DIRTHAWKER
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Thats only 8 plants.How many plants do you have there? I can't wait to get my grow started, that looks awesome.
HOLY COW!!!
Harvest a Pound Every Three Weeks!
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Milton187
Active Member
Found black vinyl high quality 4" x 4" x 80" fence posts for 10.00 @ http://www.huskervinyl.com/ Also got black tops for a buck!
email Ron the owner @ [email protected]
for other sizes and colors. Very helpful guy.
They have 5x5x80 about 22 bucks and 6x6 in white for about 40.00.
I had my black ones cut to 39" for space reasons @ no charge.
About 15.00 shipping for 6 39" inchers and 12 black tops.
Total bill was 56.78 including shipping! Better quality but not as long as
the ones I picked up @ Lowes. (80" versus 100")
I like supporting the little guy whenever possible. Hope this may help
those who can't find posts.
Milty
email Ron the owner @ [email protected]
for other sizes and colors. Very helpful guy.
They have 5x5x80 about 22 bucks and 6x6 in white for about 40.00.
I had my black ones cut to 39" for space reasons @ no charge.
About 15.00 shipping for 6 39" inchers and 12 black tops.
Total bill was 56.78 including shipping! Better quality but not as long as
the ones I picked up @ Lowes. (80" versus 100")
I like supporting the little guy whenever possible. Hope this may help
those who can't find posts.
Milty
StinkBud
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They still have another week of stretch before they settle down and start producing buds.
Get some bread ties and start training the girls!
I keep my lights the same height all the time.
Your doing a great job Dirt!!!!
StinkBud
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You did a great job on the frame. That's the hard part, the rest is easy.
As much as soil sucks it is good experience for you.
andyman
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hey stinkbud Im making my cloner tonight , but Im using 14 gallon rubbermaid roughneck totes and was looking your plans over and there for 18gallon totes.
my question is how far down from the top of the lid does the "H" shape sprayer unit need to be down from the lid. or is it not real critical and I can just figure about 4 or 5 inches?
thanks for all the help you have given to people worldwide
my question is how far down from the top of the lid does the "H" shape sprayer unit need to be down from the lid. or is it not real critical and I can just figure about 4 or 5 inches?
thanks for all the help you have given to people worldwide
SmokeyMcSmokester
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Have you tried using bushmaster? It stops that stretch phase, and stacks the bud sites..saves you 2 weeks
flabbyone
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Black is good for your res, but I am not so sure about your plant box. I would think you would be much better off with a reflective surface under your plants, but I am no pro. Last time I was looking at this thread I think it was like page 90 or so. That was like 2 days ago or something and I may have missed why you are looking at black.
I guess this is as much of a question as it is a comment.
flabbyone
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Hi Stink,
Have you heard of the organic-hydroponic hybrid system? I think they talk a little bit about the topic on RIU, but there is not a whole lot of info on it from people who have tried it.
What it is would be kind of a cross between soil and hybrid grow. They use the top roots for nutrients which are sitting in dirt so that any organic nutrients can be used directly without making a tea. Using organic ferts in the dirt and plain old water in a bucket under it so that the bottom roots can grow out into the water for hydration. There is no nutrients in the water. Basically, if you took a GH waterfarm, drill out larger holes in the bottom which needs to be done with this system anyway, then putting a layer of coco fibers or the like on the bottom of the top bucket to keep the dirt in the top bucket and not filter down to the water and make yuk soup.
My friend did one bucket, although he did not use a name brand system like the waterfarm, he only used it as a Basically. He grew one plant from seed in it and the darn thing went male on him, but it grew very nice and quick. He is going to use it to pollinate one of his private strains to get some more Indica back into his plants. They seem to be heading leaning to the Sativa strain in his latest crop of seed. Other then his small male plant, I have only heard from the original poster on someone using this system.
What do you think? Have you or anyone else for that matter tried this system? Sorry to jack your thread, but everyone that is anyone is reading your fantastic post. Do you write for a living? You evidently have some education by the way you write. So articulate.
Thanks for all your help Stinky and everyone else. You guys have almost got me to grow something. You have sparked my interest into trying this system. I calculated out how much it would cost me locally and I came up with $145.00 which includes an extra pump for emergencies. I see they want $800 for the store bought version similar to your system.
Not a bad markup considering I bought my parts for retail price.
Have you heard of the organic-hydroponic hybrid system? I think they talk a little bit about the topic on RIU, but there is not a whole lot of info on it from people who have tried it.
What it is would be kind of a cross between soil and hybrid grow. They use the top roots for nutrients which are sitting in dirt so that any organic nutrients can be used directly without making a tea. Using organic ferts in the dirt and plain old water in a bucket under it so that the bottom roots can grow out into the water for hydration. There is no nutrients in the water. Basically, if you took a GH waterfarm, drill out larger holes in the bottom which needs to be done with this system anyway, then putting a layer of coco fibers or the like on the bottom of the top bucket to keep the dirt in the top bucket and not filter down to the water and make yuk soup.
My friend did one bucket, although he did not use a name brand system like the waterfarm, he only used it as a Basically. He grew one plant from seed in it and the darn thing went male on him, but it grew very nice and quick. He is going to use it to pollinate one of his private strains to get some more Indica back into his plants. They seem to be heading leaning to the Sativa strain in his latest crop of seed. Other then his small male plant, I have only heard from the original poster on someone using this system.
