What helps me in the first weeks during flowering in winter is blowing the hot air from above the lamp to the bottom and set the exhaust to trigger at 77f.
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Well, I do the same thing but with the LED at 70% it generates little heat. It's a good idea to activate the extractor from a certain temperature, but as long as the leaves do not shade the pot (3 gallons), the humidity rises a lot, I have the extractor at 1 so that the humidity does not rise above 70%.
The solution was to stop fooling around, give it 100% and turn it up a little, their good life was over. But it is not enough, it does not go above 75 °F and I cannot raise VPD even to 0.8. It is my first indoor in winter, I have to solve this. I am between buying the ACI heater or a couple of greenhouse bars, I dnt like how they are growing. I also need a fish tank heater...
Thx for watch and for the advice bro.
I feel you, also struggled with it some weeks ago and it can be frustrating.
What also helped me was insulating the tent and restrict passive air intake. Used foam for it but maybe a blanket or two will do.
Is it possible to put the exhaust pipe in the room and extract it passively so a little heat stays inside?
Just throwing in ideas with the hope it helps.
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Days of less than 32 ° are difficult...
I changed the white tray that came with the tent for a black polyethylene one, that was a good change, also made a cycle for the fan. 75-77 finally with the LED at 80%.
I also ordered a greenhouse bar and the next watering will not be with water at 60°, it made them cry.
I'm taking cuttings and rubbing stems along the way. White inferno 3 smells stinky, I also checked 2 Saturnos and 1 Fire Opal but I'm not done yet.
In the first row on the right the 2 rare Chimeras...
Day 12 flowering
They didn't have the greenhouse bars in stock and I cancelled the order. In the end I ordered the AC heater, while waiting for it to arrive I used an 8 meter heating cable, it does its job especially with the lights off but it dries out the soil in the pots a lot.
The heater is awesome, like all AC units. It comes with its thermohygrometer and cable to connect it to the controller if you want. It has a function to set a minimum VPD. I put the nozzle on the fan to distribute the heat.
Now that I look at the picture... I need to clean the fan. Does anyone know where the damn dust is coming from? I have a filter on the induction!
I prepared some microorganism tea, compost and humus (growth) or guano (flowering) in a sock, lactobacillus, a splash of sea water and molasses (liquid w8). Air pump and depending on the water temperature it takes more or less time. They love it.
I hate watering, it drives me crazy, and even more so cleaning up the water that runs off. I'm going to install the drippers even if there are only 10.
Day 20
Things starting to look better now. Buds
Chimera 2 S1 #4 who was in the background on the left, deformed and herm, it's already in the compost bin, #3 deformed and #2 dwarf.....
I went up ec up to 2.7, for some it was too much like this White Inferno, even with the burnt tips it is the one I like the most.
Ring of Saturn are like cats, allergic to water. Especially the 2 largest ones, 15 minutes after watering fallen leaves, mathematical. It doesn't matter the temperature of the water, it doesn't matter the pH, it doesn't matter the EC, with a dripper or without a dripper, they don't like it haha. After 5 hours they are already fine but what a stress they are eating.
The resin party begins!
The next crop will be crazy! There will be some of 16 weeks and others of 8 lol. So far I have germinated 4 Durga Mata and 2 Shiva Skunk, they'll need some weeks of growth, the others can still wait.
These are classics that I have been growing/smoking since 1997 and other by Mr. Ledo.
Day 29
I think they finally stopped stretching, so I put in pots and whatever I had on hand to try to get the canopy to the same height.
I'm poking my nose in to see what they smell like hehe, although I lack experience identifying smells I try... some of the 4 White Inferno smell like bubblegum, I would say strawberry. 3 seems like it will be the most resinous.
The girl who dominates the smell in the closet is this Chimera 2 S1, small but... if you rub the resin on the leaf it smells like jelly beans, caramel, something very sweet but if you stick your nose in it smells very strongly of something fermented, I would say grape, the smell reminds me of red wine. Also, it has a purple branch, it's a bit strange so soon, I suppose that they will end up getting all 5 like that.
I am preparing another round of substrate, I will rotate these 2 during several crops, in the photo you can see some mycelium.
I have new favorite, White Inferno #1, I'm sorry n° 3...
Last irrigation 3200 Ec, I keep increasing, it seems crazy but it is what they ask, I alternate irrigations with 2.5 with others with more.
