Grow Room Follow-up Russian Rocket Fuel grow

[sWeed]

Photo update, 5 weeks + 1day

Here's all four next to each other


Slowly starting LST


The fourth one is a bit behind in size, although it is packing the biggest flowers of them all along the full length of its stem.


Some side branching is rapidly taking off on all four of them. I'd say more than in my last last grow, and I'm guessing and hoping it is due to the added light all around the cabinet. Iw hoping many branches will get colas reaching the canopy.

I've been thinking that this grow might not fit (pun intended) in the micro growing section. Are there some definition as to what size grows pace constitutes a micro grow?

 

[sWeed]

At day 45, eight days after my last post; here's a short update.
I took the plants out to check on them and to reach far away branches that needed training. I'm real fighting not to defoliate. The growths is getting more and more massive each day, and so far I've only trained bigger fan leaves away from bud locations to try to maximise light to these areas.
I've picked up some D-Block I've decided to add to my nutrition to make sure I don't get clogged drippers. While taking out my plants I added drippers so that each plant has a total of seven. I'll try these for a few days to see what amount of run off I get. I aim at 20-25%. I also did some alterations to my drip lines to make it easier to take each plant cage out individually when I nee to do checkups and train them. When putting them back I also altered their positions.
The two bladeless fans I bought and added were shite. Both failed working within days. So I'm stuck with only a small non oscillation fan again which is no good with that much foliage growing dense. I need to get that fixed but the cabinet is really cramped at plant level with the four cages taking up all space at the length, and leaves just enough space at the depth for my T5s on the walls. I'm considering using two leftover quality computer fans to circulate the air. Just adding a simple mesh cover to each and attach them at the to outermost cages. I'll get down to solving that this week.

This one has a large spread out top cola and some side branching reaching up through the mesh. I hope for eve some more before it gives up growing.



The next one didn't has a nice looking central cola that got stuck for a while now at the top. I guess it's flowers will continue reaching up for more light for a while. Hopefully some of those side branches will reach the top of the canopy as well,



This one seems to be this runs bushy plant, it has loads of branching reaching up through individual holes in the mesh and some sticking out weaving through the cages sides, taking use of my small but decent extra lights on the walls. Im hoping a lot from this one.


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The last one is a phenotype I recognise as a squatty, more dark green with bigger thicker flowers growing mainly in a large cola along its stem. This one has four good looking branches, but i am concerned it's been shielded ATP bit from its neighbouring plant, as well as being a bit less covered by my LEDs, due to a somewhat off centre hanging used in previous grows. I'll change that for my next grow. Anyhow, I've had some of these yield really good.



Finally the cabinet after rearranging the order of the plants.

 

[jackmc]

Hi sWeed, I love the SCGOG cages you've made. I think you've crammed enough plants into a small enough space to qualify for the Micro Grow section of the forum. I've got 5 plants going in a 96cm x 96cm x 76cm grow tent with a 300W LED. I am trying to KISS with hydro. I'm subbed and can't wait to see what you make happen with those plants. Cheers!

 

[sWeed]

Thanks jackmc! Yes, I'm hoping the cages will help me get an even canopy and yield for each individual grow. Also I'm hoping they'll give me enough space in my cab to grow new seeds with their own lights on a shelf above the main grow. That way l should cut three weeks off each grow and have a reoccurring harvest around every 7 weeks. That's the plan anyway. I'm checking out your grow as well, looks good! All the best!

 

[sWeed]

Day 52 from seed. Really not much to report. Have only filled my water reservoir and tucked away some foliage. Never got around to solve my fan situation last weekend due to too much partying, but this weekend I'll take the plants out to check them thoroughly and try to fit a couple of computer fans to the cages.
Vertical growth has more less stopped now, but buds are fattening up all around. The bushiest girl has plenty of colas sticking up, while the others seem to had been better off a bit higher and closert to the top to start with to fully benefit from more LST. I might consider taller pots next round. Still happy though, and hopeful I'll beat my last yield.

Some photos. Sorry about the LED colours, but I'll get better photos this weekend when taking them out. Peace!

 

[NekoSempai]

Im definitely diggin the setup man. Im liking it man.

I like the cage setup. Looks like they are lovin the LED too.

Whats your RH% at? Might want to actively check for molds or rot if the RH is high. Cheers my man. :Cheers:

:karma Cloud::smile:

 

[jackmc]

Keep up the good work sWeed! The plants are looking great!

 

[sWeed]

Thanks guys!
Yes the LED works excellent with these and together with my relatively low effect duct fan for air extraction the lights help keeping my temperature at a steady 26-29 degree Celsius.
The way I use my currents grow space, the RH% early in a grow will be somewhat low, typically at around 40%, slowly building up to around 55-60% when growth during vegging is done, due to the dense foliage. I rarely get higher than 60% though, so I'm hoping mold shouldn't be a problem. It's right now a concern though, since I currently have no fans circulating the air around and through those dense cages, and it's really hard to find one thing that fits in my cramped locker.I 'll be getting down to work something out tomorrow, Sunday, however. I'll also take the girls out for some tucking of fan leaves and proper photos to be taken. Cheers!

 

[sWeed]

Monday coming up marks the beginning of week 9. Last grow I had to cut them down already at day 63 due to an upcoming two week holiday. These plants will get at least between 9-10 weeks of grow before I start flushing out nutrients for about a week. They haven't even started showing any signs of reaching the end of their life cycle, but they already seem to be beating my last grow in terms of yield. I took them out on Sunday to photograph and tuck away fan leaves where needed, but I never got around to post any of the photos. Today however I took them out again to attach the small 80mm computer fans to get at least some air circulation under the canopy. I'd hate any mold get to them before I can harvest these beautiful creatures.
I took photos today as well.
I'll post Sundays and today's photos of each plant for comparison. Mostly some fattening up of buds, and they are looking more and more delicious by the day now. One can tell the photos apart by their backgrounds. White wall - Sunday, blinds - today, Thursday.

First out, the bushy monster

















"Bender"







The Dwarf dwarf







"The fourth"







Finally the quick fix fans. I'll out them on the inside all of the cages, and on two different levels for my next grow. Each fan point in one direction and will line up to each other when my cages are in position.

 

[hope2grow]

just a thought m8 but why not just let them go as long as ya possible can.. maybe take one every week from week 10 that way u can see what sorta difference 1/2 weeks make..