Bear in mind a portable one will duct your smelly air out into the open, not good if you are trying to keep things low key.
The back of my portable a/c used to get that hot in summer it negated the air being cooled. I'd go for a mini-split every time.
Buy a cheap 30x jewellers loupe from Amazon or Fleababy and check the trichs.
I find it best to put the loupe up tight against my phone camera and take a pic then you can zoom in much further for inspection.
Get a loupe with a led light.
Do you adjust your PPM/EC at all with the light reduction or just keep everything the same as it would be on 12/12?
I should imagine the plants will need less nutes if there's less light.
I read some comments from a grower on YT who said he has stellar results from starting off with the usual 12/12 for the first 4 weeks of flowering then he changes it to 11/13 for a couple of weeks then takes it down to 10/14 until harvest.
Said he gets amazing terps and yields doing it this...
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Growing indoor under Mars led
Water once a day or once every two days
Plants in Hempy buckets in coco/perlite 4:1
FastBuds auto plants on week 7
Feed full spec nutes at EC 1.6 with CalMag
Most plants very healthy, a few are lightening up.
So these spots are appearing on a few leaves over...
Thanks for the reply. No can't take plants outside, they are fixed now in their final positions and under a screen (scrog). Plus they are in RDWC pots.
The plants in the background are in a different room as that photo was taken after I picked the leaf off and took it out the room it was in...
Just noticed this and not sure what it is, saw it just before lights out and couldn't see anything similar close by.
My eyes are pretty bad so I can't focus on stuff like this but from the pics it's hard to tell.
Wasn't moving and it squashed very easily. Anyone know?
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That's rubbish. I have a bunch of the same strain autos that all germinated together and some started flowering 2 weeks back and others are only just starting.
Adding CO2 when temps hit the high 80's mid 90's helps no end.
When I'm vegging I aim for low 90's with CO2 running and RH in the 80's. The growth is insane.
Run my lights for photos at night, 1am to 1pm
Rather have temps in the 80's whilst its dark than temps over 100F when lights are on. That's caused foxtailing buds in the past and plays hell with the nutes.
Topping will mostly prolong the flowering cycle.
If you start your autos in their final pots and don't mess with them much you will usually get the advertised seed to harvest time but if you top and train them this time can be prolonged by up to 5 weeks. So a 10 week auto cycle turns into a 15...
Sounds nice a nice setup. And yes, I don't really need the extra heat in the tent from a dehumidifier unless positioned directly under the extraction fan but then would it be dehumidifying the room correctly positioned there?
Interesting. How do you deal with lights leaks if both tents are...