TheGambino
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Okay so I did something my last grow... which I thought was going to be a horrible round from stress but turned out to be the best round I have had so far.
Details: 8- 1000w lights, 16-plants per light, room temps-80F, humidity 45%, co2-1300ppm, nutes- house and garden aqua flakes A/B, cal mag, silica, roots excel, some other random guanos EWC etc, ppms- 600-1100 wk 1-8, ph-6.1, soil- ocean forest, 3 and 5g pots, strains- super glue and sherbet.
K now u got the details my dilemma is this: I created a new veg room with passive air intake (no fan pumping in air), the plants kinda suffocated with co2 around 240 for about 6 weeks, last 2 weeks I fixed the problem and flipped into flower after an 8 week veg. I believe from the lack of co2 they got nutrient locked cause the stems were suppppppper purple, almost black, leaves showed some dmg like calmag deficiency but they still grew. Flipped into flower and gave them a week veg in the new 3 and 5g pots with good ol high co2, lights on at 50% for 3 days then 75% for 3 days then 100%. They were growing slowly but the leaves looked a lot healthier, purple stems stuck around the whole flower cycle.
Now here is where it gets fun.
Once I vegged them in the 3/5g pots for a week to get over transplant shock and light shock I threw them from there current 18/6 to 12/12. They were not as big as they should of been and the purple stems still there but I couldn't wait for stressed plants to never get better so I flowered em to see how they do (not like I had any other veg plants ready to transplant). I expected them to be shit, but they surprised me immediately by jumping into flower from basically day 1 of 12/12. they skipped the whole first 2 weeks of stretching and spend those 2 weeks producing buds. the plant cycle didn't finish 2 weeks earlier, it still ran 8-9 weeks (sherb finishes earlier but I push her), it just spend the 2 weeks getting huge/long white hairs. These buds were buds that ive only seen in experienced hydro operations, just donkey dick buds. my lowest nugs were the size of my tops from previous rounds.
So this round I tried to emulate everything I did last round but they are tall as shit and in week 4/5 with what I now consider tiny little white hairs/buds forming.
Now I searched hard in my brain to think of anything I did differently, trying not to succumb to the idea I need to co2 starve my plants and nute lock them to get this desired effect again.
And I think I might have found it. My last round was in the transition season from winter to spring/summer, so longer days and hotter temps outside later at night so I had to push my light times back which were currently on 12/12 week 1 of flower from 6pm-6am in the winter. Now its spring and summer by the time the flower round finishes I needed to push them back to 10pm-10am but I was already in flower, didn't want to do a big 4 hour dark period all at once to already super stressed out plants. So I cant remember exactly how I did it unfortunately
but I know I stretched it out over days, so I either pushed them back an hour a night for 4 nights, or I put a day break in between each hour push back.
So basically I now think I triggered some hormones by giving them 12 hrs light and 13 hrs dark for 4 days either consecutively or with a day break in between. and I will try this next round in like 5 weeks.
Details: 8- 1000w lights, 16-plants per light, room temps-80F, humidity 45%, co2-1300ppm, nutes- house and garden aqua flakes A/B, cal mag, silica, roots excel, some other random guanos EWC etc, ppms- 600-1100 wk 1-8, ph-6.1, soil- ocean forest, 3 and 5g pots, strains- super glue and sherbet.
K now u got the details my dilemma is this: I created a new veg room with passive air intake (no fan pumping in air), the plants kinda suffocated with co2 around 240 for about 6 weeks, last 2 weeks I fixed the problem and flipped into flower after an 8 week veg. I believe from the lack of co2 they got nutrient locked cause the stems were suppppppper purple, almost black, leaves showed some dmg like calmag deficiency but they still grew. Flipped into flower and gave them a week veg in the new 3 and 5g pots with good ol high co2, lights on at 50% for 3 days then 75% for 3 days then 100%. They were growing slowly but the leaves looked a lot healthier, purple stems stuck around the whole flower cycle.
Now here is where it gets fun.
Once I vegged them in the 3/5g pots for a week to get over transplant shock and light shock I threw them from there current 18/6 to 12/12. They were not as big as they should of been and the purple stems still there but I couldn't wait for stressed plants to never get better so I flowered em to see how they do (not like I had any other veg plants ready to transplant). I expected them to be shit, but they surprised me immediately by jumping into flower from basically day 1 of 12/12. they skipped the whole first 2 weeks of stretching and spend those 2 weeks producing buds. the plant cycle didn't finish 2 weeks earlier, it still ran 8-9 weeks (sherb finishes earlier but I push her), it just spend the 2 weeks getting huge/long white hairs. These buds were buds that ive only seen in experienced hydro operations, just donkey dick buds. my lowest nugs were the size of my tops from previous rounds.
So this round I tried to emulate everything I did last round but they are tall as shit and in week 4/5 with what I now consider tiny little white hairs/buds forming.
Now I searched hard in my brain to think of anything I did differently, trying not to succumb to the idea I need to co2 starve my plants and nute lock them to get this desired effect again.
And I think I might have found it. My last round was in the transition season from winter to spring/summer, so longer days and hotter temps outside later at night so I had to push my light times back which were currently on 12/12 week 1 of flower from 6pm-6am in the winter. Now its spring and summer by the time the flower round finishes I needed to push them back to 10pm-10am but I was already in flower, didn't want to do a big 4 hour dark period all at once to already super stressed out plants. So I cant remember exactly how I did it unfortunately
but I know I stretched it out over days, so I either pushed them back an hour a night for 4 nights, or I put a day break in between each hour push back.So basically I now think I triggered some hormones by giving them 12 hrs light and 13 hrs dark for 4 days either consecutively or with a day break in between. and I will try this next round in like 5 weeks.
