Plants in flower- training tips needed - Mars Hydro TS2000

SpawnOfVader

SpawnOfVader

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Flipped my girls to flower a little over a week ago and I'm not sure how best to continue training them.

I'm basically out of horizontal space at this point. Vertically there is an 18" gap between the plants and light (the manufacturer recommendation for flowering- I don't have a PAR meter) and my lights can only go about 10" higher before running into the carbon filter.

My concern is: trying to train too much more horizontally at the screen will overcrowd the buds and possibly lead to mold/mildew issues.
Too much more vertical and I'll either run into light burn on the tops of the buds or have to turn the power on my LEDs down.

How would you guys handle this? I feel like I let the plants go too long before flipping but it was only 4 weeks in veg... my clones were a little larger this time though.
 

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SpawnOfVader

SpawnOfVader

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I always forget to add this:
4 plants
2x Wedding cake
1x Forbidden Zkittles
1x Conjugal Visit

3'x3'x6' tent

3.6 Gallon air pots, Fox Farm ocean soil with added organic amendments:
Earthworm Castings, Bat Guano, Blood Meal, Bone Meal, Fish Bone Meal, Alfalfa Meal, Kelp Meal, Dolomite Lime, Azomite

Roots Organic Terp Tea (flowering)

Mars Hydro TS2000 lights (~270W actual power draw)
Net set to 16" above pots

6" fans/duct drawing from AC unit and venting outside

About to add a dehumidifier on an inkbird sensor (it's about 60% RH during the "day" in tent and 70%+ at "night")
 
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oill

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SpawnOfVader said:
I always forget to add this:
4 plants
2x Wedding cake
1x Forbidden Zkittles
1x Conjugal Visit

3'x3'x6' tent

3.6 Gallon air pots, Fox Farm ocean soil with added organic amendments:
Earthworm Castings, Bat Guano, Blood Meal, Bone Meal, Fish Bone Meal, Alfalfa Meal, Kelp Meal, Dolomite Lime, Azomite

Roots Organic Terp Tea (flowering)

Mars Hydro TS2000 lights (~270W actual power draw)
Net set to 16" above pots

6" fans/duct drawing from AC unit and venting outside

About to add a dehumidifier on an inkbird sensor (it's about 60% RH during the "day" in tent and 70%+ at "night")
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Nice... keep it cool in there for the 1st 2 weeks to reduce the stretch.

Defoliate on dat 18 to get better penetration.

You can move the fan and the filter outside of the tent if you want more space. Its notnideal but can work.... tent.. duct... fan... filter... put the pre filter on the inside of the carbon filter. You can gain your extra 8 inches that way.

Hopefully you won't need it.
 
SpawnOfVader

SpawnOfVader

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oill said:
Nice... keep it cool in there for the 1st 2 weeks to reduce the stretch.

Defoliate on dat 18 to get better penetration.

You can move the fan and the filter outside of the tent if you want more space. Its notnideal but can work.... tent.. duct... fan... filter... put the pre filter on the inside of the carbon filter. You can gain your extra 8 inches that way.

Hopefully you won't need it.
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Awesome tip, didn't think about the ventilation outside the tent to free up extra space (at least temporarily). Would you keep trying to train or just let them grow upward at this point since they're already fairly crowded?
 
Airwalker16

Airwalker16

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SpawnOfVader said:
Flipped my girls to flower a little over a week ago and I'm not sure how best to continue training them.

I'm basically out of horizontal space at this point. Vertically there is an 18" gap between the plants and light (the manufacturer recommendation for flowering- I don't have a PAR meter) and my lights can only go about 10" higher before running into the carbon filter.

My concern is: trying to train too much more horizontally at the screen will overcrowd the buds and possibly lead to mold/mildew issues.
Too much more vertical and I'll either run into light burn on the tops of the buds or have to turn the power on my LEDs down.

How would you guys handle this? I feel like I let the plants go too long before flipping but it was only 4 weeks in veg... my clones were a little larger this time though.
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If you haven't flipped yet, you can always just straight cut tips off and give them a week to recover.
 
SpawnOfVader

SpawnOfVader

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Airwalker16 said:
If you haven't flipped yet, you can always just straight cut tips off and give them a week to recover.
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Yea they're close to two weeks into flowering. I just realized this whole thing doesn't matter though- I thought it was 24" for veg and 18" for flower like my old viparspectras. It's actually 12" for flowering so I've got over a foot of vertical grow space left. i'm just gonna stop training them horizontally and let the girls go free.
 
SpawnOfVader

SpawnOfVader

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TropiKanna said:
Sounds like a nice little setup! Was just looking at a 3x3x6 tent for a single plant scrog... i say just let her go.
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Thanks, I really wanted to do a DIY build (4x QB132 boards and possibly some F strips on the outside edges mounted to angle aluminum) but thanks to the current pandemic I couldn't source the parts. This seemed like a nice upgrade over my old blurples for pretty cheap while I wait for the parts to be available.
 
TropiKanna

TropiKanna

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SpawnOfVader said:
Thanks, I really wanted to do a DIY build (4x QB132 boards and possibly some F strips on the outside edges mounted to angle aluminum) but thanks to the current pandemic I couldn't source the parts. This seemed like a nice upgrade over my old blurples for pretty cheap while I wait for the parts to be available.
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I haven't quite gotten into the interest of building lights.. too involved for me lol. My ADD simply will not allow me hahaha... However I was thinking of adding 2 small 100watt LED panels on opposing sides of my tent to penetrating the bottom of the plant better but since I'll be scrogging and all my good growth will be at the top. So im still undecided... maybe ill add the e tra lighting to the sides of my autoflower tent instead if i decide to buy them
 
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oill

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SpawnOfVader said:
Yea they're close to two weeks into flowering. I just realized this whole thing doesn't matter though- I thought it was 24" for veg and 18" for flower like my old viparspectras. It's actually 12" for flowering so I've got over a foot of vertical grow space left. i'm just gonna stop training them horizontally and let the girls go free.
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Er.... the taller the plants the more the stretch.mm your gonna end up with monsters
 
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