5 strains! Medi-bud, THC Bomb, Mango, SS Haze, J. Herer

onenumcat said:

my light mover uses two light bulbs, now, it can be changed to use as many as I like. I started with two MH, stage one. now, I'm using a powerful MH and a powerful HPS, stage two. next, about April 1, I'll change to two HPS bulbs. I'm imitating the sun. blue, then blue/red, then red/red...light.

for the whole grow...I can't change bulbs for 25 different plants!! ROFL I only have four bulbs, ha.

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Ok, I got the point now. Sounds good to me.
Yeah, they are in different stages. So what You gonna do about that?

dsn said:

...So what You gonna do about that?

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what do you mean? about what?

for the whole grow...I can't change bulbs for 25 different plants!! ROFL I only have four bulbs, ha.


You can`t change lights like You want for all the plants - so what You gonna do?

dsn said:

for the whole grow...I can't change bulbs for 25 different plants!! ROFL I only have four bulbs, ha.


You can`t change lights like You want for all the plants - so what You gonna do?

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I can/did/am/will. it's already done/planned, and in progress. I started the veg with two MH in my Aerolights, they're really 'blue', did that for 5wks. about a week ago, I swapped one MH and put in one HPS, so the plants are getting 'dual spectrum' light, very high blue and very high red. I'll do that for 5 wks, then remove the MH and put in another HPS, then I'll have two HPS, only a very high red spectrum, for budding. all mj plants have the same light requirements, more blue light during veg and more red during bud. that would be two stages...I added a third stage in the middle, mixing both spectrums(see the charts in previous posts), to better imitate the sun. uh...understand??

I only ever have two bulbs running and always two, never one or three or four. but, I am using two UVB bulbs, just for the LR2. and, I'm planning to mount those UVB's, I have four, onto the Aerolights, during the last half of the flower stage, or, for me, lighting stage 3.

Sorry, man, I guess I misunderstand something previously.
This site is like my english teacher. So I very often misunderstand something. Really sorry. I wanted to know more about Your experiment, but in the end just waisted Your time.
Still - the idea to imitate sun like this is great!

dsn said:

Sorry, man, I guess I misunderstand something previously.
This site is like my english teacher. So I very often misunderstand something. Really sorry. I wanted to know more about Your experiment, but in the end just waisted Your time.
Still - the idea to imitate sun like this is great!

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lol, don't worry about it, seems your English is quite good. actually, my job, is an English as a Second Language teacher, ESL. so, I deal with misunderstandings everyday. my time wasn't wasted if you better understand my lighting technique, imo.

onenumcat said:

lol, don't worry about it, seems your English is quite good. actually, my job, is an English as a Second Language teacher, ESL. so, I deal with misunderstandings everyday. my time wasn't wasted if you better understand my lighting technique, imo.

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I just love this place! People who are smoking and growing are tolerant and understanding. It teaches to share whit what we have. In this case - knowledge. Thanks, man!
IMO - in my opinion?

dsn said:

I just love this place! People who are smoking and growing are tolerant and understanding. It teaches to share whit what we have. In this case - knowledge. Thanks, man!
IMO - in my opinion?

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yeah, 'imo', in my opinion.

finally got pics back online...here are the LR2.

they're in my album, but I'll upload direct you you all can see the buds with zoom.

these girls are @6wks, sowed 1/12.
....LOL

I've been wanting to share this with you for several days...but couldn't upload photos...
anyway, here goes...
Some of you may have noticed several foreign objects in my pots. No?? are you blind? hahaha
in several pots, ones that I thought had inadequate soil/drainage, I bored down, carefully, and inserted a plastic drinking straw which had many 'cuts' along it. then refilled the hole with sand. so, that's one thing. you can read and see pics in my previous posts.
the other thing is a 'flag'. although I do have pot labels, telling the strain, number of this plant, and date in soil. I can't always see that label, the pot is turned, or branches blocking my view. these 'flags' are color coded, so I can identify each strain, and each individual, immediately. green for mango, red for JH, yellow for thc bomb, yellow/green for medibud....and so on. of course, now, even if I mix the pot arrangement, I can identify each plant by sight...but I really needed the flags in the beginning...and they're all faded now anyway, lol.
the third thing, and the actual subject of this post, is a wooden stick. it's one half of disposible chopsticks. like the ones you'd get from the chinese restaurant.
so, anyway, I have shoved one 'stick', down to the bottom of the pot, or as far as it would go. this was done outside the expected root zone, but not right against the pot wall.
so now, when I want to know how moist a pot is, I just pull up the wooden stick, take a look. if soil is sticking to it...it's wet! if no soil is sticking to it and it's darker than it's original color(a yellow/tan, darker would be brownish)...it's still moist, water later. but if the stick is almost its original color, no soil is sticking to it and it looks hella dry...water that bitch!

don't be concerned about the roots. I replace the stick into the original hole, or very close to it, if it filled in when the stick was removed. plants are not intelligent, but they're wise. it will learn, almost immediately, that the spot where the stick is, is not a good place to grow into, so little or no root damage is done by shoving the stick back in. and I'd still have to shove the moisture meter in to the same depth to get a reading. now, I don't have to carry it around to 25 pots!

I think I got the pics done right...and showed the water meter data to back up the 'chopstick' data, LOL.

