jacks super lemon haze
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Caanan18
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Soon as you find out you let me know bud.always learning mate, never tried making a soil mix like this before but i would like to get to a point where i only need to give them some organic nutes in week 5-7 in flower, as i don't know if you can get great results without add any nutes in flower
would like to find out
jacksthc
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thanks mate its good to see you
jacksthc
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Turning them over on Saturday as I want to grow 4 large tree's full of bud, going to flower them off under 2 600w hps light and add a vertical 250w mh 2 weeks in flower and add t5's side lights
Flowering the plants off under a 600w mh for the first week then adding the rest of the lights
going to train and defoliation the plants in flower, i am going to have horizontal and vertical lights on 4 plants, all 4 plants are going to receive a good amount of red light from the hps and blue light from the mh,t5's to give the plants the perfect spectrum of light
The light penetration from the mh, hps and the side light should give the plants loads of light to cover the 4ft x 6ft canopy x 3ft deep
The 250w mh is in a cage and will sit in the middle of the lights 6" above the pots ( also added a pc fan under the bulb for extra airflow) , to give the lower canopy more light and the side lights will also help the lower canopy receive extra light, (all the side lights are going to be same height as the mh)
don't have budget to buy the best light so i am making do with what i have
hoping this will work any advice with this @ttystikk would be great
jacksthc
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Thanks fellow for dropping in this is going to be one of the most difficult grows I have ever done
just hope everything goes to plan lol
jacrispy
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thats a cool looking setup
ill be taking notes for sure
jacksthc
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yer i have been trying to work out a descent setup for a long time where vertical and horizontal lights can work together, this is the best one i could think of with my lighs
if this works out, going to replace the 250w with a 400w mh and use Propagation Grow Lights
Reflector 4 Tube Bulbs to make a ring round my room level with the 400w mh
as i am sure this would give me tree's full of buds 3-4ft high
jacksthc
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yer i am good mate and you ?
Sure that's not overkill on the lights? good question
Trying to think of the best way to answer this, hmm
when you flower under a horizontal hood (600w hps) the light penetration is not very good, you will only get the top 12" of good canopy growth, lower than 12" the buds receive a low amount of light, that's why growers do a sog setup, ( loads of plants 6-12" high) or a scrog ( buds will only be a few inches high but have a level full canopy and often lolpop the lower growth) or top and lst the plants, really the list is endless with different techniques to keep the canopy level and full
growing vertical like ttystikk can give you amazing results but the plants are tall and need to be tied and supported as the buds grow towards the light ( takes a lot of time )
my ideal is to have a good amount of light on the top 12" of the canopy, just like any other horizontal grow, level and full of top cola's
now where most growers lollipop the lower growth because it's not getting enough light I will have a vertical light ( 12" -24" below the canopy ) covering the lower part of the plant, this will increase the amount of light the lower canopy receive and with the side light 12-24" below the canopy the plants should receive enough light to get a canopy 24" thick with good quality buds, so in theory this could even have the potential to double my yield with the extra lights
The main problem with adding the extra 400-500w is the extra heat, but that's why i am doing this grow now and it should be finished my the first week in may so the temps should stay low
jacksthc
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it was to pull the shoots down so the canopy grow level