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Hey All, New member here, got this light to replace my old 250W magnetic HPS. I should probably have run only one plant in my space but didn't learn my lesson from previous grow so in the future I'll do that. I may end up put the 250 back in as well due to the cold weather and how cool this light runs. Anyway super chuffed to be moving off the old stuff and will probably add more to my arsenal from the dude I got it from. Super chilled oke on, the ball and only happy to suport him in the future. Basically the only guy to come back to me without a story about no stock till July or some guys just dont come back to you at all, almost like they dont want your business even though their products are priced quite a bit higher.

Looks like a @Master_G LED. Good find I also started off with HPS then moved to a similar LED. I just finished my first grow with an LED all the way through and the temps did get quite chilly right at the end, but the cold certainly did good things for the colour of my flowers. I recently now germinated under bulbs in order to generate some heat due to the cold. You might find yourself switching between the bulbs and LED depending on what season we're in and how hot/cold it is.

Let 'em grow bruh. They probably working on growing their roots. Only mist when you see your medium getting dry. If you mist based on times per day you could accidentally overwater and cause further stunting.

Started the flush yesterday and after taking a few preliminary pics of the Royal Gorilla this morning, I spied a couple amber trichomes and decided I wanted to harvest this evening. I don't want to ripen this strain as much as the GDP as it leans more towards sativa (hence the longer flowering time) so I'd like to keep the amber at a min, but still wanted to at least catch a few just so I know what stage it was at. I will also want to cure it a little longer before really getting into it. Looking at the first pic, it's a wonder I had this next to another plant I got some shades of red on the sugar leaves like in the bottom left. Thought it was quite unique. I definitely got some light burn on some buds which may have also caused a little bit of fox-tailing like in the bottom right. I pretty much did the same training on both of these plants, but the Royal Gorilla came out way way better. Much more of the side shoots reached the height of the main colas and benefited well from the more level canopy. The buds are also so much more chunky, I'd say some at least double in size to the GDP. So while the Royal Gorilla dries, I have already germinated the seeds for the next grow. That's right, we're not pulling out this time. I've doubled up my space with a 240x120x205 tent which I plan on having two 400W HPS in cool tubes, and 4 DWC systems with 1 plant each. So that equals to 2 plants per 400W bulb. This tent can do more plants and more lights but I'm keeping things within my field of knowledge having grown with these HPS before just in a smaller fashion. Which leaves the 80x80x180 tent available once the bud is done drying in it. In this tent I am going to learn how to work with soil and do two plants under the 250W QB LED. If I like how the soil goes, I might go soil in the big tent and double up on the number of plants and use the smaller tent just as a veg tent. I'll probably start diaries for the new plants in each tent when they get bigger and I have more content

My No1 ^^ a real Auto.. she even topped herself. suddenly the main went 90 degrees sideways and the plant performed a topping Blackberry Kush

Like heaven I would imagine

I say oh your water and use normal pH up / pH down. Add microbes if you want with something like em pro soil or environoc, take note that it can drop your pH a lot and you may need to pH your feed upwards then. Also add nutes. My 2c Sent from my Redmi Note 7 Pro using Tapatalk

@SmokeyZero so rhino board was an option, but it weight a ton. Instead i found something epic! Its called Supa Wood, They usually use it for the backing on cupboards. Its sturdy, about 5mm and is white on one side. Super cheap R140 and comes in large sheets. Then Cape Plastics in Cape Town stock plastic sheets for R80. Its thicker than usual plastic sheeting so it holds as a sheet.

What's up man! Sounds like it's time for you to roll up and light up man!! Take it easy on the Lil ladies... They are so fresh and new to this world, they look good for being a few days old hehe. The Temps are fine and RH is also fine. This hobby is 90% patience 5% knowledge 3%skill and 2% for more patience, coz you gonna need it

Week 2 of flower

I have the cam still running. So I will make a full run from day 16 to finish.

