Mikedin’s grow journal 2, let’s go!

[Mikedin]

Yeah it was a thought because I know I saw it out there, besides that I just bumped up the main lights to 80% and I’ll see how they like it.

I actually enjoyed the blurples… and still do haha they are doing great for the candy kush, yes the extra heat I believe pushed the temps to the 82-83f range and about 50%RH max, right now I’m at 41% rh in my main tent, but I like my blurples they made some solid candy kush buds last run and they were potent as hell

 

[Mikedin]

That’s a candy kush in there right now she was supposed to be an autoflower but is at 4 months so I just flipped her to 12/12 she has both lights and the whole tent to herself lol

 

[Mikedin]

Got the RH issue under control so that’s not a concern VPD may be off since the one tent is in veg but I wanna keep that RH on the lower side

My sump pump pit is always literally DRY I have to add water to make sure the pump seals don’t dry rot, even in the heavyist stretches of rain… not a drop lol, so I drain my dehu direct into it so I don’t have to fill it manually, also have my water filter on the water line right there

 

[Mikedin]

I work all through the holiday and this is my Last week off this month so today… is Christmas at my house lol, grandparents are all here kids are opening up gifts, mother in law bought me a legit 160” portable projector screen with steel fold up frame and a nice ass carrying case, and a cheapie projector it’s too close to the screen lol but this thing is gunna be dope out back by the fire pit

 

[Mikedin]

Bedtime for the girls, all got a top dressing today, these monstercropped clones are doing ok, gunna need to find a space to put these new clones under some light, next project lol

 

[Mikedin]

Little after hours video haha

 

[steamroller]

Yellow stickies look pretty full.
I would get mosquito bits and water them in per directions .
They really worked for me in like 2 doses.
Things are looking Good Mike!

 

[Mikedin]

Yellow stickies look pretty full.
I would get mosquito bits and water them in per directions .
They really worked for me in like 2 doses.
Things are looking Good Mike!

Yeah I get waves of gnats, I’ll fill traps for a week then I won’t see any for 2-3 weeks probably catch what hatches then nothing till eggs hatch again, but yeah I need to swap them out again, I avoid spraying anything other than my peroxide / water spray for PM, I do have deadbug, DE, couple other things if needed

What do you do with the mosquito bits? Put a bowl of them in the tent or do you put them in your pots?

 

[steamroller]

What do you do with the mosquito bits? Put a bowl of them in the tent or do you put them in your pots?

The mosquito bits are a bacteria that is safe for all but the bugs. It is meant to go in birdbaths, ponds and standing water!
You soak X amount if the bits in water then net them out and water your plants with it .
Really good ,safe, and easy stuff to use.

 

[Mikedin]

The mosquito bits are a bacteria that is safe for all but the bugs. It is meant to go in birdbaths, ponds and standing water!
You soak X amount if the bits in water then net them out and water your plants with it .
Really good ,safe, and easy stuff to use.
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Oh I’m definitely buying those then haha,

 

[Mikedin]

Well one thing I have to say is im getting a ton of new growth (as seen by the light green in all the plants) and it appears they are all putting up new growth in the past few days, no complaints at all lol, just need them to get a bit bigger before they can all be flipped can’t 100% be attributed to the additional lights but a great coincidence if not

 

[Mikedin]

Well here’s the girls today, besides the fresh top dressing yesterday and then this morning they where watered with a neut tea I brewed up yesterday morning, check out the new growth on these girls there shooting up, I lowered the lights down a bit to encourge some node spacing before I get ready to flip to flower, did some more training on the cookies Kush Kush the clones as well. Then today is day 9 since the candy kush was flipped to 12/12 over in the blurple tent, leaf stance is dramatically changed and you can see some hairs starting to push at nodes, I also lowered the lights about 4” about an hour ago and re-positioned them closer together, I’ll let them stay like that for the last 3 hours of light today then check her about an hour and a half after lights tomorrow morning and see how she likes it it’s deceiving how wide this plant is, she has a 3.5’x3.5’section of the tent filled wall to wall with just enough room on one end for me to hang a ceiling fan from the ceiling and let it oscillate through the plant lol. she was also given some neut tea, but she is being fed with the fox farm trio (organic line) plus cal-mag and microbe brew but I’m still adding great white shark myco she got a big dose today of myco since I had a bunch in the tea lol. But they are all looking very happy today, clones are still hanging in there, very droopy, they where very short clones so we’ll see if they survive might trim a shade more material off the leaves since they are so short (about 4-5” before planting)

 

[Mikedin]

Well it’s not the prettiest but I needed to have a space to try and run clones and seedlings if I’m gunna eventually have a perpetual harvest, so for now I present the makeshift clone “tent” lol about 115 watts total between the 4 bars they did very well over my veggie plants last spring so they should do great here too, still have a spiderfarmer heat mat under the tray, I guess we’ll see if we can make some clones survive, it’s nice and warm in there it’s about 4’x18”x20” tall just enough for rooting etc it’s nice and warm i there but I put a 2x8” heat vent in one end, the other end a 4” flex duct with 2x bends that goes into the blurple tent in the light diffuser so the 24 hour light dosent affect the 12/12 in that tent

Now I can flip the main tent to 12/12 when needed and still root clones

 

[Mikedin]

Little side project this morning went to get more strawberry fields and higher planters, well strawberry fields was on sale for 10.99 so I bought 3 of them, but no planters so, $20 in buckets and $30 I. Gorilla tape and about an hour of my time but now I have what I want lol

3/4” holes on the bottom and 5/8 holes on the sides, I’ll be adding screen to the bottom so I don’t lose medium

 

[Mikedin]

Yeah I’m liking this

 

[JerzeyMike]

Looks good Mike! My first couple years I grew in orange homedepot buckets. You can get a real good size plant in there.

 

[Mikedin]

Ahh there we go

 

[Mikedin]

Looks good Mike! My first couple years I grew in orange homedepot buckets. You can get a real good size plant in there.

I wanted 7 gallon pots but hey I’ll find them for next time lol

 

[Mikedin]

Kinda odd they prefer around 500-550 PPFD lights are about 30” above the plants at about 55% lol anytime I bump them up the highest tops start turning down, but where they are now they seem happy so I’ll keep it there

I have one to the side that will stay in the 3 gallon pot and I’ll let her flower in there not directly under the light and see how she does, she’s small so we’ll see

 

[Mikedin]

Girls are happy as pigs in shit this morning… we’ll it does have worm and bat shit so…


Also went bonsai crazy on one of my plants but here’s how I like to even out the canopy heres before during and after and how I make the coils
Plus a little video inside the tent