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Going to try get the line rolling, hopefully sufficient enough to perpetual grow and harvest. Just going to keep feeding a new plant in every weekend to the flowering tent, more or less, if things go okay. There are some rare and fire genetics here, and private chemovars, that I have the honor of naming too. Watch out for the Banana Thanks, ask me anything... Discussions welcome,

That crazy hazy is moving fast and nice branching, tight nodes

This does make sense and I did notice that after about 4 hours the co2 was back up their again. At first I thought it might be a temperature thing with it putting out less co2 when it's cold and more when it's hot in the tent, but the breathing you explain does make more sense. I've got the bags in the tents now, I just rigged my extractors up to timer switches, so every 4 hours from 6am to midnight they come on for 5 minutes and just clear out the excessive co2 and just cycle the air. I'll stick with this until my Inkbird devices arrive. The humidity hovers between 10% and 30% during winter with warmer days being below 20% humidity and October being the worst month (lip-ice sales soar in JHB come september/october ). For flowering it's easy to manage, but for veg you basically running humidifiers all the time. For lights I have: tent 1 & tent 2 - 700w Samsung 301H 8-bar spydr light tent 3 - 720w Lummi 6-bar light I'm currently running all lights at 400w at roughly 60cm above the plants. So here's my logic right for VPD and the way I run my RH. So for veg it wants to be warm and humid during the day and cool and "dryer" at night , essentially simulating a tropical climate. So at the moment I run my tents at about 28 - 30 degrees with a RH of around 75% - 80%, then when my lights turn off at midnight, the humidifiers stop and there is no more air extraction. The humidify in the tent drops slowly with the temperature until 6am in the morning when its about 18 degrees in the tent and 50% humidity. At this time the lights come and by about 8am the tents are at about 25 degrees and I come in and turn the humidifiers back on. Doing this allows me to slide my plants up and down the early veg VPD line with the temperatures going through their normal warm / cool cycles. So far my plants are growing at a good steady rate, looking healthy and are praying nicely to my lights. How much my VPD antics are influencing their current health and happiness is debatable, but I do think "simulated summer environment" is helping with the growth rate (or at least it is in my head, which is all that counts right? ). This is my first time using VPD as a measurement factor and so far things seem to be coming together nicely. I promise I will post the grow diary of it soon, but here is a 8 day apart photo of one of the tents:

They looking good with the poop, let's see how they taste after, haha. I am only having a laugh, and something very similar is in my soil actually, and mine come out sweet, well, so I am told

Dug out about 600 litres of chicken compost out of the coop today. All from leaves, grass clipping and chicken poo. Chickens are awesome Resting the compost for a few weeks to break down. Will be adding molasses water weekly to speed up the breakdown. Half the plants upstairs are growing in only this chicken compost and are thriving.

Following!

Finally got the book. Not cannabis specific but such a good read.

Also chopped the Mc purple x lemon Jedi from @Bay Seeds And moved a Forbidden Candy to the flower box Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Chopped the strawberry Vostok x fastbuds Pineapple Express the weekend. Pretty happy for a winter indoor grow. Temps were around 20 for most of the grow Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Here are some books that South African cannabis community have contributed to: South African published books: Cannabis is the human companion plant At home with cannabis International Books: Cannabis Indica Cannabis Bible Cannabis Sativa Cannabis 101 Cannabis Extracts Made Easy by AJ Jackie

Oh yeah, for sure use them still they can do wonders for younger plants! Just be careful of thinking it was just the enitial burst, though. You see the thing with these bags are that the mycelium is alive and it's busy consuming the substrate, as it's doing that it's actually breathing. if you put it on a timelapse it actually looks like a working lung and everytime it expands it consumes a little more of the substrate. crazy thing is it doesn't just look like a lung.... without the consuming part of it, mycelium, even the fruit body of the mushroom, breathes exactly like humans. Oxygen in Carbon Dioxide out so it's a lung that lives and feeds on its own and grows mushrooms every now and then to reproduce untill the bags are fully colonised they gona fluctuate, few hours of releasing higher levels of CO2 and few hours of releasing less and overall just kinda slow down and reduce CO2 production till it's fully colonised. but yeah, because it's a living thing you kinda have to know how they "act" and use that to your advantage, but you can't really regulate them the way you can regulate a CO2 tank. so it becomes a little harder if you trying to achieve a specific ppm. younger plants, such as you have there, love a good fluctuation of CO2. once the bags are fully colonised cut a few 5 to 10cm holes in the bag, keep it moist by taking it out the tent and giving it a spray of tap water 3 or 4 times a day. see if you can grow a mushroom! Aaah, summer rainfall with cold dry winters, that can be a tough one for indoor growers! Whaaaaaat 13% RH outside? that's dry as fuck How constant is that 13%? Those conditions can be hard to manage, but you definitly made the right move with the humidifiers and dehumidifiers. The quick fix solutions kinda go out the window if you live in an area like that. What lights you running? Do you have natural high RH during lights off? or what's the reason for added RH with lights on, but not when lights go off? Idealy, for cannabis, you want a lower RH during lights on than during lights off. As much as we can we should try replicate how they grow in nature and if you look at the places cannabis favour they have dry summers and wet winters. Hot days and cold nights. During the heat there is very low RH and during the night the RH goes way up. as far as my knowledge allows me, I think high temp + high RH = high probability for PM. amd the low temp + low humidity = stunted/slow growth.

@MrE whole lights actually

Oh yes and thanks to @MrE for his old heatsinks to be put to good use

Don’t know what time it is, but it’s Sunday. did some topping, might consider all the lateral branching for the dark phoenix This Chem dog better start moving soon, although I’m really getting the full indica style growth from them, which wasn’t expected but anyway. We continue on. Both under 3000k, and one has IR AND UV, Which im being very careful of, @Ill_Evan and then some outdoor fun from we’ve got Pluto cut - auto and BOBBY’S widow - auto@SkunkPharm aweeeh!

All good my guy. So I'm based on the west of Joburg and today it's reading 13% RH outside - I permanently grow with humidifiers during this time of year and then dehumidifiers in summer. Right now all my plants are in veg and I'm currently running my tents in a good VPD zone for early veg of about 28 degrees and 75% ~ 80% RH (during lights on that is, when the lights go out, the humidifiers go off). So interestingly enough today, I'm only getting a reading of about 1000ppm coming out of the bags, I have them back in the tents and co2 is sitting at about 850ppm atm. So maybe this was just an initial activation burst of co2 or something? If you say they only pump out hectic co2 for about 2 weeks or so, then hopefully I will be able to get use out of them. Thanks for the info, greatly appreciate it.