Snapfest

Your grow is what mine probably would look like if I had some environmental control. Great job! I'm a little jealous, gotta admit. The strain is excellent to be able to put up with what I put her through.

@THChili, i actually buckled the other day an ordered a LSD-25 seed to start in a week. My gf is not impressed but i couldn't help myself haha...

@GrowingGrannie, Thanks heaps! I knew that salt could provide some help but I didn't know the set-up with the buckets. I have a good source for volume rock salt here as I use the same stuff for my home water softener. This makes makes total sense. I can't thank you enough for the kind suggestion. I've also bent the tall one a little to compensate for it's height relative to the others. My bushy plant is healthy but it is super thick with veg. I keep hearing to not thin out some of the shade leaves but it's very tempting still.

@Snapfest, Good grief!! I applaud you for ALL your efforts!! You are nothing if not tenacious! Think about maybe doing some LST on the tall one? Just to kind of resolve that issue... But I have to tell you, I've had really bad times with a couple of grows... but nothing like what you're going through... Wish I could wave a magic wand and have at least SOME of your problems disappear! Are you running any kind of dehumidifier? Can you get your hands on some rock salt?? That's the BEST natural dehumidifier of all... but maybe you don't have room for, say, a 50lb bag of it? Just trying to come up with some alternatives for you! If you CAN get some rock salt (or calcium chloride)... here's how you can put it to use (got this off a website): To make a rock salt dehumidifier, you'll need a large bag of rock salt (also sometimes referred to as sodium chloride) and two 5-gallon buckets. You should be able to find both at a hardware store. Here's how to make it: Drill several small holes in one of the buckets along the sides and the bottom. Put the bucket with the holes inside the other bucket. Fill the bucket all the way up to the top with rock salt. Place the bucket in the area of your home you'd like to dehumidify. The bucket will begin to collect water, and that water will drip through the holes of the inside bucket. The water will then collect inside the outer bucket, trapping excess moisture Just make sure you empty the bucket of water - I'd start out checking it every day given your conditions! Anyway... more power to you...

@GrowingGrannie, there's nothing I can do to reduce RH where I am. A hygrometer would only confirm what I already know, temperature and RH are too high. The fan is moving air 24/7 at as fast a setting as I dare without snapping a branch. This is a very tough clandestine grow outside the US and I take very high risk in even attempting it. I'm trying to do the best I can giving the circumstances. So far, so good, but it's been a tough week. The Week 7 (early 3rd week of flower) pics will come Saturday. I've had a spider mite issue, just one of the little fuckers got in there and started his mess. I took care of him and cleaned the goop and immediately shut down lights for a few hours and gave a pretty heavy coating of Neem. That was two days ago and there's no more obvious pest problem for the time being. The leaves aren't as pretty as before because you can actually see a film of dried Neem on them. It was a pretty heavy dose I put down but I wasn't going to take any chances with the critter problem. I also over fed again some and will be correcting that with water only for the next week. I think there's also a hint of heat stress going on. I knew that would be happening too. Two of the plants are shorter and bushier with good development. but one of the four has stretched itself to 108 cm this week, easily 10 to 20 cm above the others! I had to raise one of my lights to the absolute highest I could get with her outpacing vertically the others so much. With the spacing between nodes I know that she may be the tallest but will also be the one that yields the least. This is a very hard grow with everything wroking against me.

Just ducking in here to see how your grow is doing - looks great! Are your temps and humidity accurately recorded here? The only reason I ask is 85% humidity is AWFULLY high for the flowering stage and you might run into mold/bud rot... I'd get that down to the 50s if you can with lots of air movement in through the leaves, especially the one that's bushy!... 85% is good for seedlings but NOT flowers! Nice job!

Thanks for stopping by. The flowering stage mold probability is of great concern to me. I keep a fan on them at all times. I can't measure RH so when I say 85% it's more of a guess, maybe overall it's less than that in the grow area. I know that my soil dries very quickly. Just last night I had a little scare when I went to check them (just twice a day usually). My tallest was drooped over at the top eight inches and a few fan leaves had fallen off! 😮 It had been about a day and a half since watering last but obviously they're not getting enough. I gave each about a gallon of water-only and literally watched her perk back up to normal within the 30 minutes that I was there doing clean-up. I was very relieved and frankly surprised how she recovered before my eyes. They really are magical plants, aren't they?Amazing.

I appreciate your suggestion but personally I wouldn't use it except as a last resort. It's probably my fungus phobia at play but introducing fungal organisms, even beneficial ones, makes me nervous. I just get a stray white fly here and there and I work to assassinate the little bastards whenever I see them. Neem Oil seems to be working as a deterrent. I just worry that the situation may be harder to control as flowering gets more busy. I can't isolate the outside elements where I am nearly as much as I would like.

I've never seen those handy plastic benders. What are they and where did you find them? What a good idea.

Thanks for the advice. It's true what you say; three are fine but one is bushy as hell, but I'd also say it's the healthiest of the four. I'll wait until the last two weeks of flower before I worry about it again. Happy growing, DissNoof.

Quite the difference a day makes, eh?

Happy Growing, Buddy! 🌱🌱🌱