GrowLab 80 - G13 Pineapple Express ... [200w T5 veg / 400w HPS flower]

This is looking great.

Originally Posted by Sr. Verde

Day 34 after lights off..

Hoping for these ladies to chunk out a bit more in the next month or so. I can only guess that they will.







Flower photos..














Probably my favorite pic of the PE so far.

Damn those look frosty, job well done

Originally Posted by noob78

Hey Sr. what is too hot?

Hard to say exactly. You have radiant heat, and atmospheric heat. They will play off each other to heat up your plant. But generally I like to keep them between like 74-79f during lights on, and 65-78 during lights off. It's better to have a 10-15 degree difference between lights on and off but I just can't do that in the summer. I don't usually let my girls ever get past 84-86F, as that's too hot. But for a day or so if you keep watch on the temp 84 is ok without radiant heat if you can't help it. You just don't want your plants always at or above the 84 range, flowers don't grow as dense when the flowers are subjected to uncomfortable heat. Honestly when I think heat I think of myself, if I could tolerate it and enjoy it so can my plants. But at 85+ for more than a few hours in the sun, I personally start sweating, and getting angry and stressed for no reason (same response from the plants I guess)

Originally Posted by zoltar420

Beautifu lady's sir can't wait to start my first grow

What is stopping you from starting now!

Originally Posted by bombasticson

I leave my fan running non stop am I not supposed to?

No that's fine, I just don't need my inline fan running 24/7. I do however keep the regular as well as oscillating fans running 24/7 inside the tent to circulate air, prevent PM and strengthen stalks .

Originally Posted by lokie

looks like a cannabis erection.

Thanks! Leaning tower of cannabis?

Originally Posted by toastynoodles

This is looking great.

I appreciate you stopping in to say such kind words .

Originally Posted by noob78

Damn those look frosty, job well done

Thanks man! And not done yet! Only day 35 today, I'm assuming the extra chunky/frosty ness is still yet to come!

Originally Posted by Sr. Verde

Hard to say exactly. You have radiant heat, and atmospheric heat. They will play off each other to heat up your plant. But generally I like to keep them between like 74-79f during lights on, and 65-78 during lights off. It's better to have a 10-15 degree difference between lights on and off but I just can't do that in the summer. I don't usually let my girls ever get past 84-86F, as that's too hot. But for a day or so if you keep watch on the temp 84 is ok without radiant heat if you can't help it. You just don't want your plants always at or above the 84 range, flowers don't grow as dense when the flowers are subjected to uncomfortable heat. Honestly when I think heat I think of myself, if I could tolerate it and enjoy it so can my plants. But at 85+ for more than a few hours in the sun, I personally start sweating, and getting angry and stressed for no reason (same response from the plants I guess)What is stopping you from starting now! No that's fine, I just don't need my inline fan running 24/7. I do however keep the regular as well as oscillating fans running 24/7 inside the tent to circulate air, prevent PM and strengthen stalks .Thanks! Leaning tower of cannabis? I appreciate you stopping in to say such kind words . Thanks man! And not done yet! Only day 35 today, I'm assuming the extra chunky/frosty ness is still yet to come!

lol about the heat, It seems the hotter I get the shorter my fuse gets. Ok thanks about the heat, my heat is max 84 and when I see that I just I put a portable ac right were the tents are and it gets in at my normal 78-79 degrees. During this summer Im not sure how hot the tent is with lights off but in my room were the tents are it drops considerable for me after lights off.

Originally Posted by noob78

lol about the heat, It seems the hotter I get the shorter my fuse gets. Ok thanks about the heat, my heat is max 84 and when I see that I just I put a portable ac right were the tents are and it gets in at my normal 78-79 degrees. During this summer Im not sure how hot the tent is with lights off but in my room were the tents are it drops considerable for me after lights off.

For sure, that sounds fine. As long as you are on top of it! 84 isn't bad at all. My canopy is sitting at 80.5 and I can't do shit about it. AC is set at 70F.

When I fried my sour kush over the course of a few days I think it shot up in the low 90's ( I wasn't there, but checked the MAX/LOW on the thermometer). The heat just badly damaged a lot of foliage, didn't 100% destroy it... But the flowers were fine, 100% undamaged. Cannabis is a resilient plant for sure! It totally tries to keep those flowers healthy until the plant absolutely dies.

Portable AC rocks. I have to cool the entire room down to keep my tent cool. Once I get a tent like a 10x5, or a 10x10, you can be sure one of the things I'll be investing most in is a sweet ass, energy efficient portable AC. Ill just put the portable ac on a wall inside the tent, near the inline fan intake. If you can keep your temps down you can really push those lights, and get some awesome colors going.

Does lower temps really promote more trichromes?

No, humidity does. As well as a number of other things .

Originally Posted by Sr. Verde

For sure, that sounds fine. As long as you are on top of it! 84 isn't bad at all. My canopy is sitting at 80.5 and I can't do shit about it. AC is set at 70F.

When I fried my sour kush over the course of a few days I think it shot up in the low 90's ( I wasn't there, but checked the MAX/LOW on the thermometer). The heat just badly damaged a lot of foliage, didn't 100% destroy it... But the flowers were fine, 100% undamaged. Cannabis is a resilient plant for sure! It totally tries to keep those flowers healthy until the plant absolutely dies.

Portable AC rocks. I have to cool the entire room down to keep my tent cool. Once I get a tent like a 10x5, or a 10x10, you can be sure one of the things I'll be investing most in is a sweet ass, energy efficient portable AC. Ill just put the portable ac on a wall inside the tent, near the inline fan intake. If you can keep your temps down you can really push those lights, and get some awesome colors going.

Very envious that your planning on a 10x5 or 10 x 10 tent, man that is nothing but possibilities. The only thing I'll be investing in is a mother keeper tent so I can keep 2 mothers and veg 2 waterfarms while I finish in my other tent. I am hoping to cut out a good month or so in veg with the new tent. I plan on vegging the 2 spare waterfarms untill I need the screen, then That will give me around 2 weeks to veg in the flower tent.