New Grower Redo of a Failed CBD Lavender and possibly a Buddha Seeds Red Dwarf
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Strangely enough, my gf thought something similar when we were at my old apartment, although she wasn't sold that it was my grow because we had suspected our former roommate was being a turd, and sure enough, towards the end of our time at that apartment, it was nice out, maybe mid-70's, and his door was closed.. I knocked, thinking he was home, and when I heard something in the room, I opened the door, and he had the AC on full-speed.. Turns out, he left the day before, and didn't come back for 2 days, so every time he had left, he did the same thing; left all of his appliances on in his room.. Turns out my grow only costs me roughly $13-18, depending of if I'm germing seeds or just growing and I have a Mars II 400w (192w true), a quad of 23w CFLs, a couple small 6" fans, 1 6" inline fan and the air pump, so I'm looking at roughly 400w of power being used, on a 19/5 schedule..
Women.... lol
Women.... lol
Its funny but true, I mean 13 or even 20 bucks is not bad. I can imagine what a 1k hps, rdwc, with c02, large exhaust fan.... that has to be near 100 a month. But, led, fan, exhaust, couple of supplemental cfls.Really minimal i really expect a great return if i can beat this issue with "le pew".
A buddy of mine has his card and can grow for others.. He typically runs between 35-45 plants under approximately 2600w of HID and between his chiller for his E&F, lights, fans, ventilation fans, air pumps and water pumps, he was saying he has about $200-300 a month in electric bills, but that also covers his relatively large veg area where he runs T5s, but quite a few, 24/7..
Shit gets real when you go that big, but he generally makes back the money with the good harvests.. His last one though was an unfortunate doozey, because his chiller froze up on him and he didn't know for a couple days.. Temps got up over 100F, and his crop was definitely affected.. He's a great grower, too, so it was painful to hear him talk about it, because he was calm and saying it with ease, but anyone that knew him, knew it sucked.. Imagine hoping for a 5lbs pull and only getting 2lbs... Those erroneous #'s, but you get the idea!!
Have you ever thought about showing your gf this forum?? I tried showing mine, but she wasn't that interested in reading grow journals like I am.. lol
Shit gets real when you go that big, but he generally makes back the money with the good harvests.. His last one though was an unfortunate doozey, because his chiller froze up on him and he didn't know for a couple days.. Temps got up over 100F, and his crop was definitely affected.. He's a great grower, too, so it was painful to hear him talk about it, because he was calm and saying it with ease, but anyone that knew him, knew it sucked.. Imagine hoping for a 5lbs pull and only getting 2lbs... Those erroneous #'s, but you get the idea!!
Have you ever thought about showing your gf this forum?? I tried showing mine, but she wasn't that interested in reading grow journals like I am.. lol
Day 63
83F 37%
Fed the Twins Now there Is just one (twin 1 Hermied)got Pics
1/2 dose grow
1 dose bloom
1 dose Meta-K
1 dose Catalyst
Mix was PH 6.8
Run Off Ph 6.3
Anyway twin 1 aka Danny Devito, Hermied and one branch on twin 2. I looked at the plant thoroughly less than 2 days ago. So I caught it early, Chopped twin 1 and the one branch on twin 2. The balls were barely exposed you could only see a sliver of yellow round balls. This happened for numerous reasons 1. The plant should have died initially it lived so I kept it. 2. The light schedule got out of whack. 3 initially the dark period had light poking in through cracks. this is why i changed the light schedule. 4. it was difficult getting light to it, as it was 5 inches shorter. I implemented a single cfl (its in previous pictures) Way to much to overcome. Im glad I caught it early I have another grower who agreed. The plant was 6 days ahead of its younger Arnold Schwarzenegger brother so it was near to done. I got its main cola (probably a bit shy of an 8th dry).
I m keeping my fingers crossed and my eyes very trained on the remaining twin and the other plant. I found no pollen just the peeking balls. Im still thinking I need to separate them. Well I am Interested In your guys thoughts.
