Indoor 600W LED - NY Sour Diesel - Manifold - Detailed & Links

[323cheezy]

its Interesting how allot of riu’ers tend to look at grows mathematically like 3x2 needs so many watts . At this point your on easy street you can prune the hell out of them and bend them down..... don’t know what your doing but they are very bushy your doing great .

Afters so many grows I realize it’s really how many nodes can I feed with the lights and how close can I keep my canopy to the light. I think your fine on light just gonna have to flip soon . The first 3 weeeks of flower always are a shit show and I’m pretty sure they stretch at least a foot and it’d be great cause your plants will get the light they need.

 

[Wastei]

When the plants cover the floor it's time to flower in soil, but that's just my opinion.

 

[Rhodes55]

I would probably just slap in a few screw in LED bulbs to pump out a few more photons.
I thought you were in a 2x4 space, if you were another one of those lights you have would be a massive boost.

I agree with the other guys, give it another week. If you were under HPS you could flip now and watch them stretch but with blurple LED you don't always get that stretch and might end up with some squat plants. If you get more stretch than you want you can always super crop branches to help fill in any empty space. If you did flip now and they didn't stretch not much you could do to change that..

Awesome, thanks man! The whole space is 2x4 but the area the plants actually take up is 2x3 so I’m hoping I have enough light. I’ll probably grab another screw in LED or ive been looking at HPS lights to finish flower and for the next grows.

 

[Rhodes55]

its Interesting how allot of riu’ers tend to look at grows mathematically like 3x2 needs so many watts . At this point your on easy street you can prune the hell out of them and bend them down..... don’t know what your doing but they are very bushy your doing great .

Afters so many grows I realize it’s really how many nodes can I feed with the lights and how close can I keep my canopy to the light. I think your fine on light just gonna have to flip soon . The first 3 weeeks of flower always are a shit show and I’m pretty sure they stretch at least a foot and it’d be great cause your plants will get the light they need.

That was the other half of the conversation I didn’t bring up, how can you dictate wattage based on space. What if there’s just 1 plant or 10?? I thought it should be based on plants and nodes like your referring to, the plant should be taking in X amount of light for photosynthesis. I hope someone else has some more insight on this, appreciate the advice. Hope the flowering goes well

 

[Rhodes55]

When the plants cover the floor it's time to flower in soil, but that's just my opinion.

Thanks man! Will be switching in a day or two!

 

[Rhodes55]

11/29/19 - Plants responded great to the last LST. Canopy pretty much filled out, want them to stretch for another day or two then switching to flowering.

 

[323cheezy]

Canopy looks great

 

[Rhodes55]

11/29/19 - I got a little antsy and LST & defoliated the two that had random branches going everywhere, light will turn off in a few minutes. Going to check on all of them tonight when it turns back on, possibly more LST to get all remaining unanchored branches anchored before the big stretch in flower.

 

[Rhodes55]

11/30/19 - Think I’m done with LST all the growth sites are completely exposed and I’m ready for flower. I added a make shift CFL setup with two 50W soft whites for more light and red spectrum during flower, hope it helps. I’m going to add some pictures here or another thread with pistol close ups to see if anyone can make any assumptions about sex before flower. Would love any input as always!

What sex?

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[Rhodes55]

12/1/19 - Plants seem to have loved the new soft whites, stretching towards them. Wanted to make this log for myself. Current light schedule ON 18hrs 4:00pm-10am | OFF 6hrs 10am - 4pm. Getting ready for 12/12 and want the lights on during the day 9am-9pm, gradually working towards that. I read that if you need to make a switch like this more light hours is better for vegetation and more dark hours is better for flower. So depending on the phase of your plants extend hours accordingly. Today switched timer to run past 10am to 4pm for 24hrs lights on | then off from 4pm - 10pm.

Next transition tomorrow is 9pm-3am OFF then I’ll be ready to initiate flower by adding dark hours 9pm-9am.

 

[m99smith]

12/1/19 - Plants seem to have loved the new soft whites, stretching towards them. Wanted to make this log for myself. Current light schedule ON 18hrs 4:00pm-10am | OFF 6hrs 10am - 4pm. Getting ready for 12/12 and want the lights on during the day 9am-9pm, gradually working towards that. I read that if you need to make a switch like this more light hours in better for vegetation and more dark hours is better for flower. So depending on the phase of your plants extend hours accordingly. Today switched timer to run past 10am to 4pm for 24hrs lights on | then off from 4pm - 10pm.

Next transition tomorrow is 9pm-3am OFF then I’ll be ready to initiate flower by adding dark hours 9pm-9am.
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They are looking good can't wait to see how much they stretch in the stretching phase they can grow up to 2 inches a day

 

[Rhodes55]

12/3/19 - officially switched the light schedule to 12/12. 8am-8pm. It’s getting a little chilly here in Florida and grow room is about 65-68 degress, I know this is low and can effect growth and yield. Some insight on this would be helpful, I can get a little space heater if needed. I’ve closed the closet doors to try and warm it up as well. I read strains like (my so called sour diesel I have) are used to really warm temps and like to stretch, I don’t want to be giving them the opposite and ruin anything. Everything has been perfect up to this point. So any temperature advice is appreciated!

 

[m99smith]

12/3/19 - officially switched the light schedule to 12/12. 8am-8pm. It’s getting a little chilly here in Florida and grow room is about 65-68 degress, I know this is low and can effect growth and yield. Some insight on this would be helpful, I can get a little space heater if needed. I’ve closed the closet doors to try and warm it up as well. I read strains like (my so called sour diesel I have) are used to really warm temps and like to stretch, I don’t want to be giving them the opposite and ruin anything. Everything has been perfect up to this point. So any temperature advice is appreciated!View attachment 4430876View attachment 4430877

That temp will be fine man it will bring the colors out during the end of flower and those girls are looking beautiful can you post a couple pics from the side?

 

[323cheezy]

I think really they just grow faster in the heat .. I been dealing with low temps ... one thing about the cold temps the humidity rises so keep that in mind .... a small cheap heater willl help with tempsrise and lower humidity. I got mine at Home Depot for 15$ ... the smaller the better you don’t wanna burn em

 

[Rhodes55]

That temp will be fine man it will bring the colors out during the end of flower and those girls are looking beautiful can you post a couple pics from the side?

That’s all I got lol, they’re pretty stout. The soils also not to the top of the pots either. 2 months of veg and I just added more lights. I’ll be adding a picture of that here shortly.

 

[Rhodes55]

12/4/19 - Added (6) 75W soft white 2700k for the red/orange spectrum of flowering; Actual watts 9each. Hoping this helps with not only the right light but also it should warm it up a bit as well. I thought my makeshift setup of these weren’t to bad lol ready to start getting these sexed so I can remove a couple of them and really put my focus on the girls.

 

[Rhodes55]

12/5/19 - They are absolutely loving the new lights that I put in, the stretch is noticeable already. Feed this morning at 8am when light came on (transition bloom)

 

[Darkoh69]

Looking good!

 

[Rhodes55]

12/7/19 - Not much to say. They are doing phenomenally well. Canopy filling out even more and the stretch looks great.

 

[Rhodes55]

Looking good!

I need to do a little defoliation and possibly LST after reading your journal. Could you give me some insight on how you go ab out doing those two.