Growing again

Prawn Connery · Post by **Prawn Connery** » Sun Dec 31, 2023 12:00 am

The ones above aren't mine, but I'm guessing maybe three weeks. I have to slow my own veg cycles down because in a perpetual grow you have 8-9 weeks to clone and veg before the next flowering cycle.

Post by **roller24** » Sun Dec 31, 2023 12:07 am

The lower stem development displays some patient love. That's a lot of colas for 6 plants

Prawn Connery · Post by **Prawn Connery** » Sun Dec 31, 2023 12:10 am

A little bit of trimming and a little bit of weaving. He gets 56oz like clockwork from this setup in eight weeks under 960W of LED.

Post by **roller24** » Sun Dec 31, 2023 12:11 am

8weeks?
of flower?

Prawn Connery · Post by **Prawn Connery** » Sun Dec 31, 2023 12:21 am

Yep. His strains go just over 8 weeks. Or at least one of them goes for 8 weeks and the other close to 9 for a staggered harvest (from memory).

Prawn Connery · Post by **Prawn Connery** » Mon Jan 08, 2024 10:49 am

Couldn't help myself. had to add some side lighting into the new tent. This time I used LED strips with UVA and Far Red. These are waterproof and really, really efficient – like 3.19 umol/j efficient. I've got four in there at the moment and I'm running them at about 22W each.

Temporary wiring job to see how they go.

The plan is to have 8x 480mm strips in there – two per side mounted to 1m lengths of 50x25mm aluminium U-channel with cabe ties at each end to fix to the tent poles.

The cable ties will keep each 1m strip assembly in place but they will still be able to move up and down with the plants.

Five weeks of flower and this Sweetopia is almost done while the Atomical Haze behind it is only just getting started. The Sweetopia is just a place-filler. It doesn't yield much but has a really nice taste with quite a strong high. Once it comes out, the Haze will take over the tent. That's how I stagger these grows, by pulling one or two plants a week and re-weaving the scrog net until they're all done.

ripper5 · Post by **ripper5** » Fri Jan 19, 2024 10:33 am

Prawn, you may already be aware, but I see a fairly big side market for LED lighting, with exotic chili pepper growers on FB. Alot of folks going the whole nine yards with LEDs, tents, hydro, lol. Just a head's up. :volcano:

Prawn Connery · Post by **Prawn Connery** » Sat Jan 20, 2024 4:47 am

ripper5 wrote: ↑
Fri Jan 19, 2024 10:33 am
Prawn, you may already be aware, but I see a fairly big side market for LED lighting, with exotic chili pepper growers on FB. Alot of folks going the whole nine yards with LEDs, tents, hydro, lol. Just a head's up.

Cheers mate. Sometimes it's hard enough convincing people to spend the money on a decent spectrum, so those who do it are mostly those with the most to invest in their plants.

I did actually sell a light to a guy the other day who was using it to grow chillis and he wanted it for the UVA, which brings out the colours. Not sure if it affects the heat scale of the peppers or not, but I'm sure it can't hurt!

Prawn Connery · Post by **Prawn Connery** » Wed Apr 24, 2024 8:58 am

Got some nice new strains going. These are mostly Kosher Pie by DNA Gentics, which is Kosher Kush x (Cherry Pie x OG 18). I've grown Kosher Kush before, and while it wasn't a great example, it had a really nice euphoric high. I've also grown The OG18 which is very tasty, but also very heavy. I chose this poly-hybrid because it had a good mix of genetics and I expected a bit of diversity to choose from.

I wasn't wrong: there are four seedlings and each one is quite different in its own way.

Prawn Connery · Post by **Prawn Connery** » Wed Apr 24, 2024 9:03 am

The one I'm holding (My god! Prawn is white, not green! And he has HANDS!!!) is my favourite so far. It is a sativa leaning pheno that smells like alcoholic ginger beer. Very sweet and spicy, and looks like it will be a decent yielder, too. It is the most advanced so far. I think it will be a keeper, even at this stage.

They are 3.5 weeks into flower.