250w 3 plant tent grow

Hey guys so I decided ( a little late) that I would document this next personal grow so here goes nothing.

I have a 400 w lumatek dimmed to 250w with agrosun bulb for veg and sun pulse 3k bulb for flower. I am growing in roots organics soil. I currently have red diesel planted in a 3 gallon dirt bag. The white widow and super lemon haze are currently in 7quart planters. I am still in veg but will be moving to 12/12 at some point in the next week or so.

Everything is only in a 2'x2' tent so space is limited. I also have an 80cfm bathroom fan blowing into a 70 cfm active air carbon filter. I chose the bathroom fan because it is much quieter than the inlines I saw.

I have chosen to feed the red diesel using humboldt master a & b, botanicare calmag+, house and garden roots excelurator, snowstorm ultra, gravity, and bush master all by humboldts own. I will also be using hygrozyme.

The ww and slh on the other hand will be fed with the GO line, and roots organics hpk for the last weeks of flowering. I will also be feeding hygrozyme With these 2 plants along with great white.

Photos to come. Please let me know if you have questions or advice.

would really like to see pics just got a 6.5 by 6.5 grow tent and need feedback

Here are the photos, I have decided to LST the SLH. Kind of a Last minute decision. The RD and the WW are topped on the other hand. Gonna kick into 12/12 slowly. I lower the light cycle from 18 hours to 12 hours 2 hours at a time. So for 3 days I diminish the light received. I also do not change bulbs until after the first week to help maintain a bushier smaller plant.

So after a week, we are now completely at 12/12. The bulb has also been changed to a 400W 3K Sun Pulse. These bulbs are made to work with E-Ballasts and burn much cooler than typical MH/HPS bulbs. The temp in my tent has gone down considerably. I have infact up-ed the wattage to 250W Super Lumens. I know this will change the color temp of the bulb but hopefully it shouldn't affect the flowering too much.
All 3 plants are now in 3 Gallon Dirt bags and growing healthy. I ran 4 gallons of water through the Roots Organics Potting soil to drop PPM from 2.2K to about 500. This soil is really hot and I couldn't use Roots excelurator or Bio root for my plants with those PPM readings. pH varied between 5.0-6.0. The WW seemed to have the best pH reading.
Red Diesel is stretching now while the White Widow is moderate. Surprisingly the Super Lemon Haze is the smallest and bushiest of all 3.

So far I have NO signs of nute burn and everything seems to be doing well. This week I plan on hitting all 3 plants with Bushmaster Foliar feed. This should kick flowering in a bit faster, now that the ladies are used to their new conditions.

My biggest problem at the moment is humidity. Because of heating units, the air is extremely dry so I might have to purchase a humidifier to remedy the situation.

how can you tell your ppm is that high in soil?

sincitygrowJB said:

how can you tell your ppm is that high in soil?

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pH and ppm is measured in soil by testing first the water/ nute solution going into your soil and then checking the run-off. This will give you a ballpark or where you are at.

Sorry for the lack of photos,but I am having trouble finding a place to load photos up from.

I am currently at day 26 and the RD, which was topped once has 8 main tops coming up. The side branching is phenomenal, the nodes are very close together so I am expecting to large colas at harvest time. The WW, is giving off a lemon metallic smell which I cannot wait to sample. It seems to be funkier than the Red Diesel at this point though I know diesel really begins to smell around week 5-6. The SLH is way back trying to catch up. This is now the third time I have flowered thisa and I think I am ready to give up on this strain, the flowering sites are extremely small and sparse. The plant seems very healthy with no signs of burn or stress but it just isn't packing the flowers on. I have smoked great SLH but it just seems like the genetics are a crap shoot, and the flowering time advertised as 9-10 should really be changed to 12-14 weeks.
Gotta starty shopping around for next round's genetics.