first month of bubbleponics

[MostlyCrazy]

Just wanted to stop by and congratulate you, devastation, for an excellent plant and grow room ventalation set-up. Well done!

 

[devastation]

changed rez tonight. half grow and half bloom nutrients where added at 2.5 ml each. tonight is the last night of 18/6. i should have my 400 watt HPS very soon.

 

[devastation]

. i should have my 400 watt HPS very soon.

this is the light i will have set up hopefully by sunday next week

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[MostlyCrazy]

You'll be rockin' with that set-up!

 

[2822bubba]

I have been a couple of weeks ahead of you and I am using cfl's. I think the trick is to have them all around the plant and to move them all the time. I looked at rosemans grow and took advice from rose and mc and things are going great.I think that i will go with the 150 hps for the last 4 weeks of flowering to hopefully get better buds. good luck and keep up the good work

 

[devastation]

I have been a couple of weeks ahead of you and I am using cfl's. I think the trick is to have them all around the plant and to move them all the time. I looked at rosemans grow and took advice from rose and mc and things are going great.I think that i will go with the 150 hps for the last 4 weeks of flowering to hopefully get better buds. good luck and keep up the good work

i agree with you that cfl's are awesome but the main down side that i see is lets say u got 4 plants. each with 5 42 watt cfls on them. 2700 lumens. 210 watts - 13500 lumens for 1 plant. 840 watts in for 5 plants. and u gotta keep smaller plants.

just seems better to get a 400 watt and grow as many plants as will fit in ur area and light span. could prolly get more like 9 good sized plants in a 4 foot by 4 foot room.

just a thought. i still like cfl's tho for smaller ops.

 

[VertFarmer]

Cool grow Devastation, it looks like your plant is very happy. In the picture where you hold a leaf in your hand the dark green color to me suggest that N might have been a little high.
I have a couple of questions you might wanna answer for me:
1. Could you tell me what cfls you are using? Phillips 45W I can read, but is it just 45W equivalent or does it draw a full 45W? Also, is it a 6500K daylight bulb?
2. I’m going to grow out 20 seeds, and due to space restrictions, I would like to start them out in smaller buckets. Do you think that I could grow plants big enough for identifying their sex in small 5ltr buckets (and then move the approx. 10 females into larger buckets)?

Keep it up, I'm curious to see how this grow turns out

 

[devastation]

Cool grow Devastation, it looks like your plant is very happy. In the picture where you hold a leaf in your hand the dark green color to me suggest that N might have been a little high.
I have a couple of questions you might wanna answer for me:
1. Could you tell me what cfls you are using? Phillips 45W I can read, but is it just 45W equivalent or does it draw a full 45W? Also, is it a 6500K daylight bulb?
2. I’m going to grow out 20 seeds, and due to space restrictions, I would like to start them out in smaller buckets. Do you think that I could grow plants big enough for identifying their sex in small 5ltr buckets (and then move the approx. 10 females into larger buckets)?

Keep it up, I'm curious to see how this grow turns out

1. Could you tell me what cfls you are using? Phillips 45W I can read, but is it just 45W equivalent or does it draw a full 45W? Also, is it a 6500K daylight bulb?

i am using 45 watt = 150 incandescent 6500k daylight


2. I’m going to grow out 20 seeds, and due to space restrictions, I would like to start them out in smaller buckets. Do you think that I could grow plants big enough for identifying their sex in small 5ltr buckets (and then move the approx. 10 females into larger buckets)?


u could prolly work something out. u would need alot of cfls or just smaller plants. and some strains dont grow pre flowers or show sex till 2 weeks into 12/12 so u would have to kinda know something about ur seeds. if u got bag seeds then just do ur best to watch out for taller plants with a larger internode spacing. those might be ur males. females tend to be shorter and bushy. but again this depends on strain aswell.

good luck

 

[jordisgarden]

how hard is it to get bubbleponics going? i want to give it a trry soooo bad, but im wicked add and im worried if theres too many parts to it. itll get half done and never finished.....is bubbleponics just bubbles bubbling up and wetting the roots? just like ebb an flow as far as the food being soaked directly onto the roots?

 

[blueybong]

Bro ~ you'll enjoy that new light.

Best to ya!

 

[VertFarmer]

Thanks Devastation,
I'm going to be growing Critical Mass and Chronic, so will ask in the strains forum about preflowers. CM varies a lot in phenos, so would hesitate to discard stretchy plants as being males considering the price of these seeds.

VertFarmer

 

[devastation]

sorry for the delay in posting updates but lots went on this week. not only work as usual but the roof in my bathroom sprung a leak (my pot room is right beside the bathroom) so my land lord has been here the past 4 days so i had to move my plants into the spare room. they didnt seem to stress from it at all tho. got them under the 400 hps and the girl seems to be loving it.

 

[blueybong]

Looking really good. Nice & healthy!!

 

[VertFarmer]

Looks good mate, keep it up! Btw. you can see the color of light from HPS is much warmer, screwing up the pictures. You can change the white balance setting on your digicam to 'incandescent' which should give you nice and neutral colors again.
VF

 

[devastation]

Looks good mate, keep it up! Btw. you can see the color of light from HPS is much warmer, screwing up the pictures. You can change the white balance setting on your digicam to 'incandescent' which should give you nice and neutral colors again.
VF

thank you vertfarmer, +rep

 

[MostlyCrazy]

Wow, we have all kinds of expertise here at RIU!

 

[devastation]

how about that, any better

 

[devastation]

changed the rez, mild strength flowering nutrients now. plant has stretched a bit as to be expected, i also added 2 6500k 42 watt cfls and a dual spectrum t12 fluorescent. things are looking good and i am stoked to not only see how this bud looks in hydro but how it tastes with organic hydro. i have tasted it in soil with both cem and organic fertilizers. only 7 - 9 weeks to go.

 

[VertFarmer]

how about that, any better

Looks a little better, but still way yellow. You can try some different white balance settings and see if one gives you less of that yellow hue. If you have a dslr, you can put a piece of white paper under you lights and tell the camera 'this is white' and it will automatically set white balance to leave the paper pure white and the remaining colors true as well. Alternatively you might have a white balance option of manually setting the color temperature (Kelvin scale) until it looks perfect.

But don't sweat it mate, it's your sweet grow that matters

 

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