Morning All,
Been a busy week tinkering and tweaking the environment of the tent.
I haven't been around much this week but I'm heading off to work today so I'll be able to catch up on what has been happening.
So I picked up the fans and in true classifieds style it was a bit of a mission. Then none of them have controllers, FML! anyway the price was right so I brought them home and the next day sourced a mountain air controller, now just need to order controllers for the hyper fans. At the moment the silencer is acting as the intake, and the air is naturally finding its way out. Heat issue solved!!
Mushroom co2 generator bucket is hanging and going, working? not sure, parts for co2 sensor are on the way.
Made the tent light/air proof, taped up all vents etc. only weak points now are zips, contemplated getting out the sewing machine and making velcro covers for zips, fair bit of effort for something I want to change ASAP, so for now I'm just throwing tarps over the tent, fuck it, I foresee myself buying timber soon to start constructing the floor.....I need a veg room anyway...haha
rewired the tent, too many lights on power boards.
needed to get humidity up, so I stole the kids vaporiser, helps but need more power!!
Harsh reality is Im going to have to go LEDs, summer here an extra 7C or more from HID is going to be hard to manage, its nicely manageable now, winter here lol, summer I'm screwed, even though the HID would help allot with humidity, so I'll have another gremlin to deal with. If anyone would like to chime in on some good LEDs I'd love to hear it. Ive read and researched a bit already. Its always the same, you can go with the known good brands that everyone goes with, usually pay a bit extra for supply and demand. I have had a look around at some LEDs, there are some brands you don't read about in reviews ect however, have some impressive stats, it gets a bit confusing. Im not looking to go cheap, I'll pay top dollar for a top product, just want to make the right choice to grow the best buds I can. I know you can have the best light and grow the shittest buds, I just don't want anything setting the grow back if I'm on point. I know spider farm is popular here, reviews read good also.
Plants are coming along ok, no more topping has been done since the last top, slow recovery. Otherwise doing well but Id say far far from optimal. Growth is meant to be explosive in NFT if done right and while there has been brief times of explosive growth, its been adverage otherwise. There are so many variables to the cause, Topping has definitely been a culprit, chopping too early? (maybe) I have detailed notes, so I'm just hoping to get a decent harvest from this one regardless of the time it takes, and hopefully next grows I start to see more frequent explosive growth.
Without topping Id say Id be flicking to flower now, so I guess its not too bad looking at it that way, but currently I'm still looking at a couple or few weeks of veg. They'd probably be sitting around 400mm or so no chop chop, sitting at 100mm currently, plenty chop chop, spread spread. (the plan is to keep them super low with high yield.....we'll see...)
Happy Gardening!!