This has been an interesting week for recognizing unusual differences but also a great week for bud development.
My current setup of a 4x5x2 tent with two "300" watt LEDs for light. The 2 LEDs however are not the same brand or appearance of chips(bulbs) etc. So naturally I am seeing 1 of the plants under the more purple light developing faster and a much higher trichrome density than the 2nd plant under the weaker, more white light, unusual led, which has far more plain green leaves with minimal trichromes and also less developed buds. I think we all know that the led market is unpredictable...but to see two identical sized plants developing and maturing so differently is fascinating and frustrating.
The heat in the room has risen slightly to the 81 range and the humidity has stayed relatively low since the into of the duct fan and the additional light. The plants are also having to battle with the lights being slightly too close. However I've been checking the leaf surface temps and they're not usually going higher than 75 degrees. I recently positioned 1 light at a side angle to try to give the plants more space and only time will tell whether it helps or not.
The nutrients have stayed fairly consistent with the exception of adding in a small dose of beastie bloomz once a week for additional P K boost.
Pistils are starting to change color and the plants are extremely sticky, oily, and smelly. Hopefully these are all good signs.
*Learning lesson: must add pumice or other heavier material to soil mixture next time, perilite is too light and floats around the pot rather than staying put throughout the mixture.
Happy growing and harvesting 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