Uk cheese, first grow with decent equipment

Hellllooo! These are my 2 babies. I didn't photograph them until now, Im switching to 12/12 tomorrow. I have 2 UK cheese clones vegged for about 6-8 weeks, in 30L containers with Atami b'cozz coco and volcanic rocks.

Here's the setup:

120X120 cm secret jardin grow tent
600w lumatek ballast
Powerplant air cooled reflector
Powerplant 600w Super HPS
160 mm 630 M3/hr RVK fan for the reflector
125 mm can fan for extracting air
1 oscillating fan
small 250 g. CO2 bottle hand sprayed.

Nutes: I'm trying to finish my old nutes before I buy another ones:

Atami Coco A/B
Atami Alga-C
GHE Bio Sevia Bloom
GHE folic acid
GHE mineral magic
Biobizz fish mix (also as a folar feeding, they love it)
Maxi-Crop.

When I finish some of these I'm gonna try:
Atami Bloombastic
Atami Root-C
Atami Grow-C
Atami Flower-C

Temps are 21-25°C (70-77°F) lights on 15-20°C lights off. RH% 50-60

Now lets see how this grow will go

Now they have been 4 days in 12/12 and some stretching has already begun, I have to move the to containers further apart soon, but the 600w lamp only covers a 1m2 so maybe I should add an 400 Hps in there soon or what do you think? Or maybe it would be a waste of electricity for only 2 plants?

Sorry this was a crappy image, here come better ones with adjusted levels:

I was going to update and put new pictures on day 7 in flower but I had a surgery and had to stay at the hospital for 6 days. I sneaked out of the hospital to check on my babies but did not take any pictures.

My girls are looking good, they are very bushy but one thing I noticed is that new growth is a bit pale. I think it is because it gets pretty cool when lights are off 10°-15° C and I'm gonna buy a electric heater and put in the room on a timer.

I'm thinking to add one 400w Hps in the tent but not just yet.

i tend to see the fan sucking cold air over the bulb and blowing it out.

outside>light>fan>outside

is your fan blowing into the hood? changing this around a bit may help control temps better. Im just curious about fan placement because im wanting to install 2 600 watters. looks nice though

Yes it is blowing cold air in to the hood. I think it is pretty much the same the other way around, but I'm not sure, this works well for this setup I now have a 600w and added one 400w lamp inside the same reflector and temps are pretty stable at 25°C or 77°F. But I'm in Iceland and temps outside go down to 7°C at night when lights are on so it makes this a lot easier. But I have to put a heating fan when lights are off. I also set the lights on at midnight and off at noon.

Ok, these are some photos from yesterday when my babies where 14 days in flower. They look very healthy and bushy.



I expected them to grow a little taller, but this mostly Indica strain obviously grows to the sides. One of them looks kinda messy, like someone who forgot to comb their hair haha:



But that seems to be because the oscillating fan was blowing directly on her, so I moved it and turned the speed down. The big fan leaves are huge but some of them have only 3 blades?? I heard somewhere it indicated something bad? The bottom stem has doubled or even tripled in girth since I swicthed to 12/12

17 days since i switched to 12/12. Just thought I would add some photos of the buds forming







Tight and bushy

ARRGHHH I broke a huge branch of the smaller plant that had 3 big brances or colas and I was not able to fix it. I'm such a retard this was 1/3 of the whole plant. I was trying to arrange the branches and did it with to much force. Well this was a lesson for me to handle them gently, those branches are not as strong as they look

19 days
R.I.P. branch



Both plants are very bushy, the foliage is so dense I worry the air circulation is not enaugh in the middle

Now 21 days since I switched to 12/12. Plants look healthy, no signs of any problems. I've been feeding them 1/2 strength coco A/B and then added some organic nutes too (GHE Bio Sevia BLOOM, maxi crop), they seem to like the combo. I also added some GHE bio-mix, it is micro-organisms that help my plants to use the organic ferts and a little maple syrup that had gone bad, fancy organic syrup I didn't wanna throw away. Has anyone tried that as a carbo load? It had small spots of mold on the surface but it doesn't seem to have harmed my plants. I still haven't got a digital PH meter, I only have a budget one but I try my best to keep PH levels between 5.0-6.0.
BTW all comments and suggestions are welcome

Here are the latest pictures taken 21 days/3 weeks flowering:

2/3 of the damaged plant


One of the "colas" on the other bigger plant


The bigger "Jesus" plant Edit: the smaller is also in the picture, the bigger one is in the back


Twin buds! I topped that a week before I put into flower


It is hard to get good photos of the buds because both plants are so bushy because they are now under 1000W Hps


Next time I make an update I'm gonna flush them a little and check the runoff and then I can take better pictures in the kitchen with regular light.

