Aussie Growers Thread

Lucky Luke

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I’ve heard of and added perlite to soil when I grew in soil once upon a time haha. But was just thinking that there will possibly be layers of perlite throughout the root zone that will provide oxygen and easily available nutrient water for a while after feeding and the layers of soil will prevent total drying of the perlite/roots and effectively may make less chance of overwatering/slow growth!?

Perlite coco hempy sounds interesting Luke. Will check it out 8-)

I can have up to 2 600 watters in veg room and 5 in flower room at a time. Nearly halving that power draw is only a good thing for security and my pocket haha. I was going to change to an led setup but there’s so much misleading information from the suppliers and led supporters, that I think I’ll just switch to CMH’s. I pulled nearly 18ozs indoors from a single chemdawg about 4 months ago using a 600w hps. Would be a dream for me to do that while only drawing 325 watts!

Yea, the heat can be a bitch! I got my hands on a portable split system about 2 years ago. I dose co2 so it’s a must have in a sealed or semi sealed room! do you dose co2 Luke? If you do then your temps are good! If not, can you inline cool the cmh’s (cool tube set up) running Humidity a little on the higher side if not in late flower will help a little. Also dosing a little potassium silicate and b52 can help if temps aren’t too extreme!?
Yep thats what its used for, Veggie gardeners use it to.

Lots of multi light guys going LED. Better g per watt with less heat.

no man, i just grow in a little room in the garage. just a hobby guy. Would love a slighly larger space but hey it is what it is. Yep VPD and all that. I use si in veg not so much in flower.
 
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beernutz

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Hey Luke, I’ve got some small plants going outdoors roughly a foot high atm. And in pure coco and have 1 in soil for a rough comparison.
we’ve just had 3, 43 degree days! And one thing I’ve figured out is plants get less heat stressed when in coco as opposed to soil!
The one in soil started drooping towards the end of the day yesterday and has already started today, whereas the plants in coco are praising the sun! I imagine Itl be because the roots have to really search in soil as opposed to coco....?
Could be a thought to any soil growers out there to mix in some coco into their soil to help get them through summer if their not already? 8)
I have coco mixed into my biggest plants soil
 

beernutz

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mine are all in peat based (Canna Terra). Rubys in the ground plants seem to be loving the 40s. Think its just about giving them enough liquid to drink and perhaps a little less nutrients whilst they drink so much. Wonder if its the O2 in the root zone thats helping them?
Mine have come from 130w of CFL and 630w of CMH so the suns a bit of a shock to them.
Mine are getting wat ever They Need in terms of water left the lines flowing for 90 mins Tonite
And they are drinking everyday at the same time
Only fed 3 feeds of megacrop far
 

beernutz

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yes of cause.
yes of cause.
yep, i add perlite to soil and Canna terra and Vermiculite. Papa grows a mean Perlite Coco Hempy.

Often do that up potting. Most of it comes to the surface anyway. But u do get a cool line when u pull the rootball. Not sure if it makes a difference though. Could well do.
18/6 in the veg and propagation and 12/12 in the 4 x 4. Have done 24hr and i think the plants grow just as well on 18/6 and IMO they take longer to transition to flower than a 18/6 plant

Love it over the 600wHPS. Miles better in every way. Would still love a 550 for the next couple months though. 30.8c in the tent tonight, just dimmed the ballast down and hopefully that will get it back to 27 ish. Lower draw with LED, i need the extra heat for the majority of the year so id have to run a heater with them.so CMH suites me well. Great lights.
My cmh is being retired as is the qb288
A 550 rspec v2 is going in the tent next run after summer
 

Hydro4life

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Mine are getting wat ever They Need in terms of water left the lines flowing for 90 mins Tonite
And they are drinking everyday at the same time
Only fed 3 feeds of megacrop far
Drinking everyday is good beernutz! When I’m doing a coco run I water a minimum of every 24 hours, any further apart with my waterings and they don’t seem to grow as vigorously. I’ve grown in dwc for roughly the last 5 years and have been growing in coco for a while now. One thing I noticed when growing in coco is if I water/feed it with a soil growing mentality (water it, let it mostly dry out and water it again) then They grow slower like in soil. If I water/feed 2 to 3 times a day then growth explodes like in dwc!
If I were to grow in soil again I would personally be focusing on how to really aerate my soil with the aim of being able to water/feed more frequently and I suspect growth would explode!
 

Hydro4life

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We are on.our 4th day in.a row 44 plus temps today was 46 tomorrow is forecast 48
The hotter it is the more water they get fed and they Fucken grow almost 6cm a day in seeing
They love the heat providing u have the water source to give em
I left my lines dripping on them for nearly 90 mins Tonite
Yea man, it’s like when I dose co2, if I get the temp nice and hot, with some intense lighting. They go into overdrive! You can provide them with all the water/nutrients in the world, the strongest best lighting, plenty of co2 but with out that warmth they won’t drink as much and in turn won’t be able to use all that co2 to be able to process that powerful lighting (in this case the sun) good temps and humidity are crucial for a healthy vigorous plant imo.
 

Hydro4life

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Nah you'd need to really go over board to see any real damage, outside if it was really dry and dusty it could happen easier but inside it's not as much of a worry
You’ve just eased my nerves scaffasteve haha. Something to be aware of though! I just never really thought about it tbh. :roll:
 

beernutz

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You think the 550 rspec v2 would outperform your cmh beernutz??
I had the cmh315 and qb288 side by side and they preformed well together
I like both of them although the cmh throws to much heat when we were heading into summer as I was finishing
But I'm just looking at the 550 as more ease just one light less fucking around and I think I could bump my yield up by 3-4 oz without much extra extra on my behalf
I've got solar so going to a bigger single light is not a concern $ wise
 
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