update:

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WC #1 (ML):

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WC #2 (ML):

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GC #1 (ML):

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GC #2 (ML):

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GC #3 (topped twice):

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Notes and thoughts:

Environment:

Temp: 77.4 F
RH: 63%

- These girls have exploded under these lights. The lush green has returned with a vengeance, the nodes are tighter, and they seem pretty happy.

I forgot a couple mentions in regards to the grow and soil amendments.

- I had some red clover companion plants that have been cut down and that is where the sensizym helps out somewhat i am hoping with all those dead roots turn into food.

- I also added some composted cattle manure for mesophile and micro arthropod population when mixing my soil, mainly coming from animal inputs. This is an important input in the soil food web and is often left out when people talk of soil life and microbes. Without the next level of soil life, nutrients simply go from locked in the soil to locked up in the microbes. They need to be consumed and expelled in a useable form before the plant can uptake it.

- Along the same topic, 7 red wigglers were thrown into each fabric pot at transplant time.

Anyone catch growtube round table tonight? I love that show!
 
3/18 evening update:

- The girls got watered tonight, 2 gallons of dechlorinated water each, PH'd to 6.3. I bought regular water instead of RO as suggested to me by a few people and was surprised the PPMs were only 16. I would hardly say it is mineral water as advertised ... lol.

- I didn't like how the top of the soil was drying out so fast, so i added some bark mulch as a cover with some alfalfa and kelp meal thrown down first to kick start things. The last time i used wood mulch this way, the mycorrhizae grew right up and fed off of the mulch, and brown decaying matter is known to boost fungal growth, definitely a good thing going into flower.

- I picked up one of those infrared laser temp guns and was fooling around with it checking out leaf surface temps, most were a few degrees below the ambient i found. Anyone know what is optimal? Not much comes back on the subject when i search the net about it. Handy for checking water temps as well for waterings/feedings.

Photo of the day:

Green Crack #1

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Looking super healthy and lush! I take back my earlier comment spending a lot on the supplements, clearly you know what you are doing and are putting them to good use!!

Very excited to see this grow progress :)
 
TheFrizz said:
Looking super healthy and lush! I take back my earlier comment spending a lot on the supplements, clearly you know what you are doing and are putting them to good use!!

Very excited to see this grow progress :)
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Thank you very much, that is a high praise for a newb like me.

The plan is as of now is that i am hopefully done most of the hard core training, just going to let them veg for a while and put a trellis in. I will do a lollipopping below the trellis and i hope it will be full enough to flip the next full moon, that being the first night of 12/13 hours darkness (haven't decided which yet). Then i plan to put in the 2nd layer of trellis for support, height depending how the stretch goes.
 



The net is set! Soon their lush green vegetation will be in our clutches!


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Most of the pruning and training is done, and now it is time to let them fill out. The trellis is set to 4" above the current canopy and the CMH is 18" above the trellis and now i will let them grow up into the light. I am going to fill up a majority of the netting and then flip on the full moon hopefully, if veg goes well here. I will add a 2nd trellis row after the stretch if it is needed for support or maintaining spacing.

I have the light turned up to 350 watts now and besides some lollipopping i am going to do a week before i flip, most of the stress is done now. Time to just enjoy my plants growing. :thumb:
 
GreatWhiteBud said:
3/18 evening update:

- The girls got watered tonight, 2 gallons of dechlorinated water each, PH'd to 6.3. I bought regular water instead of RO as suggested to me by a few people and was surprised the PPMs were only 16. I would hardly say it is mineral water as advertised ... lol.

- I didn't like how the top of the soil was drying out so fast, so i added some bark mulch as a cover with some alfalfa and kelp meal thrown down first to kick start things. The last time i used wood mulch this way, the mycorrhizae grew right up and fed off of the mulch, and brown decaying matter is known to boost fungal growth, definitely a good thing going into flower.

- I picked up one of those infrared laser temp guns and was fooling around with it checking out leaf surface temps, most were a few degrees below the ambient i found. Anyone know what is optimal? Not much comes back on the subject when i search the net about it. Handy for checking water temps as well for waterings/feedings.

Photo of the day:

Green Crack #1

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I'm also trying ML for this grow I just flipped. it's 3 days into bloom today. Yours are looking fantastic !! That green crack looks top shelf. I just retied tonight. These will replace the ones i'm harvesting in the lec tent. They're under a 430w hortilux now. i want one of those bottom liners like you have for the tent. that fits in there nicely !! They want $100 here for a 4x4 one.
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Yea the flood table is nice, i paid about the same for mine. I am just running drain to waste with it. The one thing i will warn you though is that when they mean 4x4, they mean exactly that. I figured i could off set mine and work it into my 4x4 tent ... no dice. I had to bust out my jig saw and modify it to fit.

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It is definitely a time saver though, i have it set up with a ebb and flow kit drain and some hose that i run to a basement floor drain and coil up and put away under the flood table in the tent after i am done. I just had them in hard pots in saucers last time, this is so much easier. I built a small stand to give it clearance for the drain out of scrap plywood and 2x4s i had and gave it 1/4' per foot slope, the minimum amount needed for proper drainage.

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I am still hand watering, but not with the tent so packed under a trellis, this is my next purchase, a pump and watering wand. I am going to just get a big garbage can with the wheel set on the bottom from home depot for my reservoir. It will cost me about $300 to set up but then i will have a permanent watering solution. No more watering cans, christ that would have been a nightmare in a double trellis in a packed tent. Right now i am also mixing in a couple of 5 gallon buckets which is pain in the ass too, so it will be nice just using one container for everything.

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3/22 evening update:

The top dressing of alfalfa meal and kelp meal and the wood mulch over it really kicked up the fungal activity at the humus layer. The soil is already fuzzing up and you can see the mycelium growing up into the mulch leaching nutrients to transport back to the plant. Definitely a good sign heading into flowering soon!

Not much else really than that to report really, but sometimes that is nice to just relax and enjoy your garden. I just open the tent and stare and zone out on my plants for the while ... lol. Tell me i am not the only one? haha.

Anywho, here is a snap shot of the tent as of this evening, and i was also brave enough to actually make my first video update tonight, tho i am not in it, i hate going on cameras myself, so don't hold your breath for that!

Photo of the day:

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huntandfish88 said:
Coming along nicely!! When are you planing to switch to flower?


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Well, it really depends on how they veg out over the next week or so here. I wanted to use the topped girl to fill out the canopy, she currently has 27 growth points which would be nice to fill gaps. I don't really want to hold back the mainline girls and bend them down though, just more divide them up, so it kinda depends how fast they reach the trellis.
 
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