News from the Flower Tent
Three Northern Lights - 5-gal fabric pots,
Four Fruity Pebbles – 10-gal fabric pots
Day-32 of Flower Cycle - Mid-Bloom
14-days since Second Leaf Denuding
It has been 7-days since my last update. Here are the vital statistics for the flowering tent at Day-32 of the flowering cycle. The following stats are for the past couple weeks.
- Tent Temps: 81 to 85 deg F
- RH: 32% to 50%
- Water/Nute pH: 5.6 to 5.9
- Nutes: General Hydroponics (GH) Flora Pro series, Mid-Bloom Stage, Aggressive Feed
- Nute Supplements: liquid yucca, liquid kelp, liquid silica, instant compost tea, recharge, signal
- Water/Nute Overflow Waste: approximately 20%
- Lights: Four Maxsisun PB2000, 12/12 light cycle
During the last couple weeks, tent temps have been maintained at 81 to 85 deg F.
RH has varied a bit because of wider-spaced intervals of water/nute irrigation. Water/nute irrigation has been decreased from every 3 days to every 4 days (depending on media dryness). Some quart-sized volume approximate pH=6 straight water irrigation of one or two particularly dry Northern Lights in 5-gal pots are noted during this time. RH was fairly steady during the first week-and-a-half since my last reporting. Late last week, however, RH fell to a low of 32% to 35 % in the late afternoon of the 420-daylight cycle.
There seems to be a 3% to 5% RH variation from one end of the 4 X 8 X 7.8-foot flowering tent to the other. Also, during times of falling humidity, at day-3-1/2 (since last irrigation), the flowering tent RH was significantly lower (32% to 35%). I believe one 6-liter humidifier is not big enough to adequately maintain optimum humidity level during drying out of the 420 media over the space of the large flowering tent. I have ordered a second 6-liter humidifier to place at the dryer end of the tent. Hopefully, this added humidifier will keep a more precise 40% to 50% RH throughout the tent during times of media dry-out cycles.
Water/nuter pH was lowered to between 5.6 and 5.9 since my last reporting on the advice of
@Emilya . This change was undertaken to counteract perceived higher than "normal" media soil pH. All flowering 420 seem to be responding well to the lower water/nute pH regime.
I continue to water/nute with the GH Flora Pro series, mid-bloom stage, aggressive feed. Some additional supplements have been added, as indicated above. Overflow-to-waste water/nute has been approximately 20%. Four Maxsisun PB2000 led's power the flowering tent and are arranged in height from 12 to 16-inches above the canopy.
Below are tonight’s pics from the flowering tent for your visual enjoyment, For all you smell-o-vision fans (i.e.
@Krissi1982 ), it smells sooooo lovely, sweet and skunky. All those sticky fragrant perfumee buds make my mouth water! Yours too?
Northern Lights.
Northern Lights.
Northern Lights.
Northern Lights.
Fruity Pebbles.
Fruity Pebbles.
Fruity Pebbles.
420 Flowering Tent - Fruity Pebbles (foreground), Northern Lights (background).
Flowering Tent 420 - Fruity Pebbles (foreground), Northern Lights (background).
Flowering Tent 420.
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