2nd Indoor Grow 1000w Holy Grail Kush, Kandy Kush, and Euphoria

[Raven12141517]

2nd indoor grow, 4th grow ever. I have 1 Kandy Kush, 2 Holy Grail Kush, and 1 Euphoria. Soil was recycled Shultz Moisture Plus Potting Mix from last 2 grows with rabbit bedding composte into half the soil. Started on 7/16 and 8 of 11 looked good. Those 8 were narrowed down to 5 due to 1 being small and slow growing, and 2 males. On 9/11 I topped all 4 ladies at the 6th node on most, the 7th on the Euphoria, supercropped the top 6 branches, and lst the bottom 6 branches. Some plants have 12 and some have 14 main colas. Started under sunlight, then approx 30 days in were moved indoors under T5 4' 8 bulb, transplanted into 1 gal pots with 1/3c Espoma Garden Tone, then transplanted into the 5 gal buckets they will finish in with the 1/3 c Garden Tone per gal soil it recommends along with 1/2 tsp epsome salt per bucket. Once they were in the 5 gal buckets for 3 weeks I added 2 4' T8 3000k to each side of the T5 fixture. I vegged at 18/6 until 9/11 I dropped the light period by 1 hr each week ending last week with 16/8, and startin 14/10 today. I will keep them under the T5 until next Tuesday when my Nebula 1000w HPS comes in. Then the T5 and T8 will be used for side lighting leaving the 6500k T5 and 3000k T8 for mixed spectrum. All pics are from present day. This has been a RO water only grow aside from the soil amendments.

 

[Raven12141517]

Today I spent a few hrs getting the room ready for flowering. Got the 1000w HPS coming tomorrow. Got a direct intake port installed from the outside. Now that it's getting colder out, upper 60's-Lower 70's daytime highs, that fresh outdoor air will be welcome. We had some troubles with heat this summer hitting upper 80's, and on occasion even lower 90's just with the T5. Going to get 3 more of the individual runoff trays to better arrainge the buckets to fill the room better. Here is what it looks like before we add 1000w HPS tomorrow.

 

[Raven12141517]

Added the 1000w HPS on 09/29, noticed some N, Ca, and Mg deficiencies on 08/06 so we topdressed with 1/3c Garden Tone and watered it in with 3/4 gal ro water. I am making a banana peel and oyster shell flour tea to assist slowly through flower. Light started at 3' away, and after 3 days we slowly lowered to current height of 28". Lights went from 18/6 to 16/8 on 09/18, then 14/10 on 09/29, then 13/11 on 08/02, then 12/12 on 08/06. Holy Grail Kush 1 looks to be about 2-3 weeks into flower, while Holy Grail Kush 2 seems to be at about week 1-2, and Kandy Kush and the sativa dom hybrid looking 1 we were told was Euphoria, which it isn't, look to just be coming into week 1. I appologize in advance for the pics taken with the HPS on. The grow is not at my property and the pics were sent by my partner. Any feedback, advice, and/or constructive criticism is much appreciated and welcomed as we are very new still to all of this. Thanks in advance for your time and advice.

 

[Green Birth]

Kandy kush has been my 2nd or third grow ever. Mainly using the short pheno but the much stretch I've seen was my buddies lights getting gleemed by the floral bush of a plant it was.

No luck there, just a head ache.

Smoke was very hashy.