Budisaurus

that stalk is MASSIVE , great diary you have here.

Grow looks like it's coming along well, glad the power outage didn't result in badness for you. During Veg and in Soil the plants can handle more. During bloom and in hydro they react much quicker (badly) to stuff like power outages. BTW it looks like you have your "bloom" switch off on your Viparspectra. As long as you are running 18 hr's/day (as you say you are) turning on the bloom switch will help them grow bigger faster. With photoperiod plants and 18+hrs/day you can run the switch on and gain the benefit of the extra photons.

@Budisaurus, If you were running auto flowers and wanted to try and keep them in Veg for longer to help them get a bit bigger before bloom then running the bloom switch off is helpful. With photoperiod plants the bloom switch on won't make them go to bloom, you just need to have 18+ hours of light a day. I still run blurples in my seedling and veg tent and I tried with and without the bloom switch on. The bloom switch on will help them grow bigger/faster because it's more light. You can leave it off, I just thought I'd let you know. Looks good, don't worry about the "stunted" a lot of people on here cheat their diary weeks and their plants are actually older then they say they are. You got a good little crop there keep it up.

@NomNom, speaking of cheating, after my last response i realize my 1st post was 2 months ago hah so I have missed a couple of weeks...oops. Thanks again, I'm definitely going to give it a go with both switches on for the next grow from start to finish. I appreciate the tip.

@NomNom Thank you, I was hoping they looked good to others even if they've been stunted a bit. Yes, the Bloom switch is off and I'm running just the Veg switched on. From what I had read it told me to only turn them both on when I go into flower. I am thinking I may switch to 12/12 this Sunday and turn both switches on. Next round I'll have to try it with both switches on. This is my first real grow so I'm constantly learning something new :grin: Thank you again