Guitarantula
Active Member
Hi guys. I am wanting to start my second closetI grow, but my first was a mess and my plants ended up stunted. I want to figure out what went wrong before going through this again.
I don't think it was a soil problem, because during the grow I took a couple of the plants over to my Mom's house and put them outside and all of a sudden they exploded with wonderful, rich green growth. I have 250 watt hps, so they were getting enough light. I don't have a way of getting outside air in to the closet, no way can I be cutting holes through the side of my mobile home. I did have a fand blowing on them, it was only four plants, and they just simply would have stunted growth. I was using MG, the blue/green crytals, but again, when I took them to my Moms they exploded in growth, same pots, same soil.
The one thing I keep coming back to is humidity. I got one of those electronic temp.humidity meters, and my humidity in my closet was between 20-30 percent. Most of thew time 25 percent. I even tried one of the humidifiers that have the little stream of steam, but this didn't raise it but just a couple of points. I live in Tennessee, and it's fairly tropical humid outside, so I am wondering if that's the reason these things exploded with growth when I put a couple pots outside at my Moms.
Since they grew great at my Mom's, then doesn't this absolve the soil as being a problem? Will 25 percent humidity simply stunt plants from growing. The plants would not die, but they would not grow, I tried laying off the nutes, back to the nutes, plenty of light under the HPS, the temps were low 80's, not too hot. I am in my bedroom a lot, sleep there, so I can't imagine Co2 being a problem. Those suckers did great once they were outside in the high humidity for a couple weeks. I took them home to flower them and ended up with crap as they again stoped growing and I ended up with sticks with buds on them, light buds that amounted to hardly anything.
Please, I want to grow in my closet again, but man I hate to start down that road again only to have my plants stunted and not grow well. Could 20-30 percent humidity cause this? I do wake up at night with my throat dry and have to keep water beside the bed. I am thinking I need to get one of the humidifiers that sprays the mist up in the air, not the one with the little trickle of steam. Any help would be great.
I don't think it was a soil problem, because during the grow I took a couple of the plants over to my Mom's house and put them outside and all of a sudden they exploded with wonderful, rich green growth. I have 250 watt hps, so they were getting enough light. I don't have a way of getting outside air in to the closet, no way can I be cutting holes through the side of my mobile home. I did have a fand blowing on them, it was only four plants, and they just simply would have stunted growth. I was using MG, the blue/green crytals, but again, when I took them to my Moms they exploded in growth, same pots, same soil.
The one thing I keep coming back to is humidity. I got one of those electronic temp.humidity meters, and my humidity in my closet was between 20-30 percent. Most of thew time 25 percent. I even tried one of the humidifiers that have the little stream of steam, but this didn't raise it but just a couple of points. I live in Tennessee, and it's fairly tropical humid outside, so I am wondering if that's the reason these things exploded with growth when I put a couple pots outside at my Moms.
Since they grew great at my Mom's, then doesn't this absolve the soil as being a problem? Will 25 percent humidity simply stunt plants from growing. The plants would not die, but they would not grow, I tried laying off the nutes, back to the nutes, plenty of light under the HPS, the temps were low 80's, not too hot. I am in my bedroom a lot, sleep there, so I can't imagine Co2 being a problem. Those suckers did great once they were outside in the high humidity for a couple weeks. I took them home to flower them and ended up with crap as they again stoped growing and I ended up with sticks with buds on them, light buds that amounted to hardly anything.
Please, I want to grow in my closet again, but man I hate to start down that road again only to have my plants stunted and not grow well. Could 20-30 percent humidity cause this? I do wake up at night with my throat dry and have to keep water beside the bed. I am thinking I need to get one of the humidifiers that sprays the mist up in the air, not the one with the little trickle of steam. Any help would be great.