The other daaayyyy, I did this Mephisto thing.

[420 Garden]

Here is my set up. 5 x 5 with 8 inch Infinity inline venting outdoors. 730 wall watts LED. I am running 6 Mephisto Forum Stompers that is forum cut GSC x Sour Stomper. Also 1 Twenty20 Mendocino Cosmo and that is Biscauto x Whiskey Zulu. My organic soil is FFOF with 30 % coarse perlite. Germinated my beans on 1/27/23. Went to soil 1/29/23. Popped soil on 1/31/23. Water only at this point. I'm going to attempt to keep this post updated. Never ran auto so there are no guarantees.

 

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Latest photo today 2/16/23

 

[GarageGardener69]

Ran forum stomper in ffof, perlite, ewc water only. Top dress 4/4/4 2/8/3 Very good smoke
Running more mephisto now too good genetics

 

[GarageGardener69]

Yours are looking nice. Light schedule?

 

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It's been for 20 days now a 24 hour schedule. As of tomorrow Sunday 2/19/23 it will go to 20 on and 4 off.

 

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Ok day 21, and I will be moving from a 24 on light schedule to allow for some rest time. The schedule will go to 20 on and 4 off. Did a top dress yesterday with FFOF and ewc. Have yet to water it in as the last 3/4 gallon I watered 4 days ago still needs a day before they are ready. Have started leaf tucking and took a few 10-12 leafs off when top dressed yesterday. The first 2 pics are from week 2, the rest from today. Day 21

 

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Tomorrow 2/26/23 will be day 28. Looking good so far. Today I hit them with recharge. Next week will be the 1st feed in this run.

 

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Tomorrow 2/26/23 will be day 28. Looking good so far. Today I hit them with recharge. Next week will be the 1st feed in this run.

First pic shows I let them dry out to show how far they go in between watering. They bounce right back. Some claim it stresses the plants in a good way.

 

[GarageGardener69]

Looking good. Don’t let them dry too much as the beneficial bacteria can suffer
I think I may be learning this the hard way at the moment lol

 

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I like to let the soil dry down before I do a recharge. In two weeks they will not look the same as Monday they hit week 5/stretch/flower. It's going to be a busy two weeks.

 

[GarageGardener69]

I like to let the soil dry down before I do a recharge. In two weeks they will not look the same as Monday they hit week 5/stretch/flower. It's going to be a busy two weeks.

Recharge with actual recharge or top dress the soil?

 

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Recharge with actual Recharge.

 

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Today's update. Day 35 above soil.

 

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The next 3 to 4 weeks should be interesting.

 

[GarageGardener69]

Get ready for take off

 

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They are kinda happy.

 

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Day 63 frost is coming on. Got weeks left to go but, looking ok.

 

[Boo1965]

Ran forum stomper in ffof, perlite, ewc water only. Top dress 4/4/4 2/8/3 Very good smoke
Running more mephisto now too good genetics

I have ten beans of the forum stomper and was thinking about growing outdoors but these plants look nice. Anyone care to tell me what kind of lights their using?

 

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Spiderfarmer 4000 = 450 wall watts
+ King = 256 wall watts for flower

 

[Boo1965]

It's been a few years for me but hps was on top then. Are the LEDs really worth the money today? If so I've been looking at a medic grow 1000 watts from the wall and saw good reviews on coco grow. What you think?