First serious grow! LEC 315 in a 4x4 tent (Philips elite agro CMH)

yup, probably overkill for veg but I'm planning to expand the setup pretty soon, keeping the 2x4 drying tent and probably adding a 5x5 gorilla tent, so I'll use the 4x4 in veg. That'll all probably after this journal is finished, it can't possibly take too much longer! I'm at day 90 in the flower tent


also, just raised the light after taking that pic, I put it as high as I could, since it'd probably be fine even higher up. Also a little worried that I might run into heat issues in there, since instead of the nice 6-inch vortex s-line in the 4x4 the veg tent just has a fairly cheap six inch hydrofarm booster fan, there's a clip on fan about ballast level pointed at the ballast.

Nice to have the 4200k bulb for veg, so an added bonus of the new fixture is that it came with an extra flowering bulb!

It's annoying that I haven't really been able to find an oscillating fan on a stand that doesn't take up a ton of space. I can't drill through the walls, so with a fan on the floor and starbud trying to reveg in a 7 gallon pot it's pretty crowded. Can anyone recommend a good oscillating fan that doesn't take up too much space?

borbor said:

yup, probably overkill for veg but I'm planning to expand the setup pretty soon, keeping the 2x4 drying tent and probably adding a 5x5 gorilla tent, so I'll use the 4x4 in veg. That'll all probably after this journal is finished, it can't possibly take too much longer! I'm at day 90 in the flower tent


also, just raised the light after taking that pic, I put it as high as I could, since it'd probably be fine even higher up. Also a little worried that I might run into heat issues in there, since instead of the nice 6-inch vortex s-line in the 4x4 the veg tent just has a fairly cheap six inch hydrofarm booster fan, there's a clip on fan about ballast level pointed at the ballast.

Nice to have the 4200k bulb for veg, so an added bonus of the new fixture is that it came with an extra flowering bulb!

It's annoying that I haven't really been able to find an oscillating fan on a stand that doesn't take up a ton of space. I can't drill through the walls, so with a fan on the floor and starbud trying to reveg in a 7 gallon pot it's pretty crowded. Can anyone recommend a good oscillating fan that doesn't take up too much space?

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I took the base off one of my oscillating fans and mounted it in a flag pole to get it off the floor which created some floor space. At the other end of the room I couldn't do that or it would be in the way of the entrance so I put one of those tall/thin floor models which doesn't take much space, I think it's a Sunbeam.

Awwww balls.
Or I guess I should say awwwww nanners.
Should I just let her finish anyway? be a shame to lose what looks like a giant yield, or cut it way early. Maybe pluck the nanners?I pulled a few to see if they were definitely nanners since I'm noob at that, and sure enough, got some pollen on my finger gotta say I've suspected it for a while, I did kind of neglect this plant as far as nutes and I think she was underwatered for a while when the tent was crowded, and the tent being that crowded even led to some of her bottom branches kind of dying at the tips, I cut a couple off in mid flower

day 91

borbor said:

Awwww balls.
Or I guess I should say awwwww nanners.
Should I just let her finish anyway? be a shame to lose what looks like a giant yield, or cut it way early. Maybe pluck the nanners?I pulled a few to see if they were definitely nanners since I'm noob at that, and sure enough, got some pollen on my finger gotta say I've suspected it for a while, I did kind of neglect this plant as far as nutes and I think she was underwatered for a while when the tent was crowded, and the tent being that crowded even led to some of her bottom branches kind of dying at the tips, I cut a couple off in mid flower

day 91

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I once had a grow where a girl started growing a whole bunch of penises. I considered prematurely terminating her, but in the end decided against it. I harvested everybody at the ripe time, and ended up with maybe one single seed in the finished product. In hindsight it seemed insane that I had even considered killing the girl. She really wasn't a problem at all, and was a great yielder. Today I am totally fine with chicks with dicks, and I think this great fear of some seeds in your bud is overstated anyway.

She is still very beautiful. I totally agree with Fellow's statement.



Cheers,
Mo

sup RIU, it's been a while!
actually, I've been logging in every day, but just lurking.
I'm working way too damn much, and just have a shitstorm of stuff going on, I haven't been able to pay the attention I want to my plants.
as soon as brazil amazonia is dry, I'll pop back in with pics, a final weight, and a smoke report and be done with this journal and probably won't start another one for a while.

borbor said:

sup RIU, it's been a while!
actually, I've been logging in every day, but just lurking.
I'm working way too damn much, and just have a shitstorm of stuff going on, I haven't been able to pay the attention I want to my plants.
as soon as brazil amazonia is dry, I'll pop back in with pics, a final weight, and a smoke report and be done with this journal and probably won't start another one for a while.

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Hey, much the same here, sometimes I have to back off on posts, just went through a couple of crazy months myself. Take care of your shit offline and take care of the plants #1 Cheers, pop in when you can.

I went throught the same thing. Now I am unemployed and starting a seed company!



Cheers,
Mo

God life has been BUSY, didn't even weigh brazil amazonia, didn't even jar it all up when I was trying to, I just didn't have the time,

my hog and Colombian are both male, at least the two I put into 12/12. Disappointing find, so there's just a midnight kush in 12/12 now.

I've decided that starting as soon as they ship, I'm gonna be using my 4x4 gorilla for veg, and setting up a 5x5 gorrilla (not the lite line) for flower.

Starbud revegged like a champ, thank god. almost regretting giving samples of starbud to all my friends, since now I have to explain every day that I don't sell weed.

By the way, I was at way to grow and saw this insane piece of equipment on my way out, I had to stop and get in a conversation with a staff member. It was two LEC reflectors in one fixture side by side with a socket between them for a DE HPS. The guy at WTG said it was called the "growbeast," it's not in their inventory yet, and I couldn't even find it online, he said it was from sunlight supply and wtg was the first to get them. Looked awesome, it was about 3 1/2 - 4 feet long, built in ballasts for the cmh lamps, but of course you'd have to get your own DE HPS ballast and bulb. I gotta say the cmh reflectors didn't look as great as on my individual fixtures (less mirror-like, more like traditional materials.) Regardless, looked like an awesome product, maybe in my future if I can move up to a 5x9!
You heard it here first!

By the way, I'm ready for this thread to move to "completed"

Here's Starbud revegged:

Bonus- starbud going back into flower on the right side.
the hog and midnight kush, left and back middle respectively, aren't anything special. The midnight kush pheno is better smelling than the first one I grew, but a lower yield, even taking into consideration the fact that it was a smaller, less well-taken-care-of plant in veg and has flowered on the side of the tent under the vegging cmh bulb (half experiment, half saving the new flowering bulb for starbud!)
hog-
midnight kush #2-

Great run bud. Thank you for sharing and good luck on future endeavours.

@borber I know this is an old thread but im just checkin out your grow journal. Hey just trying to spread a little of my knowledge to ya..You dont need to treat seedlings like clones, they don't need high humidity and they dont need high heat. Maybe not this go, but eventually what you're doing can cause problems. Just a heads up. Almost everybody over waters a time or two, so be on the look out lol

This thread gives me the best nostalgia boner.