kiwipaulie
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I use a bluelab ph pen, so I can't give advice on this one sorry.
what am i doing wrong?!
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kiwipaulie
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Sweet. Does the fan push the air through the light tube or is it pulling it? It should go filter>fan>ducting>cooltube>ducting out of the grow area
One other thing, do you really need the intake fan. I would personally turn it off for a while and just let the intake be passive. That's what I do. It helps keep the tent in more negative pressure keeping smells jn etc
thatguytom
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I will turn it off live in south and its always hot here so I will have to do it on a day in not working to monitor it and yes I have filter duct fan duct light,tube duct exiting I put it lower last night like yiu suggested haven't seen noticeable yet but only been a few hours ill post some pics that will hell better
kiwipaulie
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Sweet, you won't notice it over night, but it will start to improve hopefully. The reason I asked about the light was because that branch you had woven through the screen look stretched to hell.
Just keep the light as close as you can maintaining good temps. Like I said earlier I can get a 400w lamp 6-8 inches away
kiwipaulie
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One other thing as you mention it's hot where you are. Do you run the light on through the night or day? It gets hot down here I the pacific so I run mine through the night. Ie at the moment 6pm to 6am for flowering. And 6pm to 12am when vegging
hbbum
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24/7 was for your fan or light? The fan can be left on 24x7, looks like there may have been some confusion (maybe it was just me)
Get your light about 12" from the canopy if in a cool tube, and run it on a time 18 hours on, 6 hours off if they are not autos. If autos, I think 20/4 is pretty popular.
Get your light about 12" from the canopy if in a cool tube, and run it on a time 18 hours on, 6 hours off if they are not autos. If autos, I think 20/4 is pretty popular.
kiwipaulie
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I read it that the light was 24/7. I run my fan 24/7 as well.
thatguytom
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sorry was at work thanks for all the advice in gonna work in that stuff after I take a smoke session pics will be up soon do these look healthy for a 1 1/2 weeks in hydroponics from cut clone?
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kiwipaulie
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Looks all good to me. Best thing to do is try not stress, it seems like they can be tricky plants to grow at first. But you'll get there and then realise try can grow quite easy.
When I first started I experimented a lot and still are learning.
thatguytom
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yea I learned alot of stuff doing my entire first grow on my own.. I first started with wanting a super ponics stealthy cabinet but realize I smoke way to damn much said 2.5# a year I burn a pound a month as a fact because buy it monthly or sometimes 2 when really hurting so that not gonna work buy it and still buying bud.. So try tried making one worked at guest but issues piled uo 500$ later wife says fuck it buy a tent she's sick of me wasting money and time thought has enough out of money and trying to use what I had but got throw grow but just barely thinking its something internally I missed because I'm pretty good at arts and crafts and my mind is wild with ideas and creativity but by no means stop with tips or stuff because like I said I'm here to learn and help with what I messed up doing... Just trying to barrow it down what's right and wrong from stuff i tried from reading.. But trying to figure out if that's where I messed up at..
thatguytom
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lol I don't even understand the end of my last thing I wrote...
kiwipaulie
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All good bro, I hear ya. The only thing that you have really done wrong is the distance that lights been. Weed is a light slut as dirtynerd has taught me and he's dam right.
Get the light as low as possibly and the nodes will be tighter and the buds fatter.
I used to grow in the uk and wasn't that successful and then when I started a year ago back growing my first plant I got about 3 ounces. Second grow with 2 plants I got 8 ounces. Third grow with 4 plants I got about 12 ounces. Now I'm doing that one plant scrog and I expect a min of 10, but hopefully I'll pull a pound
thatguytom
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that's awesome man damn I'm hoping I didn't at all come off as trying to seem cocky because that's not what I was thinking of how it seemed when typed just that I read over 1000 reviews kn thousands of products daydreaming about them so just ment to say so don't have to type as much from explaining lingo or a few terms like the basic ones because like i said km here to learn and I only had think like a oz half or something had written down somewhere bug off of 4 plants I believe only since the others all died I had over 30 clones because I knew III have the luck that would happen.. So that's all now I'm understanding slightly how the site works ill definitely ask ya if I don't understand it because I can't afford to lose it again...bout to drop light down ill post pic in 10 min or so after I complete and show ya what I got going on im off tomorrow so gonna try to fix it and set up best of ability with what j have to get what I need as soon and as best as possible..before I'm stuck going with out..worse casebsenario il have pics of everything to ask later if need help or something I've done wrong or should corrlater love site
kiwipaulie
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All good man. Where all here to share and learn. I've learnt so much off other experienced growers it's not funny
thatguytom
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lowered the light like recommended hopefully they enjoi
thatguytom
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here a pic
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thatguytom
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cut the intake fan off to let the inline 450cfm with filter pulling the air from the one open window on bottom tent sucked in nice and tight which means it's doing what I want passive intake air I think it was called correct? Or the other i forgot name gonna check them in the morning to. See how they did I'm still only sitting at 80* with 400w mh which I don't think is all that bad periodically it jumps between 76/81 daily usually when cools out but gonna set them on the 18/6 schedule tomorrow just don't feel like looking through my boxes of stuff at 330am gonna give this timer another chance just a little brinks push in pull kind only problem it had was keep falling out slowly but surely but taking the risk again mounting it better if time starts a slow delay gonna hit the shop and pick up new one in the next couple days gotta check the financial first... Also anybody want to tell me what im doin wrong in simple terms and how I could have prevented it? Its a blueberry headband fem from emerald triangle that i cut amd clone from a now dead soil plant I harvested well almost kinda not.. From last attempt I got a clone from each and a couple from some only lost my personal favorite strain raspberry kush so any tips would be awesome
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thatguytom
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intake off was successful it only raised to 81 high for veg with 100% light power so when wife gets home I'll set it up on a timer like you suggested kiwipaulie hopefully another useful piece of advice given by the awesome people on the site!
kiwipaulie
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Yeah you can see that they have been stretching for the light. They will enjoy that light being closer.
kiwipaulie
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80f is a awesome temp. Personally I would drop the light even lower to get the temp up to 27-28c anything under 30c is sweet