They look great. Normally for me anyway RH goes up when plants get that big.This is why I do a perpetual grow humidity is always up as there’s always a big plant somewhere in my room. Right now I’m at 60% and can’t get it lower even with exhaust fan full speed and I only run small leds
Oh and I run the cheap nutes from QG. They even sell in powdered form so u mix yourself even cheaper.
Good info myke - thanks! Honestly, I've never really paid much attention to my humidity (probably should be watching it closer). I know it's super-dry here, so too much humidity should never be an issue as far as mold, etc... but I think (as you said) that once the plants reach a certain size, they maintain their own humidity in a sense. A long as you have enough plants together, or larger plants in the same grow area. I've also been foliar spraying with just straight ph'd water - sometimes twice a day (during lights-on). This temporarily brings the humidity up as well for me.
Thanks DD! The BMD is quite large, and appears to be spreading itself out more and more. I'm hoping to see it grow upwards more now with flowering, instead of expanding out to the sides much more..lol.
Thanks for letting me know what your humidity levels are. Mine was down at 19% during this cold snap. Good to know that once my plants get bigger I can hopefully stop using the humidifier. I suppose the water farm gives your higher humidity than a soil grow.
I'm in the NW part of town and get my water from bearspaw. I also have RO at my house for drinking water. Here is a link to the cities drinking water page, it shows the south side has harder water.
http://www.calgary.ca/UEP/Water/Pages/Drinking-water/Annual-water-quality-report/Water-Quality-Parameters.aspx#north
Lately I've been getting my supplies from golden acre, they charge more on average but they keep there soils and other bagged goods dry and inside. I was using quick grow but had a bad experience with the tent I got from them. I'm cheap so I just use Maxigro and Maxibloom.
Your girls are rockin it Dayzt!
Thanks P4L! I've had some 'interesting' experiences with Quick Grow as well.. (the one on Edmonton Tr there..?). I've since been going to Incredigrow on McLeod there near the Tom's Pizza. They're pretty good, and actually have some knowledgeable staff that can assist with Cannabis specific grows. I usually pay around $30-35 for a bag of hydroton for my waterfarms there - not too cheap, but I've found it be worth it..
I think the waterfarms indeed give a bit of extra humidity in the room, as the fans are hitting it and the exposed water is always flowing. Not a huge amt more, but I'm sure it makes a bit of a difference compared to soil.
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finally figured out what yyc referred to!!
guess i should have known thanks to Geddy Lee and the boys with YYZ (toronto). duh!
have you tried a WF with an airstone in the bottom res? that's how i do mine. and i also do drain to waste by cutting the blue tubing an inch above the white line.
Welcome rkymtnman! Any RUSH fan is welcome here!!!
I did try an airstone in one of my previous waterfarm grows - it was actually one of those water-snakes that does the same thing, but instead of a round stone-like output, it's a long-spongy peice that the hose pumps air through..worked pretty well, but I didn't actually see enough of an improvement to keep use it. I probably should be using some sort of waterstone though - just haven't remembered to get that put in from the start..lol.
For my flushes, I simply put my waterfarms up on pieces of styrofoam and turn the blue tube down and drain it out into a container - then have a mixed replacement bucket ready to add-back through the top hydroton. It's a bit of work, but I really only flush them about once every 3-4 weeks..lol.
You would think dwc gives more humidity,not for me.Put a large dirt pot in the room and soak it that does more then my pails,even with lots of air.
Hmmm, that sounds like a good idea - some kind of soil that have lots of humus in it so it retains water longer. I keep meaning to try out some CO2 bottles as well (pop-bottles with yeast, sugar and water in them, and tubing installed in the cap), but I don't know that I really need it...and they kinda smell bad..lol.
I'll likely be using some strings to hold up the outside branches as they stretch. There's not much extra room in my tent to scrog them, and putting in a screen in almost impossible at this point. I was thinking of possibly using some sort of netting around the bottom and gathering it upwards to support the outside edges of the plant(s), but we'll see.
These 3 are definitely 'shoulder-to-shoulder' in there - I can't imagine trying to grow 4 plants in one tent when they expand like this..lol.
