Getting nice and frosty nice job. I have 4 fans oscillating in my 4x8 space 24 hrs a day so I don’t defoliant my forest much and they do great. I tie branches down to allow for light penetration
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I know I need to get two more fans for my 5x10. Unfortunately I could only afford two oscillating with an 8" inline and the tent all at once. But it’s doing a good job when it’s not super humid out.
And thank you! Always nice to hear that they’re coming along nicely. Since it is my first real grow and all I like to make sure it’s progress is good.
Thanks!
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Hey you will keep adding to your grow equipment as long as you grow. It’s just one of the things we do to get better. I went with a 8” in-line from AC infinity. So in 5 grows I’ve updated tent, in-line fan, oscillation fans and lights. I also invested in a ebb and flow hydroponic system. I think my wife caught on and cut out my allowance 
but I may ask for different lights as a retirement gift.
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Lmao. That’s great. My spouse is fully for my growing and getting the best equipment since they’re a bigger smoker than me technically. But since they’re entering the third trimester within a week I figured I’d start the operation and teach them along the way.
I have everything AC infinity besides my lights. Those are spiderfarmer sf400s. I plan on switching those over to at least the ionframe 8s by infinity as well down the line. One light is 2.7umols and the other is 2.9umols because it’s a newer series/model. The ionframe 8s pump out 3.15 umols I believe. If I’m going to invest this much time and energy and money into why not go for something I’m not going to need/want to upgrade in a year.
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I agree my first grow was a T5 4 bulb florescent and then I added a HLG Diablo 350. Now I use 2 Grower choice 680w led. I want to move up to 1000w HLG or near that wattage. I made a mistake and bought the grower choice from the factory and in 4 months 1 quit, had to ship it back and shipping cost me 1/3 of the cost of the light I was mad as hell and they replaced it and didn’t charge me for return shipping. I’ll never buy anything else from them. My friend owns a hydroponic store and sells them. If I would have bought it from him I wouldn’t have had to pay shipping but I tried to save money but it cost me. Live and learn.
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I get that. I made the mistake of buying my first sf4000 from spiderfarmer and paid like $350ish for it and then my cousin told me to check marketplace on Facebook and found the newer model for $200 less with .2 more umols. Unfortunately nobody wants to get rid of AC infinity lights so I can’t go that route. Lol.
So far so good with the newer model though. No complaints so far. Said it was only used for one cycle of tomato’s. I kinda laughed about that tbh since I made a drive to Michigan for it to find out they were ACTUALLY using it for tomatoes. Lol
Definitely keeping an eye out for any good AC Infinity coupons. So far only 8% but I’ll take what I can get honestly when I’m looking at $550ish a light and I want 2 or 3.
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I’m a believer in defoliation and 100% respect the other great growers comments here and have seen their phenomenal plants. Just goes to prove that not one size fits all, with that said I do believe in selective defoliation and not overdoing it 
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Most definitely. Don’t want to take too much off and stress her out or stunt her at all. Just trying to get a feel of the range of when you guys do it so I know when to look out mainly ya know?
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I do a preflip, 21 and 42 day defoliation
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Is that for autoflower or photo?
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Both sometimes, just depends on the amount of growth that’s needed
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Gotcha. Alright I think I’m starting to dial it in now. I really appreciate everyone’s help!
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The pistils changing to orangish brown is from maturing not light being too close/strong right? Colas above them don’t have it so I wasn’t thinking lighting but I’d rather be safe than sorry when it comes to this.
I know this happens but I’m not sure why it’s happening now is all
