Guess it depends how strong your lights are too doesn't it?
Yes, for sure. And it's not just the type of light, its performance (in watts), lumens, PAR and all of these things, but I think some lights are just more intense than others. It's hard to figure it out.
I'm running a 315 watt cmh and it hasn't over streched, I've done it in the past with a 600 hps and it didn't over strech eaither
Well, it takes time to find the sweet spot. My AK seedling stretched a lot in her first week due to being exposed to very weak light. As a response, like a kind of compensation, I've put her very close under the led when my tent arrived.
Do anyone know about actual, scientifical data regarding led light distance if heat is not a problem? How close can one put these leds to the canopy? Obviously, when one has several plants, one wants to cover the canopy of all the plants. This means raising the light as high as the need for coverage dictates. But what about situations (like mine now), where there are only 2 plants, and they are still so small, that hanging the led 10 inches above them means total "canopy" coverage? Can I really stress them out this way? I mean, they are autos, growing them is not about doing everything slowly and carefully, we are on a timer!
The reason I'm asking for scientifical data is that pretty much all the different led manufacturers with all their different lights recommend very similar heights for seedling, veg and flowering stage. How is that possible, that you
should put a led panel that draws 100 watts 18 inches above your plant, and at the same time, the recommendation for another led that draws 200 watts (so presumably has higher lumen output, PAR value, etc.) with almost the same coverage area should also be put at 18 inches at, let's say, in middle veg phase?
With all that said, I didn't really feel like I should follow the manufacturer's recommendation. I had in mind that until heat from the chips is not a problem (and it's absolutely not), and the light covers my two plants, I allow myself to put it as close as I can.
Maybe I should post this particular question in the FAQ section too, a ton of people watch those threads.
They are growing, you just have to be patient. There's more happening under the soil in the beginning.
Bigger shoots bigger roots - pretty universal.
AUTOs are going to grow a little bit different than the PHOTO sisters.
AUTO cannabis is actually Rudaralis - it's from Russia! So there are folks growing in post communist countries for sure. Not everyone sees it as a negative over your way. I have Russian in-laws. They visit us from time to time. Hard to hide the smell in our home. They good with it.
It's medicine for many.
On the upcoming stealth thing. The sooner the better with the painting project. You should be able to put the plants in a box in the closet. I doubt landlord gonna dig into your closet. You're a good paying customer. Would be sorta silly to make you uncomfortable right?
Remember the timing the breeder lists in the advertising is a "guide". Lots of things can change that timing. But for AUTOs not as much.
I would wait to feed your plants until there's 2 or 3 TRUE leaf sets. The cotyledon (seed) has enough energy stored to get the plant going, the soil has some nutrients as well. RIght now the important thing is root growth. Is the temps at the btm of where the soil is warm or cool?? Warm is best.
For RH and temps - if you look at that chart that was posted, you will see that temps in the mid 60's F to high 70's has a very wide range for RH.
Later on things will change but for now your ambient temps and RH are fine.
Actually 40% RH and 70F is almost perfect. Too much of anything is usually bad so aim for the middle ground and all will be well.
GL you got this!
There is nothing heating the tent from below, so the bottom of the soil isn't realy warm I guess. Dry winds hit our weather yesterday, and it will stay like this for a few days. My rh dropped from 45-50 to 40-41% yesterday. I've hung a wet towel for the night and zipped the tent for the first time. It didn't raise the humidity, not even by one percent, so yea, I have to work with what I have right now. If 40%rh and 70f is indeed good, then I'm almost perfect with the current conditions.
On the Russian part: I do know that people grow and smoke here too, but you know, it's just the general atmosphere, a kind of attitude toward "drugs". Believe me, there are a ton of people living here in total darkness, thinking that it's fine (especially for males) to drink and pass out on every single weekend, since that's only
entertainment and
letting out a bit of steam. However, these people also think that weed is a hard drug, and I think most of them associate smoking with laziness and messing up your whole life. Not to brag about my general knowledge, but there are a lot of uneducated people, that's for sure.
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I'm leaving the office in 10 minutes, got to see the dentist, then I'm visiting my father, but finally, when I get home today evening, I will, for sure, water my ladies. The main reason for this, is that I've read through all the 19 pages of
@Emilya 's how to water thread (first time I only read the first 3-4 pages), and got confirmed that autos and photos are in a totally different ballpark when it comes to watering:
As long as you are aggressively feeding/watering an auto, you could get by with some rapid successive uppotting, but as shruum suggested, you are on a time clock with an auto... and she is going to do what she wants to do, despite you concentrating on roots. There just isn't time with an auto to build a massive rootball... she builds what she needs and then moves on to building buds. I used to be in the camp that a plant is a plant is a plant, and that there was no reason to not use the successive uppotting strategy even with an auto, but after trying it a few times and seeing how anemic the root growth was and how impossible it was to get a solid rootball developed before flowering started automatically, I have changed my mind on this. I now see little use of going much larger than a 3 or 5 gallon for auto plants, and I would do exactly as you are doing now... get them a good start in a smaller container and then transplant them to the final container and call it good.
Since they are in 15l pots, and they seem like , at least to me, that they will never really fill out the whole fabric pot with a dense rootball, from now on, I won't wait too long between waterings. I think I'm actually better adding smaller amounts more frequently than floating the whole pot, and having to wait 2 weeks to totally dry out.
Anyways, I'm learning new things every day, I realized it's an art to grow a plant.
See you later!
I'll upload a few pics, so you can see what I'm talking about.
Looks pretty similar to yours. It's now on day 59
