Trying to kill my first clones under 1000w light was not my only mistake this week. I messed up my light schedule three days this week.
I flipped them back to 24/7 for two days and then about 18/6 for another day. Then I blew a breaker and tried to freeze them yesterday, after overheating them the night before. It's been getting below freezing at night so I added another heater, tripped a fuse @#$@#$%#$%#$%#$%$%^@$
So after almost killing everything, I limmited my kill erb intake, and decided to do everything partially manually for the next week or so. Double, even triple check everthing. Trying to control four lights, two fans, two heaters, a heating pad, while ventilating my room has been a bit more than I had planned for. I have gained alot more respect for all of you growers!!! More than a few times this week I had started wondering if I had gotten myself in over my head.
I hope that once I get everthing a bit more stablized and then once I have everthing automated it should get much easier?
Even after all of the problems even my clones are still alive. After one day of 12/12 and normal regular temps everthing seems to be doing fine. I figure as long as I don't repeat this weeks mistakes that they should be fine. I can see how one wrong move could easily kill off a whole crop.
Before I started this an experienced grower told me to have a second batch of seeds ready to go just for this reason. I feel pretty lucky and I'm really glad that I have not had to use them........yet.
Enough wining!!!
I turned off my MH until I have clones THAT ARE READY for veg. Du!!! I still have 10 of the 12 that are still alive, look OK and are now under a 2' flourescent. They will be sitting on their new heat pad as soon as my flower room lights come back on.
I gave my WW, except for one, their first FF nutes at 1/8 strength w/o any problems, they seem to really like that stuff.
Even after stressing them more than once this week they seemed to snap right out of it?
