250w HPS Club And Help Guide

Hettyman

Hettyman

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Enwhysea - any advice is pretty random, do you have any specifics you aren't sure about? With regards to changing out the water and nutes, like you have just done...does your snorkle tube (that's what I call the one on the side, where you can see the water level) rotate at all? I built a small table for my pots, so that all i need to do is turn that tube upside with a bowl/bucket underneath, and drain out the fluids that way. Alternatively, for pocket change, you could buy a small plastic foot stool, or childs stool or something. This is my second hdyro grow, and a def labour saver. The plants never need to move now, which is essential as I am also scrogging, and they can't
 
Enwhysea

Enwhysea

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Hettyman said:
Enwhysea - any advice is pretty random, do you have any specifics you aren't sure about? With regards to changing out the water and nutes, like you have just done...does your snorkle tube (that's what I call the one on the side, where you can see the water level) rotate at all? I built a small table for my pots, so that all i need to do is turn that tube upside with a bowl/bucket underneath, and drain out the fluids that way. Alternatively, for pocket change, you could buy a small plastic foot stool, or childs stool or something. This is my second hdyro grow, and a def labour saver. The plants never need to move now, which is essential as I am also scrogging, and they can't
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hey hetty yes my snorkle tube does that but i got it figured out i came home today and my roots looked like this

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should i be worried or do i need to change anything?

this was her at lights on this morning.

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Hettyman

Hettyman

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ok, that's root slime, or root rot, or whatever they call it. I had that on a plant, just the same, pretty worse in fact, on my first hydro. Was using organic feeds, and had light hitting the water through the clay pebbles. Also high water temps cause issues.

In short, i killed the light issue, swapped to synthetic nutes, and started adding a little H202 (hydrogen-peroxide) to my solution. Oh and I put some water and Hyd=Perox in a spray gun, held the plant and roots over the sink, and blasted some of the slime off, with not too hard a spray, but plenty of it. All turned good, and pulled 4 zips off my first hydro plant, despite making plenty of other mistakes through flower. Oh, and the slime never came back.

https://www.rollitup.org/dwc-bubbleponics/694851-brown-roots-could-just-brown-2.html
 
Enwhysea

Enwhysea

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Don't have any peroxide but I did take them.to the sink and hit them with the sprayer it wasn't too strong and I think I got most of it to wash down the drain.

What is the ideal amount of water to have in my 5gal dwc?

I don't want to choke the roots out if that makes any sense
 
Spanky's Monkey

Spanky's Monkey

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My 250w at work on 2 GHS Lemon Skunks, one sativa and one indica under 12/12 for 3 days now. The big one is a Diesel bagseed 6 weeks in flower. Last but not least is my Kannabia Thai Fantasy Auto 9 days in flower. I have a CFL Veg box as well, but it's drying out a bagseed sativa right now.

 
cbtbudz

cbtbudz

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enwhy you will know its time to flower whenever you feel like it. I would say not yet, get that root system bigger if you want more in weight. Did you already do the switch? Either your running into some problem or you did the switch and they are about to stretch.And like ace said keep her tied and keep doing it.

I
 
Enwhysea

Enwhysea

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cbtbudz said:
enwhy you will know its time to flower whenever you feel like it. I would say not yet, get that root system bigger if you want more in weight. Did you already do the switch? Either your running into some problem or you did the switch and they are about to stretch.And like ace said keep her tied and keep doing it.

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Haven't switched yet but I think I'm going to let her veg for maybe 2.5 more weeks with the last 4 days of those veg cylcle being under a HPS bulb to see how they react and make sure it doesn't change the temps in my tent too much
 
cbtbudz

cbtbudz

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IMG_20140315_171024048.jpgIMG_20140315_170639185.jpgIMG_20140315_170758334.jpgIMG_20140315_170923151.jpgSome pics with the wifes new cam from her phone.1 and 3 are blue larry 1 plant 3oz of nugs. 2 and 4 Durban poison x nevilles haze 1 plant 4 oz of nugs. First time with the durbanx and she is def a keeper.glad i cloned her, very strong high pitch hazy smell with a very slight licorice backend. Intense clear high that comes on like a creeper and last for couple hours even with my insane tolorance.no comedown/burnout with her too.
 
cbtbudz

cbtbudz

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Thanks Hetty.I do use 2 250s though.My total light output comes from 2 250w hps and 2 15w cfls. I have 2 grow areas, 1 area with all the lights in it running 24/7, and 1 area that is only a darkroom.For perpetual harvest..power and more bluelarry coming down in 2-3 weeks.trying to keep it to where the longest between any 2 plants being harvested would be 4 weeks or less. hard to do since i run so many strains with finishing times between 8-12 weeks.
 
Hettyman

Hettyman

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Didi understand correctly, you have 2x250 for flower? or one for veg, and one for flower?

I miss perp harvests, and multi strains. When I move, it's gonna be 1 veg tent and 2 flowers, only two strains though, one on soil, the other in hydro. Admitidly I am only on my second hydro grow, but still stand firm that soil just has something to it.

I had 5 or 6 starins once, pissed me off trying to keep track of all the difeerent feeds and waterings, as they all seemed surprisingly different. Never again lol
 
cbtbudz

cbtbudz

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lol I have 2 250 in 1 part of a room running all the time. then i have a separate room that has no light only darkness. all veg and flowering plants are in same room under same lights..just I move the flowering plants to the dark so they can have their 12/12. quite a bit of work, but I seem to harvest a decent amount for using only 530w total light.right now im running: power, bluelarry, Durban x nhaze, sfv og x willie nelson, xj13, white strawberry, bluelarry x gsc, high octane og.
 
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