LED grow NO.2, testing the Pro-Grow 260 and Rhino Seeds.

Day 46 of bloom

Hey all,

So here is my official weekly update :) I hope some people are still interested. If you have any input I would be happy to hear it ! :)

So bud formation is really picking up pace... The buds are at least 4 - 5 times thicker than they were a week or two ago.

One plant seems to have been getting a raw deal when it come to the light. The three other plants grew much stronger. I think I will have to bloom even earlier in future to keep them shorter. It isn't the plants fault at all, it's the space and the light management, only 3' x 3'. But there are still some nice buds nonetheless.

One plant is giving me issues with leaf discolouration and some nasty brown spots on them. I gave the plant a semi-flushing last week and it seemed to help. But after a few days it came back again. I think it is an over nute issue as I fed them a couple of days ago with seaweed and tomato organic fert and 5 heaped spoons of bat guano in a soup.

Some of the buds are very big already. I hope you enjoy the pictures :)

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That is looking great SL never dissapointed with your grow man that bud formation is crazy. Great job man

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Originally Posted by Kalidank1

That is looking great SL never dissapointed with your grow man that bud formation is crazy. Great job man

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Thanks Kalidank

Nice to see that people are interested in the grow. It's always good to get some feedback from fellow growers, good and bad...

I started using turbo yeast a few weeks ago. I think since then the areas where the 4 x 5mm tubing came down have shown great growth.

I think I will always use CO2 in future grows as it is so easy to set up. Of course the added 260w of 2700k CFL would also have had a great effect.

we used turbo yeast in a non-cannabis project one year.

that stuff is crazy if it's the same thing.

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Originally Posted by cannabis-seeds

we used turbo yeast in a non-cannabis project one year.

that stuff is crazy if it's the same thing.

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Yep, this is the same stuff ! It's a great producer of CO2 ! Even at room temperature it releases much more than the regular yeast.

The areas where the 5mm tubing drop down from the tent ceiling have much bigger buds ! I really like the idea of Turbo Yeast, it will always be in my grows !

so, what do you do with it? just put it in warm sugar water to activate & let it do its thing?

how often do you change it out? if I remember correctly, it's about 5X the price of regular yeast per packet.

I think I paid about $1.50 for each packet. The postage was about $2.50

I bought about 5 packs and each pack has about 8 hits, i read the hit quantity online, so I doubled it :)

So, I divide a pack into 4 equal bags, and then I add 8-10 big spoons of sugar to 1.5L of warm water. This is enough to create lots of CO2 !

I have a valve to release the CO2 in a slow fashion so when I give the 2L bottle a shake I can see the bottle's sides expand under the pressure...

It has had an amazing effect on my grow :) It is so easy to set up it's crazy not to use the simple system.

I will be changing the yeast every 5 days or less. So I can do a whole bloom with 5 packets or so... it's cheap as chips so why not invest in it !

But really, there is a lot of CO2 coming out of that simple 2L bottle... More than you can imagine ! :)

It sounds like what you got was repackaged for your specific use.

What we bought was about $5 for a huge packet of turbo yeast that you dump all at once into a 5-gallon vat to make something entirely different with - drink rather than smoke - no cannabis involved.

Might work out to the same price per unit because I could see where you would only use a small bit at a time.

We also buy pressurized C02 for a kegerator - much more expensive. I think it costs us abut $25 for either 5 or 10 gallons - can't remember what the tank holds.

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Day 51 of bloom

So I have been having some small issues with the humidity here in Ireland.

Humidity is in the 80s and 90s ! 90% humidity makes it difficult to grow indoors in a tent. The humidity has created some bud rot !! not happy about it at all...

I took down 2 large buds from the Chronic plant... My god that plant is a complete animal at growing buds.. Unfortunately the large, thick buds were the perfect breeding ground...

So I took down about 70g wet so this will end up as about 20g dried... how bad... I stopped the bud rot from spreading much further I believe... damn stuff...

The weather conditions are just terrible here... it has rained all summer "without a break" ! Every single day, rain, rain and more rain...

My outdoor crop will suffer greatly too... The outdoor hasn't bloomed yet so they are still safe, but if this weather doesn't clear up for August and September I fear doom is upon me...

Check out the humidity levels in Ireland below ! I realise that the photo shows 0% rainfall for today... But seriously, even the farmers are in big trouble because of this wet weather...

There hasn't been a break in the rain for them. The cows are being taken in to be fed in mid July... This is unheard of...

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