They are come on like gang busters! 
Look at the ‘lift’ in the leaves of the 2nd last shot 
Cheers
G
Inlbird ITC-608T
I read in the amazon comments that you could fire a power output from either a temp or RH setpoint, but if it is available I cannot figure out how to program that.
-The plan was to fire extraction fan on BOTH high temp and high RH.
RH is set to fire extraction fan at 74% RH.
Temp is set to fire electric oil heater at 69 degrees F.
When fighting heat issues in a month or 2, I plan on setting the temp to cooling mode and have a 4 inch fan blowing air into the tent from the bottom.
Living in the Mid-Atlantic USA, I’ll be fighting humidity moving forward.
Setpoint will be set for whatever the VPD chart says…
Extraction fan is total overkill. ActiveAir 6 inch 400 CFM paired with a Phat 8x20 charcoal filter.
Speed control on the fan is almost as low as it can go, and that Phat filter is 6 years old and still scrubbing!
Controlling the environment to keep the RH high and root zone at 69-72 F really made a difference in the cloning stage.
Setpoints for veg/flower will follow VPD charts as much as possible.
Just gave all the bloomers a haircut and removed the mothers to the stall zone…
Probably 10 days to flip.
I will be pushing these into flower ASAP, so I hope within the week.
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Feeding: They are in FF happy frog dirt, so there’ lotsa good stuff available.
1/2 tsp/gal great white mycos
1.5 ml/gal TPS calmag
General Organics:
6 ml/gal BioRoot
5 ml/gal Black Diamond -Si
7ml/gal BioMarine - fish emulsion
PH 6.5
PPM 420 after nutes + aquarium water conditioner for the chloramine in my tap water.
Didn’t run EC…
That Black Diamond stuff is a staining Mother F…
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Week 4.5 And then there were 8…Pushing these, got other beans to crack…
If it all blows up bad, Great Lake Genetics still has this hybrid available.
I picked them up from DC Seed Exchange; they have been nothing but fantastic.
Chopped the tops off the bloomers and stalled the mothers/twins.
From what I have seen before there will be 3 distinct phenos:
Purple Short, Purple Tall, and Green Limon y Pina.
The fan to the left is my swamp cooler/humidifier, blowing over 2 5 gal pot saucers with water in them…
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Has a month gone by without an update?
It has been a rough month for these girls.
Slow, slooow growth, what appeared to be nute lockout, ph issues.
Almost threw in the towel on this run.
Was speaking with a comrade and discussing the question “Well what changed?”
The only thing that I could think of was my TPS CalMag…
But that wouldn’t cause these issues…no way.
And then I spotted my water conditioner…
I’ve been using aquarium water conditioner to get rid of the Chloramine in my water, but it also goes after the ammonia…you know, NO3.
This was a different manufacturer than I had been using, and this was the problem; It was MUCH more concentrated than the stuff I had been using in the past and messing up my nitrogen uptake.
A big flush with Bushwacker, going to 1 gal containers, a couple of weeks, and a whole lot of patience and we are back up and running.
I’ll be picking up a new USB cable this afternoon to get some pictures up.
I’ll also be stopping by Shoregro tomorrow to pick up some supplies.
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where we were:
The bleaching was continuing. This just after a Bushwacker Sledge Hammer flush and an up pot to 1 gallon. They were all looking pretty crappy here. This was May 23. All 8 plants were in pretty much the same crappy shape.
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3 weeks later. This is the same plant:
Sorry, my phone is a potato.
In 1 gallon post these things are thirsty as hell, so I take that as a good sign,
During the down time while they were in a holding pattern I was doin a Lot of picking/topping to keep them as short as possible,
Up potting to 5 gallon pots this weekend;
Whole tent under there Mars Hydro TSL 2000 - there are 2 of these lit up in a 5x5.
:
Diego is not impressed-Cat Tax
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looks hungry to me
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Up potting is a pain. Gonna be tight on space in here. I see a lot of clones in my future…
Really should have done this last week, but life/work.
Flipping ASAP.
Tallest plant is 18 inches. There are stalks as thick as my thumb under there.
Now …if I can just keep them green and stable.
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Up potting complete. dropping hours down to 12/12.
Average plant is 18 inches tall and 15 inches across.
Tent is 5x5.
Gonna be a crowded tent.
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I think those are going to explode on you . Looking great so far might need a machete to get to the back of the jungle in a few weeks .
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I am wondering if I should cut them down to 12 tops per plant.
This is something I’ve not done before.
For 8 plants in the 5x5 space I have to figure out what to push.
I know that some of these are going to double in height in the stretch…
The 90s me is cringing every time I go in and pick off new growth sites, but I’ve become quite the picker in the name of larf prevention.
Decisions…but it would be a different experiment.
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Flower day 1
average height is 22 inches.
that one in the back is gonna be a problem.
will be cleaning out the under canopy this weekend.
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F8 day.
Buds setting.
Stretching almost done.
I did step the lighting down from 18/6 to 12/12 at am hour a day and started counting flower days after I hit 12/12.
Brutal defoliation coming up.
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Air conditioner has been offline for the last 2 weeks.
Heat wave in US mid Atlantic region. Like everywhere else…
No one will sell me a condenser motor. It’s a Trane and they do not sell to homeowners.
Temps have been in the 80s and RH has been up to 90%.
Not happy with that at all.
I have sourced the part, and it should be here tomorrow to help any PM that may have taken root.
Being that I see bud sets I cannot spray them.
I have some Dr Zymes, but I only use it in Veg. I never spray anything in flower.
Hullo F14 here. Sets are setting…
Temp and RH have been way too high during the stretch, so everything is way too leggy.
Especially because this is a leggy cultivar.
I did a under canopy clear out
Feeding GH Organics about 60% dose.
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F21
I’m going to do another run at clearing out lower bud sites. I’m thinking week 4 or 5.
Thoughts on that?
Thank god I went with 5 gal pots.
I’m thinking 7 would have been better tho; these are thirsty ladies.
They stalled out in vege about a month longer than I would have liked due to challenges:
My fault-fighting nitrogen intake due to a water conditioner I was using
Equipment failure-Cheap PH pen slowly going bad.
They didn’t grow much during the pause, but boy have they made up for lost time.
I spotted a light leak down low in the door…grabbed my handy nail polish and crouched down to paint it.
Then I glanced up and noticed that the door looked like the night sky on a clear night in the Mojave Desert.
A whole pile of micro pinholes…Damnit!
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Looks good. Looks like theyre going to fill in even though you had stretching.
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Of course that pic is one of the least stretched plants.
I usually don’t initiate flowering with the TSL quantum boards because there’s like no blue.
I have a Kind XL 750 that I like to use for transition, but I was having issues that could have been due to light stress (the yellowing was due to low nitrogen uptake, not the light), so I pulled it out of rotation this time.
This cultivar wants to stretch, and the dialable spectrum on the XL750 helps minimize that.
It is about the only thing that overpriced behemoth brings to the table…