A note on last weeks goals:
- Continuing LST has been very easy with this girl. Following a VPD chart and keeping a good environment has been key to establishing a successful low stress training regiment. In the last week I decided to use stainless steel nuts and bolts as weights. I tie them to the end of the side branches rather than tieing them down to the side of the pot. This makes it easier to water.. I will use this technique again, I really like it. I also pull my plants out of the tent and place them in a tote to water them and inspect them.
- I've been playing with my CO2 generators .. adding more yeast, less sugar etc.. the highest CO2 concentration I've been able to achieve is 1050 ppm. With that in mind i will probably purchase a rotometer and a CO2 tank for future runs. Furthermore I think that the yeast and sugar combo could lead to an infestation if in not carefull (bugs are attracted to sugar and yeast). I have noticed my plants are praying for 15 hours a day though and I think the CO2 has been a game changer through vegetation.
A note on my environment:
I decided to add photos of some of my gear for my garden. This grow I decided to swap my intake and exhaust fan placement. With putting my exhaust on the FLOOR, the air in my tent is drawn from upwards towards the floor. This gives my plants proper contact time with the CO2. It also takes the heat from the top of my tent and pulls it downwards acting as a heat source for my crop... In my pictures you will notice my 4 inch inline fan and my 6 inch inline fan are attached to a secondary room. This helps me draw fresh air while releasing my exhaust away from my tent room.
WHEN GOING INTO FLOWER I turn up my intake fan to get cool air to the top of my tent. The exhaust draws it down cooling my tent when the lights are turned up in the last stage of flower. As a new grower this has been the step to changing my entire grow. Everything is much healthier and I owe it all to my environment, and Fastbuds genetics.
One more thing: I almost burnt my house down and electrocuted my ass with a cheap water heater... careful while playing with electricity and water ๐คฃ๐ฅ๐ฅโก๏ธ
Next week's goals:
- Turn up lights slowly
- Continue to play with CO2 generators to try and achieve 1200+ ppm concentration
- Continue training and defoliation
- keep up pest management.. these fungus gnats keep trying to regroup and they're starting to hurt my feelings.. I get rid of them in my tent but they keep coming back!
The bud sites are stacking nicely, I'm getting excited she starting to remind me of the Fastbuds Forbidden Runtz auto when she went into flower...and that was the best plant I've ever grown ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฅ
Happy growing everyone!
Nice mate, getting excited now after reading your review, just planted mine about an hour ago.
Hopefully they produce a good yield as my two auto afghan kush gave me 8.5 oz dry bud in total lol
Keep up the good work mate and hopefully see another diary up soon to see what magic you can do ๐๐๐๐
@Wrongholn519, no problem mate thank you for taking time to follow my grow.
Wish I could do outside grows but my country is still stuck in the past and won't make it legal so I have to do everything at tye dead of night
@Green_fiend, thanks so much. Good luck on the grow! Ill be sure to check out your updates on your diary. I've got 2 Quebec Blue and 2 ak47 female photos that just popped and I'm putting them outside. I'll be running autopots indoors by July too.