Salutations everybody,
So far i've germinated 15 autofem seeds and 7 ordinary ones, starting in July 2011. Things went wrong during my 5th session, it was early in 2012: The Borg had arrived!! But i kept hoping i might find a satisfying way to manage with such infestations, eventually. So, i though perhaps it could starve them to death if i skipped cultivation for a few months - and it did buy me some time for a while:
Under 339 Watts CFL (2012-Jun-16)
The main session captured below must have been my 6th or 7th one to life i guess:
Too bad i had stopped keeping grow journals...
Anyway, as i recall December of this same year was dull in terms of harvest so i became curious about mite suffocation (via oxygen displacement by CO2 flooding), which although it was nice to read about didn't really help and then near the automn of 2013 i made some fair progress (at last!) with the addition of an air conditioner to complement my open-structure prototyping platform shown here:
This was never meant to be permanent by the way...
Most fortunately cold temperatures proved quite useful because the spider mites didn't resurface after 2 showers and a permanent drop to ~23 degress Celcius - but damage had been sustained already. Simultaneously, various CFL configurations were evaluated too; this one reached 550 Watts if i'm not mistaking.
The plant was a Cannatonic (non-auto), it had a good start under generous CFL lightning during April, May and maybe a part of June i think. After that i installed it behind a window for at least 2 more months before i put it back under CFLs to finish her life cycle there.
Lets see what it looked like near her best day:
Final weight in dry flowers must have been close to 35 g.
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Now, just when i was going to explain what's bugging me at the moment it seems the time has come for a break so i'll have to come back with another post a bit later...
So far i've germinated 15 autofem seeds and 7 ordinary ones, starting in July 2011. Things went wrong during my 5th session, it was early in 2012: The Borg had arrived!! But i kept hoping i might find a satisfying way to manage with such infestations, eventually. So, i though perhaps it could starve them to death if i skipped cultivation for a few months - and it did buy me some time for a while:
Under 339 Watts CFL (2012-Jun-16)
Anyway, as i recall December of this same year was dull in terms of harvest so i became curious about mite suffocation (via oxygen displacement by CO2 flooding), which although it was nice to read about didn't really help and then near the automn of 2013 i made some fair progress (at last!) with the addition of an air conditioner to complement my open-structure prototyping platform shown here:
Most fortunately cold temperatures proved quite useful because the spider mites didn't resurface after 2 showers and a permanent drop to ~23 degress Celcius - but damage had been sustained already. Simultaneously, various CFL configurations were evaluated too; this one reached 550 Watts if i'm not mistaking.
The plant was a Cannatonic (non-auto), it had a good start under generous CFL lightning during April, May and maybe a part of June i think. After that i installed it behind a window for at least 2 more months before i put it back under CFLs to finish her life cycle there.
Lets see what it looked like near her best day:
...
Now, just when i was going to explain what's bugging me at the moment it seems the time has come for a break so i'll have to come back with another post a bit later...
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Nice to meet you, so to speak...
