250w HPS Club And Help Guide

Looking good, I think you will have a lot of bud.,

maccc2019 said:

Looking good, I think you will have a lot of bud.,

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Can't count my bud before it's cut. One of the monsters could be male and that would send me back into veg to fill the screen.

Todays update brought to you by excitement.

Excitement and dread. Two sides of the same coin.

The plants look alright today. They're at 75 and 45 days and I don't think alot of side branches will make the screen by flip.

The ones that will aren't filling the screen as much as I would like but this is a seed run...(this is a seed run, this is a seed run, this is a seed run)

If I tell myself that enough, I might believe it.

I should probably water today with plain pH'd water but I'm considering tossing in some technaflora just for funsies.

Yes, today is technaflora day. I have decided.

Still not a preflower to be seen on B2P2. It has to be male. Yay and boo but yay is winning. (Although...If it is a girl then YAY!)

The Kaya Gold's are so small. If they were any smaller I'd call them a ruderalis. They aren't but they are smol smol.
I clearly stunted them because the ones I remember were tall and stretchy beasts.

I really hope the Blue Mystics are the real Nirvana ones that turn bluey gray mid flower because I am aiming for a good colour change in late flower.

My screen isn't even close to being filled. A casual glance makes the screen look flush but a photo tells the truth and the pics say it needs work.

I have one more dose of Kontos to apply on Friday before lights out and then it's time to switch bulbs and away we go.

I kinda just want to keep them in veg for a year. I'm pretty sure winter will kill them but a one year veg plant makes me giggle.

These old lights cost me a small fortune to get, and now I'm getting curious about other lighting options.

CMH is looking cute.

I don't want to defoliate anymore but to fight mites effectively I think I have to.

No one wants mitey weed.

Well, I could drone on and on with random thoughts and I have shit to do so here's a screen pic today.

I may have fucked up.

I used the technaflora recipe at 1/3 strength (except the MagiCal, 1/2 strength) and pH'd the solution in 4L (1gal) of spring water and spread it over all 4 plants.

Then I used 12 L (3gal)of not pH'd spring water over the 4 plants until I seen run off for each container.

Forgot to check the spring water pH and drenched the plants...

Possible future issues include a pH nutrient lockout and nutrient burn.

I'm used to stinky, dark liquid going to feed the microverse. This clear, smell-less stuff has me worried.

Todays update brought to you by a grower that just isn't awake yet.

Plants doing good, fears were unfounded.

The plants grew almost an inch overnight. I'm used to seeing subtle growth but it was fucking noticable today.

The Blue Mystics are starting to lose their crazy dark green and move back into a healthier green. The Kaya Gold's are still really dark indica green and they should be a light sativa green.

I have to tie a bunch of tops down today. The Technaflora boost did what I wanted it to do.

I took off a stack of leaves yesterday and opened it up underneath the screen in preparation for the mite spray. The plants have already sealed the wounds and started growing again.

This is going to be a close race to the ceiling limit.

A week or so ago, I accidentally broke the main cola off the unknown gender Blue Mystic. I was rooting it in water and decided to make a pollen box and set the box to a 12/12 light schedule. It's time to find out if I have a boy and girl or two girls.

I'll give it 5 days before I look at it.

My canopy is so uneven....I hate this screen.

I don't even know how many tops I'm going to have.

Well, this cunt needs coffee so that's the end of this update.

Todays update brought to you by "What day is it?"

Not knowing what day it is because your life is so monotonous, the only changes are in plant size.

So I'm still tying more and more plant stems to the screen and I have 61 top sites above the screen so far. The goal is 150 so I have some wiggle room when it comes to having to cull the suspected male out of the herd and lose half my top sites.

I missed spraying the plants yesterday with Kontos so I have to do it tonight. The screen makes it fucking hard to get the spray everywhere but I'm a determined fucker with alot of time so it will get done.

B2P1 is a bushy beast. Over all healthy with main cola still intact. Used LST, ScroG and Supercropping to make her produce tops and she might be a prissy queen but the lady is resilience personified.

B2P2 is a healthy trifoliate monster. LST, Scrog and Supercropping. The main cola did not survive the scrog and as such, the monster is bushy af.

B3P1 is growing faster, has access to more light. This one topped itself early on and has taken to the screen quite well. I should get 4 colas plus popcorns off it if it is female.

B3P2 is growing well. Topped later than sibling, showing 10 top sites.

