A Cannabinerd's Journey

eastcoastmo said:

Nice bro, that gdp does look mighty fine
Good idea with the bulbs too, I usually swap mine out every 6-12 mths depending on how often I run them. Damn expensive though hey!

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It smells so good too! Man, you wouldn't even believe this, I went out to tinker in the flower room. And guess what? After 15 minutes of one of the lights turning on, it went off. So I unplugged it, let it sit, turned it back on. Same thing! It's a sign, that's for sure. It was the best of the old bulbs I had too, I have a ton of back bulbs luckily, but man I'm glad I ordered some. Last night I went through 5 bulbs and picked the best 2 to use over the gg4, go figure! I bet the right side of the glue had no light at all last night

Here's the gdp, they are turning Hella purple this round. Even the mendo breath is getting purple, it fit in great with the gdp

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Mendo breath lower bud

AlphaPhase said:

It smells so good too! Man, you wouldn't even believe this, I went out to tinker in the flower room. And guess what? After 15 minutes of one of the lights turning on, it went off. So I unplugged it, let it sit, turned it back on. Same thing! It's a sign, that's for sure. It was the best of the old bulbs I had too, I have a ton of back bulbs luckily, but man I'm glad I ordered some. Last night I went through 5 bulbs and picked the best 2 to use over the gg4, go figure! I bet the right side of the glue had no light at all last night

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Wow, good use of your intuition bro the universe was trying to tell you and you listened!!

Geez mate, I never see anything but fire from your stable, the smells must be intoxicating....and I'm surprised you don't eat them ha ha.

AlphaPhase said:

Here's the gdp, they are turning Hella purple this round. Even the mendo breath is getting purple, it fit in great with the gdp
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Mendo breath lower bud
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Man happy thanksgiving and your grow is looking great. I have some really nice crosses i made from my gdp i grew for like two years going now. The gdp x honeybee are looking nice i will get some pics up sometime. Made hash after we ate today and have a ton more to run. I am really high on cookies right now too

Lol, for real! Being in sync with the grow room eastcoast

Thanks doc! Happy Thanksgiving to you too! Sounds like you had a great one that gdp x hb sounds great, was it the purple hb you used? Definitely drop pics anytime! That hash looks excellent and looks like some massive globs!! Hope those edibles were tasty, I've been eating cookies at bed time, nothing like a good night sleep

AlphaPhase said:

Lol, for real! Being in sync with the grow room eastcoast

Thanks doc! Happy Thanksgiving to you too! Sounds like you had a great one that gdp x hb sounds great, was it the purple hb you used? Definitely drop pics anytime! That hash looks excellent and looks like some massive globs!! Hope those edibles were tasty, I've been eating cookies at bed time, nothing like a good night sleep

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That's what growing's about bro, there's those people (like yourself) who take meticulous care of their room and girls and get top quality ganja and then there's those that just grow and get ok ganja! I find it so rewarding when you can dial in a strain and setup and just watch them blossom

Thanks man! I do try my best to keep everything in proper order

Never fails though, always something goes wrong! Lol. Like tonight. Luckily I went out to the flower room to check to make sure the bulbs are on. And guess wtf I see? All my fans off, dehuy off and 1 light off! Including all the hydro pumps!

All the 120v outlets not working!!! Ugh, it never ends! I'm guessing the breaker switch is bad. I ran an extention cord and plugged all the pumps into it and the fans and dehuy, everything except the 1 light. Good thing I caught it because when hydro plants don't get watered, bad shit can happen fast

Everything looks good tho, just the gg4 flood tray will have to not have light tonight


@Aeroknow what are ya doing tomorrow? Wanna help me change out a breaker? I dunno anything about electric and will blow shit up accidentally lol

I think it's a cheap, easy fix. I don't see anything else it could be, I mean all 10 of the outlets are dead, the breaker switch didn't trip, but nothing is live. Fingers crossed.

I'll see you tomorrow

Aeroknow said:

I'll see you tomorrow

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Awesome bro, much appreciated!!

AlphaPhase said:

Thanks man! I do try my best to keep everything in proper order

Never fails though, always something goes wrong! Lol. Like tonight. Luckily I went out to the flower room to check to make sure the bulbs are on. And guess wtf I see? All my fans off, dehuy off and 1 light off! Including all the hydro pumps!

