I Ain't Afraid Of No Ghost - Seedsman's Purple Ghost Candy Comparative Grow SIP/SCROG

StoneOtter said:
That's an interesting scenario! Try the window and see if you remove it from the tent. I have exhausted outside and found it sucked in unwanted air and I stopped. It's a cellar with two drier vents so wrong ;) air was coming in freely (therefore shoveling shit against the tide). I found my situation better to keep internal.
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Yeah once the big dehuey gets here I will play around with things.

The tent itself is exhausting into the room. Then the window in that room has one of those 3’ x 3’ box fans in the window sucking the air out. Nothing that is coming in from above that window is making it back into the room and I saw a substantial decrease in humidity when I added that.

What I wouldn’t mind doing is actually exhausting directly outside. There are a couple of different window exhaust adapters that are floating around, but I haven’t found one that has a flap on it to keep the vent closed when not in use to prevent exactly what you mentioned!

I also forgot to mention that there is a 75 gallon aquarium in that room too LOL so it’s probably best to keep the airflow up in the room and worry about adjusting the humidity in the tent. But I won’t really know until after I have the new dehumidifier set up and running in the tent for a few days to see how it goes :)

With the way I have my tent in/out fans controlled as I hit my VPD target they go down to the lowest setting (1 out of 10)for the intake and a 2 out of ten for the exhaust to keep negative site pressure in the tent and a small amount of air flow.

As the VPD lowers, the fans progressively get stronger. Currently they are running at full blast a majority of the time. I’m hoping with the addition of this dehumidifier that they rarely have to kick on to their highest settings.
 
Busy week/weekend so far. I will get the new dehumidifier into the tent tomorrow and will test it for a week in the tent. If I don’t like it I will move it out of the tent and go from there.
 
Wow what a busy weekend! Sitting down with a cold one!

Was able to get the dehuey in there. Ran it at 45% and I think it was too much! So now I have it at 50% and this is what it looks like for the last hour

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The real test will be the overnight hours. I might have to bump it back down to 45%.

It puts out some heat so that’s kind of an issue. Got up to 92° and 47% humidity this afternoon which is to arid and hot.

I might have to reevaluate my set up completely and do as @StoneOtter recommended and pull the dehuey out of the tent, put it in the room, close the door and window and control the room parameters instead of the tent.
 
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Day 145 - Vegged for 56 - Day 40 of flower:

Man it’s been crazy and the poor girls got neglected. Popped the tent open today and they were DROOPY!!

They drank just over 2 gallons each between top watering and waiting 30 mins and then filling their reservoirs and waiting another 30 and topping off yet again!

Starting to perk back up so I’m sure they’ll be fine. YAY plants BAD grower LOL.

I’m iffy on this dehumidifier I got. Damn thing is broken LOL! The float that turns the unit off when the basin is full didn’t come with it and the part that the float would hook up to is broken.

I guess I can DIY a float to do the same thing but still…

It’s also been hot and DRY here currently 82° and 41% outside which is not normal for us this time of year.

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Ke0ncp said:
Day 145 - Vegged for 56 - Day 40 of flower:

Man it’s been crazy and the poor girls got neglected. Popped the tent open today and they were DROOPY!!

They drank just over 2 gallons each between top watering and waiting 30 mins and then filling their reservoirs and waiting another 30 and topping off yet again!

Starting to perk back up so I’m sure they’ll be fine. YAY plants BAD grower LOL.

I’m iffy on this dehumidifier I got. Damn thing is broken LOL! The float that turns the unit off when the basin is full didn’t come with it and the part that the float would hook up to is broken.

I guess I can DIY a float to do the same thing but still…

It’s also been hot and DRY here currently 82° and 41% outside which is not normal for us this time of year.

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I have heard that droughting in flower increases Thc?!

Well, that's what I tell myself every time I accidentally do it! 😎
 
MedScientist said:
I have heard that droughting in flower increases Thc?!
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From what I've read, if you do it right:

Increasing Inflorescence Dry Weight & Cannabinoid Content In Medical Cannabis Using Controlled Drought Stress

Because linking to pdf files is currently prohibited, research articles and scientific publications cannot be directly accessed by folks visiting this site. Therefore, I've decided to post the research paper titled above by Caplan et al. as images in this thread. I will be requesting that this...
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Just popped my head in before lights out and they are looking fine :)
 
MedScientist said:
I have heard that droughting in flower increases Thc?!

Well, that's what I tell myself every time I accidentally do it! 😎
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I’m going to go with that!!

InTheShed said:
From what I've read, if you do it right:

Increasing Inflorescence Dry Weight & Cannabinoid Content In Medical Cannabis Using Controlled Drought Stress

Because linking to pdf files is currently prohibited, research articles and scientific publications cannot be directly accessed by folks visiting this site. Therefore, I've decided to post the research paper titled above by Caplan et al. as images in this thread. I will be requesting that this...
www.420magazine.com
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I love how you pop in with great info like that!!!

I will have to read up on that! Not that I did it intentionally though!
 
Day 146 - Vegged for 56 - Day 41 of flower:

Hey Now!!! Ladies bounced right back!!

Starting to see about 25% of the pistols turning color.

Buds no where near as fat as I would have expected at this point. I know someone had pointed that out SCROG will result in more colas but of a lesser size. With my past history of bud rot that’s probably not a bad thing!!

Speaking of humidity, or should I say the lack of it, W00T!

Here is what the last 24 hours looked like:
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This is a vast improvement, though, I think it has more to do with the weather than anything else but I am not complaining!!

Now if I can just keep it like this for the rest of the grow!!

Other than that not too much going on with them. Did some scope shots and not much to report there, as expected.

Test sample is now in grove bags for the next 2 weeks and then I will sample :)

Here are today’s pictures:
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Oh one last thing I meant to comment on was the lack of purple… I mean come on!! It is called PURPLE Ghost Candy LOL. Oh well. I’m assuming if I had that pheno I would have seen it by now.
 
Ramblinrose1965 said:
Did you McGiver that damn dehumidifier? Girls look great.
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I did by way of packing tape, for now.

I’m going to do some research and find a float that will engage the shut off switch and then bust out the hot glue gun and get my craft on! LOL
 
Ke0ncp said:
I did by way of packing tape, for now.

I’m going to do some research and find a float that will engage the shut off switch and then bust out the hot glue gun and get my craft on! LOL
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Right on, I figured you would have a plan in place.
 
Is there anyway you can hook in a hose and run it too a drain? Or a 5 gallon bucket? I have a hose running into a floor drain in the basement but it's doing the whole basement outside the tent.
 
g-one-three said:
Is there anyway you can hook in a hose and run it too a drain? Or a 5 gallon bucket? I have a hose running into a floor drain in the basement but it's doing the whole basement outside the tent.
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I could do it to a 5 gallon bucket and put it into the grow room instead of in the tent, which in the long run might be the easier and safer way to go.

I’m thinking I would have to running about 10% lower than I want the tent?
 
Ke0ncp said:
I could do it to a 5 gallon bucket and put it into the grow room instead of in the tent, which in the long run might be the easier and safer way to go.

I’m thinking I would have to running about 10% lower than I want the tent?
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Ya I keep mine set to 45% in the basement and the tent stays on the low 60's. If I need to go lower later in flower I turn down the dehuey and up my intake fan speed.
 
g-one-three said:
Ya I keep mine set to 45% in the basement and the tent stays on the low 60's. If I need to go lower later in flower I turn down the dehuey and up my intake fan speed.
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My goal is 50% or less at all times during flower :) #nobudrot!
 
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