I have had no more drooping issues under this LED. My temps which were around 80, now sit at 75. The air coming off the light in veg is cool, and the heat is more of a convection heat. Where the entire tent heats up, instead of under the light. Which seems to have lowered and regulated not only the temps, but the humidity. The humidity is sitting at 50 percent, which is perfect for Veg. The power draw is 300W lower in veg as well, and I have not seen the plants slow down. I am extremely pleased with the light thus far. Once I got the mounting issues sorted out, my only complaint is I wish the cord that came with it was 5 feet longer lol.
I tucked what I could, but the plants are growing very bushy. Which is strange as the HSO Blue Dream is a 50 X 50 mix Sativa and Indica. Seems these are way more on the Indica side. I cut off some lower fan leaves twice the size of my hand, and larger than my head.
The plants are already stinking, which is very rare, considering they are just past four weeks in veg. Normally my plants don't begin to stink badly until at least a week or two into Flower. I walked around my house with one of the fan leaves to toss it out, and by the time I was done my entire house stunk.
I am still feeding them 7G Maxibloom, 3 ML Silica blast and 4ML Calmag Plus. I am going to up Silica Blast to 5ML once they reach flower. I may also add some Liquid KoolBloom to the mix after the first couple weeks.
I am going to let them grow straight up for another week before tucking again, and hopefully switch to flower after that. My PPM's on a 0.5 scale are between 950 and 1000 right now. My PH is always set at 5.7 to 5.8 and I calibrate my meter EVERY SINGLE feeding.
I am going to go four days in between feeding, hoping to dry out the medium a bit and force the roots to stretch down into the res. I do not think they hit the res yet, and if it did, just a bit. I am slightly nervous about how much these will explode in flower, but with the LED light being so cool, i am not too worried if the tent gets very full.
Here are some photos as of Oct 17. If anyone has question please ask or send me a PM.
Here is the feeding journal so far.
SEED
Sept 18 - Planted germinated seeds, put in humidome, and coco/perlite mix solo cup with 100 PPM of Calmag plus @ 5.8 PH
VEGETATIVE STAGE
Week 1
(Day 1) Sept 19 - all sprouted (within 24 hours), BD 1 started slow but caught up by end of day, BD-S thinnest stem thus far, BD 2 first sprout.
(Day 2) Sept 20 - First true leaves started. BD1 and 2 on spame pace, a bit of stretch. BD3 main stem still thin. Fed again with 100 PPM calmag+ @ 5.8 PH, humidome off. Plants lifted about 12" from light to combat stretch, placed ontop of humidome.
(Day 3) Sept 21 - True leaves grew larger, BD3 still small and bent. Still stretching.
(Day 4) Sept 22 - Added more coco to each container. Made sure stems were straight. Fed at 100 PPM of Calmag + at a PH of 5.7 until significant runoff. Rotated BD 1 and BD 3. True leaves going larger. Temp was 79F during day, 74F during night.
(Day 5) Sept 23 - Nothing done, true leaves growing larger.
(Day 6) Sept 24 - 15 PPM of Silica blast, 125 PPM of Calmag +, PH 5.7. Fed until runoff.
(Day 7) Sept 25 - Nothing
Week 2
(Day 8) Sept 26 - 150 PPM combined Calmag and Silica Blast. 1 full ML of Calmag Plus. Everything looks healthy. BD3 still small.
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Day 9) Sept 27 - 600 PPM - 1ML Silica Blast, 2 ML Calmag, 1/4 TSP Maxibloom PH 5.78
(Day 10) Sept 28 - Nothing - fan off, light raised. Hopefully stops leaves from "tacoing"
(Day 11) Sept 29 - 1/4 tsp Maxibloom, 1.5 ML Silica Blast, 2ML Calimag.
(Day 12) Sept 30 - Nothing.
(Day 13) Oct 1 - Nothing
(Day 14) Oct 2 - Transplant into 5 gallon, 3 gallon water, PH 5.76 2ML Calmag 1.5 ML Silica Blast 1/2 TSP per gallon.
Week 3
(Day 15) Oct 3 - 4 gallons, 2 gallond each, PH 5.8, 7 gram maxibloom per gallon, 4ML calmag plus per callon, 3 ML Silica blast per gallon. Lots and lots of runoff. Lets turned up to 75 percent.
(Day 16) Oct 4 - Nothing
(Day 17) Oct 5 - Nothing
(Day 18) Oct 6 - Nothing.
(Day 19) Oct 7 - 7G per gallon Maxibloom, 4ML per gallon Calmag Plus, 2.5 ML per gallon Silica Blast. PH 5.8
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Day 20) Oct 8 - Nothing
(Day 21) Oct 9 - Nothing
Week 4
(Day 22) Oct 10 - 7G per gallon Maxibloom, 4ML per gallon Calmag Plus, 3ML per gallon Silica blast, PH 5.87, 1000PPM 0.5 scale.
(Day 23) Oct 11 - Nothing
(Day 24) Oct 12 - Nothing
(Day 25) Oct 13 - Nothing
(Day 26) Oct 14 - 7G per gallon Maxibloom, 4ML per gallon Calmag Plus, 3ML per gallon Silica blast, PH 5.83, 950PPM 0.5 scale. Installed LED
(Day 27) Oct 15 - Intalled the SCROG
(Day 28) Oct 16 - Nothing
Week 5
(Day 29) Oct 17 - Nothing - Tucked some branches.
