So I moved my 4 smaller plants from directly under my 600w hps because they were showing signs of heat stress now I just got called stupid because my plants are at the side of the tent and not directly under the light burning. Here is a photo of them at 15 days old IMG_20180106_062516 by TheNewGrowingGen posted Jan 6, 2018 at 6:33 AM
I think you'd get better answers in the growers section, but someone might be able to help you with this
I ain't gonna lie I thought all threads were cannabis related seeing as it's a cannabis page haha my bad
Leaves look pretty good to me, they seem to be doing fine, no sagging or lifting with good lush color. You can get a meter that measures light and I've toyed around with them before when learning but I really like to just go off the plants responses now. Whats your light height at? That 600w is probably too strong or too close for those small babies. I grow 4-6 small plants like that with a single 300w LED at 15-20 inches (true usage is 140w)
My light is as high as it can be my friend. I think I'm gonna need to get a smaller light for my tent seeing as half of my tent is to bring and hot. But they seem to be doing OK with what I got them at the big plant is at the corner in the back. And the 4 small plants are just side by side at the edge of the tent. Directly under the light it's sitting between 36c and 40c so my plants are well away from that heat. I had a look and there seems to be a couple of yellow spots on the outside of the leave now I know my ec was high yesterday I gave them pH water today and that was it how long will I give them just water for? Or will I start with my feed again tomorrow
You ph balancing your water before feeding? Don't, it doesn't make any difference and can easily hurt, your plants will adjust the soil ph by themselves, all you're doing is saturating the soil with buffer salts that will build up in hot spots and burn roots or clog your soil up from draining/flowing well. I used to ph adjust water, your plants will thank you for not and you'll save a little more money. If you're using city water though, let it air out so the chlorine will evaporate. Generally you want 75-84 degrees F, so 28c is pushing it, anything past that is too much for sure. I usually start nutes at the end of month 1, the soils I use will usually have quite a bit of nutes in them to last so it may vary. I also had room temperature temps 72-76F with the LEDS so my plants used far less nutes/water and power . The hotter it is, the more water your plants go through, which means the faster and harder theyll suck up nutes. This also makes it harder to regulate nutes as changes will occur very fast versus room temperatures. Your plant could go from nute starved, yellow as a squash to clawing, dark as sin, overfed in no time if its hot. Hotter temps also increase odds of males, and just lesser quality/quantity in general.
Year I make sure that the pH is not to high I use canna coco and there fertilisers it has pH buffer in them It's my first time I ain't to concerned about how much I get if I was to pull a oz of each plant I'm gonna be more than happy. Also no males just females I buy my seeds from a seed bank
Are they auto flowering? They can go male if they're stressed and not auto-flowering. I'd recommend more cooling in there, or maybe less strong light. Your temps are pretty high, if this is max height you might have trouble when they start growing up. Be sure to prune the center stalk after 4-5 leaflets so it'll grow out wide, and not just tower tall with a single stalk. If you can avoid ph buffers you'd be better off, they wont help you at all and can only hurt.
Yeah there autos and I am doing a lst on them witch is working I have 7 main tops instead of 1 top so that's a good start When my big fan is sucking air out the tent my temps are round 26c
Further clarify please, are your fans, directly on your hood? And is your hood air cooled, a wing type, or a tube type? And does it have a layer of glass or plastic between the bulb and the plants? And if it is cooled, are you venting out the top or top sides?
My hood is like a metallic rectangular thing no glass on it. I vent from the top of my tent My tower fan is always on What you mean when do I sleep? What's sleep? I forget
Hahaha I can tell..... posted at 3am here, woke up at 8am and your still on hahah.... boy I miss those days..... But seriously go find some old picture frame that no one is using, take the pane of glass out and use some kapton tape or aluminum tape to fasten it on, and put a fan pushing air to the bulb (you can ziptie a fan or pc fan to it or hang it, tape it, what ever) a push pull fan configuration would be better.... but your already in the temperature ball park, so two fans might be wasting your money. But do your self a favor and get an air cooled hood as soon as you can afford it..... simply not having to trip about temps is quite nice
Yeah man I am actually gonna be getting a cool hood and a more expensive extraction fan. Yeah bud that's me just woke up so from the message a sent you yo now haha Al reply to that message 2 times just give me a few minutes to get my head screwed on
id stick with the cool hood first, it will honestly probably do the trick, and no point in spending another 60+ dollars on a fan if you dont have to
Thank you bro for the reply. The cool hood if I am right in thinking you need a fan to suck the air out OK but my fan is on my carbon filter? So would I not need to buy a new fan anyway no matter what I do?