2 Tents, One Man..Photos n Autos

Pretty nice progress.
Do you wake up in the morning thinking “I should check the grow”.
I know I do.
Nice to be growing again, isn’t it.

 

i am the same way every morning lol

 

Healthy bunch of plants. You may blow up the tent as they really start to bulk up.
So cool.

 

Welcome back, looks like you have good start on things.

Topping is just another tool when used in the right way can be beneficial. I do not run tons of autos but it is usually best to just let them go if they are a really fast strain, then for the longer ones an early top for a 4 way like you mentioned or just staking them over to let the side branches grow up. There is a fine line between what can help your yields or end up reducing them. I normally only run them when I am running a long veg for outdoor girls or sometimes I put a few out early in summer.

In WA they are not actively looking as long as your not going overboard and being in their face about it. We also have have more restrictive laws and only medical is allowed to grow their own. At the end of the day the state has limited resource to check out everything and most likely it only comes up because you did something else to draw their attention.

I used to use one of those and all I did was take an old pc fan and mounted up in the top and used some random 12v charger to power it.

 

Shoot I remember using T12s . Also your lucky you missed out on the burple mess.

 

Ok, I have to ask this. Do any of you growers ever try growing a few veggies during the winter in those grow tents? My mom always grew her tomatoes in her backyard. And she wouldn't touch one out of the store because she said they were grown in a greenhouse. I don't know. But I do know there is a big difference between the ones in a store and the ones you grow yourself.

 

I used to be a manager of a produce store and did the ordering and interaction with local farmers and I also used to be a market gardener. Their is nothing wrong with stuff grown in greenhouses, all it is is a method of season extension. The issue with most store bought tomatoes is that they are often shipped along with everything else from a cooled warehouse and a cooled truck. The colder temperatures destroy some of the flavor compounds in the tomatoes. Additionally mass scale farms will pick not fully ripe tomatoes so they ship and store better then the reseller will expose them to ethylene to finish out the maturity before sending them out to their customers (stores.) So because of the nature of mass scale production and to meet the needs of out of season crops theese methods are used. I personally would buy as much local tomatoes as possible in the small store I worked because we could always outsell major grocers. But back to greenhouses as long as you can augment light and heat you can grow tomatoes year round and avoid these determent's to the quality of what you are buying.

 

I was thinking of getting a grow tent and growing my tomatoes to later can my sauce. I was hoping the veggies would come out like the ones in my mom's garden.

 

As long as your meeting the conditions, nutrients, light levels, and environmental they should be just as good and possibly better in a controlled environment.

 

I grew these several years back in a spare bedroom in 3 gallon pots of a living organic medium under a cheap 4' LED shop light. The pinkish color you see is from an old Mars 300 watt light I had nearby growing an auto-flower.

I've grown Tiny Tim tomatoes indoors and had a very successful harvest for almost 4 weeks.