Heady's Redemption x 6 with T5 Veg & JD Lighting 600w E Ballast x 2

[GeorgeFoster]

Well here we go again

The line up purchased from clone...

2 Skywalker
2 Plushberry
2 Blackberry
2 Blue Cheese in waiting....(Not part of this grow but they may end up in here at some point)

Clone and veg area is 2' x 6' x 8' closet
Sunblaze 54w T5 4' 4 bulb w/specrtalux 6500K bulbs


Flower Room is 7' x 7' x 8' (it's actually 7.5 x 9.5 but trying to get a veg area in there at some point)

2 600w JD Lighting electronic ballast (420 Sponsor)
Specs: 110/220 MH/HPS switchable/dimable, running on 220 at 100%
Settings are 50% 75% 100% and 110%

Reflector Hoods x 2...basic $29 aluminum wings

1 - 7" direct vent ceiling fan rated at 575cfm's


Medium: Fox farm Ocean Forest w/perlite added at a mix of 60/40 in 3 gal plastic pots.

Nutirents: Fox Farm nutes both trios of liquid and granular and sledgehammer flush

Botanicare: Cal-mag

Blackstrap Molases

PK 13/14 during flower (may or may not, undecided right now need to see how it reacts to/with Fox Farm)

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Going to re-use a few pics here on the new journal to get it up to speed

The clone family on day 1 arrival 12/19/13

The T5

JD Lighting 600W E Ballast

The girls after transplanting into 1 gal pots for some quick veg time
Doing very well 25 days into 1 gal pots..1/15/14
Skywalker and Plushberry are all 24"+ the Blackberrys are 18"

Hoping to transplant them into 3 gal pots in the next 7-10 days, veg another 2/3 weeks and flip to flower.

This is mostly to keep me sane right now so follow if you wish and welcome.

 

[MacEFL]

Looking good Heady, Subbed.

 

[Lady Cannafan]

And here I am again. LOL I'm subbed of course.
So glad to see you back in action!

 

[GeorgeFoster]

I'm hoping to save a little face here and get back into the groove...glad to have you guys along.

 

[Jay233]

Looking forward to your new grow Heady....subd

 

[shottafire]

Subbed heady. Like the strains you have selected and will try to offer some help or advice if I see fit.

Looking good so far dude.

 

[GeorgeFoster]

Please do shot, I like your style and results

 

[Light Addict]

Here of course Best of luck my friend!

 

[cherryhaze]

hello I am along too

 

[GeorgeFoster]

Question please.....Soil amending ideas?


I have been using FFOF with 40% perilite added and then the 12 week feed schedule with FF liquid line and granular for several grows.

My blue cheese every indoor grow about 30+ days into flower show signs of mag/cal def and by harvest they are ugly as sin, yield is about half of first time I grew it 3 yrs ago.

My normal way was get pre rooted clone and put into final pot and start at week 2 of the FF feeding schedule in 3gal pots.


I am now going from rooted clone dixie cup into 1 gals...forcing roots to fill the one gal by 30days veg and then repot into the 5's I just picked up.


So I was wondering if I could add something to the soil at the time of transplant from the 1gal to the 5gal that could help stabilize the mag and cal def she constantly shows?

I ph everything at 6.5 to 6.8 with or without nutes and flush at week 4/5 and again at wk 8 as I have had lock out before with the 3gal pots.


So would you add a supplement to the soil with the final trans into the 5gal pots?.....they would get another 2 weeks veg then flipped.


Thanks for any suggestions

 

[KingJohnC]

Subscribed. You can use Gypsum and Epsom Salts to add calcium and magnesium to your soil mixture. I flower in 5 gallon pots usually and start in 5" pots and transplant to 1 gallon pots and then transplant to 5 gallon pots. Have you considered that 40% perlite may be too high? I would replace half the perlite with vermiculite. Vermiculite acts as a catalyst between nutrients and plants roots. I would also add mycorrhizae every time you transplant.

 

[GeorgeFoster]

Thanks King and the reply in pm have some Reps on me as well.


Any help with amounts of Gyp and epsom to add to a 5 gal trans from a 1 gal?

 

[KingJohnC]

You can also use a calcium and magnesium supplement at 5 millilitres per gallon.

 

[GeorgeFoster]

Just picked up botanicare Cal/mag for this next run and applied it at the 5mil per gal once already to this new batch yesterday with wk 3 of FF feed schedule

 

[GeorgeFoster]

Today is transplanting day....

Using the FFOF medium with a few new additives as recommemded

New Medium for 5gal transplant: 60% FFOF, 20% Perlite, 20% Vermiculite, and some mycorrhizae.

They will get approx 2 weeks veg in the new 5 gals and then straight into the flower room.

Looking very healthy this time around....Update with pics to follow later today.

 

[Lady Cannafan]

 

[soo675]

Looking gnarly man sooooo healthy!!

 

[Jimmy6000]

Beautiful Start Heady.Im in.

 

[MacEFL]

Hey Heady, that's good to hear. You may want to add some bone meal, at least to your Blue Cheese to help ward of a calcium problem down the road. At least I think that's correct. I'll look real quick.

 

[MacEFL]

Here's the skinny.

As a fertilizer, the N-P-K ratio of bone meal is generally 4-12-0, though some steamed bone meals have N-P-Ks of 1-13-0. Bone meal is also an excellent source of calcium, but does not provide enough nitrogen to be beneficial to plants.

That was taken from Wiki. So, if you needed a little more nitrogen I would use the first and the second for less. Although I would like to hear from some one with more experience regarding the phosphorus percentage.

Edit: I just re-read KingJohnC's reply and saw about the gypsum. Where would one get that? I have a dozen egg shells and 3/8's tsp of Epsom salt all blended with a little water. I am going to add that to a gallon of Earth Juice feed and see if that helps with the beginning of a deficiency. This will be distributed to all 8 plants. I've read of people doing that. I am just beginning the deficiency so the slower acting shells may just work. If not, a calcium supplement is in order.

Sorry to go on so in your journal Heady.