A good week for changes.
The grow had started in a 2x2x4 tent with 1 300 led and the plants had done very well with that environment. But once flowering began they had such a dramatic increase in height the light started being a bit too close, leaves getting burned and just generally unhappy looking top of plant. So I was able to change things slightly to a 4x5x2 tent and add in an additional 300 led. The height wasn't a great increase, but enough to keep the lights being directly on top of them and enough width to give them all a bit of breathing room. The only flaw with the tent is i began to notice a variety of small pinholes of light shining through and the zipper as well, so before i flower any photo periods in there I'll need to fix that.
I did notice that with the extra space and the extra light a few changes to the environment happened. My temperature went up a few degrees and my humidity went down significantly from being in the 55-70% range down to my areas more normal zone of 30%. I'm a bit unhappy by the humidity decrease, but i also don't want to remove the 4 inch intake fan or my clip fan or the temps raise even more.
Overall I think things are going as well as they can be, buds are developing nicely and there's much more room to maneuver things around and water etc. I expect the plants maybe have another 4 weeks to go, so I'll try staying up on watching the trichromes and hairs better this time.
Happy growing everyone ✌️
Are there any opinions on what sort of lighting is best for seedlings? Should they get a lower light intensity than bigger veg plants, or does a 300 watt not sound too strong?
I've usually started babies under cfl lights...just curious if its safe to expose them to others in their 1st week or so.
@starphish, I can definitely see that...i think i start thinking the plants need much more than they really do and i regret it later. The more i leave them alone the better they do most the time.
@Experimentgreen,
From my 10+ experience you can get by with a lot less for seedlings. (single cfl) However when applied to autoflowers. I like to give them all I can the entire photoperiod. I've done seed to flower with a 300watt (127 true watts) Roleadro and it did great albeit smaller yields with less light but speed and vigor was there :)
My pumice floats a little. It is much better than pearlite regarding to float. After a month in my pot, pumice no longer float. And I tend to blend fine size with small size.
@Med_in_Tropic, ill try that thanks for the tip. There is a diamataceous earth product that fine like the pumice but it's expensive but it lets out silica into the grow slowly which is awesome and then keeps some bugs at bay.
Beautiful! Amazing job. Love mephisto genetics. Have a few mystery mix seeds going and really hoping one turns out to be these. Keep doing what your doing and best of luck with the rest of your grow
@Denzul, thanks it's been an exciting indoor season. My 1st sour stomper was a bit of a mess but with a few changes these 2 turned out much bigger, wider, fuller canopy and just over all better. How will you know what the mysteries are? Educated guessing?✌️
Pretty much. Meph only carries about 30 strains at a time so sometimes you can compare it to other diaries to determine. Sometimes it's just to hard to determine. Mephheads on reddit are also extremely helpful thread to help figure it out.
@ChefDan420, Thanks, its amazing how much better these 2 sour stompers are doing versus the 1st one. Just a few small adjustments and they're way healthier, more full foliage. It's great