those are some very impressive fat ladies that have just sung my friend!
Thanks Shake, for their size they were very productive with thick buds.
This run was mainly to start to guage the light and ventilation for production. The room still needs modification before continous growing starts.

how much do you think your light had to do with the non-stretching?
Quite a bit I think. the room was 2' 11" x 2' 11" x 5' 11". The LED fixtures were about 12-18" away frorm the light source with 300 from the top and 100 watts facing the iso-center of the top from oposing corners. That's a lot of lumens flying at the center, and the walls are all refelective mylar. I have to wait for my LUX meter to arrive and take quantitive measurements but it was uncomfortable to go inside the tent without some sort of eye protection.

The Manufacturers both suggest between 12-24" distance for primary lighting so I was on the bright side of the application. I think the side lighting was excessive so that will have to be fine tuned.

I also kept the plant so that the sunleaf stems were just tinted with purple. This means the the plants were just on the edge of N starvation. A more agressive nute regimen would have certainly increased both total height and number of flowering node. The good news is that this is an example of the leanest, barebone, lowest efficient grow posssible and that any cultivation of that sort is bound to reap bumper crops. The bad news is that I have a smaller less impressive harvest this cycle in order to create that baseline.


I'm watching a few threads with areo/DWC/coco with an eye to try one out to maybe give me even better harvests at faster intervals. For me it's so many techniques, so little time as I am getting older (LOL)

i appreciate you taking the time to keep the log, especially if it was because of my suggeston. you guys are doing amazing things and even though it makes my head hurt i enjoy learning and to jumping into tinkering headfirst as soon as i get the chance.
It was fun to experiment and everyone was quite nice and supportive.

MP