high temps 85ish and low humidity two weeks old tommorow

lovemug

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im having a horrible time keeping temps down and humidite up in my grow tent. i had the light (600w) 12 inches off the plants i moved it up a little hopeing it will bring the temps down a little. i have a 424cfm fan running with a can filter on it through a euro 6 ballast.
also notice the leaves curling up slightly around the edges of the first picture. the leaves are droopy at the ends, they like to do that when i mist them witch has been a shit ton. they purk back up about 20 minutes later.
i have no info on strains ive been saving bag seed for a couple years so i planted about 15 of them in 2 pots and slowly killed off the weekest ones. i had to transplant multiple seedlings out of the same pot.

ps where did the damn spell check go?
 

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lovemug

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the humidity is sitting around 20-30% usially. when i mist i wet the sides of the pots and the plants thouroly. it takes about 10 minutes for everything to evaporate.
 

bigv1976

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85 is not a high temp dude. Where most strains come from it hits 100 pretty regularly. 85 is great as long as they get water.
 

lovemug

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haha yeah its been up in the corner and im sick of climbing in the thing to check the temp.
 

Danthebull

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Hey pal. Put a bucket of water in there and you could also wet some towel's and put them in there too. If this doesn't bring the humidity up some then a good idea is to put a towel in to the bucket as a wick and put that near 1 of your fan's. This work's!!!!!!

Good luck mate..

Dan
 

llop1103

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You dont need high humidity right now. They have already roots and they are growing humidity doesnt have to be super high right now. 30% is fine for them. Also 85 is not to terrible. You need to raise that light up further than 12 inches. a 600 watt light will def burn those babies thats why there burning at the edges. You have 6 tiny plants under a 600 watt light you have to introduce them to that light slowly. Start it higher up and slowly lower it as they get use to the light and heat. Unless you have a crazy exhaust system taking the heat away from that fan they should never be 12 inches from the light. I would suggest having the light atleast 24 inches away from those plants and slowly lowering it as you can see them being able to take the light without them being affected and once they get bigger and can handle all of that light. 600 watts is alot of light for those little things right now. They will love it in the long run but right now slowly introduce them. Raise it up to a minimum of 24 inches and drop it down like 1 inch everyday if they dont show signs of heat stress. But i wouldnt suggest that light being 12 inches away untill one they are bigger and stronger and can handle that heat without burning and two unless you have a good exhaust fan taking that heat away from coming down directly on them
 

lovemug

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i raised it about another 6 inches ill have to see how that goes. the reflector stays cool i have to put the back of my hand on the glass for it to get uncomfortable and even than it takes about 10-15 seconds.
 

lovemug

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i put a decent size bowl in there and a towel. im still waiting on my good seeds. the first order got lost and mother earth decided to errupt valcanos as the replacement sent. just trying to get everything down before i start growing expencive seeds.
 

lovemug

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well the humidity is doing alot better. we finaly got some rain here its sitting between 40 to 60%. i think i finaly hit vegitative growth, ill try and get some pics up tonight. these things are growing like monstors. is this normal? I feel like they keep stretching there is about an inch and a half between nodes and shoots are jumping out at all the leafe sites starting to get second nodes on them.
 

lovemug

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thats 8 days after the first pics on this post. i still cant figure out why the tops leaves keep curling like that. it seems to do it alot more before the light goes out, than when i get up they all lay flat. the bottom leaves dont do it so im not to concerned about it. i could be spraying them to much. i used 1teaspoor of fox farm in a 2 gallon watering can at 2 weeks and a couple days latter they really started to grow.
there all from bag seed i had been saving for the past year or so. waiting on good beans so i dont know when i should put them into flowering. the highest one is 8 inches now the little guy in the bottom right is only 4 inches. poor thing just isnt growing to well.
 

bud nugbong

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they look pretty damn healthy to me. just make sure you dont overfeed them or overwaterthem. it is a very common mistake.
 

lovemug

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some of my pots are drying out alot faster than others i wish i could figure out why. i rotate the plants once a day to diferent position. the first couple weeks really sucks. they grow so slow you wake up all exited and check on them than get shot down.once i hit about 2 and a half weeks they really started to go. ive read vegitative growth dosnt happen untill your fifth node is barely visable, and thats when mine took off.
 
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