True Aero Growing "TAG"

[HATCH]

OK, No Big Deal, Just Could Have Sworn You Were Asking For Help???

Ya, If You Use R.O. Water, You Have To Use Supplement's!!!

Here Is What You Want Them To look Like!!

 

[mdgcmd]

Well those definately look great. I am not sure if I cam eoff wrong but if so I didn't mean too. I am eager to get what ever help I can. So if you guys can help them please by all mean speak your mind. I will try and give all the info you need, just let me know what you want to know.

 

[DaveTheNewbie]

I wonder if your problem is related to too much water on the rockwool cubes.
I understand your talking aero etc but everything I read about rockwool is water it once a day or it just sogs up and rots the roots.
I suspect mixing aero and rockwool is a mistake ... or I could be full of shit.

 

[HATCH]

I wonder if your problem is related to too much water on the rockwool cubes.
I understand your talking aero etc but everything I read about rockwool is water it once a day or it just sogs up and rots the roots.
I suspect mixing aero and rockwool is a mistake ... or I could be full of shit.

Yes, Good Point The RW. Will Stay To Wet For Aero. & You Will Have Trouble Through-Out your Grow,,Mainly Root Rot, Maybe Not The Root's Hanging Down From The Basket, But In The RW. At The Base Of The Stem.

Hey Mdgcmd, The Reason That You Flush Is To Wash Away Any Salt Build Up Or Nut.-Lock,,I Would Use Just Tap-Water, & PH It To 6. To 6.3 PH, In That Range Seem's To Work Best For Aero.
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Read All That & It Will Help You Along The Way!!!~~~Best Of Luck~~Later~~Hatch~~

 

[mdgcmd]

TY Hatch and you too Dave. The RW and water is a great consideration. I noticed that they were over watered but I never realized that it could have such an effect. I know that it is not definitely what the problem may have been, but that and the Cal-Mag is a great start. They are beyond repair now and have put another experience tally on the chalkboard. I will fire up some skunk#1 seeds that were free with the CC. I want to get this thing in line and learn what the hell I am doing again before I go and waste all my damn Cotton Candy seeds. Thanks a gain guys I really really appreciate all your great suggestions and help. I will post back with updates so if you are interested then come on back in a week when I get the Skunk#1 germinating.

 

[JordanTheGreat]

another consideration, try letting them get a little bit stronger before transplanting them into such a high performance system perhaps...

 

[mdgcmd]

Thanks again guys for all your help. As of right now I am optimistic that they will be ok. I drove to the local hydro shop (about 35minutes away) and bought a few things. I picked up some Cal-Mag and some 3" netpots. I am hoping that the Cal-Mag will help with the RO water, and the netpots w/ the hydroton pellets will keep the RW a bit dryier and less waterlogged. The RW was very much water logged and oversaturated. I hope all will be well. Thank you and have agood one. I will post back in a day or so with there progress.

 

[mdgcmd]

Hello again guys it's update time. So the plants in the TAG did not do so well. Why... simply because the containers were not 100% lightproof like I thought. The UVA and UVB penetrated the containers and created issues. On top of that after very very careful and accurate calibration of the Tri-Meter I have learned that it is broke and needs to be sent in for RMA. On top of that the lack of CAL/Mag, in the nutrient solution from using the distilled water, left deficientcies in the plant. So here is what I did to correct all this.

I switched over to Ebb&Flow (just for right now). I did a fast switch in order to save what I had left of the plants. I did loose one but all is well right now and the plants are doing great. The reason that I switch to E&F was to get a production crop going and not waste time learned TAG right now. I need more room and a place of my own to grow in. A closet with limited space is no place to have a production grow and an experimental grow. When the girl and I buy ourselves a home I will fire up the TAG while having a full poduction E&F system. This will allow me to harvest smoke and perfect my TAG skills.

 

[mdgcmd]

Here is an update of the girls (hopefully). They are 6 weeks from first set of leaves tomorrowm How are they looking??

 

[JordanTheGreat]

i hope you are flowering...if not its gonna get super crowded in that cab really quick, that screen is pretty full already

 

[mdgcmd]

I wasn't planning on flowering for a little while longer. The screen really isn't all that full it just looks like it in the pictures. Shouldn't you wait at least 8 weeks to flower if you start from seed, or is that just a myth? The plan was to flower starting the 26th but just now thinking about it I could just decease the daylight a bit each day until that time. I can't wait till flowering starts but I am being patient, I am also praying on my knees every night females.

 

[JordanTheGreat]

well, with a screen you want to flower as soon as forty percent of the screen is covered with floiage. thats because when you flip them to twelve twelve, you still have to keep tucking them under the screen until budsites start producing flowers. if you flip the lights while the screen is forty percent full, it fills out the rest of the way with the initial stretch since you are tucking under until you see flowers, then prune everything underneath the screen and watch the fireworks

 

[JordanTheGreat]

and with the lighting schedule, its not a good idea to change it too much. you should have one schedule for vegetation and another for flowering. light stress can cause herm'd out growth...

 

[mdgcmd]

Roger that Jordan thanks a lot. Do you think that it is OK to flower at the age they are at? They are about 6 weeks old or so, maybe a little older. I was told not to flower until the 8th week, so that the plants can mature.

 

[JordanTheGreat]

you should be good brother. i have heard differing arguments and from prior experience i would say that with the amount of space you have, there is no other option besides take a shit load of cuttings maybe...as far as the ptency of the final product, im pretty sure the age of the plant does not alter the chemical composition of cannboids. since you have a ceramic metal halide there is no need for additional UV lighting to spike thc production either so i would say you're alright as long as you keep an eye for crowding. overlapping leaves transpiring moiture onto each other creates a lot of wetness so pruning may be in order later on so everyone can breathe

 

[mdgcmd]

I started flowering today. Sunday it the first full day after 12/12. I will update in a while with some updated pictures. For now I did prune them up a bit, and changed out the res. I cannot believe how much of an improvement pruning made. They can get some light now and air LOL.

 

[holmes]

I quickly read the first page on this thread, but i did not find information on the pump you are using and the misters.
so can you please tell me where did you buy your pump and misters, and what micron size are they.
you might also know how to calculate how many misters can be placed on a pump, please inform me if you do.
good luck with your project

 

[holmes]

i just remembered to ask about the timer, what timer are you using

 

[mdgcmd]

Ok for a timer I am using an CAP ART DNE timer. It can be set from 1secong to 60minutes on and 1 minute, to like 8 hours off.
The pump is a Shurflo Smart Sensor 5.7 smart pump. And the misters are found at dripworks at the bottom of the page. Follow the links I posted in the first page and you will get all the info you will need.

As fr an update one turned out to be male so I picked it out. The roots were a mess and tangled with the other plant. As you can imagine I have dead decaying root mass in my container now. I am using HG so I am hoping all will be well. Week 2 is starting tomorrow.

 

[mdgcmd]

Week three starts tomorrow and I am still to lazy to get pictures LOL.