DaGambler's 4k HPS 99 Plant Hempy Grow

jmanno1 said:

looks like amiture week lol

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where did that come from

DaGambler said:

yupper. i could see that being a problem if you were auto-watering once per day. you might just skip to every other day until they seem a bit more resistant to the over-watering (over water retention).

i deffinitely think i'll see 20-40 percent more flower/bud action with the clones in pure perlite from the start. I finish harvesting this weekend and the "clones" currently in pure perlite 18 oz. cups will be transplanted into 3 gal. containers. this weekend as well. I'll see soon enough, but i don't really have any doubt that i inhibited root growth on the last crop - and that yield suffered as a result. At least this time i know i will have payed the electric bill my last hempy crop sucked arse. hydro from here on out, no doubt.
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I know what you mean about the hempy buckets vs. hydo. I have a bucket that is very slow growing, nice and bushy, but slow. I started a second plant in a hydro set up. twice the growth. Like daily result. pic 1 is about 7 weeks. pic 2 is about 2 1/2. weeks.

jjmd said:

I know what you mean about the hempy buckets vs. hydo. I have a bucket that is very slow growing, nice and bushy, but slow. I started a second plant in a hydro set up. twice the growth. Like daily result. pic 1 is about 7 weeks. pic 2 is about 2 1/2. weeks.

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ya, no going back to hempy.

i noticed some algae on ur hempy girl... for preventative in the hydro setup you can also do the same; add 30 mL H202 3% from walmart to your rez. and/or all of the water that you are watering with just before watering... every watering until it clears up. on the perlite you'd want to water from the top down, but i guess you are already doing that in addition to this you can add an algae destroyer (often by the same name) for any aquarium setup at the prescribed amount.
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Thanks for the FYI. WALMART first thing Monday. how much of a hit do you think Roxzy (I named her) would take if I transfered her to a hydro set up?

jjmd said:

Thanks for the FYI. WALMART first thing Monday. how much of a hit do you think Roxzy (I named her) would take if I transfered her to a hydro set up?

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Did you say WALMART HMMM here you go, , just had to share

Dg! Hey bro sorry its been a while. Cancers been keepin a brother down lol glad to see that last one worked out and uve stepped to the dark side its been so long since I've checked in I'm amazed yet again man. I enjoyed looking through the last few rounds u can really see an improvement each time... And improving on what ur already doin is sayin somethin keep at it and DEFINETLY buy as many big bottles of hydrogen peroxide as posiible it will make all the difference eventually. I made it the whole grow almost only to have a pythium (sp?) Attack hp is theonly reason I have a harvest to speak of. Gl and keep tokin!

erkelsgoo420 said:

... Cancers been keepin a brother down

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sorry to hear that. my favorite dog has bone cancer. the weed has been keeping her more comfortable than the other 3 prescription drugs that i have tried (tramadol, derramax, and rymadill) though i still use the rymadill as an anti-inflammatory.

co-worker was telling me about how his son was dying quickly of bone cancer years back - that's why i was willing to try it. said they gave him morphine until that was no longer doing it for him, then (right here in the state of texas, a non-medi-mary state) the doctors started handing him bags of marijuana. said his son (probably 35 at the time) never really enjoyed 'the buzz' but that it allowed him to spend his last days with some degree of alertness and dignity. guess we're all dying slowly. ya think someone with cancer might win the race, then you get hit by a bus or have a heart-attack. best wishes man. thats why i try to live every day like its my last. just trying to appreciate all the little things, ya know.
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jjmd said:

Thanks for the FYI. WALMART first thing Monday. how much of a hit do you think Roxzy (I named her) would take if I transfered her to a hydro set up?

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just the same, 30 mL for every gallon of water just before watering along with some AlgaeDestroyer - both available at walmart... one in medicine and the other in pet supplies. once it clears up you can just use the prescribed amount once or twice weekly as a preventative. could take up to a couple weeks to clear up.
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lots of media bout herb right now..... read like 50 new articles in the last 3 or so days...... are you ready?

theloadeddragon said:

lots of media bout herb right now..... read like 50 new articles in the last 3 or so days...... are you ready?

