Indoor MedCzech’s ManCave “Back to the USA” 2022

[zweibeir]

Like I always say folks…grow the plant in front if you, don’t just follow directions for the sake of following them

So true brother!

 

[MedCzech]

Question for you guys checking in on this grow. The light still has me perplexed. I have no experience with these light boards.
The environment is perfect. The soil is perfect ph and full of nice nutrients for the girls in the natures living soil mix and their compost teas, aerated even…77 degrees and 65-75% RH.
I can’t imagine why I have to keep these lights so low. The little ones are stuck on 8.1-8.5 or so, one smaller girl, Lila the Sour Stomper x Double Grape is at 8.7 under the big light, and the bigger girls are around 13-16 DLI at the canopy. The lights are all running at only 20%. They all look healthy, but don’t seem to want to bush out. They are staying quite small.

Do any of you out there have an idea of what might be going on? I could definitely use some help.

I imagine I can turn up light more in flower, but still, they are small plants with small growth. Seems like I should just tirn up the lights and go.

Thanks for any insight

 

[Bob's Auto's]

Question for you guys checking in on this grow. The light still has me perplexed. I have no experience with these light boards.
The environment is perfect. The soil is perfect ph and full of nice nutrients for the girls in the natures living soil mix and their compost teas, aerated even…77 degrees and 65-75% RH.
I can’t imagine why I have to keep these lights so low. The little ones are stuck on 8.1-8.5 or so, one smaller girl, Lila the Sour Stomper x Double Grape is at 8.7 under the big light, and the bigger girls are around 13-16 DLI at the canopy. The lights are all running at only 20%. They all look healthy, but don’t seem to want to bush out. They are staying quite small.

Do any of you out there have an idea of what might be going on? I could definitely use some help.

I imagine I can turn up light more in flower, but still, they are small plants with small growth. Seems like I should just tirn up the lights and go.

Thanks for any insight

Turn up the light by 10 or 20% and see how they react...Keep an eye on the temperature to, as more light = more heat. And watch out for those youngling's as they can get burned quickly by to much light...Maybe place them on the outside of your growroom, in a corner?

 

[MedCzech]

Turn up the light by 10 or 20% and see how they react...Keep an eye on the temperature to, as more light = more heat. And watch out for those youngling's as they can get burned quickly by to much light...Maybe place them on the outside of your growroom, in a corner?

I ramped them both up a little. Got some advice from an experienced grower with these lights. Said I should bring them up a bit over next three days.
thanks man

 

[MedCzech]

Ok folks…

lights being brought up from 20% to 25% today, then 30% tomorrow and 40% by Thursday.

The seedling side was raised to 25%, and then will be brought up after I see their reactions.

 

[MedCzech]

Day 30 “Shifting gears”

The room looks much improved. Finally there seems to be some movement in the younger plants that were stalled out.
I was misinterpreting too little light as too much light…you can see how that would be a problem!!
I can humbly say I was afraid of these lights, I had issues with too much light when I first switched from HPS to Cobs back a few years now.
Anyway, we are back on track. They will if coirse suffer so to their very “poor spring” season in the grow room. Hopefully their collective summer’s and autumn’s will be perfect! I got a feel in’

Here is the room today. Big girl side first

Now the babies and teenagers ::

more to come…

 

[MedCzech]

Day 30 cont’d

I certainly learn every time I grow. Most of you out there who used to follow me know I talk very deeply and honestly about what happens and how I can learn from every mistake. I have almost never had a perfect grow in like 20 years of doing it. Close many times, and almost always I get some decent smoke. Since going over to living soil, the quality of the taste in the herb is so much better and I never looked back. To each his own though for sure. Find a method that works for you and go with that!

Sorry, got off track a touch. Back to the ladies.
Here is Sugar, the little Strawberry Cheesecake that already started to flower.

Now Aurora, the N. Lights. I lifted her up to get more light to her canopy. She stalled out a little. Looks better now.

 

[MedCzech]

Some more closeups from Day 30

Still early morning here and Iris hadn’t woken up yet. She was very light deprived and didn’t start to put out any secondary growth until she was nearly 12” or more, and she is like 18” tall now before flower…

Same as Iris, Charlotte hadn’t woken up yet. I will send a pic in couple hours and show you the difference of how she looks when she’s at full tilt!

The youngsters look good. Getting like 30 DLI compared to the 8 or 9 from before.

 

[MedCzech]

Day 32 “The Final Frontier”

Well, I guess my plants were a little sensitive…when I reached the 55 DLI target on the big girls, they didn’t like it. All good though, because now my canopy DLI numbers are set.
I was able to raise lights up and set all lights. I finally feel in control on what these lights can do and at what DLI I need to be at each stage. Seedling being the most vulnerable of them all.
They are looking very happy and ready to rock and roll

Now the closeups. Here is the youngster on the big girl side, Lila.

She’s getting like 28 DLI right now. Looking happy though.
Now Sugar, our pre-flowering Strawberry Cheesecake…

Around 39DLI is her sweet spot right now. About ready to hit the stretch


Aurora is up next. Her training will pay off. Her structure is nice and she is still vegging up nicely.

Plenty of width on those hips

Iris really trying hard to makesome kind of a come back. She is doing something.

Those new upper leaves will stretch out.

Then Charlotte. She is amazing. Candelabra shape…

She needs more space. I will adjust if needed.

Here are the teenagers.

Much happier at around 26-28 DLI.

Now the babies. At around 12-14 DLI with light off over head. Just from residual light.

They looks just fine in their little propagators.

Now we wait folks. Thanks again for stopping in.

 

[MedCzech]

Day 33 “dropping into second gear now finally…”

The room looking better, but the damage was done early with poor lighting, chasing that with water, which I found out has chloromine in it. Filter on its way. Using water from the dehumidifier in the meantime.

Most if the teens have been stressed into pre-flower and now there are only two plants, Iris(Gumberry), and Brûlée (CDLC), that are still not in flower besides the little ones.

I had to put a diffuser in front of the little ones with the big lights blasting. The lights over their heads are still off right now.
TS1000 running at 80% and XS2000 running at 55%, both at about 130W each.

Here is Sugar, she is in flower now, but doesn’t want more than 450 Ppfd at top leaves.

Nice little plant. She will be small

Then there is Aurora. She just started showing a pistol or two. Great structure on her. Can’t wait to see her stretch.

Now let me show you Iris, the girl that I thought was lost like three times.

Great recovery so far…

The star if the grow,…Charlotte, Runtz by Barney’s Farm.

Another angle of her. She has almost perfect candelabra structure. Going to need yo-yos on those buds though.

Again

Some of those teens from Mephisto I messed up.

Brûlée looking good, but little…

Thanks for stopping in. It’s getting more and more interesting in the ManCave!