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Dezracer

Dezracer

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Heads Up said:
Dez, please refresh my memory if you will. Are you using the whole 40x80 space for flower and if so how many plants do you have per half of your space? If you are striving for a once a month harvest I would opt for two six hundreds instead of a thousand on a mover. Can you put both six hundreds on your mover? How are you spacing out your plantings? Meaning how many new plants do you put in your tent at a time and how often? Is half the tent entering its fifth week when you put in your new batch of girls?
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Yes, I will be using the whole 40x80 for flower since I have a 2x4 tent for veg. Right now there's 7 little ones in half the tent and I just finished setting up the 9 plant RDWC in the other half so when the soil plants that are currently running in there hit the end of the fourth week there will be 9 going into the hydro half. Once the soil plants are finished I will put another 9 plant RDWC system where they are so I will have 9 buckets in each half of the 40x80 tent and a single 1000 on a mover to cover them. If I used two 600s, I wouldn't need to use a mover IMO and I think it wouldn't be very beneficial to use it in that case. I could be wrong since I haven't tried that but I think the extra intensity would be offset by the fact that the plants wouldn't be recieving the intense constantly.

Each time I harvest one system I will be immediately putting new plants back into it so I should be harvesting half of the tent every 4-5 weeks (approx. 9 plants).

I have a feeling 9 plants will be too many for half of that space so I might be cutting it back to 6. We'll just have to see how it plays out I guess.

I ordered up a new 1K HPS ballast today and put the MH up for sale. I'll be keeping a single 600 though as a backup or for a vertical if I can find room in my garage for another tent.
 
Heads Up

Heads Up

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Dez, one of the really cool things about what we do, it's all one big ongoing experiment and we hopefully learn as we experiment. I'm not a big believer in the you must do things this way line of thinking, I want to learn for myself. Whatever you decide is the right decision for that particular grow, it's what I do. For the first time I'm doing a scrog and already I see a couple of things I've done that will be corrected and not repeated next attempt. Like you I'm wanting mature plants back under the hps as soon as this batch is finished. The colombian gold clones are out of the humidity dome and under a t-5 and I'm hoping to see them reaching for the light in a day or two. The shackzilla popped up yesterday, the og18 this morning and by noon the critical+kali mist. Into the tent under my t-5's they go.
 
bassman999

bassman999

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Dezracer said:
Yes, I will be using the whole 40x80 for flower since I have a 2x4 tent for veg. Right now there's 7 little ones in half the tent and I just finished setting up the 9 plant RDWC in the other half so when the soil plants that are currently running in there hit the end of the fourth week there will be 9 going into the hydro half. Once the soil plants are finished I will put another 9 plant RDWC system where they are so I will have 9 buckets in each half of the 40x80 tent and a single 1000 on a mover to cover them. If I used two 600s, I wouldn't need to use a mover IMO and I think it wouldn't be very beneficial to use it in that case. I could be wrong since I haven't tried that but I think the extra intensity would be offset by the fact that the plants wouldn't be recieving the intense constantly.


Each time I harvest one system I will be immediately putting new plants back into it so I should be harvesting half of the tent every 4-5 weeks (approx. 9 plants).

I have a feeling 9 plants will be too many for half of that space so I might be cutting it back to 6. We'll just have to see how it plays out I guess.

I ordered up a new 1K HPS ballast today and put the MH up for sale. I'll be keeping a single 600 though as a backup or for a vertical if I can find room in my garage for another tent.
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I have heard the mover allows the use of less light, as it gives the intensity of more light, but without burning them . What I mean is you can put the light(s) lower and not worry about burning and drying tops.......
I have never used a mover, but thats what a friend of mine does, and says it works.

My question is how fast does the mover go and are all movers the same speed, or is it adjustable? Looks like I need to do a lil research.
 
Dezracer

Dezracer

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I couldn't agree with you more about that. The last time I ran two 600s in a similar size space I had temp issues and had to run AC. I'm hoping that having a single heat source this time will help with that enough to where I dont need the AC. I do have a better exhaust fan now so maybe it would've been okay now but by buying the 1k I can sell a 600, break even and I still have a 600 sitting for something else ;)
 
Dezracer

Dezracer

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There are different movers with different speeds. Mine uses a 3.5rpm motor but there's another version of mine that has a 7rpm, I think. Mine has a knob on it that adjusts the amount of time that it stays stationary at each end too. I keep the light closer to the canopy when using the mover too, like your friend.
 
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ghantron

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Question: "I got a few girls goin, nirvana strains, several which i have grown in the past. This time however I'm seeing much less/slower trichome development. Im in 3rd week and it looks to me like i may have hit the P or K to hard. Any one have any insight as to which, or maybe a trace deficiency, but i doubt it. Thanks"
 
bassman999

bassman999

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ghantron said:
Question: "I got a few girls goin, nirvana strains, several which i have grown in the past. This time however I'm seeing much less/slower trichome development. Im in 3rd week and it looks to me like i may have hit the P or K to hard. Any one have any insight as to which, or maybe a trace deficiency, but i doubt it. Thanks"
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clones from others, or from different seeds? Is your grow environment and media and nutes the same as before?
 
Dezracer

Dezracer

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@ Bassman - That price is cheap for a mover judging from what I have seen. The chain drive seems cool but 20 minutes to travel 6' is crazy! Mine takes just a few minutes to travel the 6' rail it's on. I wonder if all of the newer ones move slow like that? I wonder if it's any better or just different, you know?

I got mine used along with some other stuff I bought from a guy.
 
Dezracer

Dezracer

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I am higher than I've been in a little while right now :hump:
A buddy dropped by to pick up some stuff and we smoked some of the Blackberry Kush and I had just eaten an oatmeal "canna" cookie. Now They have both kicked in pretty good and it's getting harder to type, LOL. Blackberry Kush, mmmmmmmm..........
 
whodatnation

whodatnation

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haha good to hear Dez :-)

Loookin good G, yuuuuum.


Bass, I agree with Dez. I think that may too slow to REALY keep the light close with the intensity, the one I have only takes about 45 seconds to go 8 ft.

I may have to take some spooky night time pics lol
 
billcollector99

billcollector99

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Did you know that when a leaf has light shined on it, it continues to go through the photsynthesis process for 6 minutes after the light source has been removed. So techinically as long as you replaced the light source prior to that 6 minutes being up, the plant/leaf would have uninterrupted photosynthesis as if the light had been shining on it the whole time.
 
dababydroman

dababydroman

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my friens chpped a male plsnt and threw it in a black trash bag. he opended it to show me, to find out wwa still growing

o yea at it was but a week or so later
 
whodatnation

whodatnation

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billcollector99 said:
Did you know that when a leaf has light shined on it, it continues to go through the photsynthesis process for 6 minutes after the light source has been removed. So techinically as long as you replaced the light source prior to that 6 minutes being up, the plant/leaf would have uninterrupted photosynthesis as if the light had been shining on it the whole time.
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Iv always wanted to try out some kind of strobe like light, but its bad for the ballasts and the bulbs. It would most likely be more efficient if the equipment was built for it.
 
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