What do you think? Have you or anyone else for that matter tried this system? Sorry to jack your thread, but everyone that is anyone is reading your fantastic post. Do you write for a living? You evidently have some education by the way you write. So articulate.
Thanks for all your help Stinky and everyone else. You guys have almost got me to grow something. You have sparked my interest into trying this system. I calculated out how much it would cost me locally and I came up with $145.00 which includes an extra pump for emergencies. I see they want $800 for the store bought version similar to your system.
Not a bad markup considering I bought my parts for retail price.
SmokeyMcSmokester
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why isnt this thread a sticky anymore?
repvip
Well-Known Member
Pretty sure it won't matter. Take a look at Stink's pics.. the plants are huge! Dirt's plants are even bigger! Light isn't making it through all the foliage anyway... those are good prices too! Even the shipping..
outlawcustombikes
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Stinkbud,
I have built a 10 site cloner unit as per your instructions, and a 40 site flower unit per your instructions (not in use yet).
My question is, My well water is hard (around 325 ppm) would this keep my cuttings in the cloner from rooting as fast as say distilled water or something of that nature. I took cuttings as I normally would (for peat pellets) and placed them in the 2" net pots with neoprene collars.
I am using a 1 min.-On / 4 min. -Off recycle timer, (that is all I could find locally) along with 1/2 rate of "rootmaster" rooting horomone (since my ppm is high to begin with). I check the ph daily and it stays in the general area of 5.2 - 5.8. I just want to see if anyone thinks the high ppm of my well water will affect rooting??
Cuttings have been in the clone system for 12 days now and I don't see any signs of root nubs or anything yet. I got impatient with the 1st batch of cuttings after 10 days and threw them out even though they were still perky and looking good but again, no signs of roots.
Thanks, ~Outlaw~
I have built a 10 site cloner unit as per your instructions, and a 40 site flower unit per your instructions (not in use yet).
My question is, My well water is hard (around 325 ppm) would this keep my cuttings in the cloner from rooting as fast as say distilled water or something of that nature. I took cuttings as I normally would (for peat pellets) and placed them in the 2" net pots with neoprene collars.
I am using a 1 min.-On / 4 min. -Off recycle timer, (that is all I could find locally) along with 1/2 rate of "rootmaster" rooting horomone (since my ppm is high to begin with). I check the ph daily and it stays in the general area of 5.2 - 5.8. I just want to see if anyone thinks the high ppm of my well water will affect rooting??
Cuttings have been in the clone system for 12 days now and I don't see any signs of root nubs or anything yet. I got impatient with the 1st batch of cuttings after 10 days and threw them out even though they were still perky and looking good but again, no signs of roots.
Thanks, ~Outlaw~
westmich
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A couple of questions and a comment from a newbie. Sorry if it was already covered, but I read through the first ten pages and then skipped to the end.
Questions: 1) You said you used 2" net pots and then mentioned transferring them from phase 1 to phase 2 to phase 3. Did you use the same 2" pots throughout? You don't need to go bigger as the plants get bigger or would that just be impossible with the roots growing through the net pots. 2) You have sprayers connected to PVC tubing inside of the fence posts between each pot hole. Do the sprayers spray in both directions to get roots on either side? I am assuming the runoff from the sprayers is the NFT part of the system.
Comment: I think it would be a good idea to take Stinkbuds original, instructional posts with images, not the replies or follow up, and post it as a single sticky. Awesome posts.
Questions: 1) You said you used 2" net pots and then mentioned transferring them from phase 1 to phase 2 to phase 3. Did you use the same 2" pots throughout? You don't need to go bigger as the plants get bigger or would that just be impossible with the roots growing through the net pots. 2) You have sprayers connected to PVC tubing inside of the fence posts between each pot hole. Do the sprayers spray in both directions to get roots on either side? I am assuming the runoff from the sprayers is the NFT part of the system.
Comment: I think it would be a good idea to take Stinkbuds original, instructional posts with images, not the replies or follow up, and post it as a single sticky. Awesome posts.
peaceb2usall
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I wonder this and what about a nice mini cloner with the below:
Would it work?
Roughneck® Storage Box - 10 gal
Would it work?
flabbyone
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I guess they have pretty good sale on here, $6.99 for a white PVC 4 X 4 but they only had 7 left and I took 4 to my bud to make a unit. Maybe I will go and get the other 3 too. I think they have 2 stores in town so I might check there too. That was at Menards.
Sorry, I thought you wanted it black for some reason.
You are probably right about the light not making it down there after the plant has grown, but how about when it is smaller and is not shading itself? I think if you waste any light it is light your plants don't get.
Painting it white is good though.
My bud uses a lot of mylar but that looses its gloss after a month or two and that shine really doesn't come back. For that reason, I think paint could work better then mylar.
Off subject, starting to ramble. Time to quit!
flabbyone
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I wonder this and what about a nice mini cloner with the below:
Roughneck® Storage Box - 10 gal
Would it work?
Built one night before last for a friend out of the 14 gallon roughneck and it works great. I did not change the measurements, except that I think it said 7 of the 7 and what ever fraction of an inch the legs are. I added an 8th so it doesn't wobble. I don't know if I misread that or what, but that is what I had written down for parts.
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