Sweet Seeds Dark Devil T5 micro grow..first time grower

[molegrower]

hey all... :tiphat:
im on day 36 on my Sweet Seeds Dark Devil grow... this plant really grabbed my attention enough to purchase the seeds and found Autoflower Network to find info on this strain. what could be better than actually finding the breeder right here!!!! some quick history.. this is my micro grow.. this little seed was a power house right out the gate... i dropped the seed into a shot glass.. within 8 hours the seed started to show signs of popping... into the paper towel it went... by the next morning it had the tap root out and ready to plant!
Im using O soil with no added amendments, using trio for nutes.. its under a 96 watt total 4 bulb fixture.. ran with 4 6500k bulbs for the first 4 weeks then switched out two bulbs for the 3000K.. I ran into some issues with nute lockout at week 5.. did a 9 gallon flush on her per recommendation in the sick forum.. shes getting big and bushy now at week 6 (day 36)
here are the pics seedling to today and one of the "side" bud sites taken today...
thanks all for looking and will update as she continues to GROW!!!!
(noob to adding pics.. im sorry if out of order..)

 

[molegrower]

and the cab its growing in..
its in the pot to the right in this pic.. thanks again and cant wait to get me some SWEETS!!!!!! she smells incredable!

 

[realcarlos]

Does the T5 96 watt system you have cause a lot of heat?

 

[molegrower]

Does the T5 96 watt system you have cause a lot of heat?

It's less heat than the 6 cfls I was running..and it said on the box it was 8000 lumens.. I.have the fixture about 10 inches away from the canopy, giving me more "light" coverage.. the closer the fixture is.. the narrow the light rays are.. if that makes sense. I have AC piped into the cab as well... with a 120mm computer fan.. pushing it right across the tops of the plants.. temps between 76/80 with the lights on.. RH about 45%.. when the lights are off temps stay around 74/76.. I have them on an 18/6 lighting schedule.. I.do have three cfls running on another auto.. in the same cab... no.difference in temp with those running..

 

[realcarlos]

It's less heat than the 6 cfls I was running..and it said on the box it was 8000 lumens.. I.have the fixture about 10 inches away from the canopy, giving me more "light" coverage.. the closer the fixture is.. the narrow the light rays are.. if that makes sense. I have AC piped into the cab as well... with a 120mm computer fan.. pushing it right across the tops of the plants.. temps between 76/80 with the lights on.. RH about 45%.. when the lights are off temps stay around 74/76.. I have them on an 18/6 lighting schedule.. I.do have three cfls running on another auto.. in the same cab... no.difference in temp with those running..

Thank you

 

[dirtryder]

I have a very similiar light that i has using before the HID. I used it for the veg portion of my TD and Dark Devils. One thing to remember with T5's is that the center of the bulbs are quite a bit brighter than the outsides. I tried 10 inches away but didnt produce the results i was looking. While it is true that you can put them almost right on top of your plant i find that i dont get enough stretch for me.( i find that a little is acttually a good thing/ nothing as extreme as venging under hps but a little space is nice) i put mine at 4-6 inches away until the vertical growth stops then 1-2" if using through the whole plant life cycle. Digging the LST Keep up on that(have 3 dd going right know and if yours are like mine they are about to explode! Growing them side by side with Think Differnts and they are def holding there own) I'm not saying im right but this is what has worked for me

 

[Supa-Saiyajin]

They look perfectly healthy, keep on that good work! you also seem to have one pheno with more sativa-genetics in it! Peace

 

[molegrower]

Thanks meng.. she is still climbing!.. have her a gallon of 1/2 strength nuted water a couple days ago..(big grow and tiger bloom) till runoff.. PHd 6.5 going in.. runoff was 5.7.. I do believe.. id have to look back at my journal .. so looking at my calendar.. today is officially 6 weeks from popping out of the soil.. ill update with s pic later on..

 

[molegrower]

I have a very similiar light that i has using before the HID. I used it for the veg portion of my TD and Dark Devils. One thing to remember with T5's is that the center of the bulbs are quite a bit brighter than the outsides. I tried 10 inches away but didnt produce the results i was looking. While it is true that you can put them almost right on top of your plant i find that i dont get enough stretch for me.( i find that a little is acttually a good thing/ nothing as extreme as venging under hps but a little space is nice) i put mine at 4-6 inches away until the vertical growth stops then 1-2" if using through the whole plant life cycle. Digging the LST Keep up on that(have 3 dd going right know and if yours are like mine they are about to explode! Growing them side by side with Think Differnts and they are def holding there own) I'm not saying im right but this is what has worked for me

I was going to spend some time on her tonight.. lsting a bit... there are Sooooooo many fan leaves covering bud sites... I'm afraid to pull any off.. I was going to lower the light fixture to about 6 inches in a few days.. add it should be BLOOMING!.. allot of crystals.. very frosty.. feeling pretty good about this.. being my first grow.. thanks again all!

 

[molegrower]

Question.. when should I stop lsting her.. Lol.. my fingers were sticky sticky after tying her down.. .. left before lst.. right after... at this point it's hard to find room to move her around.. Lol..