Hello Everyone,
Things are getting pretty busy in the tents again and today the idea came to me to move the Green Crack into the bigger tent.
The reason for this is because I have higher quality more powerful lights in the larger tent and there was really no reason I could not manage a plant switch with the available space in the smaller tent.
Let's first have a look before the rearranging.
Big Mack Superstar/Miracle Mack Males
Here we have two beautiful male cannabis plants. I'm going to harvest pollen from both of them for future seeding. There really is no reason these plants need to stay under 800 watts of light and the Green Crack could make much better use of this power right now.
Green Crack
This is where the Green Crack was, under a 250 Watt LED panel. She had sufficient enough space at just under four feet tall, and plenty of light, but I was certain I could do better for her.
Measured from the top of the soil, 43 inches. She would not have gotten great light penetration with such height.
So what did I concoct for a solution?
That should do the trick!
Now she is getting 50% power intensity of the 600 Watt Kingbrite LED panel and has two 100 Watt panels blasted at her sides on maximum power. Currently I get a reading of 55k LUX at the top of the plant and 20K-30K LUX in most of the other areas. I will increase the light intensity of the main panel later in bloom.
Taking photos helped me center everything and figure out how to get good light penetration. I ended up moving the bar on the right out a little more because I have a bit of obsessiveness with things being symmetrical and even looking.
We can see those center panels are placed pretty dead center. Since the lights had to be raised substantially, I had a lot of extra hanging rope from the slip knots and I utilized that extra rope to pull the hanging panels where I needed them. It worked out great.
Now these boys can do their thing and make some pollen for me. Later on in flower I will take some macros and show what that process looks like. The pollen sacks are starting to form now. I'll a post on this process when they start bursting.
Green Onions
I've been growing some green onions, and look how happy they are with lower pH. Needless to say, I have a pretty endless supply of green onions from this grow bag and can add them to meals whenever I want. They just keep growing new shoots.
Cayenne Pepper Plant
I chopped down the cayenne pepper plant for new growth recently and it's doing great. I probably had 50-100 peppers from the last round. They are pretty spicy and I can't wait to get more.
I have a lot riding on these two plants. They are both Big Mack Superstar from seed, the last that I have. I hope they are both female and really need at least one of them to be so I can make more seeds! I just trained them last night with some 3D printed low stress training clips.
Lemon Tree
I decided to do some work on the lemon tree. I want to keep it small so I chopped it down some.
I'll keep it in the big tent for a while to excite some new growth. I'll just keep repeating this process until it eventually starts growing lemons. I don't really know if I'm doing it right or not but the plant is healthy for sure.
I have a closet full of different types of succulents and tradescantias. I've been battling fungus gnats for a while and can't seem to get rid of them. Some of these plants need tending to and better light, as this closet only has some very low powered LED grow lights.
It will be a busy winter keeping all of these plants alive, but I've done it a time or two before so I am confident they will make it through just fine.
That will do it for this update.
What do you all think of my idea to rearrange the grow spaces?
I would love to read your thoughts in the comment section!
Thank you for stopping by!
