12/12+CFL+HB's=perpetual? - Page 3

bigd921 · #21 07-13-2008, 04:36 PM

tried adding a fan to the inside of the box for added circulation but it made my temps shoot up to over 100 took the fan out ant the temp dropped 15 degrees needless to say i wont do that again....

bigd921 · #22 07-15-2008, 09:11 AM

minor problem today all the plants looked droopy and overwatered, I figured I would do a flush... long story short my holes on the hempy buckets are a bit too small and were getting clogged with perliteso I made some minor adjustments and gave them a good flush I think we are back on track... also one of them is showing female I beleive... i will try and get some pics up later

bigd921 · #23 07-15-2008, 12:42 PM

few pics of what I think is my first girl and of the newest batch of seedlings all about 4 days old or so..... you will see the burned leaves from my nute experiments I am still trying to get it dialed in.....

bigd921 · #24 07-17-2008, 09:07 AM

well I have 2 confirmed girls they are so tiny and cute, so to recap I started 5 seeds each spouted about 22 days ago give = or - 2 so far 2 are girls the other 3 remain unknown, I also have my 2 clone experiments which are basicly little buds growing right out of perlite already have trichs.... and I have the seedlings that were started 8 days ago......I started 2 more seeds today as I am still unsure of the health of 2 of the first 5, th new seeds were germinated in a paper towel as usual once I saw a tap root (48 hours) I plant, this time I am using jiffy pellets, I normally use rocwool cubes but I am running low and really want to find an alternative anyway so we will see how they work... a pew pics of the girls I used a aaa battery for size ref... I know they look tiny but keep in mind they each had another 3 nodes but the leaves all died due too my nute experiments so when I replanted them I burried them up to the heathly point........ the future batches will be better I am gettng the nutes dialed in....

bigd921 · #25 07-18-2008, 09:24 AM

another female showed herself today that makes 3 of the first 5 the other 2 havent havent shown yet I am not surprised since those were my worst looking 2 but I fim'd them both and they are recovering nicely. I am gpoing to start a few more seeds today and get the box full I think I can run 18 cups if I stuff them in there... I never posted a pic of the back of my box it shows the exhaust that I ill be adding some sort of filter too and the 2 intakes on the bottom one of them now has a pc fan pushing fresh air in you will see I used those painters mask on my intakes figured it would help keep dirt and dust out of my enviorment.......

del66666 · #26 07-18-2008, 11:03 AM

hey 921 sounds interesting,how big are u expecting those plants 2 get on 12-12?

bigd921 · #27 07-18-2008, 11:07 AM

thanks for stopping by, I am hoping to get plants that are 12-20 inches I fim'd a couple and I will bend the stems if they start to get too tall, trying to get my canopy as even as I can....

del66666 · #28 07-18-2008, 11:56 AM

is it true that they have 2 reach a certain maturity b4 they flower,didnt get all of info but you didnt clone from the plant that never flowered did u ? is the 12-12 from day 1 just fir size control, soz bout the 20 questions.

bigd921 · #29 07-18-2008, 12:04 PM

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Originally Posted by del66666

is it true that they have 2 reach a certain maturity b4 they flower,didnt get all of info but you didnt clone from the plant that never flowered did u ? is the 12-12 from day 1 just fir size control, soz bout the 20 questions.

I am sure they do have to reach a certain point of maturity but I have 3 plants 12/12 from seed ranging in ages from 20-24 days old and they are throwing out pistils already...2 others from the same batch that were fim'd have yet to show sex, I have 2 in the box that are "clone" experiments taken from a plant that had flowered and harvested and I have 11 seeds and seedling ranging in age from 1-10 days old everything has gotten 12/12 from day 1.... 0 veg time.....hope that answers your question

bigd921 · #30 07-18-2008, 12:09 PM

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Originally Posted by del66666

is it true that they have 2 reach a certain maturity b4 they flower,didnt get all of info but you didnt clone from the plant that never flowered did u ? is the 12-12 from day 1 just fir size control, soz bout the 20 questions.

i did it because I have a ton of seeds, and I have read alot of post over at icmag, about the method and wanted to see if I could do a perpetual without having to manage a seprate area for moms and clones.. growing this way should keep the plants much smaller thus optimizing the use of the cfls in the grow box, it all makes sense in theory imho..... its only for personal use so I only need to produce about 1/2 oz per week, I think once I get it dieled in I will exceed that....