Personal Medical Grow 400 Watt HPS/MH, Special Kush, Raw Diesel, bag seed

[dk2852]

Feel free to post in here, any advice and tips appreciated. I have grown once before, but have researched almost non-stop since that last grow, which was about a year ago.
This a from start to finish journal. I have germinated three bagseeds, two in rockwool, one with the paper towel method, than transferred to rockwool.
This is just an experiment really, I may only keep one or two of these plants once my good seeds from attitude get here. I will be growing Special Kush, Raw Diesel, and lemon skunk(possibly) all for personal medical use for my condition- chronic insomnia.
After 2-3 weeks under cfls I'm going to transfer to a 400 watt Metal Halide, and a 400 Watt High Pressure Sodium for flowering- I have a dual ballast, and a full walk-in grow closet setup, but we'll get to that later.
Currently the 3 bagseed plants are under 2 42 watt cfls bulbs, in a sealed growbox with poly film lining the sides, and providing a reflective hood for the bulbs, keeps it nice and warm in there for the seedlings. I have additional bulbs, a 26 watt, and a 65 watt warm white, which I will add once I get all my plants going.
For now enjoy these pics of my seedling setup, and first sprout. My grow has officially begun!

 

[dk2852]

Woke up to find my plant had grown quite a bit, the other two haven't popped yet, I replace one of the 43 watt cfls, with a 26 watt because it was getting too hot in there, over 92. I also place a high humidity plastic dome over the plants, protects them from the heat, and my single plant appears to be loving it. I just sprayed her leaves a little, enjoy the pics. Also one pic of some sweet LA confidential I picked up a few days ago.

 

[dk2852]

Two down, one to go. My second seedling hatched today, and the third is on its way, I can see the seed pod sticking out of the hole. It should pop by tonight and then I'm going to switch the lights to 20/4. I have also switched back to the other bulb, I'm going to stick with this system until I put them under the MH, than I'll go to 18/6. I'm spraying the leaves with a little distilled water every day, the roots should be quite moist from the rockwool. Heres pics of the seedlings, and my favorite medicine delivery device.

 

[dk2852]

My third seed popped late last night, so I decided to keep the lights on last night. Tonight will be my plant's first dark period, 4 hours. I love when the plants get the first dark period, they grow so much during the nights.
Anyways, I have resituated my seedling box in a more easily accessible location, previously they were on a very high shelf, I had to climb on the bed just to get to them. Now they are located in a small cubby hole under some shelfs. I am still spraying their leaves with distilled water. I'm wondering if I should actually water them though, the rockwool seems kind of dry. Any advice on this? This is actually my first time using rockwool starter cubes.
At any rate, enjoy the pics of my seedlings, two different types of bud I bought some time ago, and the fall foliage.

 

[litljohn]

ive grown the specail kush already and its pretty good,i just ordered the raw deisel and some more specail kush,im excited to see what the raw deisel will be like

 

[hailhopes]

ive grown the specail kush already and its pretty good,i just ordered the raw deisel and some more specail kush,im excited to see what the raw deisel will be like

litjohn if I can ask but here goes I needing seeds I live in texas and I been to alot of differnt websites wondering were u get ur seeds from

 

[dk2852]

Check out this new stuff I just got- supposedly its blueberry.

 

[litljohn]

litjohn if I can ask but here goes I needing seeds I live in texas and I been to alot of differnt websites wondering were u get ur seeds from

theres a few good sites you can go through,nirvana seeds.com,attitude seeds.com is used alot as well,good strains and good shipping times,i would suggest attitude seeds.com best of luck

 

[dk2852]

Happy 4/20- To get you in the spirit, some pics of my babies, enjoying their 420 day, all three are looking nice and strong, heat doesn't appear to be affecting them. As I expected, they grew a lot during the off period. Enjoy

 

[dk2852]

Update- A couple of things happened to my plants yesterday, I was too busy smoking to correct them till today. The first was I noticed that some of the leaves were burning, I moved the lights a little farther back, after all they are 43 watt very hot, but very bright so I shouldn't have to put my plants too close.
The second thing was very scary, I saw a small fungus gnat in one of the rockwool cubes of the seedlings. As fungus gnats were a huge problem in my last grow, I was very proactive about it, I sprayed with some organic neem oil, just a few sprays to coat the leaves and rockwool, don't want to put too much stress on these seedlings, but fungus gnats are just too much for me to deal with.
At any rate enjoy the pics, the plants are happier now that I made those changes, and my temps are much cooler, they were getting up to 92 yesterday, now they're at a cool 78.4.

