Mikedin’s grow journal 2, let’s go!

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Oh man, just got upgraded to blizzard warning and I have to work tomorrow, I’m supposed to get there right as it’s moving in, I drive 40 minutes to work on a good day lol, just brought in a cord of wood and have another half sitting just outside the door, supposed ti get 2-3 feet + 70mph + winds and windchills down to -25

Picked up 40 gallons of gas yesterday for the genny but that’s will be for the 3 fridges and keeping everyone comfortable especially if I can’t make it home like the last big storm and it’s all on my wife so time to really set up

I really hope we don’t lose power but with the flash freeze after the rain plus that wind and snow… it’s not looking good

On the upside I may have a few time lapses soon we’ll see

I will be moving my outdoor camera to the front to time lapse the storm so if it does get bad it’ll be recorded… until the power goes out lol
Hoping for the best! Man, crazy weather, I lived in the midwest for a couple years and the first winter I was there we had a huge blizzard and was snowed in for 3 days. I definitely don't miss the snow, lol!
 
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Hoping for the best! Man, crazy weather, I lived in the midwest for a couple years and the first winter I was there we had a huge blizzard and was snowed in for 3 days. I definitely don't miss the snow, lol!
It’s bad right now haha not so much heavy snow just straight sideways whiteouts and -22f windchill, just drove the most white knuckle hour and a half drive home from work in my life.. should have taken 30 minutes, and stopped to check on 3 crashed semi truck drivers

Middle of nowhere where I live if there in the field now he’ll probably still be waiting in the morning, so far the winds have been getting stronger and stronger but now to try and get back to work at 4am… this should be fun…
 
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Well the blizzard was fun haha, now that that’s over here a little time lapse before the power went out, it was only about 2 hours during the dark cycle had to just open the tents up and let them breathe some fresh air until the power came back on

 
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Merry Christmas Mike!
Looking good.
Like watching the plants pray in the dark..
Makes one see the difference of 18/6 compared to 24/7 where they would never move like that.
 
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Merry Christmas Mike!
Looking good.
Like watching the plants pray in the dark..
Makes one see the difference of 18/6 compared to 24/7 where they would never move like that.
Merry Christmas steam! Well the show starts today! Just rearranged the tent and light proofed if, switched to black ducting for vents, raised lights, dropped plants to floor, did a big defoliation and just flipped the lights to 12/12, moved the plant in the 3 gallon pot over to the clone tent for now

This cookies Kush is 3 months and 17 days from seed (plant all the way to the right) the rest are monstercropped clones that where started to be rooted on 9/6/22 so here we go! Let’s see what happens, I’ve seen minute amounts of PM on these so far they just got a neem oil soak after the defol, once fully dry they got put back in the tent, I plan to do a 4 day peroxide spray on them through harvest and see if that keeps it at bay this time

Also added a 4” inline fan for an active air inlet on top of the 2 bottom vents open with diffusers I made lol

Also the camera had to be moved to accommodate the fan in the corner being lowered lol
 
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In the pic above the tent that silver 4” duct goes to a outdoor vent it’s just blocked until I need it in summertime

It can also access the other room to vent that tent if needed
 
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On the ceiling? Yes those are WI-FI smoke detectors that alert directly to your phone (as well as audible) cheap as hell on Amazon, then I have a normal CO/Smoke detector outside the tent in the lung room, then one outside the lung room

Inside the app this is what it looks like
Glad to see someone else taking safety in their grow lol I’ve got standard ones in mine which after finding out about yours it looks like I’m upgrading lol
 
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Glad to see someone else taking safety in their grow lol I’ve got standard ones in mine which after finding out about yours it looks like I’m upgrading lol
I’m going to upgrade those as well to the same company that I’m using for my camera they do cameras, sensors, smoke/co, door locks, remote outlet switches, those im gunna pick up so I can remotely shut off equipment (if it can handle the watts) they also have a climate sensor 😁

These are the options In the app I’ve seen the pan and tilt cameras. And the 360 degree cameras as well and may be buying more for around the house
 
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I’m going to upgrade those as well to the same company that I’m using for my camera they do cameras, sensors, smoke/co, door locks, remote outlet switches, those im gunna pick up so I can remotely shut off equipment (if it can handle the watts) they also have a climate sensor 😁

These are the options In the app I’ve seen the pan and tilt cameras. And the 360 degree cameras as well and may be buying more for around the house
Noice!!!!! Mate u have inspired me to upgrade! Sprinklers and everything…….Banging! Lol
 
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Girls looking happy first night after the flip! And the heavy defol I was wondering if they’d be sad this morning but… not a chance they wanna grow big ass buds!

Also not sure what my plan is with my extra plant she’s in the clone room under some really weak lights lol but she seems happy this morning but those lights are 24/0 lol

Also have some tomatoes, pepper and lettuce seeds planted and I plant to keep one of each in this tent to eat from, going to add a 2nd level to the tent I think so I can grow vegetables on shelves year round

Also with the defol yesterday was a heavy lolipopping, pulled out any chutes that would be right up against its neighbor bud site, I’m aiming for basically all top colas anything that’s hidden underneath will probably be removed I want to reduce foliage touching as much as possible to reduce risk of PM as much as possible, it’ll also allow me to clearly see more into the leaves as they aren’t overlapping like crazy
 
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It won’t be for this grow but I can’t for the life of me find a 4’x8’ piece of expanded metal with 4” holes I’m trying to find one so I can make a permenant scrog non flexible I can install when the plants are ready I want to put legs in it and everything if I can find what I want

Anybody have any input on where to find that?

Looking for the metal they use for these but just sheets, none of these are long enough to even cut to make a single solid piece
 
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And this morning the candy kush is looking happy after her first full dose of the flower fuel, she is 25 days from flip currently

I’d say she filled out the 4x4 pretty damn well in her own,
 
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So I’ve been looking around and have been toying around with the idea of using a HPS in one of the tents (most likely the 4x4) or possibly 2 of them in the 4x8 and move the mars hydro to the 4x4 but I feel that would be a waste of that light,

It would mostly be so I could grow warmer in the winter and run the LED bars in the summer to not have to deal with heat

I run my tents in my basement, so I’d run the lights for heat during lights on and put a space heater in for lights off, gotta pick up another timer and wanna hook up the oil heater so it dosent get quite as cold at night, kinda looking forward to seeing if that 62-64 brings out a lot of purple in the plants

All I can find is these Ipower HPS/MH kits are they a good brand?

Can’t complain about $150 for a 600 watt HPS/MH kit with cool tube reflector it’s tempting, might get the stuff together during the current grow and see if I have it all gathered up for the next one, the blurples can always go in the vegetable tent 😁
 
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Ahh damn I’m looking at lights again 😂😂, deal is I’m restricting myself lol so I’m looking for an Decent sized light for the 4x4 lol time to start digging

I think I’m sticking to LED for now though so it’ll be bar style
 
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So here’s what I’m aiming to beat
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So that’s the candy kush from the 2nd run of her, the solo plant in the 4x4 is from the same bag of seeds but she never autoflowered

Here’s where she is currently day 26 of flower

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