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**stinkyattic** · #76 (**permalink**) Jul-02-2008, 14:02

Don't try to put a plant in a smaller pot unless it is n emergency. If it looks healthy, leave it be. When you say 'stress seed' are you meaning a bag seed that came from a hermi pollination in a stressed grow environment?

Kiviaa · #77 (**permalink**) Jul-03-2008, 12:06

Do smaller plants bud faster slower or the same as taller plants

hey stinky were from the same state hell yea i live near the rhode island border near 495. what area u come from?

Blaze87 · #78 (**permalink**) Jul-03-2008, 14:55

lol actually im not a 100% sure what stress really is, all i know is that on the streets its cheaper and weaker than kush or chronic. usually the buds are browner and more dense. we call it "poor smoker's weed". i planted it just for the hell of it cause im a first time grower and i just wanted to practice with it. then i got that kush seed (grandaddy i think) about a week later. so im hoping that at least ONE of them is a female. your guess at what a stress seed is sounds realistic though.

Raftastic · #79 (**permalink**) Jul-06-2008, 18:11

At what stage is it ok to add molasses ?

**stinkyattic** · #80 (**permalink**) Jul-08-2008, 08:56

Kiviia- Smaller plants bud exactly the same speed as taller ones, assuming that they are all sexually mature. After that point, the timing is all the same. If you flower early, before maturity, smaller plants will take longer to START budding, but will then finihs the same speed.
I'm somewhere along the CT river valley

It's nice out here.

Raftastic- You can start adding molasses at any time after you start feeding real fertilizer, but as with anything, start WEAK and work up gradually. You don't need a ton of sugar to make a ton of difference. Just a tablespoon or so in a full gallon of water is plenty! Remember, in veg, it is not quite so aggressively used, and the primary way you want to give carbon is giving a LOT of CO2 by allowing constant air flow or even injecting it from a tank. In flower, that sugar added to the fertilizer is going to help bulk up your buds and help them produce all sorts of sticky goodness.

**stinkyattic** · #81 (**permalink**) Jul-18-2008, 08:50

Accurately estimating your electrical usage from an indoor grow:

Take your total watts. It helps to group items on the same timer together.
Take the number of hours per day you are running each group of items.
Calculate the percentage of the time each group is turned on.
Multiply by that % figure to get an average hourly watt usage, then by 24 to find total daily watt usage for each group.
Add the value for all groups together.
Multiply by the number of days in your billing cycle (one month).
That is your WATT HOURS per month.
Divide by 1000.
That is your kwh per month.
Multiply by your charge per kwh.
That is your bill.

Example:
A grower has a 1000 watt flower room on 12/12, a 400 watt veg room on 18/6, a 150 watt clone chamber on 24/0, a 500 watt air conditioner running all the time, and a blower on each room that draws 20 watts and is on only when the lights are on. (this is just an example mind you)

Group 1 is the shit that is always on:
-a/c @500w
-20w blower for clone room
-150w clone chamber lights
Your daily draw is all of that, straight. 670w x 24 = 16,080 watt hours per day used

Group 2 is the 18/6 area:
-20w blower
-400w light
18 is 75% of 24 so .75 x 420 gives the total daily draw for that room: 315 watts x 24 = 7,560

Group 3 is the flower room on 12/12:
-1000w light
-20w blower
They are on 50% of the time and 1020 x 0.5= 510w, x 24= 12,240

Add all that together:
12,240
7,560
16,080
______+
35,880

That's 35.88 kilowatt hours per day, and there are 30 days in your cycle, so 1076.4 kwh per month.

Say your charge per kilowatt hour is $0.23

Your growroom will cost you $247.57 per month to operate.
Add 10% for small shit like pumps and oscillating fans.

MaryLane · #82 (**permalink**) Jul-18-2008, 16:18

Stinky rocks and we all know it.

I would like to add a bit of advice:

Don't pay too much attention to your plants! If your numbers are right (pH, EC, temperature, light, circulation), you won't have much work to do. Don't stare at your plants trying to find something to fix!

McToker · #83 (**permalink**) Aug-07-2008, 16:30

Ms. Stinkyattic, I didn't intend to lurk so long but I've been busy absorbing all the info on the site.

We, my wife and I, are currently vegging 8 healthy babies and one freak of nature. The freak has leaves the size of my hand.

Today we added some molasses to one of the plants to make sure there would be no ill effects before treating the remaining plants. I know you said not to be as aggressive during veg but, how often should I add the molasses?

In case it matters, we are using 6500k CFL's for vegging. We'll switch to 2700K CFL's for flower. Soil is MG because it's all I could find. I just ordered some Pure Blend Pro Grow, Flower and some Sweet. We'll be transferring all to a Homebox as soon as it arrives.

How often should I add nutes?

Thanks to you and all the other contributers for the detailed info and the inspiration.

McT

**stinkyattic** · #84 (**permalink**) Aug-08-2008, 10:23

I like to give nutes for three waterings in a row, and then just water really heavy. You will judge how often that is by how fast your plants use up their water. IF they are growing fast and feeding heavy, they will get ferted more often. If they are growing slowly and you find that you only have to water ~3x/week, then that is also how often to fert them.
Go easy on molasses too- a tablespoon in a gallon will do the trick.