Hey folks, been slow getting going on this thread but the flower room was finally cleared of the autos and the photo flower begun. The last auto run was the first under my diy cob fixture and I'm happy to report that it was a success. The journal is elsewhere on AFN and may be linked in my sig.
My flower tent is the mars hydro 3.3'x3.3'x6'. It's currently running 4x Cree COB cxb3590s, 72v model, 3500k CD bin with passive heatsinks all running off of re-purposed Mars Hydro power supplies.
Currently flowering are 1 berry bomb, 1 blue dream and 1 black russian. These were vegged in 1 gallon pots and kept trimmed down to fit under my t5 then they were potted up to tall 2 gallon pots. They're growing in 75/25 coco/perlite. I'm using 3 part gh flora nutes for the time being. I'm using the liquid koolBloom, FloraNectar, rapid start, Floralicious Plus, Hygrozyme and Liquid Gold.
I'm trying the taller, smaller volume pots this time. I've previously grown in 3 gallon plastic or 5 gallon fabric pots. I didn't dislike my past experiences but I simply want to see how it goes in these ones based on recommendations from others and grow journals I've read.
Canopy temperature is another thing I'm attempting to focus more on after the last run. I think I did well with my temps on the last one but I think I can achieve a little more consistency and we'll see how that goes. So far I've been able to keep it hovering back and forth between 74F and 86F, 24/7. I'm gonna try to let this go this way for the whole first 6 weeks then I'll kill the heat and this will allow it to drop lower in the darkness. I'll be monitoring the temps to make sure I don't have any dangerous swings.
I gradually shifted to 12/12 over a couple of days. I'm not totally sure if that counts as gradual but that's what I did. No 24 hour dark or anything like that, just stepped up the darkness from 6 to 12 hours over 2 nights.
This is a pic after the first full 12/12 day.
The ugly beast in the back right was a berry bomb but it was a gross mutant who couldn't handle my led so I promptly pulled it; it was obvious to me that it wouldn't be worth the trouble.
I was going to put my scrog net on this but the berry bomb stretched so hard and fast on me that I was afraid I would break it putting it on.
2 weeks later, everything is stretched up and filling the whole damn tent.
Individual pics
Here's the Blue Dream:
Berry Bomb:
Black Russian:
My flower tent is the mars hydro 3.3'x3.3'x6'. It's currently running 4x Cree COB cxb3590s, 72v model, 3500k CD bin with passive heatsinks all running off of re-purposed Mars Hydro power supplies.
Currently flowering are 1 berry bomb, 1 blue dream and 1 black russian. These were vegged in 1 gallon pots and kept trimmed down to fit under my t5 then they were potted up to tall 2 gallon pots. They're growing in 75/25 coco/perlite. I'm using 3 part gh flora nutes for the time being. I'm using the liquid koolBloom, FloraNectar, rapid start, Floralicious Plus, Hygrozyme and Liquid Gold.
I'm trying the taller, smaller volume pots this time. I've previously grown in 3 gallon plastic or 5 gallon fabric pots. I didn't dislike my past experiences but I simply want to see how it goes in these ones based on recommendations from others and grow journals I've read.
Canopy temperature is another thing I'm attempting to focus more on after the last run. I think I did well with my temps on the last one but I think I can achieve a little more consistency and we'll see how that goes. So far I've been able to keep it hovering back and forth between 74F and 86F, 24/7. I'm gonna try to let this go this way for the whole first 6 weeks then I'll kill the heat and this will allow it to drop lower in the darkness. I'll be monitoring the temps to make sure I don't have any dangerous swings.
I gradually shifted to 12/12 over a couple of days. I'm not totally sure if that counts as gradual but that's what I did. No 24 hour dark or anything like that, just stepped up the darkness from 6 to 12 hours over 2 nights.
This is a pic after the first full 12/12 day.
The ugly beast in the back right was a berry bomb but it was a gross mutant who couldn't handle my led so I promptly pulled it; it was obvious to me that it wouldn't be worth the trouble.
I was going to put my scrog net on this but the berry bomb stretched so hard and fast on me that I was afraid I would break it putting it on.
2 weeks later, everything is stretched up and filling the whole damn tent.
Individual pics
Here's the Blue Dream:
Berry Bomb:
Black Russian:
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