GreenThumbSucker
Well-Known Member
This will be my first true grow journal.
I have been growing off and on since the 1980s, but didn't begin toying with Hydroponics until last fall. I have successfully grown three crops hydroponically. I believe that I have the basics down enough to do a journal that you and I can learn from.
Here are some factoids for my grow:
Short term do list:
As it sits now, my grow room is a train wreck. I finished my last grow in mid July and haven't done much in the way of cleaning up the mess.
Last night I took the old hydroton from the previous grow and cleaned it out. It still had the roots (half rotten) from last July mixed in it. I carefully pulled out the root mass and banged it against the sides of a five gallon bucket to knock loose the hydroton. As it fell into the bucket, I picked out as much root as could. I then put a screen over the top of the five gallon bucket and put a hose into the hydroton and let it run for about half an hour. Whatever is left of the roots rise to the top and stick to the screen. Doing this gets about 99% of the leftover root bits out of the hydroton.
I put the hydroton back into the grow buckets and let them dry overnight. This morning I filled a five gallon pail with three gallons of water and put 7 tablespoons of 35% H2O2 in. I dipped each bucket this solution 5 or 6 times to kill any virus', mould, or bacteria that are still lurking.
Last crop I grew 12 plants and last night it took me about 3 hours to clean all that hydroton. This will be the second time I've reused this same batch of hydroton.
I have been growing off and on since the 1980s, but didn't begin toying with Hydroponics until last fall. I have successfully grown three crops hydroponically. I believe that I have the basics down enough to do a journal that you and I can learn from.
Here are some factoids for my grow:
- I will be growing 'up to' 15 plants this grow (more on this later.)
- I will be using a commercially made, 'Ebb and Grow,' ebb and flow system
- My room is 4'x10' completely papered by Mylar
- I will be using 3 x 1000 watt sodium lamps for flowering
- I will use the LUCAS FORMULA for flowering, but not for the vegetative stage
- I am growing in a half finished basement which gets cold in cool weather
- I am using tap water, last time I checked it, was 23 PPM right out of the tap
- I am a legal Medical grower
Short term do list:
- Clean up room/equipment from last grow
- Rebuild room
- acquire clones
As it sits now, my grow room is a train wreck. I finished my last grow in mid July and haven't done much in the way of cleaning up the mess.
Last night I took the old hydroton from the previous grow and cleaned it out. It still had the roots (half rotten) from last July mixed in it. I carefully pulled out the root mass and banged it against the sides of a five gallon bucket to knock loose the hydroton. As it fell into the bucket, I picked out as much root as could. I then put a screen over the top of the five gallon bucket and put a hose into the hydroton and let it run for about half an hour. Whatever is left of the roots rise to the top and stick to the screen. Doing this gets about 99% of the leftover root bits out of the hydroton.
I put the hydroton back into the grow buckets and let them dry overnight. This morning I filled a five gallon pail with three gallons of water and put 7 tablespoons of 35% H2O2 in. I dipped each bucket this solution 5 or 6 times to kill any virus', mould, or bacteria that are still lurking.
Last crop I grew 12 plants and last night it took me about 3 hours to clean all that hydroton. This will be the second time I've reused this same batch of hydroton.