All the 120v outlets not working!!! Ugh, it never ends! I'm guessing the breaker switch is bad. I ran an extention cord and plugged all the pumps into it and the fans and dehuy, everything except the 1 light. Good thing I caught it because when hydro plants don't get watered, bad shit can happen fast

Everything looks good tho, just the gg4 flood tray will have to not have light tonight


@Aeroknow what are ya doing tomorrow? Wanna help me change out a breaker? I dunno anything about electric and will blow shit up accidentally lol

I think it's a cheap, easy fix. I don't see anything else it could be, I mean all 10 of the outlets are dead, the breaker switch didn't trip, but nothing is live. Fingers crossed.

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Oh man, the universe helps you one day and them BAM, knocks you down the next, that sucks bro! Glad you got on to it now though
And even better @Aeroknow to the rescue, rock on bro

AlphaPhase said:

I think I'm going to splurge and get a new bulb for each hood. I've been playing with my light meter and I've got such big differences in readings from each bulb I have, I've actually no idea what a brand new bulb will read in my hoods, so next week when I get the new ones in, I'll be writing all the info down for reference so I'll know for the future. The 4 best bulbs I have have a 30-40% difference between brightness between the best and worst bulb, that's huge! I think what I'll be doing is changing the bulbs every 6 months or so to be safe.

I found a killer deal and at 57$ a bulb, I think it'll be worth it in the end. I just never realized how much of a gap in brightness there could be, it's kind of mind boggling!

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Love my Eye Hortilux, just cant understand why the 1000 is cheaper than 600

hippy132 said:

Love my Eye Hortilux, just cant understand why the 1000 is cheaper than 600

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The hortilux is the only brand I'll use, they last a while and always put out good light. I've never understood why they are cheaper either, the hydro shop want like $90 a bulb for the 1000w but eBay is way cheaper. The 600w on eBay is $70 - I bet they are more due to manufacturing less maybe?

top job with the plants fellow, love the scrog

jacksthc said:

top job with the plants fellow, love the scrog

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Thanks man, I don't have any true Scrog going on at the moment but I do utilize the nets in most grows, they help alot!

Well, I have power coming from the breaker, so that's fine. It's gotta be a bad outlet causing all of them to go out.. and we couldn't find which one right now because some of the outlets are unaccessible at the moment from plants being in the way extention cords will be utilized for 2 months until the plants start being harvested and we will have to check the outlets as the harvests happen so I can move stuff out of the way. Fml. At least all plants are happy and everything is running again. Aero is gonna put in a new outlet so I can run all my lights on 220v and maybe put in a couple 120v outlets to get me by until we figure out the other broken stuff. So all will still run smooth at least, but I'll be walking over cords for a while

AlphaPhase said:

Thanks man, I don't have any true Scrog going on at the moment but I do utilize the nets in most grows, they help alot!

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Same here man, only use the screen to space the bud sites even with a few plants, total agrea with shading leaves and shoots stunts the growth, i try and make sure every top shoot is getting the same amout of light so they grow at the same speed and give a full level deep canopy in late flower

jacksthc said:

Same here man, only use the screen to space the bud sites even with a few plants, total agrea with shading leaves and shoots stunts the growth, i try and make sure every top shoot is getting the same amout of light so they grow at the same speed and give a full level deep canopy in late flower

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That's the way to do it in my opinion

Got my bulbs fresh out of the factory, and a day early

Just in time to get these bad boys some awesome light for bud sets, this grow us gonna be super interesting, I've not had the growth with the glue like I'm getting now with the new bennies

Purple OG after a cure, still very low taste but the high is intense




Aero got my electrical going, so now I can run all the lights on 240v thanks dude!

Gg4 sea of green. I'm just starting to add back only maxibloom. Have not changed the res at all. Not sure why it's recommended, I mean sometimes I get bored and do a res Change, but for the most part I use the same water for 9 weeks.

GG4 (biggest glue buds I've seen anyone grow under a se bulb, I don't want to toot my own horn, but I am so fucking stoked!)


GDP (smallest yield plant I've ever grown, but it's pretty damn good at least)

MENDO BREATH (not bad for the first run, especially being flowered untopped at like 11". Seems to me cookies can yield decent)


All 24 clones rooted, a little slow at day 7, but for the weather were having I'm happy. It's 28f at night here will be doing another glue sea of green but doing 16 plants topped 2x and flowered at 12-13"




Also got all the new bulbs in, and holy shit. Yup, I needed them. It's bright af in there now.

yea man those glue buds are definitely huge! killing it man