*flail*
Sorry about the vanishing, shit's been crazy. My keyboard broke, and was less of a priority than medical bills, blah blah blah. And, I've been busy trying to reassess my own core value of feminism - sorry, when you put free birth control before disparity IN LAW suffered by men, you're no longer fighting for equality, you're fighting for supremacy.
Oh the betrayal, fuck feminism, egalitarianism nigga.
Anyway, things have been going fairly smoothly, the vortex brewer has been performing ridiculously well, and I got a couple cuts going for mothers at the moment. Most things are getting top-harvested any day now, however the Tangerine Dream still looks a ways off - fat buds, but they look like they have a good deal more fattening to do. I'm going to chop the tops to allow for better light to the lower buds so they have a chance to mature a bit as well. It looks like even with the two part harvest, the Tangerine Dream will still be going, so next cycle I'll probably just throw 32 in the other side... we'll see as it goes though.
Super Lemon Haze looks awesome.
Tangerine Dream looks slow but awesome.
Acapulco Gold looks awesome.
Not sure which is Chocolope or Pineapple Chunk, honestly, random mislabeled plants, one of them looks awesome, the other looks like Jack Skellington transformed into weed, but there's only two of those, and they still look pretty good, just had a bit too much nitrogen (needed as the rest of the plants wanted more, cull the weak, etc.).
EDIT: Nothing ever looks as good in pictures... ho hum.
Concerning light:
Nothing is going to replicate the sun, nothing. Induction lights are your best option in a hot climate though, IMO. If it were not for the high initial cost, I would say they are simply the best, given the 100,000 hour life/warranty. That said, shut it with the talk about mixing light sources, blah blah blah, there are way more environmental factors which will give you equal benefit (not a fuck load) at a much lower cost, while preventing other problems from creeping up on you. If you can deal with the heat of HPS, cool. If you can deal with the initial cost of induction, cool. If you get stuck with T-5s, guess what, that's cool too! It's not just the light source, but what you do with it, and how it fits in with the rest of your equipment.
For example, I had an aquarium with T-8 lighting, it worked fine but the plants were growing very slowly, so I went and got a better HO T-5 lamp... ALGAE EXPLOSION! I had not taken into account the about of silica in the water, as well as a few other things. A grow isn't too much different, things need to be in balance; I knew someone who could pull more with CFLs than another who had LEDs (fucking nice ones too) shoulder deep in her ass.
It's not about what you have, it's what you do with it - hurrdurr, penis size, but more often than not this is the case; I'm sure all of you have known someone who had an expensive mountain bike, but but crashed into trees; or, that broke nigga whose talent was always a slap in the face.
Anyway, here's some orgy porn:
Sorry about the vanishing, shit's been crazy. My keyboard broke, and was less of a priority than medical bills, blah blah blah. And, I've been busy trying to reassess my own core value of feminism - sorry, when you put free birth control before disparity IN LAW suffered by men, you're no longer fighting for equality, you're fighting for supremacy.
Oh the betrayal, fuck feminism, egalitarianism nigga.
Anyway, things have been going fairly smoothly, the vortex brewer has been performing ridiculously well, and I got a couple cuts going for mothers at the moment. Most things are getting top-harvested any day now, however the Tangerine Dream still looks a ways off - fat buds, but they look like they have a good deal more fattening to do. I'm going to chop the tops to allow for better light to the lower buds so they have a chance to mature a bit as well. It looks like even with the two part harvest, the Tangerine Dream will still be going, so next cycle I'll probably just throw 32 in the other side... we'll see as it goes though.
Super Lemon Haze looks awesome.
Tangerine Dream looks slow but awesome.
Acapulco Gold looks awesome.
Not sure which is Chocolope or Pineapple Chunk, honestly, random mislabeled plants, one of them looks awesome, the other looks like Jack Skellington transformed into weed, but there's only two of those, and they still look pretty good, just had a bit too much nitrogen (needed as the rest of the plants wanted more, cull the weak, etc.).
EDIT: Nothing ever looks as good in pictures... ho hum.
Concerning light:
Nothing is going to replicate the sun, nothing. Induction lights are your best option in a hot climate though, IMO. If it were not for the high initial cost, I would say they are simply the best, given the 100,000 hour life/warranty. That said, shut it with the talk about mixing light sources, blah blah blah, there are way more environmental factors which will give you equal benefit (not a fuck load) at a much lower cost, while preventing other problems from creeping up on you. If you can deal with the heat of HPS, cool. If you can deal with the initial cost of induction, cool. If you get stuck with T-5s, guess what, that's cool too! It's not just the light source, but what you do with it, and how it fits in with the rest of your equipment.
For example, I had an aquarium with T-8 lighting, it worked fine but the plants were growing very slowly, so I went and got a better HO T-5 lamp... ALGAE EXPLOSION! I had not taken into account the about of silica in the water, as well as a few other things. A grow isn't too much different, things need to be in balance; I knew someone who could pull more with CFLs than another who had LEDs (fucking nice ones too) shoulder deep in her ass.
It's not about what you have, it's what you do with it - hurrdurr, penis size, but more often than not this is the case; I'm sure all of you have known someone who had an expensive mountain bike, but but crashed into trees; or, that broke nigga whose talent was always a slap in the face.
Anyway, here's some orgy porn:
