Squiggle Is Testing The Sylstar GL4000a: Multi Strain Grow, In A Brand New Set Up!

[Paul Squiggle]

cloning and topping the 1st auto

cloned 3, i usually just dip in cloning gel but have buddy who swears by a double dip

better not be a flea(hope dirt) on my clone stem, my cat is now banned from house for summer.

1 dip just in rooting gel and other 2 double dip in gel & powder, see if they get roots faster.

Ahhh!! I'm watching this closely. Please post updates.. I've taken 9 clones in my growing career and 9 out of 9 died... So this is interesting...
Can't blame the poor moggy mate.. it's the flea that's the problem not the cat. Ours had fleas last year, I got a flea bite on my knob.. it swelled up and was all itchy.. the wife though I had been sleeping about, as I was scratching away constantly

 

[Bud Love]

Ahhh!! I'm watching this closely. Please post updates.. I've taken 9 clones in my growing career and 9 out of 9 died... So this is interesting...
Can't blame the poor moggy mate.. it's the flea that's the problem not the cat. Ours had fleas last year, I got a flea bite on my knob.. it swelled up and was all itchy.. the wife though I had been sleeping about I was scratching away constantly

Welll… if I had the choice and had to pick a nob biter.. gotta say mate.. it’d be a flea all day , before a cat

 

[Paul Squiggle]

Welll… if I had the choice and had to pick a nob biter.. gotta say mate.. it’d be a flea all day , before a cat

I don't know which way to take that either way it's got me in fits of giggles.. my face hurts with laughing

 

[copperrein]

Squiggle...why is there always scandalous shit going on in your journals?

 

[Paul Squiggle]

Squiggle...why is there always scandalous shit going on in your journals?

ive often wondered that exact same thing myself

 

[Bud Love]

ive often wondered that exact same thing myself

Naughty karma.. is what it is.. fact.. look it up

 

[Paul Squiggle]

Naughty karma.. is what it is.. fact.. look it up

Im a firm believer Ive also come to terms with the fact that my journals will never get nominated for journal of the month. The main criteria is, journals must remain on topic. I don't think an itchy bellend counts. I did rub a fan leaf on the affected area, to see if it would help the itch.. so I suppose it is still cannabis related

 

[Paul Squiggle]

Howdy do guys..
Just a quick update to say I won't be updating until tomorrow. I'm fookin burnt out from a hard day's work. I've shifted 7 tonne of steel beams by hand and I'm worn out. I will be doing the slurry test tomorrow night when jeffo bezzo drops the distilled water off tomorrow..
As always? I really appreciate all this help and support im getting from you all. It makes me happy

Catch you all soon

Squiggle

 

[NuttyProfessor]

Hope you well mate , just a quick hello " Hello "

 

[Paul Squiggle]

Day 16 of veg
Day 36 from birth
Day 40 from soaking seeds


Light: Sylstar GL-4000a. Set @ 24inches, set @65% , drawing 200 watts
Lux: 28000
Par: 490 approximately
Medium: Store bought compost.
Final pot size and type: 2.5 gallon or approx 12 litre, plastic
Grow space: 1metre X 1metre X 2metre
Strains: 1xSour diesel. 1xStar dawg. 1xBlueberry OG. Both photoperiod and 1x White widow Auto
Nutrients: Pre-charged soil and liquid organic feed (if needed)
Water: Mineral, pH 6.5
Temperature: 28
RH: 70

PH SLURRY TEST GONE WRONG

Howdy do folks. Hows it growing in your world?

It's been a few days since I updated last. I've been up to my eyes in work..

Anyway.. the last problem was the scabby leaves on the white widow., which was showing a cal mag deficiency....
As Bill suggested, she could have ran out of food, as they are only in compost and haven't been fed any additional nutrients, which makes perfect sense. I was expecting them to show signs of malnutrition by now. But I was also under the impression that the mineral water they drink had enough calcium and magnesium in it..
It was also suggested that the pH of the soil could be out of balance also..
So, before I fed her, I wanted to check the pH of the soil, just out of curiosity..
Well, what a fook on that has been... I did a quick Google and found this

It says pH strip's, but I assumed a pH pen was more accurate..
I couldn't get distilled water quick enough, so I went for deionised water which has a neutral PH,just the same as distilled, according to Google below

So, I poured the deionised water in a cup and tested it. It came out as a pH of 5... That can't be right , surely?
I thought it was my Ph pen that was foooked.
So, I asked Jeff bezzo to drop me off two new PH pens, which he did the next day.
I tested them and got a value of 4 on one and 4.8 off the other.. well, I thought because they were cheap pens , that they were not accurate.

