New Grower Medi's Medical grow

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My new LED came in today!!!! When I got a better idea of the size and saw the thing turned on I instantly knew it wouldn't be sharing the tent with any other lights. It is bonkers bright, where before there were several darker spots around the tent there is now not a dark spot to be found, not even looking through the canopy to the soil! I plugged it into the existing setup where I have a load meter plugged in, and the timer plugged into the load meter, and it was going from around 175-180, I got a snapshot of 178. It's a 96 X 3w setup that has been attenuated to 2w, and they report it operates at between 170-190 so it's right on the money!! The first thing I was impressed by is how much more blue light it has compared to my UFO. My UFO appears very purple whereas this one has an almost daylight look that's tinged with purple.

Speaking of light I found out Saturday night when I woke up at 3 am that my light was on where it should be off from 12-4. Long story short I realized in the morning that some of the pins were not fully seated so I've been giving them 2 hours of sleep a day since the beginning.... Needless to say I fixed it and they're now on a 20/4 schedule I'd intended.


Thing 2, and to a lesser extent Thing 1 has started flowering, though only just in both cases. The next few days should be interesting between the new light, the extra penetration from leaf removal, and just where I am in the grow cycle. They ended up needing water late yesterday afternoon despite getting water on Saturday so I obliged. This time I gave them a quarter tsp of Dynagro, a half dose of Tigerbloom, and a normal dose of Sensizym since I noticed some hardening on the top of my soil(no idea what that's about). Anyway, that's what I've got, other than some pics of course. Hope you're all having a good grow day today!!


Thing 2




Thing 1




Group Shot

LED



Watts

Nice pots..... LOL! :smoke:

 

[medi]

I'm guessing we have the same pots? I wish I had thought more ahead and picked up some Geopots. Luckily there is always next time

 

[Ryknow]

Hi- Everything looks great, what is the height of the plants now? Also what size containers are you using?

Thanks

 

[medi]

Thanks Ryknow, they were around 30cm when I checked yesterday, though I think Thing 2 grew overnight.

As for the pots, they're called "Misco" pots, and they look like this when you get them, I've pulled the bottoms off and cut the rim to make for closer placement earlier in the grow.

 

[medi]

.: Day 38 :.

It's been pretty easy going the last couple of days, I let the girls dry out for 3 days which is a lot under current conditions. When I woke up this morning Thing 2 was looking a bit droopy so I decided to water this morning a little and finish up watering when I got home. I gave straight water at pH 7 for the morning watering, and Molasses and Tiger Bloom for the afternoon watering. Flowering was picking up today on the main tops and just starting to show in the other tops but I pulled another 2 fan leaves on the tops of each plant to open up light for the lower tops as well as the mains themselves so that may slow them down a bit. I also pulled Thing 1 down a little bit to help stimulate the other tops to grow out more before budding gets too far in to do anything but leave them and hope for the best. Temps have been staying between 25C-26C and RH has been shifting anywhere from 38%-48% depending on where in the wet dry cycle it is.

I added a booster fan as an exhaust yesterday and it seems to be helping keep the air moving and temps more stable. I also added an Ona block to the room outside the tent to help create a bit of a buffer since smell has been picking up on Thing 2 quite a bit. That's about all I got for today except some pictures. Hope you're all having a good one.

Thing 1

Thing 2

Flowering

 

[medi]

.: Day 39 :.

They've both started flowering more and by morning I think every top will be fully flowering, The top of Thing 2 has thrown up a lot more pistils and Thing 1 is looking about like Thing 2 was on Tuesday. I bent down the main stem of Thing 1 a little more today to try and coax more stretch on the other tops though they're starting to mostly normalize as I train the overachievers. I managed to get the tape off of Thing 2's stem after about 30 minutes of very delicate work with a sterilized exacto knife and a lot of patience and care. It has 90% healed and other than the odd angle it's barely noticeable. I messed around with white balance some more and while it's looking better it has a ways to go. On the other hand the effect looks nice. Going to keep it short so I'll throw up a pic and call it day.

Group Shot

 

[Trapper]

Nice work Medi! Those are coming along very nicely

Looks like the webbing is achieving what you wanted it to and Thing 2 looks really spread out. It's obviously working.

Fun stuff once it starts flowering, huh?

 

[Eyes on Fire]

Dude,Im glad that Stalk Base held up for ya.just be a little leary of it,especially late in flower and IF shes not healed up 100% for whatever reason,ya dont wanna stress break n bend.just keep an eye on it man.but I seriously doubt I need ta tell you dude.but,just wanted ta slide it on out there.LOL!Awesome frigin Job so far dude.REAL Nice!:tiphat: Now lets go n burn one man...

 

[medi]

Nice work Medi! Those are coming along very nicely

Looks like the webbing is achieving what you wanted it to and Thing 2 looks really spread out. It's obviously working.

Fun stuff once it starts flowering, huh?

Thanks man, and yes very fun, but to be honest I've enjoyed the ride the whole way so far. Having the resources, time and patience I lacked when I was younger has turned this from a necessary part of getting good quality medicine to an almost zen like hobby/obsession. As to the scrog, the webbing has really helped Thing 2 but Thing 1 has been really stubborn and doesn't want to spread out for the most part, I'm hoping she just takes after me and eventually does what needs doing

Dude,Im glad that Stalk Base held up for ya.just be a little leary of it,especially late in flower and IF shes not healed up 100% for whatever reason,ya dont wanna stress break n bend.just keep an eye on it man.but I seriously doubt I need ta tell you dude.but,just wanted ta slide it on out there.LOL!Awesome frigin Job so far dude.REAL Nice!:tiphat: Now lets go n burn one man...

Thanks EoF, the picture doesn't show it very well but I've actually got that stem going under one line and over the next so even though it's bent it's got something to rest on. I'll keep an eye on it though now that you mention it, and if need be I'll just tie it up as best I can. And you'd be surprised what you need to tell me, I did after all snap the darn thing over

 

[Trapper]

Couldn't agree more...veg was super interesting and exciting too, especially this first time around