I've used soil most my grows, when they say no need to pH for soil, I imagine they mean in the ground and not a pot, and have not pH the first time growing in soil in a pot, and the plant half way through got locked out from pH. When you grow in coco, you need to pH, and if there is any form of coco in the mix of soil, you'll more than likely need to pH, as this is my understanding. Using a correct pH is always best for optimal growth, and you are correct in saying that the pH down is going to mess with your living soil, but not by much, and you even can correct the pH with natural things, like lemon juice and such. Have also heard, correct me if wrong, that using pH up and down in the same mix, is very bad. If you go far down they say you must start again and throw it out. Seems harsh.

This lady was harvested, total dry bud was 128grams. Nice mature cheese smell. This was one of the side branches. I will definitly do another grow with this method, the buckets are sets up and taking nutrients from them every 2 weeks.

Nice, so you finally have another tent going. Pretty decent size too! Keen to see the new thread, question is what seedlings are those? I also see 5 where only 4 are going into the larger tent? Sent from my Redmi Note 7 Pro using Tapatalk

Hello All, New to the grow game, Id love to introduce you to my little Garden Busy growing 3 Gelatos, 1 Jack Hair and 1 Bubblegum Extra, I cant wait to show yall the grow!

Hello all, I have just finished a grow with FF custom craft soil, veg a month in it and 10,5 weeks flower, only PH 5,5 and slowly up to, 5,8 and once a week FF Fire Juice, nothing more. Best grow ever. Sent from my F5321 using Tapatalk

Barney's Farm LSD

Everything is looking good so far Out of interest, what lights are you running?

@Saurus Hey Man! Looking forward to the progress and showing the community!

Welcome man. Looking forward to see how they turn out. Keep us posted @Popcoen

Unwrapped, dried and revac sealed the cob sand husks. Intense smell of molasses, definitely more intense than the 3 day ferment. Busy air drying a gram.

Wow looking good, what does that room smell like? @1000Hills Nursery

I did the opposite intentionally to get temperature fluctuations in flower to be over 10C+ and got some awesome colours to come out, but I may have stunted growth a bit in hindsight.. lessons

I agree,@Master_G is producing some quality lighting rigs.Even considering getting a few of these, just waiting to see what he comes out with next. Lol. I found that running my light cycle during the night, and dark cycle during the day has stabilised my temps within an 8°C range. Sent from my POCOPHONE F1 using Tapatalk

Won't be entering this month by choice. I'll definitely be watching the entries though. You guys are crazy skilled[emoji1373]All the best to everyone! Sent from my POCOPHONE F1 using Tapatalk

Nah just keep it on veg mode during veg, but keep veg mode on when you flip bloom mode on for flowering.

Thank you guys (@420SA , the judges and mods) so much for the opportunity, this really is going to help me out. This is also the first time I've actually won a comp so I'm super stoked! Congratulations to all the other winners as well, and good luck to anyone entering in future. Sent from my POCOPHONE F1 using Tapatalk

Ooooohhh my god Sent from my POCOPHONE F1 using Tapatalk

What are your Temps like? I would only switch a heater on if the Temps are dipping below 15... And your extraction is proper killing your heating attempts lol. I would maybe try only running the night as the days aren't that bad yet. Also you could try reducing the intake of air a bit to try keep the inside air warmer. Your tent should heat up quick enough if the cold outside air wasn't coming in faster than you can heat it

@Ill_Evan Oeff... Ill have to stick to LEDs for now as this is a recent setup. Thanks for the advice!!

Yea! Growth will be booming now that real leaves are out. As for the growth with the LED, the light it emmits will deminish greatly every 30cm away from the plants. So it looks like you have a few plants that need the extra light, but if you were able to lower the light and focus the light over the plants, growth will then start catching up with the sun... The sun is pure power though

Those Sonoff switches are awesome. I'll be setting something similar up in my tent as well. Currently just been using it as a overpowered temp/humidity monitor The extent of insulation where your tent is situated can also be a factor. If a lot of your heat is escaping then an automated solution might end up running 100% anyways. I used to just hang my ducting out an open window but too much heat was escaping my grow room so I built a plywood fitting that went into the gap in the window with a duct flange for my exhaust. Enough heat remains within the room now that I don't need a heater at all at the moment.

What us the size of your tent? I run a panel heater on a sonoff wifi switch with temperature sensor. A panel heater only uses 420w.

Looking good. Are the still under that led flood light? You will see it double in size now every week. If all goes well.