So, I bought a mid range pH pen the next day and tested that.. that was reading 5.5..
In total, 4 pH pens did not read any where near 7.
It had me baffled. Surely 4 pH pens couldn't be wrong?. so I did a bit more googlerating and found this

and this

So, how the fook am I meant to be able to trust a slurry test. If I can't trust the stuff I'm making the slurry with????
I bought a pH buffer after that and found that my original blue pen was accurate and the mid range pen was accurate.. those two cheap yellow pens do not calibrate properly.. do not buy or trust them..

Anyway.. I thought bollocks to the slurry test and I just fed them anyway like @Bill284 said.. I trust Bill more than Google and my pen collection

So the moral of the story is, don't do a fookin slurry test with a PH pen. Do a run off test instead. Analyse what runs out of your pot and don't mix a slurry test with distilled or deionised water..

Oh! Heres a few pictures of the girls

SD back left, WW front and BB back right

This is the leaf damage on the WW

It's still only on a few leaves , the rest of the plant looks happy after a feed.
This is a fan leaf on the Blue Berry.

It's fookin huge!!!

Anyway.. that's it for tonight guys..

Oh!! It's not.. while Jeff was coming to mine, I ordered some new toys for the tent

Don't tell the missus, she doesn't know yet
It's a 6 inch cloudline.. I've only got a 4 inch one and it's not drawing out the hot air.. it can shift the right amount of CFMs but I needed a fan that would suck the sides of the tent In.. anyway.. i will be updating tomorrow with a post on how I'm setting it up.

Anyway. That's it folks..
As always.. I really appreciate you all checking out my posts. I know they aren't the most informative; sorry about that, but I do learn a lot from you guys and I thank you for it.

See you all on your side


Squiggle

 

[Bud Love]

Day 16 of veg
Day 36 from birth
Day 40 from soaking seeds


Light: Sylstar GL-4000a. Set @ 24inches, set @65% , drawing 200 watts
Lux: 28000
Par: 490 approximately
Medium: Store bought compost.
Final pot size and type: 2.5 gallon or approx 12 litre, plastic
Grow space: 1metre X 1metre X 2metre
Strains: 1xSour diesel. 1xStar dawg. 1xBlueberry OG. Both photoperiod and 1x White widow Auto
Nutrients: Pre-charged soil and liquid organic feed (if needed)
Water: Mineral, pH 6.5
Temperature: 28
RH: 70

PH SLURRY TEST GONE WRONG

Howdy do folks. Hows it growing in your world?

It's been a few days since I updated last. I've been up to my eyes in work..

Anyway.. the last problem was the scabby leaves on the white widow., which was showing a cal mag deficiency....
As Bill suggested, she could have ran out of food, as they are only in compost and haven't been fed any additional nutrients, which makes perfect sense. I was expecting them to show signs of malnutrition by now. But I was also under the impression that the mineral water they drink had enough calcium and magnesium in it..
It was also suggested that the pH of the soil could be out of balance also..
So, before I fed her, I wanted to check the pH of the soil, just out of curiosity..
Well, what a fook on that has been... I did a quick Google and found this

It says pH strip's, but I assumed a pH pen was more accurate..
I couldn't get distilled water quick enough, so I went for deionised water which has a neutral PH,just the same as distilled, according to Google below

So I poured the deionised water in a cup and tested it. It came out as a pH of 5... That can't be right , surely?
I thought it was my Ph pen that was foooked.
So, I asked Jeff bezzo to drop me off two new PH pens, which he did the next day.
I tested them and got a value of 4 on one and 4.8 off the other.. well, I thought because they were cheap pens , that they were not accurate.

