Lol I know. Im counting it as a hobby though. The led was 300 watts max. The cmh pair I have is about 660 including ballasts. I pay about 7 cents per kWh so it is about 20 a month for lights. Nutes I dont even want to into that one. Lets just say my next brow is going to be organic soil...
Just thought Id update here. Been continually feeding daily and got them under the cmh doing great. Way better growth than led in my experience. One 4200k Phillips and one 3100k Phillips. Got them at around 750ppfd 15 hours a day.
Repotted to #7 fabric pots yesterday. Today I have my...
Too much nitrogen and too hot weather.
Too much light during the hot hours of the day.
You will have thickened smaller leaves and fruit but an overall healthy looking plant.
Happened to me last year. Have mine on southwest side of house and they get all day sun from 9am until sundown...
What is your soil pH?
Give them a foliar feeding a few times over the next week. The finer the mist the better. Not fish lol.
Just a nitrogen rich chem fertilizer. If you insist on organic, there are omri listed soluble food u Can use.
I also recommend top dressing with blood meal and...
Just a little update. Moved the reapers under the cmh in the tent and an outdoor Thai chili that spent more days in the cold than I would have liked, but its still kicking.
The plants responded very positive to the cmh coming from led. Its damn bright at 24. At 41-42k lux or about 750...
Probably could get away with a 4x4 but a 3x3 would be better for fruit.
Im partial to gorilla tents due to the height but I use 3 x 315 cmh for fruit in a 4x8, so I want the extra height the extensions give. Plus I can grow up to a 5-6 foot plant in there without staking.
Ive only used...
Looking awesome! Makes me excited to get some trees going lol.
Tent arrived today. Got it setup and tweaking things now to get stability. Really solid tent! Not sure how but I managed to setup all by myself with exception of getting the body started. Its heavy duty.
I think I will...
You my friend, are a blessing. I got it dialed in finally. Part of it was me trying to find the right ppm to feed them daily. Cant go by instructions on labeling so I had to feel it put. I knew it had something to do with P and Ca / Mg. I do check my runoff ppm and flood my pots till runoff...
I am looking for recommendations on plants that produce well, have good flavor, and are hot.
I have a tent that is 2x4x6. Due to exhaust Im limited to about 5ft. This includes container and with light distance gives me about a 3-4 foot height range. I could probably swing a 5 footer with...
Okie dokie. Just updating. I wanted to put this out there in the ethos for the sole purpose of helping someone who may have the same experience and search for information.
I will do a glog on my venture starting in January with all the seeds I ordered and just got in. My suggestion is to...
Small?! Hell that plant aint small! It looks like a 5gal bucket so it is probably 16 or so plant.
1.2 on a 500 scale would be about 600 ppm so its not really all r tree hat high: at least in my opinion its not. On a 700 scale it would be up there.
Even though I am not an experienced...
Oh lol its supposed to say DIALED in not failed in. Spell check haha.
Ive had nothing but success in organic outdoors. I use fish outdoors. I make my own emulsion and FAA from a local market where I get their fish scraps and cull veggies for composting.
I make lactobacillus serum...
So is there a great all in one that uses organic sourced ingredients that you recommend? For coco and perlite grows?
I have my organic soil grows failed in already outdoors. Thats pretty simple. I just dont want to introduce live pests into my indoors planting area
I’m sure it can build up when treated as soil but watering with 20% run off drain to waste and having very similar tds and EC readings as the nutrient solution that was watered with should be an indication that there’s nothing in the soil.
To test this one could easily run tds 0 water through...
I have not but I will do that.
The reason Im leaning towards under feeding is because if I was over feeding my leaves would be darker green. They are pretty light green compared to photos Ive seen of others . Here they are in natural daylight.
EC is 0.78 at 360ppm so I suspect it is deficiencies from under feeding. Or is .78 EC high for immature plants?
Im going to slowly increase nutrients to 1.0 over the next week