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weekly wassup
weekly wassup
so i got some minor issues with my babies. gave them their first nutrients a week ago, schedule says i have another week before i should feed them again. already put a bit of cal mag in the water. twice. they liked that a lot, and last week were looking very good, very rapid growth, got my humidity dialed in a bit more, along with the temps. nothing above 90, nothing below 50, humidity is 50%-90%. there is an air stone below the roots.
THE PROBLEM is some of the leaves, on 4 of my plants, are bending into a U shape. this is not looking natural, and on one of the plants the tips of the leaves are a bit yellow. only on one of the fucked up a bit looking babies though. any ideas on how to fix this, or what is going on? what causes leaves to curl up in an system like im running.
ALSO, how much longer before i put them under a 600w hps? im thinking another week? the roots are like 8+ inches long, and they plants are just sprouting their first set of 5 pointed leaves, or their 4th set. also when they go under the 600w im putting them into a rooting mix and into 6in puts.
thanks, really is amazing how everybody tries to help, as always, thanks.
building has been slow, getting a "chill" electrician is nothing easy. got an old contact from the restaurant biz thats going to help me out with 2 plugs i need to rewire, for 15 amps, not going to over load a circuit, but what are some of the other ways people have started fires or heard of them getting started? once this is done i only need to cut passive air intakes, a few random here and there's, and im good to put plants in. 1 more week, or 10 days max, and this will be finished. got my fan mounted onto my filter like a pro. CRUCIAL VENTILATION TIP FROM A NEWB: get some insulation tape at the hardware store you get your ducting at, its like a roll of 1/4in foam sheeting with an adhesive backing. put it onto all the equipment that you buy, makes a really good air tight seal. and at the grow shop they sell these metal belts that you can adjust with screws, so dope. got one in a second. and 8in vortex fans are not that quiet, im going to have to do something about that, make a muffler, insulate the hell out of my fan, i dont know, but its a beast.
damn its no joke when people say start up costs are huge. i dropped 1500 on a 1200w system, almost all equipment i needed. then i take my financier with me to the hardware store, the dirt store, and the hydro shop, and boom, another 1500 in dirt, nutrients, and random shit needed to build the room. and im not even done yet.
So the dirt i chose is a somewhat local company company called wizards specialty soils. got good reviews at the grow shop. ill give it a run and see what i think. im going to mix it with more pearlite, and a bit of peat moss. i also got a box of bat guano for when i flip them, inless yall think i should add it before. im going to take my babies out of the submerged root hydro/aero system they are currently in to 6 in pots in rooting mix, get a root ball in them, then transplant for a second time into their final pot, 5 gal, with this soil mix in it that im talking about, and then shortly after that ill flip them, around the beginning of 2010. so i already got this soil i was told the plants could go straight in to, but they get the rooting mix in the 6 in pots first. soil will be mixed with a lot more pearlite, bit of worm castings, bone meal, blood meal, and peat moss, and dolomite lime. should i add the guano to that mix also, and if so how much? bone and blood meal are miracle grow organic.
NUTRIENTS........ didnt have a clue what to get in relation to my soil, so i listened to what my buddy said the nor cal folks say: beastie bloom, overdrive, chaching. sounds very snappy and funny. any way, i didnt see overdrive, and all i did see in the nutrient salts at the grow shop were open sesame, beastie bloomz, and chaching. got a pound of each, costs over a bill for all 3. good nutrients? also i got a bottle of botanicare calmag +, which i love. ph up and down is still no the needed list. any thoughts on this subject, or past experiences would be so useful, basically all the soil and nutrients boggles my mind and was picked up randomly. kindave... what you got to say.....
otherwise im tearing apart another closet in close proximity to this one to put my ballasts and rez into. also i needed to get into my roof to crawl around, lay ducting, fix a leak , see what was up there, and run the lines to the grow room for the lights. kindave fun cutting dry wall that your landlord owns
also im cutting a wire out of the wall, that is on a different line than the one thats going in the grow, and putting a plug in this closet for the ballasts.
Q: hope it is OK to cut and splice a longer wire onto the cable that comes off the hood. its too short by like 5-10 feet, and im thinking when the electriction s=comes over ill get him to cut the cords, add either 10 feet of 15amp wire, or a plug on each side of the cut? im sure somebody else has done this before, its chill right?.......................
safety first!
VERY IMPORTANT LAST QUESTION! so i have a few hundred for a dehumidifier. looking around i found out how they are rated by how many pints per day they draw out of the air, whether or not they had a pump to pump water to your rez, (something that you can buy for $30) and other mundane features. what i also saw for a very comparable price, around 2 hundred, were portable air conditioners. 12000 btu, 65pints per day, some even had a heater i also. anybody ever used one, and how does the venting work out? says it has 1 5fot long 4inch vent, but i dont want to vent hot grow room air out of the room, and through their piece of shit im sure carbon filter, when i have one 10 times bigger than i need. if i point the out vent at my filter, and leave the air con in the grow room, will that work? and if i dont need air con, will these units only dehumidify with out the air con on? and why the low price, the grow websites that i use sell them for $500-$600, and these are very cheap sites. should i get one, or just get a 65 pint dehumidifier? please advise, this needs to get ordered this week. as always stay safe, share the knowledge, and peace brother and sisters.
weekly wassup
so i got some minor issues with my babies. gave them their first nutrients a week ago, schedule says i have another week before i should feed them again. already put a bit of cal mag in the water. twice. they liked that a lot, and last week were looking very good, very rapid growth, got my humidity dialed in a bit more, along with the temps. nothing above 90, nothing below 50, humidity is 50%-90%. there is an air stone below the roots.
