Cmh315. One Amnesia. Final weight 167.1 grams.

I'm not a grower but I love watching people grow there bud, so keep it up. It looks awesome!


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Hey Fuzzy....yes, the only thing you've got to do at this point is keep the temp down in your tent so they don't get damaged by heat. Sun Systems makes pretty good equipment. I've used some of their stuff before. As a matter of fact, I think all my hoods for my flowering lights are made by them. I'm not sure you've got enough wattage to do more than 1 or 2 plants...which should be plenty to take care of your own personal needs once you get into the groove of growing these plants.

Right now you're in the veg stage and goal here is just to grow your plants to the size you want them to be for flowering and to top or prune them as they are in veg in whatever way you wish. I start topping mine just as soon as I know they have established roots after going into the Solo cups, and start putting on foliage again. They do don't much other than sit there while they're rooting in....so you give no water or anything else until you see your plants starting to put on foliage good. But be careful of the distance of the light. If you can hold your hand under it at the level of the top of the plants and it doesn't burn your hand, it won't burn your plants. You need to keep the light down over them as close as possible without them being burned by it to get the most good out of your light and raise the height of it as needed as the plants grow up into it. Keeping the light closer to your plants prevents the plant from stretching and also gets that lower growth to put on out too. We run a 10 week flower cycle so I have 10 weeks to take clones and grow them to the size I want for flower when I harvest the plants that are in there at the time. Generally, I can get one to between 3 and 4 ft. tall and after having topped it multiple times during the veg cycle, the number of tops is many. They look like little trees and are most beautiful, IMO, after they've been in the flower room long enough to just start putting on buds. That's when they're lush and pretty...my favorite. LOL

Right now concentrate on learning what you need to do to grow your plants out the best you can in veg. Avoid nutes and allow your soil to feed for you. No new plant needs feeding for awhile and starting nutes too soon or giving too great a concentration is only going to burn your plants, stress them and set them back...which takes time to recover. Never ever ever ever ever!!!!!.....water your plants unless the container feels like it is dead dry.
That's just the way you do it. If the plants aren't drooping, they are not dry. Eventually, you'll learn to read the plant like a book. It will tell you absolutely everything that is going on with it, but you have to become familiar enough with it to be able to recognize what it's saying.

During veg: No watering till dry. Only repot when your plants become larger than the container they're in (wider and taller than...which usually means they are slightly root bound and that is the point they need to be at before repotting) and only go up slightly in size. The fresh soil will resupply the food for your plant so all you have to give is just water. Managing the pH of water is a subject that is debatable. Some say a soil grow doesn't require it and I have no doubt that if I didn't manage the pH of my water, the plants wouldn't die. However, I firmly believe that doing anything I can to keep the roots healthy and open so they can accept the water and nutrition they need is only going to improve my plants, so I do use a pH meter (a BlueLab was the only one I could ever find that would work right and last) and all water/feed solution that goes into my plants is within a range of 6.3 to 6.5...the proper range for a soil grow. If your pH is good on the water/feed going in, things will stay balanced within the plant and you don't every have to worry about runoff pH, etc. But if you're going to manage the pH, understand that you need reliable equipment and don't buy one of those cheap meters and expect it to work properly...they just don't. Most don't work correctly straight out of the box. So if you plan to get one, get a good one. Keeping the pH within range ensures that the roots of your plants stay open and healthy and can easily take in feed/nutes throughout their lives. I firmly believe that is one of the reasons our plants grow so large in such short time. Use tap water (if in the US, straight from the tap since we don't treat here with chlorine anymore), adjust the pH and water with it. There are valuable micronutrients in tapwater that the plants need and use and using filtered waters, RO, etc., just gives you weird deficiencies because of it. If you repot up as the plant grows and let the soil feed your plants, you can get all the way through the veg cycle without giving a bunch of extra chemicals. That's why we pay big money for that formulated grow soil. We use Roots Organics Original and it's insanely expensive, but I can't give very many nutes at all or it burns the plants...which is why we use the good stuff. Less work and less additives on my end of things and I don't like putting a bunch of chemicals in my plants. I want them to get what they need to thrive and no more.

My biggest piece of knowledge about indoor growing is this: It's ALL about the strength and quality of light that your plants grow under throughout their lives. The better your light an the more of it, the better product you will end up with at harvest. You already know how I feel about trying to grow too many under one lamp. But I'm that way because you have to be realistic about how much wattage one of these plants actually needs to get it to give all it's got. Your biggest issue with the grow tent and HID/HPS lighting is managing the heat. However, in reading your post above I see that you are preparing the ducting, etc., to deal with that. Heat will kill a plant as quick as anything else, so it's imperative that you get your temps into an acceptable range. Some strains deal with heat better than others. The sativa based strains generally are hardier and deal well with hot conditions. The indicas tend to be better suited for northern cooler climates. We live in the SE US, so temp and humidity are horrible here during the normal grow season. If I do any indicas, I have to make it in the winter because they just don't do that well here in the heat. They're very slow growers anyway (indicas) because of their tight nodal spacing and just take too long to grow to a size that makes them profitable to take up space in my grow. I vegged one Indica for 6 months before it got large enough to flower...and that was just ridiculous. Like I said above, I can take a clone and get it to between 3 and 4 ft. by time to flower with the sativa based strains we grow.

I guess I've run out of gas because I can't think of anything else to put in this "book." LOL Sorry...I used to be a medical transcriptionist for years and type like the wind...so pardon my long, rambling posts. LOL The more you know, the better your grow will do. So use the forum and it's members and threads to help you out along the way. The search bar at the top of the forums page is an invaluable resource that few people ever see, I think. LOL You can type in a key word or topic and it will pull all threads posted here related to that idea or topic. I think I learn more from looking at others grows and how they handle their system and process than anything else. You can be it's all been tried before so if you have a question, that's a great place to start when needing to find an answer.

Best of luck to you. Blessings!! TWW

 

I would run the fan out of the tent instead of inwards to push the air to another room in your house. Smell won't be a problem till you're into flowering. That way the hot air won't be recycled. Following your grow. Best luck!

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Nice Light! If your inline is puffing up your tent, then you have it set up wrong from what your saying. If you have a cf also, your inline should be pulling air from your tent not pushing air in. You should feel the fan blowing outward, not sucking in. That's what's making your tent puff up. If anything is should suck in giving negative pressure. Opening passive vents will help negative pressure. As it won't suck your tent in to much. Plus with your fans inside your tent will help. I don't know to much about Lec lighting, your using cmh bulb for veg? Your light looks a little close IMO from what I see. I know Lec lights could be closer to the canopy, but during seedlings and popping I thought they should be higher but like I said I don't know too much about them lights. Look at this thread it may help you out.
Good LuckLEC 315 + Dutch Passion Seeds


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Not a problem

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Hey Fuzzy, I'm subbed in. Your grow looks good so far. I'm looking forward to seeing how the LEC light works out for you. I'm contemplating a few of those in a bigger tent. From what I've read one 315w is more powerful than a 600w HPS or MH.


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