it sucks living in the south pretty sure it'll be a cold day in hell when they legalize it here -- they just effectively kicked most of the abortion providers out of the state and passed restrictions on abortion after 20 weeks (which i'm pretty sure is not going to stand up to a supreme court test...)... not that I'm a real pro abortion person (not my issue) but just shows you how things are in the state I'm in... there's not a chance we'll even get medical probably until hispanics are a population majority here (which actually won't be too long, especially if they ever do immigration reform).
that's on the lowest possible speed setting... on the bright side that airflow kept the plants from frying yesterday -- that was AFTER it got hot.
The fans just have to make sure that the air is circulating around/underneath the lights so that the heat does not build up. The fan in the pic is old and doesn't move much air and was the only one there til yesterday... i figured from the bleaching on the older TWs there may not be enough airflow so I added the more powerful fan yesterday that is moving a lot of air around those lights now even on its lowest setting. So ambient temps in the room are 73-75, directly under the lights it's around 78. Only downside is it's windstressing the leaves on the plant in the corner that's closest to it and gets the most wind. I have the option to hook up external venting at pretty much any time through the same window the a/c vents through but since the a/c is handling it I figure there is no real reason (other than the condition where the a/c stops working )
Sup brother.you get'em too close you'll bleach'em especially on that 1k... there is definitely a saturation point where it gets to be more light than the plant can process and then you get the yellow chlorotic spots. I'm probably gonna vent those lights eventually.. maybe next run just gotta find the willpower to deal with that kind of project
Looking really nice and healthy Int'l! So do you mean they've had flowers for 15 days? I've retrained individual branches that are getting too tall up until mid flower... they don't really stretch after about 4 weeks (tho i guess a purer sativa could) so there shouldn't usually be a need to do so after that point really... i just retie them down though I don't try to pinch/supercrop the branch, but tieing down under stress seems to have a very similar effect to super cropping -- by stress I mean the branch is straining against the tie down because it wants to be upright... a floppy branch that feels like there is very little tension on a tie down isn't gonna get that effect. That's one thing I don't like about the chernojill as much it has pretty floppy stems from the trainwreck genetics. I like to think of what I do as high stress training because the branches that come out the best are the ones with a lot of tension against the tie down.... they thicken up and make nice big support branches that can carry weight. The ones that don't are the ones I take for cuttings or trim off (sucker branches i heard them called). One thing I noticed this run is that the tie down has the best effect if you do it before the branch gets too long, then adjust the tie/tension out as the branch grows.
Not my keeper pheno... 
I just harvested 2 plants that had mostly matured under my blackstar in the tent for many weeks, they matured in very high temps (28-30) at lights on... maybe more. Same temps as my other room with other LED lights really... I really don't like the results I am getting with the blackstar!! it does the trick to finish my plants when they are a week or 2 from harvest but otherwise it seems like they grow fluffy buds loaded with hairs. I know the heat will coze this but at least under stronger LEDs with better spectrum I am getting very dense nugs. Just thought I would let you know againThanks Raider... fuck got a lot of watering to do tonight about 3/4 of the plants need watering due to the heat last night.. couple started to get wilty... more pics coming
This is the tw14 that's been under the 600w... looks like it's almost done I got excited that i might cut it tomorrow to harvest but I'm gonna give it at least one more week out of principle.... it's almost gone through all it's big fan leaves down to the last couple nodes at the top now all the others are nicely faded
Look close you can see my fat thumb next to some fat buds
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what year is your blackstar? mine are all after 2012 i've heard bad things about the earlier models... maybe i'm just the only one who has luck with'em but yeah they are not putting out the kind of yields I really want and the big leds are real expensive so i may be sticking with hps for a while
