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Garden Update
I've been somewhat lax at taking, and then lax agian at posting photos. Mostly just busy at living life.
One of the things that has been happening is my T5 HO bulbs in veg have been burning out. I use one 4 ft length of 4 bulbs to veg. Awhile ago, I noticed some of my girls in veg went from pre-flower into actual flowering. I checked the timer, looked angrily at my plant in reveg, but eventually figured out it was the sudden reduction from 216W to 162W with a bulb burned out.
I brought over a yellow grow light bulb, an old light, but the last working bulb in my shop table light, and the girls seemed to stop adding pistils, then I lost another light and am now down to 162W again. I checked all the local big box and hardware stores, and none is carrying the T5 bulbs in regular light, much less grow lights. Somehow I dropped the ball and did not order delivery of replacement bulbs.
Yesterday, I ordered 8 of the Agromax Pure Par 'burple' colored T5 bulbs that I have been using. They are only about $3 more per bulb and my plants veg a darker green under the Pure Par bulbs - even before using Doc Bud's nutes.
Veg area - 3 of 4 bulbs working.
AK47 XTRM was growing buds, so she went into the Flower area.
AK47 has a good many bud sites. At 12" tall, I wanted her bigger before flowering. C'est la vie.
AK47 is setting buds, not just pre-flower. She will set better buds under the flowering lights than letting her continue under veg lights.
AK47 cutting. I prefer cloning before bud sets, but this may be a bit of a monster cropped clone (I pinched the flowers off.)
I stopped using my new 21 site bucket cloner and went back to the 8 site cloner. I left the 21 site cloner unplugged for about 5 hours, not as bad as 24 hours the time before, but it puts my clones at risk to have a cloner I need to unplug to check the roots. I'll use the other one for propagating outside - I have milkweed and such I want more of.
The clonebucket is a bit busy, but maybe I can actually get some healthy cuttings in the soil with this one.
The two largest girls in veg, Guawi and Haze x Kali China, were passed by 3 smaller girls that went into flower this month. They will now have to wait for an open slot, my flower area is at capacity with 6 plants.
Ace Guawi, waiting in line for a place in the flower area
The flower area at full capacity (6 plants.) After all my calcualtions about where to hang the COB LEDS, I'm just moving them around from hook to hook depending on who needs more light.
Delicatessen Lily (62 days under 11/13) -The next girl in line for harvest
Lily's mother, Lily, finished in 54 days. 62 days is 8 days longer. Cat drench was 9 days later for this Lily, so harvest is close.
Harvest may be close by the numbers, but I don't see any cloudy trichomes. These are just picking up the yellow HPS light.
Another thing that happened, my flower area was reporting 78 degrees, I prefer 80-82, so I adjusted the fan temperature controller, twice before I realized it was a bad reading, my remote (outside) temp and humidity sensor needed new batteries. So I ran a few degrees hot for a couple of days. Flower area has restabilized at a high of 81.
Carnival Clone 1 had her first drink (GE+Tea) after 20 days in a one gallon pot.
Carnival Clone1 looked big enough for nutes rather than plain water. I lost Carnival clone 1B, so I took a cutting off this one.
A toast (Pyrat Rum) to you all. May you have a better week in the garden than I did !
I've been somewhat lax at taking, and then lax agian at posting photos. Mostly just busy at living life.
One of the things that has been happening is my T5 HO bulbs in veg have been burning out. I use one 4 ft length of 4 bulbs to veg. Awhile ago, I noticed some of my girls in veg went from pre-flower into actual flowering. I checked the timer, looked angrily at my plant in reveg, but eventually figured out it was the sudden reduction from 216W to 162W with a bulb burned out.
I brought over a yellow grow light bulb, an old light, but the last working bulb in my shop table light, and the girls seemed to stop adding pistils, then I lost another light and am now down to 162W again. I checked all the local big box and hardware stores, and none is carrying the T5 bulbs in regular light, much less grow lights. Somehow I dropped the ball and did not order delivery of replacement bulbs.
Yesterday, I ordered 8 of the Agromax Pure Par 'burple' colored T5 bulbs that I have been using. They are only about $3 more per bulb and my plants veg a darker green under the Pure Par bulbs - even before using Doc Bud's nutes.
Veg area - 3 of 4 bulbs working.
AK47 XTRM was growing buds, so she went into the Flower area.
AK47 has a good many bud sites. At 12" tall, I wanted her bigger before flowering. C'est la vie.
AK47 is setting buds, not just pre-flower. She will set better buds under the flowering lights than letting her continue under veg lights.
AK47 cutting. I prefer cloning before bud sets, but this may be a bit of a monster cropped clone (I pinched the flowers off.)
I stopped using my new 21 site bucket cloner and went back to the 8 site cloner. I left the 21 site cloner unplugged for about 5 hours, not as bad as 24 hours the time before, but it puts my clones at risk to have a cloner I need to unplug to check the roots. I'll use the other one for propagating outside - I have milkweed and such I want more of.
The clonebucket is a bit busy, but maybe I can actually get some healthy cuttings in the soil with this one.
The two largest girls in veg, Guawi and Haze x Kali China, were passed by 3 smaller girls that went into flower this month. They will now have to wait for an open slot, my flower area is at capacity with 6 plants.
Ace Guawi, waiting in line for a place in the flower area
The flower area at full capacity (6 plants.) After all my calcualtions about where to hang the COB LEDS, I'm just moving them around from hook to hook depending on who needs more light.
Delicatessen Lily (62 days under 11/13) -The next girl in line for harvest
Lily's mother, Lily, finished in 54 days. 62 days is 8 days longer. Cat drench was 9 days later for this Lily, so harvest is close.
Harvest may be close by the numbers, but I don't see any cloudy trichomes. These are just picking up the yellow HPS light.
Another thing that happened, my flower area was reporting 78 degrees, I prefer 80-82, so I adjusted the fan temperature controller, twice before I realized it was a bad reading, my remote (outside) temp and humidity sensor needed new batteries. So I ran a few degrees hot for a couple of days. Flower area has restabilized at a high of 81.
Carnival Clone 1 had her first drink (GE+Tea) after 20 days in a one gallon pot.
Carnival Clone1 looked big enough for nutes rather than plain water. I lost Carnival clone 1B, so I took a cutting off this one.
A toast (Pyrat Rum) to you all. May you have a better week in the garden than I did !
She made it. 
Well done sir. 
