40+ lbs with 12 Plants in 2 Rooms on a Flip

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Renfro

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myke said:
Looks great.
If you don’t mind me asking what ppm do you start your rooted clones at?
My GG#4 have just rooted and thought your probably the best guy to ask. Thanks.
My mom is sitting at 1200 and loving life
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TBH I start them on my full strength veg nutes, right about 1000 PPM. I have never seen signs of plants not liking it. Many will argue this point I am sure but the plants don't show any signs of burn or anything. Everyone in my veg room gets the same feed.
 
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Thanks much
When I first got the clone I had it at about 500. Was getting yellow added calmag brought it to 750. Once I got to 1000 it looked better. Evan went as far as 1400 but that was with Epson and calmag. So your 1000 suggestion is what I was thinking too. Some plants just like it.
 
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ttystikk said:
Berger is a feed brand?

So they're hand watered? Daily?

I see a line at the bottom of the buckets, guessing that's just a drain, then?
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Berger is the soiless mix I am using. Used to use Promix HP and Sunshine 4 but this stuff is better and cheaper.

They are hand watered as needed. They go from needing water about every 2 days to every 24 hours.

That line goes to the floor drains. It's a bucket in a bucket setup.
 
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ttystikk said:
How much cleanup and training of the plants do you do?
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When I move them into the flowering room I trellis them while they veg a little longer and while they stretch. This round I flipped too soon and they didn't get as big as usual. Other than that I don't really put much time into them, it's pretty hard to get to a lot of it until harvest. I just take all the larfy stuff and make edibles and salves from that. Usually about 6 - 7 pounds of larfy stuff in addition to the main harvest.

Ill journal the next run from the beginning.
 
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myke said:
Why the bucket in bucket?Thx.
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Top bucket contains the medium and roots, has a bunch of 1/4" holes in the bottom. Bottom bucket has the drain line and simply acts as a drainage bucket. They are 10 gallon carlisle buckets (trash cans)
 
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Another thing I did between my rooms is I built what I call a light lock. Its a small closet size space between rooms with a pocket door on one side and a normal door on the other side. This way one can go from a dark room to a light room without any light getting through. I have these between room A and B and between room A and the veg room. I even have one at the entry as well (room B to the stairwell / laundry room. My medical count papers remain on the locked door to the grow.
 
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Renfro said:
Another thing I did between my rooms is I built what I call a light lock. Its a small closet size space between rooms with a pocket door on one side and a normal door on the other side. This way one can go from a dark room to a light room without any light getting through. I have these between room A and B and between room A and the veg room. I even have one at the entry as well (room B to the stairwell / laundry room. My medical count papers remain on the locked door to the grow.
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I need something like that,Im always working in the veg room when flower is in the dark.light leaks are killing me.
 
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Here is a flash back photo of room B back in July of 2016 when I was running 5 gallon buckets and had yet to install the vertical lights.

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You can see what I mean by I flipped this current round too soon as this old photo shows how tall they usually get. Same GG4 cut.
 
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Renfro said:
I have the hortilux bulbs in them. I change them about once a year.

As far as ballasts go, some are Phantom ballasts, some are sun system and a few nanolux. I started with all nanolux ballasts and they kept crapping out so after several warranty exchanges I just started replacing them with the other ballasts and so far they havent had a single failure. I always keep a new spare on the shelf for if, rather, when another nanolux craps out.
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Hey bud just began reading your journal, very impressed I am.
I've run 2 Nanolux 315W NC's for 5 or 6 grows now, when you say crapped out, do you mean they just quit. One of these take about 40 seconds after power on to fire but they have been fine, could it be the DE's? Damn, just passed up a batch of used Phantoms with full warranty.
Look forward to catching up here.

Get a chance stop by my roost and give it a look.

GR
 
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