LST, LED, SOG, Drip Feed 4' Veg & 6' Flower Tents 2nd Grow

Now that the heat has subsided, I raised the photoperiod back from 10/14 to 12/12

 

What? Is this claim referring to HPS?

 

I took 7 clones and vaped a few bowls of the cuttings.. buds are finally starting to grow.

 

I heard a pump run dry and went to the grow room to discover most of the solution had been drank, damn, 120L in 5 days, that's more than my first grow! At this rate I don't even have adjust the ph once before they run out, which is good because I don't have a ph meter right now

 

Interestingly, I don't even need the anion generator yet, the smell isn't anywhere near as strong as my last grow and the ventilation alone is taking care of it fine. Seems like stressed/sick plants stink more.

Btw I am officially drunk, and alone.. everyone's dry

 

Vertical growth is finally over it seems.


This is my irrigation setup at full capacity.


Pistils are finally reaching out


My harvest will be very late. But if I can tame this over-vegged jungle, I'm hoping to get a huge yield.

 

Yeah ikr. My first plants were much taller, but it I didn't train them at all.


That was 5 plants in 20" pots, this is grow 13 plants in 10" pots, the difference is amazing (Yeah those are the current plants in the little pots)

 

Watering increased again, pump timer up from 5x10 minutes to 5x15 minutes a day.

Edit: They're still thirsty, now watering 7x15 minutes a day.

 

Yep they are mostly bushing and and growing larger bud leaves now The pistils continue to reach out.

Vertical growth has slowed a lot now, when things get too tall I snap the branch at a 90 degree angle and they heal themselves, not sure what this method's called, but it regrows in a parabolic shape after a few days and I repeat. It's a bushy mess but I think I've got in under control.

I want to keep it at 12/12 now, I don't want to compromise the potency and yield, I just really needed that 10/14 kick start before as all they were doing was vegging.

 

Yeah I gave them way too much water in my first grow, they had root rot, and the ph swung up too high.. burnt the crap out of them

Difference in this grow is I'm using clay balls instead of perlite which was pretty crap, the plants dry within hours instead of days, adding dutch master zone, and watering more carefully with my moisture meter. I even had air pumps in there for a while till they were unnecessary. The difference of better aeration is amazing, pearly white roots are sprawling out of the pots onto the flood tray.

 

They're stretching again in 12/12, I'll leave it in 12/12 because I don't want to compromise yield/potency now, the lower branches are aggressively sprawling out in the remaining unused canopy space because I had topped some branches afew days earlier.

 

They're like getting very close to the lights now, but the weather has been perfect lately, lots of clouds, rain, outside temps are keeping 15C-30C, tent never goes over 35 now, so the top leaves are showing no heat stress, even though they did before in the higher temps at further distances

I'm thinking about lowering the waterings abit, they aren't drinking as much in the lower temperatures and the leaves are now clawing slightly. I'll observe it for a while.

 

Flowering day 37. They're touching the lamps now, photoperiod lowered down to 11/13, they just veg too much in 12/12, they do have some sativa genetics in them. I'm gona maintain the 2.4 EC.