Do u use a humidifier or any kind?? How do youi get good humidity? I went out and bought myself a damn $60 honeywell hcm800 today and my humidity still isn't good.. it's only at like 25%...

What auto flower strain was it? What where you growing it in? and sry for the attack lol but what lights as well?

I did have one question about the auto flower variety.. at what point (meaning what do you look for to know) when the plant is about done and requires harvesting?:le af::leaf :

Thank you for your comments!!

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No I don't do anything special at all.. it must be the fact that its freezing in my house (AC set to about 71/72) and the lights and lack of "major" ventilation in the closet it sits in.... I think its when the cold hits the heat from the cfls at the door of the closet all day maybe?!? I wouldn't know for sure but that is all i can think of. I was curious to see if I could get a higher reading by leaving some water in an extra tub I use for mixing new nutes in. I didnt see any change so I stoped. But maybe over time, warmer water.. i figure the heat would evap the water and create some more humidity...

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And for a late night surprise we have some HQ pictures If you are using Firefox you can actually click on these twice for ultra all up in that bitches face resolution.. yea baby...yea

Some from the first week of sprouting

Some more from the first week

First week sprouting no nutes yet

America Looking good

Me touching up on America..tsk..tsk..

Eve doing her thing low pro

The new setup with additional CFL from home depot (only 15 bucks for the bulb)

Dont remember who this one is.. (I know im a bad parent.. i need to know who they are at all times!!! LOL)

HD aerial view

ROOTS HD 1

ROOTS HD 2

ROOTS HD 3

ROOTS HD 4

ok well thats all I got for everyone... we will see if anything happens on easter... thank you for tuning it.. hope it was fun!!!

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lol im not sure myself.. but now im starting to get pist. I remember now why i never bothered starting up this operation a few years back. Granted back then i was in school and also not living in a space that can do this, but i now remember all the BS. My basement itself can totally be a killer of this.. ive went out and bought a fucking humidifier .. ive got 2 fans in there and one of them expensive inline cooling fans with filter combo... the shit is still like 86 degrees and humidity is garbage.

What a setup i got. I got sprouts wilting.. i got a hygromter that fucking reads L0% .. whatever that means is beyond me. I've got a honeywell hcm800 in there and its kicked humidity up by like 3% (when the hygromter actually chooses to read humidity once in a while).

Im bout to just blow this tub up. The nylon ties (retractable thingies) that came from HTG for hanging up my light/reflector basically gave out last night and the whole light dropped on my 2 tubs. I mean wtf can get worse

whats more crazy is im reading your post carefully now.. and im almost in the same type of environment.. but why my setup temps/humidity is rocket sciience is beyond me. Im in a basement.. its normally cold already (no AC running).. temps are like 71-72 to begin with.

I got htis 600w light, and like 3 fans now.. (theres even a fucking fan outside the tent blowing air into a vent!!).

Lol, I am glad to answer all of the questions for a fellow autoflower grower, so don't worry.

I grew the strain that started it all: original Lowryder. I grew it in an organic soil mix (1 gallon per plant) with all organic nutrients throughout the process and I did it under fluorescent bulbs. I started with cool white and then switched to warm white once it started to flower a little. The red-spectrum lighting that you get from a warm white fluoro is really good for flowering stages.

You can tell that it is time to harvest the same way you do with any other strain. You want to make sure that there are some nice, frosty crystals on the surface of the bud and the hairs are kind of a caramel color. Some people prefer to wait until the hairs turn orange, but in my opinion the plant is past its prime at that point.

The longer you let it go past maturity, the more THC the plant will be converting to CBD. CBD is the chemical that gives you that disorienting couch-lock feeling.

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I definately think you are stressing way too much about humidity. I live in a really, really dry climate and do nothing to change the humidity. I can tell you personally, great bud grows here. The reason why is that a dryer humidity actually works better for bud... that is probably why your plants wilted. I actually have a copy of the "The Indoor Grower's High Yield Guide" and it actually suggests you get a dehumidifier for your grow.

Think about it this way: these plants do not live in a steam room out in nature do they? Plants can be 10 feet tall in the woods and nobody checks their humidity. To quote YoyoGrow, you are not building a space ship, you are growing some plants

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Awesome that's great info!

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Good point!

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