Well friends things were getting out of hand in the tent and drastic action had to be taken, I had to call in with the sniffles and get down to work to get my time under my artificial sun
It was a big day for everyone involved. I assembled some HLG tray stands for as the supports for scrog and vscrog to allow me access to the tent as things progress. I employed cable ties and fairly typical poly structure net hastily as there simply weren’t enough hours in the day today. The stand structure is pretty functional and easy to work with, it uses 1 1/4" electrical conduit, cut to length and press together. Ladies moved into their new home in a matter of minutes(literally pick them up and move them to ready and waiting Autopot trays already plumbed in the flower chamber), turned on that wing of my irrigation manifold on and presto ready to go.
Took some LUX readings and things seemed a bit low so I checked each driver with the power meter and overdrove them about 10%. Employing some conversion factor developed specifically for my cheapo lux meter by using an industry-standard Apogee by some UK dude on the interwebs I am in the just below 600 μmol/m2/s at about 16" away around 25-28k LUX on various canopies. I will see how they do and adjust from there. By my calculations, I can easily overdrive each driver to 288w safety I have been told so I may choose to do that.
Otherwise, my plants in the autorack continue to seemingly in a holding pattern which is actually quite interesting, I need take some lux temp and soil samples to know for sure but I think with the quality and intensity of light in this spot currently is merely grinding their growth to a crawl. They need a feed and a drink but they are mostly just doing their thing at 1/4 the speed of their sisters planted on the same day in the flower chamber. I may try to put my seedlings in a similar holding pattern as the flowering chamber won’t be available until into the new year now.
The tent will need a clean and downtime while I figure out the best way to proceed to keep things rolling and keep @terpwee-z and myself sane. With the very little down-time and busy gardening times, I don’t want to bite off more than we can chew so to speak. Currently, the thought of vegging then flowering in the tent and the chamber as well as having my auto projects on the go seems like lunacy for someone who works the hours I do.
So after a long week and an even longer couple of months, I am proud to say the terpship v2’s inaugural flower cycle is finally underway, and in the usual fashion, I will be working around the plants to finish up scrog, preflower hair cuts/defoil and sealing the hatch over the next couple of nights as well as mixing another round of soil so that it can bake-off for a week or 2 while the seedlings take shape.
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