I have a little confession to make Because when I rubbed the buds of the dead branch between my fingers and smelt it it was like hassish so instead of throwing it away I decided to dry it first and try to smoke it. And she was already producing some THC, I dried only the newborn tiny buds and had to smoke like 4 times more than I would with ripe bud. The high is very clear and uplifting and helped me focus. It also calmed me down, but only to the point to be like normal people (I'm always too hyper) This would be a great medicine for my ADHD. But the effect lasted less than an hour. So I may have lost a branch and a part of my yield when they finish but I learned a thing or two. I'm thinking of taking a tiny sample (I don't need much because of low tolerance so I hope this will not affect yield in the end that much) every week and write down the how the high is. because I'm not a scientist and I don't have a lab, this is my way to get a feeling of the cannabinoid development. If the effect will be similar when the buds are big I could maybe harvest some early buds every time to use as medicine for the ADHD:

Time for an update. My cannon camera is broken so here are pictures from my iphone sorry for the crappy photos:





They look healthy except a slight yellowing on some of the larger fan leaves, and I think it might be a PH problem, I have some organic nutes and the PH keeps rising in the cocos but it drops in the nutrition solution???? I don't get it but having organic nutes i hear can make PH unstable.I think I'm going to buy th advanced nutrition line next time and give the organic nutes up

This strain finishes early, now roughly 4 weeks since I switched and 20% of the pistils are brown. I have a microscope but I don't see much difference on clear and cloudy trichomes I don't think this grow will yield very much but the smoke is always good if I harvest in time. I let this strain be for 8 weeks in flower last time and it was a week too long and the smoke was too heavy, put me to sleep every time.

I have a clone that I kept alive but I have to kill it because I'm going to India in Nov and wont be back until January. But I fly from Amsterdam and this time I'm gonna buy some seeds!! I've ordered 2 times online and both times it got seized and I'm not taking that risk again so I'm gonna buy a lot of different strains to keep for later germination, I'll stuff my anus if I have to, customs here are crazy. Once I came from Denmark the put me through X-ray

Sorry for my english it is not my national language

Ahh yes and for my next grow I'm gonna try a totally different method, I'm gonna buy aquafarm and U scrog say maybe 4 plants. Copy that Scottyballs method but let it fit my tent so a bit bigger. I'll pack my organic nutes for storage and use them next summer for my veggies.

Found a way to take micro images on my iphone

shits looking tasty bro congrads just finished one of my outdoor UK/OG Kush girls have 1 more did straight UK last year very potent tasty frosty shit

Thanks yes it is potent and I also like the smoke, but I have to kill my clone because I'll go to India for 2 months

35 days since I flipped, plants look good but some of the older fan leaves have turned yellowish, maybe it is because of nutrition lock out because of high PH in the medium but I just think it is normal. I fed them with 5.5 PH solution and checked the medium and it was 6.3! dont understand why PH keeps rising in the coco. Next time it will be hydro with some other medium than coco.

Here are some close-ups although there has not been much change since last photos

42 days / 6 weeks since I flipped.
I have been trying to tell the colour of the trichomes with a 100x microscope but it is a cheap one and has a blue led light so the trichomes look blue! crap.... but they seem to be mostly cloudy, some clear, can't tell if some are amber lol, how would amber trichomes look in a blue light? Maybe at least darker than cloudy trichomes? I have been testing them, just cut off the tiny bottom buds many growers remove when they manicure early in flower. They are not as covered in trichomes or as potent as the "real" buds but anyways to smoke a few tiny quick dried crappy tasting buds gives me some idea of how ripe they are. Now the effect is almost like spiritual, I get very creative and euphoric. I also felt so full of love. I love it how Marijuana is a sacred herb in Hinduism, to me it is also a sacred herb. This and also the cow, I like this very much in Hinduism. Cows are so kind and generous, I think they deserve to be holy. See how happy this Indian cow is:

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Anyways here are newest pictures of them fat babes:



Can anyone tell how long till harvest from these pictures?
Any response is appreciated