keith1975
Well-Known Member
My first month of growing was a disaster. I used the wrong soil and I had the lights too close to my plants. I burnt them to a crisp and they couldnt grow. I ended up ditching every single plant after 30 days and starting over. I'm now on my second grow and on day 39. 1 December makes it day 40. The layout of my grow is as follows: (this is the view from the top)
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Its a 240 cm x 120cm tent. Four plants on each side. Okay, the fourth plant on the right is Coriander, so just ignore that.
I have a mix of autoflowers: auto cheese and auto sour diesel haze.
And i have purple haze which is photoperiod.
My problem is, I did sort of try to plant them in a way that would make them all flower at the same time. But I think my calculations went to hell, along with the plants growth. They have grown in such bizarre ways. For example:
- C and D were planted on the same day, but D is 50% bigger than C.
- E was planted a few days later, but it seems more than 5 days "behind".
My problem now is D. It's 45 cm tall. And it's sativa, which means it can apparently triple in size. If it triples in size, it will be 135cm. Which is too big for my grow tent. But if I go into flowering now, then it might be too soon for the rest.
Here's a side view of the tent:
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It can comfortably support about 82 cm as max height. The trays I use steal 45cm of my height. Which I could ditch if I need to. But I got them so I could easily let the excess water flow out into a bucket. But it turns out they hardly get full of water. After watering the plants, not too much goes into the tray, and by the time I get back, it seems the lights have somehow evaporated whatever was in the trays anyway. So ditching the trays, or at least remoinv the crates under the trays that hold them up, should give me that extra 45cm. So technically, I have a worst case scenario of 82 + 45 = 127cm. But I dont really want to go that route, as I still want the option of easily draining the trays using gravity.
The other option is to put the lights even higher. That could score me a maximum of 28 cm. But then the lights are very close to the roof of the tent. As in, 10 cm from the roof, give or take. So in this option, I can get a max height of 110cm. If I also remove the trays, I could get a maximum height of 110 + 45 = 155cm.
So my question is: When should I switch to 12/12 ?
My initial feeling is that I should wait til they all average a height of about 30cm. So I can expect a max grow size of about 90cm. So basically another week or so, and then just hope that the Purple Haze's dont go through the roof. But even if I do that, then the other plants havent beein in there that long. Is that okay?
View media item 1628913
Its a 240 cm x 120cm tent. Four plants on each side. Okay, the fourth plant on the right is Coriander, so just ignore that.
I have a mix of autoflowers: auto cheese and auto sour diesel haze.
And i have purple haze which is photoperiod.
My problem is, I did sort of try to plant them in a way that would make them all flower at the same time. But I think my calculations went to hell, along with the plants growth. They have grown in such bizarre ways. For example:
- C and D were planted on the same day, but D is 50% bigger than C.
- E was planted a few days later, but it seems more than 5 days "behind".
My problem now is D. It's 45 cm tall. And it's sativa, which means it can apparently triple in size. If it triples in size, it will be 135cm. Which is too big for my grow tent. But if I go into flowering now, then it might be too soon for the rest.
Here's a side view of the tent:
View media item 1628914
It can comfortably support about 82 cm as max height. The trays I use steal 45cm of my height. Which I could ditch if I need to. But I got them so I could easily let the excess water flow out into a bucket. But it turns out they hardly get full of water. After watering the plants, not too much goes into the tray, and by the time I get back, it seems the lights have somehow evaporated whatever was in the trays anyway. So ditching the trays, or at least remoinv the crates under the trays that hold them up, should give me that extra 45cm. So technically, I have a worst case scenario of 82 + 45 = 127cm. But I dont really want to go that route, as I still want the option of easily draining the trays using gravity.
The other option is to put the lights even higher. That could score me a maximum of 28 cm. But then the lights are very close to the roof of the tent. As in, 10 cm from the roof, give or take. So in this option, I can get a max height of 110cm. If I also remove the trays, I could get a maximum height of 110 + 45 = 155cm.
So my question is: When should I switch to 12/12 ?
My initial feeling is that I should wait til they all average a height of about 30cm. So I can expect a max grow size of about 90cm. So basically another week or so, and then just hope that the Purple Haze's dont go through the roof. But even if I do that, then the other plants havent beein in there that long. Is that okay?