Put on a Headband and take a seat! CaL's HB grow journal...

[PANGcake]

are your florescent lights T5, T8 or T12?

Ehm...I honestly don't know but I think it's T8?! Anywho they're at 18W, I believe 59cm long, cool white from Phillips. Nothing fancy, just cool white floros and warm white cfl's...why these questions?! Ima go take a closer look at them, brb.
Hehe...I was wrong, the Phillips floros are long gone. The two I'm using now are one from Osram 18W Daywhite "Active" and the other one is from Sylvania 18W Daywhite Deluxe. Wheather it's T5 or T8 or something else iono. However they put out a coolwhite light and the cfl's warmwhite. The floros Ra (or CRI) is >80 wich is group 1B whereas a HPS is as far down as in group 4A or B and a MH is group 1A. Ra or CRI don't tell you how well colours rendering, it tells you how close the colour rendering is to the reference light source - in this case "daylight". "The CRI is calculated by comparing the color rendering of the test source to that of a "perfect" source which is a black body radiator for sources with correlated color temperatures under 5000 K, and a phase of daylight otherwise."

//Pc

 

[Copycat]

Sorry for all the questions... just trying to set up my own cabinet grow thats cheap and effective.

 

[PANGcake]

Sorry for all the questions... just trying to set up my own cabinet grow thats cheap and effective.

No problem! I was just curious I repped you for going cheap but I couldn't give a msg in the +rep? Strange...

//Pc

 

[PANGcake]

The whole article on Wikipedia for those who are interested in learning more about Ra, CRI, R96 >>> Color rendering index

 

[Copycat]

+ reped you back for all the help

 

[PANGcake]

+ reped you back for all the help

No worries! I looked up exactly what "colour" they have and its "840 full colour coolwhite". The "plant" floros sold most often have a Ra >90 wich is group 1A hence should be giving even better growth. Color 958 i 5800 Kelvin and a color 965 is 6500K, so my floros wich have a color of 840 and the other 848 are at 4000K and 4800K. The floros I've been looking at w colors 958 or 965 both have a Ra >95 and are "designed" for plants. Gonna see if I can get my hands on some of those for the HB clones Get back on the matter later on...

 

[DST]

If you get a male I will be coming up to steal it from you...sorry no chance of males with those seeds I don't think, Cal. hehe. They do look freakin great though!!! Good skillz budy.

Peace, DST

 

[n1knightmare]

Whad up Pangcake. Just stopping by having a look. Your headband is looking really nice and healthy. Keep up the good work.

 

[PANGcake]

If you get a male I will be coming up to steal it from you...sorry no chance of males with those seeds I don't think, Cal. hehe. They do look freakin great though!!! Good skillz budy.

Peace, DST

Thx D! Hehe my green thumb "grows" for every grow I put under my belt, trial and error Haha I was kinda hoping for the big 1 to go male as the "small" 1 still looks awesome Jk, but I'm prepared w Bubblegum lady just in case...

Whad up Pangcake. Just stopping by having a look. Your headband is looking really nice and healthy. Keep up the good work.

Thx Knight!

 

[hardroc]

Hey, Pang, check out the new link in my sig, hardroc's WW x BB. Tell me what you think, just 15 days from poppin

 

[PANGcake]

Hey, Pang, check out the new link in my sig, hardroc's WW x BB. Tell me what you think, just 15 days from poppin

Me so popular you come here to advertise your own thread? Hahaha I'm just pulling your legs He/she/it looks very healthy Roc, I'll be popping by your thread for your weekly updates It's your own cross?

//Pc

 

[hardroc]

Ahahahah wasn't trying to advertise, just wanted YOU to come check it out bud.

Nope, not my own cross, from X-line, got a pic of the pack..

 

[PANGcake]

Ahahahah wasn't trying to advertise, just wanted YOU to come check it out bud.

Nope, not my own cross, from X-line, got a pic of the pack..

Hehe I know you weren't! Just came home again, been at the plant school again Bought more soil and ofc I couldnt go there w out buying any new plants. So today I came home w 2 trees. One olive tree and one banana plant Remember if you planting citrus trees they want resistance in the soil rather than for example MJ wich want a well airated "porous" soil. So dont add any perlite or such, add bout 20% clay instead for citrus plants The banana will go in same soil as my MJs.

Time to plant them in bigger pots, peace!

//Pc

 

[PANGcake]

I just took some measurements of the Headbands. The "big" one is 10 inch tall where the largest fan leaf is 7,5 inch wide and 7 inch long. Don't think I ever seen this big fan leaves on such a "small" plant. The smaller of the two is 9,5 inch tall where the largest fan leaf is 6 inch wide and 5,5 inch long, still large but more "normal". The shoot growth took off on both plants after last watering.

//Pc

 

[PANGcake]

Plants are now 5 weeks and I need names for them First 2 suggestions ima go with...

Note to self: On watering day, raise lights even though is seems not needed

As you can see in the pic the big plant grew a lot in one day and one fan leaf got in contact w a cfl that was bout 1 inch away when I went to bed...floros are no problem but cfls get pretty hot
One thing I havent mentioned is that I still don't have a fan blowing on them, havent had so far! To get the stems fat and plants not to stretch in early life I started "fingering" the stems allready after few days sprouting. By fingering I mean gently "play" w the stem between index finger and thumb and very gently apply pressure to the stem at various locations. I did so 2-3 time/day till the stems were no longer "bendable".

 

[jigfresh]

How about 'Heather' for the little one?

 

[PANGcake]

How about 'Heather' for the little one?

Heather it is!




Here's a pic of Heather next to my banana plant.

 

[mr west]

I know how u feel coming to A thread thats well under way, like coming back from the toilet and everyone in the room is sitting cross legged on the floor and u have to tiptoe round everyone to find a space. Last page and no pics do i dare to investigate deeper lol. Ill slap up my two lateste headband pics then do diving lol.

this ones at ten weks today and the other one was cut at 9.5 weeks 12

 

[PANGcake]

Hehe yeah! Or comin late for a lecture and every1 looking at ya like ur an alien...

Calyx apartment complex?

 

[mr west]

it looks shit now its dried to be honest lol smokes ok, very similer to blueberry ive smoked. Foosty earthy taste, nice solid stone, disapointing yield but i did rush it a tiny bit lol.