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I guess I should've started this a little earlier but I do have a few pics when they had already sprouted.
Got a pack of GG4 beans from https://elev8seeds.com/. I've grown this cultivar a few times so I'm pretty familiar with it. What I've noticed in those times is early training is required before they stretch so that you can establish bud sites early and start moving into bloom before they start doing the sativa stretch. I got 10 seeds in the pack and sprouted them using the paper towel method. They all sprouted but only 8 survived the seedling transplant. This phenotype likes a lot of light and are pretty hardy so you can get the lights pretty close and they'll take it but you need to be careful and slowly introduce more light before you find the optimal light height because if you stress them out they'll herm on you.
They're currently in early veg/training mode and I'll snap pics as they progress.
I've been FIMming and topping these waiting to sex them so I can cull the males and begin the transition into flower. This is 14 days after initial soil line break and cotyledon leaf.
This what they currently look like. I just gave them their second top and fim session and will probably do one more session before I start setting up auto irrigation and the screen. 7 Gallon cloth pots. I didn't order enough so I had to transplant into some 3 gals I had laying around. More pots on the way. Using a LUX app on my phone to position plants for maximum light exposure. Outer plants are getting an average of 30,000 to 35,000 lux while those directly under are getting between 45,000 - 50,000 lux so we're in the ballpark!
Grow Tent is a 5 x 5 LA Garden tent. AC Infinity T6 fan w/ Controller 67. 6" pole fan and 8" ceiling mount fan for air circulation. I would recommend going with a full ACI kit. I should've done that from the beginning. Lesson learned and will do that for any future tent purchases. Future upgrades will be an auto irrigation system once they get their last haircut and a small camera system with a few cameras to check on them if I'm away for any length of time. I try and not open and close the tent so as not to disturb them or the environment. I only enter if I have a task at hand like topping or feeding or just to check for bug/fungus infestation. Now that I'll have my auto irrigate going that'll be less intrusion and I can let them do their thing.
Auto Irrigation Distribution Head. Fabricated a mount to stand off tent pole so that I had room to work 1/4" drip line. The idea is to have a system I can use so if I have to be away from the girls for a few days I won't have to worry about watering them. The system will work off a variation of a flood and drain system. 30 gal plastic food grade drum for a reservoir with a lid. Lid will have a hole with small backdraft filter for make up air inside drum and to keep nutrient odor inside drum. Drum will have a small dolly for easy removal come reservoir refresh time. Adjustable pond pump inside drum. Pump will be activated by a digital timer.
Nutrient will pump to distro head and will distribute out to 4 - 6 plants with feeder/supply lines from distro head. Each plant will get a feed ring made up of 5 drip T's. One T will connect to feeder/supply line and the other 4 will be evenly spaced in a circle with 3rd leg pointing towards base of the plant cocked at 45* angle to penetrate just below the soil line. This should be more than adequate to feed the root ball and keep soil at desired wetness.
Water volume will be controlled from 3 points. Pump volume adjustment, Timer or Distro head volume adjustment. Any one of the 3 can be used. I usually adjust water volume delivery through the pump but I can fine tune flow with Distro head or leave them all wide open and do it through timer schedule.
I like to see about 20% runoff on watering so I'll setup an evacuation system for the Dollar store wash tubs I'm using to catch runoff. Don't want the roots drowning in runoff so I'll hot glue some vinyl hose to the inside wall of the tub with the opening of the tube around an 1/8" off the bottom of the tub. I'll do this for each tub. I'll run each hose to a plastic hose manifold connected to another pump and timer and will activate 30 minutes after feed water pump shuts off to give pots time to drain out completely. I'll direct runoff back into reservoir along with dehumidifier condensate I have outside of tent to control tent humidity.
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Got a pack of GG4 beans from https://elev8seeds.com/. I've grown this cultivar a few times so I'm pretty familiar with it. What I've noticed in those times is early training is required before they stretch so that you can establish bud sites early and start moving into bloom before they start doing the sativa stretch. I got 10 seeds in the pack and sprouted them using the paper towel method. They all sprouted but only 8 survived the seedling transplant. This phenotype likes a lot of light and are pretty hardy so you can get the lights pretty close and they'll take it but you need to be careful and slowly introduce more light before you find the optimal light height because if you stress them out they'll herm on you.
They're currently in early veg/training mode and I'll snap pics as they progress.
I've been FIMming and topping these waiting to sex them so I can cull the males and begin the transition into flower. This is 14 days after initial soil line break and cotyledon leaf.
This what they currently look like. I just gave them their second top and fim session and will probably do one more session before I start setting up auto irrigation and the screen. 7 Gallon cloth pots. I didn't order enough so I had to transplant into some 3 gals I had laying around. More pots on the way. Using a LUX app on my phone to position plants for maximum light exposure. Outer plants are getting an average of 30,000 to 35,000 lux while those directly under are getting between 45,000 - 50,000 lux so we're in the ballpark!
Grow Tent is a 5 x 5 LA Garden tent. AC Infinity T6 fan w/ Controller 67. 6" pole fan and 8" ceiling mount fan for air circulation. I would recommend going with a full ACI kit. I should've done that from the beginning. Lesson learned and will do that for any future tent purchases. Future upgrades will be an auto irrigation system once they get their last haircut and a small camera system with a few cameras to check on them if I'm away for any length of time. I try and not open and close the tent so as not to disturb them or the environment. I only enter if I have a task at hand like topping or feeding or just to check for bug/fungus infestation. Now that I'll have my auto irrigate going that'll be less intrusion and I can let them do their thing.
Auto Irrigation Distribution Head. Fabricated a mount to stand off tent pole so that I had room to work 1/4" drip line. The idea is to have a system I can use so if I have to be away from the girls for a few days I won't have to worry about watering them. The system will work off a variation of a flood and drain system. 30 gal plastic food grade drum for a reservoir with a lid. Lid will have a hole with small backdraft filter for make up air inside drum and to keep nutrient odor inside drum. Drum will have a small dolly for easy removal come reservoir refresh time. Adjustable pond pump inside drum. Pump will be activated by a digital timer.
Nutrient will pump to distro head and will distribute out to 4 - 6 plants with feeder/supply lines from distro head. Each plant will get a feed ring made up of 5 drip T's. One T will connect to feeder/supply line and the other 4 will be evenly spaced in a circle with 3rd leg pointing towards base of the plant cocked at 45* angle to penetrate just below the soil line. This should be more than adequate to feed the root ball and keep soil at desired wetness.
Water volume will be controlled from 3 points. Pump volume adjustment, Timer or Distro head volume adjustment. Any one of the 3 can be used. I usually adjust water volume delivery through the pump but I can fine tune flow with Distro head or leave them all wide open and do it through timer schedule.
I like to see about 20% runoff on watering so I'll setup an evacuation system for the Dollar store wash tubs I'm using to catch runoff. Don't want the roots drowning in runoff so I'll hot glue some vinyl hose to the inside wall of the tub with the opening of the tube around an 1/8" off the bottom of the tub. I'll do this for each tub. I'll run each hose to a plastic hose manifold connected to another pump and timer and will activate 30 minutes after feed water pump shuts off to give pots time to drain out completely. I'll direct runoff back into reservoir along with dehumidifier condensate I have outside of tent to control tent humidity.
