Hello & Welcome Back!
I hope everyone has been well! I have been SUPER BUSY!
Working 4 10's +
20 hours a week delivering packages for the Zon +
The garden +
Trying to maintain normal and healthy relationships...
I feel like I never stop!
BUT mentally, emotionally I am in a very good place right now balancing it all.
Although updates are not as frequent as previously promised. The work put into the garden has only increased and made less time to journal it to my standards.
Also, I have had something big in the works and felt it would be best to document all of the changes all at once AFTER they were completed.
Let's just dive right into it and bring everyone up to speed.
We are smack dab in the middle of
Week 4 of
flower.
The plants got their first full
12 hours of darkness on
Jan 15. That means today is
Day 25.
All of the plants have stopped stretching, and not only have they begun to bulk up but the resin production along with the smell have started to pick up significantly!
* Important note
With all the back and forth up down and moving around I made a critical error! I was feeding the plants on Friday Feb
3.
It's a long process as most of you know and while watering smoking and waiting the lights were starting to give me a headache.
They are practically in my face if I water just outside the tent. So, to fix this I turned the intensity down. When I finished everything up, I cranked the lights back to 100% made a final check and walked out the door.
I came back the next day before lights on and out the 90-degree intake I have to block light leaks I saw it.
The faint shimmer of LED lights through it. This was about 10 minutes or so before "light on."
I opened the tent and sure enough the lights NEVER TURNED OFF!
At this point the lights were on for 24 hours right before our light period was to start! I immediately realized what I did...
While adjusting the intensity on an ACI controller you have to go to the "on" setting and set the desired intensity.
Then when you go back to the "schedule" option for that port it will follow the schedule set for the intensity you set in the "on" setting.
Can you see what I did? Or are you just as confused as I was for a brief moment?
When I left the tent the day before I turned the intensity back up but never set it back to schedule... So it ran in the "on" setting until I noticed it!
I switched it back to schedule and left the tent alone.
So last weekend they received 36 hours of direct light with no dark period...
Yea major rookie mistake! I was pissed to say the least. So far I haven't noticed any adverse effects, but it is still early. At this point I'm expecting anything to happen and Id roll with it... Nothing I can do. whatever damage it caused is done and all we can do is hope for the best now...
This ended up being perfect timing for me to take a look at everything just before the upgrades and dial it all back in properly.
I can't describe how excited I am for my current setup. By far the most expansive grow I have ever had let alone expEnsive.
I came to an understanding long ago this hobby aint cheap and neither am I!
Where do I even start?
When I last spoke to you all I got great advice about grabbing the XS2000's for the 4x3 tent.
Well, I did in fact pull the trigger on them and omg these things are slick!
Packaged extremely well and the build quality is astonishing! I am EXTREMELY happy with them!
Thank you for all the feedback!
So with the new
1.Vipars I had to get a new
2. 4x3 tent finally...
This allowed me to put my cobs into my 2.7x2.7 tent that I was using for my mothers and clones. It served its purpose for a bit but ultimately I chose to buy another ACI
3. 2x3 tent for veg and mothers.
In order to maintain the veg tent I had to get a
4. 4" inline fan w/controller and filter combo as well as a
5. 6" Oscillating clip fan also from ACI.
This would have completed the Veg tent BUT I decided to upgrade my cloning situation even tho I'm at 100% success rate, the setup was primitive, and money could fix that too easy, so I grabbed a 6. 24 port aerocloner.
What happens when I get roots tho? I would like to eliminate downtime between grows and don't want to wait for a transition period while we wait for a plastic pot to transition to a SIP so naturally, I ordered another 7. 3 pack of grobuckets.
Moving away from the veg tent now that its complete.
I took a look at what my environment needed and decided a 8. Dehumidifier was of utmost importance.
I plan on having 2 tents in flower very soon and the humidity was getting out of control with just the 2x4.
To control the dehu and keep the environment locked in I went with another product from ACI 9. smart outlet environment controller. This allows me to not only monitor the environment outside my tents but control 2 outlets according to the readings. I have my heater and my dehumidifier hooked to it and set to my desired parameters.
It turns the outlets on and off accordingly.
