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Subbed, looking for to seeing your progress MedFarmer!! I would love to try Hydro but I want to master coco first.
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Subbed, looking for to seeing your progress MedFarmer!! I would love to try Hydro but I want to master coco first.
Hey MedFarmer,
You look good in black. I'm a noob, but I have 6 months of vegging in RDWC under my belt and if I may share something I learned about heat transfer. Water effin sucks as an insulator. As sailor and special olympic sailing coach you become very intimate with how fast water can suck the heat out of the surrounding air, hull, human in the drink or even wet on the deck. I'm looking at those fine looking black buckets you're sporting and all I see is surface area for heat transfer. But I'm weird, I had issues.
My chiller went from a mostly full time service item, to only running 15-20% of the time after I insulated my buckets and lid tops, To be totally fair I did raise my temps a few degrees because I went from pure synth to forgoing the DutchMaster Root Zone in favor of the Compost Tea and Aqua Shield. The water was 68F/20C and is now 72F/22C. And the air has been a steady 78-81F 25-27C.
Prior to insulating the chiller couldn't handle the load, then insulated, it ran 75%, now it only runs 15-20% of the time!! Nerd that I am, I sat and figured the cost of the electric vs the tea and the tea is cheaper AND the chiller does nothing for the slime. The tea is letting me run the rez hotter and even with all the shit that it my fans my girls are bouncing back fine at the higher temps. Like I say, I have been vegging for six months and the growth is the most impressive I have ever seen and they are wounded plants.
Can't wait to try a full run with the beneficials. Teen to Toking
Good job MF . looks the bizz
MedFarmer, >> I'm a noob so take my advice with a gram of wax but... I started training my girls very early. I wanted to see how low I could keep them (watch my vid just beating the girls). I kept them low alright. Problem was too low. I retarded growth this way. Next time I will top a few times and let them grow up until they are more likely to fill half the SCROG when I knock them down. I would do some "semi-LST" to open them up a bit, but would not take the branches lower than 45 degrees for a while. My limited experience has show me the plants grow faster when they are reaching to go tall than when I am forcing them to grow flat. On the other hand, my plants are bushy as hell if you like that sort of thing. I would check in with other growers though. BTW your girls are looking great and I am sure that some topping would be in order for them.