FWIW= for what it's worth. Chaz at the moment with an ambient room temp of 66 deg & the hood at 6" above the canopy I'm holding steady at 73 deg. Sounds like you really just need to move more air than what your current setup is capable of providing.
How do you read my mind? Saving some $$$ up for a new fan/filter combo for the 4x4 and put that one into the 3x3. What size fan do you run and what is the size of your cab? And where do you exhaust to?
Multi-Strain Week # 4 Feeding update: (Video/Pic Update) [YOUTUBE]/bFiAO3afykY[/YOUTUBE] Blue Dream Haze: Critical Jack: Purple Wreck: Pineapple Express: Now for some quetions. For the past few days I've been running my 1K on full and keeping it about 24"-26" above the canopy. If I even could keep it at 12" the light wouldn't hit the enitre canopy. I was using the grow room calculator and even when I use that to figure out the watts/lumes per sq/ft, using the 1K at 2.5 ft is more beneficial than running a 600W at 12". The calculations came out as follows: 4x4 tent, 1000 Watts, 2.5ft above canopy, I get 67 watts/sq ft, and 8,750 lumens/sq ft. Now If I had it running as a 600 W and kept the light 12" above the canopy the numbers would come out as follows: 4x4 tent, 600 Watts, 1ft above the canopy, the calculations came out to be 41 watts/sq ft and 5,750 lumens/sq ft. So I guess I am doing things correctly right? I always thought I wanted at least 50 watts per sq ft? I used this grow calculator: http://www.uk420.com/growroomtools2.php Also, with how I'm running the light my temps are staying in the low 80's compared to the low 90's with the 600W at 14".
can u show me a pic of where your thermometer probe is???? u may have it at a wierd position and it getting too much light and giving a high temp possibly
I keep it right in the middle of the SCROG, closest to the light, so ya, where the temp meter is at is the hottest point in the tent. I'm more interested in the questions I asked as far as distance and lumens/watts per/sqft.
Methinks you asked this one before and got an answer. :eusa_eh: Big, far and cooler vs smaller, closer and hotter. You need to test it for yourself in your own garden and that's going to require a grow or two. bro but that be the only way.
what are you talking about the perlite changing colors? just skimmed the video don't have time right now..but put in print. if it's getting a little green your fine, don't understand what you were saying
I planted the rapid rooters directly into the perlite, 3 days later right above the perlite began to turn a yellowish color, I let it go for 3 days, removed the colored perlite, replaced it with new perlite, and stacked the perlite up the stalk because they stretched. So, now the perlite is atleast an 1" to 2" above the rapid rooter and the perlite keeps turning the brownish/yellow color. Probably not a big deal. The discoloration doesn't go down at all, it's all on the surface. No problem. Their getting transplanted in 2 days anywho. xD
No, they're a great place to start. What you're looking for is the fine tuning no calculator can give you. Every garden is trade offs in what works versus what's ideal. For you it's the choice between better light coverage or proper temps. One will perform better than the other in your situation and you can only figure out which by running the garden. Like I said the first time....if temps are within, or close to, the upper range I'd go high wattage and reduce if the plants are overly stressed by the temps.
Here is the Auto Cheese 4 days away from picking. She is turning purple!!! It's mad weird, but cool. She smells soooo fruity when you smell your fingers after touchin her, but you put your nose into her and she smells literally like shit, weird stuff. I always thought you could bring out extra colors in your plants by dropping the night time temps down. I have atleast a 20 degree drop from day to night, consistantly. Is that to much of a drop? These pictures don't do this plant justice, it looks sooooo much better in person. Like in these pics you can barley even see the purple, but when I look at it I can see it all over every bud site.
I wouldn't worry to much about that, I've seen some green in veg, not sure exactly what it is but never had trouble from it. Looking good
I had a similar problem with my perlite on occasion. I thought that the top of the perlite in hempy setups occasionally burned was all. That cheese looks good! Way to go.
Okay. Thx buddy. I have never had seedlings grow this fast before, so far it's looking hempy might do the trick for me. 2-3 more days of flush for the cheese and then the youngins go into the 3x3 under the 400W MH in their 5 gallon hempy bucket homes. Thanks! Thanks man, and the advice on not throwing out that runt plant was great, it turned around and is just as far as the others.
O shit, never thought of that, prob is getting a bit burnt. Doesn't affect the plants, and never goes below the surface. Curious to see if it goes away after I put them in 5 gallon buckets. Thanks for the compliments!
I upgraded my hempy buckets. I really like the idea of SCROG, but with two tents, 1 for veg, and 1 for flower, it's not possible. So I found these neat little things at K-mart for $4.99 a piece (Selling at the hydro store for $12.99) I now prevail the super hempy bucket! /monthly_2012_11/57a6ca7465172_UpgradedHempyBucket.jpg.037a66f149a0cbb28e3f082ac5204ca4.jpg
