sup SS, just gonna pull up a chair and watch
nice man
nice to have you aboard Doc G.. always nice to have a doctor in the house... how many times have you heard that before so far?? pretty unoriginal huh?? glad to have you along tho bro!
thats a bumer.what the seeds i sent did not take and 1 died. wow
i know.. im ABSOLUTELY crushed right now... but im hoping.. im hoping they all bounce back... i figure a day will tell the tale... but i dont see how the new transplant wouldnt help.. plus im pretty sure it had more to due with the fact thr rockwool cubes dried out over night from being so small so more rockwool will better retain moisture and take care of it..
i put some holes in the bottom of the cups for drainage.. but i plan, every couple days, adding about an inch of water to the tray for about 20 minutes and letting it wick itself up through the holes... just to keep the rockwool from becoming overly saturated... hopefully this takes care of the problem!
ya thats another 1, the BB, id like to run my limits full of BB and nothing else..its real dense , smelly, sticky and short.. like i think i mentioned earlier..idk that people account for different yield techniques are specific to strain ur dealing with, and i found the BB like to be topped once at the maristem, and instead of 2 colas the size of 1 normal maristem...u get twice the wieght of the untopped cola on each 1..BB lika the top....so i think it would be sick to run an all BB room..its on my priority list..but i need to throw off a bigbud crop or something similiar first.. so im stoked to c 7 of em runnin and a mother for back up..thatll be sick cant wait to see them at 4-5 nodes in veg even..excited for u bro..
so they take to topping well... did you say you tried suppercropping them?? i know i asked... either way i will go by your recomendation since youve been there and done that... how far down the stem did you top it at?? i think ill prolly have to get 4 or 5 big yielding strains and rotate them or something.. i think ill get bored just growing the same commericial crop over and over.. but at the same time just doing one crop for that will give me the chance to REALLY get the most out of them.. learn exactly what makes the largest yield from them... i dunno.. its hard to say.. some many strains.. so little time.. and even a smaller area than i want... i need a warehouse...
ok so you guys just may love me after you read this.
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damn good observation my friend.. i must commend you
i really want to check this theory out.. could you imagine if you just made a break through?? "high times man of the year" cover story... hell ya...
so i spent about 4 hours setting up and testing out my hydro system.. it works great!! was a pain in the ass to set up tho...
i laid out the pots to the system and found that i can fit no more than 12 pots in the flowering room if i want larger plants... this gives them 5.25 sq/ft of space a piece... i was think about going with 9 plants... thats 7 sq/ft a plant.. then what i can do is this... since the 7 plants will be larger and taller i could have a minature SOG going underneath them... just 12/12 from clones personals or something... and i am going to have some autoflowers going in the veg room too since the veg plants wont take up the entire space... all i will have to do is to change the res hook ups to the autoflowers when they start flowering... which isnt a big deal... each of the ebb and gro systems can accomidate up to 48 sites... so i could potentially have 96 plants going.. but theres NO way that can happen.. just dont have the space.. and fuck trying to trim that many small plants... i love cleaning giant colas.. its so much more fun!!
the system is bad ass tho.. theres a res, a small bucket w/ timer, and the plant sites... the bucket timer has a place to plug in the fill and drain pumps.. once the cycle starts, the "fill" pump, which is in the res, starts pumping water from the res into the small bucket.. the small bucket has 6 spots where hoses connect and it gravity feeds to the plant sites.. all the plant sites are connected with 1/2" tubing.. and since i cut the length of the tubing, i can have freedom to space them as far or as close as i want... the small bucket also has a float switch that turns the fill pump off if the plant buckets are filling as quick as the small bucket.. again because it gravity feeds at this point... so i dont have to worry about over flows... once all the plant sites are flooded and the float switch doesnt drop, the fill pump shuts off... the cycle continues for the rest of the time... which can be set at 15 minute intervals.. once the time is up the drain cycle starts... the small bucket also has a pump in it which then pumps the water in the bucket back into res... this also starts pullin the water from the plant sites back into the small bucket which then gets pumped back in to the res... and waa laa... cycles done... its really nice.. once i get it set up and it looks good ill take a pic of course... but right now its just a mess... so ill wait.. lol
best part is this... the plant sites consist of 2 buckets... one that sits in another.. the one the sits inside the other has flood holes in the bottom... so the water can flood the pot and drain away from it... but since it can be removed from the solid "outside" pot moving plants will be a BREEZE... just like moving a standard 2 gallon pot... so once i set up the system and where i want the pots i wont HAVE to move them again... itll be nice not having to look for hose kinks and shit and tripping over them and all that other shit...
DAMN IM GETTING EXCITED!!!!!
