@Saladman, I feel what you're saying. I have a really limited overhead in my veg chamber and I haven't figured out how to counter that. Damn things grow up into the lights, get stressed, pain in the ass. I'm thinking about raising the upstairs to give the lower area in my veg set-up more height to work with, then vegging my buckets under intense CFLs, as the big light is upstairs. Could go the other way too. For what it's worth, none of my girls are much bigger than that JtR at 5 days, they still blow up. But yeah, still dialing in my staging in veg. In about a month, you'll see my recent adjustments start to show their results. And for the record (this is embarrassing), I wiped out pretty much all my 16oz plants about a month ago with a pesticide. Like many CA growers, I fight an ongoing war with spider mites. Little cocksuckers, I hate em! Anyway... NEVER go full strength with anything the first time, and be really careful using toxic pest control products as they're probably toxic to your plants too. So I'm struggling a bit, having something like that happen jams you up until you grow new ones. After that disaster, I started making nicotine spray out of recycled cigarrette butts, works like a charm. Smells bad, but kills bugs and the smell doesn't last. I don't smoke grits anymore, but they have their purpose. I'm adding an extra 2-4 weeks in veg, to allow more branch development. That's why I'm now going clone, 10oz, 16oz, 32oz, then 2 weeks in the bucket. As soon as I get my 1000w light, I'm going to set my old 4x4 flower room back up for veg so I have more space/time for plants to veg in their buckets and establish their roots. What I really want to do is set up the old room, then install a set of shelves built to my plants specs for each stage of veg, with flourescents in each shelf. That would leave a ton of floor space to veg my buckets for 4-6 weeks before flower, which is closer to what Hobbes does.
Absolutely no offense taken, brother, I know you want to see me doing well and I appreciate that, so feel free to keep it real. I respect your input. To anyone else,
constructive criticism is ok, just none of that "I'm better than you" crap. I've seen a warehouse full of of drying bud, floor to ceiling on lines, I've seen 10s of thousands get transacted like nothing, none of us on this site are pimping like that so l think we could all act civil and be equals who help each other. Real serious dudes probably aren't on the forums a whole lot. Tangent over. Not directed at anyone here or in Grow Lab, but I've been reading some awesome threads lately that would be even better if it weren't for all the hating. So yeah. Burn 1, and be nice to people. You don't have to agree, just respect.