I'm assuming all plants have been stressed and damn near died on several occasions.

Assumed to be stunted.

Have a good day and thanks for watching.

Todays update brought to you by stress.

No pics today, my mom is high on Valium and wants to be mobile and active (She's a stroke survivor/partial body paralysis). She wants to do stuff and falls, so I don't have time to go to the grow room and take pics.

The plants got a Kontos treatment last night. Absolutely drenched everything in the tent.

Tied some more branches to the screen. Getting ready to do the flip since the outside temps at night are getting colder.

I kinda don't want to flip anymore. I realize I have to at some point but things are going well in veg and I don't want it to be over.

B2P1 is doing phenomenal. She's taken to the screen like a duck to water and I'm sad I waited so it to scrog her.

B2P2 still hasn't sprung a single preflower pistil. I'm 99% sure it's a male.

B3P1 and B3P2 are both doing well. No preflowers yet so they could both be males. They're both 50 days old so I think they would have preflowers if they were girls.

The tops on the confirmed female Blue Mystic were counted and I hit 32. About half of what I counted in total but still only 1/5th of the tops I wanted. I'm still happy that the plants recovered as much as they have.

I might need to turn this run into a sensimilla run instead of a seed run.

So it's been a few days since I updated. The plants were doing great until I had an accident today with some BC Boost.

I learned rather quickly that one of the Kaya Gold's is sensitive to the synthetic nutrients. I had an accidental overdose and the one Kaya Gold is starting to canoe badly.

I was given the idea that I could use strained creek water to flush with but that would mean a half hour hike to the creek. Seems like I have to let this ride and hope the plant adapts fast...or just dies and then it's not a problem anymore.

The other plants seem to be doing alright so far but I am expecting nutrient burn on all of them now. I should probably plan on extending my veg period again.

I kind of wanted to have a longer veg since I will be losing half my screen fill to a suspected male although I didn't want it this way.

The screen picture is before I added the synthetic nutrients and the leaf pictures are after.

Guess we're going to watch the results together. Enjoy the show.

Todays update is brought to you by sleeping in.

Sleeping in is wonderful and frightening for me. Never knowing if today is the day I lose my mom.

I checked in on the plants today to see how bad the nutrient burn was going to be. Thanks to the quick thinking of one of the RIU members I was able to dilute the medium enough and save the sensitive Kaya Gold.

The other three plants have exploded with growth. My screen is filled and I think it's almost time to flip.

The Blue Mystics look amazing and the top count is uncountable at the moment. I'll have to do some tie downs today and recount later.

The hardy Kaya has even gained growth and I was fairly sure I stunted the shit out of it.

My confirmed female is a leafy monster. Last I seen she even had a bunch of 11 blade leaves and they are cute as a button.

The plants are at 85 days and 55 days so as much as I would love to keep the plants in veg forever, I'm looking forward to my first foray into propagation.

Thanks for watching!

I took the plunge.

Just sprayed with Kontos...but that's just maintenance.

The plunge I took was switching my lights to HPS and switching the timer to 12/12.

It's official, I just flipped to flower!

Todays update is brought to you by giving up.

Giving up is the best way to deal with trying to fuck a tight asshole. If you don't, both of you end up getting hurt.

The plants are doing very well today. I only have half the screen tied down. Why? I only tied half down because tying 100+ knots everyday is getting on my fucking nerves.

I'm already 90 days in (counting failed batch 1) and I'm burning out. Daily life is getting worse and worse with zero chance of it getting better. I fucking hate strokes and what they do to people.

Next time I grow, I'm going to flip at 60 days to better handle the growth.

I now fully believe in the systemic killing power of Kontos. It worked wonders for my plants.

Not that anyone is actually reading this so I'll post it here. My mom is dying quickly and slowly at the same time. It's a bleeding stroke and we lose a bit of her everyday. Over the last few months she has lost her speech, her right arm and now the paralysis is moving into her right leg. She can barely eat and it generally sucks. Zero quality of life. I gave up my life up to help her but I didn't know it would be like this. I hope no one ever has to go through this.

So I switched the bulbs out from random MH lights to Eye Hortilix HPS lights and the yellow light makes my eyes hurt. That might explain why I didn't tie much down today.

I'm pretty sure I have a female Blue Mystic and a male Blue Mystic and two male Kaya Golds.

I guess I'll confirm the males within a few days. The light schedule has been changed and it's just a waiting game now.

