My First HPS

Yeah it was just a wanton question. I'm nowhere near utilizing that type of info anyhow, so I didn't just post it in different forum. But yeah, clone, seed, reveg. No particular reason, just thought it would be cool to get allll that outta one plant.


My plants are at 5 1/2 weeks, one has started alternating. A clumsy topping has turned out okay. I'm flippin to 12/12 soon as I get off my ass make my cab light tight since my photoperiod will be during the cold nights. I'm hoping for them to show sex on their own since I still have one more transplant. Howver I took another hour of light away, so they're at 17/7, started at 19/5. Stay tuned...

 

Just snapped a plants neck. Little sad it was good plant. Smelled like cheese. Down to 7. Watering every 3-4 days, feeding a tiny amount of ferts w/superthrive once every 2 or 3 waterings. Using my dehumidifier water but I got some distilled water, hydrogen peroxide, and some epsom salt as it appears one or two have flirted with Mag def. Shifting photoperiod and resetting at 8hrs darkness. In the next two days I will seal the cab and make a passive exhaust. If no preflowers by 10/2 will flip to 12/12 and transplant asap. Looks like a likely scenario. Also add red cfls at that time. Then try not to have nightmares about hermies.

I save the plants I chop for tea. Have to wait for the chlorophyll to break down but I've tried a sample and it's really soothing, makes my blood warm. I don't know if this one is worth saving since I've fertilized it with chemical salts?

Ugh I want buds!
Photo update tomorrow night

 

two nights of 16/8 got the preflowers coming on mostof my plants. And I'm 99% sure the two best looking are female yeeyeahya wonder if I should peel it back to 18/6...

This is awesome. I hope to be able to switch in three days, just need to get some weatherstripping, fashion an exhaust, and get some soil ready, etc..

 

(sighs)...still waiting for some definite sex on all but one of my plants...switched to 15/9...cab is 95% sealed, just waiting for two good fems to emerge so I can transplant and flip to 12/12...sprayed tobacco juice/mint mouthwash all around the bases of the pots and moistened top soil, has reduced gnats drastically. Smells good too. just a few more days...almost 7 weeks in veg! Won't do it this way again, that's for sure. In the future I'll jsut transplant during 12/12...

 

So I got impatient and transplanted last night. One girl smells very citrusy and another is spicy musky cinnamon. I kept a third by stacking pots. It's funny; the brickweed these seeds came from often had a cinnamon smell that I chalked up to plastic, but it seems to be a pheno trait. That is so cool. I hope the finished product retains this characteristic, as I hope the citrus one does too.


So tonight I'm cutting an exhaust as I've had leave the door open with with a fan blowing in the last few days have been unseasonably warm and the cab easily hits 90. Flipping to 12/12 tomorrow will have pics up tonight.

Gnats have been greatly reduced thanks to a mouthwash/tobacco tea mixture. Been misting topsoil and drenching the bottoms of pots and cab floor. I think In the future I'll use the tea alone and maybe just put a bowl of mouthwash on the floor for vapes. This is a fun hobby...

 

Soooo...all I've got left to do is cut an exhaust...and wait....I put an extra fan on them during light period...

They're on 12/12 now. I hope this takes under ten weeks. In any event I'm learning.

 

Oh, and I have to paint the walls...other than that am i gonna have bud in a couple months?

 

looks cool man, wish i had my own place to do this stuff.

 

rob is that all you ever say! HAHHAHHH I wish I had my own place, too. My landlord pays my electricity bill, I hope he doesn't freak. Oh yeah my landlord is my father in law. Who was a police investigator for twenty years. After six years in Vietnam.

When I get my own place it's gonna be aquaponics no doubt. Big ass fish tank.

 

I guess the outside humidity is up cuz after eight hours of light last night I found some leaves stuck together by condensation. Got an exhaust cut but it's gonna take another fan. I may have to cut another powered intake to mix some dry basement air in with the moist outdoor. And more than likely I'll have to buy a small heater fan soon, it may snow this week! One of my plants may be a hermie, will have to wait and make sure. In the coming months I think I'll figure out a mom and clone chamber so I can do scrog in the future. This sexing business is more trouble than it's worth, and I could have been flowering a month ago!

 

Hey Con,

Sorry to hear about the possible hermie. I also had one hermie. Ill be buying a small heater also........its snowing here now!! Anyways you should definately have some bud in a couple months Just make sure your light tight and try and keep those temps under control. Mine have been in 12/12 for 21 days and i've got 1-2in top colas everywhere They have also been growin about 1-1.5in a day. So yours should be doin the same here very soon!!!

- 42o -

 

Hey dude thanks fer dropping by. Temps have dropped and my plants now bask in the mid 70s. Found out today they were actually on 13/11, whoooops. Checked the potential hermie again, no news, though I am glad it seems to be on just one node. The preflowers seem a little to stumpy to be fem, but who knows, only time will tell. I guess I'll just have to cut the balls off as they come. The smells are unbelievable; one of them is like fresh cut papaya with a hint of orange. The cinnamon one is starting to change to skunky/musky.
Far fucking out

 

haven't watered in 8 days:sunglasse

 

Definitely a dead hermie. The top was all female the bottom all male. Lucky for me, I kept a third plant. Transplanted it, little water, and away we go. I wouldn't be surprised if both went hermie as well. Damn bagseed.

 

Plants are now 8 weeks old, one week of 12/12. No stretching, watered ONCE in two weeks, will flush tonight. One plant has apparent Mag def, possibly N def as well. Other than that, pistils and stipules are poppin out the tops and they look great..............................................................................................................

 

Looks like 8 days on 12/12. Flushed one of them it responded overnight. Topped it off with H20 and epsom salt, perked right up and the color is coming back to the leaves. Fed the other one 1/2 tsp of 10-50-10, then the other one a tad less. I'll definitely have some baby bud porn soon, they're really taking off in the last three days. Temps never get above 80, but I have had to have my little fan off during the dark period. Had a little flare of powder fungus but that stopped it. I'll get a second fan in there soon. Glad I've kept this journal, next time I'll surely need a notebook. To do it better.

 

The def plant is 95% better. It's more branchy than the other and much lighter green. But the other is way ahead budwise. definitely indica-tive. Picked up a good heated fan for when the temp drops below freezing. Checked it the other night at 60F. It's well worth it for the outside air. think i'll take pics tomorrow.

 

Good to hear that the plant is feelin better Sounds like your trucking right along. Im also going to have to pick up a heater fan. Opened the closet the other day when the lights came on and it was 53F . Anyways keep up the great work and lets see some of the kiddie bud porn!!!

- 42o -

 

ooo pics soon as I can...day 15 flower...

This little fan I got is awesome. I leave it on the lowest setting. 80-60F with the light five inches from plants, but at night the humidity goes up and fan leaves form condensation between them. I'm thinking the fan should erase that. No signs of fungus or mildew though. And the plants don't smell fruity no more. They smell like butthole.

 

On rubbing stems: at first it smells like oranges and flowers. After a few minutes, it smells like butt. Neat