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RQS Multi grow. Stress killer - Fat banana - Grandaddy Purple - Cherry Pie
So here we are again.
A new multi grow in my bigger tent with my 300w Mars Hydro led. For the first time I’ll be growing in my garage so temperature control will be more difficult as it gets hotter in the day, and cooler at night.
Hopefully my monster extraction fan will keep temps down and not crush the tent from the negative pressure.
It’s on a variable controller and sucking cooler air from outside of the building so it will be a lot of manual control.
The four seeds germinated and they were placed in the soil mix on the 15th July.
Fingers crossed, this will be an easy one. Two old favourites - fat banana and stress killer, along with two new ones - granddaddy purple and cherry pie.
Just a brief update this week.
After the issues with the fat banana seeds not germinating, I went for a Watermelon auto instead.
That’s in another tent so I can run a lower light level for the first week or so. It will then go into the main tent with the others.
Nothing much to report other than daytime temps are a real issue when grousing in my shed. It’s very hard to keep temps down with the warmer weather.
Hopefully a temporary issue and the plants won’t be affected too much.
A brief update.
Back to four plants all growing well with no issues.
They’re in biobizz allmix so they’ve just had ph balanced water to date. From here on the bigger plants will be supported by the full biobizz schedule.
The two smaller plants will get the same treatment next week once they’ve developed a bit.
It’s my 1st time trying this method so we’ll see what happens. Stress killer and watermelon are very easy to grow so I’m sure they’ll be fine.
All good so far.
I’ve started adding some feed this week as I’m sure the fortified grow medium is probably running out of the good stuff.
In the next few days I should start seeing two of the four start to flower.
No issues
So the cherry pie is starting to foxtail so I need to address that and the watermelon is a runt. It’s a very small plant and isn’t developing but it’s too late to bin it and start again.
I’ll let it go and see what happens
The daddy and stresskiller are trucking along.
Another week and they’re just growing.
Nothing major to report other than the lower leaves getting used up so they’re Turing yellow/ brown.
The watermelon is a runt so it’s probably going to produce little to nothing.
The others are all doing fine.
I’ve not really been on top of this diary for this grow.
It’s kinda hard to come up with things to write when you just plan and they grow.
They’re just on water now as they’re nearly ready to harvest.
I think the only thing I’ve learned, is that growing in my shed isn’t ideal as the temps are too hard to control.
I know this before I started but 🤷🏼♂️
For help with the shed heat conflict, use a hps. This will hold heat and warmth in winter under just a reflector wing, then when it gets warm 20' degrees c or higher, pop the hps in a colling tube, and run exhaust fan on full to extract 70% of radiated heat.
Also in winter, when lights are off, pop a heat mat under the drip liner of the tent (it will stay dry) this will cause warm air to rise and heat the tent.
I had same issues. But aslong as you exhaust to external (outside of shed one side,
And you intake just from the open netted air vent.
Make sure your shed has at least 2 air ports (holes in shed with plastic filter covers over)
Will allow for airflow through the shed and help with humidity ✌️
All the best bro hope these little bits help, it took me a year and 2 harvests too dial this in 😅✌️💚
Edit: also great choice of strains, RQS have banging reliability with their seeds. Fat banana is one of my favourites, have a look at how my purple
@Onandon, ah fair enough, of you have other space then brilliant 😁 I was unfortunately not that lucky last year, but now I've moved it's not too bad 😅. Best of luck with future grows 🤞💚
@pifflestikkz, thanks man, I appreciate the post. I usually grow inside the house buy thought I’d try in my large shed for a change. It’s been a weird summer with hotter and colder days than average so it’s hard to control temps.
If I’m honest, I also didn’t really choose the right strains to begin with.
Stress killer is robust so that’s fine, but the others are a bit meh
Onandon
