Takin Care Of Business A Prize Winning Journal

2/14/08 is the start of day 1 flowering. At this point we will change the
600 watt halide in the other tray to the 600 sunmaster super hps
the other tray is still running a 1000 dual spectrum bulb. i need to lower the consumption here 4260+ KwH a month...... as a result we have been purging the 1k ballasts for a while. We will likely swap again @ week 4-5 for ripening and bulking. right now the 600 watt is about 95,000 lumens and the dual is 110,000. the color is 2100k on the hps and a mix on the dual. that bulb will become hps 1000 or 600 over the next week lets let the plant call it.

Within 48 hours we need to do a massive cloning, at this point we want to start looking for balls or pistols.

let me upload all the afternoon pictures

i am doing 3 different things while trying to update this thread.

i will do the 6 am update in a few more minutes.

that is from yesterday. We will see the effects on the second feeding and start day one of flower. We will check for early males and females.

Wow, everything is looking lovely here. You said that you calibrate your pH pens every 3 days, and they are still grossly inaccurate. I don't know about the other tester, but the pH51 has a two-point calibration. You can calibrate it with pH 7 solution as well as pH 4 solution. I believe that they recommend both. Have you been doing the 2-point calibration, or only using one pH solution to calibrate?

S-Town

sleepytown said:

Wow, everything is looking lovely here. You said that you calibrate your pH pens every 3 days, and they are still grossly inaccurate. I don't know about the other tester, but the pH51 has a two-point calibration. You can calibrate it with pH 7 solution as well as pH 4 solution. I believe that they recommend both. Have you been doing the 2-point calibration, or only using one pH solution to calibrate?

S-Town

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when i say that the pens are inaccurate it means they read the food solution different.

i usually calibrate with 4.01 and 7.01 and test with a 10.0 solution.

+/- .1 if fair for me...

wow your doing really good i love your threads i really learn from them

abs, you think 2000watts is enough to draw suspicion?

LoudBlunts said:

abs, you think 2000watts is enough to draw suspicion?

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NO, 2000 watts is not that much even 24/0

at this location i am pulling nearly 8000 watts, there is at least 2600 watts on all the time, some cycles have me pulling 5000 watts at one time.


this location has bills ranging from 2600 kwh 245.00 to 4250 kwh 550.00
everytime i hit the 4000+ kwh i draw a flag....


what this tells them is that i am running 6 kwh per hour continuious over a month over 6000 watts continuious is crazy...... even for this commercial meter here. Basically my goal here is to lower consumption so i start bring the A/C's back online. we have hit 80's last few days bringing room temps
in the mid to upper 80's this will cause more internode spacing then i desire.

Again i am very sorry for the delays in getting media up, to say i am over loaded is a understatement. i used to have help with some of this but a few months ago i had to go solo. With the onset of Aphids spidermites and other problems one small room can take hours, In reality the day to day tasks never end. My life revolves around this crap 24/7
By the time i am caught up here i am behind somewhere else. Now all this and 2 journals, and a retail business...... OMFG

Next week is even worse as about 18 plants are ready at one location. i knew it was going to get bad.......

This update is from 6 am 2/15.08 i will go after this update and service the room again.

2/15/08

Flowering day 2

2 males found

lets do the pictures them we will do specifics

Ok you can see these plants have wasted no time in using the new found space. it is very important to allow as much space as possible,

At this point in the grow, we have

NO pests
No Damage
No lockup/ Lockout

We have fed twice, the watering today will be 1.5 quarts per plant. pure clean nute free water 002 ppm.

i will ph this water to 6.3 this will make a little more Ko2 (potash) Available. These waterings have not allowed alot of runoff you will start to notice the volume of water incresasing.

once your perlite is brown or severly discolored your usually in advance stages of lockup.

As these PPM's get higher and higher these plants will stress more and more. Getting Extras salts and foods out is key. We Need to prepare for a good feeding followed by our first flushing next cycle. However i have to go see the plants first to evualuate thier food needs

look what i found

Day 2 and one male is OPEN !!!!!!!!!

WTF i am definatly cloning and collecting pollen on this boy. that kind of vigor is A+ in my book