250w HPS Club And Help Guide

Todays update brought to you by looming storms.

Looming storms, the cause and solution to wildfires in my area.

Jumping right into the update, I don't know if I can keep up with individual updates for each plant. B2P1 and B2P3 are now growing into the screen and becoming a single mass of plant.

I had to tie some branching down, stuff other branching under and it all just feels and looks weird.

My one and only previous attempt at a scrog was a miserable fail due to lack of planning and foresight. This time around things will be much better but still not where I need it to be.

The Kaya kids must have been stunted by something. Could have been heat, sulphur spray, under watering, over fertilization or just bitchy seed stock.

They are just starting to grow again and I'll probably finish them in the pots their in.

I ordered the insanely priced FFOF 42L bag of soil for the next round ($150.00 CAD) and I plan to use it as a base for my ProMix and amendments. It should give me enough SS to grow and transplant the next 4 plants.

All my current plants are doing well. I don't see any new damage, the new growth is coming in nicely and the plants are taking to the screen like champs.

I do need to feed them within the next day or so. At what point do you up their water intake? I usually go by container weight feel but now I have a screen installed and I can't lift the pots anymore.

Well, that's all for today folks. Feel free to jump in and comment. I'm thinking of switching nutrients from General Organics to Technaflora and would love some input.

Todays update, brought to you by a dog that won't leave me alone....drooling bastard.

There's not alot of news to be had. Not alot of upward growth but I expected that when I pop'd the screen on top.

The new growth looks good, there's a bit of mite damage on a leaf so tomorrow (tonight at lights out) it gets the Kontos.

It was suggested that I change the screen out for trellis netting that's been woven to have smaller holes. Not a bad idea and one I think I'll try.

I need to keep reminding myself this is a seed grow but damn do I ever want to grow for some sweet Sensi.

These 10 flyingdutchmanRoyal Orange all failed to germinate, I think there is a lot of old stock sitting in mail order shops around Europe.. I hunted high & low for these too... well now I'm currently growing some Sensi skunk as I had heard that Sensi Seeds had bought the company ( flyingdutchman seeds) & this was the closest in the description that hopefully comes close to the original royal orange., Not posted much (sorry)..Covid crap all around us.. still growing away 250watt, been sniffing around some led lights lately but that's another story, pics of everything soon. Peace

maccc2019 said:

These 10 flyingdutchmanRoyal Orange all failed to germinate, I think there is a lot of old stock sitting in mail order shops around Europe.. I hunted high & low for these too... well now I'm currently growing some Sensi skunk as I had heard that Sensi Seeds had bought the company ( flyingdutchman seeds) & this was the closest in the description that hopefully comes close to the original royal orange., Not posted much (sorry)..Covid crap all around us.. still growing away 250watt, been sniffing around some led lights lately but that's another story, pics of everything soon. Peace

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Glad you're still growing. Stop in more often, I get lonely.

Kalebaiden said:

Glad you're still growing. Stop in more often, I get lonely.

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Sorry man I will, just reading through your posts, glad your back on track.

Last grow harvested about 3 weeks ago. 3xGreen Crack (Humboldt seeds mother, in the house.)
1xGorilla Glue#4 ( clone from a friend)
The gorilla had nice purple colors, put me to sleep but wasn't killer strong, the green crack is one of my regulars from a mother, my missus likes it.

Looks yummy.

Right now I got folks (LED users) telling me I need to defoliate.

If only they understood the power of HIDs.

I'm gonna have good bud from the tip tops down to the roots!

Plenty of it too by too by the looks of the size of your plants
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Here's my only plant in flower at the moment..3weeks in ..I only use bio grow & bloom muted, like to keep it simple, organic, sorry for crap pic, phone & my light is on. High temps here at the moment 30c outside.

Sensi skunk, ...it's 30 in the tent & she's inches from the light but doesn't seem bothered, a tough strain I reckon.

maccc2019 said:

Sensi skunk, ...it's 30 in the tent & she's inches from the light but doesn't seem bothered, a tough strain I reckon.

