Tc2's Indoor Grow Journal - Spider Farmer SF1000, HLG 100, Sun System HPS 150W

[tomatoesarecooltoo]

Dang, that's a steal for the volume.
I used it after getting salmonella, so I just bought a gallon, but I remember that being something like $30.
Wife uses it for hair and skin products as well and she's loyal to it.

Wow thats pretty incredible that it treats salmonella. Plant medicine is so powerful, I really need to learn more about it. Its a shame so much of that sort of knowledge has been destroyed by colonialism.

If it can save me from buying a 22$ bottle of clonex I suppose thats cool too.

 

[Milson]

Wow thats pretty incredible that it treats salmonella. Plant medicine is so powerful, I really need to learn more about it. Its a shame so much of that sort of knowledge has been destroyed by colonialism.

If it can save me from buying a 22$ bottle of clonex I suppose thats cool too.

 

[tomatoesarecooltoo]

Still no more dang pistils showing

 

[tomatoesarecooltoo]

Killed 2 more males, so now the remaining plants are 2 confirmed females (one lemon chaze and 1 moab fem), 1 unconfirmed leaning female and 3 unconfirmed leaning male. So it looks like I might have to finish this run out with 3 plants. That would be 2 females found in 10 regular seeds, plus the 1 fem. Kind of a bummer.

Also my humidifier is broken and leaked water all over the floor all day. Luckily the humidity has not been dropping so bad, now that the plants are big enough to transpire a decent amount.

I have noticed temps going as low as 62F at night recently. My active in was running 24/7 unlike my active out which was on the temp controller, so now I have both on the temp controller. Hopefully they still kick on enough to run the room without co2. Maybe I will set up a little supplemental co2 brew kit as I have done in the past.

 

[Aqua Man]

How ya liking the light? Plants look great.

 

[amekins]

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That’s what I use.

 

[tomatoesarecooltoo]

How ya liking the light? Plants look great.

Thanks!

Originally I was running the sf1000 between two blurples. It was pretty obvious that the sf1000 was producing more light and less heat than the blurples.

Now I have a hlg 100 on the left the sf1000 on the right and a 150 watt hps in the middle. This setup is running much cooler even with the little bit of hps. I only switched over last friday, but I can see that the plants are growing less bunched up and more stemmy. I wanted to move away from the blurples either way, but the spider farmer did help convince me to stay with LED in general.

When it comes to the hlg vs the spider farmer, I really don't know until I see how they flower. The hlg seems a tiny bit brighter and the spider farmer is easier to dim.

 

[tomatoesarecooltoo]

That’s what I use.

I watched a video with Clonex and they admit that their only innovation was putting the existing products in a gel form and adding some pharmaceutical grade antiseptic.

 

[Aqua Man]

Thanks!

Originally I was running the sf1000 between two blurples. It was pretty obvious that the sf1000 was producing more light and less heat than the blurples.

Now I have a hlg 100 on the left the sf1000 on the right and a 150 watt hps in the middle. This setup is running much cooler even with the little bit of hps. I only switched over last friday, but I can see that the plants are growing less bunched up and more stemmy. I wanted to move away from the blurples either way, but the spider farmer did help convince me to stay with LED in general.

When it comes to the hlg vs the spider farmer, I really don't know until I see how they flower. The hlg seems a tiny bit brighter and the spider farmer is easier to dim.

If they are the same wattage probably won't see much difference. Prob a bit more heat from sf and maybe a little less life span but they grow well.

 

[tomatoesarecooltoo]

When I potted up my two females, I forgot to do this old tomato trick I am fond of. Which is to bury an egg under the plant.

The lemon cheese plant I pollinated for these seeds was in a 15 gallon with 3 eggs and some worm compost at the bottom, and I never had to add dry or liquid ferts.

If I find any more females I will add an egg.

 

[tomatoesarecooltoo]

Changing the the intake to also run on the controller instead of 24/7 worked well, my temps were around 75 lights off instead of 62. My unconfirmed plants are fed up with their 1 gals and are slowing down a little. Tomorrow I will just take my favorite two up to 5 gals unsexed.

 

[Grownsince95]

When I potted up my two females, I forgot to do this old tomato trick I am fond of. Which is to bury an egg under the plant.

The lemon cheese plant I pollinated for these seeds was in a 15 gallon with 3 eggs and some worm compost at the bottom, and I never had to add dry or liquid ferts.

If I find any more females I will add an egg.

No Aspirin?

 

[tomatoesarecooltoo]

No Aspirin?

Whats that for?

 

[Grownsince95]

Whats that for?

SAR? Omg tomato guy I can't believe you haven't heard this urban myth! Salicylic acid and aspirin and tomatoes? No?

I'm def the crazy one on the Farm now lol

 

[Grownsince95]

Frontiers | Induced resistance in tomato by SAR activators during predisposing salinity stress

Plant activators are chemicals that induce disease resistance. The phytohormone salicylic acid (SA) is a crucial signal for systemic acquired resistance (SAR...

www.frontiersin.org

For some light reading lol

 

[tomatoesarecooltoo]

Oh for blight huh. Don’t really have to deal with tomato blight much, I am in a dry climate and I keep them fed. I get a little if I grow them out of season and prune it off.

 

[Grownsince95]

Oh for blight huh. Don’t really have to deal with tomato blight much, I am in a dry climate and I keep them fed. I get a little if I grow them out of season and prune it off.

An old urban legend around these parts says an aspirin in the hole with some egg shells and a fish head is all you need to grow the best tomatoes ever...I just happen to want to read peer reviewed papers before I do crazy shit like that lol ❤

 

[tomatoesarecooltoo]

An old urban legend around these parts says an aspirin in the hole with some egg shells and a fish head is all you need to grow the best tomatoes ever...I just happen to want to read peer reviewed papers before I do crazy shit like that lol ❤

Yeah I decided to opt out of the fish head indoors.

 

[beluga]

I mean... molasses sure has a stronghold in these parts. Not really all too much different and I'm sure all of it has a practicality.
Ol' grandpa Eustace did some crazy shit, but hell if his tomatoes weren't the best damn tomatoes you'd ever had.

 

[tomatoesarecooltoo]

the most over the top thing I have seen buried on the garden was from this video, I won’t even give it away its the first one, watch the first 2-3 mins.