1st journal-Sensi Star/LA Ultra/NYC Diesel

[SensiStarFan]

Everything hangs on chains from a 10 foot metal pole (EDIT: the pole is 10 feet long, not ten feet off the ground). I hate those string hangers they sell with the lights. Chain is easy for me to adjust.



-SSF-

 

[SensiStarFan]

So today is Day #4 of flowering for my one Hashberry plant and when I went to water it today I got some bad news
I'm going to keep him anyway, seperate him and farm his pollen.



Today is also Day #10 of flower for the Diesels. While cursing my luck over the Hashberry I couldn't help but notice they are stretching a LOT. I have raised my light about 12 inches over the last 10 days because of it. Hopefully this is just because of the onset of flower and slows down.
(EDIT: I should have trained them and tied them down like I did my other plants, oh well.)

(The 2-liter Coke bottle is there to give it scale)


-SSF-

 

[Moto-Man]

Thanks for the pics SSF... sorry to see the Hashberry went all male on ya' However, I do appreciate your attitude, even if I've never saved pollen before, or even let a male develop same. That could be a new - and useful - thread maybe.

Good luck on the rest of yer grow!

Cheers,

 

[Moto-Man]

Everything hangs on chains from a 10 foot metal pole (EDIT: the pole is 10 feet long, not ten feet off the ground). I hate those string hangers they sell with the lights. Chain is easy for me to adjust.

Wow, this is pretty cool. If you have two 600s to fit in that space, I guess I understand why you have such an awesome fan on the cool-tube. How are temps for you? How far away can you keep the lights? Is this our Hemp Goddess's cool-tube design, which I flagrantly copied? Yours looks a lil sleeker than mine. I love the 2x4 perch for the fan... good thinking! I am not an engineer though, and my name should be "Chauncey" since "I like to watch" ... and learn!!

Thanks for sharing yer pics, SSF.

Cheers,

 

[SensiStarFan]

Wow, this is pretty cool. If you have two 600s to fit in that space, I guess I understand why you have such an awesome fan on the cool-tube. How are temps for you? How far away can you keep the lights? Is this our Hemp Goddess's cool-tube design, which I flagrantly copied? Yours looks a lil sleeker than mine. I love the 2x4 perch for the fan... good thinking! I am not an engineer though, and my name should be "Chauncey" since "I like to watch" ... and learn!!

Thanks for sharing yer pics, SSF.

Cheers,

Hey Moto-Man thanks for checking them out. For the 10 foot pole I just went to Home Depot and found one there for like $25. I wasn't in to putting a bunch of holes in my ceiling so this made it easy. Either end of the pole rests on a shelf so that the pole runs the length of the closet. The closet is larger but I use about 30 square feet for grow space.
The fan is a Vortex brand fan. I am very happy with it. I can't remember how much air it moves off the top of my head but it is a 4-inch and last time I looked they only make one 4-inch model. The fan came with those mounting brackets so that you can mount it wherever you want but again, not a fan of holes in the walls so I just stuck a 2x4 on it to hang it.
Temps are great. Right now I can put my hand on the back of the light. But once the carbon filter and other light are hooked up it will be pretty warm. The plants can get as close as 6 inches but I have had light burn in the past so I try to keep them about 12 inches.
As far as the cool tube design goes once I got serious and began to learn a little about growing and I realized the importance of air circulation in your grow area it pretty much made the sealed-hood design decision for me. If I was going to vent my grow area anyway why not vent the lights too and keep the temps down easily? I went with cool-tubes because I was thinking that when I bought them I might want to try some other growing methods such as a vertical SCROG or something like that. If I wanted I could remove the reflectors and mount the cool tubes vertically and use the light coming out from all around the tube, something you can't do with other reflectors. So I felt cool tubes gave you more growing options. Regardless I never tried it, I'm just always more interested in what I'm growing than in how I am growing it.

-SSF-

 

[SensiStarFan]

Diesels Day #11. I swear they grew another inch over night. Raised the light another two inches. I also noticed trichomes starting to form on the leaf tips. The first picture with the rectangle is regular scale and shows where I took the zoomed in shot for the second pic.
-SSF-
EDIT: Over the last few days they have started drinking a lot more, going from a half gallon every couple days to just over a half gallon a day.

 

[SensiStarFan]

I can't get over how much these Diesels are stretching. They have only been flowering for 12 days and I really hope they are almost done stretching like crazy. The picture on the left is from the first page of this journal and was taken 14 days ago, 2 days before I started flowering them. The one with the red X on it was the one that went male. The other pictures were snapped tonight as the HPS went off.





-SSF-

 

[Gixxerman420]

(and I received Short Stuff's "Auto Assassin" as freebies but I do not have an autoflowering setup so these beans are collecting dust for now)

Dude, you can just throw them into your veg chamber and that b#@$%'ll flower in 24/0! Age dependent switch for flowering, light has nothing to do with it... Will do comparable under either blue or red spectrum... As far as I've heard, I just recieved an auto flower freebie myself and will be interested to see what they're all about... You can keep tabs on it here:
http://www.marijuanapassion.com/forum/showthread.php?t=54845

I'll subscribe to yours if you subscribe to mine! LOL!!!
Your girls are gorgeous, ever thought about LST or Topping?

