Um….extension cords? Edit: oh, you mean from the driver to the light. Yeah, I don’t know. Didn’t think it that far through. I knew it was staying.I seen the screws but how can you remove it without having a longer cord from the driver? CL
I never unplugged it so I didn’t know what the fittings were but now I feel stupid so thanks for that Jon. Lmao
CL
Thanks for your edit cause I’m looking @ it now and it might come off the board but it’s not gonna detach entirely. CL
Yup, sorry @CaptainLucky, I misunderstood you the first time. Yeah I don’t know how you’d do it. @Kanno26 showed me a picture of it removed, maybe he can offer some insight. I dare not try it. That what the KS3000 is for. Lol! Didn’t mean to make you feel dumb and don’t - or do, and we both are.Thanks for your edit cause I’m looking @ it now and it might come off the board but it’s not gonna detach entirely. CL
An Auto is a plant just like any other, just faster.Garden
All spread out so everyone has nice air flow. All trained out so everyone has a canopy at relatively the same height. All about as healthy as I can keep a plant.
This is the most work intensive auto grow I’ve ever done by far. I have no idea who thought doing all low canopies would be a good idea. Lol!
Hoping all my work pays off. So far so good. Hard to believe we have nary a pistil anywhere.
If you gather anything at all from my auto grow, I’d suggest you dig this: as you have seen, I treat autos EXACTLY as I do photos. There is no difference in anything I do, not one iota. If I were growing photos in this style the tent would look identical. That’s the thing - they’re the exact same thing. The only difference that matters besides light is that they’re going to flower when they want to. But why would that make you treat an auto any differently than a photo? Until they flower, I’ll top, train, twist, supercrop, or whatever. I feel there’s a perception out there on some level that you need to treat autos differently. You don’t. As you see!
I also kind of get off a little on the fact that in the overhead shot you can’t even really see the dozens of stakes and wires we have going on. It looks clean.
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That's a really cool layout looks great @Jon.Dos Si Dos
Day 28
Second plant to start flipping. She’s in flower now too. 28 days? Call it 30 as no pistils til tomorrow or the next day? Not bad, especially for a “normal” (non-XL or -XXL) auto. She’s my favorite canopy and the one I think I did I the best work on. Colas are numerous and relatively evenly spread. Very robust growth this one. Generous outer ring in terms of # of colas due to the extensive side branch topping. If you can tell, from the side shot, the middle growth has grown up to the point where it’s a couple inches above the outer ring of main colas. The canopy is sort of like a low mound, almost like one of those ancient earthen Druid burial chambers. This is what I want. The outer ring will grow up faster than the little middles and it’ll catch up to them so we end up, in this case I hope, with a nice, flat canopy naturally from here.
At this point everyone goes nowhere but up. Training is over save for controlling rogues and defoliating as required. However tall they get from here is what it is. @Hafta, one thing I have already noticed the side lights doing is producing more new leaf growth, and faster than normal. You were right. Gracias.
The @ViparSpectra XS1500 Pros seem to be functioning well as side lights, and now the real test begins. These lights are so flexible - they can be used in many ways, a definite plus for them. I have them set at 25% power and nothing is burning, no yellow tips, all seems copacetic. The plants are all at around 1000 ppfd, and that’s in 360 degrees not just the tops! There is variance on the ones closer to the lights. I don’t see any reason to turn them up, I feel this should be plenty. What do you think Hafta, sound about right to you?
In other news, I’ve decided to go Dual Sombrero training on the Pink Rozay and Apple Fritter. One, I’m sick of training canopies, and two, I’m not tent/light/space bound with these two. I want to see how big they’ll get. I need a break on the training, Dual Sombrero is way easier and less work. If they outgrow the current blurple closet light rigging I have a foot to raise it yet and easy options behind that. If they really go nuts I’ll bust out the NextLight 420h and replace the blurple, let them finish with that. Might do that anyway for flower.
So all is copacetic over here. Thanks for stopping in.
Here’s the Dos Si Dos:
Hi @KeithLemon, how you be man? My god, of course! I’d be honored to have you in. Thanks for stopping by. Please feel free to offer any insight you like if you want on any topic. I try to make my journals accessible and open and as rule free as possible. In fact, the only one I can think of is that here we respect one another. Lol - it’s silly cuz most everyone is awesome and they’re all my teachers. Thanks again.
