Indoor SPZ's Ultimate vs. Gorilla Showdown

[jelly0]

Nice to see you back with your next grow! You did amazing last time I'm looking forward to seeing what you produce this time around. Off to a great start

 

[SPZ]

Nice to see you back with your next grow! You did amazing last time I'm looking forward to seeing what you produce this time around. Off to a great start

Thanks, Jelly, good to see you! You're grow is looking awesome!

 

[SPZ]

Day 5

I wanted to plant my babies Friday but I had a busy weekend and I didn't get to it until Sunday, which I'm calling day 5. I know a lot of folks pot up into progressively larger pots but I didn't last time and it seemed to work just fine so I'm following the same formula. One thing I am doing differently is I'm starting with a bug barrier over the media right from the start since I had big time problems with fungus gnats last grow. I read on another forum that pantie hose work well for this purpose so I'm trying it out. Time will tell if this is effective but here's how I set it up:

• Start with extra large hoses (size Q)
  
• Set up the autopot as usual and fill with media
• I pre-charged each pot with 1.5 liters of pH 5.8 water mixed with 2ml/L voodoo juice and 1ml/L cal-mag to start out with.
  
• Pull the entire pantie hose over the top of the autopot so the crotch is in the middle
  
• Cut a slit in the crotch of the panties (no repressed subconscious issues there, lol)
• Use your finger to make a hole in the media under the slit (in a totally PG13 way, guys)
  
• Push starter cube through the slit and plant in media as normal
• Wrap legs of pantie hose around the plant

Overview of tent

Close up of pot with hosen

Shouldn't need to water again for may five days, you can top water right through the pantie hose.

 

[SPZ]

Winter has finally come to Massachusetts and unfortunately the basement is getting a little cooler than the girls would prefer. I've enabled all six cobs, which maintains a nice 75-77 degrees in the tent while they are on, but when they go out for four hours per day the temp has gone as low as 59, ouch! I've jiggered the timing of lights out versus our home thermostat schedule, and now the low temp is 63, better but still a bit lower than ideal.

I could use the seedling heat mat I have to maintain a minimum root zone temperature. The heat mat is a fairly low wattage solution. I could also put a space heater in the basement near the tent intake or just leave the lights on 24/7. It's a solvable problem but I need to get it dialed in before it stunts my babies any more than it already has!

 

[Nosias]

Winter has finally come to Massachusetts and unfortunately the basement is getting a little cooler than the girls would prefer. I've enabled all six cobs, which maintains a nice 75-77 degrees in the tent while they are on, but when they go out for four hours per day the temp has gone as low as 59, ouch! I've jiggered the timing of lights out versus our home thermostat schedule, and now the low temp is 63, better but still a bit lower than ideal.

I could use the seedling heat mat I have to maintain a minimum root zone temperature. The heat mat is a fairly low wattage solution. I could also put a space heater in the basement near the tent intake or just leave the lights on 24/7. It's a solvable problem but I need to get it dialed in before it stunts my babies any more than it already has!

I have gone to 24/7 myself. The winter here is not yet too bad. With this set at 24/7 I have 71/68. May the tent overflow. FULL TENT.

 

[SPZ]

I have gone to 24/7 myself. The winter here is not yet too bad. With this set at 24/7 I have 71/68. May the tent overflow. FULL TENT.

FULL TENT FULL TENT

I didn't have time to work out another solution this morning, so I too simply flipped the switch on the timer to the on position. It's nice and bright and warm down there now, hope the girls like it. In the Rocky Mountains there's a trail called The Never Summer Trail, well our tents are the Never Nighttime Tents!

I saw a couple of fungus gnats in the basement today. I killed two using the hand slap technique, and I saw another one stuck to a yellow sticky trap in the tent. My nylon gnat barriers are really getting put to the test. I will probably also introduce some hydroponic grade BT to the feeding schedule as another preventative measure.

 

[Nosias]

FULL TENT FULL TENT

I didn't have time to work out another solution this morning, so I too simply flipped the switch on the timer to the on position. It's nice and bright and warm down there now, hope the girls like it. In the Rocky Mountains there's a trail called The Never Summer Trail, well our tents are the Never Nighttime Tents!

I saw a couple of fungus gnats in the basement today. I killed two using the hand slap technique, and I saw another one stuck to a yellow sticky trap in the tent. My nylon gnat barriers are really getting put to the test. I will probably also introduce some hydroponic grade BT to the feeding schedule as another preventative measure.

Never Nighttime Tents. That has a good ring to it. I hope the leggings for the ladies will please them happy and keep those gnats away. I just love the hand slap technique. It is, well, so basic and most times very rewarding. .

My humidity is 25 - 29%. I am in the final 2-3 weeks for the harvest. So I have decided to put the exhaust fan and filter on a timer. When it is on the humidity drops. So I will give it a try. Take care and the price of freedom from gnats is constant vigilance. My RQ Quick one gave me 3.1 ozs.

 

[SPZ]

Hey all, sorry it's been a few weeks without an update. Busy times around the holidays! Also the grow has multiple issues so where to start...

The nylons I put over the pots were not effective at keeping the gnats out and actually caused problems. Sigh. As I watered the plants the coco compressed and sunk down, and the nylons started to touch the leaves and stems of the plants. Anywhere they touched the plant looked like it got nute burn. One of the plants touched the nylon with its main stem and started growing sideways away from it. Also, the wad of nylons around the plants kept the coco from drying and breathing so I had overwatering issues despite only watering 3 times in the first four weeks.

On top of that we are experiencing a record-setting cold snap and my basement is no exception. I've struggled to maintain temperature down there. With the cold and wet conditions, one of the Gorilla plants died from damping off before she got any bigger than a seedling. The other three are small and stunted but still alive.

I did mention the bugs, right? The gnats don't seem to mind the cold and wet at all, they proliferated in this environment.

 

[SPZ]

That was the bad news, here's the good news. I've switched to using the Microbe Lift BT for the gnats and it seems to be working well. It is extremely concentrated. I've been adding one drop per two liters of water I feed the plants and the gnats have reduced significantly. I will probably just keep up that regimen throughout the grow. Thanks @jelly0 for the recommendation.

For the temperature I've put to use a small space heater. I'm nervous about putting it in the tent because of the fire hazard but if I put it near the tent's air intake I can keep temps in the seventies. I'm using it about half time during the colder hours. Also I am keeping the lights on 24/7 and will probably do so the entire grow at this point.

 

[SPZ]

Day 30

The plants look to be about a week behind my last grow so I have reduced expectations on this one, but they have responded really well to the changes I've made. And yesterday I turned on the autopot system at the same time I turned on the space heater so things got all warm and bubbly and wonderful for them all at once!

Gorrila 1

Ultimate 1

Ultimate 2

Group shot

The humidity is still too low but at least the temps are reasonable now (got into the fifties at one point!)