Grape Stomper x OG and a Blue Himalaya 600w Tent Grow

So I decided I'd start journaling my grow here since I've already been snapping photos of them myself. I had some trouble starting out and have since corrected the issue and thus decided I will share everything with you guys.

I'm growing 5 Grape Stomper x OG from Gage Green Genetics, I bought them from Attitude seed bank. I also had a freebie blue himalaya from shortstuff that I decided to grow along side them just so I could get some decent bud in about 9 weeks.

The setup is a growlab 120 approx 4 foot x 4 foot x 6 and a half, a cool tube with 600w digital ballast using mh for veg and hps for flower. I have a 300cfm inline fan pushing air out and I'm currently trying the exhale c02 culture for c02 production.

The growing method I am using will be the hempy style. I will use 4 to 1 perlite to vermiculite mix. I have them in party cups for now but I will transfer them into 3 gallon black buckets. I am using Dyna-Gro following this chart, minus the K-L-N.
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2-17-2011
They popped after 13 hours of wet paper towel, this is the day after I put them in the rapid rooters.

2-26-2011
This is when I started noting some small problems with yellowing leaves.
The bigger girl is the blue himalaya auto from shortstuff, the other 5 are the grape stomper x og

3-2-2011
Started getting nervous here as the issue started getting worse. Yellowing leaves, droopy and spots.

3-5-2011
I was getting desperate here and posted a thread asking for help. Got some quick answers letting me know I had a cal/mag def and needed to turn lights off to help roots explore. Also wasn't giving enough nutes so kicked that up to 400ppm.

3-8-2011
This is three days after I kicked up the ppm and started the lights at 18/6. Looking way better.

3-10-2011
Here is today. Smelling like BO in the tent today and the plants are all looking mighty fine. Third one is the Blue himalaya the rest are grape stomper x OG.

3-12-2011
Here they are today. I watered them when lights went on for them about 12 hours ago. I raised the ppm to around 575, they didn't seem to enjoy it as much as I thought they would so I will probably lower it the next time they get watered. They also probably didn't need to be watered today as they seem to be drooping a little more than usual.
First five are the grape stomper x og the last one is the blue himalaya. Thoughts?

Guys, they are going to be getting to their fifth node soon and I was wondering if I should top them? Thoughts?

Had to put my carbon filter in, I walked into my house after work and it smelt like a skunk had died in here. They are still droopy so I'm putting off watering them today and will see how they look tomorrow. Still debating weather to top or not.

3-14-2011
Looks like I've got issues. I am going to throw a post up on plant problems to see if anyone can help me out. Still got droopy leaves and I don't think they are underwatered. Tested the ppm of some runoff and it's at about 70ppm. I'm not sure if they have lockout from built up salts or just plain over watered.
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I flushed them a few hours ago and will add in some 450ppm nutes at 6.0ph later today. I think they are nute locked and that caused the drooping. I will also top them at the second node after they are on there fifth and transplant them in the 3 gallon buckets I have made for them.

3-18-2011
Well I finally got them transplanted into their final home, the three gallon black bucket. I wish I would have taken some pictures during the transfer as you can see that the party cups were completely full of roots. One of the plants was on its fifth node so I topped it at the second node. You can see that the first node on that one was beat up due to the cal/mag deficiency in the first week. The blue himalaya is not in this pic because it is currently under a different light as the room is quite full from the five three gallon buckets. They all just got 600ppm of nutes at 5.8ph and I have changed the time the light is off for 6 hours to midday as the room will be getting warmer the closer to summer it gets.

Keep it up! Gladto see you've overcome some of the challenges along the way. Going to link your Grow Log at the Gage Green Forums in the Grow Journals thread. Good luck with all your endeavors. Hope these turn out magnificent

Thanks Maik, I think now that I have less time to concentrate on work and school (just went from full time in both to part time), I'll have a lot more time to dedicate to these beautiful plants. Once I get home tonight I will probably be topping most of them and I'll also be putting the blue himalaya back in the room, I found a spot for it.

Topped two more of them and stuck the blue himalaya back in the room. Will put some new pics up tomorrow night.

Nice grow. Don't top the BH.

lol grape stomper x og???? sounds tastey im in for the ride... subbed!!!! can you explaine what da fuck grape stomper is or should i look it up?

I'm not topping the BH, it's only supposed to be 60day from seed lifespan so I'ma just let that girl grow.

@theexpress here is a link to gage greens website https://gagegreen.org/genetics.html. You can see the details of it there. I think it was a limited run and I was lucky enough to get the seeds.

3-20-2011
I took these pics about 10 mins ago, since then I've topped the last two. I didn't take pics after the topping and I'm too lazy to go back and do it.

I'd give it molasses to chelate the lockup problems. Easy on the nutes.