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Indoor Winter Spain 2018

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Fission 300W High-Intensity Discharge/400W
Custom
Fission 300W High-Intensity Discharge/400W
Custom
Soil
Custom
Indoor
Room Type
LST
weeks Technique
Topping
weeks Technique
18 liters
Pot Size
5
Week 5. Vegetation
7y ago
18 hrs
Light Schedule
26 °C
Day Air Temp
6.5
pH
No Smell
Smell
70 %
Air Humidity
16 °C
Substrate Temp
16 °C
Night Air Temp
18 liters
Pot Size
45.72 cm
Lamp Distance
geoff Hi, I've been growing for indoor for five years, before that I did a couple of outdoor grows. I stopped the outdoor grows because it's hard work carrying the water needed and months of work can easily be stolen. I live in the mountains just inland from the Mediterranean and summer temps are guaranteed high both night and day with very low humidity. In the winter daytime temps range from 75F to 40F, nighttime 65F to 32F. Humidity can be 100% for days on end or as low as 35%. Spider Mites are a pain in the summer. Fungus Gnats in the winter. I'm growing in Canna Terra Professional Pro. (1st grow) I intend using it as a base that will get more soil like as I add the brew below. I use a gravity water filter. Organic blackstrap molasses, Homemade fish emulsion. Worm castings. Either together as a compost tea, or sometimes individually, sometimes aerated. I use Rhyzo powder, Neem oil, H2O2, yellow stickies. I have a pH pen and anything watered in is kept at near 6.5 (Molasses usually drops the pH or I use Apple Cider Vinegar) Growing in 18 litre SmartPots. I have 4 x 17W heated mats for the roots. Plus a 135W greenhouse heater. Look after the roots, if the sap is warm the air temp doesn't matter unless it is less than 45F. Expecting some good colours. I've stopped experimenting too much. I use 18/6 125W CFL for clones and seedlings. 18/6 400W Philips for veg. 12/12 400W Philips Green Power for flowering. I have two ballasts and use both later in flowering to increase the sq footage and create an overlap to get 400W-800W on a small area between the reflectors (1 x AdjustWings Medium) (1 x cheap aluminium). I don't know how much water I use, I can tell by the weight of the pots when to water. I use Mylar on the walls in the corner of the room I leave a small gap on the other side for a fan. I topped the Blue Dream (BD) around week3/4 back to the second node (radical) later I've LST'd these two stems. I topped the Amherst Sour Diesel (ASD) and Chocolate Mint OG five days before I flipped these 3 plants (1st Dec). I had 100% germination with these 3.. Unfortunately the Chemdawg is another story. I've popped 3 seeds and only got 1 to germinate (same conditions as above 3/3) The Chemdawg that germinated is 5 days younger than the other 3 but looks about 2 weeks behind. I topped her at the same time but haven't flipped her yet. So not impressed with Chemdawg but the other plants look very vigourous. All the HSO seeds looked similar, medium sized, no tiger stripes, both ends looked pale, not mature. Despite their appearance, bar the Chemdawg they germinate well and very quickly 60 hours to appear above the surface. Writing this has been a pain .. slow unresponsive text box. Plus Im getting a message in Safari .. "This webpage is using significant energy. Closing it may improve the responsiveness of your Mac." Never had that before ... ever!
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BeefWellingtons
BeefWellingtons commentedweek 57y ago
I'm here for the cat. Lol. Actually, I did have a question, what did you mean about tiger striping? What is that? Also, I have used apple cider vinegar for down before, but someone scolded me on that it disinfects and can kill off helpful organic yada yada something something. I don't know, I liked using it but was afraid of what he said.
BeefWellingtons
BeefWellingtons commented7y ago
@geoff, ohhhh, gotcha. I thought the tiger stripe was on plant. That makes sense. I used about a cap full to a gallon of water, would bring my water from 7.3 or so down to 6.6 or so. Is that weird, my filtered water from tap is higher than tap ph. So the filter is leaching positive ph into the water? I thought my testing was off or something, but you have that too?
geoff
geoff commented7y ago
@BeefWellingtons, I don't think the filter is 'leaching' into the water. More like the filter is 'extracting' some minerals that contribute to a lower pH.
BeefWellingtons
BeefWellingtons commented7y ago
@geoff, oh, lol, that makes more sense. Uh, I think I need a nap.
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We love a multiple strain grow and you've definitely selected 4 Excelent strains for this adventure. Good luck with the grow from Team-HSO. With love from Humboldt County ✌️ Kind regards Team-HSO..
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