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ya bro, i hear what ur saying. i've seen it in the media a lot lately too. i feel like the masses are almost ready to embrace marijunana.

with the combination of caffeine, alcohol, and thc ... maybe we can keep ourselves comfortably numb for another decade or so while waiting for the last of the north pole to melt into the ocean
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lol.... maybe...... or maybe they will just bring out the real dogs once the smoke screen of a national legalization campaign dissapates

Talk about twisted humor. Were talkin cancer and imma get offed by global warming haha. O appreciate the kind words but I don't focus on it much its just when I have to do therapy I end up in bed for a while but I'm an angry stubborn prick so ill likely either have a heart attack cause my temper or ill be to stubborn to die. I was diagnosed 19 years 3 months and 6 days ago and I'm still here and fairly well. Time to medicate

right on brotha.
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24 Durban Poisons in the right 5'x10' gulley under 3k HPS



9 Mr. Nice foreground and 15 White Russian background under another 3k over in the left gulley



Both gulleys with most of the lights just coming on - just transplanted these today




The water-works



Still gotta swap out some innards on a 1k hps so it'll fire something other than this metal halide



Finished harvesting today and also just bogged these 18 oz. pure Perlite cups into the 3 gal. pure Perlite pots with bottoms of cups cut off



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the last harvest was very bad. it is true, i suck. someday i'll get it right. in the mean-time i have over 3 lbs. at least. good quality stuff - just very low quantity for the lamps i'm burning. most i've been burning for about a year now. got all new bulbs ready for the next round after these "clones" are acclimated to their entry into the flower room under the older bulbs. life goes on. i should have another harvest in 11-13 weeks.

there's people doing it bigger. and there's people doing it better. but, god love me, i'm trying.



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DaGambler said:

ya, i'm looking at a perpetual 48 plant flower room (with another 48 in clone / veg) ... i think larger trees and lower plant numbers are the way to go man, till this shit is legal. Surprised ur hanging up the Hydro Hat... seemed like ur project was going pretty well. I think i might be hooked on hydroponics - deffinitely still tweaking things though and trying to figure out the best media to use. i'm still keeping an eye on ur journal.
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Yeh i dont think ill ever be completely done with hydro. Right now though it just seems more economical for me to focus on some huge ass trees, and get my knot goin before i focus on growing a shit ton of smaller ladies. Im not even close to set up for perpetual yet, so to grow some huge ass plants that'll yield 3-4 (hopefully)oz a piece n only have to grow like 15-20 plants for starters just seems like where i need to be at. My beans just got here, so i got a couple days to fuck around with my gameplan. I havent even bought n prepped my soil yet, so who knows man. Maybe ill change shit up completely by the time my seedlings are where i want them, lol. Your pretty farmiliar with how i grow man, lol, im sortof all over the place until the last minute. Too many possibilities for one god damn grower, lolol.

Anyways man, congrats on the success, n ill be around

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Ahhhh, those are great shots. Now I see how you converted your old hempy buckets into the flood and drain system. I know I'm headed there within the next couple months, maybe even with my new clone run. I've only got 16, so I'll just run one table to start.

I've gone a long way with the buckets but your new setup is all filled up with efficiencies

DaGambler said:

there's people doing it bigger. and there's people doing it better. but, god love me, i'm trying.

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Nice update man!!!

Gotta love the on going grows one cycle after a next cant get any better then that.

Was wondering what are your temps like ???

Did you drill more holes in your buckets like on the bottom or do they still contain a reservoir that holds solution?

how long have those plants been in flower? I know different for each basin etc...... but each basin?

Do you move your lights up/down?

Have you considered adding in between vertical hanging lights?

will you not budge on your media?

Have you considered your air flow situation, adding CO2?

Fine tune methodology to grasp those desired weights......

Lets get you dialed in my friend....

Damn bro that kinda sucks...I thought with the changes you were going to have a massive yield...any idea what could be going wrong?...maybe its time to try some new strains?