Today begins the third week of flowering. I bought some Alaska Morbloom (0-10-10) fertilizer that I have been mixing in with the Alaskan Fish Emulsion (5-1-1). I feed about once every three waterings. My only female plant is looking wonderful. I accidentally burned her apical bud...whoops. I feel pretty bad about it, really. My last batch of plants, I burned the tops of two females. I really need to pay more attention to the plants. Once they get real big, I kind of let them go into autopilot and I only check them every couple of days...I'll stop that next time around.
I got my 400W HPS last week. I am still waiting on my tent. UPS attempted to deliver, so I called them, and they said they would come back, but never did. That was on Friday. So, I need to wait until tomorrow before I get my tent. Pretty stoked to flower with an HPS system. Looking forward to getting some real big buds!
I received my Short Rider feminized from Nirvana last week, as well. I am waiting to start those simply because I need to have both my 18/6 cabinet and my 12/12 tent ready to go. With Short Rider, since it is automatic flowering, the lighting schedule should be 20/4 or 18/6. I plan on doing 18/6 so I can vegetate other strains, or more Chocolate Chunk in the box. I plan on crossing Chocolate Chunk with the Short Rider. It may make for an interesting thing. It will only be the first generation, so maybe nothing big.
And FINALLY...I have started more Chocolate Chunk plants in my cabinet. They are under 12/12 lighting right now, but they are only seedlings, and once the tent shows up, they'll be back on their regular vegetative light cycle.
Temperatures have been better controlled as of late. I'm nervous to see how the temperatures will get inside the tent with a 400W HPS. The room they are in stays at about 65-66F so the box stays at about 80F. However, I can't be having that with my Short Rider, as they may turn hermaphroditic. I am planning on isiolating the heat in the box using two pieces of plexiglass to create dead air, then exhaust the heat coming from the CFLs. This way, no heat from the CFLs get into the growing space of the box, only the light. I'll be posting some pictures of that in the next week or so.
The vegetative cabinet has 504W of mixed spectrum light -- about 33,600 lumens.