Dual 400w Mandala Closet

I'm gonna go ahead and start the thread and figure out pictures later.

I've got 4 lovely ladies a week into flower. A Mandala Hashberry, Speed Queen, and 2 Sadhus.

One Sadhu is in a 1 gallon pot, the other three are in 4 gallon buckets. Coco with about 25% perlite. Watered once per day in the morning. Using CNS17 for the first time, but will keep the Pure Blend Pro nutes on the ready. Actually I used the rest of my PBP grow up first before switching to the CNS17 and may do that again in flower if I don't have enough PBP bloom left. We'll see. I wanted to get away from suing CalMag so much, but I will still use the Liquid Karma.

Closet is about 2 feet by 4 feet. I have two 400w, one HPS one metal halide, in cool tubes with a 6" fan pulling air through carbon and exhausting somewhere else. Good temps, between 74-80 lights on, and 66-70 lights off. I did a kind of scrog using a metal shelf to better even out the canopy. I think it'll work.

OK now time to figure out pics. Here they are little while after sprouting from seed.




This was the day they went into 12/12.



And this is after 7 days of 12/12.




I am not an expert by any means and have screwed up many times and will again. Maybe I've learned something I can pass along, and I know I have lots yet to learn. I do this just for myself and my achy body. I know my camera and photography skills suck. I guess that is all for now.

sexeh.

Very nice grow, You are going to have some great bud with those plants.

Thank you tinocbr, they may look sexier under better lighting conditions, but I'm not doing this for the pictures.

motoracer thanks, I hope so if I don't screw it up too bad. I haven't nute burned then yet. I'll be happy regardless I'm sure.

Introductions are in order. The Speed Queen is on the left. Fast grower. To the right of the SQ we have one Sadhu in a one gallon. That was actually the top of the other Sadhu, which is on the far right. And between the two Sadhu's we have a fine, bushy Hashberry. So left to right, Speed Queen, Sadhu, Hashberry, Sadhu.

very nice choices maybe i missed it in the post how long did you go for veg? also did you top off your plants to get them more bushy of is that natural growth?

And some pics from 7 days 12/12.

This is the Hashberry and sadhu on the right. Under the MH bulb obviously.




And the Speed Queen and Sadhu on the left.



And this the Hashberry from overhead.

Lets see, I vegged for three months and yes I did top them. The idea was to let them grow taller, then top them and clone the tops and flower the cloned tops with the mothers. Well, I left the lid off my clone tub and only the Sadhu clone survived, sooo here I am with 4 unstead of 6.

Yes that was a long time to veg. I popped the seeds election night actually, and I switched to 12/12 on Feb. 17. Thanks for asking that, motoracer, because I just now thought about it to figure it out. Damn I vegged those a while didn't I. But I did cut them in half once.

All that veg time might pay off I hope.

motoracer, I should also mention that I kept them in the pots you see in the first pic (5 inch pots) from November until Feb, just two weeks before flower. They were also under that 2 foot, 4 bulb floro until then. If I had transplanted them into the 4 gallon containers and put them under the bright lights sooner, I believe they would probably be a lot bigger after 3 months of veg.

And we are ten days into 12/12. The stretch is stopping and they are ready to burst. I hope.












I think I'll start 50/50 on grow/bloom nutes the next 3-4 days and then to bloom nutes. They aren't nute burnt and I want to keep them that way.

Dude thanks for a clean journal.. I will keep up on this thread... Nice scrog...