New Grower THINK DIFFERENT GROW
- Thread starter ZKJ
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Well plants can tolerate warmer temperatures when you're using LEDs, but you're getting up there just a little bit too high.
Can you draw your intake air from someplace cooler? Like a crawl space or a bottom floor room or something? I don't remember where your Extraction air is going you definitely don't want your intake and extraction in the same space.
I think you may have come up with a perfect example of photo inhibition. Where your plant will grow slower when it's closer to the light or shorter I should say is more accurate. When I was growing photos I used to use my LEDs to control the height of the plant a little bit more than I do with autos.
Can you draw your intake air from someplace cooler? Like a crawl space or a bottom floor room or something? I don't remember where your Extraction air is going you definitely don't want your intake and extraction in the same space.
I think you may have come up with a perfect example of photo inhibition. Where your plant will grow slower when it's closer to the light or shorter I should say is more accurate. When I was growing photos I used to use my LEDs to control the height of the plant a little bit more than I do with autos.
ZKJ
"Safety first,then teamwork"
Cheers man hopefully now the shorter side is out of the light it will grow more then.
And i dont have anything like a crawl space (i dont even know what that is lol) and im in a tower block so all on the same level.
I have a hose attached to the extraction fan that puts the air out the window,and then windows open to allow fresh air into the space.(the space where my tent is like 2.8m x 1m)
The temp now is 28°c and dropping so only above 30 for an hour (ish)
Hopefully im ok the temps in england are set to drop over next few days, today was 28 outside,toma is 24,tuesday 22 and wednesday 16,so hopefully ill be fine from wednesday on as i do want to do a grow with hps. I think n3xt time if its hot weather i will use led and do hps in winter
Ive noticed some of my spelling is messed up because i dont use auto correct anymore as i was forgetting how to spell lol
ZKJ
"Safety first,then teamwork"
I swear the short side has grown a little overnight now its out of the light,the buds at the back are the short ones.
I have a question aswell @jingo how much water do you feed your plants like the quantity of liquid not plain water. Mine are having 1litre every other day(16litre smart pots) theyve had the same since they were small so suddenly though shit do they need more now as they are alot bigger lol
I have a question aswell @jingo how much water do you feed your plants like the quantity of liquid not plain water. Mine are having 1litre every other day(16litre smart pots) theyve had the same since they were small so suddenly though shit do they need more now as they are alot bigger lol
I water until I get about 15% runoff, I suspect that's about a gallon and a half from memory. But when I hand water I'm actually pumping it through hose and spraying it on so I really don't keep closer track.
ZKJ
"Safety first,then teamwork"
You no ive never watered untill have run off this grow.i might try 1.5litres then 2 and see how much they can drink.am i right in thinking the more they drink the bigger they will get? But i do like to make sure theyre dry before watering so the roots get air.
But if i can give them more water and they still need feeding every other day be good.
About the led is that like the plants outside of the light wont grow taller
So with the LEDs it's the intensity that slows your plant down. So outside the light they will probably grow taller.
When your plants are mature you should water to run off every time, just pour a little bit in each pot and then come back around for a little bit more in each pot then come back around slowly adding water until you get your run off. Then you don't want them to reabsorb that run off. If you do that you'll probably find yourself watering about every 3 days and you don't have to worry about your pot drying out. Just about all the worries with watering are during the seedling and early veg stage, once the roots are mature they will take the water quite well. You actually introduce air into the roots when you water especially if you stir your nutrients up real good or keep a bubbler going in your nutrients if you store them. Also if you carry on watering less than what they need your roots never actually fill the pot out all the way in the plants tend to stay a little bit smaller.
ZKJ
"Safety first,then teamwork"
Ok dam i wish i started feeding more sooner but at least ive noticed now and will start tomorrow.
Its crazy how one plant can be so late to mature compared to the others,the most mature one looks like this
And the other two are quite similar and then theres one that is like this still
ZKJ
"Safety first,then teamwork"
I think the short ones are catching up,heres a pic at the level of the tall ones.
U see the arrows are the short buds.
Although when i turned em today they still looked short lol
Heres a few pics in week 8
Looks like their starting to fatten up abit now.
I upped the feed to 1.5 litre instead of 1.
And now its week 8 they get 4ml of bloom per litre so their getting 6ml of bloom each every other day.
When for the last two weeks they had 3ml each every other day,so twice the amount.
Another thing ive been doing is making sure the old air is exausted out the space and been keeping the window open wide so they get lots of fresh air/co2,and been keeping the extraction fan turnt up so they get more air into tent
I did spot one leaf that looked dark/black so thought ild post a pic and see if i should be worried.
Ive practically ignored other little marks on leafs as they didnt get worse and was only on a couple. The black is only on one leaf i think,heres pic
U see the arrows are the short buds.
Although when i turned em today they still looked short lol
Heres a few pics in week 8
Looks like their starting to fatten up abit now.
I upped the feed to 1.5 litre instead of 1.
And now its week 8 they get 4ml of bloom per litre so their getting 6ml of bloom each every other day.
When for the last two weeks they had 3ml each every other day,so twice the amount.
Another thing ive been doing is making sure the old air is exausted out the space and been keeping the window open wide so they get lots of fresh air/co2,and been keeping the extraction fan turnt up so they get more air into tent
I did spot one leaf that looked dark/black so thought ild post a pic and see if i should be worried.
Ive practically ignored other little marks on leafs as they didnt get worse and was only on a couple. The black is only on one leaf i think,heres pic
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