Armoire Stealth grow problems-need help!

joneric1014 said:

I built a really cool armoire out, and basically tried everything in the book to pimp it out fully. I split it into a top and bottom configuration, so both chambers are about 40 inches wide, 28 inches deep, and 30 inches tall. The top chamber is on 4 CFLs, 45w each, and the bottom chamber has a 400w HPS with a cool tube. I am using an Aeroponics machine for a cloner up top, growing mothers in soil in the same upper chamber, and doing DWC grow in the bottom of the armoire for flowering.

Heres my problem:

The top chamber works like a champ, and Im pushing out clones like nobody's business. Once they get moved into the lower chamber to flower though, the almost immediately die. Heres the weird part: When I turned off the HPS light and basically gave up on this batch of clones, they started picking up their leaves, and actually got better! I turn the light back on, and they immediately wither up again.

Now for the record, this batch of clones came from a buddy growing in soil, and they where already in flowering when I got them. Im not sure if they are dieing because of the close proximity of the light, or because they shouldnt have gone to DWC after soil, or if maybe I should have just cloned them under CFLS instead of trying to dump them directly into HPS.

Any suggestions?

Thanks in advance!

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Vin776HomeGrow said:

Too much heat bro. Anything over 79/80 for more than 2 hours will cause heat stress/radiation burn/ water evaporates etc. You need better exhaust and cooler input air

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Vin776HomeGrow said:

Too much heat bro. Anything over 79/80 for more than 2 hours will cause heat stress/radiation burn/ water evaporates etc. You need better exhaust and cooler input air

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specialkayme said:

First of all, your buddy should have known that you don't clone plants when they are in their flowering stage. The clones that you got from him would get stressed out if you tried to put them into a vegetative stage, and might resist you. But from the sounds of it your issues are with your flowering room, and not with your mother plants, or the clones that he gave you.

Your temps are too high, in my opinion. Not that they are out of control, however. As odd as it may sound, I have had successful grows when I was unable to get my cab under 95 degrees in the peak of summer. But ideally, you should have it around 75.

If you are new to growing, new to mj, new to cloning, new to building cabs (at least these ones, I know of your previous experience), and new to hydroponics, it would probably be best not to try and master all of these at once. Fuck the hydro for now. Fuck cloning for now. Worry about your cab and your plants, and actually being able to flower a plant. Then move on from there.

My assumption would be that your problem is somewhere in the process above. If you have a mother plant that is doing alright under CFLs, then you clone her, put it in hydro, and put it into your flowering chamber and they start to die, my guess is that's where the problem is. I can't exactly say what it is, because I don't know all of the variables, but my suggestion would be to place your mother in the flowering chamber, and see if she does all right. If She starts to wither, take her out and put her back under the CFLs. If she can't stand it, then it's the room, if she seems all right with it, then it's your cloning process.

I hope this helped.

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bk78 said:

I think he’s harvested his plants by now

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Vin776HomeGrow said:

Too much heat bro. Anything over 79/80 for more than 2 hours will cause heat stress/radiation burn/ water evaporates etc. You need better exhaust and cooler input air

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