mantis

[Prom]

Gas burners are used very often.. other source is dry ice. But the big bottle tanks are in general the way to go.. if you run a CO2 setup.. you also care about how easy you swap your tanks. Do a calculation of your sugar consumption. I got to the point where I decided to leave CO2 totally out for home growing, to much hassle over all. As soon as you use CO2, you need to increase your light.. what makes more heat.. needs more AC.. commercial yes.. but just not worth the effort for the usual home grower. 

[Dookie69]

I am using a CO2 setup. 100kg bottle has lasted 4 months already and it’s still got half left I think. The Suremix (food grade) CO2 cost R1000.00 CO2 in my grow room is easily adjustable. At the moment around 800ppm. Grow room is sealed off. The monthly rental for the bottle is expensive, around R300/month! I want to buy my own bottle sometime.
I mainly use it to ensure sufficient ambient co2 is available, as Prom said it’s another mission to maximise its potential. I’m not there yet!


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[mantis]

Day 12

 Looks like the ladies is doing good , Did the first feeding

400PPm grow , cal/mag

PH:5.8 

Edited May 30, 2021 by mantis

[mantis]

I have decided to top one of them very early to see what the results is   tortoni (C)

[iGrowDagga]

Now that's a tops top! 

[mantis]

Haha, went in with some tweezers 

12 minutes ago, iGrowDagga said:

Now that's a tops top! 

 

[mantis]

2 Week mark 

Started with LST training today  on A and B  , (C has been topped and left sins day 12) 

[Nope]

8 hours ago, mantis said:

2 Week mark 

Started with LST training today  on A and B  , (C has been topped and left sins day 12) 

Nice one, good decision to start lst early. 

[mantis]

Nice one, good decision to start lst early. 

Thanks, yes looking at the time left before flipping im wondering if toping is going to slow them down to much


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[iGrowDagga]

Recovery after a top shouldn't be too long, +-2-5days

[mantis]

Recovery after a top shouldn't be too long, +-2-5days

I have topped the one so its going to be interesting to see the difference in growth rate

Must say im really learning a lot from everyone and all the different styles of growing


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[mantis]

Day 20

They have all re responded well to the training method  

But would say that I see more potential from (c) that has been topped 

 

Edited June 7, 2021 by mantis

[GGG]

Not bad for day 20 , doing good

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[Nope]

Internodal spacing looks like its going to be compact! Looking Healthy ! 

[mantis]

Internodal spacing looks like its going to be compact! Looking Healthy ! 

Yip its a bit close for my liking , I think its due to the 300w of light that being pumping in to control the temps in the tent , would prefer a bit more stretch to them


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[CreX]

28 minutes ago, mantis said:

Yip its a bit close for my liking , I think its due to the 300w of light that being pumping in to control the temps in the tent , would prefer a bit more stretch to them


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looking good man! i think you may be the leader of the competition at the moment with your lovely ladies!

if you want them to stretch a bit, give them a tad less light.... either dim down to 200w (still a shit ton if you ask me) or raise the light 30cm

[mantis]

13 minutes ago, CreX said:

looking good man! i think you may be the leader of the competition at the moment with your lovely ladies!

if you want them to stretch a bit, give them a tad less light.... either dim down to 200w (still a shit ton if you ask me) or raise the light 30cm

Thanks, man really appreciate the kind words, Still a long grow ahead
The lights are dimmable from 23W to 586W so going down to 200w is definitely an option but for some reason, it makes a bit temp difference in the tent about 5-8 degrees C and unfortunately the lights is at the highest it can go (small tent 1700h x1200l x620w) 
Do you think I must maybe sacrifice some temp just for 3-5 days to get them to stretch a bit? I'm at 27C now so would probably drop to 19-21C

[CreX]

7 minutes ago, mantis said:

Thanks, man really appreciate the kind words, Still a long grow ahead
The lights are dimmable from 23W to 586W so going down to 200w is definitely an option but for some reason, it makes a bit temp difference in the tent about 5-8 degrees C and unfortunately the lights is at the highest it can go (small tent 1700h x1200l x620w) 
Do you think I must maybe sacrifice some temp just for 3-5 days to get them to stretch a bit? I'm at 27C now so would probably drop to 19-21C

Definitely... My tent stays open... Plants are getting 120w of light and my Temps are between 15-22 degrees. Go see what mine look like, link in my signature. 

I don't think they doing too bad with the lower temps

[mantis]

2 minutes ago, CreX said:

Definitely... My tent stays open... Plants are getting 120w of light and my Temps are between 15-22 degrees. Go see what mine look like, link in my signature. 

I don't think they doing too bad with the lower temps

I see you have good node spacing, Nice  
will definitely consider lowering the watts a bit as the tight nodes can give me a problem in the future 

[mantis]

Day 27  

Just a quick update will take them out for some better photos    

[Stinger96]

Looking awesome..

[mantis]

On 6/7/2021 at 12:19 PM, CreX said:

Definitely... My tent stays open... Plants are getting 120w of light and my Temps are between 15-22 degrees. Go see what mine look like, link in my signature. 

I don't think they doing too bad with the lower temps

The node spacing looks better this week I turned the watts way down for 2 day now they are ready for LST  

[CreX]

very nice lol... sweet 3d printed benders lol

[The_StonedTrooper]

Oooh lovely stuff brother...

I've got some advice on how to improve on those otherwise sick benders.

Hit me up.

[mantis]

Day 33

The LST is helping to keep the canopy flat, did a bit of defoliating this week as just for some more light penetration will do some more this  coming week