Day 60 from seed day 12 of 12/12
even though it's been a while, there's really not much to say for these pics. I like talking about my plants though so it's a long one anyway.
They're all getting bigger by the day, there's a pic of beneath starbud's canopy, a forest.
The blue kush auto seems to be fattening up, while packing on trichs and smell. Does anybody have a recommendation as to when to start flushing? Ace yonder's is about 30 days ahead of mine, so usually I take the fact that it's still alive as a sign that I shouldn't flush for at least a couple of weeks, but also, this plant is under a lot of light in comparison (not knocking him though! looks like amazing quality and probably with better gpw!) and I've heard from groerr about the CMHs finishing a bit faster, just no idea what to expect with the auto (my driving a car analogy from earlier applies here)
preflowers all over the place, I'm so excited for the real flowering to start! I'm noticing more preflowers on the branch with three leaves per node, I've heard before that they yield more, let's hope!
I took out the super small 15 watt circulation fan and let the big oscillating fan get back to work.
The back row is burmese kush, fool's gold, and midnight kush
the front row is the blue kush auto, starbud, and brazil amazonia
Also, veg tent!
surprised at how well the tent is actually made. I've had a little experience with shitty tents, so that's what I expected for the price I paid (especially considering the size, I'm guessing the primary demographic for these tents is probably saying "I'll be the coolest kid in school if I grow weed"), the poles are steel, they actually seem like the same poles as my gorilla tent, wouldn't be surprised if they got them from the same place. In fact, I'd be surprised if they didn't. 4 hanging bars across the top, like a tic tac toe board, which seemed like a lot for a space that small, but cool. I wish I'd kept the querkle male alive, it would totally be in there under 12/12. I realize this tent is too small to be a real veg tent, I can have 4 in solo cups or one in a one-gallon, and I checked, a 5 gallon also fits in there so I can use it to veg just one at a time without worrying about transplanting right at the start of 12/12.
This tent (the growlab 40) would be perfect for anybody looking to keep one small male alive. Next time I see a decent male I'm gonna abandon this tent as a veg tent and make it my male tent while I order a better veg tent, or set up my 3x3 potentially.
I'd say this growlab tent has better plastic connectors than my secret jardin 3x3. The SJ connectors just didn't look this sturdy, though for both companies they are plastic. The light-proofing on this growlab tent is actually something gorilla grow tents could take a lesson from. Not to say that this is more light-proof than my gorilla,I doubt it, but they way that they did the zippers actually is. Freakin' metal zippers! the zipper itself is lightproof also, and what I really like is the flaps, there's a square flap hanging down on the top middle with velcro on the three sides that aren't stitched to the tent, and the same thing on bottom! With my gorilla if the lights are on all I have to do is look at the bottom of the zipper to know they're on, with this growlab tent that doesn't happen, the light leaks pretty much only come from the vents, which is actually a design I usually like as well, the vents are totally removable with velcro on all 4 sides, you put the covers on inside the tent. In a tent this small I dunno if it's gonna be easy to put stuff on and take stuff off the sides, but in my big tent I would actually like that design better.
Nope, growlab isn't paying me any money, I'm just kinda surprised I got a brand new tent this decent for that cheap. My biggest gripe is that the ducting holes are 4" instead of 6", but really, a 4 inch fan is enough for any application from this tent.
the kessil LED is exactly what I expected. can't wait to see it perform on plants! I wish I could throw it in the flower tent now. hooking everything up would just be a pain in the ass, then when I get something to veg it'd be another pain in the ass to take down. I'm kind of debating getting two or three more kessils, the only issue is that I'm not sure of the value, This h15 purple cost me about $90 (priced $97 from growershouse, while they had a 15% off sale on all LEDs), I don't think you can get that $/watt elsewhere for less than $100.
It sounds like an awesome idea to throw two h150 magentas (or purples) into the flowering tent, maybe even an h150 red as well, but at the price of two or three kessils, would it be better just to put it all toward a51? I almost think that the kessils would make a better flower tent in the long run, since the spectrum from magentas or purples next to the spectrum from rw-75s, next to the CMH would be pretty great for plant growth, very full.
I wonder a lot, could I add light that makes it worse? like, HYPOTHETICALLY since I'm not gonna do it no matter what, if I added a MH bulb or blue kessil or something somewhere in there, could it be detrimental to flowering, even though there's more light? Do they care about the spectrum, or does the spectrum just affect them whether they care or not? (if that makes sense)
Also wondering, I keep wanting to raise my lights higher, but will that be detrimental to the autoflower by a significant amount? should I put the kessil just above the auto just to keep it extremely well lit?