After looking at the Vipars and how much wattage we had in the 4x3 I took a look at the 4x2 and decided that another 10. S22 wouldn't hurt and so... you guessed it.
This gave me a little trouble because supposedly I should be able to control my daisy chained lights from my BT controller and only use 1 port on the controller to do so... unfortunately like with a lot of ACI they leave so much to be desired. It wouldn't be a problem if the company didn't say this was possible. It also would help that they have stock, but I digress...
They are daisy chained BUT I had to mount the controller to the middle light and run the other 2 to it... This means I cannot see or control my lights from my app or smart controller. huge inconvenience it'll have to do for now.
I couldn't have all these new lights and not do a Par test right? So upon looking at my par numbers on my photone app the 2x4 is well over 1300-1600 in some places!
Talk about light penetration! I've never had a tent this bright let alone 3!
You can see light getting down to the furthest most part of the stems. not a single bud under the canopy is in shade now.
I'm sure some of you are reading this and thinking uhm sir thats too much light... and you would be correct.
I went ahead and purchased 11. 2 exhale bags and placed them into both 4x2 and 4x3 tents.
I adjusted the controller to allow for more heat buildup in the tent making the co2 more available to the plants and slowed down the inline a bit so not to continuously vent it out.
This will definitely get us more trichomes right?! But how are we going to check on those? So I purchased a 12 .1000x 4k digital scope to check them with.
I also grabbed 13. 2 trimming tray sets ,14. 2 sample packs of grove bags and 15. a 10 pack of boveda packs
There was a couple more items that I needed like more ratchet hangers and a bigger air stone for mixing our nutrients but those are just odds and ends that you all don't need to know details of.
As you can see A TON of new stuff and moving parts but were finally set up and ready to go through multiple harvest without needing to make any more major purchases.
As for the ladies they have been loving the recent upgrades, I know I am!
I've continued FWF and everything is at full strength. my schedule kind of threw off my Wednesday and Saturday schedule we were on but the plants kind of did that on their own naturally as well.
They were just given water yesterday and will be getting week 4 feeding at the next watering.
Speaking of week 4 I am thinking to repeat week 4 in the feeding schedule so to extend out the flower schedule by 1 week.
This will also add an extra week in-between removing and adding back the HP2 which I've read is important to do when using this line.
Week 4 is a big week as I took several clones from the tops of our mothers and put them in the aerocloner. These will be our next cycle so it's time to get them rooted and vegged out a bit in preparation.
I have also decided that we will be selecting a new strain to replace the Coffee Crisps and the Purple Gorilla Cookies #1.
I have a couple of ideas on which ones to drop but I think I may just drop 2 of 1 strain to simplify the variety in the tent just a tad.
PBK 1 and PGC 2 are keepers already as they have been the most resilient, have preferable growing patterns and look to be the winners early on in flower.
Obviously, a smoke report will confirm we made the right choice.
Regardless I will keep a clone of just about everything, this way if after we smoke it, we do in fact like one over the other we still have that option.
A few more tidbits of info since it hasnt been documented. I defoiled weekly up until last week just before the stretch stopped and it was perfect timing. We have good light penetration to the canopy and yet enough to power us through flower. The added light helps.
The coffee crisps is Sativa and had an incredible stretch but luckily stayed manageable. Caused a little issue but I raised the PBK 2 and PGC 2 to help even out the canopy. This was also the reason for adding the 3rd light.
I've never flowered out a sativa plant before so Im super excited to have gotten her this far.
There was a little light stress from having the lights so close to try and get that penetration but now that I've backed them off significantly that shouldnt be an issue anymore.
The next big project is to start gathering supplies and info for my living soil. now that the equipment is installed, I want to divert my attention to the soil and eventually start transitioning my garden to living soil beds and living soil SIPS. tons more to work out first tho.
I'm super excited as we finish up week 4 as the swell has started and now is when we start to see the traces of our hard work pay off!
I believe I have covered just about everything. It's been a whirlwind here lately but were on the right track thus far.
Thank you for stopping by and thank you for your time as always!
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well done 
you know I considered checking the auction out for S&G but I already have so many seeds lol
she forgives you and not sure if you said it was the same room but could that have contributed to the light stress? As dli would have been high? 
