Hey guys, first timer here on GrassCity I want to start by saying I’ve been reading many forums and posts on here for the last couple of months, and have been growing for a few years now. Multiple ways, multiple strains. Today I’m going to start a journal on the famous northern lights strain I will be using iron heads most updated nutrient regiment for this grow 50/50 coco/perlite mid GH nutes and additives Tap water (ppm 125) I’m only going to grow either 1 or 2 plants for my 5x4 tent I’m using mixed LED (mars hydro/viparspectra) I would like to use these all the way through but I may end up replacing the existing lights with one of my 8 inch air cold HPS lights So far I have everything set up I have been messing with the tent and the environment that it’s in Basically so I can figure out what my temps and humidity will be on average before I just start popping my seeds and developing problems later I want to be 100% of head of all these common issues after all perfect environment perfect genetics and perfect nutrients are all a key part in producing top shelf product Normally I use my 5 x 4 and my 4 x 8 but I’m in a new location that is rather small and I would like to educate myself a little bit on the use of LED lights and this particular nutrient regiment that I am not familiar with Here are some pictures of the current set up All together I have 1000w and I mean actually watts at the wall with the led lights here. I think I may only use three of the lights because temps exceed 83 degrees with all 4 I’m using a 6” hyper fan with carbon scrubber 3 passive intakes with hepa filters to keep environmentally clean I will bleach everything one more time Before I start the germination process of the NL seeds I will update 1 or 2 times a week from here on out. All comments, criticism, and advice welcome thanks everyone
Nice, I like the 4 unit light source. When I got into growing I bought a single Mars II 1600 and while it does well for me, I wish I had went with 4 smaller units to better cover my scrog. I grew up smoking Northern Lights, here in Oregon, now just about every breeder sells their own version. Who's NL is yours?
Yeah who's the breeder? I love NL, its my favorite go to plant. Can't kill it, had one dug up 4 times and looked dead this past spring, planted it back a little water and still made a 6 ft plant. Damn ground hogs. I'm gonna drag up a chair and watch if you keep updating your journal.
Hey man that’s awesome! I thought About buying the 1600 series but just like you said I would be able to cover my canopy much more efficiently and I’m going to rotate the plants in a circle so to speak so that way I am utilizing every light on every plant at different times if that makes sense and they are dinafem l
Hey man how’s everything going thanks for joining and I was going to use the Lucas formula but I think my final choice is going to either be iron heads most recent regiment from about the middle of 2017 or I’m going to follow something very similar by using General hydroponics Coco tec line Regardless of what bass nutrients I’m going to use I am going to use basically every additive that he used in the past because his results have proven to be very satisfactory Once I get the rest of my equipment set up because I do have tons of it laying around that’s not in use I do plan on using multiple formulas on the same strain most likely clones from the northern lights and see what works best for me I’ve always been a pretty good outdoor cultivator I would like to get much more familiar with indoor Coco and Led
I will have an update in the next day or two once the northern lights seeds germinate and the taproot has shown at self I will explain and show plenty of images of my germination techniques that I have picked up a while ago success rate is for the most part 100%
I switched the room around a bit, changed the location of the fan and filter, temps are down 2-3 degrees with lights on putting me at 76-77 for high temps Low temps are down to 67-68 which of course is to low. The temp in the house here is average 65 in the winter. Which is perfect for me and the gf To combat the low temps I’m putting a small radiator electric heater in the opposite room or adjacent room to see if raising the ambient temp of this area of house will get me at 70 low 80 high I think that will be okay I have 4 bag seeds started in solo cups waiting to sprout up. These will be my outdoor plants for this coming spring and I want a head start on them Last year I did this around December and 1 lived all the way through September once planted outdoors in April.. was over 10’ tall and yielding over 2 lbs I’ll crack the NL seeds in the next week or so all I have to do before hand is get the rest of my nutes, and perfect my humidity for veg .. looking for 50-55% until flower back down to 35-40 %
It smelt pretty good, taste ok . Bud correct, nothing like the bud it came from It only had direct sunlight for maybe 2-3 hours a day. It was approximately 3’ tall and scavenged around an oz of of it. Only the terminal cola was dense
They make a thing called a sun circle, has one or two arms depending on model. It does just like it sounds, very very slow circle like the light bar. It's pretty kewl works good for light rotation
I have one from west coast growers. Rotates 180 then back. Sent from my SM-G935V using Grasscity Forum mobile app
I think you guys are talking about light movers and the OP is talking about rotating the plants, not the lights. I've spent some time thinking about how to make an automated plant lazy susan type thing, I don't recall ever seeing a product you can buy that does that. In concept, I like the idea. Not sure it'd play out all that well though in practice. You'd have to be careful about canopy management, limited in how you shape your plant, etc.
Heyyyy man you got me thinking ... I’m a hands on guy and always have worked in the field of housing/cars trees.. you name it Now I’m going to design a basic chandelier out of a long carriage bolt 1’ in length .. few nuts and washers .. probably 3/8 stuff will be fine. On top I’ll weld an eye bolt and hook a carabiner to it now there is a bolt hanging... Now I’ll take some aluminum I have laying around and make a square box probably 1’x1’ with 4 eye bolts, 1 at each corner. Now I have my 4 lights hanging from that. (I’ll put two light hanger rods cross crossed on the tent for max strength. Now I can tighten the bottom nut to hold it from rotating.. once a day I’ll rotate it 1/4 turn or 90 degrees Simple diy light mover lol I’ll make it in the next couple of days and show.. thank you for that idea
why move the plants? This thing moves in a circle 180 degrees then reverses and goes back. If you run certain grows, you can't move the plants, so moving the lights are the best option, rather than putting a light over each plant and they eliminate constant shadows and hot spots that you get with stationary lights
Here is my setup. 5x5x6.5 tent, 15 gallon res with 4, 5 gallon buckets attached with fill and drain lines. I have a commmercial air pump one stone in each bucket and 2 in the res. Carbon filter and fan hooked to a humidity\temp controller, 300w aquarium heater, 450 gph pump in the res pumping into the top side of each of the buckets, and one 600 watt HPS lights running. These plants are 7 weeks old and been on 12/12 for 8 days now. They are showing preflowers with whites hairs popping out in all the tops. They are drinking about 2 1/2 gallons of RO water with GH 3 part nutes per day. Not trying to hijack but just want to show you what DWC will do.