Thanks!
I'm going to try to dial these CMH in for a couple of rounds and see if I can max it out. After I have the rest of the room variables in check, I may do an HPS run as a comparison.
I've also thought about setting up a flip flop with CMH on the flip and HPS on the flop.
I've also thought about sticking an HPS over the center of the grow.
I've also thought about sticking an HPS HORIZONTALLY over the center of the grow.
No idea whether I'll actually do any of it.
Very impressive
Thanks, homie!
From what I've gathered, I don't think you'd see a significant difference with HPS bulbs. CMH run cooler so you can get the plants closer to make up for the difference in penetration.
Plants look mighty happy. A different strain would have solid buds down to just above the medium's surface.
Forgive me if ya covered this before because I do remember asking about it, but I don't believe it was answered. For next round or if you were to do this round again, would you consider topping the plants, doubling the plant count, cutting down the height of the containers, adding another layer to the stadium, or any combination there of? Your doing awesome man, but I just think some minor changes could really make a big difference.
Also, saw you added some wire to keep them out of the bulbs. Might pay off to be lazy and just let them fan leafs burn up when they get too close. Doesn't make for as pretty pictures as you get, but we're growing bud now, aren't we? The damage done to the burned fans is easily offset, by the increased light as the plants get closer. Hell, burning a plant or two with what your doing to just see how close they can get is sacrificing a few for the good of many.
Now, is it update day again yet?
I typically do get bud right down to the surface with these AKs.. but this is a first run in a new cab and the lights aren't placed optimally to get penetration all the way to the ground on the bottom tier. I think that with a light mover yo-yoing the lights down an extra foot or so we'd be seeing what you're describing on the bottom level.
I did experiment with cutting these pots down in my microcab. Let me show you some harvest shots to see why I will not be doing that:
^^ Recent harvest, full sized pots ^^
^^ Over a year ago, in cut-down pots ^^
^^ Older harvest in cut-down pots ^^
It might be hard to tell the scale, but the cut down pots were about 4-5 inches SHORTER than the full-sized pots.
If I do anything, I'm going to go to slightly BIGGER pots to see if that allows my plants to be all they can be. I might even go to a bed if HGO's idea works out.
As far as the wire around the lights... I don't really think the plants could safely get much closer to the light as it is. The little "cages" i made around the lights are only maybe 6" cylinders. So even without the cages, the plants could get at most 3 inches closer but then they'd be touching the bare bulb.
Looking great anti!!
Watch out for bud rot on Icarius. Had that happen to one of my girls last round, and during drying, ended up with a tiny bit of gray mold surrounding the burnt, brown/yellow...
Even with low humidity and good airflow, granted she was quite dense, but just something to watch for as I wouldn't want it to spread on you to those other pretty girls
I might segregate her during drying. Thanks for the advice.
Looking splendid chap
Buds are coming along very nicely, have you pruned more leaf from the lower tier plants?
The first pic u posted this update looks a lot like that green crack cut I see pics of online, but I know u say these are AK's...
Guess it must be smelling pretty dank in there about now! What would you say were the most prominent differences between your CFL plants and these?
I haven't pruned anything but a few yellowed leaves since about week 5.
It is quite dank in there when I open the doors up. The most prominent differences that I can notice so far are:
- Plants in the new cabinet are significantly taller than in in my CFL cab. The tallest a plant could get (from bottom of pot to top of plant) was 23" inches in my old cabinet. The plant stakes I am using for this round are 24" long. So most of the plants on the top tier are as tall as my tallest CFL plants, and ALL of the plants on the bottom are 4"-6" taller than any of my CFL plants.
- Plants seem to have grown more sugar leaf during flowering. During veg, I didn't notice any extra leaves... but even after stripping almost ALL fan leaves by week 5, there is still a significant amount of leaf left on these plants at almost 8 weeks.
- Plants seem to have started stinking much sooner and be a bit stinkier than I'm used to.
Well, I took 108 clones because I wanted to make sure I had 70 that I could put in the cab. There are 70 in there now. I could theoretically get more plants in there, but I think the per-plant average would probably go down.
It's running "at designed capacity" at the moment.
I second that. The more blue adds to more leaf production.
Looking great Anti, almost done bro!!
I know. I'm already starting to dread having to trim all of this by myself with fiskars!
Pretty easy to build. Working with no help whatsoever (and a bad back, and few tools) you could build the table in a few days time.
DAMNNNNN anti, I leave a year and some ago, leave seeing your 2 sided CD rack cab, now I come back to this?????? MY DAYS WHAT A GROW
Thanks! I've been working hard to step my game up. Microcabs are awesome, especially if you've been buying herb all your life, but they don't produce enough for me to be comfortable experimenting with things like BHO, water curing to eliminate odors, etc.
I really wanna make some BHO or QWISO pills and buy a good portable vaporizer (so far I like the Arizer Solo) so that i can quit smoking altogether. After this harvest, the idea of "losing" an ounce or two while experimenting due to a newb mistake won't be such a big deal. THere will be many other ounces where that one came from.
Plus, the longest I ever get to cure buds in my microcab is about 2 months. After that, they're already smoked.
I don't have a place to dry these ladies when the time comes. So my plan is going to be to pull the table out of the closet and hang some clothesline in there and hang the ladies to dry in the closet. I'll also be rooting some clones in another room under some CFLs and then, while the plants are drying, I'm going to try to cut the legs down on the table (shave off about 6" of height or so) so that the top tier plants can get a little bigger and so that there'll be more headroom for the lights. (I'm also going to try to fix the E&F seals so that I can try to automate feeding for the next run.)
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