Hey y’all. Almost 4 weeks into first grow with “mystery strain” bag seeds. I’ve used 3 lights so far. Germ and seedling I used bestva 1000. It did well but didn’t have the spread I wanted so I returned it and bought 2 Mars ts600 and a dakason 1000. The Mars are definitely brighter than the dakason. And the plants seem to veg better under the Mars. However the dakason has 2 uv and 2 ir chips so I think it may bloom better buds. Still new to this so I can’t be sure. I fim’d the blue buckets(Mars) the day before the black buckets(dakason) and the new growth on the Mars lights is much more. So far I’ve got 4 girls verified still waiting for the other 4 to show.
First grow Trying different lights
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JCGreen81
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Cannabis will take all the light they get. If you need to monitor par you’re not giving enough light
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Week 4 day 2: got in new carambola light 240w. Took out the Mars ts600’s. seems to be Working thus far. No real change good or bad. Hoping the more red and uv spectrum will help with flowering, if my 800w 4’x4’ light from China hasn’t made it here in 3 weeks. Plucked out a few more males... went from 11 plants to 4 females and a maybe.. which sucks. Also started to germ 7 more. Hopefully all female! Also hopefully will be finished building my grow room this week so I can finally come out of the closet
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Southside112
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Negative ghostrider. Cannabis reaches a saturation point where more light does more harm than good. Really high ppfd and you need co2.
I am trying to find a cheap light with good spectrum and ppfd coverage. I want something with uv and Ir. The Mars ts600 just wasn’t what I wanted to flower with. So I ordered 5 different lights on amazon and a par meter and I’m testing them out. The carambola puts out 240w with uv/ir switch so I swapped the Mars for it. The plants seem to like it. Still on the fence about the dakason, it does have ir and uv , and a dimmer, Draws 100w and at $70 it’s pretty cheap and bright but doesn’t have as high of blue spectrum as I’d like.
Negative ghostrider. Cannabis reaches a saturation point where more light does more harm than good. Really high ppfd and you need co2.
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I’m in that room so much breathing over those plants I doubt they will ever have a co2 shortage. I’m like a moth to a flame with those plants
Day 3 since I made the switch to flower. Looks like it might stretch a bit. Think I should double net? Got co2 tank set up.. plugged in the control panel and without supplementing my air in my basement is at 1700-1900ppm b4 the lights come on. Kinda weird.. no carbon monoxide in house so I don’t think it’s my gas appliances but it seems awful high to be breathing every day.. but it’s GREAT for the plants and my wallet!
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Day 12 of flower. The last plant that hadn’t shown sex finally sprouted pistils. That makes 5. The two biggest ones keep stretching. I don’t know what that means as far as yield but I keep tucking under the 2nd scrog net. I did a pretty big defoliation. The front small plant already has bud forming. Switched to new lights a week ago. and the plants seem to be loving it 1000- 1700 ppfd across the whole canopy. Fox farm cultivation nation trio, and molasses. RO/spring water mix, grow room temp 81-85, RH low to mid 40s. I just started some Cali OG kush x silver haze and some purple kush, pretty excited to grow something with a name besides bag seeds. How hard is it to identify bag seed bud?
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Day 16 flower. It looks like the budding is starting to take over the stretching a bit. Growing nicely so far. I’ll do a final defoliation in a week or so. Ran a duct from my hvac to the room and it’s helped a lot with temp. Have the leaf temps down to 83-90, with night temps at 69. I might try to pull a couple branches down a lil and tie them to the net but I think I’m done tucking. I’m hoping it won’t grow to much taller... still running 1000-1600 ppfd across the whole canopy, 4 up day day 270w lights. So far I love the lights. I have 1 yellow 2 red and 1 hid
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DAY 20 FLOWER-
I love flower time 4 of the 5 plants are already forming buds but the biggest one (Back right) is slower to bud. I did break a few stems on it tho. Maybe that slowed things down.. new development.. the leaves on the front one are all turning lighter green than all the other plants. Same strain I think. At least the same sack. But it grew different the whole time... I was sure it was a male till 2 weeks into flower. Leaves have slight burnt tips and some tips are curled up. I’m just gonna keep doing the same thing I’ve been doing so I dont eff anything up. Two reg waterings( RO water with cal mag ) 6.25-6.5 ph. Nutes on the 3rd watering. 82-90 degree leaf temps in light 73 at night.
DAY 23 flower..
Better pictures with lights out! Think the slowest to flower is showing signs of potassium deficiency. Purpleish leaves curling down slightly.. my ppm has been around 900 till now raised it to 1200 see what happens. Each plant is growing so different but the seeds were from the same bag of green. Also pinching all the fan leaves off up to 4 nodes down from the tops, everywhere I can reach.
Better pictures with lights out! Think the slowest to flower is showing signs of potassium deficiency. Purpleish leaves curling down slightly.. my ppm has been around 900 till now raised it to 1200 see what happens. Each plant is growing so different but the seeds were from the same bag of green. Also pinching all the fan leaves off up to 4 nodes down from the tops, everywhere I can reach.