A Cannabinerd's Journey

AlphaPhase

AlphaPhase

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Got the other wall fan mounted and the ducting run to the outlets. Done! Throwing in a 1000w mh tonight and flipping to flower. Going to run the mh for a week to let the plants adjust to 1000w since mh is way less lumens. Then will put in the hps starting week 2. The glue have been cut way back to promote branching and those I'm going to wait 2 more weeks to flower in the buckets :) feels good to have something back in flower haha

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AlphaPhase

AlphaPhase

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It's pretty damn funky bro! It's really compact structure but I'm not sure if it's because I've never up potted from a 1 gal pot. Very nice structure and very nice smell and some veg trichs too. I haven't forgot about ya either man, I just figure I should run it first just in case it ends up bunk, I'd hate some one waste electric on something unknown
 
papapayne

papapayne

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I dont mind waiting brother. Just got my eye on it :)

Yea my vegging plants are not very happy with me. That plent doctor in the cheap hand held sprayer really stunted them, and been struggling to give all them the right nute ppms since they are drastically different sizes. Been doing weaker then usual to not burn small stuff, but the bigger stuff is hungry for more. I am hoping to get a clone rooted of each for the next cycle coming up, as healthy veg will do much more for me then trying to run half healthy plants.
 
AlphaPhase

AlphaPhase

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I'm having the same issues here and there with veg bro. It's wierd though, once I get the plants under hid lighting they are nice, but working with t5 or low light hid, I've been having problems. I actually just threw away 10 15" glue plants today because they weren't up to standards. They started growing healthy, but I have to flower at 15" because my tents are only 6.5' tall, so I cut them way back to promote branching, well they branched a bit, but then I was left with a bunch of healthy small nodes, not branches and they were back to 15", no point in cutting those back because then it would be just branches with little nodes and no tops lol. Just wasn't going to flower right at all. So instead of wasting time with those I have 10 5" glue clones well rooted that I already trained to have 5+ branches so I potted those up and in 2 weeks they'll be better than flowering the other mangled plants. I don't really have to train em at all, just let em grow for a bit then flower. It sucks when I have a plant height restriction for flower, sucks more when some plants have 6" of stem before the branches begin, feels like after the move I should have just thrown out a lot of plants that turned to shit rather than spending time and $ trying to save em then throw em out anyway haha
 
AlphaPhase

AlphaPhase

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"At Utah State University, Professor Bruce Bugbee recently published a paper on the subject, and his research on a variety of lights and manufacturers demonstrates that (A) HPS puts out considerably more photons per watt of input power than metal halides, and (B) that there is no evidence to support the assertion that increased blue in a metal halide leads to more vegetative growth than HPS.

When I asked Professor Bugbee if the increased blue spectrum in metal halides led to bigger plants in the early grow stages, his answer was straightforward: “There is no theoretical or empirical evidence to support that claim. The apparent MH effect is likely caused by the amount of light, rather than the color of light.”

This latter point is important because so many in the marijuana industry buy metal halides for early stage “veg” growth, and switch to HPS for bud. However, if you trust the validity of carefully conducted, unbiased university studies using accepted scientific methods, then purchasing metal halides for “veg” may be a waste of money, and could lead to decreased yields."

I remember reading this a while back, was quite interesting. I've always used hps through veg and flower until recently. The difference in growth is very subtle, if at all, but I do notice the mh is easier to see the plants real color. And the bulbs are way less powerful, which is nice when a 1000w hps shocks the plant, throw in a mh and the plant will be fine :p

http://www.marijuanaventure.com/metal-halide-vs-high-pressure-sodium-age-old-question-cannabis-growers/

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Dr.D81

Dr.D81

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Nice Alpha:)

I have some new cuts in the cloner tonight. Lemon shine, blue og, lime slurpy, and a bunch of my stuff. Plus I am rooting some stuff for PapaPayne. I traded some clones to the guy for a cloner he was not using. Papa will get my small one soon.
 
AlphaPhase

AlphaPhase

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Awesome bro! That lime slurpy sounds awesome! What's that ones story?

I just busted ass today and completely finished the flower room :) all done, well for now lol

So glad it's over, took a little while longer than I expected but Def ready to fill it up

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AlphaPhase

AlphaPhase

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It's not unbelievably strong, but it is super frosty, what is great about it is the smell and taste are unreal! Straight up like slurpy! Nom nommmmm Mmmmmmmm
 
AlphaPhase

AlphaPhase

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The old gg4 I threw out (notice the huge stem elongation and few nodes)
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Heres the new batch trained for about 8+ tops and they are about 6". With training done I can just let them veg without stress straining for 2 weeks and then flower
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