CalBear4Life
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I don't think you need to worry that much about the humidity...in fact you are going to want it lower when you go into flower to prevent mold and rot
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the humidifier looks nice; what kind are you using??
if ur running a sealed room u can get the humidity up there but when u exhaust it's the first thing to go... maybe put it outside the tent; high rh% outside would transfer inside more evenly perhaps
looking good; nice idea on the eyelets
if ur running a sealed room u can get the humidity up there but when u exhaust it's the first thing to go... maybe put it outside the tent; high rh% outside would transfer inside more evenly perhaps
looking good; nice idea on the eyelets
ITryToGrow
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@opt1c and IAmNug:
hmm, thanks for the advice... I really appreciate it, but I'm not sure it's such a good idea...
The room the tent is situated in is an actual room in an apartment, not a basement or something like that.
Sure, no one lives in that particular room but I'm afraid that I would get some issues (mold and so on) from keeping the room at 70% rh. Not to mention that the ballasts (4) are placed there.
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hmm, thanks for the advice... I really appreciate it, but I'm not sure it's such a good idea...
The room the tent is situated in is an actual room in an apartment, not a basement or something like that.
Sure, no one lives in that particular room but I'm afraid that I would get some issues (mold and so on) from keeping the room at 70% rh. Not to mention that the ballasts (4) are placed there.
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IamNug
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@opt1c and IAmNug:
hmm, thanks for the advice... I really appreciate it, but I'm not sure it's such a good idea...
The room the tent is situated in is an actual room in an apartment, not a basement or something like that.
Sure, no one lives in that particular room but I'm afraid that I would get some issues (mold and so on) from keeping the room at 70% rh. Not to mention that the ballasts (4) are placed there.
honestly, I'm gonna go ahead and say 70% seems like a high rh and I'd be more worried about problems with the plants at that rh than problems with the room the tent is in. Just the first thing that comes to mind, I don't see the need for 70% RH currently or ever for that matter.
Not trying to knock your technique, I love your setup, just the rh thing is somewhat trivial to your success at this point. This is my own opinion, I could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure I know what I'm talking about. I'd like others to respond as well with what they think would be best. so you have more info about tuning your rh balance.
Where does the humidified air go now after its used? outside?
Your plants are coming along very well either way I think, on the verge of exploding I bet. I will continue to follow your updates
Thanks for sharing!
ITryToGrow
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honestly, I'm gonna go ahead and say 70% seems like a high rh and I'd be more worried about problems with the plants at that rh than problems with the room the tent is in. Just the first thing that comes to mind, I don't see the need for 70% RH currently or ever for that matter.
Not trying to knock your technique, I love your setup, just the rh thing is somewhat trivial to your success at this point. This is my own opinion, I could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure I know what I'm talking about. I'd like others to respond as well with what they think would be best. so you have more info about tuning your rh balance.
Where does the humidified air go now after its used? outside?
Your plants are coming along very well either way I think, on the verge of exploding I bet. I will continue to follow your updates
Hi Nug!
Don't worry about knocking my technique! That's why I'm here.
I'm the first one to admit that I don't hold all the answers, far from it.The idea with the 70% RH during lights on and 60% during lights off comes from something called Vapor Pressure Deficit or VPD.
You can read about it here.
And using the calculator linked to in that thread I put in my ambient and leaf temps and a air rh, and try to hit the 0.9Kpa mark. Above 70% however, the carbon-filter can't do it's job properly.
I'm just doing my best to make all the variables optimum!
But I'm also a worrier and suffer from OCD. LOL!
So maybe you're right, maybe I shouldn't worry so much about the RH.
The humidified air goes outside now, I had it recirculate at first, but I got temps problem when I did that. So out it goes.
Oh, and opt1c: The humidifier is a Faran HR-50.
I hope you're right about the exploding! I can't wait to flip them!
Cheers,
ITTG
ITryToGrow
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Hi maikie! 
Thanks!
Thanks!
ITryToGrow
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It's 12/12 time!
It's 12/12 time!
Hi all!
So, first some pics:
So today was the day of the 12/12 flip.
Almost everyone are showing pre-flowers. I got a couple of monsters, and one or two runts, the rest are regular. Kinda varying phenos which is a little bit annoying, but I guess that's life.
Took about 40 clones today, so hopefully two or three runs from now I'll be down to two or three keeper-phenos.
So, despite the problems I've had with nutes and humidity, thinks are looking OK I think. Not great, but OK.
I tried placing the humidifier outside the tent, and that almost worked. I got the RH up to about 50% the problem was that my windows to the outside were sweating, which I think is a tell-tale for a grow-op. So it had to go.
Also the outside temp has started to rise significantly so I had to engage the AC, which also prevented me from using the humy since the AC has the side-effect that it de-humidifies.
Next step is to try and connect the humy to the tent via ducting, if THAT doesn't work I'm afraid the humy has to go, and the plant's will have to fend for them selfs when it comes to RH.
I will do my best to make sure temps are good to somewhat alleviate the RH-problem.
Oh yeah, they ladies are getting to be pretty big, and very bushy so they're getting burned by the vertical bulb.