I wonder if I'll be able to finish this grow or if life will decide I have other plans.


Send dick pics, I need a cheering up.

Todays update brought to you by a colder than normal morning.

I went to check on the plants and the big plants are telling me they need more water.

I dumped a bottle (500mL) on each of the big plants to tide me over until I can get to town for actual plant water.

This is day....3?...since flip. The HPS light is still killing my eyes every time I look in the tent. I'm definitely looking forward to the new sunglasses.

No noticeable change in the plants. I'll have to edit this post after they get watered and perk back up.

Todays update is brought to you by getting burnt out.

The bane of a caregivers existence,burning out leads to poor choices, depression and lack of motivation among many other things.

Plants are fine and overgrown. They got plain watered followed immediately by a kelp watering.

I have to water again tomorrow but I might try to push it another day. It will be the first official flower nutrient watering.

They have been in flower for 7 days and at this point I'm ready to call my suspicions confirmed. I have one female Blue Mystic and 3 male plants.

Not the worst outcome ever but definitely not convenient.

I'm wondering about light burn. Once letting the plants go wild, the males are creeping towards the light fairly fast. It's only a matter of time before light burn shows up.

This could be a good thing;

Only the males are getting close to the bulbs and when they burn, it will show me how close to the light the plants can get.

What's a little light burn going to do to a male? Stress it into hermaphrodism?

Watching my mom decline is sucking my desire to grow plants. I've started doing yoga and it's fucking hard. I wouldn't have ever thought that standing in a few poses could make my limbs quake. Breakfast every morning now includeds a bagel and I hate eating in the morning.

Hopefully small changes now will help me make more changes later on.

Back to the plants.

I also gave the plants a dose of fish. "FISH?", yes, fish.

Why fish? The plants like a diet change now and then. A fish based fertilizer is organic and it works.



This change of the season is fucking with my dog. He doesn't like the smells of fall outside so he barks constantly and will until the snow hits.

I do need to buy a few more strains as genetic building blocks for my perfect strain. I might have to dive into the medical aspects of legal growing to be able to phenohunt legally. I was told it's stupidly expensive and you have to pay every year.

Thanks for watching, I'm tired and I need a smoke.


Surprise edit!

One of the Kaya Golds popped pistils today!

Sex showed on the other two plants today so I took cuttings of the two males.

I then proceeded to cut the main stem of both plants just above soil level.

Pics and full update later on.

Well, sex was shown on all plants. I have a female Blue Mystic and a female Kaya Gold. The other plants were removed and cuttings were taken to get pollen from.

The grow space looks barren now.

The two remaining plants are healthy and bug free.

Today's update brought to you by overly sensitive people trying to make this a better world.

So it's been a hot minute since I updated and that's partially because I'm lazy and partially because life is kicking my ass.

I did a top count for my plants and it's around 50 tops plus or minus the ones that I might use as clones.

The plants are doing great. The stretch killed me and I don't think it's done. I tied down the major offenders (really tall branches) and I'm letting this plant ride now.

I still haven't figured out how to raise the light hood and not have it fall and crush the plants. I ran out of sting to tie stuff down or up with too.

Heading to town for supplies is near impossible because mom is barely mobile now and shouldn't be left on her own for the hours a town trip takes.

I have some empty pots from the deceased males that still have their soil so I might just take two clones from my plants and run a second round.

All are healthy, the rigid screen did a number on some leaves and the cleanup at the end of this run will involve some blood thanks to sharp and pokey edges I left on the screen.

My male cuttings flowered and are dropping pollen as I wrote this so I need to figure out how to handle that too.

I'm back up to some leaves with 11 blades so that's really cool. I was hoping to see some 13s but I don't think I'll get there.


Thanks for watching.

So this thread is just someone's grow journal now.

Nope, it's for anyone that uses a 250w HID system.

I just happen to be the only one right now.

I Loved my 250 system. Was perfect for the space I had at the time 3x3x6 tent. I ran a full spectrum bulb for a run but then went back to HPS for flower after that one run.

kinetic said:

I Loved my 250 system. Was perfect for the space I had at the time 3x3x6 tent. I ran a full spectrum bulb for a run but then went back to HPS for flower after that one run.

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I've got a 3x2x5 tent and I'm running 2x 250w using eye hortilux super HPS lights.

So far I'm loving the new HPS bulbs I may invest in the Hortilux Blue MH bulbs.