Indoor Mozzy’s Progeny and GroBucket Water Only Organic Soil Indoor Autoflower Grow

[Mozzy]

Pruned some lower branch nodes on the LDZ for airflow reasons yesterday, continuing to do minor LST and leaf tucking, and I am topping off the water reservoirs daily at this point with the three plants consuming about 1.5 gallons a day between them; but otherwise just chugging along with the GNC at 45, LDZ at 43, and PNG at 46 days:

...I may wind up pruning some more branches from these guys as time goes on since I will definitely trade lower yields for having no mold issues.

 

[Mozzy]

GNC at 48, LDZ at 46, and PNG at 49 days…Been fighting humidity for flowering already with light-on temps in the high 70s F, and RH in the mid 60s% (lights off, ~76f/67% observed):

The clip fan has been on high but the past couple days I turned the oscillating fan close to max too, the extraction fan to 80%, and moved the driver back in the tent to help with increasing the heat to lower humidity (it is always a pain to get that thing through the cable hole in the back of the tent, and much worse with plants in there).

I also took the riser out from under the LDZ, raised the light several inches and increased the dimmer to ~70% as well. This puts it about 14” above the average canopy.

Finally, after taking the above pictures first, I gave the plants (mainly the PNG/GNC) the most significant pruning yet, to help with airflow before things get worse:

Hopefully my butchering doesn’t kill anyone…I don’t mind much lower yields (preferable to any mold issues), but I am trying to avoid hermies from excessive stress, so will try to practice more restraint and patience day-to-day as much as possible going forward:

 

[Mozzy]

GNC at 52, LDZ at 50, and PNG at 53 days:

• Topping off the water reservoirs daily.
• Continuing to fight humidity.
• Light-on temps still in the high 70s F with light-off temps in the ~mid 70s F.
• RH in the high 60s% (or low 70s% overnight) according to the Mars Hydro thermostat at average canopy height, in the middle; however 3 separate mini humidity sensors (two sitting on the light bar with one in the middle and one on the far right; and one on the floor in the middle of the tent) all show significantly less: currently 68% vs 57, 52 ,59% respectively.
• After taking the above pictures first, I gave the plants another significant pruning to help with airflow:

 

[Mozzy]

GNC at 55, LDZ at 53, and PNG at 56 days:

I pruned a couple more troublesome branches from the LDZ, which continues to grow and was 40” from the soil…and then I decided to do a late supercropping (my first) on the main cola as it was about 1” from the light at this point and moving things around in the tent didn’t make sense due to airflow/humidity concerns. I first used an LST clip for support, but it flopped out of that when I turned on the oscillating fan again, so I used a pipe cleaner as hanging support for now :

Hopefully it isn’t enough stress to cause a hermie .

 

[Bob's Auto's]

Been fighting humidity for flowering already with light-on temps in the high 70s F, and RH in the mid 60s%

Why fight it? Raise the temperature to 81-82°F and you're golden for mid to late flower

 

[Mozzy]

Why fight it? Raise the temperature to 81-82°F and you're golden for mid to late flower
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Thanks, Bob. I appreciate your suggestion...I moved the light's driver back into the tent a week ago hoping that would do it, but no luck. The lung room is necessarily kept conditioned in the 70s F, so I would need to turn up the light's dimmer to get more heat at this point but I think everyone is getting enough DLI, so I'm just kind of spinning plates for the time being unfortunately.

 

[Mozzy]

GNC at 57, LDZ at 55, and PNG at 58 days:

• Replaced the charcoal filter with a backup I had to see if it would help with airflow (the old one has been through a couple grows and seemed okay, but I may be nose-blind to it).
• Cinched up the filter and extraction fan to the top as high as possible.
• Rearranged the 6” clip fan and the 6” oscillating so that everyone is dancing pretty good around the clock…hopefully not too much wind stress, but better than mold.
• Moved light 3-4” higher and increased the dimmer to 75%...average canopy is ~12”+ away, but with several LDZ secondary colas at ~6” away near the middle.
• Lights on environment is okay, but humidity spikes into the 70s% at lights off so I’m opening the tent everyday during those hours when possible to get to high 50s% with ~mid 70sF in the lung room.

 

[Mozzy]

GNC at 61, LDZ at 59, and PNG at 62 days

They are progressing well and everyone is bulking up; continuing to top off the water reservoirs daily; opening the tent during lights out to keep RH out of the 60s% or more; and I went back and pruned the bulk of the fan leaves from the lower thirds for better airflow…I had left them to this point because I thought they would start getting consumed by now for nutrients based on prior grows; but everyone seems okay (likely due to optimal watering in veg/flowering this time thanks to the help of GroBuckets), and keeping good airflow seems more critical at this point:

 

[Tom Bombadil]

we need a bigger tent

 

[Mozzy]

we need a bigger tent

No kidding …this tent is going to produce maybe 60% of what these same plants would have put out in a larger healthy environment.

The funny thing is I really just want to grow 4 plants at a time in my setup, for daily strain variety , but I am continuing to run out of space even with pruning, and I also fight airflow issues and humidity due to environment, every time now. May move up to a 6" extraction fan in the future to help more; but otherwise, my current setup seems to work so well, next run I'll likely try and remove the bottom two nodes and top them at ~4 weeks to see if I can get 4 plants small enough with lots of airflow, successfully grown in a cycle in there .