Mars Hydro Mars Hydro SP3000 Grow/Review by The Mugwamp

[The Dalai Farmer]

Grow 2 With The SP3000
Week 1 -3

This grow will be all Feminised Photoperiod strains again. First SP3000 photo grow wasn't the greatest, although I still yielded around 13oz for the 3 photo plants (but that was mainly down to the Black Lebanon, she was around 9 ½ oz on it's own) Plus around 5½oz for the 4 Solo Cups. So not that bad, in fact it was better than usual
But for a change, I'm going to try and leave these to grow naturally this time and not top them I've only ever let my small Solo Cup girls grow like that before and they turned out quite nice. So we'll see how these turn out.
I still have a couple of inches of Megacrop left in the bag which should last another week or two, it's all sticking together, but it it should be ok, I hope anyway and when that has gone I'm going to have to go back to the GHE Flora Trio, as there is no Megacrop that I can find for sale in the UK not unless you want a full or half pallet oh well, it was good while it lasted.
Strains
This time I have 6 plants,
2 x Seedstockers Strains - Pineapple and Runtz.
2 x Super Sativa Seed Club strains - Lava Freeze and in a Solo Cup - Super Mad Sky Floater.
And finally I have
2 x Ace Seeds - Bangi Haze, one in a 2ltr Bottle and the other in a 12ltr Fabric Pot like the rest. They are both a week behind the other girls

Week 1 to 3

Today
Day 17 (10 for the Bangi Haze's)

 

[The Dalai Farmer]

Mars Hydro SP3000
Week 3
So far everyone is looking happy and healthy I'm am getting slightly anxious though and hoping I've made the right choice in not topping them. I've always topped my plants (apart from a few little solo cups I let grow naturally) so it's going to be interesting to see what happens with these. Well, onwards and upwards
Day 20 (day 13 for the two Bangi Haze's)

 

[The Dalai Farmer]

Mars SP3000
Grow 2
Week 4
All going well so far I was contemplating topping the Bangi Haze in the 2ltr bottle, but then, I noticed she has started putting out 3 leaves on each node now

Never had one do that before, but hey, the more the merrier
As for the rest, they all are looking happy for now. I'm going to give them another couple of days or so, then I'll switch them to a 12/12 cycle
Today
Day 25 (18 for the 2 Bangi Haze)

 

[The Dalai Farmer]

Mars SP3000
Grow 2
Week 5
I switched them all to a 12/12 cycle a couple of days ago, on day 28. The two Bangi Haze are a week younger, so day 21 for them, the 12ltr one I decided to top a day or so before switch
The 2ltr bottle Bangi hasn't turned out as well as hoped. Ever since she started putting out 3 leaves on the nodes instead of 2, she has lost all symmetry plus all the extra bloody leaves meant no light was getting in to the lower bits. So I've removed most of the big uns and we'll see what happens.
As for the rest, they are all looking nice and healthy. I've managed to keep them pretty short so far, apart from the Seedstockers Runtz, she has a few inches on the rest.
Day 26 to 29

 

[The Dalai Farmer]

Week 5
Day 35 (28 for the Bangi Haze's)
Starting to run out of space now, although there hasn't been much upwards growth as yet, which is a surprise seeing as i have only topped one of them but it's still early days and they still have a lot of stretching to do.
Really happy with the SSSC Super Mad Sky Floater Solo Cup though she has turned out quite nice, so far anyway

 

[The Dalai Farmer]

Mars SP3000
Week 6
Day 41 (Bangi Haze day 34)
Flowering Week 2
Well I think we can say, it's getting a tad full in there now a couple of them have started putting out a few pistils here and there, so not long now till the fun bit begins. Still not stretched much, which is probably a good thing.
I decided, seeing as she's a week behind the rest, to lollipop the Bangi Haze in the 12ltr Pot, I've been too scared to try before, but I thought sod it, what's the worst that could happen

The SSSC -Super Mad Sky Floater - Solo Cup, is coming on great still early days, but I have high hopes

The Seedstockers - Pineapple has got a nice shape to her, she's definitely the widest of the girls and loads of bud sites

 

[The Dalai Farmer]

Mars SP 3000
Grow 2
Day 62
Just about all in flower, the Bangi Haze's are about a week or so behind the rest, but they're getting there

I finally ran out of the Megacrap, I've ordered more, but the f***** has been held up in customs for over a bloody week now so I'll be using the GHE Flora Trio until the mofo finally comes

 

[The Dalai Farmer]

SP3000
Day 93 (week 10 of flower)
Two down, four to go the SSSC - Super Mad Sky Floater solo cup came down a few days ago and the SSSC - Lava Freeze a couple of days later.
Super Mad Sky Floater

Lava Freeze

The rest are chugging along, still going to be a while yet till they're all done though. The two Bangi Haze's are only just beginning to grow some bud and fatten up, so going to be a couple of weeks at least.