Mrs Fly's Garden of Mixed Delights

PassionForMaryJane · Post by **PassionForMaryJane** » Tue Jul 13, 2010 8:39 pm

Looking lovely as always Mrs Fly!!! :D

I just found out one of my 3 SAGE plants is a female, yayyyy, lol

Hope all is well with you and maggit!

Post by **roller24** » Wed Jul 14, 2010 2:47 pm

Awesome as always.

Luushen · Post by **Luushen** » Sat Jul 24, 2010 4:37 am

[youtube]AWESOME[/youtube]

bah

ack i have a virus thats making me post

and say that i love MRS FLY

must dump all liquid memory on the floor in front of me and do an anti clock wise dance at a full moon party

its a nasty ooze dribbling from where my navel should be

could be the end of your planet

REGlClDE · Post by **REGlClDE** » Sun Jul 25, 2010 9:36 pm

Mamabudz · Post by **Mamabudz** » Sun Jul 25, 2010 11:18 pm

the happy couple

Mrs Fly · Post by **Mrs Fly** » Wed Jul 28, 2010 11:09 am

lol!! Luushen you're supposed to stick a cork in where the ooze comes out, that way it'll have no choice but to all come out of the same orifice in a concentrated blast of smegma! Good to see you even if you have got alienitis of your squelch gland

No fly fucking? Well, that's Edinburgh in a nutshell really, they don't mind if you want to fuck bumblebees but when it comes to flys that's a no-no. Weirdos.

Hope the SAGEy saga is growing well PFMJ, will drop by in a bit.....

Lovely to see you Mama!!

I just wanted to post a quick piccie I took just now, we have actually gotten a new ballast!! Whoopee!! I stuck the camera on a tripod and took some pics of how the light looked under the old ballast, and how it looks now, quite interesting to look at (yes, I know for all the geeks out there I could get a lightmeter and measure this, but fuck wasting money on one of them, this works too...)

Anyhoo, what was really interesting to me was just how much the brightness of the magnetic ballast was varying from picture to picture, I have noticed it does flicker a bit, but it really does have an obvious effect...

This first picture shows you the general difference, the left portion of this picture is illuminated with the new digi ballast, and the right portion is illuminated with my old magnetic ballast:

There is a difference, mostly visable on the shadow of the reflector at the top of the pic, and also you can see it when you look at the bottle I'm using to prop up those smaller plants in the foreground.

It's even more visible in this picture, every picture I took of the old magnetic ballast was a different colour/hue of light, when I reviewed the 4 pictures I took of the digital ballast I could not make any distinctions at all in the quality of the light.

Anyway, left is new ballast again, and right is the old one:

Much more obvious here. And I've been noticing for some time now that my yields have been steadily getting worse from grow to grow, and I have bought a new bulb and not changed anything in my technique (apart from the weaker light I now use in veg, which I am also now addressing, I have ordered a proper reflector for that cupboard just waiting on it coming) I'm seeing about 5g or more drop in every successive yield, so I'm assuming either I've become incredibly crap at growing or my ballast was kaput!!

We shall soon find out!!!!!

K
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PassionForMaryJane · Post by **PassionForMaryJane** » Wed Jul 28, 2010 10:39 pm

I can see a difference in the light for sure, the left side seems a bit brighter, are both bulbs new, or the same age?

Your ladies are looking good, I cannot wait till I have some budding going on, my lady in flowering just started to put out pistils, so another 65 days or so & I should be harvesting.

MadMoonMan · Post by **MadMoonMan** » Thu Jul 29, 2010 9:25 pm

i'm in love

Mrs Fly · Post by **Mrs Fly** » Fri Jul 30, 2010 8:44 am

Hiya PFMJ!

The ONLY thing I changed was the ballast: that is the exact same bulb/hood being used in both sides of the pictures....if nothing else it confirms to me the output from the new ballast is brighter and not flickering at all......plus there's a booster switch on the ballast which makes it another 10% brighter yet again...I've played with the switch and I visually do notice it gets even brighter when I flick it on: I really should get my tripod out again and take another 2 comparisson piccies.....hang on......

Okay, I had a go but there is no way I can tell with the naked eye that there is ANY difference [at least visually] when I flick that switch other than it does appear to look brighter for a second:

Left is WITH the booster, right is without, you'd think it'd be possible to visually see an increase of 10% but perhaps not....

This is what the blurb on the box says about it:

Well, either way I'm making much more of a concerted effort with the plants now, I'm tending them more, and I'm giving the veg plants 12 hours under the sodium to try and help fatten them up a bit before flower, as I'm getting really spindly growth under the cfl, which to be fair, I could have done more to sort at an earlier date!

It's lovely to see you MadMoonMan!

K
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Hax · Post by **Hax** » Fri Jul 30, 2010 10:44 am

Hey senora mosca. I'm currently chuckling about "turtles all the way down". The following video will not explain:

See? Ciao