My 2023 Winter Grow

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Started some Jack Herer auto-fems, growing hempy style in perlite with a soil cap.

Alternating feedings with Dyna-Gro Foliage Pro and GH Maxi-Bloom, also using a bit of cal-mag.

Using a brand new Mars Hydro TS-600 (plus a 23 watt CFL for the first 2 weeks just for the heat)

week 1
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The line up - week 3
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Growing in a bathroom tub, with a small space heater and a wet towel to keep the temps & humidity up....fan in the back
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Nice grow. Get an hid light for the heat of it . Your wasting electricity with a heater. Get a 1000 watt metal halide for veg and you'll be walking around sweating. The cure for cold weather. I do like led in flower for quality , but I blend led and hid when it's cold to keep Temps right.
 
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D586 said:
Nice grow. Get an hid light for the heat of it . Your wasting electricity with a heater. Get a 1000 watt metal halide for veg and you'll be walking around sweating. The cure for cold weather. I do like led in flower for quality , but I blend led and hid when it's cold to keep Temps right.
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I have a 600 HPS and a 315 CMH, and I'll likely blend them with the LED in the future upcoming weeks

BTW: my heater is small and is not on often in such a small room
 
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They look healthy. So that's what counts for sure. A metal halide for veg if it's interchangeable ballast wouldn't be very expensive. I haven't used cmh before. I have heard good things about them though. I love the cold weather for growing though.
 
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Week 4 - they are doing okay, not great but okay.
Will likely give the solo cup gal to a buddy, as we are only legally allowed 4 plants

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It's warmed up enough so I don't need to run the heater...the wet towel is keeping the RH around 60%
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shnkrmn said:
What is your reason for the soil cap on top of perlite? Evaporation control?
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The soil cap provides a light barrier so your roots can develop closer to the top.
It provides nutrients during the early days when not using normal nutes.
Helps contain the perlite as I tip the plant over to drain the leftover water/nutes before adding fresh water/nutes

I also used a soil core to plant the seeds in, mostly because I didn't have any rock-wool

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sh0wtime said:
ure not gonna transplant the one in the cup?
C'mon that's cruel! :D
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I'm only legally allowed 4 plants, so the solo cup was suppose to go to a friend but that hasn't happened.

The cruel act would be to kill it, but I have a hard time doing such an evil act.

Also these plants are hempy, so I'm not sure how that would take to a transplant
 
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Week 9

We had some decent sunshine, so I gave one of the gals some fun in the sun

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A fair few leaves are turning brown on me....we are having a cold snap, the room is on the cool & dry side

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farmingfisherman said:
Wonder if it's caused by adding the 315. How close is it to your plants?
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I don't think so as I have used the 315 CMH several times before....I keep it 24 inches at first, then down to 18 inches

I leaning more towards too low of pH issue or maybe too strong of nutes but most likely cool temps/low RH....but just not really sure.

I pissed around with several nute combination, including Dyna gro, maxi-grow and maxibloom ...and cal-mag.

Thing did go downhill when I moved to the grow-tent in the spare bedroom..... I have to leave a window open to vent out and we have had a very cool winter so my temps & RH have been less than ideal (I do run 24/0 to keep the temps from falling too low).

My temps & RH were much lower compared to the bathroom which has better environment conditions as I vent out via the bathroom exhaust fan
 
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