Thanks for the calming words @Wile e Peyote !

My single remaining dilemma is only having the one tent, which I kinda need for drying, after the growing is done - which a staggered harvest doesn't really allow for.

UNLESS ... I can dry the harvested and trimmed buds, in paper bags, in an illuminated room.
But my understanding of drying is it is to be done in a dark room, which obviously I can't have, if I'm still growing the remaining girls on a 20/4 schedule.

So my true, real world limitation, is only having one tent, and one dehumidifier.
Try my method bro in a cardboard box linned with string close it up n boom it's dark also air holes all over the side to help it breath
 
Thanks for the calming words @Wile e Peyote !

My single remaining dilemma is only having the one tent, which I kinda need for drying, after the growing is done - which a staggered harvest doesn't really allow for.

UNLESS ... I can dry the harvested and trimmed buds, in paper bags, in an illuminated room.
But my understanding of drying is it is to be done in a dark room, which obviously I can't have, if I'm still growing the remaining girls on a 20/4 schedule.

So my true, real world limitation, is only having one tent, and one dehumidifier.
you could always dry in bags and put the bags in a big cardboard box with air holes in I think that's how @Hazy dries his not sure if he just uses the box :shrug:I got a smaller tent just hook up a piece of ventilation pipe from my drying tent to the main tent and turn up the extractor fan seems to work for me :pass:
 
My single remaining dilemma is only having the one tent, which I kinda need for drying, after the growing is done - which a staggered harvest doesn't really allow for.

UNLESS ... I can dry the harvested and trimmed buds, in paper bags, in an illuminated room.
But my understanding of drying is it is to be done in a dark room, which obviously I can't have, if I'm still growing the remaining girls on a 20/4 schedule.

So my true, real world limitation, is only having one tent, and one dehumidifier.
As my Mother has said to me many a time..."you got yourself into this, so you best get yourself out of it"
I never found that particularly helpful, but your welcome.
 
What's more important for drying buds?

Humidity and temperature? ... OR ...
Darkness?

I would have thought that as long as the temps and humidity are conducive to a good drying environment, light wouldn't do any major harm, and would be the lesser evil.

My thinking is, I could place the paper bags on a hanging drying rack, and blanket the light facing side, which would limit the direct light onto the bags, but would still allow the temp and humidity control via the open side which is facing away from the direct light.

Yes - there would still be some ambient or reflective light - but it would be lessened, and the temp and humidity would be able to be controlled, as per grow tent in late flowering stage. [i.e. temps 21 - 26, RH% 35-45]

I'll give it some more thought - there's still time.
 
Just read that General Hydroponics is connected to Monsanto. :devil:

I feel so dirty and violated.
My poor girls ... I have unwittingly forced them to lay down with the Devil.
:oops1:

QUEUE: self-loathing
 
Just read that General Hydroponics is connected to Monsanto. :devil:

I feel so dirty and violated.
My poor girls ... I have unwittingly forced them to lay down with the Devil.
:oops1:

QUEUE: self-loathing
they only took over them last year so it all depends how old your nutes are :pass:
 
What's wrong with gh I'm using them now

General Hydroponics = Scotts = Roundup = Monsanto

Many marijuana growers dislike Scotts because they know Scotts is a major player in the genetic modification (GM) industry, via close partnerships and other business relationships with Monsanto and Sanford Scientific.

Scotts manufactures genetically modified grasses and ornamental plants, and is the sole licensed distributor for some Monsanto herbicides and pesticides in North America, the United Kingdom, France, Germany and Austria.

The Scotts genetic modification program is controversial– Scotts used regulatory loopholes to put potentially-risky GM products into the marketplace with little if any safety oversight.

In 2012, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced that Scotts was being fined $4 million for multiple, severe violations of federal insecticide, fungicide, and rodenticide laws.

Scotts pled guilty to illegally applying insecticides to bird food, falsifying documents, misleading consumers about pesticide use and safety, and distributing unregistered pesticides.

SOURCE: link to external article
 
DAY 49 - Evening:

Temperatures: ... Ambient Room 24 ℃ [+/- 3 ℃]
Humidity RH%: ... 40 [+/- 5%]
Lighting: ... 4 x 600w HPS
Schedule: ... 20/4

Nutrients:
Sensi Bloom A + B @ 3.0 ml/l
Nirvana @ 2.0 ml/l
Big Bud @ 2.0 ml/l
Bud Candy @ 2.0 ml/l
Compact Buds @ 0.25 g/l​

pH of Feed: ... 6.5
EC of Feed: ... 2.3
Feeding:
... ~ 2.0L

The ladies had their first 'evening' feed.
Well, evening for me - breakfast for them - around 30 minutes after their lights off siesta had finished, and the HPS gods had crept over the Campus horizon, to herald another day of fattening, and a day closer to harvest time.

Decided to stop fucking about with the nutrients and go back to basics.
Staple diet of Advanced Nutrients, and let the pH Perfect range practise its Arte of Magick.
Didn't touch the pH - left it as it fell - which was beautifully on point at 6.5.
Go figure.

The leaves in the tent have taken a swift turn onto the exit ramp to Manky, which is just a short taxi ride to Skanky and Munted.
Especially one of the Sweet Trainwreck Auto girls - Prem Baby - who has sprinted to the yellow hues, and is eating herself at a rate of knots.

I'm going to step back and leave it to those who know better - Mother Nature, and the R&D Team at Advanced Nutrients.
There's a reason they make a pH Perfect range, that stabilises at a pH of 6.5 ... it's to minimise the damage an Unconscious Incompetent [like me] can do.

Maybe handing over the reins to those more competent is too little too late, but at least the ladies can now hobble and crawl their way to the finish line, in dignity and some level of comfort, instead of having me riding their OAP asses, bringing unnecessary pain and injury in their twilight days.

Pics will be posted in the morning.
 
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