Incredible4Mr2E
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I believe I’ll have 6-10 inches on each side after switching to the 4x4. I’d like to have it not so crowded and mainly to have space to mount a bigger fan.
Nute & Reverse Osmosis questions For Hydro
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OldMedUser
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Changing the time an hour won't hurt anything. Never hurts to totally change the hours as long as it's just the once during flowering. During veg you can basically do what you want.
I used to pull my room air from outside but with the temp variation from -40C to +40C over the course of a year that wasn't the best sol'n so I switched to getting it from the larger area of the basement where the temp can get pretty cool in the winter to about 35F when it's really cold but never got over 68F even at the end of the 2nd heat dome last summer. My 'basement' is really a 10x30' concrete box buried under the house where the water from the dugout comes in to the house for our tap water. The grow room has two outer walls that stay cool all the time as does the concrete floor so A/C has never been needed even when running 1200W of HID lights in there.
Incredible4Mr2E
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Last week I noticed some unusual growth on pretty much every bud site beside a couple. They seemed like they were done stretching and like they stop putting weight on and we’re finishing up potency. Then last week the top started stretching again and I don’t know what’s going on. I turned the light down a little bc they were still bleaching but I didn’t lift the light. Here are some pictures. 
OldMedUser
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How long flowering now? They look alright to me.
Incredible4Mr2E
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I flipped the 10th of October. They seem to be alright, I just didn’t know if that’s normal. They’re still getting bigger, even this morning they look bigger. Do plants put weight on during the night?How long flowering now? They look alright to me.
Treesomewanted77
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They grow the most in the dark from what I have read and observed
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rkymtnman
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i flipped mine on the 17th and they should be done very soon. i usually go for 10 weeks or so depending on the trichs
i would say you still have a few weeks left.
Incredible4Mr2E
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I remember reading about it before and every morning they look bigger thn they did the night before.
I feel so bad for this plant trying to tune everything. It will stop growing for like a week, once for two weeks. After it will start growing again like a wildfire. I think my next grow will be a little easier and better but…. Maybe not lol. I think a lot has to do with me and the light. Not watching height, having the wattage too high. Not going to lie, I kind of miss the HPS. What sucks is two of the bud sites in the middle grew higher. They would get like 1000-1100 PPFD and everything else would get like 850 or less. So I left it at that reading and 18” above highest bud site.
Incredible4Mr2E
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That is a good dealHere is a killer deal on jacks tap water blend.
J.R. Peters Jack's Nutrients 15-5-20 TAP FeED 25 lbs - For Tap Water - 15-5-20 TAP
Prefer Tap Water? Allow your plants to drink up this formula designed to provide all the macro, secondary and micro nutrients in a one-part system. Specifically formulated for tap, city or well water types with slightly higher alkalinity & pH. This combination of nutrients will lower pH over...
Incredible4Mr2E
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I don’t have a microscope to check to see when the trichs turn brown. I always just waited for the hairs to turn 60-70% orange.
rkymtnman
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those have awhile to go i think.
a good cheap investment is a USB scope. they are like 15 , 20 bucks on Ebay.
OldMedUser
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They do in the day too but store a lot of sugars, aminos etc while photosynthesizing under the light and use that to build new tissue during the night so often look fatter in the morning. They will still grow fine under 24 hour light but do as well with a dark period so I'm sticking to the usual schedules.
I use a little 10x loupe to check my trichs. Even the little 8x magnifying glass that pops out of my old 30x Radio Shack scope is enough to tell their condition. I have a 60 - 1000x USB scope with it's own wifi box so I can plug my phone into it to take pics in the grow room but the higher the magnification the harder it is to hold steady enough to see anything. Even your pulse throws it off at over 100x so I fixed the base up to fit my tripod and can zoom in close. Was $45 on Amazon . ca.
Incredible4Mr2E
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@OldMedUser I found something in the house that I can see them with. Kind of a pain getting the closeness and focus but I can see them lol
OldMedUser
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So what is it?
