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TheKalyxKid
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DIY 90cm x 45cm x 150cm tent
Blackstar 240 UV
Blue Himalaya generation 2.0
I grew out a 10 pack of Blue Himalaya for my first LED grow and only got one female. I ended up pollinating her and scored a few beans. Here's mum and dad under a Haight LED which is to close:
Here's the babies looking very similar at 4 weeks, same as the above plants at the time of the photo, born on 4/20. I have 4 more BH sprouts planted three weeks later. These are under the Blackstar. 100% LED, baby:
This cross seems to be pretty stable looking, comically short little plants about 6" in early stretch. Unless I take my chances on some regular beans again, this will give me males to breed with feminized beans.
But last time the one female had pretty impressive buds and was only 10" because I stunted her:
with tons of branches. I think by not cutting fan leaves, which made sense at the time but now seems so silly, the plants just build their energy and it needs to be at a critical point to get flowering and branching going.
By cutting fan leaves thinking I was exposing the branches to light, I forgot that they nodes get their energy from the fan leaves, and the covered branches get energy from the node even if not directly exposed to light.
Also, I was keeping the LED like 6" from the tops of the plants, which also caused stunting, with nodes too close and excessive vegetation as flowering is delayed.
So far by not taking fan leaves and keeping the LED at least 24" from the tops, I am getting good stretch at near 5 weeks but nothing excessive.
I know once into flowering the don't mind the light so close, so my theory is to let them grow into the light. I don't want to move the light because I don't have a good DIY solution for frequent height changes.
Seedlings stay outside the 24" bubble, and flowering plants can grow into it as long as there is good stretch to 1" between nodes.
In theory, as they grow taller they can handle more light, and I won't have trouble with stunting or having to constantly move the light.
This sounds basic, but I goofed two harvests to learn how to use LEDs, which I believed in but didn't respect in terms of their learning curve.
Let the perpetual begin! I will plant at least two auto beans every three weeks. I still have another chamber that could fit several seedlings should my backup beans not be needed.
I really should do mother/clones in hydro, but I'm scared of messing it up. Soil seems forgiving to me, and autos don't require a strict light-tight enclosure, but I am starting to get tempted by all the good strains out there...
Blackstar 240 UV
Blue Himalaya generation 2.0
I grew out a 10 pack of Blue Himalaya for my first LED grow and only got one female. I ended up pollinating her and scored a few beans. Here's mum and dad under a Haight LED which is to close:
Here's the babies looking very similar at 4 weeks, same as the above plants at the time of the photo, born on 4/20. I have 4 more BH sprouts planted three weeks later. These are under the Blackstar. 100% LED, baby:
This cross seems to be pretty stable looking, comically short little plants about 6" in early stretch. Unless I take my chances on some regular beans again, this will give me males to breed with feminized beans.
But last time the one female had pretty impressive buds and was only 10" because I stunted her:
with tons of branches. I think by not cutting fan leaves, which made sense at the time but now seems so silly, the plants just build their energy and it needs to be at a critical point to get flowering and branching going.
By cutting fan leaves thinking I was exposing the branches to light, I forgot that they nodes get their energy from the fan leaves, and the covered branches get energy from the node even if not directly exposed to light.
Also, I was keeping the LED like 6" from the tops of the plants, which also caused stunting, with nodes too close and excessive vegetation as flowering is delayed.
So far by not taking fan leaves and keeping the LED at least 24" from the tops, I am getting good stretch at near 5 weeks but nothing excessive.
I know once into flowering the don't mind the light so close, so my theory is to let them grow into the light. I don't want to move the light because I don't have a good DIY solution for frequent height changes.
Seedlings stay outside the 24" bubble, and flowering plants can grow into it as long as there is good stretch to 1" between nodes.
In theory, as they grow taller they can handle more light, and I won't have trouble with stunting or having to constantly move the light.
This sounds basic, but I goofed two harvests to learn how to use LEDs, which I believed in but didn't respect in terms of their learning curve.
Let the perpetual begin! I will plant at least two auto beans every three weeks. I still have another chamber that could fit several seedlings should my backup beans not be needed.
I really should do mother/clones in hydro, but I'm scared of messing it up. Soil seems forgiving to me, and autos don't require a strict light-tight enclosure, but I am starting to get tempted by all the good strains out there...
