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The Home Grower's Thread

looks like you may not have left it with an active node to sprout from.
 
If nothing has sprouted from the intersection of leaf/stem in a week and a half, the plant is probably toast.
 
Looking at post #792 it does look like it would be okay to top it off at that stage but seeing its prior slow growth I would probably have let it grow a few more nodes and then top it off. If this is the first time running this genetic chalk it up as a learning mistake.
 
HappyHighwayman said:
My topped plant isn't doing anything. It's alive and healthy and the two leaves are green and the main trunk is thick but it's not growing in such a way as it would give me place to top again. Did I do something wrong? It was topped on Oct 27....perhaps it's still too young?

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Nope, it's toast. For mainlining you top the third node up. The node is not a leaf, it's the intersection of an arm. I'll post a photo tomorrow when I'm back at the shop.
 
New tents finally going through a dry run. Timers should be going off any minute to turn on the lights and a couple small circulation fans. Then I'll close up and remote monitor temps and see if they stabilize, theeeen run the exhaust and see where that stabilizes. Just need a couple extension cords to run the circulation fans continuously, then it's time for clones.
 
HappyHighwayman said:
How long after sprouting do you move a seedling to a small container of growing matter?
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As soon as it pokes out the shell. Don't wait, because root hairs start forming right away, but I have fished 1 inch long sprouts out of paper towel.
 
Thanks. I've switched them to solo cups.

Do you all recommend 24 hours for vegetative stage or 18 hours as per the usual standard?
 
Does that mean the main reason for running 18/6 is for the energy savings?
 
I am on 18/6 for that reason but it might be negligible.

I'm thinking of doing a perpetual grow where I have only autoflower on either 18/6 or 24 because I can do a sea of green and swap in and out plants as needed as there'd be no light schedule.
 
Been trying to figure out the perpetual grow as well and it's tough if you want to take your own clones. You'd need two flower rooms, veg 4.5 weeks and flower for 9 weeks. Probably lose a week or more establishing roots and then it really works out to about 3 weeks of productive veg.
 
Googling the internets shows me it's entirely split on whether plants desperate need downtime or 24 is fine for veg and autoflowers.
 
We know J runs 24hrs, so I gotta figure it's not too terrible for the plant. I might let environmental factors determine the schedule. If I can keep prime temp/humidity with a 24hr cycle, that's probably what I'll go with. I'm worried it'll get too cold in here with the downtime and I'd have to run a heater, in which case I may as well use that heater energy for light time.
 
HappyHighwayman said:
Googling the internets shows me it's entirely split on whether plants desperate need downtime or 24 is fine for veg and autoflowers.
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byke said:
We know J runs 24hrs, so I gotta figure it's not too terrible for the plant. I might let environmental factors determine the schedule. If I can keep prime temp/humidity with a 24hr cycle, that's probably what I'll go with. I'm worried it'll get too cold in here with the downtime and I'd have to run a heater, in which case I may as well use that heater energy for light time.
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The plants don't care. It's really all about money in veg, and temp. If you can afford to go 24 you decrease your veg time by 25%. Unless you have the worst tier on your power plan, and live in a warm climate (in winter), you'll save money getting to 12 hour days (flower) faster. The plants give zero fucks about 18 vs 24, or your power bill, but in veg they care a whole lot about being around 80°

ETA: the lights on in winter sure help with the heating.
 
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