Harvest a Pound Every Three Weeks!

[Picasso345]

Stinkbud, have you ever thought of putting together a YouTube video explaining a bit about your system or maybe just a few minutes showing it off and link back to this thread? Seems like a great way to expose a lot of people to your aero set-up.

Plenty of not so good marijuana videos on YouTube get huge numbers of views. I imagine yours would be a real hit and expose lots of patients unfamiliar with RIU to your set-up.

 

[aes110]

nice job stinkbud!!

 

[untitled1]

You don't want it tilted so much. You want the water to drain slowly. I only have an inch rise with 4ft. length. My little 6 hole unit has 1/2" rise.

Thanks, I'll flatten out the slope.

Also, I have a question about the timeline. I'm trying to build the smallest setup possible with only one flowering unit (instead of three), but I need to keep the clones alive (so I don't have to buy seeds all the time) and I don't really have room to keep a mother either. So the question is:

What is the best way to keep the plants alive while their waiting for the flowering unit? I've attached a pic of two options I've come up with.

 

[mymentorisawebsite]

Yah I’m a dick I know. I just got confused by one aspect and found the whole system and method link back to site he got a system from. StinkBud I’m sorry, you have helped many people give diagrams and plans that many people would never have been able to come up with them. You have also given personal insight and experience beyond anything contained at Astro Grows website. Any grower would understand trial and error and having someone else’s experience to build on is key. I commend you for that. I never suggested you invented aeroponic growing and I’m sorry if anyone thinks I have.

Besides pointing out everything is slightly modified version of another companies system a method, the only real question I asked, is your plant cycle. You keep saying 3 -> 3 -> 9 not hard to understand. You made a beautiful chart.

StinkBud Quote:
3) I take my cutting from my veg plants. This way I can run 10 different strains without having to keep 10 mother plants.

7) I run a three part cycle. The plants stay 3 weeks in the cloner, then 3 weeks in the veg system and then the move to flower for the last 9 weeks.

Anyone can do this! If you can read a number you will have the same success as I do. Everything is measured and it is as easy as baking a cake.

Also in post you comment on how you feed each strain differently.

StinkBud Quote:
Some of my new strains just can't hang at 2900 PPM without showing some tip burn. I've lowered my PPM to 2000 to see what happens.

Its weird how different strains like a different amount of nutes. My AK47 and Snowbud can easily handle over 3000 PPM but my Blueberry starts showing tip burn at 2200.

Could you please explain to everyone (not just me) how you don’t mix strains in flower room sections but still plant a batch of all 10 strains every 3 weeks? You can only grow 3 at a time if their not mixed. Maybe mod you existing chart to go further into time and include when you introduce each strain to flower section.

StinkBud Quote:
You are limited to the number of strains by the holes in the veg unit. Clones are taken from the veg plants so if you don't have a plant in veg to take clones from you will loose the strain.

It sounds like you keep mothers. A plant in veg waiting around for its next open space in the flower room is a mother. @ 9 weeks flower it could be 27 weeks before you run 3 strains through one flower section. I don’t understand how you have 10 strains every 3 weeks without mixing them in flower section. And your pics and quotes show their not mixed.

Do you keep mothers?
So if not how do you flower 10 strains every 3 weeks without mixing strains?

 

[sorrowful hero]

dude you should put all that info in a book and sell it you'd be a millionar in no time

 

[mymentorisawebsite]

StinkBud Quote:
In conclusion I would like to say a few things to the people that actually matter to me. You know who you are...

Look you real friend actually kinda has the same question I know it may apply smaller setup.

untitled1 quote:
Also, I have a question about the timeline. I'm trying to build the smallest setup possible with only one flowering unit (instead of three), but I need to keep the clones alive (so I don't have to buy seeds all the time) and I don't really have room to keep a mother either. So the question is:

What is the best way to keep the plants alive while their waiting for the flowering unit? I've attached a pic of two options I've come up with.

Try this its called keeping mothers the reason for cloning already veging plant is height/start control

 

[DIRTHAWKER]

Lets boycott this guy (mymentorsawebsite) he clearly is here to stir things up and criticize, he doest understand the process and thats too bad...booo hooo!

Let me be the last person on this thread to respond to him.

go away!!

 

[SVINIAR]

I don’t understand how you have 10 strains every 3 weeks without mixing them in flower section.

