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As a follow up to last years 420 exhibition I had, I did it again. With the help of Collaborate Cape Town I put a couple of my girls on display. @Bay Seeds Mc purple x Lemon Jedi cutting rooted over my 3d printed skull My own Strawberry Vostok x fastbuds Pineapple Express @Totemic Tortoni #2 from the growoff, kept in veg til December and flowered out outside Cutting from the same Tortoni, flowered out next to each other but this one went purple Seed from a divinely pollinated AK420 from the SOTM prize last year Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I just remembered that you run autos so not 12/12 for flowering. Although still, one tent R10k seems too high. Even with an aircon. Perhaps for multiple tents, I can understand R10k per month on electricity - especially in summer with heatwaves. Sent from my OnePlus 9RT 5G using Tapatalk

Mhhh i can tell you once all tents run at the new spot unit price goes up the more you buy. The last week of the month is the most frustrating i took the 20.5% Eskom price hike in those 10k... was on 8.3k before, since the 2 ACs are powered down, life is better, Jan and Feb were nasty hot this year.

Yikes, a single 2.4 x 2.4 tent with an aircon and R10k on electricity? How much do you pay per unit?

Lank amped for this time next week. I will be enjoying spending the following 3 days with cool people, cannabis brands, festivities, walks, cannabis, smoking, toking and jammin at the East Coast Cannabis Cup. If you in South Africa and would like to enjoy cannabis culture, buy a ticket here. Come for a day, two or three. The Survivals band will also be strumming their stuff. East Coast Canna Cup hits shore the weekend of the 29th April to the 1st May at Wacky Woods Resort, Gamtoos River, Eastern Cape. Here is a little taste of what you can expect Games galore (BongPong and more) Pool Area Fire Dancers Live Judging Categories for entries: Breeders Cup Outdoor Cup Indoor Cup Extracts Cup Edibles Cup Be sure to enter… There are loads of goodies and prizes up for grabs! Main Event Sponsor Complete Cannabis Solutions Prize Sponsors (to name just a few) Wacky Woods Riverside Resort Grohydro - Pty Limited Golden Ratio Living Soil Hydrogarden Easy Hydro Grow Freedom Farms Dutch Passion And so so so many more! Do you want to enter your grow, send your details to sales@quickbuyngrow.co.za Date: 29 April - 1 May Venue: Wacky Woods (plot 420 ) Grab your tickets early: Click here For more info contact Quickbuyngrow on sales@quickbuyngrow.co.za Organizers - Quickbuyngrow, Simon Strainhunter, The Cannabis Promoter, Ezee Media, The Stoned Trooper, Andrew John Bulwalda #portelizabeth #southafrica #letscamp #cannacup #market #livemusic #cannabiscup #cannacommunity #cannafam #cannabismedicinal #cannalife

Week 10, they are coming down this weekend, I can’t stand the bugs. No bud damage, so I should be happy.

I agree, but OP is messing with HID and not LED, so the point I wanted to get across is that there are always better options to go with if you're only shooting for "being able to veg", why not spend less money and make it optimal? Move over to LED and care less about light stress. What I meant with my statement of putting a clone - young sensitive plant that stresses very easily - under 5000K LED at 40cm and comparing it to 3500K CFL at 20cm, like I am refering to here ..... ... is that the CFL will be a problem, because its not always about Watt/Kelvin/Lumins it's also about how you hang the thing to make the most out of the micromols/second that the light produces, and usually a CFL is known to not be strong enough to grow a plant, but it can easily stress your plants also if you use it wrong or the wrong kinda one. might be optimal at another time in the plants life, but saying it's OK to go with only one spectrum for the plants whole life is fine, but then you are gona have moments when the plant goes through a little bit of stress. I think about it like in nature, the sun doesn't stay the same all season through. if OP insists on keeping the HIDs I would say it's in his best interest to get some MH bulbs for veg, wont hurt, will it? LED is much more forgiving for the most part anyway, another win for the LEDs but it can also be used incorrectly!

I need to disagree with you here. If they are decent diodes, such as the Samsung LM301B/H then 3000K for vegging a plant is not a problem at all. I have done it many times before, used both 3000K and 3500K with excellent results. The amount of blue light a cannabis plant requires is not all that much and 3000K full spectrum still gives enough blue. You can certainly flower with 3000K and 3500K. As soon as one starts to go 4000K upwards then the light starts to become a bit too specific IMO and leaning more towards a light I'd only want to use for veg. 3000 to 3500K I feel is the perfect combination for veg & flower, also keeping in mind plants are in veg for a fraction of the time they are in flower for (generally speaking, depends on how one runs their grow though). The kelvin of HID lights might work as you described, although for decent LED diodes 3000K for veg is fine.

