Been trying to get the chance to run thru your thread Meeks and I am glad I had the chance today. Your plant are crazy bushy - def the way to a health start imho, your attention to detail is amazing and your camera work is equally impressive not to mention the way your room just screams clean. This grow will be epic.... excellent work.. sorry it took so long but subbed , standing in the back now bro....... respect soser
I am really happy you are enjoying the log soser, thanks a bunch for going through all of it up to this point and for the very kind words in regards to my growing and photography! There does seem to be a lot of people here, but I'm sure we can find a spot with a nice view for you!
Photo Update - Day 8 of 12/12 lighting
The plants are still thriving in my opinion! Their growth did seem to slow just a tiny bit, which I have decided is because I was feeding at 5.7 pH instead of 5.5-5.6 pH. . . . so I am now back to feeding at roughly 5.55 pH, and will update if I change that again. My ppm is now 850-860 for the 6 larger plants in 7 gallon containers, and ~730 ppm for the smaller plants in 2 gallon pots. Only a few leaves here and there have shown any signs of a little N toxicity, which I completely blame on myself for letting the media dry just a bit too much before watering again, meaning the ratio of salt vs. water left in the media changed and the EC in the media spiked the drier it got. No worries though, I caught it within an hour or two of this happening and there was almost no damage (only 1 plant showed any leaf curl, and only on a few lower leaves that would be pruned soon anyways).
I have now tied hundreds of knots with my ball of string, and combined with a few PVC connectors and piping I have created a double layer fully adjustable screen, that is also 100% removable/disassemble-able if needed. I made my square holes 4"x4" and each hole is completely adjustable on its own because of the way I wove the string for the screen. I think it turned out extremely nice, and was significantly easier to setup than my previous Solo-ScrOGs. . . . hopefully I don't regret going for all one big screen, but so far so good!
I did end up going with option number 3, so besides killing my 4 full sized males. . . that means I have 4 Lemon Alien Dawgs grown from seed flowering under my 1000w HPS in a table all on their own. I also have 9 plants grown from clone each in their own 2 gallon pot that are different genotypes of my selected keepers from last year growing OGRaskal's gear from seed. The 9 clones are sharing the second table under my 1000w Dual-Arc bulb with the 2 remaining female Alien Grenades also grown from seed, both in 7 gallon pots just like the 4 Lemon Alien Dawgs.
As I said at the top of this update, today is day 8 of the plants 12 hour days, and they are gearing up for an explosion of growth this next week! I have the first screen layers lowered down to spread the canopies as much as possible for now, and the second layers are positioned about as high as I think I could have them without letting the plant canopy get too close to my lights, when they're all filled in. I have been super cropping daily, and topped a couple more branches that were way to tall. So without anymore stalling, here are some picture I took about an hour ago to show you how things have progressed this week!
Lemon Alien Dawgs:
Alien Grenades + 9 Clones of White Master Kush, White Urkle, and White Fire OG:
I hope all is going well for everyone else! These girls are ready to do their thing!
-Meeks:D
