looking good man

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Added some nutes at last with the watering yesterday. We used miracle-gro as it's the only stuff we have at the minute. about 0.7mg added to 1 litre of water which is about half the recommended amount i think. I'll check on them later and see if its helped. They seem to be all healthy but i have noticed the variation in the AI strains, some seem short, stocky and fast growing, others are the opposite - leggy and slowww. early days yet though.

Also made a few more reflectors out of cardboard and some leftover mylar to place around later.

Here's a few more random pics

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Some more pics from tonight, i can't believe how much they've grown in a day!!
Btw, the HPS lights are about 24 inches away from the plants, think i might just let them grow up until i notice the heat affecting them before i raise them.

Soil and water are still at about 6.5. I might make a slightly more acidic water mix for the church as the greenhouse guys reckon on a ph of 5.5.

Also I 've forgotten to mention we're keeping all lights on 24 hr right up til flowering in 2 weeks. Is this wise?

Plans for this weekend -
Buy some quality nutes
Fit the lights on chains from the ceiling
Buy more seeds

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looking good man

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o my god



love the space you have to work with...
wish i had that much


looks ace mate.+rep.
i just pulled up a chair!! im here for this one

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some look a lil' stretched as you probably have already noticed.

i guess you know how to rectify this?

some of mine that were stretched (all boys weirdly) turned out okay. some of them grew at 45 degree angles! oh how i miss them.

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To be honest i was a little worried about the stretching at first but since then they've all tightened up and the nodes are only about an inch or less apart so whatever i did seems to have stopped that. A few are growing at angles too which is why i've added tape across the buckets to try and straighten them up and it's working fine, actually i've done away with all the tape now cos most are back to growing vertically. Pics in a minute...

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cool, look forward to the pic's!

i found that my stretched ones turned out to have really nice thick, sturdy stems!

whatever doesn't kill 'em makes 'em stronger.

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So yeah the stretching has stopped and the stems are sturdy as fuck, i guess it was just because of the 200w CFL they were originally under as new seedlings. I won't use CFLs again, only as supplemental lighting.

Anyway, we got a fair bit done today, rigged up an intake and exhaust fan and fitted hooks onto the ceiling for the existing lights. We're gonna keep the 600w's about 20" above the canopy cos it seems about the right distance. I want to have them as close as possible for maximum lumens.

Ph is still about 6.5 for all, we bought a Ph/moisture checker today but to be honest, you don't need a meter to tell you when the soils wet or dry. A finger is just as good. I'm also chuffed that the Ph of the tap water is 6.5 in my area. Just got to let it de-chlorinate for 24 hours and it's perfect.

Problems
Only problem so far is a few leaves on one of the AIs seem to be curling up, also a tad crispy maybe. I'm putting this down to too much heat, not nutes seeing as i've only added a tiny amount of nutes once in the whole grow. Hopefully moving it nearer the edge of the grow should help. You can see this in the pics (118,119)
Pic 116 (church i think) also seems to be showing signs of browning on the leaf edge, maybe too high Ph for it, see what you think.

Plans for tomorrow are to research/order the next batch of seeds and to maybe start building/designing a small mother/veg room. I think we're gonna get some more trainwreck as i'm really psyched about them and then from Attitude seeds its gonna be between -
Barneys Farm - Red Dragon
Big Buddha - Cheese
" - Blue Cheese
" - Chiesel (see a pattern here?!)
Fantaseeds - Armageddon
Greenhouse seeds - Super Lemon Haze
maybe (and hopefully) some of all of these plus the freebies they offer

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nice,

yea i would put the curling down to heat. but there's a slight chance it could be a water problem. but i doubt that. just make sure you're giving them the right amount.

looks good though

good to see someone with lots of research/knowledge under their belt.

the only way is up up high.

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