Hi brothers and sisters,
This week has been amazing. As you guys know I swapped from Rhizotonic to Bio Root last week. Pro Roots shown an amazing performance. I can see roots coming out from fabric pots. Root products done their job.
I added Diamond Nectar from GH this week and increased the Grow fertilizer to provide more nitrogen. Leaves look greener now and they will soon be ready for flowering. Flip is a day near.
Stay tuned for the flowering next week. I'll get the lights closer to achieve the bloom PPFD I mentioned in the title. Tent is about to rock.
Cheers 😇
you have a nice garden bro.
I change my medium to coconut because it is much more cost effective than buying new land all the time.what is your lamp manufacturer?
@bobo66,
Hi bobo,
If you properly feed your plants and keep yourself from over fertilizing them then flushing won't do much good. Your product will taste amazing with fewer nutrients during the grow. Flushing is for cleaning the medium, not the buds. You can always flush for the last two days just to be sure about your medium being free from excess minerals. This way you can get rid of some of the excess mobile nutrients in the plant. But if you feed properly and light, you don't have to do these. I only advise flushing on the transition week from grow to bloom.
About rinsing buds, I don't wash my buds. There is some dust that we can't see on them for sure but that doesn't bother me.
@pro_grower, if you think look at the diary I keep, it's true that it grows in the soil mixture of plagron not in coconut, but I'm slowly harvesting keep it with me
@pro_grower, bro, when I saw your answer, I twisted a cigarette to read it✌️🏾😂 I understand what you are saying .. should I ask you even if I work with organic nutrients completely, there is no need for rinsing before harvest? I use an accessory called biotabs outside and I didn’t feel any off-flavors when I smoked the harvested flowers… thank you so much for sharing so much with me😇 let me drink something with you, I think we're far apart😭
@Jays_Not_Here_Man,
Hi Jay, nice to see you checking in brother 🙏
I'll post next weeks looks tomorrow and they are looking a lot better :)
Only question is when to flower. I'm not after the highest harvest here since I need them to be harvested in 10 weeks tops. We'll see how much can they grow in 8-10 days. I might flip even earlier.
Best 😎
Hey bro. Your diary tag caught my attention. The 1400ppfd thing. You do know, if you are getting your ppfd range from your lights that's at 30cm away from the canopy. At 150cm you wouldn't even get that from a 1000watt led being that far away.
You can get a simple lux meter on your phone and do the lumen conversion with a ppfd cal like this https://www.waveformlighting.com/horticulture/convert-lux-to-ppfd-online-calculator
Good luck.
@gottagrowsometime,
Thank you for your insights brother.
I got the temperature under control now. I'll add an intake fan in a few days and hoping that will reduce some degrees.
I'll get two packs of Exhale CO2 for this tent. These will provide the CO2 levels needed.
Cheers 😇
@pro_grower,
Nah should be a problem. Once you have temps under ccontrol.
+ with your ambient 800 ppm reading that'll allow your plants to withstand a higher temp and overall par.
Idk about the pro running at that but I'm not on anything like that, so I'll take your word on it. Either way you should get nice dense bud with them lights. Best of luck bro.
@gottagrowsometime,
Hi there brotherrr 😬
The PPFD setting is not at 1400 umols right now. That tag explains the flowering PPFD setup. I'll use 800W of top notch LED's and I already measured them from 20-25 cm distance with a quantum PAR meter. Average PPFD from 20-25 cm's is more than 1400 umols. This tent is a 120x120cm model and normally people use 600W LED's in such setups. Not me brother :)
I don't know if that high PPFD would cause a problem on these small plants but we'll see. I am confident that their root systems are already pretty strong and I am hoping that these will kick ass in the bloom period. Next week is the flip.
About the high PPFD, it usually does good up to 2000 umols. I must say that anything higher than 1500 umols wouldn't be a good investment. I've joined a seminar on cannabis lighting and this is pretty much how professionals are setting up their lights these days. About the CO2, around 800PPM's will do just fine alongside with 1500umols.