Thankfully, by using Mc'Guyver like ingenuity, I have managed to squeeze another few inches height. I'm hoping this will help, as well as choosing shorter pheno's.
From what I gather from their website:
Thanks all, I was thinking entire grow this time too although I see a lot of difference in the bulb over two grows with it (dark areas along the element). Too, the ballast itself climbs to 130° which heats the general area outside the tent (I keep it on a wire rack because of this). As for simulating fall, when I see the decline in nutes strength on the Canna feeding chart for the last several weeks I think I'll drop the lumens in unison. Instead of triggering flowering with event's at the start, I'll put my efforts into the end with light reduction.
If you continue to run temps high, using supplemental CO2 is beneficial. However, if the a/c is cooling you down to normal range, then don't go with CO2. For the people I've seen using it, they have an entire grow room controlled properly. Id say work on dialing in what you have so when you add CO2, you know if it's making a difference.
Thats interesting Jela about the bulb and ballast heat. I have a 5x20 ft grow area and when I feel the ballast, it's warm but you could keep your hand on it without frying your hand. While this winter has been a bit warmer, I usually need all the heat benefit I can get as the ambient grow room temp goes to 61F at night.
A window AC unit only circulates air on the inside of the room it does not exchange any air from the outside. If you can bring in air from another rm in the building or directly from outside, then will not need co2. If you have a sealed rm then you will need to augment co2. I would recommend using ventilation if at all possible. With a window in the rm this could easily become either your intake or exhaust.
I would have gone for the Hesi Coco. Not used it before but since its formulated for coco I would have thought it would have been the one to go for.
Those mothers don't look very big Smooth... I like to have 3-4 internodes on my clone cuttings. 4-8" long. The side cuttings work best particularly; I actually avoid the largest top growth shoots because they don't clone as well with the apical dominant hormones present.
Actually they have exploded haven't topped them much yet just supercropping. I have some mothers with 10-15 main colas I want to get cuttings soon so the smaller bud sites can grow to be branches themselves.
As you most likely noticed I picked the red line also, and it hurt really bad to throw that much growth out.
Supercropping does not create more clone sites. You need to top the main stem to create more main stems. More Main stems create more side branches which are the best clone subjects. I need at LEAST 3 nodes to cut for a clone. I remove the bottom node branch & leaf from the clone stem, this scar is a prime root sprouting location. IF you want to keep a mother going for future clones, then leave a node on the branch you cut. That node in most cases will make 2 new clone-able branches.
