Recent content by jtsmith1701

If you have a limited budget and heat isn't an issue, I would definitely not go LED. This is from a guy that has 3 LEDs.

How big an area are you covering? Have you flowered yet?

I definitely "feel your pain." 4/10 left is brutal!

Sure. I've always lusted after your avatar and she was an inspiration for getting my own, lol.

You lucky bastard!!! :)

I finally felt confident enough about the sex of my plants today to bite the bullet and cut the males down. My two biggest turned out male. Very depressing.

Someone convinced me that feminized seeds had "weaker genetics." I would much rather have all females right now!

I don't know European electrical specs, but before you rewire this thing yourself, I suggest you verify that the voltages are the same. If not, than this is definitely not a DIY project. If you aren't extremely confident in your ability to rewire it, I would not DIY -- you don't want to burn...

I have a Hanna PH/Temp meter and it's been working great. I've only been using it a few months now. I've had no problems auto-calibrating it using the 4 and 7 solutinos.

There are a ton of pictures out there -- some are a lot more helpful than others. Having just gone through the painful processs of sexing plants for the first time, I wanted to share the pics I found most helpful. Unfortunately, my two biggest plants were males! Female left, male right...

I ordered via Amazon and received them in a timely manner. I've been happy with them so far. They were great in veg. Need to see how they handle flower.

After 8 arduous weeks of veg, I finally made it to flower. I switched to flower on 1/6. I ramped up to 8/16 Lucas flower over 3 days. Here's a shot of my plants on 1/9. They are looking quite good, given their extremely rough treatment early on. I did have one plant suffer root rot. It's...

Things have been humming along now. I fimmed my plants on 12/29 to promote a more even canopy. Maintaining Lucas 5/10. I have two smaller plants that I want to give a chance to catch up before I go to flower. Here's a shot of some big girls (I hope) on 1/4:

Root and plant growth continued at a good pace. I still had 14 plants left. Two were looking completely ragged. Two more were looking weaker than the rest. The other 10 all looked pretty good and I had one "superstar" that was far outshining the rest. With my root rot issues, I was never...

Now that my plants had healthy roots descending into the reservoir, I finally started to see some growth. Five days of Heisenberg tea had made a world of differnce. Here are my plants on 12/19: Here's another one from 12/21: I also had some plants looking a little less healthy: Given...