The 4x4 Grow Tent Club

gr865 · May 14, 2018

Day 14 of 12/12

Not sure how much more stretch I can handle, may have to start a mass LST for this bitch.
4/29 The day before start of 12/12

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gr865
May 14, 2018

14 days later 5/13, I have had to tie her down twice since start of flower, she is taken over the space.

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gr865
May 14, 2018

5/13 different shots from last night.

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gr865
May 14, 2018

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gr865
May 14, 2018

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gr865
May 14, 2018

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gr865
May 14, 2018

Buds starting to form, stretch is continuing and she sure could use a trim, but will wait another week for that.

She not flowering as rapid as Pheno #1 or #3, but she is supporting much more growth.

GR

DragonsFire · May 14, 2018

Any recommendations on a first time grow tent? cost is an issue unfortunately.
4'x4'x6.5'Hydroponic Indoor Grow Tent Kit Dark Room Box Cabinet Reflective Mylar | eBay

gr865 · May 14, 2018

I run this tent, 4 yrs now, love it.
No problem at all with the zippers. A few pin hole light leaks but not a problem as it is in a closet.
Paid around $225
Gorilla LITE LINE Indoor Grow Tent 4 x 4

If I every replace this tent I will either go with this same one or the regular tent but the cost is getting up there.

Gorilla Grow Tent 4 x 4

SherlokOhmz · May 15, 2018

Hi, I took these pics last night just as the lights were about to come on. Its hard to get a good pic with a hps unless you catch it warming up. I had the date wrong in my previous post. They were flipped on 420 & have been flowering for 25 days. They stretched a little more than I anticipated but I think they are finally done. They are lumen whores, I flattened out my reflector and have bulb 12" above the canopy. Including the 2 x 64w shop lights I added they are now getting 728w total. Super lumen setting will bump them up to 788w, ill probably switch them in another week or so. Finally getting to the good part where the nugs start getting fat : )

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SherlokOhmz
May 15, 2018

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May 15, 2018

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SherlokOhmz
May 15, 2018

SherlokOhmz · May 24, 2018

They starting to put a little weight on now.

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SherlokOhmz
May 23, 2018
600w 4x4 coco

600w 4x4 grow

gr865 · May 24, 2018

Update:
Day 21 12/12

A week ago, 5/14

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gr865
May 21, 2018

Morning of 5/20

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gr865
May 21, 2018

Evening of 5/20
Did not get a pic with the lights on but this was just after light out, here she is after most fans were removed, left the ones just before the growing tips.

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gr865
May 21, 2018

Morning of 5/21
About to remove larf and tie everything back down.

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gr865
May 21, 2018

Okay larf removed 5/21

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gr865
May 21, 2018

Bound and tied. 5/21

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gr865
May 21, 2018

Just after light out morning 5/21, lets see how she response by the time the lights come on this evening.

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gr865
May 21, 2018

This evening I will be moving branches around that I was not able to get done before lights went out this morning. Will have to be large amount of LST, maybe some SC but mainly, other than adjusting branches for light, I get to sort of sit back and watch for awhile.

I removed a lot of material off the plant but at about the same rate as I did her mother in the vertical grow. Would be nice to have a juicer, THcA is good medicine. I just can't justify one as I only have small amounts of leaves and larf a couple of times a year and even then it is not that much. Beside my composting worms in the bins love it.

Overall including fans, larf and some of the off stems made up a nicely packed grocery bag of compost material. This is this morning trimmings, fans were already in the compost bin.

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gr865
May 21, 2018

Here she is today! 5/24

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gr865
May 24, 2018

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gr865
May 24, 2018

GR

HayStack · May 27, 2018

I'm currently one week into flower as of today and all seems to be well. The CMH lights are great. They are growing so fast that I'm having a hard time keeping up with trimming. I find myself doing substantial trimming at least once a week and minor trimming everyday.

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HayStack
May 27, 2018

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May 27, 2018

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May 27, 2018

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May 27, 2018

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May 27, 2018

SherlokOhmz · May 27, 2018

Full & level canopy with a shitload of tops. Nice work, your going to rock that 4x4!

TorturedSoul · May 27, 2018

Nice use of space in that tent. I've always thought, "Don't worry about lighting the plants, light the space - and then fill that space with plants," lol.

BtW, what's the white(?) stuff on some of the leaves in that last picture? It's not evidence of thrips, is it?

