[NiteTiger]

Weekly update - no pics right now though, camera is on loan.

Well, talk about luck - the ballast I got to replace the one that went out? It went down too. How freaking irritating is that shit?!

I flushed the Sweet 13s as planned, and sure enough, they've gone into those lower leaves before they could get fed today. But, growth has been good. They've gained about another 1.5 inches. They got fed today, so should be good to go.

The canaries are flowering along, and I'm getting a better picture of how much pollen that hermie put out. Doesn't seem too bad, except of course for the plants that were in the same pot as the hermie. Only a coupla budsites on the other plants seem to have gotten hit. Oh well, like I said, not too worried about it. Besides, I got my revenge - I'm enjoying Hermie Brownies as we speak

Biped - Yeah, I am going to increase the wattage in the veg area, but probably not until I get the permanent room set up. I could probably only squeeze one more shop rack in there right now, and it wouldn't do too terribly much besides get in my way. I'd like to go with a 400 or 600 watt MH in there, but I'd have to run a completely new ventilation system to control the heat. So, I'm thinking I'll hold off until I do the new room. Although, I have about 100 fourescent ballasts with tubes available from work, so reworking it may not be completely out of the question Gotta love freebies

[NiteTiger]

Pics!

Everyone is showing signs of an overfert, so everyone is recieving a flushing tonight. Nothing severely wrong, just appears nitrogen has built up in the soil, and has reached a point where it may be causing some calcium lockout, so we're going to flush and see if that doesn't fix the problem. If it doesn't, it's off to the hydro store for some Cal Mag, and probably a PK booster as well (depends on how much Mrs. Nite let's me spend )

Overall though, things are going great. The 2 most mature canaries have stopped stretching, and started to crystal up nicely, as you'll see in the pic I grabbed. One appears to be within 2-3 weeks of harvest, so it's time to break out the pocket scope. Of course, being bagseed, there's not telling for sure, and it may have another month and a half. Time will tell - my Motto is 'No plant before its time The trichs will tell me when to harvest.

As Bipedal suggested, I have acquired about 20 flourescent ballasts and bulbs, with up to 40 more coming tomorrow. We'll be increasing the wattage in the veg closet to at least 400, but, heat management willing, we'll go up to 800. I'll detail the construction of the rack (and how I obtained all of these ballasts FREE) in a seperate thread in GD&E, so keep an eye out for that if you're interested. Also, within the next two weeks, look for the construction thread that will document the build out of the permanent room, which will have two seperate 2kw flowering chambers, a much larger veg room, plumbing, and 12 foot ceilings - time to get serious

On with the pics!

Here's the Sweet 13s - you can see where I mentioned above that they dug into thier lower leaves and I haven't removed them yet. Yeah, makes for bad pictures, but, as you can see, things are going great!






Here's an overview of the flower room with the canaries, which are still sharing one light, unfortunately.


And here's the fun shot, getting up close and personal with the most mature canary as she frosts up!




That's it for now, until next time...

[packn2puff]

Yeah I can see a little N curl..doesn't look too tooo bad..
Everything still looks OK from here..but I like to flush um out a little too every now and then when things get weird..
they always seem to like it too..

[NiteTiger]

Yeah, they've got the Ram's horn going, and I noticed a bit of picture perfect (even if I couldn't get a good pic of it ) calcium defeciency starting, so it was off to the tub for a good flushing

[The Dopest]

NiteTiger, I go to the woods for a while and come back to this! lookin good man, glad you're feelin better. also sorry to hear about the ballast problems you've had. may want to have the wiring checked before changing it again. i cant wait to see the split room design and flip flop setup. anyway i'll be checkin in on you gl and peace!

[dc105]

Looking nice even through a little rough time. Those canaries are very frosty for this early of budding period. Those will be interesting to watch! They may be white when there done!

[NiteTiger]

Dopest! long time no see mano! Hidin' out in the woods huh? Hope everything is okay. Yeah, some progress has been made, huh?

dc105 Yep, they've seen a bit of a rough patch, but then again, that's what they're there for - better them than the Sweet 13 :smile:


And now for my weekly update, day late though it may be

The Sweet 13 are responding great. preflowers are showing, and some odor has started. Forgive the crappy quality pics, and the still unremoved dead leaves








And here's a shot of the two oldest canaries, and the obligatory close up




Until next time,

[NiteTiger]

Back under 2kw of light! Finally got the time to get in there and see what was what. Turns out, I had one ballast with a bad transformer (ouch, $$$) and one with a bad capacitor. Stole the good cap outta the bad transformer ballast, and quicker than you can say Frankenstein, I've got two working ballasts again. Like Meatloaf said - Two outta three ain't bad

The Sweet 13's are ready to clone, and I swung by Wally World to pick up the makings of a bubble cloner, so we'll be topping for cones here in the next coupla days, definately by the weekend.

Oh, and just a side note - If you find yourself in the tool department, and see a nice set of nut drivers, and have ANY ideas about repairing your Sunlight Supply ballasts yourself - BUY THEM! Freaking things have more nuts than an OCD squirrel. And I am now sporting two massive blood blisters on each pinkie as testament to why you use the proper tools for the job

[The Dopest]

i've got blisters after seeing your girls! good lookin plants Tiger, keep it up!

[NiteTiger]

Heya Dopest! Glad ya stopped by! Swung by the other place you mentioned in your PM, but it looks as tho all the good stuff is restricted. Gonna have some spend some time over there and throw up some pics to get the access? Looks like some good folks.

Sorry for the lack of updates ppl, been extremely busy. Here's a quick rundown of where we are today:

The top half of the eldest canary has been harvested, and it is excellent smoke. I'd estimate she put out about a half oz dry, not too shabby given that they were just thrown into a bucket of dirt and left alone under 12/12 And the smoke is very surprising. Very very skunky smell so much so that Mrs. Nite has forbidden the burping of the jar in the house - "Everytime you open that, the house smells like a family of skunks died, and it takes me hours to get rid of it". Yeah, it's that skunky

The flavor, however, is very strongly pine. At the harvest smoke test, the phrase most often used was "like I'm sucking a pine forest through a straw". Underneath the pine, there is an thick hash taste, which becomes much more pronounced on the exhale.

The high is great, and very very potent. An obvious Sativa high, it creeps up on you very very slowly, and then WHAM, you watch your thoughts scatter like birds and you realize you're really, really baked It settles into your body with a tingle, and you soar along, feeling quite up. After about 3 hours, it'll start to slide down into a narcotic dozy weight that settles on you. A quick bite at this point will leave you clear headed and awake. As a matter of fact, eating at pretty much any point will leave you clear headed - this high hates food, and runs from it like a cheetah. Obviously, the munchy factor is low. Mild cravings is all, and it actually leaves you feeling full.

It's amazing how good brickweed once was Nothing quite like a good Mexican Sativa

The SWeet 13s are vegging like champs, and should be cloned this evening, if I can make it - I'm beat.

So, in summation, I should be harvesting canaries about weekly for the next 6 weeks, and we're about 2 and a half weeks out till the main attraction - the Sweet 13's will hit flower. And best of all, my dry spell is over About the time I stop harvesting canaries, the Sweet 13s will be ready

Until next time


PS Updates may be slow until the Sweet 13s get to flower, then I'll go back to weekly. And yes, I will put up some harvest shots soon.