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hush's Kush x NL grow show - LED - 2x2 tent
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looking healthy
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yes I have used for veg and maybe a week of transition into bloom
Plants seem to like it. I usually veg with T5 so to compare the two they have similar growth rates . Node spacing does seem to be tighter . I have not had for to long but seems to be doing fine . I am hoping to do a flower run with it soon .
I did have some seedling lay down like yours but they straightened up . I think mine is about 2-1/2 feet from tops maybe even 3' from canopy
I will document when I do start bloom
The light is bright and I have been thinking about getting some glasses . I wish it had an on off switch.
Plants seem to like it. I usually veg with T5 so to compare the two they have similar growth rates . Node spacing does seem to be tighter . I have not had for to long but seems to be doing fine . I am hoping to do a flower run with it soon .
I did have some seedling lay down like yours but they straightened up . I think mine is about 2-1/2 feet from tops maybe even 3' from canopy
I will document when I do start bloom
The light is bright and I have been thinking about getting some glasses . I wish it had an on off switch.
Your seedlings look so happy, nice grow hush.
I hear you man. I never found the need for grow room glasses before using LEDs. Even a 1000w HPS has been no big deal really. But the moment I turned on my first little piddly UFO style LED, I was squinting! So I took some forum members' recommendation and bought some of the Method 7 glasses (I got the clip-ons, actually, since I already wear glasses) and it made a WORLD of a difference! In fact, all of the pics I'm taking in this journal are the result of holding the glasses over my phone's camera lens while taking the shot. Here's an image I took of my small LED cabinet with the glasses half-on/half-off, to show the contrast:
Once your eyes have experienced the blast of photons that come from LEDs, it's easy to realize that LEDs are basically just modified lasers.
Experience is helpful... but the real trick is just keeping things simple.of not enough. So, to get things to where they are now in this garden, all I did was exactly this:
- Plant seeds directly into starter plugs and put the plugs into the inserts (so they stand up).
- Put the inserts into one of those cheap little seedstarting, self-watering "greenhouses" they sell in the garden section at big box stores (mine is by Jiffy).
- Put the mini greenhouse with lid on under a single CFL and don't touch it until the seedlings have popped up.
- Still don't bother the seedlings even after they've popped unless they haven't automatically shed their seed husk on their own, in which case, gently remove it for them.
- After they have already grown out their first set of true leaves (not the cotyledons) you can remove the lid from the greenhouse and leave alone for another 24 hours or so.
- Take the entire starter plug and plant it in containers filled with an inert, tried-and-true soilless medium, like Pro Mix or coco (my current favorite).
- Water the containers until you get runoff, and only use pH-corrected tap water, no nutrients.
- Place them in proper environment with appropriate climate controls and lighting. Leave them alone.
- After they grow their 3rd set of true leaves, feed them with a dilute mix of a tried-and-true, COMPLETE nutrient mix. In this case I've gone with CNS17 for coco. I didn't even add any additives yet.
That leads me to the present day. I haven't even given them their next feeding yet, but I will increase the dosage every feeding until I see the beginnings of burn on the leaf tips, and then I will back off to the previously-used dosage, before the burn occurred. The real tricks here are simply using inert media and a complete nutrient mix that uses the least amount of bottles possible.
Hush Thanks for listing this valuable info ,im gonna follow this to the tee on next gro.Can you keep us advised on your use of the cns17 products so we can learn more as you go ? that would be a real solid if you can thanks bro best wishes .... kman
Another Peaks fan.
Another Peaks fan.
Looked at the pictures and was envious, very nice grow. I think that Peaks NL X Skunk is one that I like the best, grown it twice and have a single plant growing now. Following this LED grow closely, if it works out its the way I'll go, tired of the heat and cost. Hush has really worked on the simplicity, Hempy pots in a tray that he wet vacs out and with LEDs, like that a lot.
Another Peaks fan.
Looked at the pictures and was envious, very nice grow. I think that Peaks NL X Skunk is one that I like the best, grown it twice and have a single plant growing now. Following this LED grow closely, if it works out its the way I'll go, tired of the heat and cost. Hush has really worked on the simplicity, Hempy pots in a tray that he wet vacs out and with LEDs, like that a lot.
I've grown out about ten nl x kush and had great results. Very potent herbs with a good yeild. Most had some purple too adding to the bag appeal. I personally preferred the sweetness that the skunk provided the kush for flavor but the nl cross was ok with a bland kush taste (similar to a lot of bc beasters I get around my parts). This strain should be feminized for commercial growers that don't want to keep moms.
Thanks for the input.
So are you saying that because of how homogenous the plants are? Curious, because I certainly have noticed that 11 of my 12 plants all pretty much look alike. The only one that seems different, at least at this stage, is the one in the bottom-right of all my pics in this thread.
Honestly, yes, ever since switching to coco I get great starts. Not even just with seeds... even when I transplant newly rooted clones they immediately take off, and that's in all of my gardens, so I can't say it's specific to any one condition. I think it has a lot to do with it, anyway. Coco is the only thing I know of that lives up to its hype. 
120, dayum dats alotta pancakes! Better to hurt my pocket than eyes.
Pics from tonight:
They are really bushy and short. But they have stacked nodes, so it's kind of deceptive, lol. I was considering topping them and flowering the cuts to sex them, but then I fear if there are "too many" females they'll be crowded. So I'm just going to throw them into flowering tomorrow I think.
They are really bushy and short. But they have stacked nodes, so it's kind of deceptive, lol. I was considering topping them and flowering the cuts to sex them, but then I fear if there are "too many" females they'll be crowded. So I'm just going to throw them into flowering tomorrow I think.
