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Week 4. Vegetation
17d ago
25 cm
Height
20 hrs
Light Schedule
26 °C
Day Air Temp
6.4
pH
600 PPM
TDS
60 %
Air Humidity
20 °C
Night Air Temp
11.36 L
Pot Size
50 cm
Lamp Distance
Nutrients 3
Calmag - BioBizzWWO
Calmag
2.6 mll
Mega Crop 2 Part B 15.5-0-0 - Greenleaf Nutrients
Mega Crop 2 Part B 15.5-0-0
2.6 mll
Mega Crop 2 Part A 5-12-26 - Greenleaf Nutrients
Mega Crop 2 Part A 5-12-26
1 mll
BearBuds Started this diary super late because I have been busier than ever this summer but here goes! VERY excited to try a run with these two strains. Humboldt Dream is one I have been eyeing up for years and its my first strain from Humboldt Seeds who I have heard nothing but good things about. Blue Venom just looked like such a cool strain on the website that I had to try it out. The start for these plants was a little rough. I germinated them before a vacation so others had to take care while I was was. Came back to plants that were a little root bound and very dehydrated, but I nursed them back to health over the next 10 days and how we are rockin and rollin. Had a bit of a pH issue as well that was really killing me, but that has now been corrected too. The Autopot system was turned on last Friday and they are already showing some explosive new growth. Hoping to flip them into flower later this week.
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Week 5. Vegetation
10d ago
25 cm
Height
15 hrs
Light Schedule
24 °C
Day Air Temp
6.4
pH
620 PPM
TDS
58 %
Air Humidity
20 °C
Night Air Temp
11.36 L
Pot Size
54 cm
Lamp Distance
Nutrients 3
Calmag - BioBizzWWO
Calmag
2.6 mll
Mega Crop 2 Part B 15.5-0-0 - Greenleaf Nutrients
Mega Crop 2 Part B 15.5-0-0
2.6 mll
Mega Crop 2 Part A 5-12-26 - Greenleaf Nutrients
Mega Crop 2 Part A 5-12-26
1 mll
BearBuds This week has been interesting. I got lazy with the PPM and let them get way to high at the beginning of the week (around 720ppm). Looking back at my most successful grows, I had the best results when I did not push past 600 ppm during veg. I backed it down to 600ppm and although there is the slightest bit of nute burn at the tip of a few leaves they recovered very well. I also backed the light off quite a bit. they are very wide right now, which is great (they more than doubled in horizontal growth now covering almost the entire pot, but I would like them to get a little taller before I put them into flower. I am trying to get them to stretch a little for the light, but the this is so powerful that even at 40cm away they were still just throwing out new lateral shoots lol. I think now that the light is backed off they will start to stretch a little bit. I am hoping to flip them into flower by the end of the week. They have been drinking a lot the past few days, hoping for a big growth spurt this week and then flip by the weekend!
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BearBuds
BearBudsstarted grow question 6d ago
Hello Grow Diaries! I have a question about lighting. I have this brand new HLG 200 RSpec light and my plan was to use it for flowering. I also have an older HLG 320R QB that I could use. Would it be better to use to 200 at full power or the 320 at ~75% power?
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Growtendo64answered grow question 6d ago
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00110001001001111Oanswered grow question 6d ago
you need to compare apples to apples using umol/s PAR production, not watts. efficacy x watts = umol/s PAR. use those numbers to determing the percentage of power to make them equivalent as far as light production. The frame with better diode distribution will be your best option. You could run both of them at lower levels, too... improve light distirbution, potentially, but some drivers lose efficiency below ~50% .. depends on the model in front of you. for 12 houroperation you want 80umol/s per sq ft -- that puts you near 37 DLI. 37 dli over 18hours is 2/3rds of that.. which is 53 1/3 umol/s per sq ft. Easy math from there... 80 x sq ft of tent = the amount of PAR produced from a light that you need for that tent. if one light produces enough, then it is enough. or, use both and a little more math to determing the pecent power to run both whil producing the calculated amount of PAR required for the tent. This "37" DLI is a good starting point for ambient CO2 levels. You will need to make small adjustments from there based on plant growth. There is no 1 answer for all in this regard as more than one factor adds up to what the maximum amount of light a plant can handle per day.
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m0useanswered grow question 6d ago
You will want to compare a few things first. Its DLI, whatever one gets you a good DLI of around 35-40 and even lighting "less hot/cold spots" is best. then its spectrum, If its got some reds in it vs just blue they that would be ideal, but its not 100% needed, most lights are well rounded in the last decade or so that use white led's. then its efficiency for hydro cost. They likely so close it does not matter TBH but its more a thing for different types of like lke HID vs LED vs CFL. Best to find the PPFD maps "manufactures site" for each light and do some ruff math on the DLI. you can google PPFD to DLI and it will show you how to calculate that. Even if you hit a DLI of lets says 37, and the plants are getting stunted it just means they may want a bit less intensity on that. different strains have different needs but the upper limit with no added CO2 is about 40DLI, this was calculated by dr.brucebugbee a cannabis researcher. He has a lot of good videos on youtube if you wanna watch em. Go from there, I'm sure both lights can do the job just fine but finding the hangheight, dim setting and schedule for it will need a bit of work.
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Week 6. Vegetation
3d ago
33.75 cm
Height
15 hrs
Light Schedule
23 °C
Day Air Temp
6.4
pH
585 PPM
TDS
58 %
Air Humidity
20 °C
Night Air Temp
11.36 L
Pot Size
60.75 cm
Lamp Distance
Nutrients 4
Bud Ignitor - Advanced Nutrients
Bud Ignitor
0.264 mll
Calmag - BioBizzWWO
Calmag
2.6 mll
Mega Crop 2 Part B 15.5-0-0 - Greenleaf Nutrients
Mega Crop 2 Part B 15.5-0-0
2.6 mll
BearBuds Welp, this was their last week of veg. They are growing a little slower than I would like because it is colder than I would like it in the lab, but overall not bad. I just have this feeling that there is something off with these plants. I can't quite put my finger on it. They had nute burn at just 700ppm, they seem to get light burn the moment the light comes anywhere near them, their growth is quite slow, there is discoloration that is not spreading, but that stands out right away. I have tried everything; more humidity, less humidity, moving the light to different distances, playing with the intensity, I cleaned the entire watering system and remade new water, at this point I just don't know. Maybe I am just overreacting, but it just doesn't feel right. Hopefully they find their groove in flower. Just flipped them to their 12/12 cycle last night so we will see what happens for the next few weeks.
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