Hi <span class="link_user">@Growdiaries</span> Team,
I have a question regarding the rule that only single-strain diaries are eligible for Diary of the Month.
I don’t have the space to run multiple tents, and I often grow two different strains in the same tent. One reason is that my wife suffers from MS, and growing different strains serves different needs in our household.
I’m struggling to understand why this automatically disqualifies a diary from the competition. Since diaries featuring different strains compete against each other anyway, I don’t see how documenting multiple strains in one diary inherently puts anyone at a disadvantage or prevents them from producing a high-quality grow report.
Could you explain the reasoning behind this restriction? I’d genuinely like to understand what specific disadvantage or difficulty you see in allowing multi-strain diaries to compete for Diary of the Month.
Thanks for your time. I appreciate the work you put into the platform and would be interested to hear your perspective.
<span class="link_user">@GolliGrows</span>, Hope you are having a good day. I'm not 100 percent positive about everything here but I think its perfectly okay to have more than one plant in the tent growing side by side. I just think it mean they want it documented separately on the website. Instead of having multiple strains strains added to a single diary in the settings. Just makes things a little more confusing and harder to understand. looks like you have two per diary, yeah i think this that's what they mean. Yours looks neat and organized, than most. I don't see anything confusing about yours. but i also think it has something to do with how the website tracks wins. its tied to a single strain or plant usually. or that two plants cant win 1 award, i think is the idea.
Hey man, thanks for the response. I can’t answer you there so I’m doing it here.
Yeah I’m not even pushing 400 par yet and my light is about 15-18 inches away. Temps and humidity are 24-25 C and humidity is about 60%.
I’m not concerned about how much light I’m pushing. My question was more about when to switch from my dedicated blue spectrum light that simulates the spring time, to switching to my red spectrum light that does summer time.
@Papa_T, Your welcome. I'm not positive but I think the blue light is more for the seedling stage. and your plants are sizeable enough I think they should get the red spectrum now. If there is an option to have both I would go with that during the veg as to get the best of both worlds. but during flowering, I would be on the red spectrum. Seedling(1-2 weeks)=blue, Veg=Red or both, Flower=Red.
@Papa_T, Also every light is going to have different settings and spectrums so best to consult your owner's manual. only reason I mentioned the intensity because I wasn't sure if adding both secturms(white) would make the intensity any more powerful or just change the spectrum.
@MindFlowers68, oh yeah for sure during flowering red spec for sure.
I think I’ll make the switch to red when she shows some calyxes and pistils.
The tent I’m currently running isn’t big enough to accommodate both lights. Plus I don’t think I want to run both lights in tandem.
But yeah the blue spec is definitely good for early to mid veg. It keeps the plant a bit smaller and bushier. Once the light goes to red then she’ll start stretching.
I’m currently pushing about 380 PAR/PPFD at her right now. Slowly going to increase intensity in the next few days.
And gradually build up to 600.
Thanks for the input. I appreciate the conversation.
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