First serious grow! LEC 315 in a 4x4 tent (Philips elite agro CMH)

Some pics-day 55 of 12/12, tomorrow is 8 weeks!
Midnight kush-

flower tent-

starbud-

burmese kush

Fool's gold-

Brazil amazonia-

seedlings-

Looks like brazil amazonia's long flower time is gonna pay off in yield.
I've been wondering if my temps might be too cold, my hygrometer's min/max says I'm swinging between a low of 59° F and a high of 85°.

Some nice looking bud in there borbor, Cheers!

Those pics are High Times worthy. You should send them in!

Thanks man!
Just weighed midnight kush, 48 grams!

Day 60. I'll cry if starbud doesn't successfully reveg after harvest.

cell phone pics-
group-
starbud-
burmese kush-
fool's gold-
brazil amazonia (HUGE nugs!)-

It all looks so perfect! Great job!

How do they smell?

Cheers borbor, looks like you have a nice harvest coming up

Thanks!
The starbud actually doesn't smell much, a hint of lavender maybe. Fool's gold is the winner for smell, really fruity. Burmese kush smells like a strong funk, and brazil amazonia is pretty lemony.

thinking fool's gold might be comin' down on saturday or sunday. Also...thinking about getting another LEC

Took down fool's gold last night. A little impatient, maybe, but I'll keep the three remaining for a little while. Burmese kush is next in line, maybe this week, but no rush


Also, got the 3x3 tent back that I lent to a friend, and set it up as my new veg tent, and made the 2x4 tent my drying tent. I decided to go cheap for now rather than saving for another couple of weeks for another lec, so I ordered a 4 bulb two foot t5 fixture, so I'll have 6 24 watt t5ho bulbs in my veg tent for now. today the kessil overheated for the second time that I've noticed. definitely not buying any more of those. Looking into a diy cob idea to finish the veg tent.

also ordered a new microscope, this one- http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004QF0A1Y?psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=od_aui_detailpages01
so soon I'll probably have some great pics of starbud's trichs for you all!

fool's gold last seen alive-


Starbud-
burmese kush-
brazil amazonia-

Thought these two pictures do a decent job illustrating brazil amazonia's size, shorter than starbud, but compare the sizes of the nugs!

and a nice starbud shot

damn cat hairs

group-
starbud-
brazil amazonia-
burmese kush (next to get chopped)-

Looking beautiful!

You can photoshop the hairs out

I''ll have to learn how

It is easy. What photo app do you use?
I use Corel Paintshop Pro. I use the clone brush and just clone nearby areas and paint over the hair or bug.

Hahaha, photo manipulation has got to be the most popular skill that I haven't tried yet. I usually just upload the photos straight from the phone or camera.

I've used GIMP a little bit though, back in my linux experimentation days, so maybe I'll try that or see if I can find a torrent for corel.

this would be day 72 of flower-
group-
starbud-
burmese-
brazil amazonia-

Getting excited for brazil amazonia! Looks huge, smells nice (and unique!), pistils are just starting to turn on her.

Here's the veg tent-
Check this plant out! It's "micron auto tao" from top tao seeds, which I've never really heard of, I had low expectations, but I'm also hoping for a female (first of all, autoflower pollen sounds worthless to me...), It's got a bonus node, I hope it's a triploid, but also, see the branch beginning, about a half inch ABOVE its fan leaf? WTF?

finished trimming and jarred up the fool's gold, got 43 grams. I was pretty aggressive with throwing some popcorn in the trim though. almost surprised it was so close to the midnight kush weight, because it was only in a 5 gallon rather than a 7 gallon and vegged for about 3 weeks fewer.

so with those two plants so far I'm at 91 grams, I didn't weigh the autoflower but if I estimate 28 grams, which is probably about what it was, then it's about 119 grams.

I'll probably chop burmese kush tomorrow, I might have tonight but I was a little busy. A few white pistils still but the trichs are about 30% amber. not expecting much off of her, her pot is way too tiny.

hoping starbud and brazil amazonia pack on the weight to get me a good final gpw number to report.

of course, it's not gonna be a great number based on the start I've had, I'd need a miracle, but no worries, I got a number to beat next round, and looks like I might walk out of my first run with a half pound (that I will have already mostly smoked!)

really glad I have those plants in veg already. cuts down on the boring part after I'm done with this run! and the round after that will have been on 18/6 for quite a while!

Burmese looks so Burmese!

The colors and shape are so cool!

Hey borbor, nice, it's not all about the numbers, a couple of strains I run like the Harlequin and Blue Pyramid I'm lucky to get 7-8 zips under one 315w, but I don't care, they're dank strains/phenos, not the greatest producers but worth the quality/variety. Now that DIY Blue Ripper (Jack The Ripper x Blueberry) I can't grow enough of it so I'm dedicating a few 7gal plants to that strain next, nice thing with that strain is it's fire, smells/tastes great and produces at 1 zip per gallon of soil

Thanks! Looking forward to the next round, I'm always thinking about the veg tent and what's gonna be next. Right now I'm thinking either 4 hog clones of two phenos, 4 hog clones of one pheno, two hog clones of one pheno and two colombian gold clones of one pheno, or one of each hog pheno and one colombian gold, no matter what it'll be 4 plants in 7 gallon pots.

just finished jarring the burmese kush, 30 grams, looks like great smoke actually, frostier than the fool's gold



so I'm at 149 so far...


still very strongly considering another LEC, but I'm curious about what some of you would do with it.
I could fit it in the flower tent, side by side with the other LEC if I took out the LEDs and put them in the veg tent
or I could put it in my veg tent, and put the fluoros from there into my flower tent for even more side lighting

would two LECs just be too much light for a 4x4 tent?

I'll have the money for another light in about 10 days.

or maybe I should wait a while for a51's fancy new cob fixtures?

also, I noticed on the sun system website they started making the lights with a remote ballast, but only in 208-240v and 277v.
would I be pulling the same amperage if I used a step up converter to run that on 120v?