Mikedin's FC-E8000 Run #2 Photoperiod Time!

[Mikedin]

Just a quick update after an ungodly run of overtime at work the past 3 weeks straight

Gotta really check over the girls tomorrow they’ve been pretty much just watered the past 3 weeks I think it’s time to feed big time

 

[Bill284]

Just a quick update after an ungodly run of overtime at work the past 3 weeks straight

Gotta really check over the girls tomorrow they’ve been pretty much just watered the past 3 weeks I think it’s time to feed big time

Don't work yourself to death my friend.
You need a rest.
Garden looks wonderful.
Take care of yourself.




#VIVOSUN #Love What You Grow
Bill284

 

[Mikedin]

Don't work yourself to death my friend.
You need a rest.
Garden looks wonderful.
Take care of yourself.




#VIVOSUN #Love What You Grow
Bill284

Yeah I’m on an 8 day stretch off starting today only good part about 12 hour swing shift and a TON of PTO lol

And todays update as well! My mars Hydro UV/IR light attachments came today. Plants get a rave for a half hour a day to mosh pit the PM off them!

IR and UV can be independently controlled, they will run all day with the FC-E8000and then alone for 1/2 hour after the main lights turn off followed by the dark period, have read studies that UV treatment without blue wavelength hitting the PM at the same time allows the UV to kill/alter the PM’s DNA as what protects its DNA is activated when it receives blue/cool wavelengths

Study shows a UV treatment followed by at least 4 hours of darkness is showing to be a good Pm control method, so let’s give it a try!

Not much to look at when the main light is on but once they are out it’s a different story lol always love my @Mars Hydro LED’s just wish I had more

 

[Bill284]

Yeah I’m on an 8 day stretch off starting today only good part about 12 hour swing shift and a TON of PTO lol

And todays update as well! My mars Hydro UV/IR light attachments came today. Plants get a rave for a half hour a day to mosh pit the PM off them!

IR and UV can be independently controlled, they will run all day with the FC-E8000and then alone for 1/2 hour after the main lights turn off followed by the dark period, have read studies that UV treatment without blue wavelength hitting the PM at the same time allows the UV to kill/alter the PM’s DNA as what protects its DNA is activated when it receives blue/cool wavelengths

Study shows a UV treatment followed by at least 4 hours of darkness is showing to be a good Pm control method, so let’s give it a try!

Not much to look at when the main light is on but once they are out it’s a different story lol

Looks great.
Get your feet up.
Don't work all day.




#VIVOSUN #Love What You Grow
Bill284

 

[Mikedin]

Looks great.
Get your feet up.
Don't work all day.




#VIVOSUN #Love What You Grow
Bill284

Was about to kick back but did some defol on the cookies Kush, I have a spiderfarmer heat mat I figured I’d try to root some lower chutes with and also removed the legs off the last fan in the tent and finally got her hung up from the ceiling lol I hate stuff on the floor takes up too much walking /working space. Just some pucks and some rooting powder and in a little greenhouse dome

 

[Bill284]

Was about to kick back but did some defol on the cookies Kush, I have a spiderfarmer heat mat I figured I’d try to root some lower chutes with and also removed the legs off the last fan in the tent and finally got her hung up from the ceiling lol I hate stuff on the floor takes up too much walking /working space. Just some pucks and some rooting powder and in a little greenhouse dome

Is that mat on a stat controller.
I've seen them cook roots on babies, my mistake too.
Have a good evening.




#VIVOSUN #Love What You Grow
Bill284

 

[Mikedin]

Is that mat on a stat controller.
I've seen them cook roots on babies, nmy mistake too.
Have a good evening.




#VIVOSUN #Love What You Grow
Bill284

No not on a controller, I’ll be propping it up some more so they aren’t touching the mat directly

 

[Mikedin]

just gave them a peroxide spray and stripped some leaves that would block airflow, but besides that here’s a show with just the UV, then just IR then both, I also spray down the floor with the peroxide spray and wipe it down each time I spray the plants, every 2 or 3 times I do the foliar spray I’ll wipe down every wall, tops and faces of fans all the wires, everything I can reach with he same peroxide spray just trying to kill and funguses or bacteria that may come into the tent, after dealing with pm the last grow and the start of their one I think I’ll probably do peroxide treatments in the plants at least bi-weekly even when I don’t have any noticing issues in the future

Oh and @Bill284 i already made a makeshift stand with 3 fan legs and about 5 zip ties, the trey is no longer directly in the heating mat

 

[Bill284]

just gave them a peroxide spray and stripped some leaves that would block airflow, but besides that here’s a show with just the UV, then just IR then both, I also spray down the floor with the peroxide spray and wipe it down each time I spray the plants, every 2 or 3 times I do the foliar spray I’ll wipe down every wall, tops and faces of fans all the wires, everything I can reach with he same peroxide spray just trying to kill and funguses or bacteria that may come into the tent, after dealing with pm the last grow and the start of their one I think I’ll probably do peroxide treatments in the plants at least bi-weekly even when I don’t have any noticing issues in the future

Oh and @Bill284 i already made a makeshift stand with 3 fan legs and about 5 zip ties, the trey is no longer directly in the heating mat

Though you were going to get some rest.




#VIVOSUN #Love What You Grow
Bill284

 

[Mikedin]

Though you were going to get some rest.




