So its almost been 24 hours since I popped the seeds in their 10 gallon homes.
I know it might be a little too big of a pot for 2 photos in a 3x3 but I wanna see what a plant will do when its roots are completely unrestricted.
My 5 gallons from the last grows were solid bricks by the time I chopped my plants and I chopped them all kinda early. Was gonna do 7 gallons but I figured even then a 40-50 day veg plus another 60-70+ days in flowering would pretty much brick out a 7 gallon as well.
Anyway I wanted to mention pot size because I never did before and I wanted to throw a couple updates up as well today.
First being environmental conditions
Humidity keeps going up and down 10-15%. Drops as low as 45% but hops right back up. Highest its been is 67%. So im guessing mid 50% is about the average. Ordered a stand alone hydrometer and thermometer to stand in there as well.
First of all the soil was pretty darn dry in the bag so I hydrated each pot with a 1/2 gallon of water while declumping and prepping the pots, after sewing each seed I gave them about 1 cup of water right on top of the seeds and by the morning the top dusting had already completely dried out and all the way down the sides was dry as well.
So today I gave each pot 1.5 gallons of 6.55ph spring water. Watered 90% of it around the edges of the pot to avoid hydrophobic spots while germinating and the remaining 10% got poured directly around the seedling to make sure the soil directly around them doesnt dry out too much. There was run off but probably less than 2% of the total watering, and btw 10gal pots that are fully saturated are heavy as hell. I knew it would be more than double the weight of a 5 but jeeeeeeez its heavy.
Also ordered new elastic trellis netting for this grow. Got 2 as I plan on netting twice to really maximize the canopies sq footage.
Also I would like some input from people watching on supplemental light bars for grow tents. Seems like from the last grow I could use them for directly under the main canopy as everything was larf from the last run.
Ac infinity makes a 16" pack for $100usd. It comes with 4 individual bars controlled by a seperate controller or the controller 69. Color temp is 3700&5000k but there is no info as to par or ppfd output. The 16" bars are a total of 40 watts and the 11" bars are 27 watts I believe, both use samsung lm301h diodes. Im just wondering if this seems mor gimicky or if anyone thinks it will actually help in flower?.
Thanks for stopping by
