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I started my second indoor grow a few months ago, and created a diary here for it that I never updated for a couple of reasons. One of them is that my planning all went out the window in the coming days/weeks due to several factors. As such, the thread became moot, and my configurations spent several weeks shifting around. The current thread/diary is dedicated to one tent in my configuration, while chaos ensues in my other main tent, and while my first cloning attempts gets going in a small cloning tent I have.
Equipment for this grow will be listed on the bottom of this OP.
The left half of my Tent-B setup is the result of a tray full of Blueberry Muffin (Humboldt Seed Company) clones that my friend asked me to hold onto. Here is a pic of the tray when it was dropped off on 3/26:
I transplanted a number of those clones in the coming weeks, but the ones outside of this tent have been plagued with issues, and I'm scrapping them either today or tomorrow. There are 4 remaining, all on the left side of Tent-B, and those are what this diary will follow.
The right half of Tent-B are Whiskey Zulu (Twenty20 Mendocino) autos. My friend gave me some seeds, as I was interested in trying autos out, both for the experience/comparison and because I wanted to get a quick harvest in while cultivating some longer-term plants. The harvest time listed by Mendocino is 60-75 days. I placed the seeds into a jar of water for sprouting on 4/6, they went into the dirt on 4/8, and all four sprouts had appeared by the morning of 4/11. They're currently square in the center of the harvest window, and while the trichomes look mostly white on them, I'm giving them a little longer until I harvest them. I'm hoping to see the first sign of yellow trichomes before cutting them down, but if I don't see anything by day-75, I may just harvest at that point.
Here is a video I made, consisting of daily pics of Tent-B, that displays 4 weeks of growth in that tent. It begins on the evening of 4/11. There are maybe 2 days of pics absent, but otherwise, it's a pretty uninterrupted time lapse going on here.
I was shocked by how quickly the WZ began to flower - maybe 3 weeks or so. I was hoping to top them before that began, but I was caught completely off guard by the schedule. As such, these each are going to just have one main cola. On the bright side though, they are looking very hefty. Here is a more recent pic, taken on 4/12:
As you can see, one of them experienced wind burn. I wasn't aware of the phenomenon until it started happening. That plant was in the rear corner most of the time, right where the fan is situated, and the leaves gradually began to sort of curl unto themselves. As a result, I decided to have the fan deflect of the tent wall going forward, and I moved that plant from the corner. Also as a result though, where they were all growing almost perfectly uniformly up to that point, that wind-burned plant, presumably out of a sense of self-preservation, experienced a height-wise growth spurt. It also seemed to be producing far less flower that the others though, at least for a few weeks. It seems to have more or less caught up though, and have developed a strong main cola of its own. It's hard to say if it will yield slightly less overall, or if the additional height growth will balance things out.
I don't have a more current pic of the entirety of Tent-B that shows the BBM progress, but they're massive. The only reason I haven't begun to flower them is that I want to expose these WZ to as much of a light cycle as I can until I take them down. The moment they come down though, that tent will go straight into a 12/12 so as to begin flowering the BBM.
As opposed to my first grow, which had a soil compound that my friend mixed up for me, and that ultimately became somewhat problematic, I'm using straight FoxFarms Ocean Forest soil for this grow. The upside to this is that the soil is drying out regularly, and I'm able to water daily, which means that I'm also able to administer supplements on a regular basis. For both the BBM and WZ, I've been feeding them Recharge once every few weeks, and giving them either Big Grow or Big Bloom/Tiger Bloom by FoxFarms as the stage of growth calls for the rest of the time. I typically would feed them nutrients 3-5 days consecutively, and then give them water for 1-2 days. As of 6/3, the WZ have gotten nothing but water, so as to flush them leading up to harvest.
I will post a video of the entire Tent-B tomorrow, so as to give an idea of where everything is at this point leading up to the WZ harvest.
EQUIPMENT FOR THIS GROW:
I'm using a 4 x 2 x 5 Vivosun grow tent, same as with my first grow (though not the same individual tent - that is my "Tent-A"). It's the original, black w/ green trim variety, not the gray/black ones that cost slightly more.
I've got a pair of clip-on oscillating fans at opposing corners of the tent, one higher up and the other just above the soil surface. These are for circulation.
Air rotation is being done passively at the moment, with a 6" Vivosun duct fan (and Vivosun fan speed controller) on the top of the tent pulling air out at an interval, and a 6" vent flange with a vent cover over it at the bottom of the tent, acting as the passive intake. The interval has changed over the last few months. Very low humidity was a problem in here when the weather was cooler and the heat was coming on, so I had to find an interval that only kicked in when the temp from the lights got so high that I needed to cool it down. The idea was to let as much humidity build as possible. It's less of a factor lately though, so I've shortened the interval to keep the tent a bit cooler.
I'm using Opulent Systems 3-gallon cloth pots for all of the plants in Tent-B. I purchased an awl early on in the grow, and used it to poke numerous holes on the bottom and on the sides of all the pots, so as to promote air flow and drainage.
