Baywatcher's Basement Blowout

Baywatcher

Baywatcher

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Mid-week update. The two big LSD really don't want to wait until Sunday to go into flower, but screw them, I have a schedule to maintain. Also, new workbench for the basement, set up facing the veg tent about 5 feet away. It beats the hell out of carrying plants down the hall to the utility room workbench.



 
Thundercat

Thundercat

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Nice looking workbench, I would love something like that right outside my room, or even better in it would be awesome! As usual the plants look great too!
 
TrichomeBob

TrichomeBob

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Nice big setup mate, you do realise most your plants have deficiencies, also are you raising your lamps for the photos or are the LEDs up that high as they won't be doing much.

not trolling or anything but would hate to see all the plants go to shit, with all the mainlining and training your doing is just counter productive If the plants aren't healthy and just a waste of time.
 
TrichomeBob

TrichomeBob

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The space you've got you should be training the to grow 4-6ft tall, the rate your training them thy gonna be wider than they are tall.
 
Baywatcher

Baywatcher

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Ummm, thanks I guess. The lower leaves have slight nute burn, there are no defeciencies. The goal is wide with even spacing and even canopy. Thanks for dropping in.
 
Thundercat

Thundercat

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I laugh when I see plants 4-6 ft tall indoors unless they have serious vertical lighting to actually grow the whole plant. Otherwise the lower half of the plant never gets any light and won't develop. Thats the point of the mainlining to affectively use the light over the whole plant rather then having a 4 foot tall bush. I grew out some pure sativas a few yeas ago before mainlining was a thing and thats bassically how I had trained them to grow. They ended up being about 3 feet tall, but being mainlined like they were the light was still able to get down into the plant well.
 
Baywatcher

Baywatcher

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Vertical growth, beyond that required to get a rootball filling the container, is wasted. You want a canopy equal to the size of the rootball pretty much, and that is it. IMO of course, but with over 15 years of growing behind it. Mainlining is just persnickety scrog after all, and height is the enemy of scrog...
 
Baywatcher

Baywatcher

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Here's a good pic to illustrate why, especially in my situation, height is bad. This Hash Passion has grown more than a foot since I flipped. It was right at 14" when flipped, it is now almost 30". There is about 2.5' of headroom before it is inside the hood. There are only 7' ceilings in the basement. By the time I have a light and hood hanging, I have less than 5' of headspace from the bottom of the reflector. I submit that the first 18" directly below a 1K HPS is not what I consider "prime growing zone" unless you like burnt. If these were even 8" taller (and they may continue to grow, I've never done this strain before), I would start being concerned about heat/sunburn. Sorry about the overexposure, it's late :)

 
Baywatcher

Baywatcher

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Yeah, it is leggy. The LSD is staying much more compact.

Because insomnia, last night I took 15g of accumulated Headband & Fire OG "debris" from the bottom of the mason jar. I was going to make butter with it, but decided to try some QWISO instead. Hopefully it will be dry by this evening.

And the 12K minisplit gets installed in the morning, yay!
 
Baywatcher

Baywatcher

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The basement is already pretty much as warm as I'm interested in with just the veg going... I want to have to wear a sweater and ear muffs down there even in August :)
 
Baywatcher

Baywatcher

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It rained too hard for the minisplit install today :(

I moved two more LSD into the flower chamber. I'll deal with the veg chamber tomorrow.



 
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