BigCube
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Hey everyone. Long time lurker first time poster lol.
For reference, I've been growing for 10 years and have always used the DWC method. I have it down to a science and never have had issues. I used a 400 hps in a 2x3 closet 4 plants and had great results.
I stopped growing for a couple years when my baby was born and we didn't have the spare room anymore. But now we've bought a house and have a spare room I can lock the door on and have put in a 3x3 tent to start with. I am trying LED this go round and will be doing DWC again once I get my mother going.
Since I stopped growing. Cannabis has become legal to grow in Canada and while thus is good, it's effectively removed my ability to find/get clones to start from. So for the first time in 10 years, I'm starting from seed.
This is where my problem begins. I want my mother to be in dirt (promix hp coco choir with mycrorysa) or however you spell it lol. Things are growing great she is healthy and growing at a normal rate for dirt type conditions. My problem is, this is going to be my mother plant. I would like to start taking clones from it as soon as possible, but she is just bushy as hell, with about 2cm at most between nodes.
I've tried moving the light back as far as it will go, but it's still got very short node spacing. Are led lights really that good these days? I'm using a 1500w (250w actual) full spectrum x5 COB light. It's hard to look at and defiantly puts out as much light as a 1000w hps as far as visuals go.
Would I be better to pull her out of the tent and put her under some t5's? Just to get her to lengthen out more? Or are some plants genetics really that dominant? She is 3 weeks from from a sprout right now, and I've already removed a few of her lower leaves that went geting light.
When I was last growing I had a nice mother I would take my clones from and I would have killed to have node spacing like this when I put my clones in to the net pots. Lol but for a mother I need spacing I can actually work with.
For reference, I've been growing for 10 years and have always used the DWC method. I have it down to a science and never have had issues. I used a 400 hps in a 2x3 closet 4 plants and had great results.
I stopped growing for a couple years when my baby was born and we didn't have the spare room anymore. But now we've bought a house and have a spare room I can lock the door on and have put in a 3x3 tent to start with. I am trying LED this go round and will be doing DWC again once I get my mother going.
Since I stopped growing. Cannabis has become legal to grow in Canada and while thus is good, it's effectively removed my ability to find/get clones to start from. So for the first time in 10 years, I'm starting from seed.
This is where my problem begins. I want my mother to be in dirt (promix hp coco choir with mycrorysa) or however you spell it lol. Things are growing great she is healthy and growing at a normal rate for dirt type conditions. My problem is, this is going to be my mother plant. I would like to start taking clones from it as soon as possible, but she is just bushy as hell, with about 2cm at most between nodes.
I've tried moving the light back as far as it will go, but it's still got very short node spacing. Are led lights really that good these days? I'm using a 1500w (250w actual) full spectrum x5 COB light. It's hard to look at and defiantly puts out as much light as a 1000w hps as far as visuals go.
Would I be better to pull her out of the tent and put her under some t5's? Just to get her to lengthen out more? Or are some plants genetics really that dominant? She is 3 weeks from from a sprout right now, and I've already removed a few of her lower leaves that went geting light.
When I was last growing I had a nice mother I would take my clones from and I would have killed to have node spacing like this when I put my clones in to the net pots. Lol but for a mother I need spacing I can actually work with.