1st grow - PC Grow Box

[HuffnPufferfish]

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not everyone has 2k screens and dozen mb connections, and lets be honest, theyre not wallpaper quality, what do we wanna see in 4000 pixels detail?

 

[ksdufh]

Btw, I'd like your insight. If I understand this correctly in the following picture we can see 6 growth tips.

If I flipped lights tomorrow, would those 6 stems grow into fully fledged colas? Or do I have to wait for them to get bigger?

 

[ksdufh]

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not everyone has 2k screens and dozen mb connections, and lets be honest, theyre not wallpaper quality, what do we wanna see in 4000 pixels detail?

Fair enough. I just really hate low res images.

 

[Mr. Sparkle]

Btw, I'd like your insight. If I understand this correctly in the following picture we can see 6 growth tips.

If I flipped lights tomorrow, would those 6 stems grow into fully fledged colas? Or do I have to wait for them to get bigger?

well not cola's per say but definitely each one will become a bud site, and they will extend as well

You can flip now if you want or i would give a bit more time to the other plant before doing so

 

[ksdufh]

well not cola's per say but definitely each one will become a bud site, and they will extend as well

You can flip now if you want or i would give a bit more time to the other plant before doing so

Great, thanks! Yeah, I'm going to wait for the second guy to catch up a little bit first and flip then. One more question if you don't mind; what kind of training techniques can I use during flowering?

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FIM'ed the little guy today at the 4th node.

Before

After

 

[Mr. Sparkle]

Great, thanks! Yeah, I'm going to wait for the second guy to catch up a little bit first and flip then. One more question if you don't mind; what kind of training techniques can I use during flowering?

Same stuff you're doing now, you usually only have to do anything when your between week 1-2 of flower up to the third or fourth week, past that you usually don't have to train anymore, as by then the plants vertical stretch is over and its working on building buds.

 

[ksdufh]

Same stuff you're doing now, you usually only have to do anything when your between week 1-2 of flower up to the third or fourth week, past that you usually don't have to train anymore, as by then the plants vertical stretch is over and its working on building buds.

Appreciate the info

 

[ksdufh]

So I watered them the other day with 0.75 ml/L BioGrow from BioBizz and they both just grew monstrously. I'll switch to 12/12 tomorrow after 3 weeks of veg.

 

[doams]

what is that blue thing at the bottom of picture with white cable?

 

[ksdufh]

what is that blue thing at the bottom of picture with white cable?

Oh it's a mini usb humidifier as I had trouble keeping humidity above 40%. Works ok-ish.

 

[ksdufh]

My ladies are really starting to grow. I'm trying to keep their height as low as possible using LST but I'm thinking about SCROG as well. What are your opinions?

Also I'm thinking about defoliating the big plant a bit as it's really crowded on the lower level.

This is kind of what I'm thinking of doing:

 

[sillyhead123]

What light are you using?

 

[ksdufh]

What light are you using?

It's the ASL30A by Astir Grows.

 

[ksdufh]

I installed a mesh shield at the intake of the carbon filter/exhaust as some leaves were getting pretty close.

Did some defoliation as well and that's all I removed from the big plant.

 

[jonhova]

I like your protective screen

 

[ksdufh]

I like your protective screen

Thanks, all I did was bend a single square of wire mesh at the right places

Quick update:

 

[Hen]

Oh it's a mini usb humidifier as I had trouble keeping humidity above 40%. Works ok-ish.

Where did you get it?

 

[ksdufh]

Where did you get it?

A local Greek site. I found it on amazon as well, but as you can see it doesn't exactly have stellar reviews.

The biggest issue is that it shuts off after a few hours so you need to re-plug it constantly.

 

[ksdufh]

So my babies had been getting a little too tall. Did some emergency LST today to keep them in check. The big plant before and after:

Before

After

Also temps have been rising steadily the last couple of weeks as summer is approaching. Which means during noon it can get as high as 28-29 C inside the box. I'm going to replace my intake fan with one like the ones I have in the exhaust (powerful & silent). Although this one is powerful I can't really rev it up too high because it gets too loud.

I keep my window and balcony door open to create some current which does help some. I'm thinking about getting a big fan to blow on the pc from outside, though I'll have to do some tests first to see if it's worth it.


In the meantime I tried this - placing an ice pack inside the front cover of the pc. It drops temps by 1-2 C (though it does raise humidity a bit) and lasts 3-4 hours. It's more like a backup for when temps get too high.

Making some room inside the cover by grinding any bits of plastic in the way

Fixtures for keeping the ice pack high enough so it doesn't block the intake

And the whole thing assembled

 

[ksdufh]

How are they looking? I'm worried they look a bit unhealthy.