Bet you would be fine Z for what it is worth. Just wanted to share my experience because I think it has some keys to why I got "nanned" and I only realized it yesterday.
So I ain't even going to say not to laugh at me because it's down right inevitable. I've tried to learn much about cultivating in the last year and I think I must just get overwhelmed in my head. Charts here charts there, literally the writing is on the wall yet I still seem to somehow veer off the path often accidentally.
Which brings me to the 2 female Purple Dragon Balls that hermed on me in like week 4 or 5. They were in a closer to the window. I was sweatin it every time heat got near 80 in flower. I stopped paying attention to what ideal temps are in flower and somehow took trying to drop RH as also teying to drop temps. So I have literally been sucking cold air in from outside with a fan inside a 8" tubing and ported as intake directly into that tent. Temps swung from low 80s light on to 60 overnight. Got nanners and tossed plants. I had a mimosa clone with them and it has been fine until week 9 and bow it is foxtailing. Went to pool tournament yesterday and spoke to very good grower I know locally and he said "wtf you doing? They love 80-85 in flower easily. You likely stressed them out".
Sooo I am sure I could be wrong but I feel my nanners and foxtailing I just got were simply both a result of me forgetting/disregarding proper vpd 😣
Ohhhhhhhh 😂🤣🥺🥴 and one more thing/clue. I did not realize that the humidifier I was using(mostly in veg and maybe 2-3 weeks into flower tops) has an led display and is fairly bright 😯😣 I fixed weeka ago by clamping bar magnets to water flap and I drape a cut up black plastic bag over the diaplay 🤣
On a good note though lmao I sampled my mimosa without really drying much or curing much and it's good 😳 or at least beats disp herb already. And it was samples from weeks 7-9 days ago so I like my odds that this last grow might work out if can dry and cure well.
Whats up bro, you are on point with identifying VPD (and that dehu light) as probable causes for those hermies, coupled with genetics that arent particularly resilient to temperature fluctuations either. Man Im finding out that genetics aren't as easy as "get some good stuff for 80$ and grow awesome weed". Its like 5 out of 100 phenotypes that breeders keep. So as small timers, were basically pheno hunting and when we find a good one, honestly were lucky lol. A "good one" would be temp resilient, and good thc production. Few pheno's have BOTH potency, flavor AND resilience, so its no wonder "shit happens". Good on ya for hammering away and refining your methods. AS for these girls, Im just gonna keep it nice and chill in the room and hope they come out alright.
As for the 80-degree thing, I would say that's a decent temp IF you have really high humidity (which brings with it its own problems). In flower, we have our lights at full power (or almost). If you couple that light intensity with really high temperatures, your gonna stress em out. I like to run my room no more than 75 during flower, and i let it get maybe to like 77-78 in veg. ALWAYS following the proper humidity as per the chart after checking leaf temps. At night, I try and not let the tempuratures swing more than 2 or 3 degrees...IDEALLY. Also, the higher the tempurature, the higher the chance of some delicate
terpenes will vaporize.
" Higher temperatures during flowering, drying and curing means that the evaporation and subsequent loss of
terpenes can seriously alter and degrade the organoleptic properties of the buds produced."
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