Bad planning on my part I suppose, so what I'm going to do unless someone else has a better idea is to encase the bulbs in cooltubes.
Thanks for stopping by!
Cheers!
/ITTG
It's 12/12 time!
Hi all!
So, first some pics:
So today was the day of the 12/12 flip.
Almost everyone are showing pre-flowers. I got a couple of monsters, and one or two runts, the rest are regular. Kinda varying phenos which is a little bit annoying, but I guess that's life.
Took about 40 clones today, so hopefully two or three runs from now I'll be down to two or three keeper-phenos.
So, despite the problems I've had with nutes and humidity, thinks are looking OK I think. Not great, but OK.
I tried placing the humidifier outside the tent, and that almost worked. I got the RH up to about 50% the problem was that my windows to the outside were sweating, which I think is a tell-tale for a grow-op. So it had to go.
Also the outside temp has started to rise significantly so I had to engage the AC, which also prevented me from using the humy since the AC has the side-effect that it de-humidifies.
Next step is to try and connect the humy to the tent via ducting, if THAT doesn't work I'm afraid the humy has to go, and the plant's will have to fend for them selfs when it comes to RH.
I will do my best to make sure temps are good to somewhat alleviate the RH-problem.
Oh yeah, they ladies are getting to be pretty big, and very bushy so they're getting burned by the vertical bulb.
Bad planning on my part I suppose, so what I'm going to do unless someone else has a better idea is to encase the bulbs in cooltubes.
Thanks for stopping by!
Cheers!
/ITTG
T
Tarus Bulbar
WOW man those sure have come along nicely!!
Love those aircooled reflectors!!
Keep it growing bro,Cheers!!
Love those aircooled reflectors!!
Keep it growing bro,Cheers!!
ITryToGrow
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Nokturnl420
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Lookin good brother! Keep up the fine work!!
Cheers
Cheers
ITryToGrow
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Yay I'm pregnant...
Yay I'm pregnant...
...with about 45 babies!
The plan is to have them root, which takes about 2-3 weeks with the method I use. Then they will get vegged for about 5-6 weeks (the ones in the tent needs to finish) under a weak light and weak nutes. The plan is to keep them as small as possible.
Then I'll take about 24 of the best ones and put them in the tent for a 2-3 week veg under some real light.
Good plan? ?
Yay I'm pregnant...
...with about 45 babies!
The plan is to have them root, which takes about 2-3 weeks with the method I use. Then they will get vegged for about 5-6 weeks (the ones in the tent needs to finish) under a weak light and weak nutes. The plan is to keep them as small as possible.
Then I'll take about 24 of the best ones and put them in the tent for a 2-3 week veg under some real light.
Good plan?
?Backward_Z
Member
cool thread, nice pictures. thanks
ITryToGrow
Member
Root porn!
Root porn!
Root porn!
ITryToGrow
Member
It's a waiting game...
It's a waiting game...
I could stare at pictures like this for ever! The beauty of nature.
Slightly uneven canopy, not much to do about atm. Will probably switch to HPS's in the magnums this weekend, hopefully they'll take off a bit more and I can even out the canopy a bit then.
It's a jungle...
pH is going like fucking crazy again. 6.0 one day and 4.0 the next. Will need to flush with h2o2 again. At least plants and roots look healty right? Some heat-stress tho, which I can't for the life of me figure out why? Ambients are ~77F and leaf ~75F and it doesn't feel umcomfortable holding my hand under the lights.
Ah well, guess they're just sensitive young ladies.
cheers folks!
It's a waiting game...
I could stare at pictures like this for ever! The beauty of nature.
Slightly uneven canopy, not much to do about atm. Will probably switch to HPS's in the magnums this weekend, hopefully they'll take off a bit more and I can even out the canopy a bit then.
It's a jungle...
pH is going like fucking crazy again.
6.0 one day and 4.0 the next. Will need to flush with h2o2 again. At least plants and roots look healty right? Some heat-stress tho, which I can't for the life of me figure out why? Ambients are ~77F and leaf ~75F and it doesn't feel umcomfortable holding my hand under the lights.Ah well, guess they're just sensitive young ladies.
cheers folks!
Nice set up ITTG.
What brand of humidifier is that, I can't find any with that kind of output.
What brand of humidifier is that, I can't find any with that kind of output.
ITryToGrow
Member
Hey Sam!
Thanks!
It's a Faran HR-50 it outputs 1gph. There are smaller versions as well.
Thanks!
It's a Faran HR-50 it outputs 1gph. There are smaller versions as well.
ITryToGrow
Member
Hey Raph!
Hmm, never thought about res size to keep things stable. There are 4 nft-tables, 2 res', so thats 2 tables per res. Res' are 16 gallons each, so a total of 32 gallons.
Think I need more?
Thanks for stopping by!
Cheers
Hmm, never thought about res size to keep things stable. There are 4 nft-tables, 2 res', so thats 2 tables per res. Res' are 16 gallons each, so a total of 32 gallons.
Think I need more?
Thanks for stopping by!
Cheers
