3600w vertical grow (multiple strains)

Finally got around to posting up a journal on my progress thus far. I am going to be running 6 x 600w hps hung vertically. I've got 2 x 8" vortex exhaust fans hooked up to controllers.I am only using 3 x 400w mh bulbs right now for veg. I am running x4 bf critical kush, x4 g13 white critical, x2 girl scout cookies, 1 cookies frost, 1 grand daddy purple, x2 blueberry haze. So far I'm on week 4 of veg but the most recent pics are from 11 days ago. I will be sure to take recent pictures.

Week 4 of vegetation. Started to LST most of the bunch, will probly finish off the rest once they get a bit taller. Got about 16 days till 12/12 so I'm hoping they really fill in by then.

lickalotapus said:

Looks good pullin a chair up. Are they in coco orsoil?

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Hey, apus. Thanks for stopping by. They're in fox farm soiless mix with perlite and vermiculite.

I've been known to run vertically. I don't see a lot of vertical action going on just yet.

This isn't a bad thing; I veg under overhead lights too.

One thing tho; if you hang your bulb vertically above a bunch of plants, I don't think you're getting the most light onto the leaves. Consider turning your lamp horizontal while licking from above, returning it to the vertical position once you're running your plants in a more vertical orientation.

I actually lowered the lights plus added 2 more 400w to bring up temps plus spread out my plants more.

It is monday night with great cold temperatures outside. Just finished up a watering with cal mag only. I also moved around the ladies 180 to try and get some nodes in on the back side. I've got the 4 critical kush and 4 white critical on the first pic. The 2 girl scout cookies and cookies frost being the tallest on the second pic. Then both blueberry haze and gdp on the third pic. They're really liking all this light 5 bulbs with a total of 2000 watts. Going to be adding a few more fans on the wall but this room is pretty close to done.

looks nice, gonna have a jungle in there.

pilsung said:

looks nice, gonna have a jungle in there.

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That's the plan Another update here, getting close to flip time with most of these ladies really getting big. Gave them a full dose of nutes today so I'll be looking out for the sensitive ones. Also thinking of taking clones tomorrow.

Savagex510 said:

That's the plan Another update here, getting close to flip time with most of these ladies really getting big. Gave them a full dose of nutes today so I'll be looking out for the sensitive ones. Also thinking of taking clones tomorrow.

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I've had better cloning success taking them before giving the plants a big shot of nutes.

ttystikk said:

I've had better cloning success taking them before giving the plants a big shot of nutes.

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Should have known xD Oh well, I'll just wait a couple of days before taking clones.

Quick update. Thinking of flipping this Saturday. For now I'm watering using cal mag only.

Been really busy so I haven't had the chance to upgrade this journal. I switched lights to 12/12 friday night so today would be day 2 of flower. Also switched all the lights from 400 to 600w hps. I forgot to water both my blueberry hazes and they got all droopy but hopefully it didn't do too much damage. I recently got my order of blue cheese and cookies kush and they're looking nice so far. I plan to run both these strains after I cut down the current ones. Anyways here's the pics.

they'll be fine, ive done the the cfl grow a few years. quality's their

Quick update. I finally started seeing bud sites which is exciting. First pic is the blueberry haze that was looking sad last week, it bounced back and looks real happy now. I really am impressed with the blueberry haze's form, I think this strain seems to enjoy the vertical lighting. The pics..

Day 22:

Day 28: Finally starting to get interesting, buds are forming. Looks like they're really starting to fatten up. I got bud shots the order goes from first to last in pic order. White critical, critical kush, cookies frost, girl scout cookies, grand daddy purple, blueberry haze.

Some random pics I took.

Lookin pretty good. Letting them droop is quite bad for them. They never really recover if it happens during bud, but they will still do ok.

All the fine root tips die when this happens. Also if you're organic a lot of microlife will be water starved too meaning their numbers will dwindle.

But it's the fine root tips that really hurts. That's your surface area.

That is some good information worth taking into consideration. Reminds me to really keep on schedule.

Day 50

I flushed half of them today and will finish the rest tomorrow.