Still a novice grower, this is my 4th grow in an expanded brand new grow space. I'm upgrading from a 2x4x60 vivosun tent to a 4x8x80 coolgrows tent. I've been satisfied with just about everything but yield from my past grows, so hoping that proper defoliation and the taller lights will bring me success.
For this tent, I'm growing 8 seeds. Don't ask why. It did not dawn on me when I bought this tent (if you can't tell I struggle to think things through), that I would have to grow all the plants on the same light schedule. So I have 4 (3?) Autos and 4(5?) photoperiods. The unsureness is because of the Lemon seed I have from Seedsman. On my receipt order, its Lemon Auto. On the seed case, it says Lemon. So *shrugs*. It's probably a regular fem seed but for now we go by the receipt (Edit: Went back and checked, apparently it does say auto on the case lol) For this 8 plant adventure I have 75% of all the lights I've bought since I started journey. The Mars Hydro FCE-3000 is my newest purchase, very excited to test this one out in this new tent, and along side it is my HLG 300, and inbetween I have my first light, the HLG 100, that I'll switch on during late veg/flower. Starting at the lowest dim setting and will raise very slowly through veg
Why am I growing autos and Photos in the same tent? Because I have no sense. I am planning on hopefully getting the autos as much time on 18/6 as I can before I flip the photos to 12/12. Not really concerned about the possible yield impact, so YOLO. Until I set up my second tent I'll be growing autos and photos together because I would like to not wait half a year to get some new damn weed. I hope this will work out as when I cut down the autos I will be able to give the photos more canopy space. Idk Idk, we'll see.
No nutes this week, but will start with a light mix next week. I only do GH Trio + CalMag, and I generally do the same mixture most of the grow, at the same ratio but increasing amount as it develops during veg. I cut out FloraGro in the last 1/3 of Flower. I do this because it balances the PH, and with 8 individual DWC buckets, I'm trying to keep my ph maintenance as low as possible. Although I just moved so I'll have to see how this tap water here works as the weeks go by. I thought about doing RDWC, but its a lot of DIY work and I wanted to see how bad 8 solo buckets could be.
Like I mentioned earlier, I've been satisfied with quality of my buds from my past grows, but looking to really increase yields in this massive tent. So wish me luck. Only one picture cause its just germination but will start cataloguing each baby plant next week. Seeds went in the bucket after 4 days of paper towel germination