These are my analog magnifying tools/ I mainly use that big one with the 2nd smaller lens inside the big one. I'd like it at the top of the circle but no way to loosen the glass in the frame to rotate it. The big lens is about 4 or 5X and the little one is maybe 7x. Good enough to find thrips and mites and cover a lot of ground fast when checking out a bunch of plants. I always look for leaf damage then start hunting around that.
The little 10X loupe is good enough to see trichs but not real close. Easy enough to tell if clear or cloudy and spot ambers if there. You can get all sorts on AMZ for cheap and drug stores carry the big ones in their stationary supply areas. $15 here for one like mine.
I bought that 30x Radio Shack one 20 years ago at the store in town for $12.95 and it works great for a close enough look at trichs still on the plant and the pop-up 8x magnifying glass is handy when I can't find the damn loupe.
The USB scope is hard to focus but for something like determining if you have a mould or fungus growing on your plants or your drying buds it's just the ticket. Or for examining larvae etc to get an identification.
Incredible4Mr2E
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So what is it?
These are my analog magnifying tools/ I mainly use that big one with the 2nd smaller lens inside the big one. I'd like it at the top of the circle but no way to loosen the glass in the frame to rotate it. The big lens is about 4 or 5X and the little one is maybe 7x. Good enough to find thrips and mites and cover a lot of ground fast when checking out a bunch of plants. I always look for leaf damage then start hunting around that.
The little 10X loupe is good enough to see trichs but not real close. Easy enough to tell if clear or cloudy and spot ambers if there. You can get all sorts on AMZ for cheap and drug stores carry the big ones in their stationary supply areas. $15 here for one like mine.
I bought that 30x Radio Shack one 20 years ago at the store in town for $12.95 and it works great for a close enough look at trichs still on the plant and the pop-up 8x magnifying glass is handy when I can't find the damn loupe.
The USB scope is hard to focus but for something like determining if you have a mould or fungus growing on your plants or your drying buds it's just the ticket. Or for examining larvae etc to get an identification.
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So, I’m going on day, like 90 on the tenth. I caught corona and all smell and taste. I’ve had a couple buddies come over and they just say it smells like preemie bud. I think I was filling the system with too much water, maybe burned with the light a little and I keep adding freezing water to adjust PH everyday. I’ve been wayyyyy too anal about everything and I finally stepped back and let it do it’s thing. Here’s some pictures of the 90 day old girls.Here is a killer deal on jacks tap water blend.
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Prefer Tap Water? Allow your plants to drink up this formula designed to provide all the macro, secondary and micro nutrients in a one-part system. Specifically formulated for tap, city or well water types with slightly higher alkalinity & pH. This combination of nutrients will lower pH over...
Incredible4Mr2E
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Thank brother! I just can’t believe it’s taking so long. I know I’ve been fucking up, but I can’t figure out exactly what though. When one stresses, they both do. Is it possible I’ve been putting too much water in them and the huge pump just isn’t enough? I checked the roots out, they look great, white with a hint a brown from the nutes. I’ve had friends come over and smell the buckets to see if it smelled ick at all. I don’t know if the constant PH changes everyday with me dumping 40 degree water in it and dropping the water temps at least 7 degrees within 30 seconds would stress them out. I think it’s just a bunch of everything. The next run I’m going to try and back the hell off, just change ph when it completely drops or rises, (mine always drops) and not fill the system so high. I’m also backing off on the nutes, I kept burning the shit out of them, even the half strength seemed to burn them. I also had my light too close at one point and raising the light with it still cranked didn’t help either. This grow has thought me a lot on what I can and can’t do. I still have so much to learn though.
I can’t wait to harvest! I’m waiting until all the hairs are at like 50% orange and after watch the tris for that amber color with a magnifying glass my buddy gave me to use.
Samwell Seed Well
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Very full, nice!