Stink NEVER said he doesnt mix them together. That is the only way he can have 10 strains. Just because the flowering unit has 14 plant sites, dont mean ALL 14 have to be the same strain.. right? They just need to finish close together is all, stink HAS said this.
Stink has also said, that the right strain IS dependant on his 3/3/9 setup working. Thats why he made a smaller unit for longer flowering strains.

And your pics and quotes show their not mixed.

How can you tell this by looking at the pics, I wish I could just look at a plant and say.. "Hey, thats some nice looking Widow/BlueBerry/Ak-47". lol

 

[Thundercat]

Look how many posts he has, he seems to me like a total noob. Don't get me wrong I'm no pro, but I have a head on my shoulders, and I wouldn't hesitate to call stink a pro. This mymentor guy is obviously either a fool, or just an ass that can't read simple directions.

 

[iBLaZe4tozErO]

I just wanted to thank stinkbud. I've made both the veg and flower system, and the outlines u made are Awsome. U saved me a lot of time and $.
For anyone who doesn't understand u need to read everything again.
And read other sources too this way u have a broad spectrum of knowledge.
This is a very informative thread, you just need grow knowledge to understand.

 

[untitled1]

What is the best way to keep the plants alive while their waiting for the flowering unit?

Maybe a better question is, can I clone and veg plants in the same unit, using the same nutes for 9 weeks? At that point I can stick the veg plant in the flower unit and pull a clone, right?

 

[DIRTHAWKER]

Maybe a better question is, can I clone and veg plants in the same unit, using the same nutes for 9 weeks? At that point I can stick the veg plant in the flower unit and pull a clone, right?

You cant give fresh clones the same nutes as rooted clones, its too strong and will kill them. You need seperate systems for clones and veg. although you can use the veg unit all the way through to harvest.

I made a cabinet under one t5 light with the cloner and the veg unit, 24/7 light. You take clones from the plants in veg.

This is too easy, believe me. if i can do it you can too. Its like an assembly line everything just keeps moving. Its beautiful.

 

[StinkBud]

Thanks, I'll flatten out the slope.

Also, I have a question about the timeline. I'm trying to build the smallest setup possible with only one flowering unit (instead of three), but I need to keep the clones alive (so I don't have to buy seeds all the time) and I don't really have room to keep a mother either. So the question is:

What is the best way to keep the plants alive while their waiting for the flowering unit? I've attached a pic of two options I've come up with.

You know I think I would just veg the fuck out the one plant. Let it get big but keep topping it so it stays fairly short.

Then when it's time for it to go into flower you can take a new cutting and keep it going. The longer you veg, the bigger the harvest.

 

[tintala]

Alot of times the guys at the hydro shops try and sell you stuff that you dont really need. (at least in my experience) yet they do mostly know what they are talking about.

Here is the cycle timer stink recomends, i use it and its perfect. most hydro store carry them.

CAP ART-DNe adjustable recycle timer w/day-night function - Plantlighting Hydroponics

thanks, but why is everyone else answering my questions to stink? lol.

 

[tintala]

Yo stink, my first batch is only 8 plants, im just about ready to put them in the flower system under one 600watt light.

would you stagger the plants ? or bunch them ?

being i just have the one 600 (for the time being) i am unsure of the best way to get the max yield. know what i mean?

bunch them till they get bigger then stagger them.

 

[DIRTHAWKER]

tintala.... your trippin.

 

[StinkBud]

Yah I’m a dick I know. I just got confused by one aspect and found the whole system and method link back to site he got a system from. StinkBud I’m sorry, you have helped many people give diagrams and plans that many people would never have been able to come up with them. You have also given personal insight and experience beyond anything contained at Astro Grows website. Any grower would understand trial and error and having someone else’s experience to build on is key. I commend you for that. I never suggested you invented aeroponic growing and I’m sorry if anyone thinks I have.

Besides pointing out everything is slightly modified version of another companies system a method, the only real question I asked, is your plant cycle. You keep saying 3 -> 3 -> 9 not hard to understand. You made a beautiful chart.

StinkBud Quote:
3) I take my cutting from my veg plants. This way I can run 10 different strains without having to keep 10 mother plants.

7) I run a three part cycle. The plants stay 3 weeks in the cloner, then 3 weeks in the veg system and then the move to flower for the last 9 weeks.

Anyone can do this! If you can read a number you will have the same success as I do. Everything is measured and it is as easy as baking a cake.

Also in post you comment on how you feed each strain differently.

StinkBud Quote:
Some of my new strains just can't hang at 2900 PPM without showing some tip burn. I've lowered my PPM to 2000 to see what happens.

