What could be more beautiful than the grace of a woman or the full bloom of OG Kush? Not much. It's time for Liquid Koolbloom. It's been a little over three hours since the water change and I already see a reaction in them.
And I just wanted to add a pic of my MH conversion lamp. She's not as strong as the native HPS, but she has come through in many a veg session already. Sadly, she may have only a grow or so left in her. But we'll see, because she still looks plenty bright.
Sprayer Cycle
For the past four weeks they've been on a 15min on/15min off cycle during light period. I have them spraying continually in the light period now for the duration of the grow. This causes what's known in the bud world as "morbid obesity."
Fluid Consumption
These clones are drinking the most I have ever seen. I have to refill that twelve gallon external res constantly (almost every day) to keep from letting the level drop below the pump. The diluting effect (since I have plain water only in my external res) requires me to manually readjust ppm on a daily basis as well. Towards the end, when it's time for the final flush cycle, I use my auto-topping system as a continual daily water changer. I replace the small 12 gal external res with a huge one exactly like the one housing the plants. I use this huge bad boy as the external res and pump out the day's water with my handy power head and the res just refreshes itself as I just stand there and listen to the click, pour, click, pour of my float switch and refresh line. It's way awesome to go through this cycle and watch the first few days as the ppm drops steadily. The lowest I've gotten it is 20ppm, but I'm gonna try to get it under 10ppm this time... It's really cool. I'll document it more closely when that magical week comes, of course.
