Bilbo's Hobbit Hole The Fellowship Of The Weed

Another improvement to the grow closet, this one cost a few quid but its a must, its a RVK 4 inch extractor fan with a carbon filterRVK Extractor Fan And Carbon Filter.jpg Still a bit messy with the installation just done, but I'll spruce it up shortly. Initial running of the fan is highly encouraging, I still have my 250W Metal Halide in the closet, and with the light on and the fan running it maintains a steady temperature of 75 degrees F. Not bad at all, and when I change the 250W Metal Halide to the 400W sodium tomorrow then maybe it will hover around the 78-82 range which is optimum temps, heres hoping. This allows me to seal the door of the closet and not worry about the temps rising inside with the light on. Tomorrow sees the end of my 14 day '' Flip '' and the counting of the flowering days will begin. The plants themselves are showing the beginning of flowers in the small tufts of pistil hairs you see sprouting from the bud sites, I expect an average yield from these three plants and would be happy with 3 ounces per plant. I'm also happy to have chosen Northern Lights as the strain to debut in the closet as I expected fluctuating temps etc while I got the closet environment steadied, and Northern Lights is one of the most forgiving of strains. Now with the carbon filter in place and a vegging box and cloning set up established, the closet hopefuly will host a steady 9 week cycle of flowering plants, probably 3 or 4 at a time as space restricts me from doing any more.
 
OK guys from now on you will address me as The Cloning King. As reported earlier I had taken 5 Trainwreck clones, and 2 of them had rooted about a week ago. I kind of gave up on the other 3 as I had read here somewhere that if they hadn't rooted in 14 days then they never would. Well, checked the other 3 today with a mind to binning them later and all have rooted, nice as you like. So that's 100% success rate on my first try. Who's the daddy ?. ( not me for sure, but allow me my moment of triumph )
 
Thank you KC, Gandalfdagreen, and Mithrandir for dropping in. Although here in the Shire the Northern Lights are beginning to brighten the gloom, I must ensure that for 12 hours every day the closet is as dark as the Mines Of Moria during a solar eclipse. You see I am going on a journey, tomorrow morning in fact. I am leaving the hobbit hole and heading south, I like heading south, as my friend Treebeard said '' It somehow feels like you are going downhill '' the reason for this journey is a happy one, my daughter recently brought a new little hobbit into the world, my new granddaughter Emily
 
Here she isBaby.jpgTo get to her we will have to travel over a great river ( Tweed ) and pass a great mountain range to the west ( Pennines ) until we reach the kingdom where she resides ( Kent ) Where my son in law ( Arrogant son of Arrogant ) resideth with my daughter and our other grandchildren. Therefore the hobbit hole shall be bereft of care for 5 days or so. Fortunately my boy who still lives in the Shire will drop in to water my horticultural specimens. Farewell my friends, I shall return bearing treasures.
 
Congrats Bilbo!! You`ll be happy to come back to your plants, always surprsise ya after a few days away. Best wishes and ATB Bilbo,

KC :weed:
 
Thank you everybody, I'm posting from my daughters house just now in the fair county of Kent, outside its pissing down. I am bereft without my plants to care for, worst case scenarios haunt me, the most worrying of which is that the closet temperature will rise in my absence and I shall return to three pots with three crispy shrivelled twigs in the closet.

nother thing that pisses me off is the knowledge that Amterdam is about 100 miles east of me as the crow flies.so near and yet so far.
 
Bilbo Baggins said:
Thank you everybody, I'm posting from my daughters house just now in the fair county of Kent, outside its pissing down. I am bereft without my plants to care for, worst case scenarios haunt me, the most worrying of which is that the closet temperature will rise in my absence and I shall return to three pots with three crispy shrivelled twigs in the closet.

nother thing that pisses me off is the knowledge that Amterdam is about 100 miles east of me as the crow flies.so near and yet so far.
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Congrats Bilbo my friend. Your statement about Amsterdam has caused a pain in my belly. Cant you squeeze in a few hours? I get being responsible and loving to my family, but this teeters amongst that fine line you Took. "I have found that it is the small deeds of ordinary folk that keeps the darkness away". Do a nice deed for yourself. Again Congrats. I remember 17 years ago, when my wife and I had the first of our four kids, how both sets of Grandparents were so happy for this moment. This is what life is really all about. Enjoy.
 
Alas, boy phoned me last night and declared that when he went to my house to water my plants temps were 92 degrees and leaves drooping. he watered them of course and on my orders changed the light back to my 250W metal halide. Its in the lap of the gods, no use worrying about something I can do nothing about, after he watered them he said they were beginning to pick up after an hour or so. Perhaps all is not lost.
 
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