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Built this a few years ago. Have used it for a number of grows, I forget the GPM from each drip ring.

Upper and lower rez's

Upper rez with info


Red - Feed line to distribution manifold
Blue - Overflow from upper rez to lower rez
Green - Pressure regulation and recirculation
Yellow - pump from lower rez to refill upper rez and recirculation

Red arrow - anti siphon DIY device, pump running.

Distribution manifold 5 lines,one line to feed the drip ring on each pot.

Three point drip ring, no dripper's, just 3 inline T's. Feeding a 2 gallon smart pot.



This is from the current grow, its a three feed point drip ring, 9 T's feeding a 10 gallon smart pot. Pic shows it watering.


GR

Just checking to see if this is a dead thread, and my last post killed it!

Barneys Farm LSD, days 37 and 38.


GR

You are rocking it all by yourself GR. :0)

That LSD looks to be amazing. I have one that I am rerunning.

Update:

Day 49 about two weeks left to go.

Buds are just fattening up.

The heart of this plant. Check out the growth around the crown of her trunk, should I try and re-veg her after harvest. I don't think so, this is a lot of work.


GR

Last night

Started flush today, adding only 1 ML Cal/Magic and 3/4 gram Epsom in either RO or Rain water.
Flush at least 5 days, maybe 7.

GR

What's going on under my 2 - 315's in the 4 X 4
Day 56
Barneys Farm LSD, Pheno #5 Monster Crop.


Since I started flushing I am getting a little tuff of fast new growth at the very tip of the buds.
Will be chopping this weekend.

GR

Just a few pics from last night and this morning.
All the frosty goodness that is going to make me a good batch of oil.












As stated, watering with rain water (2 ppm), adding 1 ml Cal/Magic and 0.75 grams of Epsom per gallon.
This AM I had about 5 gallons in the rez and ran two cycles at 6 minutes, got very good runoff, the last cycles I used the remainder of the solution, took an 8 minute cycle to completely drain the rez's. I then cleaned both rez's and refilled with 15 gallon of the above solution. PPM is 167 or 0.33 EC.
I know your not supposed to flush with straight water during the grow but for the last few days prior to harvest, would it hurt the plant to eliminate the Cal/Magic and Epsom and go with plain water?
I am thinking it would be about two to three days of plain water, then chop.
Any thoughts?

So like I have said I do not check runoff and was surprised to get tip burn while running nothing above 1.3 EC. So after 5 days of running a flush total of 25 gallons of rain water (<5 ppm), I refilled with 15 gallons of rain water that is adjusted with 1 ml Cal/Magic and 0.75 grams of Epsom for a total EC of 0.26 and pH'ed to 5.8.
Ran that most of the 15 gallons out by Thursday. Then prior to the dump I checked the ppm of my catch container I was shocked that the EC was still around 0.9 even after 5 days of flush. So now I know why I got tip burn and some lockout, my EC apparently had to of been a lot higher than the 1.2+/- I had been giving her, due to build up in the root zone,.
Well last night I ran my rez dry, approx 15 more gallons, of the 0.26 EC water thru the smart pot. Upon completion the EC was 0.3 EC and the pH out of the pot was 5.84.

Conclusion: In my past DTW grows I would flush the root zone, with the same solution mentioned above, about 1 week prior to start of flower. During flower I have flushed at weeks 3, 6 and at completion of the run. I did not do that this time and I did not run 20 to 30% runoff each cycle. I have always ran to runoff but made this change after reading about only doing runoff at the last irrigation cycle. Big mistake, going back to my runoff with each cycle and my flush during flower.
I never use just plain RO or rain water as it is a bitch to try an pH, so I use the above solution with each flush. Then go back to 1.2 EC in the rez.

Just a few from last night.
















Well my G/F will be here tonight and then tomorrow morning we chop!

GR

It's was the day to chop!

Went back in and rearranged the buds on the trays, spread them out and evened them out. Buds overall feel heavy but don't think I'll get my G/W but expect somewhere around 0.85 of the G/W weight, based on wet weight to dry conversion.
If I do anything like this again I will for sure put in some form of screen support.

GR

Wow, did not mean to kill this tread.

What up GR.
Another Cocoholic.

Hey TE,

gr865 said:

Hey TE,
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soon...i got a sour D that's getting close, and a CWW clone that's not far behind

Roger A. Shrubber said:

soon...i got a sour D that's getting close, and a CWW clone that's not far behind

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I hope by Thur. they will finish. I think I have as much weight left to harvest as the total for the main cola's. We shall see, wanting them to go totally cloudy with some amber, looking to make some good Sleepy Time FECO.

Everything dried and in jars.
23.6 zips of trimmed and dried smokable buds, 2.3 zips of untrimmed popcorn buds, and 5 zips of trim.
FECO coming soon!

Did not mean to be a thread killer!

Only 12oz with some Cotton candy buds to match your popcorn...and for when the marijuana munchies hit!

Thread bumb coco growers what's good. Nice looking plants um anything new for coco nutrients I always used Cal mag and gh bases flora series and dou and maxibloom seem be cheap still but anything working spectacular in coco anyone try the coco version of sensibloom I used Cal mag with it back in beginning of time.

Hey Jim,

I have my assistant/apprentice using GH Flora series and he is killing it. I use Canna nutes and if it wasn't for the cost I would have him setup with Canna also. He is on a budget.
I have been thinking of Mega Crop or Jack's and may give one of those a try when I am out of A&B. Need to do some research into what else I would need to use with it.

Right on man nothing wrong with sticking to what works. Expensive hobby to test stuff out lol I've had awesome results with maxibloom, gmb,d and flora dou with calmg and something for roots like rapid start.
Mainly was just wondering if anything new that's doing good never tried Heavy 16. I tried the veg+bloom that did work good but found I needed a longer flush or use less of it maybe. We'll take it easy soon I'm hoping to grab a light or two cmh. Can't wait to post pics again. Peace