Welcome to my Jungle Lava Diary. Sponsored by Original Sensible Seeds.
Days 71-77.
Over fed by just a tad and has shown it's face on 1 of my nodes. I only went up by 100ppm in Pk Boost but was too early that, and i also had to flip to short flowering. Pre-flower is 100% over. Hasn't put on a lot of foliage, not what I should of gotten. So I took too much off at the start. She's getting trimmed tonight as this is the next step I'm following from GrowWeeeEasy, the link is on my 1st week of the flip. Have been feeding her just water to curve the overfeeding during the week. Lesson learnt. I switched to short flowering powder. So, the booster or SF powder needs to be lowered. As always when my girls are done under the IR they go straight into my dark room. They get moved at night. So no PPFD hits them at all. Have to be lucky, as I'm pushing it very close, as if I'm not careful I'll throw her into reveg. Or stress her. As a few times. I've messed me with timings. Have to get digital timmers. But, I still gotta be there to remove my flowering females. And run my tent runs around 450watts an hr when everything is running, costing me a small fortune with a veggey tent running at 200watts an hr and the dehumidifier that runs 6hrs a day at 280watts an hr. So defo hitting a kwh an hour. Or beyond.
That, and the Pure Epsom Salts was too much I guess.
The IR has been regularly used to allow my flowering be now 14hrs now except from 13.5hrs. Really has pushed her much quicker. THE UV also I've been using. 2-4hrs a day. 5 times a week. I'll start to push that to everyday and 2 regularly 2hr sessions within the 14hrs of Flowering. If you grow Fems I highly suggest you use an IR far red. U suggest the new IR/UV45 has a large coverage area. And is extremely versatile. Needs at least 1.08 in. Works best with the FC but, I've strung it up and have adjusted with string. (I use string as it allows me to move the 2 bars to different parts of the canopy). I was learning its uses and stretched a few of my autos.
Shout out to my sponsors, (reps) from Mars Hydro & Original Sensible Seeds. Like to say goodbye to my Original Rep from Mars Hydro, she'll be missed. And a big Welcome from to the community to my new Rep. And look forward to working with her.
I had to cover up the IR diodes in flowering due to extreme stretching. It may have been Bruce Bugbee (not sure) that said some growers are experimenting with hitting the plants with IR the last 10 minutes of the daily flowering photoperiod as that occurs during each sunset. I am going to source new light bars without the IR diodes. No harm in keeping the UVAs in my opinion.
Congratulations on your beautiful harvest.
It's always a pleasure to read your detailed information about your grows.
Let us know more about the tasting when time comes.
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