So, I bought a mid range pH pen the next day and tested that.. that was reading 5.5..
In total, 4 pH pens did not read any where near 7.
It had me baffled. Surely 4 pH pens couldn't be wrong?. so I did a bit more googlerating and found this

and this

So, how the fook am I meant to be able to trust a slurry test. If I can't trust the stuff I'm making the slurry with????
I bought a pH buffer after that and found that my original blue pen was accurate and the mid range pen was accurate.. those two cheap yellow pens do not calibrate properly.. do not buy or trust them..

Anyway.. I though bollocks to the slurry test and I just fed them anyway like @Bill284 said.. I trust him more than Google and my pen collection

So the moral of the story is, don't do a fookin slurry test. Do a run off test instead. Analyse what runs out of your pot and don't mix a slurry test with distilled or deionised water..

Oh! Heres a few pictures of the girls

SD back left, WW front and BB back right

This is the leaf damage on the WW

It's still only on a few leaves , the rest of the plant looks happy after a feed.
This is a fan leaf on the Blue Berry.

It's fookin huge!!!

Anyway.. that's it for tonight guys..

Oh!! It's not.. while Jeff was coming to mine, I ordered some new toys for the tent

Don't tell the missus, she doesn't know yet ..
It's a 6 inch cloudline.. I've only got a 4 inch one and it's not drawing out the hot air.. it can shift the right amount of CFMs but I needed a fan that would suck the sides of the tent In.. anyway.. i will be updating tomorrow with a post on how I'm setting it up.

Anyway. That's it folks..
As always.. I really appreciate you all checking out my posts. I know they aren't the most informative. Sorry about that, but I do learn a lot from you guys and I thank you for it.

See you all on your side


Squiggle

Well Monsignor..
That saves me doing what was going to be my first job in the morning.. no slurry test it is. Ace..
Hope your well mate.
Plants look great, and that’s a bang tidy fan.
How’s the heat been for you today mate… I’m running enough fan to keep a chip shop in clean cool air at the min.. it’s 37c without the Ac on up there.
Monster fan leaf, or tiny hands ? Mmmmm
Great update for me thank you..
Have a good’n

 

[Paul Squiggle]

Well Monsignor..
That saves me doing what was going to be my first job in the morning.. no slurry test it is. Ace..
Hope your well mate.
Plants look great, and that’s a bang tidy fan.
How’s the heat been for you today mate… I’m running enough fan to keep a chip shop in clean cool air at the min.. it’s 37c without the Ac on up there.
Monster fan leaf, or tiny hands ? Mmmmm
Great update for me thank you..
Have a good’n

Howdy do Amigo..

37c. Jebus krypes, that's dangerous. Chip shop extraction that made me giggle..
Im great thanks for asking.. it's been 28c outside all day and the house ain't much cooler.
. I really feel sorry for you having to deal with those temperatures in the loft.. are the plants doing ok? Luckily, this is the United States of England and it will be snowing next week, so we don't have to worry for too long about the heat..

the slurry test..
yup!! Don't do it.. it's took me 3 days to figure it out. I can't see how it can work, as distilled and deionised water are not stable when exposed to the atmosphere. Plus pH pens don't recognize either to type of water

the new fan is awesome, it comes with a humdidity and temp sensor and it turns on and regulates the environment automatically..

that fan leaf is huge.. I've got normal size hands

 

[Bud Love]

the new fan is awesome, it comes with a humdidity and temp sensor and it turns on and regulates the environment automatically..

I’m still smarting from my fan fiasco…the fans I’ve got are great but don’t connect to my controller that should run the light and 2 Ac fans all automatically…
Still haven’t set the controller up.. I should do that tomorrow as it’s been about 4 months, ( enough sulk time me thinks)particularly as it’s the light controller really anyway.: it’s supposed to give you sunrise an sunset etc… now I’ve a bit of time free instead of the slurry test.
Could be on the cards.

 

[Paul Squiggle]

Get ya ass into gear and get it done I know what you mean though.. some jobs just keep getting put off..
Looking forward to seeing the sunrise and sunset in your loft..
Sounds like an awesome bit of kit

 

[Bill284]

Day 16 of veg
Day 36 from birth
Day 40 from soaking seeds


Light: Sylstar GL-4000a. Set @ 24inches, set @65% , drawing 200 watts
Lux: 28000
Par: 490 approximately
Medium: Store bought compost.
Final pot size and type: 2.5 gallon or approx 12 litre, plastic
Grow space: 1metre X 1metre X 2metre
Strains: 1xSour diesel. 1xStar dawg. 1xBlueberry OG. Both photoperiod and 1x White widow Auto
Nutrients: Pre-charged soil and liquid organic feed (if needed)
Water: Mineral, pH 6.5
Temperature: 28
RH: 70

PH SLURRY TEST GONE WRONG

Howdy do folks. Hows it growing in your world?

