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Hi folks!

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As many of you know, I do strange things in my garden so I thought I'd best capture some of that as I don't really have a dedicated journal at the moment!

It's summer and a really difficult time to grow where I am so my garden is a bit of a mess!

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All different ages and an empty slot waiting for a seedling!

Details on system elsewhere, needless to say it's unique!

Clockwise from bottom left!

Empty! Ruby x Stone Dragon incoming!
Purple Nuggets circa 38days
Swiss Dream CBD circa 38days
Blackstone Haze CBD circa 16days

All pots are connected and fed from the same Rez making EC and nute additives a difficult choice!

The Purple Nuggets is in pre flower and the Swiss Dream is in full bloom.

Current EC is 0.8 and on veg nutes, everything happy but the Swiss Dream is hungry!

First experiment!

Going to mix up my P & K toppers and hand feed the Swiss Dream daily.

This will make its way into the main Rez but in reduced percentage so hopefully not overloading the girls not ready for it while keeping the blooming girl happy!

Purple Nuggets will follow when she kicks into proper flowering!

Second experiment!

The Girls are currently under 860w CMH and it is a fine full grow globe.

I have a 600w Ceramic HPS on the way and ideally want to use this to flower with. Not much info on this globe but here is the spectrum.

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It's quite the oddball...

As it happens, when I use this globe for the flowering girls, the two young ones are going to get this spectrum for most of their living days!

Third experiment TBA!

I do not hold great expectations for this grow as it is comming into high summer and my schedule is all staggered for what I have going at the moment so it's an ideal time to test theory and learn!

Along the way I will also be trying to solve some of the shortcomings of my custom system and moving to efficiency!


Anyhoo, more soon!

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Ok so I've gone ahead and mixed up my P & K and top fed both the Purple Nuggets and Swiss Dream!

600ish ml each of Rhino K and BioDiesel at reccomended low dose of 0.4EC

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Swiss Dream

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Purple Nuggets!

Looking at maybe 3 day interval until I can register a response!


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The Ceramic HPS arrived!

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600w Ceramic HPS on the left, 860w Ceramic MH on the right!

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First start! (apparently takes 20min to reach peak eff)

Not running it just yet just testing with my ballast! Will be a finishing globe I hope for final 3 weeks or so of flower!


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Ok got lazy and decided to keep running the 600w ceramic HPS

It runs a lot cooler than the 860 CMH

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This little Ruby Dragon will live her entire life under this very red spectrum.

Interested to see how she goes and if anything wierd happens lol!

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The Purple Nuggets and Swiss Dream CBD recieving 750ml of 0.4EC 0.0.15 topfeed daily. Seems to be ok so far!

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Why yes Mongy! Yes there is! :hump:

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Purple Nuggets, still a bit to go!

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Swiss Dream CBD not far off!

And the much younger CBD Blackstone Haze!

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Younger! But huge lol :crying:

Sry about shit than usual pics.. phone has a crack in the camera glass ffs! :wall:

While ultra crap at taking pics at the best of times I just can't win with a phone so will get a point and shoot.. less I drop my phone in flooded grow tray again..

Hmmm this lamp.. I dunno about.

Supposed to limit stretch but not really the case, the CMH is way more intense and much hotter which is why I've been running the C-HPS

I feel the C-HPS is a finisher for the final 3 weeks or so. I will know depending on how the end plants perform by way of density, frost and terpenes come harvest..

I've got a bunch of Dragons in there as well and they have grown wierd from seed under this lamp, just stretch strait up, very little lateral growth at all! Although they are a fair way from the lamp considering the other girls are so big!

As for the nutes! Well been pretty good! Up to 1.2EC for all including the little ones and nothing is burnt or suffering so I can potentially run perpetual if I plan carefully! :thumbsup:

After this grow I might not have a chance to fire off again before late August!

I'll be Devo :face:


See how we go.. you can't keep a good 6 down!

:headbang:




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