 

[litljohn]

i just got my raw deisel and specail kush seeds in today.i hate those dam fungus nats,i use the hot shots no pest strip for 5 bucks and they work great for nats,dont do to well for the mites though,it will at first but the mites come back even stronger.but it killed all my nats in 1 1/2 days and its good for a preventative

 

[dk2852]

Woke up this morning to find one of my plants had been murdered!!! The prime suspect, heat. I accidentally draped something over the grow area last night and when the lights flicked on it heated up to almost 95. Needless to say, I removed the drapage, and I'm going to give my seedling a day to recover, I think its a lost cause but if it survives than it will grow into a very strong plant. Most likely it won't though. In other news my two surviving plants are doing quite nicely.

 

[dk2852]

Update- My third plant did not make it through the night. By this morning it had turned into a dried leaf, upon removing it from rockwool I noticed the root was really thing, could have been bad genetics, thats why the other two made it.
My remaining seedlings are doing nicely, there are some burns on the leaves but they were black yesterday, and now they are a brownish yellow, so they are healing and should recover nicely and make for some very strong plants. Enjoy the pics

 

[dk2852]

Here are some fresh pics of my babies. They are healing nicely and ALL the black spots have turned yellow! Hurray, that means they are recovering from their burns. I have started watering the rockwool, I have only done it twice so far but the cubes are becoming bone dry and I don't want the roots to get thristy and kill the plant, they seem to actually like being watered, and a small amount of water keeps the rockwool moist for a 2-3 days. Enjoy the pics, my older plant is starting to develop some real leaves.
The additional pic is a cool picture of the moon I took. Yesterday was national astronomy day and I went to this awesome star party, observed saturn, mars and the moon through a telescope, amazing to actually see the planets that you've read so much about with your own eyes. I was also a little

 

[dk2852]

So one of my plants is starting develop yellow leaves, and curling. Not sure whats causing, but as it is still alive I will keep trying to grow it. I switched to one bulb as two is just too hot, even my other plant is starting to get yellow tips. Maybe you can help me fix it, check the pics.
Also some Master Kush, great strain my grow it next time around.

 

[litljohn]

it could be nute burn or ph to high

 

[dk2852]

I think its probably the PH since I'm not using nutes yet, I added a little lemon juice to my water source.

 

[blower]

nice grow goooo all the way

 

[dk2852]

Thanks for all the comments guys, heres the latest news.
The biggest news is that I ordered my seeds and they should be on the way, there is a slight change of plans instead of raw diesel I went with White Widow, and The Church instead of Lemon Haze.
So heres the lineup
-3 Special Kush
-1 White Widow
-1 The Church
-1 or 2 bagseed

In other news my plants were almost dead this morning, I woke up to find even my healthy plant had drooping leaves. I figured it was a combination of heat drying all the water, ph possibly, and underwatering. So I added a generous amount of liquid and I just returned to find in a few hours my plant had pulled a 180. This is good because I know now what was causing the problems, I watered my dying plant too in the hopes that the sprout may return to life, but thats really a gamble. Anyways enjoy the pics, and in a week or so I should be germinating my attitude seeds!!

 

[dk2852]

Heres some pics of the plants, I can't believe the difference in my healthy plant. The leave drooping completely reversed and its starting to look more like a good plant, I knew it was a strong one, I think it can survive anything. My other plant is still in a life or death moment, I've done all I can for it, now I can just hope it survives.