gr865 · May 29, 2018

Inside the ol' 4 x 4

Day 28 of 12/12

All is going well, no problems to report, which is a good thing.
Added a third water cycle, now at three irrigation cycles per light cycle, 8 programs. Currently, lights on at 9 PM, 1st cycle and times, 9:10 PM, 9:20 and 9:30 each for one minute, just to get about 10% runoff. 2nd cycle 1:00 AM one minute, 1:15 AM two minutes, to just runoff, and third cycle is 6:00 AM one minute, 6:25 one minute, 6:45 AM 2 minutes, a good 20 to 30% runoff.
Began adding Liquid KoolBloom at day 21 @ 8 ml and with this last rez change will be at the 5 ml rate for the next week or so. Still running 0.8 EC with A&B, and with 2 ml Cal/Magic, 1 gram Epsom, 3 ml Rhizo, 9 ml Cannazym, 5 ml Golden Tree and Drip clean. I get a total EC of 1.4.
The only issue I have is with Golden Tree, without recirculation it settles out in the rez's. I had been recirculating from just after the final irrigation cycle to just before the start of the first cycle of night at lights on. This helps stabilize the nutes and provide passive O2 into the solution. At that time it shuts off and I adjust the pH to 5.8 , over the nights cycles it moves maybe to 5.84. Now I will have to recirculate continuously which with cause my pH over the nights cycles move from 5.8 to 5.95 +/-. Not sure is that will be a problem as some fluctuation is good.

Here she is at day 21 just after major pruning and retying.

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gr865
May 21, 2018

Here she is this morning day 28.

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gr865
May 28, 2018

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gr865
May 28, 2018

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gr865
May 28, 2018

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gr865
May 28, 2018

Pleased with the growth, not lush, not underfed, budding nicely and continuing to stretch some, will do a bit of SC soon, can't move the lights any higher. So I went ahead and did a couple of SC's, did a couple last week, then last night and will do them as needed for height control.
Did this one last week

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gr865
May 29, 2018

Did these two this last night.

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gr865
May 29, 2018

GR

KingJoe83 · May 29, 2018

DragonsFire said:
Any recommendations on a first time grow tent? cost is an issue unfortunately.
4'x4'x6.5'Hydroponic Indoor Grow Tent Kit Dark Room Box Cabinet Reflective Mylar | eBay

I like my Vivosun cheap and does the trick

KingJoe83 · May 29, 2018

gr865 said:
Update:
Day 21 12/12

A week ago, 5/14

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gr865

May 21, 2018

Morning of 5/20

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gr865

May 21, 2018

Evening of 5/20
Did not get a pic with the lights on but this was just after light out, here she is after most fans were removed, left the ones just before the growing tips.

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gr865

May 21, 2018

Morning of 5/21
About to remove larf and tie everything back down.

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gr865

May 21, 2018

Okay larf removed 5/21

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gr865

May 21, 2018

Bound and tied. 5/21

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gr865

May 21, 2018

Just after light out morning 5/21, lets see how she response by the time the lights come on this evening.

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gr865

May 21, 2018

This evening I will be moving branches around that I was not able to get done before lights went out this morning. Will have to be large amount of LST, maybe some SC but mainly, other than adjusting branches for light, I get to sort of sit back and watch for awhile.

I removed a lot of material off the plant but at about the same rate as I did her mother in the vertical grow. Would be nice to have a juicer, THcA is good medicine. I just can't justify one as I only have small amounts of leaves and larf a couple of times a year and even then it is not that much. Beside my composting worms in the bins love it.

Overall including fans, larf and some of the off stems made up a nicely packed grocery bag of compost material. This is this morning trimmings, fans were already in the compost bin.

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gr865

May 21, 2018

Here she is today! 5/24

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gr865

May 24, 2018

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gr865

May 24, 2018

GR

Looking awesome bud

Bilbobudkin420 · May 29, 2018

This is whats cracking in my 4x4.

Made some alterations to my setup. I now have a fan blowing across the top of the canopy and ive also created a drip table raised on some baton with super absorbent sheets to catch runoff

Couple bits of baton!

Bilbobudkin420
May 25, 2018

Drain table (old wheelchair platform/ramp)

Bilbobudkin420
May 25, 2018

Bilbobudkin420 · May 29, 2018

I got RQS critical (sloth), greenhouse lemon skunk(11)and eva seeds gipsy haze (conan)

TorturedSoul · May 29, 2018

SherlokOhmz said:
Hi, I took these pics last night just as the lights were about to come on. Its hard to get a good pic with a hps unless you catch it warming up.

Check in your camera's configuration to see if its white balance is adjustable. If so, that will probably help. You might even find a user-defined/custom setting for it (typically, the user places a white object - such as posterboard - under the specific lighting and the camera sets whatever the result is to white), which should help LOTS.

HayStack · May 29, 2018

TorturedSoul said:
Nice use of space in that tent. I've always thought, "Don't worry about lighting the plants, light the space - and then fill that space with plants," lol.

BtW, what's the white(?) stuff on some of the leaves in that last picture? It's not evidence of thrips, is it?

I'm not really sure what the white spots are. But there are a few leaves that have them. I've been looking closely at them and can't find any signs of any bugs. If it continues I'll put some traps inside and see what I get.

HayStack · May 30, 2018

TorturedSoul said:
Nice use of space in that tent. I've always thought, "Don't worry about lighting the plants, light the space - and then fill that space with plants," lol.

BtW, what's the white(?) stuff on some of the leaves in that last picture? It's not evidence of thrips, is it?

At first I thought it wasn't because I couldn't find any bugs. But this morning I found these. I sprayed them down with neem oil. Hopefully a few weeks of that will get rid of them.