Darade's Second Grow, Perpetual

Darade said:

I'm having a super hard time keeping the temps down in the day and temps up at night.
I need to switch my light schedule; how should I go about doing this?
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It will be fine to just move it being they are so little. It might confuse them briefly but they will quickly adapt.

If your switching from say lights on daylight and off at night, to the opposite, then just do an extra long light period instead of long dark.

They adapt better to increased light than a deprivation. Still they are little enough it wont really matter.

Of you want to control your temps and RH a little better you can downsize your space within the tent using a grow dome.

Just harden them up when they are ready to take bigger swings through temp and RH, and add more light.

Lastly, they all stretch, try a very close low wattage cfl to keep them down a bit, and if the get too stretched and leggy you can use a cardboard inner tube to hold them up while introducing a steady breeze.

Once they come out of the cups bury the stem a bit deeper to minimise the early stretch length they may have.

If you do that early in life shouldnt cause any problems.

Hope that helps, just tag me in if you have more questions, if I can answer I will.

Cheers mate.
 
Thank you for all of your help!!

I have a mini 4” usb fan blowing on both ever since they popped.

The light inside the small tent is actually a tad weaker (growstar 150w), but I had better luck last time with the smaller tent at first, and then when they were a pretty decent size, I transferred them to the bigger one.

So far, I’ve been able to keep the humidity and temp in the appropriate ranges (since moving them). I’m not gonna worry about VPD this run, but will be looking into it in the future.

I kinda figured about the light, since most give 24/0, or 20/4 from the jump usually.

Low 68.4| 27%, high 77.1| 37% (so far in the 2x2)
 
Lol, I'm glad someone is excited about it; I have no idea the strain except it being a Sativa, and I'm a weird person, I like to know what I'm toking on. Guess I get to name it *shrug* lol

I really can't wait for the Caramelicious, she grew so well last time and smelled so delicious.

Thanks for stopping by!! :D

2/19
So I moved the babies last night; They seemed to have adjusted with no care in the world, even growing overnight!
The lights don't make it anywhere near as hot in that tent; My highest temp so far was 75(with exhaust off), lowest was 68, all night!


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I know you're not supposed to upload Blurple; The definition is just much higher on those photos.
The lights were off, and the flash made it out of focus.
Soil isn't dry, it just looks that way, because I put more (dry) soil on top.

So there's been a few changes of plans in regards to this grow; They will not be going outside after all.
I should soon be ordering 2x AC Infinity* S22's, I'm also waiting for the A6, or S6 Cloudrays* to become available.
I should also be getting a Levoit* humidifier, one of the smart ones you can control with Alexa (Has an option to turn off display as well)
I'm also going to add 2x 4" Passive intakes at the bottom of the bigger tent, which should be enough for the 4" exhaust fan.
I have too much free time on my hands, I can legit just stare at them all day. lol
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*I am not sponsored by any of these companies; I'm just giving information on these products, as they're the reason I decided to use them.​

 
2/21
My order came this morning; Gotta love Next-Day Shipping!
Gave my babies a good watering, since I got my compression sprayer.

I'm noticing a weird leaf deformity like they're all wavy; I'm wondering what could be the culprit?

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They both have 3 fingers on their new sets; Car Fem, is already working on her 3rd set, Mixed Sativa, is still on her second. They both look healthy other than this weird waving.
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My organizational skills are found wanting, so not real sure what is what. Don't really mind knowing the strain if I grew it myself. Some of my friends wanna know every detail about what they smoke, so I get it.

I have a dual switch blurble, I am guilty about posting blurble shots too.

Damn they should rock outside.

Wouldn't worry about the wavy leaves I get them a lot.
Could be caused by humidity fluctuations, nute intake, or even PH fluctuation (and I could be completely wrong too).
 
Sorry about that, I tried to put a caption on it, but it seems that it's only for when the images fail to load.
Left is Mixed Sativa; Right is Caramelicious Fem (The one with the thermostat).

pH sounds about right, as I don't have a pen to test it; Hopefully, once they're fed they'll bounce back from it, as I'm using Advanced Nutrients, I also got cal-mag just in case. I'm using Crystal Geyser Spring Water(5.4 pH), it's low, I just rather not use my city tap water.

Humidity is low, but stays about the same 27-35% Max it got was 40%, but it was raining today.

They're gonna be staying inside since I got my upgrades; Only thing missing is the CloudRays, and the Controller 69. :D!
 
Sounds like we are in the same boat as far as watering. I probably need to start monitoring my PH. My city water has a PH in the mid 7's. Run the city water through a Brita filter, let it set for a day or so, and then add between 10 to 30 ml's of humic acid per gallon.

Many of my nutrients are local and I am leaning towards super soils.
Still advanced nutrients are top notch.

Need to get back to monitoring my humidity it currently fluctuates a lot.

Finally I'll water them with reverse osmosis water from Aldi's this seems to keep them balanced.

Looks like everything will continue to come together.

So your keeping the girls inside?
 
