yup that's what I do when I need the humidity up and the heat down, start misting or leave a bucket of water out to evaporate off slowly.
peace!
-mystic
Another thing my digital ballast can output 50%, 75% and 100% power. I jumped the gun
too early on them babies with the 100%. So now for the next few days I'm back at 50%.
I did guess right though that the humidity was a big issue. Earlier today it dropped to 30%.
BTW: Until today I had no thermometer or hygrometer all year long.
Not all the plants were taco'd today as some waited in my bathroom to be transplanted
when I went out shopping. They have all been transplanted today after along day running
around 4 times. I'm very tired now. But I know the plants will live.
At 50% power at this moment the humidity is at 63% and the temp at 22C so that's pretty good.
I do have more seeds but don't want to start any more if I don't have to.
They are growing in anew tent that I'm just starting to get used to. it's my 1st official tent.
I just noticed earlier the 3 velcro windows at the bottom of the tent for extra ventilation.
They are open now and will remain so from now on. I bet had they been opened I may
not have suffered any problems today. You'll have to wait a while for new pics.
Sorry people I tried too hard to fast and have to learn not to push the envelope all the time.
Do know this grow is not over I promise.
So the heat climbed and heat stressed them?
I don't see how these are any different from sativas as far as basic needs especially at this age?
Is this a new tent your still trying to dial in or do you find that they are so much different in there needs than the sativas that you are used to??
Peace GG
Sorry folks, the pics in this post won't be all that pretty.
I'm only posting this so maybe even one person can avoid what I went thru.
BTW: It's the first time I've experienced this Taco leaf thing and was very disappointed in making such
a mistake and will try as hell never to let it happen again. That all happened because my temperature
was too high with low humidity for about 90 minutes at most. I would hate to see what would have if
a person went to work for 8 hours.
It's also my 1st official grow tent with an extraction fan. So go easy please in spanking me.
I even had returned with Ching Chong (aka Chinese food) and it took me well over 2 hours to even look at it.
All that running around getting supplies and being dead tired while losing my appetite because my babies got
beat up sucked big time. I'll never forget this mistake and do plan on beating it as well. To this I came
up with the only plausible idea to save the plants. I suspected those taco'd leave were fried to a crisp and so
they had to go but wasn't sure yet.
So I contacted one person who may know what to do and he confirmed my suspicions that those fried leaves
did have to go as they'll never recover now. As a matter of fact they'll lose more water and just like when your
cloning too much leaves are bad as the cutting wilts. So after catching my wind I pulled out my scissors and
began the mentally brutal duty of trimming away the Taco'd leaves. I noticed that most of the plants despite
being tiny has already developed bud leaves and they were healthy thankfully. Not exposed to the intense
bright light they survived. So the decision to save the damaged plants involved taking off the really fried
fan leaves to expose the still healthy bud leaves to get more light than before was something I kind of
have experience with.
i.e My Kerala Summer Grow.
I hope that the Friesland Indicas will react the same very way my Kerala plants did. Causing branches to grow
faster than ever because of leafing while helping in controlling the height of the plants. I strongly suspect that
if I didn't do this emergency leafing thing that the plants would die due to wasting too much energy on dying
leaves which are probably losing to much water. So like when a person takes clones they trim off the excess
leaves to allow the clone to live. So off the the really bad leaves came off.
I was going to do this anyway. But I wanted to wait until they were 12 inches before doing this leafing thing.
But I bet the plants would never have recovered had I did nothing now. So I removed at least one bad leaf
on all the affected plants.
I've circled where a fan leaf was cut in red. This will allow the bud leaves circled in blue to grow branches.
I know it's a drastic measure. But I had to because the fried fan leaves that I cut off will never get better
and they'll shade the bud leaves and in time the plants would have probably died. So by taking one leaf off
at least. Light will now hit the bud leaves thereby causing branches start growing.
Now here's the damage after the fact:
The circles in red represent where a Taco fried fan leaf was cut off.
The circles in blue is where the bud leaves are that will eventually make branches.
Trimmed Friesland Indica
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Trimmed Friesland Indica with very healthy bud leaves.
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This one will be trimmed dome more once those bud leaves make branches.
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Friesland Indica Group Shot last night after the trimming:
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Those look very nice so far! How old were the beans and how did you germ?
You said your grow tent was next to a bathroom? Humidity and temp are easy to control then; with this fickle weather down here I take really long hot showers. Give the dogs long hot showers, 3 times a day for me.
It'll work for a quick fix until more control on the environment is devised and set in action. I also like the bonding and quality time with them. Lol.
Lol, sometimes they do. I'm definitely not doing my part to conserve water. And my water bill is more outrageous than my electric so....
I think you better get a humidifier instead. You'll save on water at least.
I have a tiny one now. Mine takes an hour or two to raise the humidity
an extra 10-15% higher than ambient. I only thought of using it it after
I bought that humiguide (hygrometer and thermometer combo) this week.
About that and more:
My air temp is a stable 25C and the humidity is at 50-60% now. I'm happy now and so are my plants.
Seeing my plants need extra support I added a gallon jar fermenter into my tent. One way I know that
a person can really make their plants grow faster and be able to tolerate a little more heat is if they
can increase their CO2 levels.
Look at the speed a plant can grow with more carbon dioxide.
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From here:
Carbon Dioxide Enrichment Methods
So since I bought all kind of supplies to make moonshine and vodka this Spring and am not using them now.
This is a good use for them I think. If I ferment even the corn sugar (dextrose) that I purchased with the
wine yeast packets I have along with yeast nutrients. The carbon dioxide level in my place will now jump
dramatically causing the plants to grow faster than before as much as 2X. It's took less than 1/2 an hour
and it started fermenting.
C6H12O6 = dextrose
C6H12O6 → 2 C2H5OH + 2 CO2
I also bought a small propane canister for my potable single burner
camping stove yesterday and I just used it for a few minutes already.
When propane burns using oxygen it creates.
C3H8 = propane
C3H8 + 5O2 → 3CO2 + 4H2O
Everything is produces will help me since I can use the extra water vapor also.
Of course, I won't do this for long periods of times. Just a few minutes at a time.
Maybe once or twice a day as a supplement only to the dextrose fermentation.
In time the plants will convert the CO2 into plant matter and O2.