It's been a few days since I updated last. I've been up to my eyes in work..

Anyway.. the last problem was the scabby leaves on the white widow., which was showing a cal mag deficiency....
As Bill suggested, she could have ran out of food, as they are only in compost and haven't been fed any additional nutrients, which makes perfect sense. I was expecting them to show signs of malnutrition by now. But I was also under the impression that the mineral water they drink had enough calcium and magnesium in it..
It was also suggested that the pH of the soil could be out of balance also..
So, before I fed her, I wanted to check the pH of the soil, just out of curiosity..
Well, what a fook on that has been... I did a quick Google and found this

It says pH strip's, but I assumed a pH pen was more accurate..
I couldn't get distilled water quick enough, so I went for deionised water which has a neutral PH,just the same as distilled, according to Google below

So, I poured the deionised water in a cup and tested it. It came out as a pH of 5... That can't be right , surely?
I thought it was my Ph pen that was foooked.
So, I asked Jeff bezzo to drop me off two new PH pens, which he did the next day.
I tested them and got a value of 4 on one and 4.8 off the other.. well, I thought because they were cheap pens , that they were not accurate.

So, I bought a mid range pH pen the next day and tested that.. that was reading 5.5..
In total, 4 pH pens did not read any where near 7.
It had me baffled. Surely 4 pH pens couldn't be wrong?. so I did a bit more googlerating and found this

and this

So, how the fook am I meant to be able to trust a slurry test. If I can't trust the stuff I'm making the slurry with????
I bought a pH buffer after that and found that my original blue pen was accurate and the mid range pen was accurate.. those two cheap yellow pens do not calibrate properly.. do not buy or trust them..

Anyway.. I thought bollocks to the slurry test and I just fed them anyway like @Bill284 said.. I trust Bill more than Google and my pen collection

So the moral of the story is, don't do a fookin slurry test with a PH pen. Do a run off test instead. Analyse what runs out of your pot and don't mix a slurry test with distilled or deionised water..

Oh! Heres a few pictures of the girls

SD back left, WW front and BB back right

This is the leaf damage on the WW

It's still only on a few leaves , the rest of the plant looks happy after a feed.
This is a fan leaf on the Blue Berry.

It's fookin huge!!!

Anyway.. that's it for tonight guys..

Oh!! It's not.. while Jeff was coming to mine, I ordered some new toys for the tent

Don't tell the missus, she doesn't know yet ..
It's a 6 inch cloudline.. I've only got a 4 inch one and it's not drawing out the hot air.. it can shift the right amount of CFMs but I needed a fan that would suck the sides of the tent In.. anyway.. i will be updating tomorrow with a post on how I'm setting it up.

Anyway. That's it folks..
As always.. I really appreciate you all checking out my posts. I know they aren't the most informative; sorry about that, but I do learn a lot from you guys and I thank you for it.

See you all on your side


Squiggle

Your hilarious my friend.
Toys are us hehe.
Don't worry I won't tell on you.
This carry on is why I grow in coco.
Coco bokashi frass and air pots.
Rocket fuel.
Blue lab ph pens all I use.
Never let me down. Last a long time.
Feed every other watering right till chop.
A little calmag.
6.3 ph.
And you will be minty fresh and golden brown hehe, bet you don't get it.
But you'll be good.
Keep on rocken Amigo.
Bill

 

[Grand Daddy Black]

You've got to hold the record for the most expensive slurry test ever conducted attempted!

Happy growing Squiggles.

 

[Skunksta]

Get the 4 inch pumping fresh air in , and wow this new grow is adding up trying to beat the heat with that new light.
And i found mate my tents zips defo the cheap ones go alot faster when the tent in sucked in for long periods of times.of set it with that 4 inch both have speed control normalize the pressure in there your ladies will love it.

