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Took all buckets with water out of the room, and today the r/h started at 68 right when the lights came on, it has actually dropped to 56 now that the lights have been on a few hours. if i used the d/h while lights are off and vortex fan is on, could i keep the r/h down to about 55% even with the fan running? is 55 a safe range? i am trying to find out how resistent to mold my strain is so i will post the information i get later on. thanks all

Also considering that the bottom 1/3 of the plant really isnt receiving much light, I am considering tripping the whole bottom 1/3 of each plant off in an effort to protect against mold and increaes air flow. What do you guys think, especially interested to hear what Blue has to say

If you are going to proon the bottem, do it soon IMO, i usually lop off about a quarter of the plant and the top just takes off a couple days later because it has the roots to support a larger amount of branches and now with the extra branches gone it is like putting a over size moter in a little Honda and it super charges the growth of the top portions of the plant. Well for the RH, at least you got it down, I would shoot for less than 50, but it may work just fine for you, so just try not to worry too much, and it won't hurt to put the DH in the room with lights out and see what it does for you and also, the smell shouldn't be as strong with the lights out, because it is the heat from the lights that help creat more stink.
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Thanks Bear. Yeah, I am ready to trim the bottom 1/3 of the ladies, but I am curious should I take off only the fan leaves or also cut secondary shoots that are down close to the bottom of the stem?

I was thinking just stay away from areas that shoot into bud sites? Should secondary shoots be cut off though or just leaves? I am going to set up the d/h in the room for the 12 hours that the lights are off, see how it works with the fan on. i really think it will stink up the entire house with the fan off for 12 hours, but I could give it a shot.

If the shoots don't reach up to above 1/2 have of the plant I usually cut unless they already have some little nugs growing that are comprable to the top nugs. If they are stringy I cut them as well, only nugs stay, not the fluffy stuff that feels like a hairy cotten ball.
I cut hole branches off of the bottem, but generally only the branches with small fan leafs, or dying ones, but all the bottem shoots usually go, unless you are wanting to try to make the hash when done, but I don't really mess with the hash, because it can be messy, time consuming and be a bigger problem if LEO finds it.

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Just went into the room, it's 69% r/h with the lights off. Got down to 51% r/h with the lights on yesterday, but it quickly rose to 58% within a few hours.

With reguards to the clipping, I am going to clip alot tonite, but also leave some as well because I was planning to make some hash. But all in all, I think it's better safe than sorry, get rid of the areas of the plant that aren't going to produce buds in order to encourage more airflow in the canopy and lower parts of the plants.

I gave a few of the ladies a nice little prooning today, will finish the rest tomorrow. I am glad you let me know that they might shoot up with growth on top, I really don't have a ton of space to play around with at this point.

I have been bending them quite a bit, and it seems to be working well as the light hasn't needed to be risen in quite sometime now. I know some people will say it's bad to cut any of the leaves off, but for various reasons I ended up veggging too long, and the growth at the bottoms of the plants is becoming very cluttered. That coupled with my battling high r/h, I think this is the right call.

Speaking of height, how close to the ceiling can you get a 1000 watt lamp without any risk of fire?

Hey Guys,

Just wanted to update for those still keeping track. Hope everyone is doing well. Anyhow, ditched the idea of a d/h in the room, I am putting in a space heater instead to bring my temps up. My temps have been getting as long as 45 degrees during their off cycle (sooo fucking cold) and then within a few hours of the lights going on the temps reach around 61-62 (still not even that high!)

My space heater uses 1500 watts it says, that sounds like a shit load. Is it really going to use 1500 watts while on if I set the therm to like 59 degrees? I know 59 is still cold, but I have read you never want your night time temps to be higher than your day time temps. Considering that it takes a few hours to get to 62 (of course that's from 42, with the space heater at 59 I am sure the room would get hotter quicker with lights on) I have also read that most fast flowering plants will not grow effeciently in temps lower than 60 degrees, I think setting my therm at 59 is just fine, right? I would like for the temps to be higher, but I really want to be cautious of confusing the plant with higher temps during the night than day.

Other news, some very slight nutrient burn on the tips of the leaves, nothing huge but going to cut back 900 ppm from 1100ppm (which blows because tap water alone has 460ppm) I know, I know, gotta start buying r/o water. Some of the leaves are yellowing considerably, I am going to try to get pictures up tomorrow but any clue what this could be?

In other news, the buds are really starting to form! I will get some pictures up for you guys to enjoy!

Hey Razz, now you know why people advise folks to start off small. There all kinds of things that we just don't seem to think about with growing untill we are in the diddle of the swamp, knee high in the stink.
Well, MJ plants do thrive best with stable temps, but http://boards.cannabis.com/indoor-gr...coco-coir.html is a plant that gets about 30D when lights off for a few hours and 85D when lights on and you can see that it is still thriving IMO.
Those heaters will nock your electric bill up no question, I have one. Make sure that it doesn't come on when the lights are on or it can trip your breaker if you don't have enough ampage on that line.
With lights on temps you can get a spead control for the fan and dial it down so to not take out so much heat, but still taking out the stink.
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wow bro your plants are looking good.... check out my grow log and help me keep it alive..http://boards.cannabis.com/indoor-gr...-grow-log.html