greetings. growing 30 odd regulars in my attic. the thing that may be of interest is that its heading into winter and the plants are currently about one week into flowering . there is no insulation under the tile roof other than reflective lighting paper . temperatures in the autumn right now are fluctuating between 0-8 degrees and can easily go into minus and snow at anytime . im using led quantum boards and just one hps lamp . would have been good to get a few more hps lamps up there but can not be bothered . natural ventilation through the roof tiles and attic window. i also have two carbon scrubbers which are not connected to ducting - just circulating the air . lets see what happens pictures will pop up soon .
there is some c99 and one jack herer which are in the very late stages from a previous run, they have been pollinated and im hoping they have seeds ready soon. the rest of the plants are a bit of a mix up of various seeds. ill be chopping the males with the exception of maybe keeping one or two. plants grown in a soil mix .
hi . ill update that shortly. its definitely not ideal . the distance from the lights to the floor is probably around 130 cm but ill get the accurate measure up here .
on previous runs this summer there was not a lot of light damage to the plants . the one hps that i have now running is actually a cmh so its also fine to get the plants quite close to that i have noticed. anyhow , a bit of light burn did not affect the yield or the health of the plants overall.
temperatures currently into minus 2 overnight for the next three days . these plants had better be tough. the yellow looking plants in the photos are actually the pollinated plants at the end of their cycle(hopefully soon …) im basically going to answer the question " can i grow in winter ". i did not select any special genetics to help with this consciously. also autoflowers are not interesting to me . so im guessing at the moment that the plants need watering around once every 5-7 days. they are on 11 hour days now and i may drop it to 10 hours after another month if they survive .
not too shabby for a ghetto grow . 1.5 kw per hour -6 lights - 6m of underroof growing area . however, its true that there is zero cleaning going on . its just left to its own and causes no issues . ive done the whole apartment thing full of plants in multiple tents and am definitely liking the plants having a separate area away from everything . how is your ghetto grow going ?
ive pulled of some reasonable buds from such a set up so far. it is not 2 dimensional with the light distance but 3d with spacialdistances and 4 d with intensity and light timing, the plants simply suck the light up if you have most factors balanced. myth bust number one for me … the plants dont mind. its been minus 4 the last few days and im about to do a update. they also are fine right now. … going for the myth fuck bust here .
here is the latest photos since about 4 days . its been around 1-3 degrees in the day and minus 4 at night. plants in slow motion for sure but nothing serious going on . watering is going to slow down and im interested to see if the buds start off developing well .
pictures will pop up soon .
