I’m gonna pull up a chair and set a spell, my friend 
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I’ll take spot next to @repins12 if he would just scoot over lol. Best of vibes @Calyxander!
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Thanks y’all for stopping in, and for all of the kind words and thoughts.
Yesterday when transplanting out of the egg cartons, I noticed what appears to be some type of fungi on the little “root ball”.
Interesting.
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Howdy @oleskool830 , I need to gently correct your attribution.
@Scissor-Hanz was the creator of the marvelous SLHxJOG. Some nice flowers indeed!
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I’m down for this show. Yea
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Some details and background.
I use PH drops for aquariums to check my water, although I don’t use it often once I gauge my starting point before adding the powdered fertilizer.
I am using Pro Mix HP amended with some Dolomite lime and perlite.
Jack’s Citrus FeED will be the only form of nutrition the plants will receive.
For those curious as to why I no longer use any type of flowering food, about 10 years ago I read the rantings of the illustrious Uncle Ben on RIU regarding the problems with nutrients designed for flowering.
Here is a small part of some of what he wrote…
And this intrigued me as well.
Well, needless to say that I have been more than satisfied with my giving up the use of flowering food for about 10 years now. I like ro keep my leaves green and healthy and productive as close to harvest as possible. That’s also why I only remove leaves which are no longer productive, or for prophylactic reasons if I think PM or bud rot could be an imminent threat.
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I’m not stunned very often. holy cow. 10 years?
any particular reason you’re running the citrus specifically vs the AP, for example? and 1.5 gallon flower containers…so, drip lines?
very interesting all around. best of luck sir
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Howdy @noknees, The reason that I like the Citrus is because it is 4.9% sulfur, and lower P than the All Purpose.
I never worry about cal/mag because I always add more dolomite lime to my ProMix.
Actually 1½ gallon is larger than what I typically use for cannabis. I don’t think that I have used larger than a 2 gallon for cannabis in over 25 years. I usually use Nursery #1s which are only ⅔ to ¾ of a gallon. The small containers help keep the plant smaller, and they are highly portable. I like to move my plants frequently (especially outdoors following the direct sunlight during the day). I water/feed my plants by hand, and the small containers need much more frequent watering, but I am retired and I like to dote on all of my plants.
Some tiny containers outdoors from previous grows.
The one on the far left is in a 2 gallon container
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You are correct sir! I get those guys mixed up in my weed addled old mind. 
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OMG @Calyxander! Paradigms are exploding, I think the earth just shifted on its axis! No flower booster? My god man, what the hell are you talking about. Sounds like communism! No, seriously, Now I’ve got soooo much to rethink. Very interesting. I’m guilty of that phosphorus assault. Thanks. Good stuff.
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Well this is an update of sorts. I already feel my lazy bone acting up. I hate to admit that it seems a little bit like a chore to take photos and upload them. I am striving to overcome this inclination. So… these are the plants from today.
Thus far the most vigorous plants are the Cindy Mix from FDM seeds, followed by some of the Silver Mountain plantlets. The others are trying to catch up. It matters not how they start, it’s more about how they finish.
I plan on switching to 11 ½ hours of light and 12 ½ hours dark on or about Dec 1st. I need to be proactive in height control. I hope to be done by the end of Feb, which gives me less than 90 days of flowering. My primary concern is the Silver Mountain having enough time to ripen nicely.
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They’re looking good - thanks for sharing!
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Looking fine brother! 
great color. Happy happy!
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Coming along. Nice and clean.
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You have gotten busy. Sorry. If I like you I come to your page every day. I was wanting to see how you were doing. Peace. I do love your music choices. I was surprised to see you played almond brothers another day. You’re a jazzman I do believe in my opinion that was the roots of rock ‘n’ roll anyway.
Is it in full strength mode now? Giving you a prod to make an update! lol
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moar hippie speedball.
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@Hemp @Nagel420 @noknees
Thanks for the nudge to update this thread properly.
I ran into a little hiccup on my way to harvesting some tasty flowers with this grow.
Being reliant on pH drops for the past 25 years or so, I had become quite accustomed to ball-parking the pH of my nutrient solution.
But I noticed that some of the seedlings were not thriving, and I immediately suspected that the Ph was off kilter. Now I am doing this grow in a new location, and even though I tested the water before I started the seeds, after the nutrient is added to the tap water, it is difficult to test the blue tinted water with the color based pH drops. However, I knew that it could not be anything but the water here, so I decided to buy a new inexpensive pH tester( Apera A1209 - $50 Amazon) to be more accurate.
Well, as it turned out, the new meter indicated that the nutrient solution was actually at 5.4 pH, so I subsequently adjusted it back to where I like it, 6.2 to 6.5.
Even though some of the plants were a little slower in growth than I like, they have all now straightened out and are doing well. Most have been up potted to their final containers, leaving three or so which I may, or may not transplant. Room is already an issue. I culled all of the SLH, leaving only the Kali Bubba, Cindy Mix and Silver Mtns for flowering.
Final count breakdown to follow soon.
I will begin the flowering cycle tomorrow, Dec 1st.
Pictures later today or tomorrow at the latest.
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Thanks for the update! Looking forward to the pics 
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I have been using a nice Chromebook for about a year now. I like it better than my Windows laptop, but uploading pictures is a bit more laborious. I have a camera with which I use a memory card. The Chromebook has no slot for the memory card, so I have to use my older windows laptop to upload the pictures using the card. I miss my iphone, which would automatically upload my pics… much easier.
Anyway, here are some shots from today.
I have decided that I’m not going to top these plants, I will simply bend down whatever females I’m lucky enough to get out of this bunch. The plants are all pretty short, with tight inter nodes.
If I top them, they may become wider than easily manageable in my little tent. I have been running my LED at apx 90% power. I like to give the young plants as much light as they can use right from emerging out of the medium. I start lots of cannabis seedlings under the good ol’ sun, which has no dimmer. So I see no need to dim the light much. One thing that I have noticed in using LEDs compared to HIDs is that the LED plants seem to be more hungry than plants grown under MH or HPS. I feed the little buggers more under LEDs.
Anyway, I will provide a better pictorial and documentation in the next couple of days.
No one should hesitate in prodding me if I am tardy in doing so.
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