Discouraged, help me please for next run
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nicksol86
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My wife's pissed at me too for the money I put into it. And what I got back was not even a small fraction. Next run better be worth it or I think I'm done. Im trying half soil and half hydro next run. Maybe soil will be more forgiving for me.
nicksol86
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Next run I will do 2 air stoned per bucket instead of 1 each like I did this time. Maybe double the bubbles might help. That and not chopping at 8 weeks might help when I knew they were not ready but my buds weren't getting any bigger. I kept finding more seeds instead so I said fuck it and ended the grow so I could start over. This time I will get a start without root rot and not make same mistakes again
Rbwnz
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Lol woman they love it when it goes good but moan when u get couple fucked crops.i did half soil half hydro my last round . My nft tubs went brilliant I'm a shocker with over wateringwatering n used cheap soil n had a big fungus gnat problem that lucky never got into the hydro side this time round all hydro n looks amazing
nicksol86
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I'm going to use good soil, pro mix. But bugs still happen in soil so I'm not looking forward to that. I like my hydro set up cuz its bug free. I just do single 5 gallon buckets in Dwc. Never tried anything else
nicksol86
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My blueblab Meter measures water temp, ppm, ec, and ph. It's an all in one Meter. I have 2 general hydroponics air pumps. 4 sites each.
Rbwnz
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Yea true never thought that the temp there I've got the bluelab ph n truncheon great products
Rbwnz
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I leave them under fluro bout week after the propagator. let the jiffys mass up
growingforfun
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I used to be a hydro guy, loved it. But it's so much easier to lose a hydro crop than a soil crop.
Let's say hydro yields 20% "more" (I dont really agree) if you lose 1 out of 5 harvests that's a big problem. Hydro costs WAY MORE to do.
I've pulled over 800 dry grams from a soil plant, never personally done that with hydro.
Costs me less than 20$ in nutrients to pull a lb.
You dont need super soil lololol
Recycle your dirt!
Dirt is so much simpler, it's almost hard to mess up. I use mostly just tap water in veg, nutes every few waterings, synthetic nutes an some organic addatives if I want.
Soil is so forgiving... no ppm worries, no ph worries... I use dry powdered nutrients and it's just "2 scoops per 5 gallons" cant get easier than that.
Let's say hydro yields 20% "more" (I dont really agree) if you lose 1 out of 5 harvests that's a big problem. Hydro costs WAY MORE to do.
I've pulled over 800 dry grams from a soil plant, never personally done that with hydro.
Costs me less than 20$ in nutrients to pull a lb.
You dont need super soil lololol
Recycle your dirt!
Dirt is so much simpler, it's almost hard to mess up. I use mostly just tap water in veg, nutes every few waterings, synthetic nutes an some organic addatives if I want.
Soil is so forgiving... no ppm worries, no ph worries... I use dry powdered nutrients and it's just "2 scoops per 5 gallons" cant get easier than that.
nicksol86
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I vegged under t5 5 weeks, last week I vegged 1000 watt mh before I flipped to 1000 watt hps. Seeds were started in rapid rooter plugs
Rbwnz
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I veg under cfls
Rbwnz
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Get u some mothers bro cloning easy n no need 4 outside agents coming in
nicksol86
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I'm not worried about root rot. I got that on my seedlings and never after that . H202 killed it and hydroguard kept it away the rest of the grow. I let water temps get to hot in my house before I moved them to the basement where they loved it cuz the cool floors kept water temps in check for me without the need of chillers
nicksol86
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I got go get a better cloner. I tried to clone one each from my past harvest and nothing rooted cuz I didn't know what I was doing
Rbwnz
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I do my cuts under water surpose help stop air entering and double dip with clonex and powder into jiffys in to propagator with polystyrene clone bin t5 on top get near 100 strike rate