First Grow: Living the Dream

Treating this like week 4 of VEG due to the fact I started from seed so week 1 is really like week 0 (zero). Pretty straight forward week. Bumped up the FloraBloom a bit. Plants are looking really healthy! I finally got a light meter that measure LUX and FC and have been slowly bumping up the LUX this week by lowering the T5 LED's closer to the plants. At first I had the light really low but then raised it to about 16 inches, it was a guessing game! When I got the light meter I took a measurement and realized that the plants weren't getting enough light and that these light meters are a useful tool. At 16" the LUX meter showed a reading of about 12,000 LUX and I need to be somewhere between 15,000 and 50,000! I'm learning that these new T5 LED's are designed to sit really close to the plants for better absorption. It's colder now and doing this helps keeps temps up so it's a win win. By weeks end the plants should be receiving approx 35,000 LUX. The LST is going well also so I'm going to continue with that for another week of VEG before I flip these plants over to the flowering side of the tent and bump the light up significantly with the LED Quantum Board with deep red ultraviolet LEDS. Can't wait! Plants have also slowly been taking on more water as I have been increasing the feedings by 1 cup every time. They are now able to take a full feeding with run off. PH is in the range going in and out.