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Humidity will always vary with the weather. Right now it's pegged in the low 30's for me lights on or off. As soon as it starts raining again or I am in late flower, that's when I'll slap the humidifier on to max and let it do it's thing. Edit: The biggest factor to humidity in a tent is ventilation. You have to suck the air out of the tent and then preferably outside a window. If it's just blasting the air back into the room you will definitely need a dehumidifier regardless to manage the general environment.

im planning on having a dehu sometime feb/march to deal with the rh during lights off. im wondering will it help to reduce rh to low 50s during lights on, or will it just creep up back to 90 during lights off

That's a decent size, will definitely look at getting one, it's a battle against pm, need all the help I can get.

Its small one see below, doesn't bring RH down much but at least the air doesn't stand still in the tent.

lol hoor hoor

only started growing indoor a few days ago, so cant give opinion yet. still no battery backup yet as well. apparently they are working on reducing load shedding by doing maintenance or some shit so hope stage 6 disappears in a few months. im still not sure how we are supposed to go through flower with load shedding, someone on this forum said indoors is possible and i bought 2 lights. maybe some kind of 4/4 light cycle? im sure some maths will be involved?

I'm not usually worried about LS in my area with max 2 hours out twice a day but now with stage 6 it might cause some issues but my main concern was the RH spike and stagnant air I got a small rechargeable fan that helps airflow I'm looking to add another just to get air moving abit more but haven't had any PM issues yet.

I recommend a shade netting over your plants down here.. sun is brutal

Last Pics are low on water, you see the mains hanging, osmotic pressure is rock bottom. To Grant's plant... if you unroll those leave and find no parasites... most likely heavy heat stress. Keep the moisture up for them to cool them self.

These are examples of heat stress my side. Hot day, hot wind and pots dried out fast. Sent from my SM-A032F using Tapatalk

Hi guys, I couldn't find any threads related to loadshedding and hope I'm asking in the correct category. I've been speaking to other growers about loadshedding and everyone says it's impossible to grow indoor with loadshedding. Well, I don't agree that it's impossible, it's harder but not impossible because I've been growing through loadshedding for years now. 2022 was the worst year thus far to grow with the amount of loadshedding we've been having. My yields suffered a lot and the last grow with stage 6 caused much stress to my plants and for the first time I had a major problem with seeds in my bud. For my current run I got a 100w rechargeable led that I use when LS hits. I hope this will reduce stress so that they don't push out seeds again. My biggest problem with LS is keeping RH under control because it sometimes goes above 90% when the fans go off. So anyway, this is the only place I trust to get solid answers to my questions. What do you guys think about growing during LS, is it impossible? What do you guys do to mitigate the effects of LS? Is everyone still doing indoor during power crisis or am I crazy? I'm starting to think the people I'm speaking to don't fully understand the grow cycle of the plant or maybe it's me that's confused. TIA for your feedback, happy new year and may you harvest abundantly.

That's what I'm doing with my veg plants now with stage 6, lights on 24/7 and let LS determine the dark periods will see how things are end of month and see when to flip.

Howzit guys. Ive got a couple of clones in a humidity dome on a shelf in the garage. 30w led floodlight on 18/6 timer. With loadshedding, this throws a bit of a fork in the cork of course.How many hours of interruption in light cycles will have a significant effect on my clones?

yes veg is very important stage as well to get optimal results edit; i have either a cat or dog who eats fan leaves off of my plants outside. and then there's the wind damage they contend with green house sounds about good, did you construct yourself?have log?

Yes I do grow outdoor as well, in fact I have a little greenhouse setup. I veg them indoor, the loadshedding doesn't have a big effect during veg, then I flower them in the greenhouse most of the year. But indoor is where I really get the most out my plants, ito quality so I don't want to give up on it.

i will be in late flower come late march with 12 plants in a 1.8x1.5 area ,rh 49 temp 26.9 currently with 2 600w hps lights what kind of rh can i expect at that time without a dehu

I really hope that's true bro, nevermind the growing, I don't see how we or the economy gonna survive permanent stage 6. It's definitely still possible to grow indoor, I was just doubting myself because everyone said it's not possible, even though I've been growing through LS all this time. The way I understand it is that canna doesn't depend on light to flower, it needs a 12 hour uninterrupted dark period to flower, the light period is just to support the the growth and bulk of the flower, so loadshedding minimises the light received which reduces yield and quality. But with stage 6, it just stresses the plant out way too much so you need to make a plan with some kind of supplementary light just to keep them in their cycle. Good luck with your new grow, hope it works out.

Same here bro, I didn't really feel it with normal LS but stage 6 is another story, now I've got the light and RH to worry about. You say you use a rechargeable fan to keep air moving. What size fan? One of those small ones? Does it help to reduce RH? That'll be a great solution if it can work in my grow space.

Stage 6 is going to be really tough and eskom forecast for the year is looking bleak. I haven't considered an inverter before, I heard it's quite pricey and my wife already says I treat my plants better than I treat her and the kids, now I'm gonna come home with an inverter to keep them lit while I sit with her in the dark, so will probably need to get 2, lol. But that's good idea. Battery not a bad idea to keep a fan running, but solar is definitely out of the budget. You know what I'm saying bro, this is South Africa, ons maak n plan, lol. We can't just give up.

At permanent stage 6 it's gonna be hard. If it were somebody new I would tell them to start really small so that if they got really into it they can at least then invest in a small trolley inverter for the whole system and keep it small scale. For somebody growing not just for themselves then it's gonna be an issue. At this time I'd probably push towards outdoor/greenhouse if I hadn't already put so much into the indoor space already. Live in an area excluded from loadshedding, and when the cables get stolen from time to time use a inverter/battery/solar system. Even then, if the power is out for a day and it's cloudy outside the batteries would only last about 4 hours and that's running maybe at 25% light output. What I usually do if I expect a long time with no power is I at the very least run the ventilation and then put the lighting schedule to run on/off in 3 hour intervals if in veg stage. If in flower stage I leave the schedule as is. Oh yeah dude. Guys are making plans out here. The indoor must flow.

This is more of a question by me than an answer, but would hanging some greenhouse cover over the plant help?

oh yeah sorry man nitrogen should be sorted then , plant still looks very light to me, genetics?

Purple stems indicates stress caused by temps or watering. The purpling only at the tips rules out genetics. Id diagnose it as heat stress and/or underwatering.

Fish emulsion is high in Nitrogen.

im using seagro organic plant food during veg its npk is 53:7:17

The thing that I'm worried about is that all the new growth is deformed however the other leaves look good, I'll water more often, what could I use to supply the plant with Nitrogen

I find no parasites on the leaves and I'm feeding the fish emulsion once ever 2 weeks, what can I use to give the plants nitrogen?

looks like underwater, had some hot days recently and will continue, maybe watering every 2nd day? how often are you feeding the fish emulsion, feeding any nitrogen?

This is my poor baby an outdoor grow with a once every 3 days watering cycle I did now recently give it more water as we had 3 hot days and the plant seemed to be stressed so I gave it more water I have also given it fish emulsion around 2 weeks ago. Other than that it's my first grow and so sad to see this

This is what my plant looks like it's outdoor with a watering schedule of once every 3 days and I can understand what the issue could be from please help

Or stress.. might reveg, if indoor from Nov-Dec Stage5/6 Pics help a lot... please add pictures of the issue you have ^^