Damn TS... your words touch on MANY individual areas.
Need a bowl and some pondering before I respond.... plus, watering all my Osmo girlies this morning.
Gimme a few.... you kinda trigger a touch of a book with so many points.
That's cool, I can read, lol. I don't consider a few paragraphs to be a book, and I assume others welcome the sharing of information, too - so use your own judgment (as always) to determine the length of your reply. Short or long, it matters not. I am grateful regardless.
I know you have fiercer weather than I do, which encourages me; if the heat doesn't interfere unduly with your OC+ use, it probably won't mine, either.
Hopefully, my indoor temperatures will not exceed the temperatures you see.
I'm getting a late start with outdoor (non-cannabis) gardening for both myself and my mother. I'd like to see the ground dry enough to turn and enough time in one lump where it is not raining afterwards, but as long as it's not mud I should be able to get back on track. I expect OC+ to be helpful for this type of gardening. I'd like to set up basic irrigation for Mom, but... maybe next year. I'll probably have to water it for her in the main, which is inconvenient <SHRUGS> . Hey, I just recalled that I have inadvertently fed my pepper plants too much nitrogen in the past, and they didn't seem to like it; or more to the point, this seemed to cause issues with flowering/fruiting for a while. Have you run into this at any time while you were using the OC+?
I really should have created a separate thread in the O/T gardening section. Therefore, feel free to be brief with those answers if you like. If you could work handy dandy cannabis-growing advice into them, it might help in that regard
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I need to up-pot an indoor plant. I think it's a
Sensi Seeds Jack Herer, but there is a very small chance of it being a Serious Seeds Kali Mist. Also another plant - some kind of hybrid - that is smaller and younger (I don't remember the exact age, but less than a year old rolleyes3: ). They've just been idling along in vegetative, lol, and have completely overgrown the grow space. I've been thinking about adding OC+ to the new pots. They'll go into their final containers. The thing is, I'll probably get off my virtual arse and switch to 12/12 soon. Well, as soon as I nerve myself to go in there for a round or three of hack and slash. My Kali Mist will probably grow
a lot during the stretch. The Jack Herer will probably have a significant stretch, also, but it is a neater plant, lol. A dozen or so (haven't counted) 3'-4' stalks. The Kali is like... well... ever see a multiflora rose, lmfao?
Evans (1983) also states that some highway departments encouraged the use of multiflora rose on highway median strips to reduce headlight glare from oncoming traffic and as a natural crash barrier to stop out-of-control cars because of this species’ ability to form dense thickets quickly.
The plants would be much taller, but (
not, lol) surprisingly, a big six-COB LED panel has proven adequate for the task of burning the tops of the plants crunchy. If I had
TALL ceilings, I'd stick the big lenses back on the panel and see how far down the Jack Herer I get useful light penetration. But I think that setup likes a significant distance from the tops of the plants. I don't remember, exactly, but it was (more than) enough that I removed those lenses long ago. I
need to throw another 250 watts' worth of (HPS) lighting in there so that I would be able to add up to five more square feet of grow space. Then I could spread these plants out
a little. I could easily add a 400-watt HPS, just in terms of the space it'd illuminate. But I'm just about out of electrical capacity. I wish there was an outdoor spot handy, someplace secluded enough that I could rig up a cover. I'd throw one of the plants into the woods if that was the case (and if there were no :helicopters: ) .
I have a couple seedlings that are unknown sex. I haven't decided whether they'll stay in the grow area after the switch to flowering or move to their own
small space for additional vegetative time. Electrical capacity is almost third-world bad, so every watt counts. I'd like to blink and see them become large enough to take a couple cuttings from each of them and stick them into four 2-liter bottles. If the assumed parentage is correct, they should have a much higher percentage of indica genes in them than two "main" plants in the grow do. I'd like to be able to run them through the grow for the things that indica-dominant strains are better suited than sativas.
If I could guarantee that I'd be able to tend to things every 12 hours, I'd move as much of the smaller/younger stuff in and out of the grow space, and use a low-wattage CFL or two to provide enough light to prevent flowering. I hate to use CFLs - they produce a lot of heat for their wattage, venting a CFL grow means venting the entire grow space, and they're not hugely efficient. But I have some. I also have some "energy saving" 32-watt 4' fluorescent bulbs. In general, I like those more than CFLs (their
combined appeal to me is low, but they have their uses upon occasion.
I still need to procure a strong UV-producing reptile bulb for the middle of my LED panel. The old one is pooched. I
hope that's all it is. I've been running it with just the switches for the six COBs and the 60 (IIRC) "traditional" LEDs turned on for the last three months or so. It might be my imagination, but it seemed like the plants were healthier in general when I was running the UV supplementation. For the past ten days or so, I've been running only the six rings of little LEDs more often than not.
I should have trained these plants, and I should have initiated the flowering phase some time last year (LOFL). I really should have set up for a ScroG grow with only a small portion of the area given over to "screenless" plants. But I'd have felt the need for using two screens, one for each of my main plants - and I would have been taking a WAG as to what percentage of total screen real estate to give to the Jack Herer and the Kali Mist. They don't grow/flower at the same rate, so it'd be highly unlikely that I'd be harvesting all the plants on the same date.
Just ramblin'....
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