Got my heat situation more sorted out, previously the white tube was just facing the heater and sucking in some ambient hot air, most heat going to waste hardly even heating the cold basement lung room.
Much better now!
T duct to vent it to my new veg tent too if needed when I start peppers and some new photos in a few weeks
(Excuse my poor woodworking skills and the curved board I was using 
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Just over 3 weeks so far and fuck am I tired of filling this 3L humidifier 2-3x a day
Always gotta remember morning and night, can’t wait for these girls to get a bit bigger and start putting off their own humidity! Large dehumidifier that drains to a sump sits behind the tent so lowering humidity is definitely easier than raising it. Atleast right now in winter… 
Oh well, off to sleep
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Re: Adding humidity – It’s tough to do, especially in the depths of winter, when you’ve got a furnace drying out the entire house. My “grow room” is a converted closet, and I have yet to discover the way to keep it at a plant-happy level of humidity during winter.
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Not even a larget size humidifier? This 3L levoit keeps up fairly well in a 4x2, i wish it had a wire sensor for humidity level though because where it is it senses its like 20% lower than it makes the room which makes it a bit finnicky to set at times.
the fact that im growing in a 60-65 degree basement doesnt help either, so i had to port the heat from the heater in as seen in the post above, so its all a wild balancing act for my first winter grow but based on the 72-74ish leaf temp and 77 tent temp im getting the vpd pretty in line the past few days since upgrading the heat. previously had like 65 leaf temp and 74 in the tent
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I’ve got a little (5 liter) humidifier that I sometimes run in the closet. If I keep it at the lowest setting and don’t leave the exhaust fan on, it becomes like a tropical rain forest. If I turn on the exhaust fan, most of the humidity gets sucked out. …So I might turn the humidifier up a notch or two and leave the exhaust fan on, which means constantly refilling the humidifier.
If the humidifier could be turned on and off automatically (like with an Inkbird sensor), I could probably find a setting that would work. Unfortunately, the humidifier gets turned on by pressing one of the buttons that sets humidity levels (different buttons for low, medium and high). So it cannot be turned on and off, and resume the last settings. (If I end up doing more winter growing, I may have to find a better humidifier.)
The Levoit ones are fairly cheap and have a WiFi enabled app I can use from anywhere, the 3L keeps my 4x2 tent at 65%ish with only 2 fills a day morning and night even with like 45%rh in the lung room @MrGreenJeans
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My 2 @SubzeroIceKold testers are the most vigorous by a long shot! The one in the black grow bag was popped about 6 days after the other. The GB x PN in the can isn’t so happy, nor the Blimburn seed in a 16oz cup… those solo cup grows have it dialed in for sure!
Check out the funky branching on the one GB x PN, 5 branches from node 2, 2 on one side 3 on the other!
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Thank you for tagging me. I am
So happy to see these. My canna cheese c Galaxy Brain have been so vigorous. It’s insane.
This was yesterday. But today I think I saw canna cheese pop right next to supafreak(photo) and lemon butter breath (auto)
Check this @Rinsewarrior13
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@SubzeroIceKold girls got some LST this morning, they were getting tall quick so hopefully this’ll make them bush out!
I have yet to just LST and not top so I’m looking forward to seeing how these go!
Hopefully the squat bushy autos on the right start to pop off soon!
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Woooo looking good. Pop as many I always have more.
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Pretty bummed… seems all 4 plants are starting to flower, around 40 days from seed and all still scrawny as shit…
Was doing a run of autos to try to get a bit ahead on headstash so I had more time to grow out some photos next and not be without smoke or have to spend money out of pocket to buy bud, but here we are 40 days in and I’m feeling like it was a total waste of time.
My first photos I grew were way bigger 40 days, pulled close to 10oz off 2 plants in a 4x2, now I feel like I’ll be lucky to pull 2oz off these 4 autos 
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One of my plants from my first photoperiod run, bagseed at day 37 here, compared to day 39 of my current grow as seen above
Idk if it was the cold temps these autos started in or what, but I’m kind of wishing I had just started some more photos right about now…
New seed heating mat and more goodies coming Wednesday for the veg tent to start veggies for the year and I guess some more photos too
I’m thinking the 5150 TK x Chem 91 I have from CSI 
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Most of yours actually look pretty good to me. The front right with the “Dang” visible on the label is a bit far into flower for its size, but the three on the left side and one back right look great.
Autos will keep right on growing as they flower, I’ve only done a couple photoperiod grows, but they seem to have a defined stretch and then stop growing and plump their buds. My autos just keep going, they flower from not quite the end of veg all through stretch and then finally stop growing to put on bud weight. Yours don’t look like they’ve stretched yet, and the flowers aren’t a sign they won’t. They ought to triple in size for you.
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Thanks for the encouragement @RainToday! The left 2 in the grow bags have definitely picked up some steam in the past week ish, they’ve been the most vigorous the whole time so it’d be really nice to see at least those 2 do well.
Just crazy comparing my first plants in the same time zone, but they were started end of summer so temps in the basement weren’t so cold
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Do you have a plant limit? Because the ones in the little containers in back I think are going to stay small, probably make a single fat cola each, so if you wanted to ditch something to start some photos I’d go with those. On the other hand, they’re the most advanced, so they ought to make some ripe bud weeks before the rest & aren’t taking up much space.
If you don’t have a plant limit to worry about, I’d squeeze some baby photoperiods in about now, no harm in getting them cued up 
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They were just extra seeds I was letting run for fun, I have a veg tent I can move them to if I need but they don’t even look like they’re going to survive the neglect they’ve been through
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Forgot to post these lastnight, here’s an update from yesterday. The 2 @SubzeroIceKold still the most vigorous by a good bit! Autos sure are interesting… still on the fox farm trio, just gave them the first feed with some tiger bloom added yesterday morning, they seem happy but shitttt they’re going quick, really hard to judge their nutrient needs but so far no signs of too much or to little so 
I’m inclined to give a little Epsom foliar because they haven’t had much magnesium, just whatever is in the wollastonite I use for calcium…
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Took the heater away for the veg tent for 2 days ant noticed these girls slowed down considerably at 72is vs 77, piped the heater back in, now running to both tents, and we’re all happy again!
Interesting seeing the difference in growth of the 2 PN x GB @SubzeroIceKold, the one on the right has enough trichomes on the fan leaves coming out now to get a good rub and it’s like a bubblegum sweet that fades to candied grapefruit, stem rub is more grapefruit, other one not much stem rub smell and she’s taking her sweet time.
Happy tent all in all, these autos sure are interesting to watch grow so quick!
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That grapefruit one is NEBULA leaning 
that’s awesome I finally got all my crossed up and running as well.
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Nebula? I may have looked up the wrong lineage for one or both “Pinot noir” (which came back as illiminauto #44) or Galaxy brain
But holy hell I can’t wait to harvest these girls, the smell is absolutely delicious! Getting sweeter as we go, like from candied grapefruit to artificial grapefruit candy now, a little sugar leaf rub smells fucking phenomenal, nice job @SubzeroIceKold!
First 2 @SubzeroIceKold pinot noir x galaxy brain, third is DANG and 4/5 are mosca tres grapes sky.
All coming along nicely, first time with autos so not sure how to judge them but I’d say like 4 weeks ish for the more finished 4 and maybe add another 2 weeks for the slower shorter PN x GB…?
Only time will tell
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