I'm completely new to all this; To make up for this fact I had to cheat a little, I just don't wanna overdo myself, since I'm still learning. I'm crutching on the Advanced Nutrients to get me to the sweet spot for now. I want to eventually get into organic stuff, but we don't have very many horticulture shops here, and the one we got is expensive lol. I didn't wanna play with pH chemicals though, is all I knew.

Yep! They're gonna live the rest of their lives indoors, in the 2x4 when they're a little older.

I'm going for a perpetual grow, I have 2 tents, a 2x2x3 (What I call a nursery tent), and a 2x4x5. I can only grow 2 plants at a time in both tents (legally can have up to 6, it's just the room management). I wanna have 4 plants at a time, I can only fit 2 in the small tent.
The smaller nursery tent can keep the plants, until week 2-3 of veg; I'm sure I could fit more in the 2x4 now since I've gotten a lighting upgrade.

But I'm also alternating each run from Photos, to Autos. Eg. when these plants are in flower (near harvest), I'll start the Autos in the smaller tent, then after harvest, and drying is done, I'll be moving the autos into the bigger tent, etc.

My new lights are the S22 IonBoard from Ac Infinity, they're adjustable in 20% increments, or you connect it to their controller; Their controller 69 wasn't on Amazon when I ordered my stuff. I'm curious about what light intensity I should be starting with etc.
 
7Dust2 said:
Howdy, I'll try to keep up. Looking good bro
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Happy to have you, I've been lurkin on your journal a bit too. Man, I would kill for some of those ground huggers haha, I'm always fearing the plants will get too big.
 
Darade said:
Happy to have you, I've been lurkin on your journal a bit too. Man, I would kill for some of those ground huggers haha, I'm always fearing the plants will get too big.
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Lmao I'm the opposite I won't big ones. Me and @Jose Tall Grass has same pheno and his did same thing. Short plants. But now his is in flowering growing little more. I sure hope mine do. Like growing strawberries or something.
 
I’ll be back in a little while. I had a giant mishap, I left my lock on, but the code was set, so all you have to do is pull on it. My son got into the tent. Tried to be just like his daddy, and was trying to show his mother the cup, in doing so he ripped the leaves up. It was my fault, I had left to go get them some food, and my wife was doing laundry. Lessons learned, a lot of lessons. Stay tuned I finally got my seeds in the mail; maybe an excuse to start the autos?
 
Darade said:
I did for sure, like ugly cry.
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Very sorry to hear about the accident (they do happen). On the bright side it was early in the grow cycle.

My neurotic dog got in my tent during a thunder storm (he hated them) about week three into flower.

Not that it is a big deal especially now, but read in a couple journals the wavy leaves are/can be genetics.

Bring on the AUTO's!!!
 
Nooo, that's so upsetting to hear; I'd probably stop growing at that point, that'd of been so much time invested at that point.


So, I'm not gonna start this time, until I'm fully prepared. We've got an electrition coming tomorrow, we have a backhouse connected to our breaker, so we're trying to get our neighbors off of our breakers.

I'm waiting for the Ac Infinity Controller 69 to become available on amazon (It's available now, but delivery is not til April...They're not releasing it til late March.) . (And CloudRay, but it's less important).
We're looking at a start sometime in late March, early April.

The seeds I've gotten for autos are as follows:
2x Auto Caramelicious Fem (This round was a Fem seed)
3x Auto Amnesia Fem
2x Auto Sour Diesel Fem
5x Autoflowering Mix (Mixed popular Sativa and Indica auto flowers. All from MSNL)

I'm thinking Auto Amnesia, for sure; I'm open to suggestions for the second plant, what do you all wanna see?
 
Darade said:
Nooo, that's so upsetting to hear; I'd probably stop growing at that point, that'd of been so much time invested at that point.


So, I'm not gonna start this time, until I'm fully prepared. We've got an electrition coming tomorrow, we have a backhouse connected to our breaker, so we're trying to get our neighbors off of our breakers.

I'm waiting for the Ac Infinity Controller 69 to become available on amazon (It's available now, but delivery is not til April...They're not releasing it til late March.) . (And CloudRay, but it's less important).
We're looking at a start sometime in late March, early April.

The seeds I've gotten for autos are as follows:
2x Auto Caramelicious Fem (This round was a Fem seed)
3x Auto Amnesia Fem
2x Auto Sour Diesel Fem
5x Autoflowering Mix (Mixed popular Sativa and Indica auto flowers. All from MSNL)

I'm thinking Auto Amnesia, for sure; I'm open to suggestions for the second plant, what do you all wanna see?
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Sorry about your plants. Sounds like you need to get a few ducks in a row anyways. BTW I got the controller 69 straight from AC Infinity last month. Shipped in one week. Why wait for Amazon to get it?

Happy Growing.
 
Darade said:
Their website says Out of Stock; March 26, 2022, No pre-order.
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I see that now, I guess I got lucky??? I ordered on 1/17/22 and it came a week later.
 
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