Exotic fruity grow - defying all logic with 11 Autos in a 5x5 under a Lumatek ZEUS 600W PRO!

Consider this a gorilla grow 5 x 5 tent stress test LMAO. Ive grown 7 plants under this light in that space before with some DIY diamond mylar and decided to take on a challenge and see if i can manage my own little JUNGLE with a proper grow tent. Its gonna be really TIGHT but also a FUN ride. I had 3 or 4 amazing monster grows using 12L and 18L plastic pots the last couple of years up till now (god i miss dinafem's XXL auto strains), one okay grow using fabric pots and i finally decided to pull the trigger on air pots. Couldnt find a lot of comparison grows so i decided to test some things out using some of the same strains since i went with so many plants. What we are comparing: - Airpots vs plastic pots (the double strains). - Allmix/lightmix/cocomix grow medium vs cocomix/lightmix grow medium (ive had issues with nutrient burn in the past and was curious how my feeding schedule varies across different mediums. The point is giving up on the all mix alltogether if results are similar). All airpots are 19L. For comparison purposes filled some pots with roughly 25% All-Mix/25% Coco-mix at the bottom, and then added 25% light-mix/25% coco-mix while the others are either 75% coco mix/25% light mix or the opposite 25% coco/75% light mix. The 2 brown plastic pots are 12 L and the grey one is 18 L. THIS GUN BE FUN. For ventilation I decided inline fans were too expensive to go with my INLINE Phresh Filter PRO. After all that investment to go from DIY to proper equipment, i wasnt gonna pay 200$+ for an ac infinity that has an average consumption of 135w so i coupled a 10'' VEVOR Industrial Ventilation Extractor to it which only costs 45$ (975 CFM, 60 Dba, 74.5W) and another one for intake. Only downside is its a bit noisier compared to 48dba on the ACinf, but i set my GGT55 up in a 5.5 x 5.5 isolated room so the noise difference doesnt justify the extra cost to me and it works wonders. Unfortunately decided to start this diary at the end of week 2 of first sprout, but u havnt missed much since some of them are still at day 10. Im still figuring out these amazing lights and i tested 50% intensity at 60cm height but it was too close too soon for the seedlings and got some light burn spots on the second or third set of leaves. Caught on quickly and reduced it to 25% at a height of ~75cm. Will try 50% at week 3 again. Another challenge was having so many seedlings starting in their final big pots and not enough heat/air circulation for them to dry out fast enough, they were still dripping in water after 7-10 days and started to notice slight stagnating water symptoms on a couple of leaves while i was still waiting to water with root juice before it was too late, so i needed to add 2 oscillating fans to help with initial drying. Strategically running two 15w fans, one oscillating 20w fan and one 40w standing fan (will get rid of that last one when things become too crowded and plants start swallowing up all the water quickly). Did their job in around 2 days and finally watered each with 1l of water and 4 ml of root juice. As soon as that dried out, fed them their first nutes during week 2. 2 ml/L fish mix, 2ml/L acti vera and 4 ml/root juice. (I gave up on Bioheaven for good. Too expensive for what it does...or doesn't do). They recovered pretty nicely and are currently at the state u can see in the pictures. Observing them closely for N toxicity as this is the first time i go 2ml on week 2 instead of the usual 1ml. The only notable thing is that the northern lights XXL is not looking too well. Its smaller than the others because the first seed was bad and it rotted during paper tower germination alongside the others, had to try another one so its a bit behind its siblings. Its a bit drippy and im really hoping its because of the conditions i mentioned earlier and not a bad batch/seed bank problem. First strain i try from 00seeds and its the only bank where i found an XXL version of NL. Can u guess which one it is from a quick glance at the photo? Spraying leaves with leaf coat once per week. First time trying this product, had spider mites during my last grow on one plant and trying to take precautions to prevent that. Ignore the dosage. Its non diluted in a spray bottle as per Biobizz indications. P.S: please note the Hawaii Maui Waui is also an AUTO. Hard to find these nowadays.

Things went very smoothly. Had some beautiful and healthy new growth. Watered twice this week until it dried out. ~1.4 EC and 700ppm. Turned light intensity up to 50% and the plants seem to love it. Lowered pH to ~6.3 and might aim a bit lower to compare plant reaction to it. Did some noticeable LST using the net. I dont tie branches because its annoying, takes a lot of time and im pretty sure i would break them. I would rather use the elasticity of the net to bend them every day. Most of them already have the main cola shaped like a banana. I topped the forbidden cherry by mistake while bending it from too far down (top left in 1st picture) but it was looking the healthiest and it has already grown 4 beautiful branches to take the main cola's place and it doesnt seem to mind it at all. Not the strain i was planning to top during this grow, but things change and the outcome might actually be better. Removed some of the bottom leaves that had previous light burn or were hanging on the soil making watering difficult. It was time for some minor defoliation anyway. Potential issues: I noticed some slight yellowing on the Hawaii in the coco mix so i added ~0.5 ml/L cal-mag for prevention. However will feed it separately from now on to correct whatever deficiencies it might develop. 75% Coco is proving to have more challenges than the same strain in light mix. It is a week younger though, so we will see how it evolves. The Northern lights XXL is quite slow and still doesnt look great but it has grown a bit and its the youngest in that tent so gonna be patient with it and see how it evolves further. Had slight beginning of N toxicity last week, 2 ml/L on day 10-ish was indeed too much but new growth is healthy and that was corrected before it took a bad turn. Now its fine. A tiny bit of wind burn on the plant closest to the fans but its nothing significant. Already swapped some pots around, will swap the top right one as well if necessary. Watering straight from a 10L container is proving to be quite the challenge with the net. Hope it gets easier as they grow taller.

