Trials, Success, And Failures of a 1st

@Mrs_Larimar,Thanks so much, I really didn't expect it with so many good diaries competing.

@BeefWellingtons, This is my first grow and my first time trying to grow in a room/tent. Heat, cold, humidity, and airflow have all been learning experiences on this one. I have lots of experience with a regular vegetable garden, but nothing like this. Inside the tent I have 4 8" oscillating fans that run 24/7 (2 above the canopy and 2 below the canopy). They have been there since the start of flowering. I have good air movement in the tent, and we lost a lot of buds that were directly in front of the fans, so I don't think it was the air movement issue. I also bought a 70 pint dehumidifier that sits in the room (100 sq.ft. room). It's been there since the start of flowering, but it was set to 40% rh and although the room was reading around 45% once I had rot I moved the temp/humidity sensor in the tent and in the tent it was 50-55% rh. So I sent the dehumidifier to constantly on, now the room sits around 35-40% rh and inside the tent is 40-50% rh. I did have a few nights that got down to 61f (16c) and I had some issues with the room not having enough power and the breaker got tripped off. That resulted in all the power, fans, dehumidifier, lights, etc, all going off and the humidity climbed to 70+%. The last 5 weeks has been wiring in some new plugs and rewiring a couple old ones, now the room should have more then enough power. It was a big job because the breaker panel was full and I had to get a new breaker panel installed in order to run 4 new breakers into the room. Now they are on 12/2 wire with 20a breakers and all the major draw items have their own separate breaker so they shouldn't trip anymore. That just got finished on Sunday. It's not a complete mystery why I have the bud rot, I know the factors that lead to it happening. But what I didn't know is that the lights + dehumidifier + A/C or heater = not enough power and breaker tripping. I didn't do a power consumption tally when I first set up the room, nor did I realize just how much power this was going to need. I'm addressing the issues as I discover them but it takes time and $$$ to address them.... more $$$ then I thought it would. And I like to understand whats going wrong rather then have a knee jerk reaction that might not be right. Next on the plan is to install a subfloor and vinyl flooring in the room (it's concrete right now) to help clean it up and get the cold floor out of the equation for the winter season. Right now the bottom 18" of the room is significantly colder then the top of the room. I installed a ceiling fan last weekend and that's helping to mix the air but a proper floor will help. Then I'm working on trying to figure out a room ventilation flow control system. Right now the temp swings are tough to manage while having enough ventilation for the tent. I've got it now so that it'll stay 68F to 83F (20-28C) but it's really power intensive and sometimes drips or above a bit. I have an idea how to make it better but I need to find the pieces to make it happen.

@NomNom, whoa. Thanks for those. Can you get another fan? How about those dehumidifier hang bags? Those are the only two suggestions I have for that. I didn't think you could get bud rot with 42 humidity? Seems like more air circulation would do the trick, no?

@BeefWellingtons, I pulled a couple cola's last night due to bud rot. I took some pictures for you. The last 3 pictures on week 24.

@NomNom, Ahh I was looking at the quantum boards but they were fairly new so not much research I could do, wish I gave them a shot! Your plant is how I pictured mine to look like before I started haha! Excited to see the outcome for ya! Thank you very much! Im glad I went with Barneys farm for my first grow,It's been a breeze so far! All the best 😊

@ScotlandHaze, Hi and thanks, this is my first grow so I don't really know why they are short and fat. The only other grow on there that is running this strain has the plant as much more leggy (growdiaries.com/diaries/19202-super-silver-haze-first-grow). I'm running LED lights too, I'm running the quantum LED's and they put out an insane amount of light, I had to turn them down. I veg with the cheap blurple LED and then made the quantum LED for flower. My husband gives me shit for the fat colas, he looks at all the other grows on here and is saying I'm doing it wrong because our colas are short, fat, and super dense. He thinks it's better to have them long and slim. As far as I know I might be the one f-king up my colas.... BTW I looked at your grow and it looks awesome. I just ordered some seeds from Barney's Farm, I'll be following your grow.

@BEZPVD, ya but now I have a 15 week veg from seed with 16 nodes, a 11 week veg from cut clone with 8 nodes, and 5 week veg cut clone with 1 main and 4 subs. All the same genetics all the same lights, all the same nutes. It's my first grow I'm learning and I'm experimenting. Having the veg times staggered and measuring the harvest amount will help me understand.