Bellyh's Soil/CFL - Auto Pounder - 2013

[Bellyh]

Thanks for the great advice everyone, and. Have decided to paint the inside with matt white paint.

 

[Bellyh]

Re: Bellyh's Soil/Cfl - Auto Pounder - 2013 Day 6

Update ! - Day 6

Girls seem to be doing okay although got some pretty bad issues with keeping the humidity up and heat down !!

Can anyone help with my leaf problem

Other then that going good just can't seem to control the heat and humidity very well

And got a feeling it may be stunting her growth a little

Although on the plus side got round to painting the inside white.

Would appreciate any help with the problems I have any idea what's wrong or is it as I though the heat and humidity.

 

[TheAntagonist]

Bellyh
good to see yah ladies are looking good so far as for reflectivity I have to agree on the semigloss white paint I find its not making hot spots either. What kind of nutes are you planning on using and are you just growing the one at a time?

 

[Bellyh]

Thanks and you think they look okay then just bit dried out :/

Yeah I am only doing the one plant as a first time grower I thort it would give me the experience for the next grow !

I am planning on using FF grow big/big bloom starting from week 3 at 1/4 strength.

Any advice on the leaf issue ?

 

[TheAntagonist]

my first set of leaves looked funky to the next set should flatten out, if they look funky could be ph or heat?
maybe

 

[Bellyh]

I pretty sure ph is okay although heat is like 30C can't keep it down at all

 

[danklover79]

You can go home depot or lowes, and buy a portable evaporative cooler for like 170 bucks. It will help with the temps, and provide humidity for you. By the time the girls are in flower, the outside temps will be lower, and you can turn the cool function off, then it's in fan mode only. This is a pic of the one I got, don't where you are located, but if there is no lowes, or home depot, you can google Kuulaire evaporative coolers.

Hope this helps you, it worked very well for me.

 

[KingJohnC]

your leaves appear to have a cooling problem, what are your humidity and temperature?

 

[Bellyh]

Hello everyone ! Dropping by as my girl has got worse since last time really need some help on what's causingthe leaves to dry up and curl please can anyone help me or have any advice for a newbie first grow !

 

[danklover79]

Looks like high temps, and low humidity sir, I would really consider buying one of those portable coolers, if you can afford it.

 

[TheAntagonist]

I second that temps to high humidity too low
are you growing in the open or in a grow room?
tent?

 

[danklover79]

The cooler I posted the pic of brings the humidity up to 60 to 70 %, and brings the temps down about 10 to 15 degrees. Well worth the money, that's for sure.

 

[KingJohnC]

your leaves appear to have a cooling problem, what are your humidity% and temperature°? i still have not gotten an answer yet.

 

[Bellyh]

Temps are between 82-86F 28-30C and my humidity meter is broken.

Also I don't have funds to purchase that machine any other ideas to bring my humidity up and temps down?

 

[Spimp]

Fans? Also a somewhat quick fix is to place frozen pop bottles in front of fans to blow cooler air around the grow room. A bowl of ice would help until your 2 liter bottles freeze. this should buy you a little time on temp, but it will slightly up the humidity.

 

[KingJohnC]

is your air humidity dry or moist? do you have fans on too high of setting directly blowing on your plants?

 

[nibec]

Those temps are pretty high, as for a quick fix, those have already been stated, but if you can, move it to a larger area.

Or add a/get a bigger extraction fan. For something that small, a quiet bathroom fan could work wonders. I had one tht was $30 and 150cfm for my 364 watt cfl stealth cab. Kept it around 76f

 

[Bellyh]

Hey everyone I have a new humidity meter on its way

I have added 2 more vent holes and also as for the fans

I have just one 10" oscillating ad yes it is quite close to the plant, oln about 3-5in from the plant

 

[KingJohnC]

if your temperature from your light is not too hot for your seedling i would turn off the fan for now, it may be evaporating more moisture that the plant can handle.

 

[Bellyh]

Hello have taken the fan out and temps have dropped

And pretty sure it's more humid as well, but will wait for the meter and will update

Thanks for the help