Husband & Wife's 3rd Grow. Big Bud & Northern Lights

Ok... here they are. BB's at 21 days, watered and topped yesterday. I topped all but one... the runt. She is slowly coming along. But, she is coming along...LoL

Mixed up the soil mix (I think I am good now!) And we planted 1 NL in the FF mix and 1 NL in the pro mix we had. Just to compare. We also planted 1 bag seed and awaiting 3 more bag seed to crack. I even three 3 roma tomato seeds in to play with... All hubby could do was shake his head. LoL

And hubby added the reflector portion to the lights after I took the pics. Still have to get that white tent liner up.
 

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Cool! Cool! Can't wait for updates. Did I read this right? Your gonna throw some tomatoes in as well?
 
k-town said:
Cool! Cool! Can't wait for updates. Did I read this right? Your gonna throw some tomatoes in as well?
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Thanks! LoL yup. I have been dying to grow them, so why not! LoL... I'll have some great smoke and a great pot of sauce! LoL Hubby wont complain when I make his lasagna! :-o:-P

I'll be checkin on the babies and taking pics as things change/grow. Probably some new pics on Tues.
 
your plants look too hot in the pics, what are your temps . Are they going through water fast? What is your lighting again? and you have cool air intake and heat exhaust from your light? Other than looking hot, they look Great! :)

Can't go wrong with Fox Farms OF and some extra perlite.
 
theloadeddragon said:
your plants look too hot in the pics, what are your temps . Are they going through water fast? What is your lighting again? and you have cool air intake and heat exhaust from your light? Other than looking hot, they look Great! :)

Can't go wrong with Fox Farms OF and some extra perlite.
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Thank you... the damn temp has been like 90. We have fans blowing air around and left the tent open the last few days finally bringing the temp down to 85 today. The guy at the Hydro store gave my husband some Silica Blast and said to add that with a watering and it will help strengthen the cells and plant tissue during high heat, drought etc. But we havent used it yet. I posted a thread to get some more input on the stuff. Not much of a response. We are using 400 watt HPS. It doesnt have the cool air and heat exhaust. Hubby said it has a ballast built into it? :confused: But, he was thinking of adding some frozen soda bottles in there to help with the heat? Dont know what else to try other than getting a small ac unit for the room. ($$) The boiler/ ac system is in that room, but it doesn't cool it down.


theloadeddragon said:
day 21? been in the same pots the whole time? if so they are ready to slow build nutes ;)
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Yes, they have been in the same pots and hubby did add some nutes to the last watering. Sensi Grow A&B. Just a tad tho.

liljheazy said:
looking great
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Thanks J!
 
Your grow tent is in a larger room. is the exhaust going just into the larger room or out a window or something? If you are exhausting inside the outer room, its not really going to help overall with the temps, so you would want to take it all the way outside. Shortening the distance from the grow tent to the exit point for the exhaust will also help things stay cooler. the silica blast isn't necessary. Cannabis is naturally extremely resiliant to climate conditions and climate changes (Its a spring to winter plant), so you shouldn't need to worry about it. If it is hot and there is lots of airflow, just make sure that your relative humidity doesn't drop below 25%, and preferably for veg stays constantly between 45% and 60-65%. For flower I keep mine between 35 and 40%. as if it spikes above 55% for any prolonged period of time, your buds may mold.
 
theloadeddragon said:
Your grow tent is in a larger room. is the exhaust going just into the larger room or out a window or something? If you are exhausting inside the outer room, its not really going to help overall with the temps, so you would want to take it all the way outside. Shortening the distance from the grow tent to the exit point for the exhaust will also help things stay cooler. the silica blast isn't necessary. Cannabis is naturally extremely resiliant to climate conditions and climate changes (Its a spring to winter plant), so you shouldn't need to worry about it. If it is hot and there is lots of airflow, just make sure that your relative humidity doesn't drop below 25%, and preferably for veg stays constantly between 45% and 60-65%. For flower I keep mine between 35 and 40%. as if it spikes above 55% for any prolonged period of time, your buds may mold.
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Ahhh... ummm exhausting outside the room is gonna be difficult. I dont know how we would actually do that. We would need to move the tent closer to the door, which would limit space and running out the garage door, which would only leave a slim opening at the end of the vent tubing. :wall: never thought of that. But it makes total sense. Now we have to think how we would do that.

And Hubby said he never knew about the 55% in flowering. Much rep for that! He would like to know what you think we be a good method for lowering the humidity. The humidity right now in veg is at 50%, but as you said we'll have to get it down for flowering.
 
fresh air from outside. A/C units typically blow 27-35% RH ;), plus the 5-10% coming from transpiration. Exhausting out of the building will reduce humidity by itself.
 
theloadeddragon said:
fresh air from outside. A/C units typically blow 27-35% RH ;), plus the 5-10% coming from transpiration. Exhausting out of the building will reduce humidity by itself.
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Got my wheels turning now and gonna try and figure out how we can try and exhaust that tent. I am think we have drop ceilings down there... maybe that will help and come into play with something. :???:

Wow... thanks a lot for the info!
 
If in the meantime I added a dehumidifier to the room to help keep that humidity down during flowering, would that help or be a waste of time??

I know we really need to configure the intake/ exhaust thing, but I was hoping the dehumidifier would help as well.
 
aren't you vegging?

When vegging higher humidity is good for the plants provided there is sufficient airflow.

Dehumidifier would definitely help, but only as a crutch for a permanent fix.

Fix your intake/exhaust and both your temps and humidities will even out and be a lot more managable without extra equipment like a dehumidifier or adittional A/C (though if you live in the deep south you might want to keep using the dehumidifier ;) )
 
Oh ya a built in ballest is gonna make it even hotter in there. And I'm with ya on the not being able to dump the exhaust into another room. My grow tent is in my closet and can't dump heat anywhere else (I can't cut any walls). Might want to think about getting another inline fan for exhaust.

:leaf::peace::leaf:
 
theloadeddragon said:
aren't you vegging?

When vegging higher humidity is good for the plants provided there is sufficient airflow.

Dehumidifier would definitely help, but only as a crutch for a permanent fix.

Fix your intake/exhaust and both your temps and humidities will even out and be a lot more managable without extra equipment like a dehumidifier or adittional A/C (though if you live in the deep south you might want to keep using the dehumidifier ;) )
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Yes Sir... still veggin' altho I just wanna make sure I can get that humidity down come flowering time. I dont want to run into anymore dead ends yanno? :wink: And yes, you hit the area on the head, so maybe it will be nice to have in addition to doing sumtin with the intake and exhaust.

greenfirekilla420 said:
Oh ya a built in ballest is gonna make it even hotter in there. And I'm with ya on the not being able to dump the exhaust into another room. My grow tent is in my closet and can't dump heat anywhere else (I can't cut any walls). Might want to think about getting another inline fan for exhaust.

:leaf::peace::leaf:
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This sucks........I never knew that. Neither did hubby. See that ia why I friggen love these boards! We are gonna have to work sumtin out. The winter is not bad for a grow, but the other 9 months suck...LoL
 
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