If only I had the room you guys do all I can keep thinking is one day I'll have separate spaces for the autos and photos I grow in my tent yours seem like they have quite a bit more growth. If that's what PK is going to look like when I pop a bean I'm going to be one happy camper the DDA has gone a nice deep purple for me now and would love to add more color to the garden.
We did luck out quite a bit on our space and setup. That said, we're expanding this fall.
We're taking over a 14 x 7.5 foot room in the basement. Right now the tents are the first damned thing you see if you take three steps down, and harvests stink up the entire house. We'll have one of the tents in there to flower photos, but the rest of the room will be for autos, drying, curing, and harvests. Jaybiz and the nutes will stay where they are, but we'll keep far more product behind a carbon filter or two.
To the casual eye, it'll just look like we've shut the door to the room with the electrical panel.
Very impressive update rtk. It's nice to watch the growth from seedling to flower. Congrats on another harvest. Can't wait to see the pics.
Thanks Noob, always good to have ya 'round!
We only get about 5 days before we cut them from the stems and jar 'em up, trying to get in around 70-75% RH. We let one go to 7 days and they went into jars at 45%, much lower than we'd have liked. Mid to low 70's, dropping slowly over two or three weeks down to 62% has been working fantastic for us.
Anyway, the point of that was we'll have a much better idea what the yield will end up being by this weekend.
Congrats on the harvest. Sorry I missed it arteekay. I still have a lot to learn about germinating seedlings under LED. I'm not getting the tight nodes I'm after because they're stretching too much. I may need to go back to starting them under CFLs until they're ready to be free of the solo cups. There should be some way to get those tight nodes with this Vero 240.
As it is I'll just collar them with a solo like I did the last DDA. That actually worked better than I'd anticipated.
The color in your PK is fabulous! I'm enjoying all the color p opting up in everyone's gardens these days.
The first four we sprouted back on Halloween last year were started under a single big 125w CFL, and we bought our first LED (the Spider x4) after we started to see 'em stretch. The following 16 have all been started and finished under LED. We've had the exact opposite problem a couple times, not enough stretch and nodes right on top of each other, and the last couple have curled up some early fan leaves like a heat or light intensity issue. I guess what I'm saying is, we're still learning under LED ourselves.
Biz mentioned the other day that we have to grab some natural light pics of our Red Poison before she gets the chop, my pics haven't done her coloring much justice yet.
It's funny to me though, I've had dealers tell me that I'm getting Purple Kush, or some other purple colored buds, but it's always looked green with some red hairs at most. It wasn't until our first DDA that I can definitively say I've smoked purple weed.
I'm hooked on color now, can't imagine not having something for contrast constantly.