Indoor TinyTent test grow: Dutch Passion Auto Forbidden Cherry

If this actually works, all you doubters owe me a beer. If it doesn't I never believed it would anyway, it's stupid, no idea why you all forced me to do it.

It will work fine I believe the plant will only grow to the size of its area it’s going to be tight but as long as you keep rh in check you’ll be fine.

I grew my first 420 scrog in my dry tent which is only 20”x36”x60”

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Hey guys, this is just a fun little side project of mine: I have two 30x30x60cm (1x1x2 ft.) tents that I normally use to start out new plants. Now I want to see if I can't pull off a full grow in them, using a custom built DWC setup, a custom built lamp, custom cooling, custom heating, custom SCROG setup etc.

And of course, I'll be using a version of 420autoflower's technique-mix - customized of course, what else :D
Why everything custom? Not because I think I "know better" or anything of the sort, just to suit my knowledge, equipment and space.

The lamp is round about 25-30W in power (have to check), the whole setup pulls 120W for both rooms combined under full load and full heating (which never happens).

The Cherries share a room with two other tents, 60x60x160 for two Dutch Passion Auto Lemon Kix, that I'll put in a separate grow journal, to keep it to one strain a journal.

My tiny little grow room fully loaded, so I can barely just still fit in myself for maintenance:

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Then, the popped and used-up beans, just for fun - I put two seeds into distilled water, both popped, 100% germination rate, as usual with Dutch Passion auto seeds. I shouldn't have used the Macro lens on my phone, it's crap, without it macro pics get much better (and higher res)... oh well.

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Day 6 (counting day 1 = day seed was removed from fridge and put into distilled water):
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Day 8:
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Starting them out at pH 5.9, EC 0.9, using all Hesi nutrients (SuperVit, Root Complex, Hydro Grow). So far they look happy and grow rather fast, but I'm still missing roots out the bottom. Maybe stuffed the bottom-hole too much (of the rockwool-cube... pervs!).

That's all for now folks :D Take care!

P.S.: To be clear, I'm not entirely insane - I know chances of this working are VERY slim, unless done exactly right, and of course, only if the seeds play along. I just have nothing better to do with those two tents right now, so fork it, why not :smokeit:
This will be fun to watch!
 
You read my mind :d5:

No but really, I'm kind of looking forward to visiting the cops with a big ass bag of weed in hand, going "please destroy for me, kthxbai" and just watching their reactions :D
Only do this if you know that you'll not be charged. You will be coming in guilty of possessing beyond the limit, transporting it, etc., even confessing to growing it too, and seemingly trying to make some type of public/political statement or protest. What do you expect to happen? Best to dispose of it yourself.
 
@bill yeah, the plan was initially to ring them up and ask them whether I should bring it over to them or if they want to get it, but just dunking it in paint will probably be the easiest way, even if it makes me feel horrible...

@Lil Dab I love growing me some autos in some tiny spaces, I just can't help it - efficiency is king in my mind. Beautiful little plants you got there!


But now, for the good and the bad news - the good news is, I finally found time again to post today, bad news is, one of the cherries died T_T RIP!

Guess that's what can happen when you try too many different weird things all at once - however, her sister pushed through and will survive.

Same nutrient regime, same lamp, same everything, as usual. So I take it the living sister is the tougher one :D

Honestly I'm not too mad about it, now I get to stay within the legal 3 plant limit, and I get to turn off at least one lamp, generating a bit less heat.

So what went wrong? 6 things I know of, maybe more - a quick postmortem:

A) I pushed the plants too hard to "save time" - instead of my usual 3-day-stop in a small container with clay pellets and a heated pad under it, I moved them directly to DWC

B) They never rooted - well, plant D did by now, but C never showed a root through the bottom

C) I may have messed up the rockwool cube with oily residue from the fresh scalpel knife I used to cut it to size - maybe weed dislikes knife oil...

D) The room the seeds/seelings/tiny plants were in was very hot from the two Lemon Kix growing under hundreds of watts - may just have been too warm as well

E) The self-built lamps are not above suspicion, I had luck with them at first but both plants reacted strongly when moved too close too soon

F) Nutrient burn - pushed them too hard on the feed, despite trying to stay within somewhat normal parameters

So, note to self: just push slightly less hard, make sure they have normal conditions (nothing too crazy), and they'll be fine.

The log doesn't quite end here, but it's only about a single plant from now on.

The last few days of our beloved plant C, starting with day 10:

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Day 12:

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Day 14:

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Day 16:

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Day 18:

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Day 20:

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Welp, that's that for plant C, requiescat in pace...

And here's the apparently somewhat stronger (or more determined to survive anyway) plant D:

Day 10:

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Day 12:

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Day 14:

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Day 16:

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Day 18:

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Day 20:

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Both are horribly late, but at least one survived. I learned my lessons, and next time I'll keep a closer eye on them too, instead of just focusing on my main grows.

I still have a few tricks up my sleeve to hopefully make this crazy idea work, but that'll come later, let's just see if dear D will make it first. That's all for now, folks!
 
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