Pic 1-2: DRY, needs water
Pic 3-4: Moist, not yet...
Pic 5: WET, don't even think of watering...or I'll have to bitch slap ya, LOL
Pic 6: good example of my 'foreign' objects; drain, flag, label, moisture meter(chopstick half)

looking great Cat...bet those LR2's are smelling nice right about now..English teacher huh?..thats cool..your in Japan right? or i could be mistaken...met lots of people on here..

superman27nc said:

looking great Cat...bet those LR2's are smelling nice right about now..English teacher huh?..thats cool..your in Japan right? or i could be mistaken...met lots of people on here..

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thanks, yup, they're smellin pretty good. I teach in Japan, good money, low hours...lots of time for growin n tokin, lol.
so, is it gonna be trainwreck and cough? and lemon.


so, I started swapping the bulbs for stage 2. what I mean is, there's a MH on one side of Aerolights and a HPS on the other. of course the spectrum mixes wherever it overlaps, but some plants always get more 'red' from the HPS than 'blue from the MH and visa versa. so every week I'll switch em to the opposite side...only for stage 2. stage 3 will be two HPS so no need to switch em.
I'll be going into flowering in four more day. I've stopped using the humidifyer and I'm using the heater only an hour a 'night' and an hour a 'day'. I'm just trying to keep the temp at 20, nights, and 28 in the day. humidity is down from 60% to about 50%. I'd like to see it down to about 40% by harvest...long time from now, lol.

just gonna upload some photos...

wow you've got some nice grow space there...but yeah as of now it looks like Lemon Skunk, Strawberry Cough, and Trainwreck...also gonna throw in a couple southern skunk seeds from a friend...she is going to be growing some of my Aurora Berry seeds..figured it would be cool to see each other's grow..

Looking very good atm, onenumcat !! That space you are in is a bit bigger than what I was picturing. Keep up the fun!!!

onenumcat said:

just gonna upload some photos...

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they gettin there my dude!! i know it smellin gooood! im burnin some jack right now

The SS Haze is gonna want to be 1 tall beeeooch!

superman27nc said:

wow you've got some nice grow space there...but yeah as of now it looks like Lemon Skunk, Strawberry Cough, and Trainwreck...also gonna throw in a couple southern skunk seeds from a friend...she is going to be growing some of my Aurora Berry seeds..figured it would be cool to see each other's grow..

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lol, I see...you grow my bush and I'll grow yours...sounds familiar, hahaha. see below...

growinman said:

Looking very good atm, onenumcat !! That space you are in is a bit bigger than what I was picturing. Keep up the fun!!!

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ha, believe it or not...I live, alone, in a 3/4 bedroom townhouse. I say '3/4' because one of the rooms could be used for anything.
some of my neighbors use it for a bedroom. I use it for an entertainment/personal space room.

(same room, opposite angle.)
that closet is huge, bi-level, and houses my TV, DVD, and receiver. the grow room dimensions are 2m/6ft x 3m/10ft x 2.5m/8ft.
it's a small bedroom or a large personal grow room. I'll move the plants to the floor, removing at least 4 large items from that room...soon.
and the closet in there is huge also. good for a mother/clones, if I ever do that. because my home is also my office, clients come here often.
they never enter the grow room or this room...unless they're more than clients...

warisnottheanswer said:

they gettin there my dude!! i know it smellin gooood! im burnin some jack right now

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yeah, startin to smell some, nice though, not overpowering. the LR2 is getting really close, 2 1/2-3 more weeks...but I've been molesting them...just a little. I've taken a few tiny buds...just to test it...ya know, lol. actually, the real purpose of the LR2 was to keep me from molesting the other little girls...but I'm molesting them! haha

WrldWidRadio911 said:

The SS Haze is gonna want to be 1 tall beeeooch!

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welcome, thanks for dropping by.
yeah, I know...so, I planned for just that occassion. all SSH are being LST'd. I included some pics, close-ups of the main stem, so you can see. custom pics, just for you, lol! the main stem is being lead around the pot. when it reaches the 360 point, I'll let it start growing up. any side branches which begin growing too high, and some are starting to climb upwards now, will be 'topped', but that won't be for awhile, I think.

Nice work on taming that SSH, I'v been supercropping mine and just topped all of em last night. Gonna veg for a couple weeks more so they can recover from the stress.

I'm gonna try and train em through a screen once I flower. I'd hate to have 6 foot tall plants with only the uppermost buds filling out and the rest are popcorn's.

robotninja said:

Nice work on taming that SSH, I'v been supercropping mine and just topped all of em last night. Gonna veg for a couple weeks more so they can recover from the stress.

I'm gonna try and train em through a screen once I flower. I'd hate to have 6 foot tall plants with only the uppermost buds filling out and the rest are popcorn's.

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yeah, well, I used a whip and a chair...ROAR, lol~!

actually, I knew from the start I'd have to LST these girls...I began very early, so they grew pretty slow...anyway, my goal was to avoid males...after March 1st, when I switch to 12/12, I'll start aiming for growth rate...I expect all plants to get about 1 meter. i have topped a few, just for fun, mostly. I'm even employing the supercropping method where it's needed, but it isn't my main strategy. I transplanted the remaining two THC Bombs, and two more of the JH. they really needed it, the roots had completely filled the pot. I hope they don't need it again...cuz I aint' gonna do it again!!

two and a half more weeks for LR2!! got some pretty big main colas now...I expect some major growth in the next few weeks...

thats whats up my dude almost there!