New Grower Retail Store DIY CFL/LED Coir Hempy Grow 2 x Plants (White Cheese)

[Meehi]

Hi Guys

First ever grow happening here so thought I'd share my Progress. Below are the specs for my grow.

Environment: 18x25x63 inch Greenhouse tent. I lined the entire inside with white panda film, installed 4 x 2.8 inch PC Fans exhausting air from the roof and 1 x 3.2 inch Intake PC Fan at the bottom. The tent also does not have a floor so air is naturally pulled in where the sides of the tent meet the ground.

Light 1: Custom DIY CFL Hood. 10 x 20 Watt Spiral CFLS.
Light 2: I later switched to a custom DIY LED (Retail store screw in bulbs, with plastic bulb removed) 12 x 9.5 Watt LED's

Grow Medium: 2 x 2.6 Gallon Hempy Style Buckets. 100% Coir with Perlite Reservoir.
Strain: Dinafem White Cheese Auto.

See below progress Pics, Hopefully I'm doing okay! And will have some bud to smoke at the end?

I'm at day 46 now with white pistols showing and the plant is still stretching A LOT every day. Waiting for the stretch to slow before I start flowering Nutes.

Really hope I'm on the right track!

My Custom CFL Hood 10x20Watt CFL's

Little girls growing happily under CFL's

Current Day: 45 Switched to LED's after reading this thread https://www.icmag.com/ic/showthread.php?t=314806

Things are really dense and bushy with not much room to try any sort of LST or anything. Which obviously since this is my first grow I have never done...

Think I'm just going to let things happen naturally and hopefully I'll have some medicine at the end of it. What do you guys think?

 

[CTb1]

Looking good man

 

[iWumbo]

Hi Guys

First ever grow happening here so thought I'd share my Progress. Below are the specs for my grow.

Environment: 18x25x63 inch Greenhouse tent. I lined the entire inside with white panda film, installed 4 x 2.8 inch PC Fans exhausting air from the roof and 1 x 3.2 inch Intake PC Fan at the bottom. The tent also does not have a floor so air is naturally pulled in where the sides of the tent meet the ground.

Light 1: Custom DIY CFL Hood. 10 x 20 Watt Spiral CFLS.
Light 2: I later switched to a custom DIY LED (Retail store screw in bulbs, with plastic bulb removed) 12 x 9.5 Watt LED's

Grow Medium: 2 x 2.6 Gallon Hempy Style Buckets. 100% Coir with Perlite Reservoir.
Strain: Dinafem White Cheese Auto.

See below progress Pics, Hopefully I'm doing okay! And will have some bud to smoke at the end?

I'm at day 46 now with white pistols showing and the plant is still stretching A LOT every day. Waiting for the stretch to slow before I start flowering Nutes.

Really hope I'm on the right track!

My Custom CFL Hood 10x20Watt CFL's
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Little girls growing happily under CFL's
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Current Day: 45 Switched to LED's after reading this thread https://www.icmag.com/ic/showthread.php?t=314806
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Things are really dense and bushy with not much room to try any sort of LST or anything. Which obviously since this is my first grow I have never done...

Think I'm just going to let things happen naturally and hopefully I'll have some medicine at the end of it. What do you guys think?

Looks like a mini forest of ganja personally I'd start bending branches and chopping a few fan leaves here n there for to let some air circulation thru. Looks like ya know what your doing tho cheers man

 

[Meehi]

Just some update pics from today within the forrest and a few of my ghetto little setup. Hope everyone is having an awesome day! [emoji2]

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[Micron Creek]

Good stuff. As long as stagnant air and humidity do not accumulate. A concern would be the massive increase in humidity once flowering begins. The hotel already seems booked. I know financial limitation well, but do consider switching to a booster asap, gonna need the filter to go with it. Cheese does not have a low odor variety...

 

[Meehi]

Good stuff. As long as stagnant air and humidity do not accumulate. A concern would be the massive increase in humidity once flowering begins. The hotel already seems booked. I know financial limitation well, but do consider switching to a booster asap, gonna need the filter to go with it. Cheese does not have a low odor variety...

Thanks for the tips, much appreciated. Will definitely keep a close eye on humidity! So based on the pics and timelines I should switch to Bloom nutes? They are still stretching.. but I guess I should switch to try limit their size? I know auto flowers have a sort of lifespan so if I switch too late will the plant just die before it developes proper buds? Probably a silly question.. [emoji144]

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[Micron Creek]

Thanks for the tips, much appreciated. Will definitely keep a close eye on humidity! So based on the pics and timelines I should switch to Bloom nutes? They are still stretching.. but I guess I should switch to try limit their size? I know auto flowers have a sort of lifespan so if I switch too late will the plant just die before it developes proper buds? Probably a silly question.. [emoji144]

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No, it will keep on making an attempt, but sooner or later the late stage of life will prompt the plant to produce staminates in a last ditch attempt to reproduce. The classic "nanner" becomes an issue and a plant doesn't reach potential because as you want more flowers to develop, older pistils are dying off. A plant may never really getting the same density. I would say you appear wall to wall already, with food you may see a huge increase in growth, sooner is better. Before you have to start defoliating and snapping stalks like crazy. Some people will just keep chopping in flower, but you may stunt flowering, or stress certain varieties that way.

 

[Meehi]

Perfect, will introduce flower nutes asap! Thanks for the advise!

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[Eclectic Elle]

Nice growing so far! Have a for your light! I love DIY lights, I did one of my own last year. Yours is much more professional looking - mine looked like a cow milking machine upside down

 

[Meehi]

Based on the lack of space in my little modified greenhouse tent and the advise of you kind sirs... I have been busy moving the space into an unused shower area. I put up some panda wrap on the walls and used the greenhouse frame to hang the lights and build a little diy scrog net.. All and all I think it worked well, the girls have more space and my run off goes directly down the shower drain. Win win