Capt Kruzty's topsey turvey grow. N/L TLB, Another upside down grow: 5000 watts

Ok it's been a while since I did a J on rui so thought I'd do another upside down grow. This round northren lights tlb. I use these turveys to store my mamas in as it keeps them up and out of the way of my veg table. Kind of a bitch to put the clones in them, but once set there great.
So heres da line up.
Medium sunshine mix #4
large chunky perlite

Nutes:
golden grow a/b/c grow
golden grow a/b/c bloom
botanicare cal-mag plus
hygrozyme
apple juice
ph down
sunshine mix # 4 for the medium
large chunky perlite.

Veg: 1000 watt hps
Bloomroom: 4000 watts hps with Raptor and xxxl mag vented hoods. Rooms temps: lights on 78 lights off 70 with r/h at 40%. 2 vortex 6 inch fans for venting and of course a large ass carbon filter. bl room is 8 x 10 feet at 7 1/2 feet high.

Ok grow stats done so lets get some pic's up

This is the last one I did. A chemo cindy99 and she threw 3.6 zips when cured.



Now on to the n/l tlb.





Hmmm hope that uploaded right. Been a while since I did a J on this site so hope I'm not wasting my time.

This girl has been in veg for almost 2 months and has give'in me countless clones. She's starting to get a tad oversized so we'll send her down the road and make another mama out of one of her cuts. Let me say this right out of the gate: this is not a n/l #5 but a clone only cut of the lil bus n/l from dirtbag. She is pure evil and a main stay in my grow. Normally with a 2 week veg they throw about 4 zips at 36 inches in soil in 3 gallon pots.

This one I'm saying will throw atleast 6 zips when alls said and done. Guess we'll all see ..

I run a caregiver service so I'm not new to the game and pull 4 lbs a month or 2 lbs every 10 days in just soil so if ya have questions I can help. I've done only 1 turvey so still play'in with the dam things as I get bored easy. From what I'm seeing this is a great way for folks to keep there mamas out of the way as all ya have to do is hang them in da corner and let them rip. The small one is another mama plant from one of my purple strains that I working on. I do breading too so as I said not new to the game at all so pull up a chair and watch this bitch get ugly ..

Sweet I have wondered about these things for a while. Sub'D
Great work!

JP

time for me to put my strawberry topsy terby to use.

Yeah me too and thought they'd work great for mamas. I was right....


They work daaaaaam good in bloom too hehehehehehe.Only thing I noticed was they need water(food I mean as I dont water) every 2 to 3 days and a tad more then my 3 gallon pots. This girl got packed full to the top so hope'in she'll do the 3 to 4 day thing like the rest of my grow. Ya do have to put a bucket under them for run-off but thats the only issue I've seen so far with them. This bitch is gonna get ugly in bloom as my cindy wasn't half this size when she made da rounds.Hope this one dont get out of hand hehehehehehe..

Well pic's didn't post where I wanted them to be so guess the site is still funky. I'll work thru it so bear with us folks. One of da pic's is from under the plant to show da up-skirt shot of da girl. She's a flat monster so far so a tad worried about bloomin her

Off to bloom she goes. Now the fun starts..............

I put this one in a diffrent spot then the last one due to heat issues at the pot itself. Think it was getting to dam warm being right next to one of my 1kers, so we moved her to this spot. Light meter is almost pegged on both sides so she's getting plenty of light in this spot. Hell not a spot in my bloom room that dont get good light so go figure. I did add some twine around the turvey and hooked each branch to it for support. I'll get pic's up of that in da morning. Dont think this girl will need the help being so dam stout but we fixed her up anyways. The chemos are a thin stemmed plant and needed the help. Dont think this one needs it, but,, ta hell with it. I roped her anyways.

So,,, we're on our way, I couldn't sit on me hands no more so away she goes. Have no fear this will get UGLY....................

I admire your grow space! Your setup quite well.

JP

Grow baby grow hehehehe

Good looking kruzty!!

what benefit do you get from using those tomato cages?

