Will my pots be big enough to finish with?

MichiganMedGrower said:

I never used the 630 de but in my sun system open vertical remote reflector I had best results with a Phillips 315 at about 18" over a 2.5'-3' square area.

I also never had a par meter. sorry.

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Okay well that still helps. Thats what I have are the sun system vertical remote reflectors and Philips 315.
Did you notice any more resin formation running those?

NugHeuser said:

I've been giving each plant about a 3rd of a gallon each watering. They seem a little droopy today. I don't know if I'm giving them too much water or if I got the lights too close. Yesterday I had dropped them from about where they are now to about 17inches for the 315s and 20 inches for 630. Temps got to about 82 at the tops under the 630. I also watered yesterday though. Pots are still pretty wet and heavy today.
Do you think 1/3 gal is a little too much? I let the soil get fairly dry, if anything too dry because a few went droopy after 3 days and read around 2 on the cheap moisture meter. Pot was light, ect. So I know I'm not watering too frequently but i just watered yesterday and they're droopy today, maybe I'm giving too much water?

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I feed or water with a gallon and get about 20% runoff in ocean forest with about 20% extra large perlite mixed in.

If I am fertilizing I pour a 16 oz cup of fresh water in first to buffer the roots.

NugHeuser said:

Okay well that still helps. Thats what I have are the sun system vertical remote reflectors and Philips 315.
Did you notice any more resin formation running those?

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I thought I did as I tested cmh against my 600 super hps bulbs but I have been using only the hps this summer and the potency and frost is the same or higher.

Lot of exaggeration about lighting around here.

Getting good with what you are working with is a better plan. You have a nice setup going. Now keep practicing.

I got 2 oz per plant 3 years ago and now have more than doubled my average with all the same stuff.

Here is a close up of that Black Widow x Blue Lemon Thai under only hps.

I used a flash for the natural color to cut through the red light.



The cmh did bring out more colors and keep plants more compact though.

MichiganMedGrower said:

I thought I did as I tested cmh against my 600 super hps bulbs but I have been using only the hps this summer and the potency and frost is the same or higher.

Lot of exaggeration about lighting around here.

Getting good with what you are working with is a better plan. You have a nice setup going. Now keep practicing.

I got 2 oz per plant 3 years ago and now have more than doubled my average with all the same stuff.

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Sweet man thanks for the advice

MichiganMedGrower said:

Here is a close up of that Black Widow x Blue Lemon Thai under only hps.

I used a flash for the natural color to cut through the red light.

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The cmh did bring out more colors and keep plants more compact though.

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Looking pretty frosty. What week was that at?

NugHeuser said:

Looking pretty frosty. What week was that at?

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I had to go check my notes.

She is finishing week 5 and that phenotype will likely go 10. They are feminized seeds from CH9.

MichiganMedGrower said:

I had to go check my notes.

She is finishing week 5 and that phenotype will likely go 10. They are feminized seeds from CH9.

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MichiganMedGrower said:

I had to go check my notes.

She is finishing week 5 and that phenotype will likely go 10. They are feminized seeds from CH9.

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Nice. Looking like it's gonna be some fire.
I might as well ask while I have you here, I don't know how familiar you are with co2 but is it doable in a dense residential neighborhood to run a sealed room with co2 and not have to worry about smell because it's "sealed"? I mean it doesn't seem like just a 6 inch thick average house wall would really hold in the odor of a 3x9 canopy or am I wrong? My house is not well isulated. Loud conversation can be heard outside. But the grow room doesn't have any windows so that would help.

The reason I ask is I just shut off my air intake because temps are only 77 degrees and I haven't been running my exhaust. Trying to keep as much heat as possible but I'm worried about the plants running low on co2 because of having no air exchange.
I'd hate to get a heater because from what I found even the small ones take over 1k watts of energy

NugHeuser said:

Nice. Looking like it's gonna be some fire.
I might as well ask while I have you here, I don't know how familiar you are with co2 but is it doable in a dense residential neighborhood to run a sealed room with co2 and not have to worry about smell because it's "sealed"? I mean it doesn't seem like just a 6 inch thick average house wall would really hold in the odor of a 3x9 canopy or am I wrong? My house is not well isulated. Loud conversation can be heard outside. But the grow room doesn't have any windows so that would help.

The reason I ask is I just shut off my air intake because temps are only 77 degrees and I haven't been running my exhaust. Trying to keep as much heat as possible but I'm worried about the plants running low on co2 because of having no air exchange.
I'd hate to get a heater because from what I found even the small ones take over 1k watts of energy

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I never used co2. I have my exhaust/intake fans on speed controllers and turn them down in winter. But I still have plenty of airflow. It's one of the things that the hps was helpful with in my room. Keeping heat up in Winter.

Sorry. My lights come on at 7 after daylight savings and I went to work.

MichiganMedGrower said:

Sorry. My lights come on at 7 after daylight savings and I went to work.

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It's cool, I was doing the same lol. Both of my fans are also on controllers. I haven't hardly ran the 8" inch exhaust though because I have it connected to the carbon filter and don't really have any stink going on yet. My intake is a 6". Overall is a 9x9.5 room.
I shut the intake off and temps rose quick(from 77 to 84 in an hour, also rh from 61% to 81%, with humidifiers still on though) so I turned the fan back to low. Worst case I'll just put the 6" fan on a timer, that should take care of "daytime temps"
Lights out temps I'm worried about, getting down to around 64 and it's only November.
Just put the intake on a timer to shut off at lights out, We'll see what that does

NugHeuser said:

It's cool, I was doing the same lol. Both of my fans are also on controllers. I haven't hardly ran the 8" inch exhaust though because I have it connected to the carbon filter and don't really have any stink going on yet. My intake is a 6". Overall is a 9x9.5 room.
I shut the intake off and temps rose quick(from 77 to 84 in an hour, also rh from 61% to 81%, with humidifiers still on though) so I turned the fan back to low. Worst case I'll just put the 6" fan on a timer, that should take care of "daytime temps"
Lights out temps I'm worried about, getting down to around 64 and it's only November.
Just put the intake on a timer to shut off at lights out, We'll see what that does

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I use a heater if the temps get much lower than that.