Day 10
Smooth sailing, gobsmacked at the difference between last PM and this AM, it's like night and day. :mrgreen:
I'll grab pics later, I'm in wedding mode now.
The schoolgirl giddiness has officially worn off, everything's assembled and/or awaiting its task so I can settle down and re-organize this mess.
Couple more notes to self and others. For any sustainable indoor grow you need at least two of everything AND the space to put it. You can play at it with less, but that's it. When you're trying to imagine how much space you'll need, the footprint is minor compared to the reality of the height you'll need with the plant and light and the required distance for PAR. A 2x2x4 isn't going to cut it for flowering anything worth the cost of the electricity. It's good for a nursery , etc... so it does have a purpose, but they sell tents with nurseries built in, on the side. Double decker, even. The larger the footprint, the more it comes into play as well as height. When considering my 4x4x8, I pictured half a sheet of plywood on the floor and a full sheet standing up which got me close. It's the 3-D reality of the thing I neglected to realize. Were it made of different material, you could comfortably ship a gorilla. When I just thought how to describe it, the first thing that popped to mind was the gorilla cages in The Three Stooges flicks. I can live with it crowding me in here, but any room other than this and I'd be Daffy Duck when he made the egg disappear, getting clubbed over the head with whatever was to hand while "I want a DIVORCE!" blared in my eardrums.
Speaking of PAR, forget everything else about light except this. It's what really matters. Learn FIMing and better yet mainlining so you can get as much as possible in the sweet spot. Yes, it takes longer and I know first hand how tempting it can be to turn the oven to Bake yesterday, but don't do it. If a plant isn't photosynthesizing it ain't growing. If it's getting fried by too much it's just as bad. If you use a light that produces too much heat to place it the ideal distance you need to cool the immediate environment below it with fans/circulation or you'll cook the main cola. Hits 10 on my counter-productivity meter.
Don't let you're mouth be bigger than your stomach. IOW, don't buy 10 seeds and plant them all if you won't have the room to grow/flower them. I started 3, each a different strain, and consider it a rookie error on my part, especially given I planned to do everything in the 2x2. Luckily it's my first grow so I can compensate with the other tent. I read about people having germination issues and instead of realizing it's a weed and thinking of the multitudes I fight in the Veg garden and sidewalk/gutter all year that grow in oil stains, sand and all the other schmegma, I went overkill. If you buy from a catalogue there's small chance it's the seed, greater it's you and whatever it was you did it to all. Eg., paper towels. There can be bleaches and other contaminates that kill the seed. Plant the number you can flower and if one doesn't pop you've lost a couple of days, max.
Overhead equipment, don't forget it's there. When choosing kit, pay attention to the mounting method in that it will be secure as in part to part and also mount. An accidental bump can be a disaster waiting to happen. I've already had to move the small tent, told the wife to be careful around it and she proceeded to bump it 6 time and lean on it 3. Catastrophe diverted. Remember to remove the plants before doing so. Don't rely on 'being careful'.
Typing this, I just got word the wedding is off. They're just kids with kids, she falls under both categories. Now I'm all dressed up with no where to go. :fire: Wife's family, need I say more? :roll: