Munki,
Have got a question that you may have answered here, but with all the space you have to the side of the existing plant, are you going to introduce another plant to the right, and then have a perpetual grow?
Also, is a light mover an option for you? Or would you just get another light in there?
It is a true work of beauty you have got going and will inspire a lot of people.
The unpopulated side is where by reservoir is. I've been building things for this grow but not with a ton of foresight. Things have been evolving. The screen is larger than I would be comfortable filling given the root mass. That may not be an issue, but I do not want to find that out 3/4 into flowering. With ScrOG, I've read that it is better to underfill than overfill. Subsequent grows will eventually be tuned for higher efficiencies and yield but the amount I pull from this should be more than enough for 1 patient.
Hmmm, a light mover in a 4' x 4' tent ... Might be possible if I can get one that slowly rotates in a circle. I think there has been one like that on the market before. A straight run light mover wouldn't be really useful in this tent size i figure. Maybe in a 4' x 8' tent it would be worth it. Would be nice but the HPS I have has the ballast built in so it is quite heavy. I would want a remote ballasted lamp if I went that route.
I'm glad you like my work. Didn't really think of myself as an inspirational person, but I guess my work could suffice in that regard. +rep to ya if I can.
Looking very, very nice. They are starting to pop out through that screen. You will have some sticky buds popping through there real soon great job and cant wait to see how this all turns out..
Yeah, I've had branches coming through for days but I generally pull them back under. Only last night did I position the budding flowers to rise through the screen and moved some leaves so smaller bud sites just below the screen could see the light and hopefully grow to it.
It is exciting to watch, though I wish I could grab a TiVo remote and fast forward a bit. Success is quite nice, but it can be a bit boring. I'll just try and count my blessings that it has been boring!
looking good munk
when if ever are you going to let them run up at the light?
You will see the buds run to the light in the end I figure. I haven't seen tons of stretching though it isn't the easiest thing to spot using ScrOG. Many things I've read about ScrOG recommend keeping the plant material at screen height for as long as possible. It is that narrow zone where there optimal light intensity exists. Once the bugs run up to the lamp, I'll have raise the lamp to compensate and the growth below the screen will suffer. Allowing the growth to significantly breach the screen kind of defeats the purpose of ScrOG. Might as well ditch the screen entirely and just do LST tiedowns then (not that there is anything wrong with that).
I'm thinking that the clones I got came from fairly mature plants originally considering how the nodes would branch from the main stem. They are flowering quickly. Could be that I'm providing a good 12 hour absolute darkness. I haven't violated that time except in the very beginning of flower and only just before the lamp came on so it wouldn't be an issue.
Have other growers who have taken clones from mature plants especially early in flower noticed if the clones have reduced stretch when they reach their own early flower stage? Wondering if there is an internal mechanism in the genome of the plant that allows it to know it true age. I know people who clone eventually go back to seed stock. Does multiple generational cloning (clones from clones from clones ...) cause changes in the later generation's growth characteristics? If there is a good internet resource on this, I would appreciate someone directing me to it.
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