Starting Mephisto Form Stomper indoors, will move outdoors 1 May

Retired engineer · May 22, 2022

An awesome day, all the way around. Buttoned up for another hour and a half of light, 6 hrs of dark then the lights come back on at 0300. Moving them around is getting to be an autopilot thang…I have the process to set them up and hang all the lights and mylar covered panels down to around 20 minutes. Few trips up and down the stairs to get my steps in for the day…

gave them a top dressing of FF Strawberry Fields and some Dynomyco for good measure, and removed all the LST clips and other restraints. They will probably maintain their shapes since the stalks/branches are pretty stiff.

FirstCavApache64 · May 22, 2022

Check out the NFTG thread on here there's a bunch of guys running it. I bet they can be a huge help on mixing and EC levels for autos.

Retired engineer · May 22, 2022

FirstCavApache64 said:
Check out the NFTG thread on here there's a bunch of guys running it. I bet they can be a huge help on mixing and EC levels for autos.

I’m kinda flying by the seat of my pants relative to EC…I do adjust ph to around 6.5. I’ll check them out. So far I’m pretty impressed with the stuff, but damn it is a lot of stuff to put in a gallon for one feeding…I just ordered the nutrients my local growmie and I were lacking, so we now have the full Roman regimen between us.

plants at the GFs house are gonna stay on the Fox Farms schedule, plus other stuff…it rained like crazy here yesterday, and the stood up to,it like champs, and grew another few inches in a day. ill post some pics tomorrow on that thread.

I was thinking about asking a couple friends if they wanna start growing and helping them get set up. I feel like Johnny Cannabis Seed, spreading joy and happiness wherever I go…modern day sharecropper…

FirstCavApache64 · May 22, 2022

Check out the NFTG thread on here there's a bunch of guys running it. I bet they can be a huge help on mixing and EC levels for autos.

Retired engineer · May 22, 2022

FirstCavApache64 said:
Check out the NFTG thread on here there's a bunch of guys running it. I bet they can be a huge help on mixing and EC levels for autos.

you can say that again brother!

Retired engineer · May 22, 2022

FirstCavApache64 said:
Check out the NFTG thread on here there's a bunch of guys running it. I bet they can be a huge help on mixing and EC levels for autos.

damn, you did say it again!

FirstCavApache64 · May 22, 2022

My satellite signal is going nuts. There's a built in delay lately. It's like living in the 50s up here sometimes. I couldn't get a cell signal for two hours today. Gotta love these hills :mrgreen:

FirstCavApache64 · May 22, 2022

Meanwhile there's 5G and gigabyte internet pretty much everywhere else. I'm guessing rednecks ain't the governments biggest priority :bigjoint:

Retired engineer · May 22, 2022

Small price to pay for privacy, serenity and being one with nature…

Retired engineer · May 24, 2022

Rainy day today so inside they stay, hurray.

spun them around 90 degrees to the right for even exposure to the side lighting. They will probably swap positions between the upstairs and downstairs tomorrow, and I’m gonna put the 10,000k bulbs in the pair of two foot T5 fixtures firing in from the sides and start them at 15 min/hr for just the middle hour of the light period.

I spy some hairs turning brown, so they are in the home stretch, and will stay on the NFTG Roman plan till the end. Today was a flush day with Herculean Harvest and Aphrodite’s Extraction. They went in the ground 4 Apr and are on day 50 total, around 30 in flowering.

I used a runner’s recovery Mylar blanket on the third floor for some reflection. It has lots of creases in it, but is really thin so the fans rustle it around and avoid hotspots…

first floor:

Retired engineer · May 24, 2022

Third floor

Retired engineer · May 25, 2022

out of the enclosures on a rainy day for trimming of yellowing/damaged leaves. They’ll also switch positions (upstairs vs downstairs) today too. I also borrowed some LED panels to put up on the third floor. More on that later. This is plant 1 from the third floor.

Retired engineer · May 25, 2022

Plant 2 from third floor

Retired engineer · May 25, 2022

Plant 3 from first floor

Retired engineer · May 25, 2022

Plant 4 from first floor

Retired engineer · May 25, 2022

This is the third floor enclosure with a pair of LED panels (running at 50% now) in pace of the Phlizon and blurple lights I had up there. Should help with heat, and I have a couple of fans hanging from the top of the Mylar panel (pointing upwards) that hangs on the front of the enclosure to exhaust hot air upwards and draw cool air in from the floor. Once it gets back to being hot around here (couple more days of cool wet weather ahead) I’ll have to implement another solution to get cooled air from the register which is in the ceiling directly into the enclosure…

last pic is all the trimming I did today - not too much in the way of yellowing leaves, which is normal at this point so things are looking pretty balanced.

Just a couple hours to move them out, trim them up and reposition them; a cool way to spend my morning…

Retired engineer · May 27, 2022

Light defoliation and repositioning for the first floor plants and put the 10,000k T5 bulbs in the pair of two foot T5 panels pointed inwards. They will be on 15 min/hr for the middle of the lighting period. I’ll keep that way until each plant has made a full 360 degree rotation, then I’ll move the upstairs plants downstairs and Vice versa. Then another 4 cycles, switch floors, then ramp up the cycle to three 15 minute periods at the midpoint of the overall lighting cycle.

something else to track, yippee…

Retired engineer · May 27, 2022

Third floor, looking pretty bulky, especially the main colas that are completely exposed for about 2 feet of height. I have the loaner Spider Farmer LED panels pointed directly at the main colas, and will rotate these 90 degrees to the right every day for even exposure.

I had a mint plant left over from last year that survived the winter outdoors, so it is in the enclosure on the floor of the tub to ward off pests, and give it a running start at growing outdoors this summer. Mojitos in Jul, what a deal.

I also started some marigolds that are on the floor of the tub on the first floor and just broke soil. Cilantro is supposed to be a good means to ward off pests so off to the plant store I go today…

Retired engineer · May 30, 2022

Out in the sunlight all day today, I have some other citronella to add to the aroma and ward off bugs…they’ll get a misting of Green Clean before they come back in tonight…and then in the morning, before sun up a misting of ph 6.4 water. I’ll nuke the 2 grow rooms with foggers tomorrow while they are outside as well, and swab them out with Clorox.

they’ll stay in this position, in full sun passing directly overhead, until around 1900 tonite, then I’ll shift them one last time to catch the sunset.
When ya win the lottery, make sure your dream hose has a patio that runs due East to West as mine does…

happy growin’ y’all

Retired engineer · May 31, 2022

Hotter than 40 kinds of hell here today, yard work in short bursts…lots of IPAs for hydration too…

they got .8l of ph 6.4 water and .8l of the NFTG Roman schedule, with feather tea added in. I clipped the yellowing and crispy leaves, which didn’t amount to much. My arms were a sticky mess after reaching deep in the plant to clear out stuff that wasn’t getting any light or growing in a cockeyed fashion.

good top dressing of earthworm castings and diatomaceous earth, and I trimmed all the citronella I have on the patio and stuck the trimmings in the pots…

Starting Mephisto Form Stomper indoors, will move outdoors 1 May

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