Its weird how different strains like a different amount of nutes. My AK47 and Snowbud can easily handle over 3000 PPM but my Blueberry starts showing tip burn at 2200.

Could you please explain to everyone (not just me) how you don’t mix strains in flower room sections but still plant a batch of all 10 strains every 3 weeks? You can only grow 3 at a time if their not mixed. Maybe mod you existing chart to go further into time and include when you introduce each strain to flower section.

StinkBud Quote:
You are limited to the number of strains by the holes in the veg unit. Clones are taken from the veg plants so if you don't have a plant in veg to take clones from you will loose the strain.

It sounds like you keep mothers. A plant in veg waiting around for its next open space in the flower room is a mother. @ 9 weeks flower it could be 27 weeks before you run 3 strains through one flower section. I don’t understand how you have 10 strains every 3 weeks without mixing them in flower section. And your pics and quotes show their not mixed.

Do you keep mothers?
So if not how do you flower 10 strains every 3 weeks without mixing strains?

No worries bro. Once you get to know me you will see that I have a big heart.

Like I say I don't keep mother plants. Taking cuttings from small plants in veg is not the same thing as running large full time mother plants.

I mix all my strains together in flower. I have to keep strains that finish about the same time. If one plant is ready before another I just cut the main part of the plant and leave enough so the roots don't die.

I actually wrote a detailed post in this thread about why 9 weeks is good time schedule for a Sativa/Indica mix.

One thing you need to realize is plants are not machines. I say 9 weeks but that is just a general time I'm shooting for. If the plants aren't ready, I don't harvest. In fact right now according to my calendar I was supposed to start my flush last week. But I know the plants needed some more time so I gave them an extra week. It's really not a big deal.

Same with PPM. I say 2000 as a ballpark figure to start out with. If you are growing just one strain you can dial in the PPM perfect for just the one type of plant.

Check out the photos. The first photo has Blueberry, Shishkeberry and Snow Bud. The Second is Elvy and Goo. I just took the photos a minute ago.

Remember the photos of those little plants in the middle system from a month ago. That's the same plants in the third photo! I moved them to the left side of the room and put the new girls under the lights.

We are all very friendly in this thread. Everyone makes mistakes. I make more than my share. Sometime we say things that we wish we could take back. It happens all the time. I honestly love everyone here and hope that others pass it on.

It takes a big man to forgive and forget. How about we all be friends now and grow some bud!

 

[StinkBud]

thanks, but why is everyone else answering my questions to stink? lol.

Some of the guys like dirt and Dragon started a while ago when I first posted the thread. I'm really busy and these guys help me when I can't get to my computer. Others too. They have seen the same questions a hundred times and know the answer already. Thanks guys!!!!

These guys are your new friends.

This is not StinkBud's thread, this is everyone's thread. We are all working together as a team here. Firecracker, firecracker, siss boom baa...
ah fuck it, never mind I'm a shitty cheerleader.

 

[DoobyDoo]

I'm a shitty cheerleader.

I bet you don't look very good in the little skirts, either!

Anyway, I just wanted to drop by and say thanks for the great info. I do believe this has solved my problems. I was looking at doing a perpetual grow in soil, but was having logistical problems with my limited space (and I hear perpetual in soil is a pain in the ass!).

Anyhow, thanks much. I'll post pics in a few weeks when I'm all set up

 

[WVPothead77]

It takes a big man to forgive and forget. How about we all be friends now and grow some bud!

Stink, I've been a faithful follower of your thread for a while now, very rarely posting because I wanted to be like a sponge and just absorb as much knowledge from the "class" as I could. After reading how you responded to the heckler's comments, I felt compelled to write this post. Since I was first exposed to weed, I have always believed that, like money, weed brings out the human tendencies that lie within us all, and magnifies the true nature of an individual. For example, if a person's motivation is greed, weed will only make them greedier, but if someone is motivated by giving and sharing, those qualities will only be enhanced, too.

While there are numerous threads out there in cyberspace with lots of good information on how to grow weed, there has always been a tremendously positive vibe I've gotten from reading yours. It wasn't just all of the time you've obviously poured into making the detailed plans, or the patience you've shown answering all of the questions, some of them multiple times, and some of them quite ridiculous. But it is abundantly clear to me that above all that, it is your compassion you have for your patients and the passion you have for the art and science of growing marijuana that sets you apart from the majority of those who post threads on the marijuana forums. You are truly a natural-born teacher and evolved soul, and I am grateful that I happened to stumble across your path and will do my best to pay it forward.



Thanks again for all you do,

A WV Pothead