Yes @Ill_Evan, I had heard that about Hydro, and the pH as a buffer. You typically want nothing that will effect your Microbes lives in the soil, and chemical pH adjusters will harm them, though a drop or 2 in 5L isn't going to do much harm, you better off without it. Happy if I have helpedin anyway.

I popped more than I needed because some seeds didn't pop and now I am sitting with more seedlings than I need the 4 seedlings in the net pots will go into their DWCs and the one in the soil as well as another one in the propagator will go into the smaller tent. I am going to be using Freedom Farms Classic. Question, the Freedom Farms site says to pH your water/feed to between 5.5 - 6.0 to maintain the soil pH. While doing my research, a lot of sites say not to pH your water when growing in soil. I only have the phosphoric acid pH down and they say that using it in soil just adds unnecessary chemicals to your medium. Freedom Farms specifically say on their site, "an incremental increase in pH resulting from tap water (pH 7-8.5) use can cause the soil pH to increase above the optimal range for nutrient uptake. The soil pH is therefore not buffered against increasing pH caused by using un-pH’d tap water. Watering with a pH of 5.5-6.0 will ensure the pH of the soil remains in the optimal range of 5.5-6.5." So they definitely want you to pH your water, so is the phosphoric acid ok to use?

And pic from right now.. Day 4 Week 5

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I do agree with you totally, ive done lots of testing, and using even tap water left out for a day, with no pH adjusters and grown my last harvest just that way, and got a decent smoke and harvest, had to use plenty nutrients doing so. Then I discovered you can grow in soil as a medium, or growing in soil for the benefit of the living ecosystem within the soil. I made up my own soil, which similar to Organic Matters soil, is alive with Microbes, and since using this soil, I feed the Microbes water that is pH correct and never had to use nutrients at all in three months, and I'm 2 weeks into flowering now, and plants are happy on plain old water. The difference between the Amazon rain forest, and say a planet such as the moon, are living Microbes. Nobody's way is wrong though, as we all do what works best for us, and we are here to share knowledge as family. Please dont shoot me

@Bakstein420 Thanks brother have a great evening!

WHAT! Thanks so much this is awesome! @420SA

Thanks @StickyD420. I am going to stop using the standard pH down and get myself a natural alternative for the soil feed. That I can believe for soil. Probably best to use as few regulators as possible in the hydro world using both pH up and down actually helps prevent pH swings as the pH up usually acts as a type of buffer.

Another weekly update. Cape had some cold, dark and wet weather the past week which meant the plants were under the LED light most of the time. I find it interesting the amount of growth from one day of sun versus an entire week under the LED lights. I know the light is not correct for growing but this is what this entire grow is about, learning things by seeing how my plants react to different circumstances. I transplanted the Malawi gold yesterday but some of the roots were stuck through some hole in the cup which broke off. I continued with the repotting so will see if it survives. The biggest of the plants is the special queen 1 which I would like to mainline. I am busy doing research on mainlining bit was wondering if I should let it grow a bit more or if shes ready. I am not planning on keeping the 2 biggest plants in veg for my longer, probably another 20 to 30 days and then flip The second biggest one is the badazz og cheese. Does anyone have suggestions for an interesting stress technique to do, something not too difficult? The plant in the green pot is a blue dream which my wife is growing, some type of bonsai / nano grow. Hope you guys have a nice week ahead of you.

Will be announcing the winners tomorrow morning

Looking really proper man!! @Naughty.Psychonaut Nice work on the preemptive checking for leaks and disassembly for easy cleaning! You gotta show us how the maiden brew goes

Damn dude that's a pro build. @CreX must be cromming himself

Royal Gorilla trichomes are looking nice and cloudy. Some buds have filled up a bit more. Harvest day should be soon.

I am just going to revive this thread as I have started up the grow tent again now that it is to cold to grow outdoors. At the moment doing some 30:1 Dr Seedsman CBD. And Spumoni Orange Kush Cake and Diesel. And I decided to give Autoflowers another go. Fastbuds Original Cheese is the strain. They are by far the biggist autos I have done. Also the tent received some upgrades. New fans, wifi switches and a heater. So far it is looking good the pics was taken one week after switching into flower.

Hit up China mall... Half price pumps for days haha