Flower?

[90Gizmo]

So is that a flower yet or something else? TIA (29 days)

 

[OldManGrower]

That is the very early beginnings of a flower.

 

[SoOrbudgal]

Yep what that fella said, early flower stage

 

[90Gizmo]

Thanks y'all. It's strange. After all these years I've never seen a live plant until now.

 

[90Gizmo]

I'm continuing the thread to act as sort of a grow journal. Today day 31 I've started my interpretation of LST. I removed first and second true leaves as they were mostly sucked dry. I folded the big fan leaves under whatever I could find then I made hooks out of, I call it stainless steel locking wire, and pinned down the bottom half branches. I left the top half alone and will look at that next week.

 

[90Gizmo]

Switched from grow closet to grow tent. It's going to take time to get used to. Tent is a little warmer. That could be a plus or a minus depending on the weather. Folding doors on closet much easier to get into or out of. I'll have to get some shelves for the grow tent. Tent footprint is nice but still need trays or saucer. Cats cannot climb the closet doors but no problem with the grow tent. Now cats aren't allowed in the room without supervision.

Pictures attached with brief notes. My circulation fan is not due for a couple of days. I'm making due with two fans, one inside one outside, next to a vent near the bottom of the tent. The driving force for the change is to divert smell directly outside. That seems to be working but I'm thinking there might be problems when we get strong winds.

 

[90Gizmo]

It smells like really green weed with a little something that smells good. Looks that way too. Unfortunately I have to open the tent door to smell it. I kind of liked it when it filled the room but it was very powerful. The in-line fan was installed today and it's doing a great job. The exhaust to outside also will help with cooling in the summer.

 

[AngelaLifman]

Switched from grow closet to grow tent. It's going to take time to get used to. Tent is a little warmer. That could be a plus or a minus depending on the weather. Folding doors on closet much easier to get into or out of. I'll have to get some shelves for the grow tent. Tent footprint is nice but still need trays or saucer. Cats cannot climb the closet doors but no problem with the grow tent. Now cats aren't allowed in the room without supervision.

Pictures attached with brief notes. My circulation fan is not due for a couple of days. I'm making due with two fans, one inside one outside, next to a vent near the bottom of the tent. The driving force for the change is to divert smell directly outside. That seems to be working but I'm thinking there might be problems when we get strong winds.

wow nice work

 

[GroBuddy]

If you dont mind the smell you dont need the filter. I dont run filters on any of my tents and vent the air into same room. It gets 120° here during summer months my 4x4 uses the most wattage at 540 but tent stays under 80 in hottest months

I also enjoy walking in my house and smelling bud growing. When its good in flower you can smell it from my front porch

 

[90Gizmo]

I don't want to count my chickens too soon but I'm begining to feel hopeful.

 

[90Gizmo]

I'm seeing a minimum 6 degree temp rise and that's running my lights at 80%. (That's what I got calculating DIL.) It was +10 at full power. We don't see 120 here but I'm still going to have to work on it to survive weeks of 80. I'm thinking of doing the next round outside to save on AC.

 

[GroBuddy]

A dumb question but are you increasing your inline fan speed when increasing light strength. Is inline fan large enough for your set up?
Do you have adequate fans pushing air around, depending on grow space. I use a floor oscillating fan, 2 pole fans and a 8 inch inline fan in the 4x4. I use a 6in inline fan in the 3x3. My house stays on 74° due to how
much it has to run when it's 120°. I also have my grow rooms blacked out keeping sun from coming through the windows that helps alot keeping heat out. When I dry it can get down to 62° a steady 62° in dry tent. Not at 120° lol but like upper 80's when it's 120 gotta dry at 65-68° during the day.

Also depending on light you're running newer leds say running 83° is ideal. Maybe 81° it's on google if you run leds like not blurples but the white leds. I grow with that but dont run 83° just saying if you're running that light with a temp around there its okay. Lastly are you running lights at night mostly. Like 6pm-12pm or for flower 8pm-8am just examples. If running through the peek daylight hours it can be hard to control heat

 

[90Gizmo]

GroBuddy, I really appreciate your help. I'm running the in-line fan on high. Supposedly rated at 200cfm. I have one oscillating fan canted at about 30 degrees so it blows both high and low. I think the two keep the air a fairly even temp throughout the tent. I have bottom vents on three sides all open. I thought of adding input fans but I want to keep the tent under negative pressure to minimize oder. For now. Before the exhaust fan, the input fans had the tent taut like a balloon... Then I think oder leaked (a little) through the zipper and unused vents. Will the plants like 83° ? I've been trying to keep them at 75-77° but I'm not sure why. I'm running the lights 20 hours. I've had them off in the night but I think the room is warmest late afternoon early evening so I see your point, that would be the time to turn them off. I'll give that a try.

 

[GroBuddy]

Why do you have all 3 vents open, I understand to get more air through the tent trying to cool it down. But that's making your inline fan work harder for negative pressure creating more heat. If you run it during cooler day time/night temps that helps I wouldnt consider running during the day atleast the hottest parts. I've tried lol it is harder to keep tent cool. But when I first started I thought keeping the plants up on my schedule was better. Now I cater to them giving them the environment they need for success which is a very wide range. 78 79° is fine no worries. Run at evening to mid day throughout the night I bet itll be easier. I've ran 24/0 20/4 18/6 16/8 in veg, for me personally 18/6 was the best for me. I veg autos under 18/6 as well just works for me.

 

[90Gizmo]

Okay. I see I need to find the sweet spot between negative pressure and throughput. I think I'm going to scale up this summer. I definitely want to grow an outdoor plant or two to make some seed. I also have some Mendocino Trizzlers I want to try. I just need to improve my AC.

 

[GroBuddy]

Be careful if you plan on using outside to make seeds. I use a indoor tent in another room besides flower. I'll also not go to pollen room then flower room. Cannabis pollen can travel up to 10 miles. So you running outdoor for seeds could potentially pollinate another home growers plants putting hundreds up to a thousand or more seeds in their plants pretty much ruining their grow. Then they wouldnt know what crossed their plant and have mut unknown seeds by the boat load. Personal preference

 

[90Gizmo]

I forgot about pollen spreading. I've read some stories about that and I'm not that guy. It'll have to come up with a plan b

 

[GroBuddy]

Just keep it clean. If I go to pollen room before flower which is rare I'll even shower beforehand. My grow rooms are the furthest they can be from each other. Luckily I have a spare bedroom upstairs and use it for germinating, vegging, drying and seeding. My flower is in a spare downstairs.

 

[90Gizmo]

Start of week 7. Largest plant is 20 inches. Smallest is 14 inches. I have amended soil with Gaia Green Power Bloom (2-8-4), water with fish emulsion and spray with epsom salt

 

[OldManGrower]

It appears to me that you have all of the air intakes are closed on your tent. How do you get fresh air inside?