2nd grow: Cain and Abel

Growing: WW Auto ILGM (2nd of 3 seeds)
Where: deep in the underground caves of the North Pole.
Medium: 75% Fox Farms Ocean Forest. 25% perlite.
Water: ph treated tap water that has set out in buckets for at least 24 hours.
Light: first 35 days under cheap 73 watt led bulb system. Now under a Mars-Hydro TS1000 in a 3x3x4 unventilated grow tent.
In what? 5 gallon geopot.

This is my 2nd try at a successful grow. The 2nd seed I tried to germinate was a dud so I’m on seed 3 of 5.
Day 37.
I finely got her into my sanitized tent. She’s been in a bedroom closet under my crap lights.
I have the TS-1000 perched between the top of the cage and the tarp 28 inches above the plant. It would be a lot of trouble to drop the light only to have to raise it in a couple days. 1st grow grew into the lights leading to a lot of headaches.
I topped 3 inches off her so she would fit under the screen. Cain and Abel are about to venture above the screen, going their separate ways.
I’ve LSTd the bottom 4 shoots to have them spread out more with the 4 middle branches shooting up right behind Cain and Abel.
Coming into the 2nd grow knowing a little of what’s going on is a lot better than wondering WTF am I doing. LOL.
I should have started 2-3 weeks later because I’m still dicking around harvesting, trimming and curing the first grow that the Good Lord has generously Blessed me with.
I hope to keep this informative.

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Hate to break it to you but you are going to need triple the light you currently have for good amount of light. That TS1000 only draws 100 watts…

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I’m thinking of getting a 2nd and daisy chaining them. Once I purchased the Mars-Hydro and switched over in my first grow, it seemed to do the trick.
The Mars-Hydro TS1000 draws 150 Watts.

I see references to both 100 and 150 watt. Still far from adequate so definitely going to need more photons.

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Thank you @Myfriendis410

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Nice this is my second grow with spider farmer sf 4000

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Just as a reference for you - I am in a 4x4x6 grow box. I’m getting some decent results with 4000w across 3 lights at bloom.

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Being a auto I wish you wouldn’t have topped so heavily. Watching & I hope it turns out great for you.

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My first grow I had no idea what I was doing and it nearly became unmanageable. This grow I’m just going to let it do its own thing without fimming and see what happens.
I have a screen shelf in the middle of my tent that serves as a support so it won’t collapse. I wish I had a more stable tent so I didn’t need the screen in there.

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I thought that picture of you holding the top off the plant was from this grow, sorry for my mix up.

It is from this grow. I’m trying to not let the plant grow as large as the first one. With my light hanging in the cage I was very limited with height. That’s why my light is above the top cage.

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Week two: I killed Abel. Or was it Cain?

Boneheaded move. Trying to “bend” the stem over I snapped her off. I applied a splint but little humpty took a dumpty. Lol
Life goes onn

Day 52
3rd day in flowering light.

Everything seems secure and the symphony is readying it’s instruments. Can’t wait for the finale. Fireworks!!