PS. i use an old tight on both ends of my 5 inch intake seems to keep the bugs out nice.

 

[DeeBoy]

cloning and topping the 1st auto

cloned 3, i usually just dip in cloning gel but have buddy who swears by a double dip

better not be a flea(hope dirt) on my clone stem, my cat is now banned from house for summer.

1 dip just in rooting gel and other 2 double dip in gel & powder, see if they get roots faster.

Cloning an auto… another myth busted? Have you cloned one before?

 

[Skunksta]

Yup. But Mine worked on the the same time scale as the mother and never yielded much.

 

[DeeBoy]

Day 16 of veg
Day 36 from birth
Day 40 from soaking seeds


Light: Sylstar GL-4000a. Set @ 24inches, set @65% , drawing 200 watts
Lux: 28000
Par: 490 approximately
Medium: Store bought compost.
Final pot size and type: 2.5 gallon or approx 12 litre, plastic
Grow space: 1metre X 1metre X 2metre
Strains: 1xSour diesel. 1xStar dawg. 1xBlueberry OG. Both photoperiod and 1x White widow Auto
Nutrients: Pre-charged soil and liquid organic feed (if needed)
Water: Mineral, pH 6.5
Temperature: 28
RH: 70

PH SLURRY TEST GONE WRONG

Howdy do folks. Hows it growing in your world?

It's been a few days since I updated last. I've been up to my eyes in work..

Anyway.. the last problem was the scabby leaves on the white widow., which was showing a cal mag deficiency....
As Bill suggested, she could have ran out of food, as they are only in compost and haven't been fed any additional nutrients, which makes perfect sense. I was expecting them to show signs of malnutrition by now. But I was also under the impression that the mineral water they drink had enough calcium and magnesium in it..
It was also suggested that the pH of the soil could be out of balance also..
So, before I fed her, I wanted to check the pH of the soil, just out of curiosity..
Well, what a fook on that has been... I did a quick Google and found this

It says pH strip's, but I assumed a pH pen was more accurate..
I couldn't get distilled water quick enough, so I went for deionised water which has a neutral PH,just the same as distilled, according to Google below

So, I poured the deionised water in a cup and tested it. It came out as a pH of 5... That can't be right , surely?
I thought it was my Ph pen that was foooked.
So, I asked Jeff bezzo to drop me off two new PH pens, which he did the next day.
I tested them and got a value of 4 on one and 4.8 off the other.. well, I thought because they were cheap pens , that they were not accurate.

So, I bought a mid range pH pen the next day and tested that.. that was reading 5.5..
In total, 4 pH pens did not read any where near 7.
It had me baffled. Surely 4 pH pens couldn't be wrong?. so I did a bit more googlerating and found this

and this

So, how the fook am I meant to be able to trust a slurry test. If I can't trust the stuff I'm making the slurry with????
I bought a pH buffer after that and found that my original blue pen was accurate and the mid range pen was accurate.. those two cheap yellow pens do not calibrate properly.. do not buy or trust them..

Anyway.. I thought bollocks to the slurry test and I just fed them anyway like @Bill284 said.. I trust Bill more than Google and my pen collection

So the moral of the story is, don't do a fookin slurry test with a PH pen. Do a run off test instead. Analyse what runs out of your pot and don't mix a slurry test with distilled or deionised water..

Oh! Heres a few pictures of the girls

SD back left, WW front and BB back right

This is the leaf damage on the WW

It's still only on a few leaves , the rest of the plant looks happy after a feed.
This is a fan leaf on the Blue Berry.

It's fookin huge!!!

Anyway.. that's it for tonight guys..

Oh!! It's not.. while Jeff was coming to mine, I ordered some new toys for the tent

Don't tell the missus, she doesn't know yet
It's a 6 inch cloudline.. I've only got a 4 inch one and it's not drawing out the hot air.. it can shift the right amount of CFMs but I needed a fan that would suck the sides of the tent In.. anyway.. i will be updating tomorrow with a post on how I'm setting it up.

Anyway. That's it folks..
As always.. I really appreciate you all checking out my posts. I know they aren't the most informative; sorry about that, but I do learn a lot from you guys and I thank you for it.

See you all on your side


Squiggle

That fan leaf is impressive!