Slinger's Back at it! 600 watt LED autoflowers and such

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Sorry for such a undetailed post yesterday, was super busy trimming before work. So all in all the buds look pretty good from the Lemon Auto, I will get some HD pics of the nugs once they have been drying for a few more days. My other autoflower is finally building buds since I switched over the lighting schedule to 12/12 starting yesterday, it just looks beefier, no more stretching! Rearranged the grow room today, added the other 150 HPS as well. Purchased a kil-a-watt today and checked all the lights.

Total watts with:
1 x 6in Clipon Fan
1x 9in Fan
1 x 440 CPM Can Fan
2x 300 watt Led Panel (446 watts)
4 x 50 watt Led Flood Light (183 watts)
2 x 150 HPS Grow Light (300 watts)
= 1215 watts (929 watts of lights)

I know watts are not everything, I just wanted to add everything up for electrical costs and such.
On another note, I cut a bunch of clones today and they are now in the closet with The Church clones I cut 3 weeks ago. 2 x GSC, 2 x Chem 4, 2 x Dream Queen, 2 x Purple Alien OG, 1 x Con-Cheese. I have been having a pretty much 100% success rate with the clones and now that I added a heating pad under the clone dome I expect it will be the same but faster rooting. I know I was talking about taking a break for a month after this but I should be able to veg all of these girls in my little tent and transport them to my new place in the fall to start flowering or atleast cut new clones off of them if they get to leggy from all being under 1 x 105watt CFL 6500K.

Here is a look at the current light setup and the girls. Any suggestions on the arrangement of the lights will be noted and possibly tested, I think I have the best arrangement possible for what I have.


 
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Stems are pretty hard on the lemon buds I've had drying for 4 days now, not quite snapping yet, needs another 24-48 hrs. The fresh green smell is going away and the lemony smell is starting to come back through. The buds are hanging on a string inside a cardboard box with a 220 CPM fan pulling air out and into my tent so it goes through the carbon filter. Did some major lst work on the GSC and Chem 4, gotta get them situated before the branches get too stiff. Everything is stretching nicely and we are off to a great flowering period! The wait is killing me haha.
 
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Stems are pretty hard on the lemon buds I've had drying for 4 days now, not quite snapping yet, needs another 24-48 hrs. The fresh green smell is going away and the lemony smell is starting to come back through. The buds are hanging on a string inside a cardboard box with a 220 CPM fan pulling air out and into my tent so it goes through the carbon filter. Did some major lst work on the GSC and Chem 4, gotta get them situated before the branches get too stiff. Everything is stretching nicely and we are off to a great flowering period! The wait is killing me haha.
 
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So I weighed up the buds from the 60 day lemon, everything is pretty dry and going into jars, I'll get some Bud pics up sometime soon, they are a little fluffy but harvesting 85 grams in 61 days is pretty awesome. Nothing else new to report. Can't wait to enjoy these frosty lemon buds!
 
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fuck the grow tent collapsed! managed to salvage all the girls. They got a little smashed but are perked back up after I replaced all the corners of the tent. took out the 2 x 150w hps and removed the carbon filter that was hanging in the tent switched my fan around so that it is now pushing air through the carbon filter outside of the grow tent. Im glad this happened now and not during the middle of flowering, and luckily my girl was home to unplug everything because there could have been a fire with the HPS laying ontop of the plants. The Con-Cheese recieved the most damage which is sad but it is the smallest of all the girls so its not gonna hurt me that much. Will be looking into a Gorilla Tent next grow, they say you can hang over 300lbs inside those, steel reinforced frame etc. Still growing strong, just need to be a bit more careful. This grow is back to LED ONLY. 2 x 300 watt panels and 4 x 50 watt spotlights. On a side note I just wish I had a whole room to grow in, much safer....
 
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As promised! And after yesterday's disaster everything is back standing tall and leaves stretching towards the light!
 
