400w HPS DR80 Air Pot grow!

[Thundurkel]

Ok guys and gals today is the day! I know how my plant stretch ect so I'm ready and they will start the 12/12 cycle at 3pm and the lights went out last night at 2am and my girls are lovely looking I'll snap some pics and update in a little bit gotta get batteries..

 

[corkushy]

sweet grow dude. i also run a 400 i switched back to the mh for the last two days im not sure if it did anything wish i had two tents ta grow side by side and see the diffrence

 

[sednal]

Awesome bro, excited to see them. Expecting my Air Pots this wednesday and just checked my clones and 4 of the 6 have a few roots poking out so im stoked. Big Buds are coming along nicely in my flower tent, will be day 42 tomorrow so things are on a pretty good schedule...ill get some updated pics and start a new thread in grow diaries so there will be 3 nice setups with dr80's and 400w lights hehe

 

[Irie_Lion]

What size are they now when u flipped them Thundurkel? just for future reference after the stretch happens

 

[Thundurkel]

they are about a foot and a half and my strains tripple in size when they flip so I should have some mice 3 1/2 feet tall plants with frosty nuggets of tasty goodness!!!

 

[Irie_Lion]

Sounds good....ill be chillin in the corner as things progress

 

[Thundurkel]

FLOWER TIME BABY!!!!!! FUCK YEAAAAAAA!!!

FLOWER TIME BABY!!!!!! FUCK YEAAAAAAA!!!

So as you can I'm excited to get my flower cycle started today!!! Yea you know I got some pics to share too!

Started flower cycle 11-7-09!!!! 60 - 63 days to go!!!!
Also lowered my light so the farthest away the light is from my girls is 10" in some places but I have it about 6"-8" away from the tops of my ladies and it's running WAY cooler than that 10000K MH bulb go figure

Been dying to see this shot of that orange tinted light peeking outta my tent!

A shot of the garden after I watered and moved some girls around to have a even canopy

Flo x Bubba Kush x Blue Moonshine

Bubba Kush x Deep Chunk

Flo x Bubba Kush x Blue Moonshine

Blue Dream

Thunder Goo

Thunder Goo

Thunder Goo

Thunder Goo

Jilly Bean bonsai mom the leaves were burnt from touching the t5 in my veg cab

Thunder Goo

and here's a top view of my lovely lil garden on it's first day of flowering

 

[ScrubNinja]

On ya, Thund. Not sure if you want the stretch, but I think if you leave the mh in during the stretch, it won't stretch as much. I added a daylight cfl in my cab for that period, and it seemed to work.

 

[montehierba]

happy for u bro!

 

[Thundurkel]

well see when my strains stretch they fill it in too hahaha so I don't mind

 

[Strainbrain]

I don't see much if any difference between the stretch in my tent and my cab. My 2x's are still 2x's, my 4x's are still 4x's...


-s

 

[Thundurkel]

NICE!!!! Then my plants are gonna be fat! can't wait to see week 3 when the trichs come out to play!

 

[growMEDS]

Nice bro! I just updated my journal too

 

[Thundurkel]

I got a update right now! My plants seemed to grow pretty fucking fast in here!! yea yea HID I know blah blah blah still don't have the spectrum I need for the quality to match my CFL cab but I might since I'm switching to the 10000K MH for the last 10-14 days and that's what's used in the new Sun Pulse system and I didn't even know that when I thought the 10000K was gonna be better than a normal MH in the end weeks and I was right!

Day 2 of flowering hahaha they grew a bunch in one day and night! I might even get a pound all together under my lil 400w setup...

Ok so if I can pull 12+ grams in coco when flowered at 4" in a 20oz bottle I should think I can get a ounce or better flowering them from this size and under HID lighting right??? This is Thunder Goo of course haha

here's one of the Flubba x Blue Moonshine growing like mofo haha

Blue Dream

Bubba Kush x Deep Chunk

Thunder Goo in straight coco no perlite and thriving!

Thunder Goo this is one of the air pot girls that I wasn't going to top but decided to go a head and top anyway to get a better yield

Roots have came through the bottom!

Here's the garden with a new light added for a more balanced spectrum

p.s. is it me or are my girls fucking vibrant green bitches! I'm loving Pure Blend Pro so far shit's knocking Flora Nova out the water hahaha no pun intended

 

[dank.frank]

Plants are looking fantastic, no doubt. I really appreciate you taking the time to show how the plants and roots are developing in the Air-pots.

And yes, I too am a big fan of PBP....great nutrients. I used them for years and never once needed a ph meter or ec meter. It was always very easy to read the plants and make a logical deduction of how to adjust the nutrient levels. Loved the line. Got great results.

I'm on a bit of a organic kick for the time being...although, I suppose the debt will rage on as to whether or not PBP is organic...lol.


dank.Frank

 

[ScrubNinja]

Insane growth dude! They do look to be loving life. What's the other light you put in?

 

[Irie_Lion]

i think its just some cfl's to help him get a better balanced spectrum as he mentioned....

 

[blynx]

How far above the canopy are those lights?

I imagine you'd have to put a cfl pretty close for it to have any benefit. If it's a couple feet away I can't see it doing very much. Even at a foot, its only gonna barely hit the tops of the plant or two that is directly below the bulb.

 

[Thundurkel]

yea I know I need my CFLs closer just I need to get rid of the reflector and just have sockets hanging so I can drop CFLs in between plants cuz that reflector they are in cast's a shadow blocking my HPS light so I gotta figure something out...

 

[sednal]

Lookin nice bro! Just curious, how wide are those round pots that arn't the air pots, and what size are your squared containers. I need to fill my space in much better next round to increase yeild so just a little curious. How many gals u got in there total, 14?