Im basically following the schedule given by GH and ive seen no problem with the feeding aspect. I purchased some Dutch Master Gold Zone yesterday because I had some brown algae that killed off one plant and i noticed that the other two looked a litttle dirty so I changed out the res and cleaned eerything out and added that with the nutes. Brown algae i think was caused by bringing the res out in the sun where it was too hot and water was exposed to light due to poor construction. Anyways I dont think Ill be having a problem with that as I am keeping them indoors in their grow home and I just purchased some mylar which I'm pretty sure is blocking out 99.99% of any light. Lets see, the plants themselves seem to be doing ok. They are 12-13 days old by now and I was hopiing they would be a lot taller and would have fanned out a lot more. They are about 4" tall and 3.5" wide. They have 3 sets of fan leaves with the fourth growing out, but mind you they are all pretty small and very very close together in height. For example one plants largest leaf is about 1.5" long and .5 inches wide, and the other is about 1" long and 2 cm...Plants at nearly two weeks i thought would have been at least twice the size of what mine are now...kinda makes me sad. But they are looking pretty healthy at least so thats good. Sorry no camera so no photos.
I think it has to do with my lights. THey are 4 26 watt cfls but rated at 5k rather than 65k. I do 19/5 light schedule as well. I know thats a little weird but I thought since natural light kind of dims over a period oof time rather than just compeltely shuts off I should try to replicate with what ive got and so I have one light with a Y connector that shuts off at 18 hrs and the other that shuts off like 30 mins-1 hour later. (i dnt really know when the last pair of lights shut off exactly cause it happens while im sleeping.)
Anyways im definitely getting a 250 watt hps/mh i saw on ebay for around 140$ and thats free shipping but includes sales tax to my state.
http://cgi.ebay.com/250-WATT-HPS-DIGITAL-GROW-LIGHT-XL-HOOD-REFLECTOR-250W-/390320926054?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item5ae0f0ad66#ht_3297wt_2366
Its a pretty good deal i think. I would go for the 400 watt but my budget is low and i cant afford to buy the corresponding exhaust for the heat that a 400 watt would put out especially in my grow box which is (L/W/H) 30"x22"x48". 250 still puts out a great amount of light for the plants (around 35k i believe) and its heat is apparently controllable with a fan that rates 100cfm which is great because I can then use a cheap booster fan such as this
http://cgi.ebay.com/6-INLINE-Duct-fan-booster-/110702121300?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item19c65c5154#ht_500wt_1156 t control the heat and odor.
So just a summary of whats happened lately:
1. got a littl brown algae a week ago that killed a plant 2 days ago.
1. bought DM Gold Zone and a new air pump
1. bought some mylar and gonna wrap up the grow area
1. derp derp derp derp
1. boosted the nutrients to the proper amount for its stage of growth (or so I thinks)
1. ordered a digital Hannah Ph meter this morning
1. im very high
edit: so i realise that i numbered everything with "1". yup. im high. oh yeah and.....well, i just lost my thought...damn seriosuly. the reason i edited was to tell some bit of info then i saw what i had done with the numbers and god damn now i forgot what i wanted to say.
edit 2: ok i think it might have had somethng to do with the second air pump i bought, but im pretty sure i had something much more important to say. but yeah thats that fuck it.
edit 3. oh yeah and yesterday when i was cleaning the res i forgot to keep my roots hydrated and well they got a little dehydrated and dry but once i remembered i immediately put them in some nice cool clean water. So just wondering, is that gonna affect my plants at all?
edit 4. oh yeah fuck i justs remembered what i wanted to say. I started germinating a replacement for the plant that died! lolol fuck yeah score 1 in the memory test for the stoners!woooooo!......btw i ate the leaves of the dead plant since it was dead and the had no purpose and haha they tasted like weak spicy pot hahaha. the name of the deceased was Fiona. Her replacement only just broke through her seed so i wont name it until ive got some identifying features i.e. leaves. the other two are called evaline and adel. sucks if one of them turns out to be a guy. hes gonna be so confused about his name lol. ok end of the last edit hahaha.