In this Chimera you can see how it eats the leaves, the orange part below, but there are many like that, so next irigation 3.4, will explode?
Saturns will have very large buds and Fire Opal looks happy but they don't attract my attention.
How to fit 36 plants, or more, I don't know, in a 2x2?.In a few days I will put the growth hole to work. In the Airpots 4 Durga Mata and 2 Shiva Skunk. I had a small accident germinating the ones in the glasses, the plate was saved but the seeds ended up on the floor haha, now I have to differentiate by eye the Kali Mist and the Sweet&Sour from Ledo. I think it won't be difficult.
Day 39
3 weeks left +- but not for all, i think this White Inferno #4 will stay for a few more days, it has more sativa than the others.
Chimera 2 S1 #1, sweet apple, gum something like that.
Chimera 2 S1 #2, sweet fermented wine, stinks. Next to, Fire Opal with Mg symptons, some Epsom salts and /ignore
#3 is deformed, small and weird.
White Inferno #1, I don't move them because then they wouldn't fit again, haha, 16 is crazy.
Ringz of Saturn, These want more N but have leaves to eat...
Day 60
Cleaning all.
Tomorrow I'll cut this Saturn and on Sunday another 7, almost all of them are cleaning well except for a couple who decided to stop drinking.
Another Saturn. As I cut I will leave some photos.
The growing hole does not fit even 1 pin. The largest are Shiva Skunk and Durga Mata feminized, surrounded by 6 Kali Mist and 5 Sweet & Sour and in the glasses 4 Guava Haze and 4 Durlumbo, all regular.
I ordered a 120x60 fabric pot divided into 8 for the sativas, 6 gallons each division but in some there will be 2 plants
One day I'll change my phone for a decent one, I promise. The one I have, if I turn on the macro function, the camera freezes lol
Ringz of Saturn 4
I have 6 Saturns, searching for photos on Google I see this one the same as the mother, Lava Cake
Smells sweet, soft
Saturn 3, buds too big, I shredded to dry it.
Saturn 2
This one has Beleaf traits
White Inferno 1
Foxtail, but only at the tips of branches
I made some hash with the leaves I've been removing over the last few days to allow the light to penetrate better.
White Inferno #2
WI#3, the most resinous
WI#4, too much foxtail and very fluffy buds, took me a while to clean it of leaves.
Chimera 2 S1 #1&2
They also have foxtails, but the buds are harder and more compact. I love their smell. No. 1 is super sweet, like apple gum, and No. 2 smells like wine and caramel.
Fire Opal #2
Saturn #5, the only one that remained green.
Ice Cream Runtz@ LIT farms. I selected it from the previous crop, it produces very little but it is super fast, less than 50 days.
An already dried bud of White Inferno #1
I turn the page and focus on the next one. Bad luck with the regulars. Of the 5 Sweet & Sours, only one girl, and of the 6 Kali Mist, one girl and the other still unsexed. The closet is half empty, of course.
Thanks, I'm very happy, but I still have a lot to improve. Give them more growth, they're too small, or clean them first, they end up very toasted.
As for the smoke, I have no words for the Chimera 2 S1 #1. It's the sweetest thing I've ever smoked, a green apple bubblegum with a hint of anise, but the best thing is that you never stop generating sugary saliva. The 2 is like port wine, but it's complex in terms of flavors. And I also really like the two White Inferno smokes that are already dry; one is like chocolate with that fruity touch of Dantes Inferno, and the other is mostly chocolate, both very sweet. But of the Saturns, I like 3, 4, and 6: creamy cake, but each with a different touch, 6 is cologne cake haha. I'll go crazy tasting 14 different ones, but I think I'll keep several; they're very good.
I went from not having any mothers to having a full cupboard. I got some cuts that should be potent: Ice Cream Cake, Weeding Cake & Permanent Maker from Seedjunky, Dantes 8, Papaya & Amnesia Core. I'm already taking cuttings from them. They'll come in when the Durga and Shiva Skunk come out.
In the end, 2 female Kali Mist. I transferred Durlumbo and Guava Haze to an airpot until they show their sex. I have a cut of Cake Face sativa growing, depending on the girls that come out I will put it in or not. The Durga and Shiva are already starting to flower, on day 16 for all.