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**mlynch475** · 04-20-2021, 11:37 AM

Thanks Sylvester. I was a little worried going to straight 12 right away might stress them enough to hermy them but haven't found any research saying so.

I do seem to be getting a bit of stretching from the plants under the hps. Ppf is about half of the led's. Hopefully not too much by the time my second SE7000 gets here.

Also thanks for sayin they look good, but if you zoom in you'll see burnt tips from light too close and some burnt leaves where I fed and forgot to spray off afterwards. I swear I think I've made every newbie mistake in the book lol.

Here they are 3 days after initiating flower.

**mlynch475** · 04-24-2021, 07:03 PM

Well, first week of flowering down. Looking decent overall. One of my strawberry cough's (bottom left of left tent) had a reaction to switching over to flower nutes. Leaves all started canoeing and branch tops turned yellow. Can't remember which nutes though and can't find the article again lol. Potassium and another p. I'll look at my bottles later, see if I can jog this old stoners memory

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Also got my second SE7000 in and hung agromax pure uv in both tents now. Went up to 4 minute intervals today.

Also made another tent addition to the lung room. Nothing special. Just a 5' tall 2x4 with an sf-600 led and an exhaust fan continuously running on low so it remains same atmosphere as lung room.. I learned that growing multiple strains at once can present its own challenges but not only that. Starting from seed can do the same thing even within strains. Different grow styles, resistance levels, speed. All kinds of stuff. Like my 1 SC having a negative reaction to switching over to flower nutes when the rest of them are all fine. To try and limit the variances I have to deal with I added the new tent, wich I call the mother tent (don't know if that is proper terminology or not). I'm going to start from seed in there, grow em out for a month or so, pick my favorites and then let those get large enough to "mother" a dozen clones or so. So now my full grows will all be clones and less prone to genetic variation. I actually already started the strains for my next grow, "the indica experience ", earlier today. Skywalker OG and Granddaddy Purp. Feminized photo ofcourse. But enough about that grow. This isn't the thread for it lol.

Here they are at 9wks, 1wk flowering:

**Gluteous** · 04-25-2021, 11:56 AM

Strawberry Cough is on my list. Been wanting to get some of that for years. Excited to see how yours turns out!

**mlynch475** · 05-01-2021, 11:19 PM

Two weeks into flowering now. Really seeing the bud sites form

. To address the over fert reaction of my SC instead of flushing I just weakened the solution. 2.4ec when the schedule calls for 3.0. They seem to like it much better and I haven't noticed any deficiencies yet.

Also gave em a trim that may have been a bit extensive but we will live and learn either way

. Theyre not dead yet lol.

Uv supplementation is up to six minute bursts 8x a day and yet to toast em.

What do you all think?

**mlynch475** · 05-08-2021, 09:32 PM

Three weeks into flowering..

As I have read that co2 enrichment is only effective during the first 2 to 3 weeks of flowering I have let my co2 runout. I have also brought the temp in my flower tents down to a max of 85 before the exhaust fans kick on and the temp of lung room to 72. Making it 82 b4 a/c kicks. Reason for this is the loss of added resistances from the co2.

Also got more of that yellowing and canoeing of leaves so I will have to flush I guess. Fox farm has a additive for flushing called sledgehammer. I'll be using that and ro water next watering (prob Monday morning).

Here's the candy

**mlynch475** · 05-09-2021, 07:22 PM

Also forgot to note that I turned the uv back down to six minute bursts. Got some browning tips on leaves. Don't think it's the uv but till I get em all back to healthy I'm going to play it safe.

**mlynch475** · 05-15-2021, 10:59 PM

Four weeks in.:

The browning leaves got worse and not just tips. Also canned leaves again. I still see no pests, my ppf is 900-970 across canopy,, so I'm assuming temp or maybe windsurf aswell. I lowered the temp of flower tents to a max of 80°f and adjusted fans to just the slightest leaf rustle.. If it still continues maybe try to continue feeding just water..

Here's the pics:

**mlynch475** · 05-16-2021, 08:32 AM

Ok so I think I might have discovered part of the problem atleast. I installed wifi cameras with night vision in my tents and glad I did. I was looking in on my girls today and noticed the right tent (the one with the leaf problems) was lit up on my camera during its dark period. Somehow I got the programming flipped on my uv timer so it was on when it was suppose to be off. Been getting a ton of uv for a few days. Oops lol. Surprised they aren't severely worse.

**mlynch475** · 05-25-2021, 01:02 PM

So I'm a few days late with the update again. Sry guys. Whole house got sick with a cold (including new baby) and the dang nanny quit lol. The pictures were taken on the correct day.

Five weeks in:
Seems like flowering is much more a patience game than veg was. Not so much work to do these days so not much to report lol. I caught the uv light on again when it wasn't suppose to be so I think the timer may be junk. I'll look into it on my time off. For now I have just unplugged the uv altogether. Probably finish this one without it before playing with it again.

Also finished my mother tent. Basically just added a bench and 200w more led. Ordered crap for my drying chamber aswell. Hopefully that will be on next week's update 😬.

The buds are getting sticky icky icky! I open my door when I get home and the house smells like a wonderful marijuana potpourri and it makes me smile. Here's the 🍬 😀

The first 4 closeups are all 🍓 cough but growing quite different. Last three are chocolope.

**mlynch475** · 05-27-2021, 03:33 AM

Thanks Jeff 😀. Yeah it seems everymistake I made this grow was on the second tent lol. Poor ladies.

**mlynch475** · 05-31-2021, 06:05 AM

Six weeks in:

Also set up my drying chamber. The stack in the corner is quart size wide mouth mason jars, boveda 62% rh packs, labels and 3 dozen mini humidistats. The setup in the middle obviously is a fan, heater, humidifier and dehumidifier. I have the exhaust fan if it gets too hot. The tent is a 5x5 2000D canvas tent and the hanging racks each have 28 clips for a total of 224 clips. Hopefully this is big enough.

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**mlynch475** · 06-11-2021, 08:28 AM

Got a few more toys in

Here's a few pics from the microscope:

I'll have a week 8 update tomorrow but pretty decent camera huh

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**mlynch475** · 06-15-2021, 03:34 PM

Ok so late again but here it is

. All info and pics were current last Saturday.

8weeks in:

Ok so alot has happened the last two weeks! First off I had to do some tweaking to get the drying chamber working. After trying 3 different small dehumidifiers that didn't work worth crap I bought another large 50qt basement one. Wich I tried putting in the tent but that just caused a constant battle between the portable ac and dehumidifier so now I'm dehumidifier the entire basement and cycling air through tent when humidity gets high. Plus oh ya I had to place a second ac in the chamber aswell. But working now. Temp kept between 65 and 70, humidity between 55 and 58%. Also placed a green 100w led in there for inspections.

So got a ton of yellowing the last week in my tents. Harvested one of the sc in tent one to stop it getting into the buds. Would have liked more amber trichomes first but hey. The other girls are all very close.

I do have a question this week. From what I've read "skinny" stems snap at 12% humidity. What exactly is a "skinny" stem? 1/4inch?

Here's pics