Got a question for ya Kruzty. How much ventilation are you using to cool your hoods? I just bought 4 raptors with 4 1k lumateks but haven't purchaced my fans yet. After reading a thread on how quiet they were I was thinking of ordering the S & P 8" mixed-flow (one for each hood) but then I was wondering about mabye just 2 10" with WYE reducers, one pushing and one pulling? And the thing with 8" ones that has me a little concerned is they're made of plastic and the 10" are metal which I think would be a lot beter for the heat, but mabye not nearly as quiet? I dunno, they're both rated to run up to 140 degrees. I want to keep the room sealed so I will draw it in from an adjacent room and discharge it into the attic, and I am hoping to get by without adding additional a/c other than the central a/c already in the house. The house stays cool most of the year except for a couple of months in summer where we can have some days over 100 degrees, but usually just in the high 80's or 90's. Anyway, I live in the valley in SoCal. So what's your best recomendation on keeping those big boys running cool so I don't have to put in a window a/c unit in? And anyone else's advice is greatly appreciated too, thanks.

Tamatoe cages keep me from staking buds later in bloom and keep the plant nice and tight.

I run 1, 6 inch vortec for all 4 hoods and 1, 6 inch 224cfm duct vent fan at the intake. Vortex is rated at 454 i think. All sealed and draws from bottom of wall from my veg room. I run another vortex 6" for room venting which goes out my chimmeny. No a/c even in summer but did get a tad warm this year and room ran at 83. Most times she runs right at 78 lights on and 70 lights off. That 8" S&p would be fine but you'll prolly not need another as that one will pull the paint off the walls and suck the bulbs out of da hood

Oh she's getting ugly. I'll get pic's up shortly

got any up close bud shots dude
can you get nugget almost full circle on that thing? underside too?

I do from my last chemo/cindy but not of this one yet. Another 4 weeks and she'll be packed full and kruzted . Yes all the way around and underside too. My guess is well over 6 zips when dried and cured. We'll soon see as this strain really packs on the wieght and throws some monster glazed colas.Being a mama plant for so long this bitch is flat packed full of bud sites.With it upside down and wanting to climb up it's almost like a low stress training of the plant and just makes them freak out and throw tons of colas. I just pick up a couple more turveys and plan on runnin more of them threw bloom. Instead of wasting all the upper space on just nothen I'm hanging and growing plants in that space using more of my grow room.More it gets used the less it costs

Ok boys and girls,,, Next ad on to the grow is a co2 system.Should have the controller/reg/tanks and other goodies by the end of the month so should give me time to plumb the room for the co2. Plan is to mount pvc tubing around the bottom of each wall and one line right up the middle of the room. I've 4 small fans for each corner pointing up to help the co2 to raise into the plant zone. I'll not have to bother with moving hose around as this will be mounted permamently at the base of each wall. Controller does temp/co2 and r/h and can run a few other things like fans and such. I'll run my exhaust fan with this so that all shuts off when the co2 is being used and flips everything back when done. I can hook the a/c to this to to keep temps right where I want it and r/h. Looks like total cost will be well under a grand and closer to that 500 dollar mark. If I get just a 20% increase in my yeild then the system will pay for itself in the first harvest. Been wanting to add this system but didn't have the room ready yet. Now with the 4, 1000 watters in bloom in that tiny 7x10 space should give me plent of light for the co2 to make a diffrents. We'll soon see....

Ok lets set up another one




I use the twist tie to tie the plant togeather so it fits threw the hole better.After it's threw the hole I remove the pot and fill to the top of the rootball. Ya have to be careful at this stage as ya don't want to break the stalk off by letting the rootball fall over. Once filled to the top of the ball, I pack the medium around it and then fill the rest of the way. Check the bottom to be sure the plug is in right and water away. I fed this one 1 gallon of my grow mix. Being soiless I feed right out of the gate. This n/l tlb will be my next mother for a few months or untill it gets out of hand like the one we threw in bloom. That one just keeps getting bigger and bigger . This girl throws monster buds anyways so this is gonna be ugly