Growing With Mr.Sparkle : 2023

Beautiful colors bro!
Ur plants never fail to mesmerize…including your setup.
Outta likes for looong time…:green_heart::green_heart::green_heart::green_heart::green_heart::green_heart:
:v:t4::blush:

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Thanks for the comment

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How big is the box in the top photo?

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that Mi x Mac is a beauty ,Mr.S :+1:

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It’s always fun to come see your cab grow cuz. Beautiful as ever!

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Same as either of the bottom two, which all are about 3sqft each and are around 27.5" from floor to lights

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I know everyone here has said it before but your product quality and quantity from this space is remarkable.

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All I can say @Mr.Sparkle is wow, very nice and well did my friend, love that purple tone, beautiful

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Thanks everyone i appreciate it.

Will say i have had some hurtles in the last bit grow wise and should go get some new coco and change a few things and im trying to go a bit simpler even if the yields wont be as good as i expect to have less time in the very near future that i can put towards my grows so if i can make it simple and and really quick to maintain then i’ll still be popping seeds at a good rate to try them all lol.

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Have you ever measured your light intensity? I’m asking because my cabinet is similar to yours and I’m still guessing on how hard to drive my lighting. When I measure at the plant top it’s 350ppfd (using Photone app) which seems low considering my plant is beginning to bloom but my plant is only 15 cm from the lights and not stretching a lot. So I’m curious how much light you give your plants considering your lights are also very close.

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I have a uni-t Lux meter and will say that phototone app at least on my phone is pretty damn close like 2-4% which coincidentally i was playing with last night.

I kinda aim for about 25-32K lux during early stages and 50-55k once my autos or photos go into their flower mode though its not a bad thing to start them off heavy from the get go as ive found its easier for the plants to photo acclimate if they are brighter from the get go vs increasing it over time as sometimes they just say nope to the increased light levels.

There is kinda a caveat to that thought in that because my light is stationary though i use to move it in the past with young plants and their distance from the light they receive less even if nothing is changed say output wise or very little as they eventually grow into brighter light, plus all that foliage later on also reduces the brightness of the light as its being taken up by the plants, so early on the plants may only be getting 30k at the height they are at but they grow into that 50k zone once they start to take off, and the light has remained relatively the same output wise, really i only lower the output of my lights during the first week and half to 2 as all that light just becomes heat when there isn’t any plant mass to grab it.

Right now as i just grabbed a measurement for you that top cab is a bit higher and is more in the 60-62k range at canopy level though consider its also 12/12 and i just took out a plant, and the young ones are at 34k atm on a 18/6.

Will say the ppfd conversion in that app are high compared to other actual measured comparisons even if i know you can change it by light source selection, ive been on the full spectrum led setting as they dont have white led by cri selections so a 38k lux which is 680ppfd on the app with that setting for my leds and their CRI values is closer to the 520-550ppfd range when more realistic and comparable measurements are actually factored in as for me with my lights its about 67-70lux = 1 µmol/m2/sec not the 55lux or so they seem to be using which is sunlight.

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Not to get to nerdy which i do at times lol.

just of it you can increase your light quite a bit from where you are and should be fine though watering and nutrient uptakes is gonna increase in the process and you will probably run into finding your next limiting factor which likely wont be your lights.

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Wooooo Sparkles info dump!

Love it.

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Beautiful grow!

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What the heck was that Latin? All this rocket scientist book smart stuff. I need a translator for most of that. :rofl: :nerd_face:

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Thank you so much for your detailed reply! Extremely helpful.

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Day 56/14/6

As soon as my drying area reduces down a bit with the other plant then the purple wookie is coming down as it just doesn’t have any more chooch to give.

Little ones doing their thing with a few kinda wonky though i don’t fault the seeds and highly likely more the starting situation was at issue, need to give them all a flush through watering and cycle the res water.

Also to note is the remnant of the Mimosa x Mac1 which the root ball got cut down and one branch plus some lowers were left, that one branch still has some seeds kinda forming so its gonna get another week or so of light then ill take off the top to leave some popcorn to reveg from.

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Even growing in such a small space you’re still able to re-veg a plant. You’ve got it all figured out to a T.

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dont need much to reveg if you wanted, one of my first boxes the veg/clone/reveg chamber was like a 10"x10"x10" cube with a cfl in it.

edit… went back in my pics it was maybe slightly bigger than that but wasnt more the 11" or so deep as the flower chamber just fit a 1020 tray the red square pot was a 3.5" if i recall.

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Day 58/16/8

@chronix the one (BigYield x MI5)x(Gambian x Blueberry) on the left and the right being the (Widow Red Berry x Cheese Bake)x(Gambian x Blueberry).

Would say the right having a structure i like better and better coverage, left looks biggerr and likely will yield more, but is of a more fluffy structure isn’t gonna be much longer for them either.

Little ones not that you can tell that some are 8 days older are all doing their thing, bunch have some mutations but have looked to mostly have out grown them.

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