5x5 LED - T-Time grow time

T-Time

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Thanks mate did you wire both drivers through one meter ? I really like your water cooled frame idea one of the best cob cooling ideas I’ve seen much smaller than passive and far nearer than active. Great job
Thanks mate.
Yes, both drivers connected to one meter.
 

T-Time

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Thanks mate :) My eyes see it as an flat plane vertical grow.

Day 13 of flower

I've bumped epsom salt a bit with the last res topup and since the problems with some of the plants slowed down or went away. Too early to tell.
Flowers starting to stack up nicely.
One of the fans died so I have to take the whole thing out and replace it which is a bit of a chore :???:

Average leaf temp 27°C
Tent temp 29°C
EC 1.29
Ph 6.1

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T-Time

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Naah its only a chepo 12" fan motor with 16" fan blades. I can get that for around 20 euros in here.
I messed up installing them as I had to cut off back end of the shaft thats used for oscilation and all the bits from cutting went inside and started to kill the motor slowly. I knew it would happen eventually. Next time I'll tape up the vents in the motor. No biggie ;)
 

T-Time

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Fan got replaced today and I've added another one in the middle which will get 16" blades as soon they will be back in stock.

Plants look light green so I've bumped nutes to EC 1.41.
PH sits at 6.07 , tepms are 30-32°C and RH sits at 55% .
I've added variac on the fan as with winter comming it will be hard to keep the plants at a cosy warmth.

Day 16 of flower
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And look at those beautiful fluffy balls ! :mrgreen:

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SSGrower

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Theres defo air in the lines , i've tried one way valve thing. Its restricting the flow way too much.

Nice, but I think You'll need a bit more plants to cover that :P . What lights You'll be rocking there ?
I see You have to heat up the space too. Biggest downside to LEDs (in not overly hot places) is lack of heat. Thats efficiency for you :/ . You spend fortune for the lights, then twice as much for heating...

Did You started any journal yet ?
Beginning to take shape over here. Haven't turned on the cobs yet in the Amare but I think I figured out how to integrate the light into my kit.
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2 cobs with lenses, 2 without.
 

SSGrower

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And what about the ones in the bottom tray ?
The ones on the 1st shelf are in 1.5 gallon pots, the one furthest from view is a reveg that I thought I was going to clone but may just flower it out, in fact a may try grafting with it cause it's 2 seperate plants in 1 pot now. The other 3 are dispensary clones that are technically still in quarantine, but needed them there for the pic because by the time they are ready to move in the should be tall enough to be growing past the shelf above. Ill basically lollipop them and train them so I can transplant to 4.5 gallon and put on floor. I plan to veg for at least 4 more weeks, moving the 2nd shelf (the one sticking out) down after transplant to 1.5 gal. If I have to end up with 1.5 gallons on the 3rd shelf, I may end up lowering it a little. Its still going to be a juggling act with the shelf position, but once plants sex and I get a surpluss of various age clones that I can fill in empty spots where needed I think things will eventually get set into a single configuration. I will be flowering in everything from a seedling or rooted clone in a 4.5in pot to a 2 or 3 foot vegged plant in a 4.5 gal pot. It's gonna get interisting with mutiple strains and growth habits.
 

T-Time

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Day 24 of flower.

Some bad shit happenedfew days ago. I've noticed that the PH pen was showing wrong values by a full 1.0 since IIdont know how long. This happened because two things. First was that I wasnt storing pen in suitable storing solution (small one). Second was that this run I've kept the pen inside the tent the whole time and cause of it has transparet cap , algae started growing on the sensors :/// (big no no).

So what happened in result of that, I've falsely thought they need more food and started giving that to them, when they actually needed the right PH range. I cought that in time but they definitelly slowed down and don't have as much vigor bulking up as they did at the very start :( :wall:
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SSGrower

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Day 24 of flower.

Some bad shit happenedfew days ago. I've noticed that the PH pen was showing wrong values by a full 1.0 since IIdont know how long. This happened because two things. First was that I wasnt storing pen in suitable storing solution (small one). Second was that this run I've kept the pen inside the tent the whole time and cause of it has transparet cap , algae started growing on the sensors :/// (big no no).

So what happened in result of that, I've falsely thought they need more food and started giving that to them, when they actually needed the right PH range. I cought that in time but they definitelly slowed down and don't have as much vigor bulking up as they did at the very start :( :wall:
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At least you didn't water with hot water.
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The faucet in my garage operates opposite the one in the kitchen, noticed the heat coming off the can, but not before I got a couple plants watered.
 

SSGrower

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Ouch!
Boiling roots at the start :(
How are they today, did they survive ?
Still alive, luckilly only a few needed water at the time and I noticed after hitting the one in the pic but not before hitting one that was 12/12 from seed. The first day after what is yellow was turned down and light green and crispy. I did not notice anything like that when I did the root boil at the perscribed time, but maybe because leaves were already fadded.
 

T-Time

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Still alive, luckilly only a few needed water at the time and I noticed after hitting the one in the pic but not before hitting one that was 12/12 from seed. The first day after what is yellow was turned down and light green and crispy. I did not notice anything like that when I did the root boil at the perscribed time, but maybe because leaves were already fadded.
Good that they're still young. They will bounce back :hump:
 

T-Time

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Day 27.
Still around 20 more to go. Hopefully wont stop bulking and nothing elso goes wrong, but the brown hairs so soon always warries me...
The one at top left is a bit disappointing. Theres always one :p

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SSGrower

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What is going on with that one on the upper left? Been lookin at it the last few post, the different stem color might indicte rust, but I see nothing else of concern.
 

T-Time

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What is going on with that one on the upper left? Been lookin at it the last few post, the different stem color might indicte rust, but I see nothing else of concern.
No idea TBH. I think it just bad genetics. Slow growing, fed same as all of them which with smaller nute and water intake got it into trouble. First started showing cal-mag defficiency which I corected but the problem migh of beed deeper then that. Maybe some
disease, im not sure.

I will post some close up photos in a sec.
 
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