Kaptain Kron
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Mega pixels are important but it's also about optical lense quality as well the iPhone takes bitchin pics u can't go wrong. Your other camera I'd have to compare them so I'm not sure. But optical lense matters ALOT.
2 500 Watt Blackstar LED Grow- 6 Pre 98' Bubba Kush
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sleezy1
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I dont know whats been going on with RIU, but I tried all day yesterday to upload this update. It is already Day 20 in flower, but I am posting pics from yesterday. I watered my girls yesterday and treated them with another dose of Serenade just in case. Girls are about 27-28 inches tall, and I think they stopped stretching.
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brokenturtle3102
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Man, the stretching period is my most favorite several weeks of a plants life. Explosion in growth. Yours grew very well. Looks like you will have some solid nugs man, GL. I just switched to house and gardens myself and am Incredibly happy with the decision.
sleezy1
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? I don't get it... is that a good thing or a bad thing?
sleezy1
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Great! You will love how easy and how happy your girls will be! I have had problems with burning my plants during the shooting powder phase. When it got to 5.2g of shooting powder per 1 gallon, my plants leaves start turning orange. So I dropped it down to 4.2 grams and didnt have any problems. I guess it might vary from strain to strain. Just a heads up!
brokenturtle3102
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I didnt end up getting the shooting powder, just top booster and bud xl. Have you used magic green at all? I tried it for the past two days, and it is the most amazing product ive seen.
sleezy1
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i use the whole line up. I went to the website, input the veg and flower time, and bought all their products. I used to use magic green, but I got PM from using it without a dehumidifier. So now im kinda scared of using it and don't use it. I should again, now that I have a dehumidifier... They say that shooting powder is the best stuff in House and Garden's lineup. Are you mix and matching nutes?
brokenturtle3102
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I used advanced nutrients before, sensi grow and bloom and etc. Now I am only using Aqua flakes A+B, multi zen, bud xl, top booser, drip clean, and magic green. I want to buy the root exe and shooting powder soon, but I just invested in a whole hydro setup, its coming tuesday. I should have the rest of the line in two weeks. THey are coming out with some new products within the next several weeks though. They already came out with some, but you can only buy them in limited places.
sleezy1
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So I tried once again to water every 2 days, tomorrow being the 2nd day and I think I must have added too much perlite to this sunshine mix #4. Its my first time using it, but I have to water every other day now! Like water, then wait a day then water again! You can kind of tell the plants at lights out starting to wilt. I know by tomorrow morning they will almost look drained. So I had to water tonight at lights out. I know its risky, but I have the air on and the dehumidifier on. I started feeding Bud XL soon after I took these pics. Now is when the buds will really thrive and start developing!
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DinafemHashPlant
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shitty cant see the pics...Hope u got PM controlled..GL boss
sleezy1
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Wtf is going on with RIU? They better fix this shit or I have to find another blog! Anyways, ya the pm is nonexistent now! Adjusted my environment, hooked them up with serenade, and cut all leaves with any hint of pm. Lucky save for me!
sleezy1
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So here are the ladies at day 25. Looking good and really starting to bud up fast. I guess it could be the BUD XL kicking in. I did a trim a couple days ago, and rotated all my plants. I was noticing the middle shoots were developing faster than the parts of the plants on the outside. Again, this must be the limitation of the LED "sweet spot". So I rotated the middle shoots to the outside and the outside shoots to the inside so I can have a plant that develops even amount of buds on both sides. Im raised my lights a little higher to help with widening the areas covered by the light. Instead of 6 inches away from the top canopy im more like 10 inches now. So we are almost half way there and things are looking good. Always keeping my eye out for PM and I might spray another dose of Serenade tomorrow just for good measures. But that shit really stinks.. yuck!
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Kaptain Kron
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With LEDs in general brother I know it's real tempting to put em that close but don't its no worth it. You lose lots of spectrum that way. What happens is your diodes begin to spotlight certain parts of the plants and then you lose the effectiveness of the led full spectrum placing them at a minimum of 10 inches is where it's at with your power you could go higher I ran my 240 blackstar at 10 inches and had way better results than when at 5-6. Just a helpful hint. Spectrum begins to mix fully at 10-24 inches. After 24 you really are losing effectiveness IMO. But the lower wattage draw your led the closer I would keep it but like i said you have a bit more juice than I did.
Lookin solid though man keep up the good work. I pulled the blue dream don't know if you caught that in my thread
sleezy1
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Sup Kap? Ya my last couple blackstar grows I was only 6 inches away from the top canopy. I pulled the lights to 10 inches away from the tops this round to see if there would be better results. So I guess you just answered my question! I hope they turn out better with the lights farther away!With LEDs in general brother I know it's real tempting to put em that close but don't its no worth it. You lose lots of spectrum that way. What happens is your diodes begin to spotlight certain parts of the plants and then you lose the effectiveness of the led full spectrum placing them at a minimum of 10 inches is where it's at with your power you could go higher I ran my 240 blackstar at 10 inches and had way better results than when at 5-6. Just a helpful hint. Spectrum begins to mix fully at 10-24 inches. After 24 you really are losing effectiveness IMO. But the lower wattage draw your led the closer I would keep it but like i said you have a bit more juice than I did.
Lookin solid though man keep up the good work. I pulled the blue dream don't know if you caught that in my thread
BTW I just checked out your grow! Awesome dogg!
Breathin' Klouds
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Awesome, these ladies are looking real sexy. im currently growing a pre 98 bubba clone also, so im subbed. cant wait to see your end results.
Kaptain Kron
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Nice man nice I just started my platinum bubba run the other day, no LEDs this time til flower possibly in conjunction with hps. Cost wise the combo makes more sense than firkin over copious amounts of money to pull the yield I want. But I still get full spectrum with the extra penetration I been wanting from more higher powered panels. I'll be going back to full led after a few pulls to get hinge Rollin