Day 110
Flowering - Day 31
Ahh...I love this part of the grow. We get to guess as to how the cola's will form...how the plant(s) will turn out, in general. Going into tonight's update, I was a little bummed and felt like the progress had slowed. I think because I am in my grow room like 20 times a day, the changes and progress just tend to pass me by a little bit...which is why it's important to keep my journal's updated regularly...mostly for you - the ones who like to watch this stuff - but also for me so I can look back. I don't want to update too often but I also don't want to wait too long and miss growth spurts....or procedural changes, especially. Let's start with that...some procedural changes I made.
On day 46, I built a simple sprinkler that worked really well. It served it's purpose but it's time to retire it. It was used to both increase O2 in the water as well as provide quicker water recirculation. I disassembled this for 2 reasons:
1) I'm trying to keep the water level as low as possible and, by doing so, the sprinklers were dropping water directly on the roots instead of the water surface thus defeating the purpose.
2) I felt like the root mass had become so massive that I feared there was not enough water exchange between the plant rez and the epicenter.
Here is a picture of the sprinklers as of Day 46 until tonight:
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I removed the sprinkler design and replumbed the 1/2" tubing coming from the epicenter and am now just sending this water underneath the root mass. The roots are so massive, you can't even tell there is movement underneath. It's pretty crazy.
Next big change:
This isn't a change I've done yet but will be doing before the next update. I bought ( 18 ) Quantum Boards just for this grow and I'm gunna use em come hell or high water
I already did my 1st attempt where I had a 600W HPS on top and ( 16 ) QB's on the sides, and that was WAY too much. BUT: I remember now why I bought dimmable drivers. At least ( 16 ) QB boards will be online by next update - just have to figure out exactly how I want to implement it.
Some final thoughts before pictures:
The flowers under the HPS Only are the largest and most developed. They also have the least amount of frost.
The flowers under LED only have really good frost but are lacking in the density department.
The flowers that are getting equal amounts of LED and HPS have AMAZING frost and, for the most part, have really solid density,
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