today is 10/20/2019
Good day one and all hope you are well
let start with some Blah Blah Blah and post up some photos
I am growing in a room/box built inside of a big building, the grow space is
8 foot by 16 foot by 8 foot tall inside the space is broken up into a 4 foot by 8 flower space
and a 8 foot by 12 foot clone/veg space
in the flower space I have two double ended bulbs one ceramic metal halide and one high pressure sodium
I am running them both at 400 watts but the are 1000 watt bulbs so could be ran at 1000
but 2000 watts is a bit on the hot side
I am using a couple select a voltage electronic ballasts, nothing fancy
bulbs are generic, again whatever is on sale
I grow in soilless right now and most of the time I use Pro Mix hp/bx but always add about
a 2 to one mix of soilless to perlite/vermiculite
very hard to overwater, the vermiculite IMHO does really help give a better root mass
being a glass it really appears to work like root pruning
I use Peters/Jack’s Classic because I started using it back in 1980’s growing potted plants for
the florist trade, great product for the cost a little goes a long way
most of the time I just use the 20-20-20 at half strength and call it good but time I to time do use the 10-30-20
to give them a kick
OK some photos but first let me say my plants have taking a beating from a mite problem and my neglect 
but with a bit of 
and some time they will be fine I know because I killed lots and lots of plants 
photos are on the crappy side but they will get better I promise, this is a DJ Shorty blueberry cross I made
with an unknown male I had keep because I liked the female, this is before a trim
after a trim, they are in small pots they not be flowered for awhile
I got mites from my stupidity should kept it outside the grow room as I always do
but to busy out riding and in a hurry so it went right in to the room
I sprayed a couple of time but not diligently they came back stronger
in the end I drenched back to back for three days with Dr. Earth’s Final Stop and Neem oil
which kill the bugs but damaged the plants a bit
this is a Dr Krippling Ganj-nam Style got a single seed as a freebie it is a Mekong High and Critical Mass cross
grows ez and yields big it is a keeper for me and I can smoke it day after day and still get stone
after a bit loving to remove any of the leaf mass that was damaged by the hard spraying
back in school I took an arboriculture a professor told us to always remember the four D’s
dead, diseased, damaged and dying when you are doing prune or trim a plant/tree
first things to go a dying stalk, damaged leaves etc. how much good are they doing a plant?
my guess would not much, a plant needs to build a cell wall to kill a stalk/leaf while it still has to feed them
cut them off and the plant has to heal the cut but not feed anything
gorilla glue 4 from a cali cut again beat up pretty, really I do grow better them all this
it truly is amazing how much abuse the weed can take and with care come back well
six GG4’s on a bench after some hacking
the plants in the green pots are a cross I made with some unknown plants, I like the smoke and the yield is very good
does not stretch and very little smell in flower, I still live in a state that frowns upon growing
high tech fan setup to move the air I have had it in many rooms and grows
I use a very basic reflector as i have never used a double ended bulb naked hung vertically
I have two light in the room one 1000 watt CMH and one watt HPS
I run them at 400 watts, the CMH can run at 600 and HPS is in a 600 ballast
breaker panel and ballasts on the wall, I am not big on timers but I do use on for my cloning lights and veg light
but I need to turn the flower lights on and off so I have to be in and look at the room twice
shelf for clones, enough for now my wife is washing the Harley right so I need to roll some bones
and hit the wind
all the best and stay free
Dequilo
