Grow Mentorship

[T-ray]

Great posts @Gl1tch

The problem I have is a product of some mistakes made in the beginning of this (first) indoor grow. The bigger plant was waterlooged a seedling in a small plastic planter. She was transplanted to a 7 gallon fabric pot. she recovered nicely, and I don’t have 12" to the light. the main cola is getting beat up a bit but the next layer buds look good. This plant is 7.5 weeks into flower.

The smaller plant was a RQS Blue Cheese Auto bean germinated in water and planted directly into a 7 gallon fabric pot with dry FFHF . it is really stunted but is flowering decently. I’m trying to balance intensity so both plants get the most benefit. Light is an ACI IONFRAM 280W.

[Gl1tch]

Do you have picks of the plants and space. Right off the top you could tie the tallest stuff over a little so the branchs bend just a little. Not too much or you risk super cropping(Not the end of the world just not ideal). Low stress bending is much better than heavy light stress. That might buy you an extra few inches to the light. Then you can boost the shorter one up on a milk crate or something to bring it’s canopy up to an ideal distance from the light.

[T-ray]

I don’t think I should cut on the bigger plant, or the smaller one for that matter. I measured again - the all plant (auto) is about 10” from the light.

[Gl1tch]

The little one looks like it’s very close to chop time. I wouldn’t cut anything on the big one just bend the tallest branches over to the side and tie them to something solid so stay leaned over. A lot of times I stick a safety pin through the pot and use that to tie to but sometimes I can’t get a good bend that way and have to get creative.

[T-ray]

I’ll put something under the runt and hopefully she will respond. Thanks man

[Gl1tch]

Any time, I’m happy to be helpful

[T-ray]

you are

[dbrn32]

NEC code requires the 80% load calculation. I no longer work with code regularly but 6 months of preparing for 8 hour test in 2007 tells me section 310.15, there should be a series of tables and explanations within that section explaining.

Basically, you can’t load a circuit to run at 100% of it’s capacity regularly.

[Gl1tch]

310.15 only applies to sizing conductors . 310.15(B)(16) is the wire sizing bible. 210 is for sizing whole branch circuits not just the wire. I dread having to do code update class every three years. That’s a lot of time I’ll never get back.

@dbrn32

6 months of preparing for 8 hour test

The journeyman exam is the hardest test I’ve ever taken, and I’m a pretty exceptional test taker. It keeps me going back to do code update just so I don’t have to go through that nightmare again.

[dbrn32]

That’s what nearly 20 years will do to a stoner . I was thinking it was 200’s or 300’s and i couldn’t get 310 out of my head. Blah blah table of ampacity. I’m very thankful that i can read the code book, but even more thankful I no longer need to.

[Gl1tch]

after 20 years of not using it The ampacity table service calcs is probably all I will remember too

[Quivln]

Here is an update on how my garden is going. With some photos. I got a MARS Hydro TSW2000 (300W) and setup in the flowering tent. Keeping it at about 50% right now.

Been doing some HST on the vegetative plants, trying to encourage them bushing out more. Adding some twine to help promote the stalks to spread out more on the largest of the OG Kush. 1 plant is consistently having gnat issues. I think it’s pot doesn’t drain very well? I am treating all water for all the plants with Mosquito Bits and h2o2. Gnats aren’t abundant, and appear mostly limited to just 1 plant.

The flowering plant (USA Gorilla Glue) is looking pretty good. Lots of large buds, plenty of growth. Some yellowing and browning of a few leaves. I think I overdid it a bit on light intensity and followed suggestion of raising light. The top leaves were starting to show a little curling and what looks like heat or overexposure? I got 4 different readings of the PPM & PH of the runoff.

PH = 5.9-6.1 (varied, but was fairly consistent)
PPM = 1450 (average, a couple high, a couple low)

Moved the other older plant (White Widow) to the flowering tent. She’s gotten rather tall and I’ve already gotten some clones from her. Wanted to get another plant started on that cycle if possible to keep a consistent crop coming through and don’t want too much light going to waste. Average of 3 runoff readings below
PH = 6.3
PPM = 950

I am planning on moving the 2 smaller OG Kush plants to the flowering tent soon and cloning the healthy/strong OG Kush plant. Not sure if I should wait for the little ones to get bigger, or just push them to flower and to make room for other crop coming through.

I need to make some more soil. I’ve gone through the whole bag of FF Ocean Forest I had and am beginning the process of trying to figure out how to make more soil. I’ll need fresh soil for the clones from the OG Kush. The other 2 Kush plants I am transplanting and will use the last of my MG soil on their larger homes.

Considering getting another bag of FF Ocean Forest. Adding perlite, blood meal & Wakefield Organic Compost Biochar + Myco Fung.

This would be after they’ve spread their roots ( 2 weeks or so after clip and stick).

Last time I used clone dome cups w/ rock wool cubes on top of clay pebbles for the cloning process. Soaked the rock wool in water, added a bit of honey to the stems of the clippings and dipped in GardenSafe - Take Root hormone. Was considering getting Clonex this time. Last time, the roots took a while and weren’t very abundant. Added Myco Fung when moving them from clone dome to soil.