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Another benefit of our 250s. All the power of HID with very little heat.

Do you run bare bulbs, reflector or in a hood?

Just a regular reflector, my tent is only 80 X 80 X 180 I have good extraction I can dial up & down. Also have a small pc fan blowing on the bulb.

I have passive extraction, a clip on fan in the tent for movement and an inline pushing air through the tent and one hood, over the second bulb and out the passive vent.

Todays update brought to you by a bunch of unruley plants.

I wanted to talk about the elephant in my tent.

My plants are becoming unmanageablely large. The last mite treatment is still 5 days away and I need to flip for stretch now. I can't use the mite treatment in the flower phase so I have to knock the plants around now while I can still use pesticides.

If I had of used a proper screen 60 days ago, I wouldn't be having this problem but lazyness and life kept me too busy to realize how much I was going to suffer now.

My 18 inches of height I was counting on for seed able bud is quickly turning into 10 inches and I'm not even sure if the fast grower is female.

I'm at 73 and 43 days and I wanted to go to 90 and 60 days before the flip.

Today I'll be re-tying the plants to the rigid screen. I was going to replace the rigid screen with trellis netting that I tied extra string into for smaller holes but fuck it. Hopefully the rigid screen can keep the plants down more effectively. It will be a bitch to get the bud out but it's a sacrifice I think I have to make.

The plants took the Kontos insecticide like champs, zero signs of new mite activity. All new growth looks immaculate. My lower bud sites are growing fast and all the leaves are healthy. Including the lowest ones well below the canopy. Thank you HID lighting gods!

My outside tent temp is 17°C and inside is 24°C, as the year progresses and temperatures drop, the AC will be shut down and I'll switch to a heater outside the tent. I really want to bring the blues out in Blue Mystic and the gold's out in Kaya Gold.

Get ready for thrills, chills and sadness as I find out that my monster plants are just too damn big for this tent. SPOILER!

I'm still debating on keeping it an organic nutrient grow or adding in some fertilizer. I do want donkey dick buds, just because they look nice. I'd be happy with porn star dicks too.

Well, I need to get this show on the road, time to start trying growth down. Wish me luck!

Nice coverage in your tent man... I don't usually do any cropping just veg them up to about a foot tall then transplant & put into flower. Au natural so to speak.

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Afghani#1 ..Sensi seeds, hopefully this one is a keeper, going into flower in a couple of weeks I hope. Looks healthy.

Two more Sensi skunk clones & a Chem dawg also in the queue.

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Afghani#1 ..Sensi seeds, hopefully this one is a keeper, going into flower in a couple of weeks I hope. Looks healthy.

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That's a beauty. I'm not afraid to admit I'm a little jelly.

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Two more Sensi skunk clones & a Chem dawg also in the queue.

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More beauties. I'm loving your plants right now.

Thanks man, my nodes are always super tight because I veg under compact fluorescents.

Todays update is brought to you by a screen I made and now hate.

I hate my screen now. I hate it.

After tying the plants to the screen I totally understand what random guy said about the rigid screen in another thread. It is doing what I need it to do but the end result is going to be a bunch of bud grown around the metal and it will suck donkey balls trying to get it out.

On a positive note, the screen pokey parts aren't doing the damage I thought it would.

All the plants are doing well, all the plants are a beautiful dark green. I'm thinking the top dressing of worm castings and bloodmeal is starting to kick in.

I still haven't added the top dressing of dolomitic lime yet but when I see the start of Cal/Mg defeciency I'll add it.

Four more days until the last Kontos spray and them I'll switch the bulbs from MH to HPS and the battle of the stretch starts.

I don't have much room to battle but I am determined to win. Even if I need to put in a sheet of clear plexi to enforce a height limit.

I'm still debating on adding fertilizer to the grow.

Will one dose in veg and one dose in flower hurt the taste? I don't know the answer so the internal struggle rages on.

I guess that brings todays update to a close, no new mite activity, good green growth, tied down more tops, hate the screen.

Have peekshurz!