👋 Hey y'all! I know that I have been "gone" awhile and I am sorry for leaving y'all hangin'!
A lot has happened in my life. New baby, new house, and new grow projects! If any of you follow me on Instagram, then you already know about my autoflower tent. I haven't had much time to tend to the medical garden and have handed most of those responsibilities off. I still visit every so often, but I won't be documenting those grows here any longer.
Being that we are in a new house, I want to expand my home setup and I have some exciting stuff planned showcasing some top notch genetics!
Now on to this grow!
🚿 Reservoir and drip details: I have 7 gallon bucket with submersible pump going to four halo type drip rings. I have a manual shutoff switch to turn the pump on or off at the touch of a button. My tent has two tiers and the plants are not hooked up to the halo drip rings until they are moved to the lower chamber. Prior to that they are manually watered. I am using reverse osmosis water. I have a 24"x48" low tide tray in the bottom of the tent and a 24"x24" high tide tray in the top chamber.
🌬️ Ventilation: I am using an AC Infinity 6" fan with the upgraded Cloudline 67 controller. The fan sits on top of my tent with a silencer on the exhaust side of the fan and on the intake side I have ducting run into the top of the tent and hooked to a carbon filter inside. I also have three oscillating fans tower fans inside the tent. The largest of the three hangs upside down from the top shelf to create airflow in the bottom chamber. On the top shelf there are two desk type oscillating tower fans. One set to oscillate and move air and the other pulls air from the lower chamber up towards the top chamber. All fans direct air from opposite side of the filter towards the filter to ensure air movement is efficiently pulling fresh air and CO2 throughout the tent and also exhaust heat.
🌱 Medium: I am using Royal Gold Tupur with a lot of added perlite. I have been reusing my medium for this project for over a year now. To eliminate and prevent bugs. I rinse after harvest with boiling water and a surfactant and again after I place it in a fabric pot about 48 hours before planting. For starting seeds I bought some small plastic cups from Walmart. Not the party cup type, but the reusable juice type cups. I put holes in the bottom and side about a half inch from the bottom. I fill them with medium with enough room for covering about 3/4 of the Jiffy style peat pellets I am starting seeds in.
💡Lighting details: I use an Android app called 'PPFD Meter' to dial in my lighting. I run my lights for 21 hours per day and rather than focusing setting a target for ppfd, I set a target DLI. For the first 3 weeks I shoot for about 13-19 mol/m2/day, then 20-30 mol/m2/day until plants have starting pushing pistils for a week or two, and then 35-50 mol/m2/day. These are my target ranges and do my best to maintain, but, with the variation seen in autoflowers... It's hard to keep a perfectly even canopy needed to maintain consistent light levels for all plants.
If anyone has any questions or would like more details, please let me know.
I am excited to be back with a new diary!
Thanks for stopping by my garden y'all!
✌️ PEACE
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❄️🌲 & FROSTY NUGS!
@FoTwenny, I have been well, busy and trying to stay safe lol. Super excited to see you back at it again with the white Vans and the green thumbs haha!
Me he quedado asustado por las 68h de oscuridad. Pensaba hacer ese método para acelerar la floración, pero sólo con 36h de oscuridad, ¿Has probado este método antes? Saludos🖐️👨🌾
@FoTwenny, Gracias por la respuesta. Yo probé en la temporada anterior, acelerar la entrada a floración, tuve las plantas 36h a oscuras, después las puse a 13-14h de luz y probé también a alumbrar las plantas con una bombilla (10w) de rojo lejano (730nm), durante la última media hora de luces y la media hora posterior a apagarlas... no noté nada, la floración llegó 2-3 semanas después, lo normal.
Ahora quiero hacer una nueva prueba, voy a mantener las plantas 48h de oscuridad y después pasarlas a un horario estricto 12/12h.
@deFharo, I have not tried in the past but have read about it and decided to try it when a friend recommended it based off their experience. It worked, but I don't think she has the auto gene, she started pushing pistils but after about a week of 21/3 and she went back to veg. I just sent her off to a new home today.
@FoTwenny, I hope that other home is still under your jurisdiction ;))) it's 200 g plant.
I recently had one NL she went into reveg/foxtail mode 3 times in one flowering cycle, previously had girl who didn't want to start flowering. I had that gene already, it's monstrosity gene ;))))
@Inganjawetrust, I mean, I have heard of autoflower seeds that don't autoflower, but to have 2 in one run has been a bummer. The other was from Expert Seeds and was a feminized seed, but when I put her outside... She turned out to be male too.
She's looking nice . I'm planning on popping a few of this strain outside this spring , I'll be curious to see how yours turns out. Best of luck with her.🌱🌿