Lighting Kraken fem. (Buddha seeds), HS1 +DIY, coco

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Hi AFN!

Want to share this my grow with you and thank GrowNorthern for their kind help with fixing my HS1. My DIY lights without HS1 part was not enough for good plant growth, but now my lights are fully up and running and at last i expect normal growth rate as usual.
Now i am using HS1 + DIY part of 50W, total is 125W now. It has 60W white part too, but that is only for maintenance, not used in grow.
Box is 45*30cm, lamp is 75cm above pot.
Using 10l Airpot + Ugro coco.
Mainly using Hesi TNT + Hesi coco nutes, feeding thru Torpf Blumat and manually adding various other additives / organics.For organics i use mycorhizae, bacteria and will use potassium humate in late flower.
Had some trouble in the beginning of this grow, started with too big pot and nearly killed small plant, but after some measures i took it lived and in result all i lost is approx. one week of veg. That was only one Kraken seed on my hands and i decided to give her a chance to grow.
So, feeding her 400ppm tea with 1ml / l of CalMag + 2.5ml/l of Hesi TNT complex. Washing coco once in a week with same weak tea, up to 50% of drainage every time. But it seems that tea for continuous dripping thru Blumat is still too strong, looks like slight overdose of Nitrogen. WIll try to make tea even bit weaker.
This is day 41 from sprout for her. I did reduced her vertical grow by cutting pair of center leaf repeatedly, so i got almost plain bush with center. Now im gonna give her some time to grow every branch stronger and then switch her to flower.
Also this grow will be another way experimental - i have added 30W 730nm IR chip to my setup and will try to imitate sunsets with it. This way i will try to grow her with 14 hour long days, that is bit of non - standard for photoperiod.
SO, welcome to my new diary and im hoping you will find it interesting!
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Welcome guys :)

This is day 45.
Made mild defoliation today, removed some bottom leaf and very small nodes. This finises forming of a bush, now only some time is needed, to make all branches strong before switching. This really will be a monster! :D

Also started to do sunsets - IR is turned on two hours before day ends and 30 min after lights go out. This is day 2 for IR, so im only starting to use it to see how Emerson laws work :) Using chinese 30W 730nm chip for that.
Before and after defol
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Yeah bro, this is why i love photoperiods, so i could play with plants growth. But next grow will be auto again, just received that nice Mephisto package, as you did also ;)

So, here is small update.
As everything goes well, added more time for IR. If that will do no harm - will add even more time, maybe whole day, will see.

Here is plant today, she is pretty happy and looks promising :)
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And this is what growbox looks really like, not with maintenance lights.
Now im using 75W HS1 + 30W 730nm COB + 50W DIY with Osram LEDs. Summary power is 155w and it is really killing my eyes when lookong to open box, so i added additional 60W of white LED's which are fed from DIY part driver via relay. I made that so when i open box with one click of a button all lights goes out and only DIY part driver power is redirected to white LEDs.

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Yeah the Bush Doctor like Peter Tosh.


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Day 54

This is short period of preparation for flowering. Removed all small nodes from bottoms, only couple of them were left in more open areas, these will be for early testing :D
Reduced IR to 2hours + 30min. sunsets daily, enough of stretching.
Will switch to flowering next week.
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Swtitching to 14/10 today + IR for 50 minutes before and 30 minutes after night starts. Time to start flowering, plant is big already.
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