#VIVOSUN #Love What You Grow
Bill284

Told ya can’t ever stop haha always something going in my head and I gotta do it haha

 

[Mars Hydro]

Yeah I’m on an 8 day stretch off starting today only good part about 12 hour swing shift and a TON of PTO lol

And todays update as well! My mars Hydro UV/IR light attachments came today. Plants get a rave for a half hour a day to mosh pit the PM off them!

IR and UV can be independently controlled, they will run all day with the FC-E8000and then alone for 1/2 hour after the main lights turn off followed by the dark period, have read studies that UV treatment without blue wavelength hitting the PM at the same time allows the UV to kill/alter the PM’s DNA as what protects its DNA is activated when it receives blue/cool wavelengths

Study shows a UV treatment followed by at least 4 hours of darkness is showing to be a good Pm control method, so let’s give it a try!

Not much to look at when the main light is on but once they are out it’s a different story lol always love my @Mars Hydro LED’s just wish I had more

Great setup. Looking forward to what you get.

 

[Mikedin]

Great setup. Looking forward to what you get.

Thanks! I love my lights! Did some alterations as you can see but would love to find a 2nd set of side rails so I can swap between a 4x4 and 2x8 setup like I do now, tried all the support channels on the official website but didn’t get a response, any chance you could connect me with a place to buy the replacement rails?

 

[Mikedin]

Bedtime for the girls, they all got a top dressing today and a good watering, these monstercropped clones are doing decent now , might need to find a new space for the new clones to get some light so I can prepare to flip the main tent, foot do some lightproofing I noticed the zippers leak light I have a plan for that on all the doors I’ll hot glue or fabric glue the door light flaps shut, I don’t use those doors anyways and if I do eventually I’ll work them back open, then just gotta light proof the bottom air vents somehow and then I’m ready to flip

 

[Mikedin]

Gotta figure out a little veg area with the couple little led bars probably 100w total just 4 bars, it I’m sure they’ll work just gotta figure out where to put their little setup

 

[Bill284]

Bedtime for the girls, they all got a top dressing today and a good watering, these monstercropped clones are doing decent now , might need to find a new space for the new clones to get some light so I can prepare to flip the main tent, foot do some lightproofing I noticed the zippers leak light I have a plan for that on all the doors I’ll hot glue or fabric glue the door light flaps shut, I don’t use those doors anyways and if I do eventually I’ll work them back open, then just gotta light proof the bottom air vents somehow and then I’m ready to flip

Good morning my friend.
Looking good.
Your yellow sticky traps, fungus gnats?
Put them by the top of the pots for best results.
Hope your weekend is going well.
Take care.




#VIVOSUN #Love What You Grow
Bill284

 

[Mikedin]

Good morning my friend.
Looking good.
Your yellow sticky traps, fungus gnats?
Put them by the top of the pots for best results.
Hope your weekend is going well.
Take care.




#VIVOSUN #Love What You Grow
Bill284

Yes I usually have them on top of the soil as well in each pot, took them out when I top dressed them, I replace them often, I get weird waves of gnats lol, ton for a week then none for 2-3 weeks lol

 

[Mikedin]

Hey @Bill284 I got some sticky traps down on the soil moved my camera in the tent (shitty camera just to verify light schedules etc) and misted the clones, easy day in the tent

Look at all that bright green new growth since I out in the UV/IR lights, no idea if they are the cause but it started the day after the new lights got put in

 

[Mikedin]

Shitty tent cam

 

[Mikedin]

Well here’s the girls today, besides the fresh top dressing yesterday and then this morning they where watered with a neut tea I brewed up yesterday morning, check out the new growth on these girls there shooting up, I lowered the lights down a bit to encourge some node spacing before I get ready to flip to flower, did some more training on the cookies Kush Kush the clones as well. Then today is day 9 since the candy kush was flipped to 12/12 over in the blurple tent, leaf stance is dramatically changed and you can see some hairs starting to push at nodes, I also lowered the lights about 4” about an hour ago and re-positioned them closer together, I’ll let them stay like that for the last 3 hours of light today then check her about an hour and a half after lights tomorrow morning and see how she likes it it’s deceiving how wide this plant is, she has a 3.5’x3.5’section of the tent filled wall to wall with just enough room on one end for me to hang a ceiling fan from the ceiling and let it oscillate through the plant lol. she was also given some neut tea, but she is being fed with the fox farm trio (organic line) plus cal-mag and microbe brew but I’m still adding great white shark myco she got a big dose today of myco since I had a bunch in the tea lol. But they are all looking very happy today, clones are still hanging in there, very droopy, they where very short clones so we’ll see if they survive might trim a shade more material off the leaves since they are so short (about 4-5” before planting)

 

[Mikedin]

Well it’s not the prettiest but I needed to have a space to try and run clones and seedlings if I’m gunna eventually have a perpetual harvest, so for now I present the makeshift clone “tent” lol about 115 watts total between the 4 bars they did very well over my veggie plants last spring so they should do great here too, still have a spiderfarmer heat mat under the tray, I guess we’ll see if we can make some clones survive, it’s nice and warm in there it’s about 4’x18”x20” tall just enough for rooting etc it’s nice and warm i there but I put a 2x8” heat vent in one end, the other end a 4” flex duct with 2x bends that goes into the blurple tent in the light diffuser so the 24 hour light dosent affect the 12/12 in that tent

Now I can flip the main tent to 12/12 when needed