Some info on me : this is basically like my 3rd grow, ever. the tent, the lights, the set up, all brand new, first time used and setup. my first time growing autoflowers.
So here we are as seedlings (January 12th) in horrible grow conditions...inside a large bowl inside a 5 gallon bucket with a fish tank heater. low humidity, inside a cold tent, varying temps...awful conditions. seedlings stayed at this size for almost 8 days with no change until i knew something had to be done to make them happy.
Lighting : viparspectra 600w LED with veg and bloom switched on
rockwool cubes were not soaked or ph adjusted or soaked in nutrients before seeds were simply placed in them.
I thought it would be a cool idea to try a 5/1 light cycle.
@grower_not_shower, i used a bloomspect 600 watt, with both veg and bloom switched on over this one plant, it also got some light run off from two other bloomspects and a meizhi 600 non reflector. i "topped" it on march 8th after it was already pretty large. the tent held a very high humidity level through veg. i also used veg nutrients (maxi grow) which help to keep it from budding....the bloomspects give off a lot less red light past 640nm. the same strain plant i had under the meizhi, although it is still huge, it started to bud earlier, my assumption is due to the meizhis more far right spectrum of reds from 650nm-680
amazing crop brother. I'm at week 6 of vegging and planning on leaving it veg for 2 more weeks so flip at the beginning of week 8 but after seeing how big your crop got from week 6 to week 9 i might leave mine veg till week nine. do you ise RO water?
@Lou_Grows, this is an autoflower by the way. i do not use RO water, i use well water which only has a starting ppm of around 60. it is amazing though how much an extra week of veg can do under a lot of watts. i purposely tried my best to hold these in veg by keeping them in veg nutrients, as that is the only way to control an autoflowers cycle.
I keep coming back to look at this and your Dinafem. I'm just amazed at both. I think I'll be adopting some of your technique for plant number 2. Really amazing.