1st GROW - Page 2

onenumcat · #11 11-05-2008, 04:28 PM

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Originally Posted by peacemane420

nice man! are you using mollasses

thanks. no, I'm not using anything. soil, water, light, and a heater.

peacemane420 · #12 11-05-2008, 05:32 PM

oh you should man! it organic and it makes you buds fuller and more crystally!
its awesome amazing stuff

onenumcat · #13 11-14-2008, 01:16 AM

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Originally Posted by peacemane420

oh you should man! it organic and it makes you buds fuller and more crystally!
its awesome amazing stuff

lol, not even sure I could find that stuff here.

anyway, here's an update.
down to 6 plants. discovered, first hand, that three 12 watt bulbs, cfls, are fine for seedlings and may even be alright for vegging if water, heat, humidity and nutes are all done right, but they're not enough to complete a harvest.
so, I went to a super hardware store. looked around, asked some questions(sales ppl here are dumb as shiite, don't know their products. one even looked on the package for the answer...Shit, if I was dumb enough NOT to have looked myself, I'd die. another had to go get the 'catalog'). well, after comparing several item, decided on hps 400w 'extra' bulb, since it had a much higher red spectrum and higher lumens than the 'regular' one(this info from the catalog which the sales pers didn't understand; in her language but didn't understand the tech/term, not in my language).
I decided to make my own reflector from sheet aluminum. the woman had told me they didn't carry the e39 mogul I needed to fit the bulb...of course, she was wrong...I found one! then, believe it or not, they told me they had no ballasts for hid lights, and I couldn't find any, crap!! however, I did find a 500w ballastless mercury vapor, so got one. what the hell, better than 37 watts of cfls. and they had a shitty selection of long tube cfls...and I don't want to go with the cfls anyway, I decided.
hooked it all up, turned off the auxillary heater (cold here now), rearranged the plants, cut it back to only 6 (remember, this is bagseed).
see the pics
today, I got online with the model # of the bulb I did get. tracked down the manufacturer, which let to yet another website, then another...until I found some lighting store homepage, all in this language I don't understand, and found this...A•¨ˆç¬(…kÍ”|)@ƒXƒyƒVƒƒƒ‹ƒNƒX ŠÛŒ^ƒZ[ƒh SPƒZƒbƒg ŒƒˆÀ“Á‰¿”Ì”„FƒAƒJƒŠƒZƒ“ƒ^[
sorry if you don't have the fonts to read that page, but you can see the pictures, lol.
I got the 400w high red HPS with diffuser hood and ballast, plus a niffty hanging chain. about $365.00
also, just arrived via stealth CD, lol, 20 lowryder2 and 5 bonus seeds, $85.00
the 'hot box' vaporizer and accessories, on order, $260.00
HOTBOX Herbal Vaporizer | Vaporizers Giant | Cheap Vaporizers Wholesale Prices | Volcano Air2 Vapir

my credit card is far from exhausted, but I have severe psychological stress now, lol. 'grow my own, save some money', is ending up to be as much as I smoke in a few years.

oh well, now it will be available to me and I'll probably smoke much more too!
so far, 6 of 7 lowryder2's have broke their shells. they'll be in dirt by tomorrow, but that will be for a diff thread, 2nd Grow, lol.

few more pics of the plants...to date, after some severe overwatering, the majority of them hadn't yet started growing branches, only fan leaves and main stem! culled out half, tried to keep the most even sized and ones with many, closely spaced, internodes. next week will be about the 3 month mark. I was hoping to harvest before xmas, but see that isn't gonna happen.
when I get the new light, I'll put it on these and start the lowryders on the MV lamp for a few weeks, cuz they're autoflowers and only need 12/12 from the start. so, these gals will go into flower stage before they're really ready, but I want some weed and want to focus on the lowryders, lol.

most of the new growth you see in the pics is from the last 2 days with the new light. I expect great things with the newer HPS.

onenumcat · #14 11-15-2008, 04:33 AM

Hey, I'm gonna move everything over to 2nd Grow-Lowryder2, that will save me the time of having to keep up two grow journals since the 2nd crop was just merged into the first, lol.