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If I put my ventilation on an hour on/hour off schedule to raise the RH (RH when cold is around 30%) and help relieve my heaters a little, will it be detrimental to the environment?
I've got heaters on controller,
Temp is steady with ventilation on but wil be expensive in winter
As long as you have a fan inside the tent for air movement during the off period it should be fine but once you flip to flower I would keep the ventilation on to help prevent stale air from sticking around your buds and causing moisture issues. If you don't have a humidifier though I would really suggest getting one. Particularly one with a humistat that will turn off at a ceiling RH.
Seven days with this young Gorilla Cookies and she's hit the light running!
Spending 36hrs in water, 36hrs in a paper towel, then 48hrs under the soil before popping her head up into the light.
The light schedule I'm following is 20/4 under two 100w LEDs running around 80% at 650mm above the babies. They're receiving 150-200umol's at roughly 11-14 DLI.
Organic medium and nutes so just watering in around 200mL of dechlorinated water at 6.6 pH per day. I figured I want to get this medium nice and moist for the microbes to thrive so I've been bottom watering 200mL extra every other day, with a gap day today as the pots are nice and weighty now.
Welcome baby GC 🍪
Another week down, and week 3 has begun.
This week I've lowered the lights and turned up the intensity to 450umol and 35 DLI. (something ill probably do from the get go next time) I'm top watering when dry and still bottom watering every other day. I've raised the temperature and am lowering the humidity intermittently.
I am learning a lot, and already have ideas for the next run.
I'm in love with gardening already 😍
3 weeks down and into the fourth! This girl has started exploding in the last few days. I've now started to tuck the bigger leaves under the new growth as much as I can.
The Gorilla Cookies definitely is the healthiest girl in the tent.
As for environment, today I've turned the ventilation fan on 24hrs with no breaks. I started getting paranoid that hour on hour off is not doing them any favors and I'm just gonna have to suck it up and bare the brunt of the power bill. This will also drastically reduce the RH, which I'm not totally sure of the effects it will have on the girls. Low RH has got to be better than RH too high, right? 🤷♂️
End of week 4 and I have a bit more to report this week.
On day 22 I topped this girl and she was a little slow to react, turns out my thermometer was in a bad spot and the girls were getting hammered by the heater 🤦♂️ lesson learned. Since re-positioning the thermometer they have bounced back and happy as Larry again, thank goodness.
On day 27 i had brewed up my first compost tea and fed them a bit more than usual. The tea had a cup of Herbi's brew starter, a cup of work castings and a cup of organic compost. They loved it. I used the remains as a top dress afterwards.
Today, on day 28, I defoliated and started LST, she's praying to the lights right now and I'm stoked!
Hope you've all had a good week and thanks for checking in 🙏
Week 5 done and dusted and these girls have started their flowering stage, stoked!
This week has been a bit slow growing for them unfortunately, I've been super busy and haven't been tending to them as much as I would have liked.
I started the week with an over water and then neglected them for a few days and and they dried right out. They were not looking happy. I then top dressed the girls with Herbi's all natural nutrients, 2.5 tablespoons of bloom and 2.5 of Veg mixed in with 5 tablespoons of Worm castings for each girl and i got back to regular watering. They've sprung back up to life but I can't help but think it's another bit of stunt they didn't need.
This Gorilla Cookies girl also got another light defoliation yesterday to let the light penetrate through to all the budsites.
She's looking happy enough.
Hope you all had a good week and thanks for checking in 🙏
Week 6 all done and the babies are flowering and smelling lovely!
Nothing new to report this week, I've just been watering in the top dress from last week, did some light defoliation today and some new lst ties to expose all those bud sites. 😍
Stoked with this Gorilla Cookies girl she's full of bud sites and starting to take a decent shape, filling out the pot nicely.
Hope you all had a good week and thanks for checking in 🙏
7 weeks later and she's flowering nicely, not too much verticle growth but the buds are getting bigger every day. Stoked!
Nothing new, might make another compost tea up this week.
I'm giving them 1L of water every 2nd day, 500mL top feed and 500mL bottom feed.
Until next week friends, thanks for checking in.
8 weeks later and these girls are getting smelly! They are also steadily packing on some weight and I'm getting excited!
This week the girls look to be in mid flowering stage and they were starting to show some kind of deficiency (maybe should've top dressed last week) well I top dressed last night and whipped up a compost tea for them too so we'll see how they react this week.
Other then that a very light defoliation for air flow and tightened up the lst wires.
Getting very excited for a taste 😋
Hope you all had a good week and thanks for checking in ✌️
9 full weeks have past and I have made a critical error that all three girls are suffering from.
Last week I noticed some slight deficiencies so I tackled them with a potent compost tea. Turns out my tea ingredients were potentially driving up the ph in my soil (dolomite, etc)
The soil's ph got up to a whopping 8 and the girls stopped uptaking nutrients, I'm heartbroken but not giving up. I've been flushing them with water with a ph of 6.3, trying to return balance while they start to ripen.
The buds on all three griels are still quite green and lush, where the leaves are dying and going crispy 😢
Anyway it's illegal here so they're still going to be better nugs then I can get anywhere else.
Any future tips welcomed and thanks for checking in ✌️
10th week down and not the typical coloring you'd be expecting.
Still battling with the ph in the soil, it's slowly coming down but just not fast enough. I think I'll be extremely careful with what I put in my teas in the future.
The nugs still seem frosty and lush under the crispy leaves so I'm still excited for a taste and trying not to let my mistake turn me off gardening. It's all trial and error for me at this point.
I hope you guys had a good week and thanks for checking in
Hey there, Thanks so much for growing our genetics, will be excited to see them all flourish ☘️ Let us know if you need any assistance, we’re more than happy to help 😎 Happy Growing !!!
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