CookieMan
Passionado
Hi fam,
After my successful go with The Cali Connection's femanized Girl Scout Cookies, I decided I wanted to go with something purple. I ended up with about 200 grams of Girl Scout Cookies, a low yielding strain, with my 400 watt setup. Due to heat issues and poor airflow, I had to turn the ballast down to 80% or so. I will be using the same set up as before. I plan to grow fewer plants and train them better with the goal of better airflow and space management. I want to fill my space up with nice evenly spaced colas. I am thinking either two or three plants.
Space is pretty small, about 2'x3'. I'm using an air cooled 400 watt metal halide light for veg, and will change to HPS for flower. I'm cooling everything with a 6" inline fan and a carbon filter for the odor. Heat is vented out the room the closet is in. The new strain is The Cali Connection's femanized Purple Chem. This is more indica. I plan on doing a flux inspired training. I don't want to defoliate as aggressively as Light Addict.
I think the best flow will be to grow the three biggest ones (back left, back center, and front center) with 4 colas each. This will give 12 colas spread over 6 square feet. The plants are currently in 5" by 5" pots and will soon be transplanted into 3 gallon pots that they will flower in. They have been watered with RO water with 1 tsp of Cal Mag per gallon. Only watered twice. Seeds were placed 1.5" below soil on 3/13 at night. They have been on an 18/6 schedule. I'm also having the lights off during the middle of the outside day to help control heat better.
I think I'll be topping just above the third node and then begin the horizontal training. I will try to follow in Light Addict's methods, but who knows how that will work. Wish me luck.
After my successful go with The Cali Connection's femanized Girl Scout Cookies, I decided I wanted to go with something purple. I ended up with about 200 grams of Girl Scout Cookies, a low yielding strain, with my 400 watt setup. Due to heat issues and poor airflow, I had to turn the ballast down to 80% or so. I will be using the same set up as before. I plan to grow fewer plants and train them better with the goal of better airflow and space management. I want to fill my space up with nice evenly spaced colas. I am thinking either two or three plants.
Space is pretty small, about 2'x3'. I'm using an air cooled 400 watt metal halide light for veg, and will change to HPS for flower. I'm cooling everything with a 6" inline fan and a carbon filter for the odor. Heat is vented out the room the closet is in. The new strain is The Cali Connection's femanized Purple Chem. This is more indica. I plan on doing a flux inspired training. I don't want to defoliate as aggressively as Light Addict.
I think the best flow will be to grow the three biggest ones (back left, back center, and front center) with 4 colas each. This will give 12 colas spread over 6 square feet. The plants are currently in 5" by 5" pots and will soon be transplanted into 3 gallon pots that they will flower in. They have been watered with RO water with 1 tsp of Cal Mag per gallon. Only watered twice. Seeds were placed 1.5" below soil on 3/13 at night. They have been on an 18/6 schedule. I'm also having the lights off during the middle of the outside day to help control heat better.
I think I'll be topping just above the third node and then begin the horizontal training. I will try to follow in Light Addict's methods, but who knows how that will work. Wish me luck.