Too much for a 3x3?

[firstgrowdontknow]

That fans far too close, looks like too much wind you using extraction as well?

No need to run humidifier, but if you must outside the tent use extraction to pull in air.

Is that a temp and humidity probe, is it under the light? If so reads wrong and a bad place for it needs to be shaded from all light and wind, can place that outside the tent too.

Lots of reason it's struggling probably blame that fan in first instance if it's being used.

Good luck!

The fan is at ground level, well under the rim of the bag. I have another 6 inch fan just below the light over a foot above the plant on the post to the bottom left of the pic. The plant does not experience direct airflow ever. Is that still too much?

The humidifier keeps the tent 10-15%+ above ambient humidity and helps keep the temps a bit lower. I cant have it outside the tent, it would never increase the humidity enough. It would also come with a 2-3f+ increase in temperature. Unless Im wrong and 40% or lower humidity is fine? It would probably be even lower than ambient humidity in the tent with its warmer air, so say 35%? Maybe lower? idk if I ever properly measured it. I could try tomorrow and see the difference.

I know about the light warming thermometers etc, but the hole for the temp sensor is on the bottom, so while not ideal, it works fine. I also monitor the temp inside the exhaust vent, ambient temperature outside the tent, and the leaves with a laser thermometer when Im feeling scientific.

So at 3pm it was 79.3F ~51% humidity according to that sensor hanging in the pic and the exhaust measured 78.6F ~52% humidity. With the airflow in the tent the exhaust is likely closer to the true temperature, but its very close. Ambient temp was 75f. Humidity 40%. Tent humidity might be a bit off because thats about when I watered so the tent door opened. I tried to get the most honest interpretation of the data though.(I promise!)


The pics I posted were taken 5 mins before lights out, I dont think there is any struggle happening? I think all of my plants have drooped just before lights out. I'll get a pic or two uploaded tomorrow and see how she looks.

If you see a struggling plant here I would love to know what youre seeing that Im not.

 

[KG1]

You have a sensor with exhaust wind blowing on it?

 

[firstgrowdontknow]

You have a sensor with exhaust wind blowing on it?

I have a sensor in the vent for exhaust after the inline fan. I wanted to know the temperature of the air leaving the tent vs the air around the filter to help me judge how good my air circulation was in the tent. They were close enough that I felt comfortable only using the exhaust sensor as a proxy for the temperature at the top of the tent. Its not really necessary but now I know the temp of the air going I to the tent, at canopy level, and the air leaving the tent. Its fairly accurate, the temp reported by the sensor matches the temp of the outside of the vent as measured with a laser.

 

[firstgrowdontknow]

Some morning pics, 1.5 hours

after lights on

 

[firstgrowdontknow]

Made a bit of a mistake and turns out the timer has been on 12/12 for at least the last few days and shes going into flower. We also had a power outage that knocked that time down to under 8 hours lights on. Hopefully switching back to 18/6 wont stress it out too bad, I had changed my mind and wanted to veg out a little longer. Maybe I should just go with it and continue to flower? idk Ive never made this mistake before...honestly not sure how it happened. Any advice is appreciated. I had a whole plan put together but now I might have to rethink it.

 

[firstgrowdontknow]

She's gonna be a short one. I think the stretch is pretty much done..it's still stretching but it seems to have slowed down a lot. I'm gonna say this is ~day 12 or so of 12/12. Top dressed with some organic fertilizer a few days ago. I added a third fan to blow across the canopy and some sticky traps for in front of the door.I also removed the humidifier.

 

[firstgrowdontknow]

Gave her a drink today with bit of 20-10-20(it just felt right). Next watering or in about a week I'll top dress with some more organic fert and I think that should carry it to the finish.

 

[firstgrowdontknow]

Life got very busy, haven't been able to spend much time here on the forum, but she's coming along nicely, starting to show some frost. I'm gonna cull some leaves from the middle tomorrow to open up the plant a bit.

 

[firstgrowdontknow]

Almost forgot...the light is now at its final height ~9 inches above the canopy.

 

[firstgrowdontknow]

First the glamour shots, taken right after lights on

Watered last night with aquarium water and a touch of bloom booster. I may have overshot the nutes a bit but we will see how she develops. I found two dying fan leaves but it is only those two that look bad so I'm not super concerned. I removed the worst of the two. It's likely from under watering, I've been letting it get pretty dry.

I trimmed some leaves and small budding branches where there wasnt any airflow.

I had forgotten to take clone of this plant and only had 2 tiny trimmed branches that have been chilling in a shotglass of water with rooting hormone for the last 1-2 weeks.(It had not started rooting yet) This is an experiment to see how little effort I can get away with when trying to root a really small cutting. no cutting leaves, no humidity dome, just a plant and some dirt.(and hormones) It's been 24 hours and so far so good. The cutting didnt even notice it's environment had changed, except now all the leaves are stretching for the light. Humidity is ~40% temperature overnight is ~65-68f And 68-70+ during the day. It's under a ge 40watt led strip ~10inches above in an east facing window. If all goes well I might have to do a round two with a la mode.

 

[RGWD0202]

Everything is looking good, the reason for a riser is to get the plants up off the floor, if you are on a Slab, the root temps will be a lot colder and could slow growth. It also keeps them up out of the run off if you should happen to have run off. I had minimal when I ran 10 gallons so you should be ok there. Be careful using fish tank water, could be bad fungi in there that could take out your grow. Stretch is typically 21 days plus or minus 3 days. If you flipped it on accident on around 10/1 should be nearing end of stretch now.

You should be able to get that clone to root, once you do you can reveg it by putting back to 18-6 if you have a 2nd light. Otherwise the plant will be the same age as your current plant and would technically be in week 3 of flower so won’t produce much of anything if you keep it 12/2

 

[firstgrowdontknow]

The cutting was taken in early or mid veg, I had meant to take clones but I tossed them before I realized what I was doing, so I kept two small ones from below the canopy the next time I trimmed. it's been in a south facing window since I took it.

The floor does get cold, but I'm not on a slab. Right now it's at about ~68°... ~5° under ambient air temp. I'm sure it gets colder overnight but I've never measured it. overnight air temp drops to about 65° ambient in that room. I figure with such a large container it probably has enough thermal mass to keep temps from fluctuating too much, though I've never measured it...

I have never heard of aquarium water being risky to use before. I use it with my outdoor garden plants all the time.