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Sorry for the lack of updates guys, due to the hot daytime temperatures lately my lighting schedule's does not work very well with my work schedule, leaving me with barely enough time to water the girls. Everything is looking good, the stretch is almost over for the indicas and we are seeing some fuzzy tops starting to form. Not having too much of a stretch problem with the sativas due to my diligent LST work they are bushy, the node spacing is a lot more but they resemble the indica in the bushiness factor. Hope everyone is doing well and if you live in the bay area the bart strike is not fuckin'with your commute too badly. Grow on!
 
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Ok so here is the room as of right now, you can see everything is well on its way into flowering, I removed the last auto that is finishing off in 2 of the pictures so you can get a better view of the rest of the tent. As you can see the room is packed to the walls, will have a little more room in about 20 days when the Auto is done, just in time to space things out to prevent any kind of mold and keep the good airflow going. Lots of tasty nugs in my future! Added a few shots I took way earlier of the 60 Day Lemon auto buds before their final manicure. Thanks for checking in guys, ill keep the journal going til the end as usual!







 
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Whats up guys, quick little photo update, sorry about all the crazy colors in the pictures, have not set up a custom white balance for the camera so what you see is what you get at the moment. As you can see we have the tent fully into flowering now, tons of cotton balls everywhere haha. One of my LED spotlights is basically out so thanks to Chronikool and some others ive gotten all the info I need to switch it out to a 50w Cree Chip, might as well order 4 and replace them all. Enjoy and sorry there is not as much watering/nute info, Ive grown tired of explaining each thing every day, at this point just watch and enjoy the show.



 
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Only puff noticed my yoyo sticks? Haha gotta go with cheap and easy, also I can just slide my lights where ever I need them on each side of the tent :-)
 
Chronikool

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There is no better sight then a even canopy in full flower... :)

but im still skeptical if LED's actually work... :-P
 
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Chronikool said:
There is no better sight then a even canopy in full flower... :)

but im still skeptical if LED's actually work... :-P
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Thank you sir, it's actually a miracle how even the canopy is especially since there are a mix of sativas, indica and hybrids. I'm a lst maniac and I think that paid off this round.

I too am a skeptic.....a skeptic that hid will maintain it's throne as "the best" much longer.
 
The Dawg

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Brother Slinger.How Did The 60 Day Wonder Do.I Have Some Beans And Was Wondering if Their Worth The time and Effort??
 
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The Dawg said:
Brother Slinger.How Did The 60 Day Wonder Do.I Have Some Beans And Was Wondering if Their Worth The time and Effort??
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Hey Dawg, the 60 Day Wonder is the plant in the middle in the front of the 1st and 4th photo of my last update post. It did not flower under 20/4 as the 60 Day Lemon did but it is well on it's way now and it is huge, most likely will yield around 150+ grams from it but it's been going for around 100 days now since it popped out of the ground. I still have 1 seed left from the 2 I ordered and hopefully it will flower under 20/4. I didn't have time to see what would happen under 18/6 since my photo plants need to be finished by the middle of September. Also I am growing the auto's in 5 gallon pots so that also could have delayed the flowering. Was my first run with auto's and I enjoyed growing them so far, I just needed the ruderalis gene to be consistent and it was not in this case. Hope that helps you out friend, the Wonder should be finished in 20 more days so I'll give ya a report on the smoke asap.
 
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A little weekend fun making some wax. Girls are doing great, I am hoping this massive autoflower finishes by the end of the month. Gonna have some fat nugs from that girl. Will get some photos up of the progress but for now here are some pics from the weekend!
 
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3 out of 4 of my 50w LED spotlights are out..... Ugh! Now the question is do I order next day and get some 105w 2700k CFL's or wait out the time for replacement Cree chips to get here from China? Maximum light is necessary through the entire flowering stage right, so I don't wanna go 2 weeks without the extra light.... what to do? I raises my panels up to 20 in above canopy so everything can get light but I don't like the lack of intensity I get keeping them 8-12 inches above... some of my strains will be finished in about 4 weeks. What you guys think?
 
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