UPDATE DAY 4: After an initial night's settling in they were still looking pale and on hold but after a little tweaking to the nft trays flow , the cubes are getting a good flow past them now. The back cubes were not getting enough fluid at all. Now a couple of days has passed and they are feeding , they look better and are starting to colour up. They still look lost in the tanks with only 2 in each
On the whole they are doing as expected but the initial germing and root building in the cubes does not seem to give them much of a start
Thankfully the Black Ghost og is starting to look fairly normal now. Once she is big enough to top , I will be able to remove her twisted and crumpled leaves.
The Los girls are really starting to get busy now and even the small FFT#9 will be trainable in a day or 2. They seem happy to share the overfill from the 2 sp lights and have enough good light to keep moving.
It will be interesting to see how all three respond to the flip to flower as I will also put the Tsl2000 on for this comparison. There are 3 fast flowering strains which i do expect to show pistols bert early on but the actual bud formations tend to stay on par with normal 8-9 week flowering periods irrespective of their indica/sativa leanings. This should level the playing field a little. I would like to have done 9 of the same strain from a cloned mother for a true control but timing is not with me at all on this one so we will see how it pans out with 7 different strains!!. Lol
Temps are a little on the warm side at 27-29°C but avoiding the daytime uk heat with using nighttime for lights on has helped keep it there . I always have the option of moving the sp3000 power pack which may happen if the temps go up much more.
Rh is an expected 40% but I spray the rooms walls at present to offer a little more moisture. This should change as the leaf structures start arriving on masse.
I will be watering the LOS ladies later with 4 L each of dechlorinated water and expecf the nft will be fine for the next 2 weeks without needing anything else doing.
I expect the next few weeks to show any major advantages of the extra 25w and more Red spectrum to the sp3000 too. The spec mentions better all round growth too.
All in all , I am happy with progress now.
Be safe Growmies.