 

[SensiStarFan]

(and I received Short Stuff's "Auto Assassin" as freebies but I do not have an autoflowering setup so these beans are collecting dust for now)

Dude, you can just throw them into your veg chamber and that b#@$%'ll flower in 24/0! Your girls are gorgeous, ever thought about LST or Topping?

Hi Gixxer thanks for checking out the journal. I use my two 600HPS for flowering my regular plants and veg with only some CFL's or a 400HPS if the plants get too big. I wouldn't be too excited about the chances of growing something great because of the limited light in the veg area, but I might give it a shot.
As far as LST and topping go most of the other plants I am growing in this journal are all topped and tied down. These Diesels were so much smaller two weeks ago when they started I really didn't even consider LST or topping, but now I have to get in there and tie them up. I will get a couple pics up later once I have everything set up in the flowering area.

-SSF-

 

[SensiStarFan]

It was nice again here today so I was able to put the Diesels outside for some natural light while I set up the flowering area and hooked up the other 600HPS. I watered them well when I put them outside and 30 minutes later their leaves were straining upwards at 45 degree angles reaching for sunlight



I also finally got around to tying up the Diesels. I basically tied them so that one side is flat with all the branches being bent to the side that will face the light.


And tomorrow is the first day of flower for my LA Ultra's and Sensi Star's, so I went ahead and put them in the flowering space today and they are going through their first dark period tonight and starting flower tomorrow. I have never vegged plants to be this big before. The Pepsi 2-liter bottle is there to give scale to the size of the plants.


So I am going to have only 5 or 6 plants in this grow total.
2 Diesels from seeds
2 Sensi Star clones
One LA Ultra from seed
One LA Ultra from seed (that still hasn't shown sex)
The only other thing worth mentioning is that I am still not hooking up my carbon filter as I still do not need it. Oh, and I tilt my two cooltubes inwards towards each other a bit to better light the area between them.


Have a good weekend everyone! If anyone has any ideas jump right in.

-SSF-

 

[SensiStarFan]

The Hashberry that I thought was male and I seperated from the females is showing a white hair today. So until I can figure out what is going on it is back in the flowering room with the girls.

So here are the 2 Sensi Stars, 2 LA Ultras 2 Diesels, and 1 Hasberry under the 600's.

 

[frankcos]

Looking very healthy my friend. Green Mojo to you.

 

[Time4Plan-B]

Ill dig out a pic of my paradise seeds sensi stars 1st grow i ever did and monsters they were did everything wrong i mean everything and still harvested 8oz dry from one of them.
Btw yours look identical and are amazing.
Beautiful smoke and stone too.
That was back in 1999.
Hope ya dont mind me hijacking with my pics sensistarfan
In pic #5 i had the cola and gave away the popcorn stuff to my mate who got 2oz dry i got 6 of better bud knowing what i know now it wasnt anywhere near done and i fed hydroponic nutes in soil under 1 x 400w hps no air movement fans filters anything.......man those were the dazeeeeeeeee.
T4

 

[SensiStarFan]

Ill dig out a pic of my paradise seeds sensi stars 1st grow i ever did and monsters they were did everything wrong i mean everything and still harvested 8oz dry from one of them.
Btw yours look identical and are amazing.
Beautiful smoke and stone too.
That was back in 1999.
Hope ya dont mind me hijacking with my pics sensistarfan
In pic #5 i had the cola and gave away the popcorn stuff to my mate who got 2oz dry i got 6 of better bud knowing what i know now it wasnt anywhere near done and i fed hydroponic nutes in soil under 1 x 400w hps no air movement fans filters anything.......man those were the dazeeeeeeeee.
T4

Thanks for the mojo Frankcos!!!! I appreciate it and will take all I can get

T4PB, Thanks for dropping in and no I don't mind the pics at all your plants look like they finished well. The two Sensi Stars I am doing right now have been vegging for about 5 months. They were topped at two weeks (from clones rooting) and I have taken about 30 clones total from them. By now when I peal back the branches and look at the base it is about as big around as my thumb, and I have really fat thumbs From the topping and tying down they are still only about 2 feet tall out of the soil but they tend to be very short and dense anyway I find. By the end of flowering I want these 8 gallon pots to look like I am growing some sort of plant that sprouts green donkey (genitalia) flopping all over the place.

 

[SensiStarFan]

So the nute feeding schedule I set out at the start of my journal that I use for my Sensi Stars seems to be giving them all the nutes they can handle. I am even seeing a small amount of burn on some of the fan leaf tips.


None of my other plants are showing any signs of nute burn at all though. And I am thinking I am going to up their nutes a bit to see what they can handle. For example these are pics of the LA Ultra.

(EDIT: The bottle you see and the rim of the pot is an empty bottle of GH grow nute.)



-SSF-

 

[Rosebud]

Hi SSF, just read the whole journal. Very nice plants and journal. I will be in the corner watching, thanks!

 

[SensiStarFan]

Hi SSF, just read the whole journal. Very nice plants and journal. I will be in the corner watching, thanks!

Rosebud commenting on my journal? It is a good day indeed . Thanks for the kind words Rosebud!

 

[MosesPMG]

wow everything looks great man congrats!

 

[Time4Plan-B]

Hi ssf i always kept CF 16 or EC 1.6 max with star as they are pretty light to medium feeders imho.
T4

 

[SensiStarFan]

Thanks MosesPMG, I'm excited to get flowering!

T4PB, great info thank you! I am finding they are light feeders as well. I need to sit down and work out how much I am going to increase nutes for the others.

-SSF-