Apologies, I thought I had taken more pics over this period but sadly only 2 poor ones.
She's coming on amazing! All new growth is looking healthy. The mutated leaves are starting to wilt. I'm still not touching her yet, I want to stress her as little as possible until I'm 100% sure she's good.
Excited to switch the lights to 18/6. The LEDs are some cheap Amazon specials (SYGAVLED) that I bought years ago and they give off a small amount of heat (has a cooling fan on the top which helps air circ too!) but not enough for the massive temp drop we've had over the last few days.
Had to pick up a small oil radiator for a heat source. I also hadn't thought too much about how little insulation the tent provides, esp at night. Covered the tent fully with some old thick duvets & blankets.
Then I had the issue that my extractor fan is single speed and pretty powerful! It was sucking the heat out of the tent within minutes! Decided that I didn't need to have it running all the time so I let it run just a couple hours a day while turning the radiator on full blast to keep the temps to 18c. Time to research some environmental controls.
Started feeding her Biobiz Bio-Grow (little less than their chart recommends just for the first week of veg). I bought the small 3 pack tester set Bio-Grow, Bio-Bloom & Top-Max. I'll be following the chart the entire grow. This is also the first time I'm pouring water/nutes onto the soil rather than spraying it. Starting with 200ml ish (I didn't really measure) and see how it goes.
I forgot to mention that I don't have ratchets for my lights yet so have had to place the pots onto a stack of books to get the right distance from the plants. Around 20 inches seems to be working well, no burning. I also think this may be helpful for insulating the roots from the cold floor.
Things to buy:
Fan/heat controller
ratchets for the leds
That dream is worth the wait my friend. This girl looks beautiful, I love the structure and shape you've got. I see many bud sites forming and many buds on thier way. Lovely green colour, picture of health. Good job.
@Aldo90,
I will! I just need to mentally prepare myself for the slog of backtracking through it all & uploading all the pics etc. She's looking strong & smells unreal! I think she'll finish a couple weeks before the haze too
Really nice shape developed, if possible take pictures without the purple light. Let's us see the colours of the plant better and also keeps a diary for you to look back on, our memory isn't as perfect as we like to think it is lol
Just flipped so the fun begins. I've been doing autos for years now I've been considering doing photos next. Keep on training the plant as over the next week or 2 she's going to stretch try keep it lower like you already have been doing.
@Aldo90,
Thank you so much for the input! I've just done a trim (bit heavier than planned) so will give her a couple days to recover then will start upping the nutes. Can't wait to see her explode π
Autos sound like a pain but fun! Mine has just started sprouting so will add her to the tent at the start of the next light cycle. Not sure if she'll produce anything under constant 12/12, but I might get a nice surprise π
@propakush, start upping that topmax also mate thats the flower booster but it's weak, not weak as in its shit weak as in concentration. Don't be scared to go up to 4ml per litre with that stuff now your in flower you want as much pk as possible. The plant will thank you with more flower sites as you have already topped and trained her she will explode in growth.