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Switched from LED bulbs to low cost grow bulbs since they use alot less watt therefore watt usage dropped from 88 to only 40 but increasing PPFD from ~350 to ~800 at 25 cm height.
Feel free to leave any tips or recommendation in the comments :)
Started with LST but I only pulled plant away from light without pulling back the main stem into the opposite direction. Therefore both plant growing at an angle. But both plants are growing towards the light.
Alot of LST this week
tried going to the edge of the pot and around it but seems like i started LST a little too late
5 day younger plant had more interest in cooperating
as of today the younger both plants started growing those white stringy things
Plants growing very well and equal in height
younger plant still further in flowering somehow ¯_(ツ)_/¯
only watered twice this week since plants use very little water due to high humidity I can't quite get rid of
Any Ideas on why the the older plant (5 days older) has much bigger leaves and more leaves that consist of 7 "fingers"?
Same feeding schedule, light, soil etc
Just curious what could have led to this
ones leaf morphology is indica leaning and the others is sativa leaning. no two plant is the same as no brothers and sisters are the same eventhough they come from the same genetic stock.
older plant just continues on growing... and even at this point she just starting to form buds
this led to having to hang the light higher reducing the amount of light the younger plant gets...
plants still look healthy
You mean the pistils are turning brown? That's completely natural and what happens the closer to harvest you get! When about 50% of them turn brown, you should start looking at the trichomes to see how THEY are doing... they'll start off clear, then turn milky, then turn amber.... you'll want to harvest when about 10-20% of the trichs are amber.
Good luck and enjoy the final steps of your grow! It looks GREAT!
I don't have an exhaust fan since this is my first growth and I'm quite on a budget
my humidity averages around 65-75%
I know high humidity increases risk of mould and bud rot
is it necessary to get an exhaust fan and aiming for 40-50% or just risking the consequences?
The consequences are bud rot and an unusable harvest... BUT I understand you're on a tight budget and just getting an exhaust fan may not fix your problem (although it might help). I don't have an exhaust fan either... can't afford one... so I do what most folks here would say is absolutely heresy... I unzip my tent partially! And I open the vents as wide as I can and I make sure the fan is blowing as hard as it can without risking damage to the plants. I've figured out if I unzip most of the bottom and up the side about 1/4 of the way, the tent's temperature stays about the same but the humidity is lowered (unless it's humid EVERYWHERE)... Sometimes, I need to drastically reduce the temp in the tent and I unzip almost all of the top and then down about 1/4 of the way.... Heresy to most people - but I haven't found that it affects my grow at all other than to give it better conditions.
If you've got room, there's a cheap DIY dehumidifier you can try - get 2 5-gallon buckets and some rock salt. Take one bucket and drill holes in the side (up about 1/3-1/2 way) and on the bottom... lots of little drainage holes.... then put that bucket inside the other one and fill it with your rock salt. The rock salt takes moisture out of the air and the resulting water drains into the bottom bucket which you will have to empty as often as necessary (you don't want a lot of standing water staying in the tent!)....
You might try both of these things before you go to the expense of an exhaust fan...
Good luck!
plant 1 still growing🙃 but starting to build buds finally
forgot to move leaf away from lamp... this leaf had too much light/heat
plant 2 doing a better job at producing buds
3 weeks or so.
If you wait until you have 98-99% brown pistils, this will put you in the "10-30% amber trichome" zone without having to look too closely and will also be the time for peak THC levels/potency.
Hey there friend. Would you be alright with me offering some pointers? So cannabis plants LOVE heat and humidity. It is the buds that hate it. In veg we want to take advantage of this fact to help our plants grow along much quicker and more vigorously. In veg we can look for temps of 79-84 MAX with lights on & no more than 9 degrees less with lights off. If we allow for too much temperature swing between lights on and lights off while the plant is still growing vertically up to day 20 of flower, We will cause the plant to stretch ALOT which we do not want. So in veg & early flower, Keeping our temperature gaps nice and close between lights on and off is key. Utilizing humidity in our rooms during veg will also help out a lot with more rapid growth but we must introduce it properly. In our rooms we have our temperature and humidity set-points, But when we combine those 2 it forms a third set-point which is the most important & that is called VPD, Vapor pressure deficit.
I strongly recommend every new grower or old grower who has not learned it yet, To study and understand it & implement it into your room, Logging your numbers daily.
https://cerescann.com/importance-of-measuring-vpd/
For soil, We generally want to go for a PH of 6.1
This website does a GREAT job of illustrating it with a nice graph & very good detailed explanation for soil.
https://autoflowerseedshop.com/cannabis-ph-chart-guide/
As we briefly touched on before, During veg & early flower we want our temperature gap's nice and tight to avoid stretch. Why exactly our plants stretch in response to this is a genetic trigger being activated by the environmental stress essentially telling the plant the end of the season is closer than it really is. In veg & early flower the plant is still in its first stage of development which is to grow up wide and tall so when it produces seed, It can cast them out nicely. Remember, Whether we are growing our plants for seed or bud their genetic responses do not change as they gh sidedo not know any different. Once the plant has finished that first stage of growth by weeks 4-6 of flower with most strains, It is by day 20 of flower. Autoflowers you have to watch for it, But once the plant has finished this goal its new mission is to focus 100% on producing nice big flower clusters & to get very sticky so it can attract pollen to it successfully.
So once that vertical growth is finished, We actually now want to begin to expose our plants to larger temperature swings between lights on and lights off. This will help activate that genetic response and allow us to draw out the most potential from the strain utilizing the plants genetic triggers to environmental stresses at the right times. We can also take this a step further with doing light deprivation in the last 2 weeks using less light to simulate cloud cover. Very cold feed temps on the last flush is very good too. If you do not have them already, Get yourself a good PAR meter & thermal laser temp gun to monitor your plant top temperatures & optimize how much light your plants are getting. We are currently in the middle of producing a very comprehensive tutorial series for everybody to learn from & understand how to grow the highest level craft cannabis all on their own. If this interests you please check out our youtube and subscribe. The first 2 episodes are out the next one is coming in a few days. If you should ever have any questions or need any help, Please feel free to follow my profile and shoot me a DM. I will gladly help you with the pull down & make sure you get the best quality harvest possible as it is the most important step of the entire process. I really think you would benefit from our tutorial series on youtube, Our channel is linked off our main grow diaries profile. We just put up week 3 of plant life care so you got time to subscribe and catch up before the next episode is out! I look forward to seeing you over there and hearing your feedback to better help me shape the tutorials
Happy growing friend!
idkman1337
