Diary PCBuds mini-grow

[PCBuds]

No my friend. You can grow without any problem with a 2700k. Also in veg.
I like more the 4000k.

3500k is almost a 4000k.
4000k have a little bit more deep blue.

I had say "i never grow with a 3000k"
I think

:friends:

OK, let me rephrase my question...


I have enough 5000k LED strips available in storage so that I could replace all my wall strips with 5000k.
That would leave my entire closet at 5000k.


If you were me, would you replace all or some of the wall strips with 5000k?

Should I mix them up,? Maybe every second strip?

Would it really make any difference?


I want to encourage my plants to grow tall while still fitting in my closet.

 

[ReikoX]

In general,, higher Kelvin strips, 4000K-5000K, have more blue spectrum and cause a plant to stay bushy and branchy. 2700K-3000K is a good range to cause a plant to stretch more, especially during flower. So I would say ypu want less of those 5000K because you keep saying you want your closet plant to stretch more.

 

[Caio]

No. LITFA. Remember it. Lool i'm tipsy.
I think that 3500/4000k is the best veg/flo spectrum for cannabis.

If you wanna stretch the plant you need low intensity 2700k.
2700k have 2 different behaviur: high intensity (squat dense plants) and low intensity (lanky very stretch plants).
But with low intensity you lose precious days of growth (no nodes no buds).

:friends:

 

[PCBuds]

So I would say you want less of those 5000K because you keep saying you want your closet plant to stretch more.

Well that's great news !!

Not only am I already set up properly, I don't have to swap out my strips, and that suits my laziness perfectly.

My LIFTA it really working for me now.



Even my seed...
It's LIFTing out of the soil.
I am putting drops of distilled water on it to soften the shell and taking pictures, but I really am trying hard to LIFTA.

 

[PCBuds]

She's Alive !!

 

[Caio]

.......LITFA.......remember it Pcbuds!

 

[PCBuds]

.......LITFA.......remember it Pcbuds!

Yes.
I'm trying my hardest.

I am putting single drops of water on the shell to keep it soft though, and I am taking pictures.


I've decided to turn my phone off and LIFTA when I'm drinking too, so that I don't post stupid crap. Lol

I'm on my second drink.
I'll be shutting my phone off shortly. Lol

 

[PCBuds]

Double post...

Something went screwy and both were deleted?


The baby is doing OK but she is slow and has a purple stem.
I think it's because she's cold. It's only 17.5°C on the top of the soil.
I'm not going to worry about it. Other plants have been cold on the window sill and they did fine but seemed to just take longer to finish.








The closet plant is doing great, she's got pistils all over now and is stretching.
She is just over 24" tall now.




















I've switched to half Maxigrow and half Maxibloom nutes for the transition.

 

[PCBuds]

The shell is off...

 

[PCBuds]

She is starting to flower.
Some of the side branches...















The top of the main cola...

 

[ReikoX]

Looks like you chose a good time to switch to transition nutrients.

 

[PCBuds]

Looks like you chose a good time to switch to transition nutrients.

I will wait for the dime size flowers that you mentioned before switching to the Maxibloom.

 

[PCBuds]

Something went screwy.

Your post showed up four times.

Maybe my thread got hacked. Lol

 

[PCBuds]

The baby is getting taller, but she is purple and hasn't opened up yet.
I figure it's just the cold.

 

[PCBuds]

The closet plant is really getting her stretch on !!







She grew 1 1/2" since yesterday.
At this rate, I may have have to top her ?
She's almost 26" tall now.











My "basil" looks good.







My bottom fan leaves are shriveled up.

I'm wondering if it's better to remove them or let the plant resorb the nutrients ?
The leaves aren't blocking any light from getting to any other leaves, so I don't know what's best.
I don't think the plant is wasting any resources on them, and are actually pulling resources from them?

I think I'm going to be removing some of the other fan leaves.
There is plenty of other leaves and lots of light for them, but the bigger fan leaves are blocking the light from reaching them.

 

[Caio]

Let the plant absorbe the older leaves.
Don't top the plant now or you lose yield. Do an heavy stress training to that.

Gorgeus plant

 

[PCBuds]

Let the plant absorbe the older leaves.
Don't top the plant now or you lose yield. Do an heavy stress training to that.

I'll just leave the bottom fan leaves.
I'm debating about removing some of the other fan leaves, even though they still look healthy.


I don't want to top her but I don't know how tall she is going to get.

I will have to wait and cut off the top when she is about to touch the lights.

She can't touch the lights because she will get burnt and she could burn out my strips.
I don't have sheilds on my ceiling strips and I didn't coat them with my conformal silicone gell.

I know it's wrong to top a plant that late but I don't know how tall she's going to get, and I don't have enough room to bend her sideways in my skinny closet.

It does suck to cut the top off the main cola, but there's not too much I can do about it.
I have done it before, and the plant completely stopped growing taller, so I should be able to wait until she's about 3" from the lights.

It would be nice to have a plant tall enough to have to top.
I've had short plants that only half filled my closet since I installed my LED strips.

She's got about 15" of room left right now.

Gorgeus plant

Thanks.

I think she's locking great.

I want to make Reiko proud of his daughter.

Things are really coming together with this grow and plant.

Lots of LITFA, and no drunken gardening. Lol

 

[ReikoX]

I don't like to top, rather I will flop it over. I do this all the time with autos. Take that main cola and gently move the stem back and forth until it flops over 90°. In a day or two it will turn back up toward the light.

 

[Caio]

Do an heavy stress training to the top.
Take with your thumb and forefinger the stem and move them left and right many time (each time with a little more force than the first one) until you hear a "crack". Tha you can point the top down side. In 1-2 days she recover.

Like tomato, an adult cannabis plant can substain a brutal ammount of damage.

 

[PCBuds]

I don't like to top, rather I will flop it over. I do this all the time with autos. Take that main cola and gently move the stem back and forth until it flops over 90°. In a day or two it will turn back up toward the light.

Oh man !!!
I dunno about that.
I really don't think I could pull that off without snapping my plant in half.
I don't want to be practicing a new technique on a plant that is looking so awesome.

And I'm not even sure that she will get too tall.

When I cut the top off of those other plants, the other branches seemed to keep growing and catch up, and the main cola still filled in and fattened up.

I think I'd rather take a relatively small hit with yeild than potentially lose half my plant.

I figure less resources going to the main cola because it's missing it's top, will go to the other branches.


It would be a shame to cripple such a beautiful plant.

And it flies right in the face of LITFA. Lol