Just curious if I did something wrong or not but after drying my buds became more airy than dense. Any ideas?
Either lack of light or too high temperatures
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Also, if you harvest way before they’re ready.
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Any of the above. What is the size of your grow space and what do you have for light? Also, do you have any pictures of your plant right before harvest?
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8x4’ tent
3- white widow autoflowers
RDWC system
5 gallon reservoir
1/10 hp water chiller
Heater
Humidifier
Dehumidifier
950 gph air pump
2-2”x4” air stone in each bucket
12” oscillating fan
2-6” fans
1-1200w king plus led
2-400w hipargero COBs
2-HLG Quantum 288 boards
6” 400 cfm exhaust fan and filter
General hydroponics maxi series
Water spill sensor.
WiFi digital temp/rh probe
Last day before harvest #’s
Ph level 5.8
PPM flushing
Water temp 64.3
Air temp 78.9
RH 49.9
You are probably under lit by decent amount, but that’s thumb eyeballing other lights. Do you have any pics of buds still on plant? How long did you flush for?
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@dnrn32
Pic right before harvest. Flushed with ph5.8 ro water 5 days then next 2 days ro5.8 water with florakleen
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@dbrn32 that pic they were nice and tight. Just after drying 7 days became airy. Dry tent was 69F-71F Rh 50%
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They don’t look like you harvested early, but you may have flushed longer than need be. It seems like most of the hydro guys are pretty content with a couple days.
I did that a week ago on my 2nd grow now so I will know now
The pre harvest pics look good. Nice and fat.
I’m guessing underlit as well.
Are some of the buds from top colas nearest the light dense, or are they all larfy?
50%rh is a bit low for drying.
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I got 1/2 gallon jar with some ok dense buds the others what were pictured. This is right before harvest 2 back plants
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1200w king plus - 235w
450w hipargirox2- 400w
Qb288x2, Hlg-240- 250w
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885w total in a 4’x8’ tent. I’m assuming those 3 plants weren’t using all the sq footage, but depending on where your lights were I think your issue is lack of quality lighting.
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Ok make sense now thanks. On the 3 plants was in a 4x4 area with the 2 400w and 2 hlg’s
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If you were growing in a Scrog, with all the colas at the same height, you might have had a bit less larf. There’s just not enough light penetration with led’s to be underlit. The top buds get dense, but everything below 6’-8’ comes out airy.
Don’t feel bad. I had a few wayyyyy underlit grows too.
I seem to be constantly adding more lights…and more plants.
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@drinkslinger looking at more lights now. Picked up a 600w hps light last week. That was with a net over the 4x4 area they just kept turning up I eventually let them go
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You’re going for all the lights, blurple, hps, Qb, cob…
Every grow is a lesson.
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The 600 watt hps will do everything the king and hipargero lights will do combined.
The two 288 boards, is that on something like a 260 xl kit?
@dbrn32 not sure what it was sold to me as and what it was we’re 2 different things. Someone on this forum caught the error and told me they were 288’s after seeing pics of the boards and driver.