Perpetual Growers Thread

Hot Diggity Sog

Hot Diggity Sog

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ASMALLVOICE said:
I have 2 areas as well, a veg room and a flowering room. I found it much easier this time to have a full blown wall separating the two. I used pocket doors to save room and make it easier to light proof it. I have at least 3 clones from each plant that are a couple of days old and flipped the first round into flower yesterday. The second round will veg for at least 3 more weeks, then take clones before I drop them into the flower room as well.

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Such a clean setup :)
 
Hot Diggity Sog

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mike45214 said:
This is my setup for now. I have 2 6" Raptor reflectors, Solis Tek 1000 watt dimable ballast, a Solis Tek digital ballast splitter and 2 600 watt Solis Tek digital HPS bulbs. The 2 rez's will each hold 18 plants for a total of 36 plants. I plan to harvest 7 plants about every 2 weeks. I hope to get an oz off each plant, if I do things perfect and pull 2 oz or more per plant I'll be so happy! I'll be running G13 Labs Midnight Kush for now.
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Can't wait to see more.
 
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Curious as to how old everyone let's they're plant get before you start feeding it. Or do you look for certain signs in growth, like 1st set of true leaves or the 2nd set or whatever you may look for.
 
midnitetoak

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Hey great thread!!! I am now perpetual but it's taken me a long time to get here. I haven't had to call around for weed in quite awhile. I have 2 small grow cabinets I use for mamas & clones only - then they go to the veg tent for a few weeks - then into the flowering tent. My timing is off now because I killed a bunch of clones some time ago & had to flower out all the mommy plants. I've got a single plant SCROG in the flower tent currently & it will be ready in 6 weeks. There are 3 more plants in the veg tent but they have been flipped to 12/12 for a week now- I just want to finish these so I can go back to aero/hydro & tighten up my perpetual schedule. I'll post up some new pics soon.
 
midnitetoak

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mike45214 said:
Curious as to how old everyone let's they're plant get before you start feeding it. Or do you look for certain signs in growth, like 1st set of true leaves or the 2nd set or whatever you may look for.
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Typically try to wait 3-5 weeks before feeding from seed but also pay attention to the color tone of the leaves. I find that clones can be fed as soon as they begin showing roots but seedlings can go about a month before they show a def. I like to use prefertilized soil so they just need water to be well fed in the early stages of growth. Clones go into the aerocloner to veg for the first few weeks at least so it's really only my mamas that get planted in dirt these days.
 
midnitetoak

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mike45214 said:
My setup is in 2 areas, one for flower and the other for the mom and clones. The veg area doesn't need to be as big as the flower area. Mine is only going to get fluorescent lighting and that'll do.
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My veg cabs are only about 24"x "48 - only got cfls in there - my small veg tent is 36"x36"x60 & my flower tent is 36x 36x 72. Got a 400w mh & 2 Vipar 185w LEDs in the veg tent & a 400w HPS and a 300w LED in the flowering tent. I find the freedom of having 3 separate grow areas is liberating & allows more options for recovery when mishaps occur
 
mike45214

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Managed to get 2 Raptor 6" reflectors in a 4ft.x4ft.x6½ft tent. That was no easy task, and I'm able to zip the tent up!

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Hot Diggity Sog

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mike45214 said:
I thought I had one up... Guess I was wrong.

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That's bad ass man. Do you think you can keep it cool? I actually could not even keep mine cool and head to break it down with just 1 600. But I'm going to be making a 2nd attempt this week with new gear. Have you considered running MH/HPS Combo for this?
 
mike45214

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Hot Diggity Sog said:
That's bad ass man. Do you think you can keep it cool? I actually could not even keep mine cool and head to break it down with just 1 600. But I'm going to be making a 2nd attempt this week with new gear. Have you considered running MH/HPS Combo for this?
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I found it was easier to keep the Raptor cool because it's bigger. If I didn't have a roof I wouldn't even run a fan for it cause the heat wasn't an issue even with a 600w. The splitter will only send 500w to each light, just shy of it's full potential. And if I ran a MH/HPS setup only 1 set of plant would be getting the max from each bulb the others would just be getting weak side lighting from the bulb and vice versa. But I don't see temps being an issue especially when I'm able to pull cool outside air in.

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Hot Diggity Sog

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mike45214 said:
I found it was easier to keep the Raptor cool because it's bigger. If I didn't have a roof I wouldn't even run a fan for it cause the heat wasn't an issue even with a 600w. The splitter will only send 500w to each light, just shy of it's full potential. And if I ran a MH/HPS setup only 1 set of plant would be getting the max from each bulb the others would just be getting weak side lighting from the bulb and vice versa. But I don't see temps being an issue especially when I'm able to pull cool outside air in.

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I hope you post more pics as you get setup. This looks to be great.
 
mike45214

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I sure will, just at the moment there isn't much to take pics of. Once the clones get started they'll start rolling in.

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