Hey guys, could you imagine this conversation around a fire? Here's the LD. We all had to start somewhere. It's going to be a wild ride, but stay positive, deal with things as they arise, you grow space is going to change as you go along, but every time is going to get better, until it reaches a point that works. An HPS might not be efficient but some people drive big v8s. You will find in time that you might add more HPS, maybe LED, maybe a combination of both. You might get away with vegging all those plants and add more lights, you might have to move some outside or give them away ( I'll take em ) when it's time to flower, there's plenty options if you stay committed. With 25 plants you've just placed a bigger bet but greater risk, greater reward. You might not be winning any cannabis cups on your first grow but you will definitely be one step closer. Time for some coffee and cheesecake. Peace ✌

also... to plant autos in their final pot is a good idea. Do the same with a photo, isnt. Potting up gives you a better root system and speeds up their grow rate. Till you get the hang how much water the strain consumes, lift the pot. Heavy, no water, feather light, water till run off and let dry up again. If you keep the medium to wet they slow down and if you over water for to long, they will show you the finger. The wet dry cycle is very important. I saw no fertilizers, is the organolux or how ever soil ^^ all in one?? You need NPK, silica and amino acids. I do not like all in one soils. Just to mention that too Put your pots close together and hang the light according to instructions you got with the grow lights. Those 4x600 should light a 2.4x2.4 area, use what your lights can flower or you end with to many plants to finish. After this grow you will understand all way better, isn't rocket science what we do... but starting to drive a car in the formular 1.... will leave you frustrated. Scale down to what your lights can handle is my suggestion, you should end with a result you enjoy... just... add!! fans. I run 2 x 150mm inliners to suck filtered air in and 2, same models, to suck out. That is your air exchange. 6 times tent volume per minute is a good amount. And then you need mixers to blow over the plants... as much as you can without damaging the plants. Growing indoor isnt difficult, but also not that easy

Light matters i repeat it rather often. I would say is heat stress, you dont have enough light to stress them. 16m2... 4x4 meter. I see no way how you will get dense flower material, just not enough energy to pump into the ladies. 2400 watt HID light.. that is half as efficient to v3 LED tech, winter no issue, your lights produce more heat then light. Who told you to buy HID... kick his nuts! I use 1900 watts LED light on a 2.4x2.4 area. Friend uses 2400 watts. I try energy efficiency, he just wants big buds In your case, i would x4 your light for flowering. Eskom will giggle as you will have to bring in a big ass AC too. I would guess 40k a month for electricity, so learn to grow before you go big... it costs. My 2.4x2.4 sets me down 10k a month (summer). Go LED, import lights and drivers. Just did, 16 x 120watt QBs, drivers, no dimmers. With import customs charges, quite acurate 25k rand. You would need at least 54 QBs on a 16m2 area... and with that amount of light, very good ventilation. Winter easy, summer you need AC. 2 to 3 20k btu units should do. Ventilation. As many inliners blow in, you suck out. Plants like even pressure. Inside you need a lot of air moving, stagnant pockets will not grow. No co2, no carbon to build stuff ^^ 4mx4m area, at least 8 40cm fans to shift air... you go bigger, you can go less fans. sorry, bad news... but your setup isnt working in that configuration

Hey @Island Gerl 25 ladies! Wow you sure are a believer inGo big or Go home. You the gal that shows up at the shooting range with a bazooka Been reading this thread with quite a bit excitement. You go girl , you going to learn some good $&it here and you going to learn fast. I see the boys had offered some excellent advice and they definitely got you covered. My 2c for now is don't stress too much about temp for now ( 31 degree spike not great but can be managed) , winter is here and the advantage of your hps lights is that they give off much needed warmth that's great for veging plants. Do however monitor the temp and if it gets too hot switch on your fans to get rid of too much hot air. I have my exhaust fan mounted up top where the hot air rises and is easily removed. You ideally want to keep temp in the 18-25 degree range. As PsyClown advised 18/6 is the way to go. Your plants need time to rest and it's in this time that most growth occurs (imo). If you're a gym bunny it's work out and then rest so your body can build muscle. Although hps is not ideal for vegging, it's not a train smash either. Yupp get yourself a MH bulb, which would be a quick fix with your current setup or just start with your current HPS bulb high up and lower it as your plants grow bigger and stronger. Looks good to me from your pics. At this stage a 60-65% humidity is desirable. Noticed you mentioned your humidity was at 75 %. Your fans would also do well to to lower humidity if it gets too high. Remember high humidity and high temp are ideal conditions for dreaded wpm so monitor closely and let your fans do the work for now. If you growing in jhb our winter humidity is generally low and i find there's no need to a dehumidifier if you get those fans dialled in well. I'm able to regulate my temp and humidity by running my exhaust fan for 15min every hour but this would depend on your grow room size, number of plants, watering schedule etc. I'd advise getting your fan on a timer switch. Just play around with it, you'll find the sweet spot. Rooting for you girrrl. Good luck and have fun. Peace ✌

A single portable aircon in that sized space with HID lights is not going to cut it, especially in summer when heatwaves hit. You can simply change the bulb from HPS to MH and then change back when it is flower time. Best to have the lights on an 18/6 cycle and then change to 12/12 when it is time to flower. Do not rotate having some lights on and then others on - if you have plants under the lights then have those lights on, according to the timer.

Induction(if you have one running) should be running 24/7, if not, the plants get to a point where they are basically holding their breathe as the PPm of CO2 drops significantly. Extraction can also run constantly, or when humidity gets to high. Given the size of the grow, both are very necessary