I've been missing in the last couple days, but there's a LOT going back and forth with my grow. I'll update a few pictures, but first let's get into the details.
So my tent arrived 2 days ago. Although the description on the webshop and even on the box it was packed in says it's 80×80×160cm, it turned out I somehow got the 2.0 version because it's 180cm tall. That's 20cm more headroom, quite a pleasing surprise. First I assembled the body, but it was a nightmare trying to pull the cloth on it. I figured out it's much easier to lay the clothing down on the floor, and assemble it from inside.
I've also got my fan, and to my surprise, it didn't came with a cable attached to it. First, I was like oh well... I'm not really good at electrical wiring, but one of my buddies came over to help me out. It was only about 2 minutes for him, now it seem to work properly. I didn't attached it yet, since I still haven't ordered a filter and tubing, but right now I have a big standing fan outside the tent for oscillating, and the door of the tent is open all day to provide my girls good airflow.
Though I'm really not sure about feeding, yesterday evening I decided I would add nutrients to them for the first time. The reason for this (see pictures below) is that I feel like my plants aren't really growing at the speed they should. I'm probably wrong and impatient, please, help me out with your opinions!
According to its description (it's BioBizz Grow) I can give 2-4ml/l to them. I've only put about 4ml into 5-6l of water, so I guess it shouldn't really cause a problem, even if the time was a bit too early. It didn't cause anything bad yet (~18 hours passed since feeding them), we'll see what happens to them in the next few days.
I've got some quite bad news too. It really is the perfect example of Murphy's law, what can happen will happen. I rent this flat for one and a half years now. As I mentioned it earlier, the couple whom I rent it from are nice people, I like them, and I have absolutely nothing to complain about. When I have to pay the bills, it's usually only the wife who comes over, I pay her, we chat for a few minutes, and she leaves. She never ever "checks" anything, she usually just asks if everything's allright, that's all. For this reason, I wasn't worried about them discovering my garden, it's in a closed room, and apart from the very first time when I moved in, they never ever went into that room in this one and a half year. Now guess what? The day when my tent arrived, it was payday. This time both of them came, but they didn't even come in, they were in hurry. The guy asked me if it's ok for me that he would bring paint, brushes and other stuff, and then I would renovate the window frames. He said we can agree on a price and they will deduct it from my rental fee. In fact, the windows are quite old, what else could I have said, I said sure, it's fine, I'll do it. Obviously, the problem is, it's very likely that when he comes over with all the stuff, he will check the condition of the frames everywhere, which means he will enter that room too. For sure, he'll call me before, and won't just show up randomly, but it's still a mess to even think about it. We didn't talk about any exact date yet, but according to Murphy, I'm sure he will want to come over right in the middle of flowering
Well, let's not be so pessimistic about it. I have a few options. One thing for sure is that I must disassemble the tent and everything for that day. I can't risk it, that he
might not enter the room, because if he does, my garden (and quite likely my residence here) is over. I live in post-communist country, people here are not too positive-thinking about weed, you know... So apart from disassembling everything, I have to do something with the plants too. Thanks God, that they're autos, I don't have to worry about messing up their light cycle. My plan right now is the following: if they will still be in vegetation, I can just put them in a wardrobe or something and leave them there for the short time of the visit. However, if they'll be flowering, things get a little more complicated. I guess odor is not something I can control if they're out of the tent. If they will be in very early flowering, I might get away with putting them into big boxes and putting the boxes somewhere deep into a wardrobe. But, if they smell like hell, I think I have to carefully seal the boxes and move them down to the basement. I really wouldn't want to do that, I live on the top floor (4th), I have to keep it discreete. All in all, I have to figure out something about it.
Now let's see the pictures.
It's how I set it up first. I put the younger seedling into the corner not to get that intense light.
This is how the Royal AK looked like 2 days ago.
I haven't talked much about my led, but here we go. It's a "800w" led from a Chinese brand called Roleadro. It actually draws ~190w from the wall. There are 128 (8×16) "holes" on it, and there are double chips in every hole, so altogether there are 256 chips. You can see all the colors on this picture, there's not too much blue in it, I'm not sure if it's optimal.
This is how it looks like now. I moved the led down there, becuase I felt like they should already be much bigger at this stage. The older plant (the AK) is about 30cm (1 foot) from the light, and the younger one (Jack Herer) is 50cm away. I put the latter to the side, but I've also put a small desk lamp next to her with a 6w led bulb. You can see the big oscillating fan too, it's set to rotate around.
Another angle. You can see that the AK stretched a lot. Unfortunately, her stem is quite long and weak. I had to support her by putting more soil around the stem. Without it she would fall from the weight of her leaves.
It's how the little Jack looks like now. Sorry, the picture is a bit dark. She popped out of the soil on Monday. I think she looks quite ok.
Not so much ok looking is my AK. She popped out 11 days ago. I thought she should be much bigger at this stage. What do you, dear 420ers, think?
