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..and so we come to our first little hurdle! 

I made a mental note this morning to triple check whether taping up the power indicators on both the Sonoff switch and heater would prevent any internal light leaks within the tent. 

Turns out the tape did sweet nothing. Popped an eyeball into the tent and not only could see the light indicators shining right through the plastic, but the heater itself glows surprisingly bright from the heating element. 

Temperature during the day should be fine now though, so I'll just run the lights as planned during the night and lights off during the day, and just remove the entire heating setup. Should also save me a couple bucks on electricity. Luckily it's only the first dark cycle so zero harm done. 

I will definitely need to sort a solution for when I replace the HID lighting with LED, especially for Winter next year. Thinking a heating panel with a Sonoff switch should do the trick. Got plenty of time to sort that out. 

Other than that, I've cleaned out my carbon filter and need to replace the pellets. The old pellets were doing nothing for the smell after a year's worth of cleaning my air 😅

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On 7/27/2020 at 8:26 PM, StickyD420 said:

Shot, it's all about getting good roots, and a 5 lane nutrient highway going, to feed those bad bitches.

In soil, I'll have to use another method to get the silica in, as the Microbes dont do the sauce, and need it in organic form they can turn into plant source matter.

Oh ya, did I mention yet what a boss grow you got going there😊😎💚

Added, you got that green avocado look to new growth, I f#@king love that🙌

Soil is full of silica already. 

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Oi, what's going on in there 👮‍♂️

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I swear, I'd be lighting up my neighbor's house like a Christmas tree if I didn't keep these curtains closed while I opened up the tent at night 🎅

Anyways! Did some more all-round trimming, mostly just chopping big fan leaves and exposing bud sites. 

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I also decided to go ahead and do that little panel heater project. The tent is getting to about 14C at the lows and I want to bump that up closer to the 20's. I've attached a standard Goldair panel heater to a wooden frame and just slapped the Sonoff onto it. Call it a day.

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But what of the power led's on the heater and the Sonoff? Well I've covered the heater power led with ye olde duct tape, and the Sonoff now lives in a sock. 

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Nothing to see here mr neighbor...🎄🎅😂

They most certainly have grown back nicely, these girls are going to be fresh 🦄🙌

So much sexy and such perfection in balance, well done Evan.

Added, the heater working out better for the dark period 👌

Added 2, I question the colour choice of your socks😂😂😂

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Excuses, excuses😂

Now trying to assert your manliness, with claims of evil socks and such🤷‍♂️

Long socks, lol, I got such a look the other day with my long socks on, by a couple who the male had a man bun style, and they laughed at me...felt like telling him, dude, I'm a trend setter, I rocked your bun, in 2005...now you look like a black bag ready for collection on the side walk, while making jokes about my trendy rocking socks😉

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The defoliation seems endless. These girls always bounce back so quick though. Starting to see some preflower beginning to form.

I donked up a bit and one branch seems to be competing more than the rest on one plant. The rest are coming out pretty sweet. I don't really feel the need to attempt further LST on the rogue branch. The stems are super strong as intended so I'll take that over a perfect flat canapoy. The SCRoG net will sort that out in future. 

Otherwise the outside plant is doing swell as well. Loving the structure so far. 

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Just now, StickyD420 said:

Outside you haven't done anything to shape it?

I did designate which branches I wanted to keep and removed plenty of fan leaves, but not nearly as much as the DWC plants 😅 doing the different styles at once really shows what a difference your technique can make.

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Just now, StickyD420 said:

Those DWC, you topped, then you kept only the best 4 branches before topping the second time...

or the first 4 branches?

I take it the latter 

You skip the 2nd nodes because they grow vertically and not horizontally. 

It's the Nebula method that @TheUltimateNoob would also like to incorporate. 

It's easier if you check the original guide here: https://www.growweedeasy.com/manifold

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2 minutes ago, StickyD420 said:

So how you setting about the styling then to achieve that?

Added,  always believed the best was what you currently doing, unless outside and grow huge plants.

I'll be creating a mother plant from a selection of 8 plants of the same strain, keep the mother in a veg tent, and use clones in the flower tent which I will then use the SCRoG method to get as much as the tent filled as possible. 

Probably do the 8 plants in 40L fabric pots to allow for as much veg time as needed. Otherwise I would have done 12 plants in like 20L pots with a shorter veg, but I foresee that would be illegal now if the bill passes in it's current form🤫 

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You skip the 2nd nodes because they grow vertically and not horizontally. 

It's the Nebula method that @TheUltimateNoob would also like to incorporate. 

It's easier if you check the original guide here: https://www.growweedeasy.com/manifold

Nebula method is a beast.

 

I've done it to my Blue Dream which was my first proper Indoor harvest... It set the bar so damn high for my expectations and standards now that I refuse to grow any other way.

 

My latest development is flippen weird though. One of the branches on the Inzane self topped and it threw my entire training off... This was before I snapped it... Oh yeah she recovered from the snap as well.

 

I'll show you guys when the light comes on... I don't know how to continue doing what I want to do

 

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I'll be creating a mother plant from a selection of 8 plants of the same strain, keep the mother in a veg tent, and use clones in the flower tent which I will then use the SCRoG method to get as much as the tent filled as possible. 
Probably do the 8 plants in 40L fabric pots to allow for as much veg time as needed. Otherwise I would have done 12 plants in like 20L pots with a shorter veg, but I foresee that would be illegal now if the bill passes in it's current form 
Would be interesting to compare a scrog to a mainline grow.

When I upgrade my space I'll be running 2 or 3 trees in flower at any given time.

I'll flower all 3 together for the first run, we can check the harvest compared to ScrOG. Not anytime soon though. Still need to get my light.

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