Huge fan leaves!

Diamondz

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BTW, when you're vegging, you want your humidity above 50%. It's okay if you can't quite reach that. What'll happen is your plants will perspire, and they will just need more watering.

During flower, you want you RH below 50%. I like it around 30%.
Having a humidifier inside the tent causes big problems for me because it clogs the pre filter on my carbon filter then conditions get bad inside. Its Michigan winter and tough to keep it higher but honestly its doing better since I removed the humidifier. All the NEW growth happened AFTER removing of humidifier.
 

JSB99

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Having a humidifier inside the tent causes big problems for me because it clogs the pre filter on my carbon filter then conditions get bad inside. Its Michigan winter and tough to keep it higher but honestly its doing better since I removed the humidifier. All the NEW growth happened AFTER removing of humidifier.
You only need to use your filter when things start to smell, during flower. There's no need to have it hooked up beforehand. It'll wear you fan out more quickly, cause the fan to warm up, adding heat to the room, and waste electricity having to run the fan under load.
 

Diamondz

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You only need to use your filter when things start to smell, during flower. There's no need to have it hooked up beforehand. It'll wear you fan out more quickly, cause the fan to warm up, adding heat to the room, and waste electricity having to run the fan under load.
Never really thought of it that way. Fan would still run as exhaust like normal. But then I might have to worry about bearings in the fan rusting and breaking down from humidifier.?
 

JSB99

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Never really thought of it that way. Fan would still run as exhaust like normal. But then I might have to worry about bearings in the fan rusting and breaking down from humidifier.?
Nope, don't have to worry about that at all. Your fan will not be effected at all. Just connect your filter around the third week of flower.
 
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JSB99

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BTW, it's good to take your fan apart, every couple grows, and wipe it down. They can get a little dusty, and maintaining it will make it last longer. They're pretty easy to take apart. Just a few screws and some wire nuts. Take a pic of the wiring before you take it apart.
 

JSB99

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Leave them. The rest of your fans are still getting plenty of light, and it's still kind of small to be messing with.

A few things:
I wouldn't support the leaves. Just let the plant do it's thing. You're messing with it too much, which can stress it, and slow down growth.

You shouldn't be spraying your plants. The light will burn them, because of the light being amplified by the droplets. The only time you should be spraying your plants is when you are spraying for bugs, and that should be at lights out.

I just trimmed a whole bunch of fans that were blocking light. But my fans were stacked top of each other four or five fans deep, where there was no way for light to penetrate past the canopy top, and condensation was developing between them, which can lead to mold or mildew. I've been growing for quite a while, and have a lot of experience trimming my plants. Pruning/defoliating is something to be done very methodically, and with a plan. For a new grower, don't trim. Learn how to grow your plants using normal methods, and maybe a little low stress training, like tying branches down.
 
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