The Tale of an Atypical (and Suboptimal) Indoor Grow

[Tropical Grower]

Hi guys

I'd like to share some of my experiences on growing cannabis in suboptimal environments. I live in Medellin, Colombia and have been growing cannabis for at least 20 years. Medellin's climate is a bit too warm and a bit too wet for cannabis, but the plant still manages to survive here, with some help from the grower of course.

Here are some images from my current indoor grow.

-Strain: unknown F2. It has a typical flowering time of 8 weeks. Very stretchy. All plants are sisters and grown from seed.
-Lights: 3300 watts of led lamps (mostly Mars SP 3000).
-Area: 15 x 7 ft.
-Substrate: mostly sphagnum peat with small amounts of both compost and vermicompost.
-Nutes: DIY.
-Container size: about 2.5 gal
-Temperature with lights on: 80-86 °F
-Current RH: 40-50%. It can be a lot higher during the rainy season
-Irrigation: hand watered (yup, I'm basically a slave)
-Room: semi-open with natural ventilation and some fans to improve air circulation
-Pest pressure: off the charts
-Disease pressure: off the charts


Day 9 of bloom. Lights off.

 

[Itsmychoice]

Best of luck this run sir, they are looking green and healthy.

 

[Tropical Grower]

Best of luck this run sir, they are looking green and healthy.

Thanks

 

[420PyRoS]

I love seeing happy plants. Those are happy plants!!

 

[Creeperpark]

Hi guys

I'd like to share some of my experiences on growing cannabis in suboptimal environments. I live in Medellin, Colombia and have been growing cannabis for at least 20 years. Medellin's climate is a bit too warm and a bit too wet for cannabis, but the plant still manages to survive here, with some help from the grower of course.

Here are some images from my current indoor grow.

-Strain: unknown F2. It has a typical flowering time of 8 weeks. Very stretchy. All plants are sisters and grown from seed.
-Lights: 3300 watts of led lamps (mostly Mars SP 3000).
-Area: 15 x 7 ft.
-Substrate: mostly sphagnum peat with small amounts of both compost and vermicompost.
-Nutes: DIY.
-Container size: about 2.5 gal
-Temperature with lights on: 80-86 °F
-Current RH: 40-50%. It can be a lot higher during the rainy season
-Irrigation: hand watered (yup, I'm basically a slave)
-Room: semi-open with natural ventilation and some fans to improve air circulation
-Pest pressure: off the charts
-Disease pressure: off the charts


Day 9 of bloom. Lights off.

Are you using sphagnum peat or Pro mix? Also, are you using tap water or RO water?

 

[revegeta666]

Suerte parcero! Se ven felices

 

[dimodz]

are you using actrive carbon filter to neutral the air that now smell comes out after the filtering .,?

 

[Tropical Grower]

Are you using sphagnum peat or Pro mix? Also, are you using tap water or RO water?

Just sphagnum peat. This season I'm using the Klassmann brand. Looks like it comes from Europe.
It's just tap water. I let it sit for at least 24 hours and use it as it is. Medellin's tap water is super soft. About 20ppm calcium.

 

[Tropical Grower]

Suerte parcero! Se ven felices

Gracias hermano

 

[Tropical Grower]

are you using actrive carbon filter to neutral the air that now smell comes out after the filtering .,?

No filter

 

[Tropical Grower]

Day 11

 

[Tropical Grower]

Yesterday, Medellin's weather blessed us with this sexy RH

 

[Tropical Grower]

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