Main Cola Balls
The One Stem from the other Plant This is it on the whole plant that's why I didn't chop it. it was on a branch that was hidden behind the plant. All other colas have not exhibited any v like hairs or budding balls.
83F 37%
Fed the Twins Now there Is just one (twin 1 Hermied)got Pics
1/2 dose grow
1 dose bloom
1 dose Meta-K
1 dose Catalyst
Mix was PH 6.8
Run Off Ph 6.3
Anyway twin 1 aka Danny Devito, Hermied and one branch on twin 2. I looked at the plant thoroughly less than 2 days ago. So I caught it early, Chopped twin 1 and the one branch on twin 2. The balls were barely exposed you could only see a sliver of yellow round balls. This happened for numerous reasons 1. The plant should have died initially it lived so I kept it. 2. The light schedule got out of whack. 3 initially the dark period had light poking in through cracks. this is why i changed the light schedule. 4. it was difficult getting light to it, as it was 5 inches shorter. I implemented a single cfl (its in previous pictures) Way to much to overcome. Im glad I caught it early I have another grower who agreed. The plant was 6 days ahead of its younger Arnold Schwarzenegger brother so it was near to done. I got its main cola (probably a bit shy of an 8th dry).
I m keeping my fingers crossed and my eyes very trained on the remaining twin and the other plant. I found no pollen just the peeking balls. Im still thinking I need to separate them. Well I am Interested In your guys thoughts.
Main Cola Balls
The One Stem from the other Plant This is it on the whole plant that's why I didn't chop it. it was on a branch that was hidden behind the plant. All other colas have not exhibited any v like hairs or budding balls.
Quick Question with a 300 w LED 3w*100 6 Spectrum. How much supplemental CFL's is too much I have 4 23w 27K and 2 23w 65k... Is that too much. How many hours a day should I supplement them. I am using them for UVB supplementing. I have the plants on 17/7 hours. I have a very strong indica strain Im trying to appease.
Day 67 Le Pew
78 F 36%
Water PH 6.9
1/2 Dose Grow
2 Doses Bloom
2 Doses Catalyst
1 1/2 Meta-K
1 1/2 Cal-Mag
Mix PH 4.5 PH + to 7.1
Run-Off PH 6
I skipped a feeding due to the cal-mag deficiency. If you have LED watch out for this specially if your plant is a monster(in terms of with nutes). Expect to keep up with Cal-Mag as well. I think I may have had the same issue in a previous grow.
This I am anxious for this feeding as I set myself back a week. At least it didn't turn into more deficiencies. I got lucky and caught that hermie very early. This grow has gone from great to second guess central. At Least there is People like A4, Waira,and ..... well the list can go on but they diagnosed this one. Everything should be back on track.
Day 67 Le Pew
78 F 36%
Water PH 6.9
1/2 Dose Grow
2 Doses Bloom
2 Doses Catalyst
1 1/2 Meta-K
1 1/2 Cal-Mag
Mix PH 4.5 PH + to 7.1
Run-Off PH 6
I skipped a feeding due to the cal-mag deficiency. If you have LED watch out for this specially if your plant is a monster(in terms of with nutes). Expect to keep up with Cal-Mag as well. I think I may have had the same issue in a previous grow.
This I am anxious for this feeding as I set myself back a week. At least it didn't turn into more deficiencies. I got lucky and caught that hermie very early. This grow has gone from great to second guess central. At Least there is People like A4, Waira,and ..... well the list can go on but they diagnosed this one. Everything should be back on track.
Just some new pictures on day 72. My PH pen lost its mind. I know they say don't use common items to calibrate your PH pen. Coca cola cold just opened (like 10 seconds) PH 2.5, Dasani cold just opened PH 4.1. I used the Coke to calibrate and checked it against the Dasani, right on the money.
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