strawberrycough grow journal

sandmonkey said:

good luck!

i personally think (and I'm a total newb' by the way) that a total of 400 watts HPS is a little excessive for two plants; especially in terms of heat build-up in the grow space (unless you've got a good ventilation system for it).

How close/far are the lights by the way?

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Its not the amount of plants its the amount of wpsqft,and your shooting for 30 to 50 wpsqft for tight dense buds.4x5 =20sqft divided into 1000w 1kw =50wsqft if you use this formula you wont dissappointed with the outcome.Im not saying you need a 1000watts,measure space then divide into total watts that you have.Giving you,your wpsqft.I hate to disagree but if you remove the shields that point the light down its gonna go out the side,and ive also have grown many grows with just a hps bulb,and still flower one area with mh and did a light test with a 400mh v 400hps with very little difference at harvest.

SOMEBEECH said:

Get a hps eyebulb,putting cfls is like putting propellers on a lear jet to assit in takeoff.Your plants look fine.The only good cfls are gonna due is hit areas that the footprint of the hid is not covering.If you put them where you think the hid is not hitting them.

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he for sure does need to grab a HPS if he can, but I was suggesting adding daylight CFLs to supplement 'blue' light. I had a 150HPS for my three AK-47s and it wasn't until I got a few daylight CFLs that growth really took of...

leggoeggo said:

he for sure does need to grab a HPS if he can, but I was suggesting adding daylight CFLs to supplement 'blue' light. I had a 150HPS for my three AK-47s and it wasn't until I got a few daylight CFLs that growth really took of...

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He has 1 now i can tell bye the light color,also i looked and he says he does have a hps,ive been growing 5yrs inside close now and have tried alot systems as far as lighting.And imo all he needs is a horticulture bulb it has the blue,and green spectrum that will help.Ive done many grows with just a HPS bulb,from start to finish and no problems, the hps bulb will not stretch as bad as if it were just a MH.And flowering with a MH my buds taste better but were just a little less dense than the HPS.

thanks for the advice and correction mate.

yeah my friend made a mistake..i have 2 100 wt hps lights over two plants and as you can see in my grow area..here are my every two day updates

yeah dude thats cool all posts are appreciated

Grow looking good. keeping an eye on this one.

to anyone....i have a root like half a inch coming out of the bottom of the big plants pot..should i go ahead an transplant

i still need to know by today if i shuld transplant.one little root is stickin out of the bottom drain holes.

here is my every two day update on the plants

Sorry, how old are they again?

the pot on the right in the first picture looks tiny. you probably want to give your plants a little more room soon.

yeah i should have never planted it in that pot anyway but i did transplant it because the outside of the pot started to get mold on the outside of it.i think because it had only one small drain hole so water wasnt really getting out..and when i transplanted it i think i stunted it cause it aint growin much....im goin to hopefully get the big plant into its new home today but it is lookin really goood....here is my two day update

1.both coughs
2. 2nd cough at 13 days
3. 1st cough at 14 days
4. 1st cough

Oh yeah, it should like it's new home much better. i'm sure you'll see a growth spurt from that lil' one. Get that other plant into a bigger home too and you should be good for a while.

good luck

yeah i hope it will take off soon..but i just transplanted my big one check it out.


1. 1st cough

think you got the wrong pic

my fualt wrong pic..here it is

good! I'm not a soil guy, but I'm sure they'll appreciate that extra elbow room...