Last but most certainly not least, I'm running a pair of Viparspectra XS1500 grow lights in the tent. I balanced it against several other brands/models based on several independent comparisons, and I couldn't be happier with my choice. They run pretty hot but they're absolute monsters. It's difficult to even looks straight at the tent from ten feet away with nothing in it, and with the lights at full power, as even the reflection at that distance is incredibly bright.
Equipment for this grow will be listed on the bottom of this OP.
The left half of my Tent-B setup is the result of a tray full of Blueberry Muffin (Humboldt Seed Company) clones that my friend asked me to hold onto. Here is a pic of the tray when it was dropped off on 3/26:
I transplanted a number of those clones in the coming weeks, but the ones outside of this tent have been plagued with issues, and I'm scrapping them either today or tomorrow. There are 4 remaining, all on the left side of Tent-B, and those are what this diary will follow.
The right half of Tent-B are Whiskey Zulu (Twenty20 Mendocino) autos. My friend gave me some seeds, as I was interested in trying autos out, both for the experience/comparison and because I wanted to get a quick harvest in while cultivating some longer-term plants. The harvest time listed by Mendocino is 60-75 days. I placed the seeds into a jar of water for sprouting on 4/6, they went into the dirt on 4/8, and all four sprouts had appeared by the morning of 4/11. They're currently square in the center of the harvest window, and while the trichomes look mostly white on them, I'm giving them a little longer until I harvest them. I'm hoping to see the first sign of yellow trichomes before cutting them down, but if I don't see anything by day-75, I may just harvest at that point.
Here is a video I made, consisting of daily pics of Tent-B, that displays 4 weeks of growth in that tent. It begins on the evening of 4/11. There are maybe 2 days of pics absent, but otherwise, it's a pretty uninterrupted time lapse going on here.
I was shocked by how quickly the WZ began to flower - maybe 3 weeks or so. I was hoping to top them before that began, but I was caught completely off guard by the schedule. As such, these each are going to just have one main cola. On the bright side though, they are looking very hefty. Here is a more recent pic, taken on 4/12:
As you can see, one of them experienced wind burn. I wasn't aware of the phenomenon until it started happening. That plant was in the rear corner most of the time, right where the fan is situated, and the leaves gradually began to sort of curl unto themselves. As a result, I decided to have the fan deflect of the tent wall going forward, and I moved that plant from the corner. Also as a result though, where they were all growing almost perfectly uniformly up to that point, that wind-burned plant, presumably out of a sense of self-preservation, experienced a height-wise growth spurt. It also seemed to be producing far less flower that the others though, at least for a few weeks. It seems to have more or less caught up though, and have developed a strong main cola of its own. It's hard to say if it will yield slightly less overall, or if the additional height growth will balance things out.
I don't have a more current pic of the entirety of Tent-B that shows the BBM progress, but they're massive. The only reason I haven't begun to flower them is that I want to expose these WZ to as much of a light cycle as I can until I take them down. The moment they come down though, that tent will go straight into a 12/12 so as to begin flowering the BBM.
As opposed to my first grow, which had a soil compound that my friend mixed up for me, and that ultimately became somewhat problematic, I'm using straight FoxFarms Ocean Forest soil for this grow. The upside to this is that the soil is drying out regularly, and I'm able to water daily, which means that I'm also able to administer supplements on a regular basis. For both the BBM and WZ, I've been feeding them Recharge once every few weeks, and giving them either Big Grow or Big Bloom/Tiger Bloom by FoxFarms as the stage of growth calls for the rest of the time. I typically would feed them nutrients 3-5 days consecutively, and then give them water for 1-2 days. As of 6/3, the WZ have gotten nothing but water, so as to flush them leading up to harvest.
I will post a video of the entire Tent-B tomorrow, so as to give an idea of where everything is at this point leading up to the WZ harvest.
EQUIPMENT FOR THIS GROW:
I'm using a 4 x 2 x 5 Vivosun grow tent, same as with my first grow (though not the same individual tent - that is my "Tent-A"). It's the original, black w/ green trim variety, not the gray/black ones that cost slightly more.
I've got a pair of clip-on oscillating fans at opposing corners of the tent, one higher up and the other just above the soil surface. These are for circulation.
Air rotation is being done passively at the moment, with a 6" Vivosun duct fan (and Vivosun fan speed controller) on the top of the tent pulling air out at an interval, and a 6" vent flange with a vent cover over it at the bottom of the tent, acting as the passive intake. The interval has changed over the last few months. Very low humidity was a problem in here when the weather was cooler and the heat was coming on, so I had to find an interval that only kicked in when the temp from the lights got so high that I needed to cool it down. The idea was to let as much humidity build as possible. It's less of a factor lately though, so I've shortened the interval to keep the tent a bit cooler.
I'm using Opulent Systems 3-gallon cloth pots for all of the plants in Tent-B. I purchased an awl early on in the grow, and used it to poke numerous holes on the bottom and on the sides of all the pots, so as to promote air flow and drainage.
Last but most certainly not least, I'm running a pair of Viparspectra XS1500 grow lights in the tent. I balanced it against several other brands/models based on several independent comparisons, and I couldn't be happier with my choice. They run pretty hot but they're absolute monsters. It's difficult to even looks straight at the tent from ten feet away with nothing in it, and with the lights at full power, as even the reflection at that distance is incredibly bright.