Not much to report on week 4. Lovely growth from all of them. Watered 2 to 3 times this week depending on the plant. They been eating up a lot. Lights still at 50%. The coco plant showed lots of yellowing, not sure if it was because of the light being too strong it being the youngest plant or some N deficiency. New leaves are healthy though! Added bio bloom since they gonna start flowering soon. Major defoliation for bottom leaves. Kept bending them over every 2 days to make sure all branches receive adequate light. Overall happy with everything! Reduced ph further to 5.5~5.8 range. Gotta say the ph and PPM meters came in quite handy! Averaging 1.6~1.8 ec currently! im getting quite impatient tho, wish i could skip 4 weeks lol. The northern lights recovered beautifully. It grew a lot, its not owning up to its XXL name. Im guessing its indica genetics are responsible for its different growth compared to most of the others! Happy ! Update on the 11 liter plastic pots. They are stunted compared to the 21L airpots. I guess that extra root space and breathing room shows its difference. The 19 L plastic pot shows much better growth however. i dont think im going back to less than 16 liters from now on. Airpots are quite difficult to water efficiently tho because water is leaking from the sides every time no matter how slowly i try to do it. If u got a cramped space and are doing multiple plants like i am, thats starting to be a burden. But will see this through! Photo was taken at the end of week 4. Going into flowering stage next week i expect. I do have a question though! Have any of u gotten any rashes when touching the plants? Im getting red rashes on my hands whenever i feed them and im wondering if its normal or if i got some sort of allergy lol.

Switched from fish mix to bio grow to support flowering. Finally turned lights up to 75% without noticing any major leaf drooping or damage after testing it out for a couple of hours a couple days apart last week. Starting to test out 100% for a couple of hours to see if the plants can take it at this stage. Adjusting light intensity has been tricky since i havnt found any journal detailing it specifically and my first grow with these lights i stunted the plants by keeping 100% throughout full cycle. Hope this diary will serve u well with adjusting intensity of these lights. I HAD to remove the net. Well first because i accidentally broke it, second because it was impossible to water the plants in the back. The BIGGEST challenge with fitting so many plants in a 5x5 is watering 3 to 4 liters in the back in one go. I wouldve hoped to keep the net to evenly stretch out branches but its way too complicated. Gonna have to work with what we got. The forbidden cherry is showing some major coloring. Topping it has given us 4 main equally beautiful and big colas. Its gonna be a beauty. The northern lights is now outgrowing some others in size, i might have been wrong about the seed bank/the batch i had. The 11 l coco pot i really dont like at this stage. The soil one has outgrown it, maybe coco isnt for me. Maybe i wasnt careful enough upping the nutrient dosage. The daiquiri limes are a bit light green and havnt grown as tall as the others. The 19l one has grown more than the 11 L in comparison but im starting to think that maybe its a strain thing since they both grew the same. Will compare to other diaries before i worry about it. Tallest plant right now is barney's farm starwberry cheesecake! (top right) while the most healthy imo is the hawaii maui waui in the center.

Lights still at 75%. Every time i turn it up to 100% plants become droopy (check pictures). Tried even with the height further up. Same results. Also got what looks like light burn and yellowing on some of them. I believe its the lights as opposed to calcium or N deficiency cause i upped the doses and nothing changed. It just keeps getting worse the longer i keep them exposed to 100% lights. Still my second grow under these monster lights and cant figure out when to switch them to 100%. Plants seem to love the 75% range at this moment. i like my ph during flowering closer to 6.3 so i upped the ph. Lovely growth from all of them. Tied the 2 daiquiri limes to help spread out the light to lower branches since i gave up on the net. Going on a trip next week for a couple of days. Gonna leave my gf in charge, lets hope all will go well!

Unfortunately the couple of days i was gone my gf let them dry out for 2 extra days :( Had to defoliate plenty of dead leaves from the bottom which isnt necessarly a bad thing since i was gonna do it anyway. But she also left the lights at 100% for 3 consecutive days which caused even more yellowing of the top leaves in 3 of the plants. The healthy forbidden cherry's top leaves turned yellow and also noticing signs of what seems to be some cal deficiency. (the red spots) All in all it wasnt that bad while i was gone, but could have been better. Overall im not worried since there's not that much damage for this stage of the cycle. Added 1 ml/l calmag to those that show deficiency signs but to be honest i cant tell if its the lights causing this or if its the nutrients. Cant wait to switch to biotabs lol. Will try 100% light intensity again during week 8... Otherwise everything else is showing beautiful strong growth. The hairs on the maui waui and the skywalker haze are so milky holy shit. Will take close up pictures next week!