THE PROBLEM is some of the leaves, on 4 of my plants, are bending into a U shape. this is not looking natural, and on one of the plants the tips of the leaves are a bit yellow. only on one of the fucked up a bit looking babies though. any ideas on how to fix this, or what is going on? what causes leaves to curl up in an system like im running.
ALSO, how much longer before i put them under a 600w hps? im thinking another week? the roots are like 8+ inches long, and they plants are just sprouting their first set of 5 pointed leaves, or their 4th set. also when they go under the 600w im putting them into a rooting mix and into 6in puts.
thanks, really is amazing how everybody tries to help, as always, thanks.
building has been slow, getting a "chill" electrician is nothing easy. got an old contact from the restaurant biz thats going to help me out with 2 plugs i need to rewire, for 15 amps, not going to over load a circuit, but what are some of the other ways people have started fires or heard of them getting started? once this is done i only need to cut passive air intakes, a few random here and there's, and im good to put plants in. 1 more week, or 10 days max, and this will be finished. got my fan mounted onto my filter like a pro. CRUCIAL VENTILATION TIP FROM A NEWB: get some insulation tape at the hardware store you get your ducting at, its like a roll of 1/4in foam sheeting with an adhesive backing. put it onto all the equipment that you buy, makes a really good air tight seal. and at the grow shop they sell these metal belts that you can adjust with screws, so dope. got one in a second. and 8in vortex fans are not that quiet, im going to have to do something about that, make a muffler, insulate the hell out of my fan, i dont know, but its a beast.
damn its no joke when people say start up costs are huge. i dropped 1500 on a 1200w system, almost all equipment i needed. then i take my financier with me to the hardware store, the dirt store, and the hydro shop, and boom, another 1500 in dirt, nutrients, and random shit needed to build the room. and im not even done yet.
So the dirt i chose is a somewhat local company company called wizards specialty soils. got good reviews at the grow shop. ill give it a run and see what i think. im going to mix it with more pearlite, and a bit of peat moss. i also got a box of bat guano for when i flip them, inless yall think i should add it before. im going to take my babies out of the submerged root hydro/aero system they are currently in to 6 in pots in rooting mix, get a root ball in them, then transplant for a second time into their final pot, 5 gal, with this soil mix in it that im talking about, and then shortly after that ill flip them, around the beginning of 2010. so i already got this soil i was told the plants could go straight in to, but they get the rooting mix in the 6 in pots first. soil will be mixed with a lot more pearlite, bit of worm castings, bone meal, blood meal, and peat moss, and dolomite lime. should i add the guano to that mix also, and if so how much? bone and blood meal are miracle grow organic.
NUTRIENTS........ didnt have a clue what to get in relation to my soil, so i listened to what my buddy said the nor cal folks say: beastie bloom, overdrive, chaching. sounds very snappy and funny. any way, i didnt see overdrive, and all i did see in the nutrient salts at the grow shop were open sesame, beastie bloomz, and chaching. got a pound of each, costs over a bill for all 3. good nutrients? also i got a bottle of botanicare calmag +, which i love. ph up and down is still no the needed list. any thoughts on this subject, or past experiences would be so useful, basically all the soil and nutrients boggles my mind and was picked up randomly. kindave... what you got to say.....
otherwise im tearing apart another closet in close proximity to this one to put my ballasts and rez into. also i needed to get into my roof to crawl around, lay ducting, fix a leak , see what was up there, and run the lines to the grow room for the lights. kindave fun cutting dry wall that your landlord owns
also im cutting a wire out of the wall, that is on a different line than the one thats going in the grow, and putting a plug in this closet for the ballasts.
Q: hope it is OK to cut and splice a longer wire onto the cable that comes off the hood. its too short by like 5-10 feet, and im thinking when the electriction s=comes over ill get him to cut the cords, add either 10 feet of 15amp wire, or a plug on each side of the cut? im sure somebody else has done this before, its chill right?.......................
safety first!
VERY IMPORTANT LAST QUESTION! so i have a few hundred for a dehumidifier. looking around i found out how they are rated by how many pints per day they draw out of the air, whether or not they had a pump to pump water to your rez, (something that you can buy for $30) and other mundane features. what i also saw for a very comparable price, around 2 hundred, were portable air conditioners. 12000 btu, 65pints per day, some even had a heater i also. anybody ever used one, and how does the venting work out? says it has 1 5fot long 4inch vent, but i dont want to vent hot grow room air out of the room, and through their piece of shit im sure carbon filter, when i have one 10 times bigger than i need. if i point the out vent at my filter, and leave the air con in the grow room, will that work? and if i dont need air con, will these units only dehumidify with out the air con on? and why the low price, the grow websites that i use sell them for $500-$600, and these are very cheap sites. should i get one, or just get a 65 pint dehumidifier? please advise, this needs to get ordered this week. as always stay safe, share the knowledge, and peace brother and sisters.
