Harvest a Pound Every Three Weeks!

Oregon Special Update

The buds are really starting to kick in. The stretch is over for the most part but I still can't believe what a couple of days makes. I wouldn't be surprised if I had to raise the lights before this is over. Everything is looking healthy. I'm running the classic StinkBud formula at 1500 PPM and letting it drop over a week. This week it dropped to 750 PPM. I add more nutes after 7 days to bring it back up to 1500PPM. I could tweak it everyday but I'm just too lazy and the plants don't seem to mind. I've been changing the nutes every 2 weeks. The truth is it wouldn't hurt to change them every week. The plants love a clean res and fresh nutes. Not to mention it's good way to get rid of anything funky before it becomes a major problem.

Here are some of the latest photos of the tent. The buds should really be kicking in over the next month. Stay tuned.

Is there a blue print for a double stinkbud Jr? I want to build two but connect the frames for my 4x4 tent.

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HydroGrowLover said:

Is there a blue print for a double stinkbud Jr? I want to build two but connect the frames for my 4x4 tent.

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You find out let me know because that would be perfect for my 4x4 tent. Or you could modify two s.b. Jr's and bring them slightly closer together and use one resovoir if not use two.

sky rocket said:

You find out let me know because that would be perfect for my 4x4 tent. Or you could modify two s.b. Jr's and bring them slightly closer together and use one resovoir if not use two.

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I want to use two reservoirs. I'm wanting to do a perpetual grow. I have one built already for my veg room. I want two in my tent so I can switch plants out every 4 to 5 weeks.

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Stinkbud,that room is so sexy. I can't stop looking at this entire thread.

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HydroGrowLover said:

Is there a blue print for a double stinkbud Jr? I want to build two but connect the frames for my 4x4 tent.yum

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No plans for a double but it wouldn't be hard to freestyle it. Just figure out what you need and draw it up. If you fuck up who cares, PVC pipe is like 2 bucks a 10ft length. Just don't glue anything until you have it all figured out.

On the other hand I like being able to access both sides of each system. It let's me go in and pull old dying leaves. I don't lollipop as much as most of the guys. The plants seem to know what leaves they need and get rid of the ones it doesn't. One time I lollipopped a couple of plants while letting a couple of other plants grow naturally. They all produced the same amount of killer bud but the lollipoppped plant produced a few more ounces of leaves and popcorn buds. I made bubble hash out of all the trim/popcorn and ended up with about 5g more hash from the non trimmed plants. Not a lot but it didn't cost anything to get it.

One of the guys I was mentoring kept pulling off all the big fan leaves from his plants. I asked him why and he said they were keeping the buds from getting light. I explained that those big fan leaves are like solar cells. They don't block light, they use it to make sugar. Every time he pulled a leaf he took out a source of energy, not to mention it stressed out the plants. Don't believe me? Cut off one of your fingers and see if that doesn't stress you out a little.

StinkBud said:

No plans for a double but it wouldn't be hard to freestyle it. Just figure out what you need and draw it up. If you fuck up who cares, PVC pipe is like 2 bucks a 10ft length. Just don't glue anything until you have it all figured out.

On the other hand I like being able to access both sides of each system. It let's me go in and pull old dying leaves. I don't lollipop as much as most of the guys. The plants seem to know what leaves they need and get rid of the ones it doesn't. One time I lollipopped a couple of plants while letting a couple of other plants grow naturally. They all produced the same amount of killer bud but the lollipoppped plant produced a few more ounces of leaves and popcorn buds. I made bubble hash out of all the trim/popcorn and ended up with about 5g more hash from the non trimmed plants. Not a lot but it didn't cost anything to get it.

One of the guys I was mentoring kept pulling off all the big fan leaves from his plants. I asked him why and he said they were keeping the buds from getting light. I explained that those big fan leaves are like solar cells. They don't block light, they use it to make sugar. Every time he pulled a leaf he took out a source of energy, not to mention it stressed out the plants. Don't believe me? Cut off one of your fingers and see if that doesn't stress you out a little.

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Yes I figured it out after looking at. I'll post the finished project after I make it.

I lolipopopped my plants literally right before you posted.

I'm having some good luck from topping my dwc plant and Lolipop it.

I can't wait to build two more of your systems! I love it so much.

I'm going to try and read a little bit of this thread every day cause I've got so many questions.

HydroGrowLover said:

Yes I figured it out after looking at. I'll post the finished project after I make it.

I lolipopopped my plants literally right before you posted.

I'm having some good luck from topping my dwc plant and Lolipop it.

I can't wait to build two more of your systems! I love it so much.

I'm going to try and read a little bit of this thread every day cause I've got so many questions.

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You do want to lollipop your plants so you did good. You just don't want to go overboard when you do it. When I grow in soil I lollipop ten times as much as I do with Aero (same with DWC). The reason has to do with light penetration. The large plants get so tall the light never reaches the lower branches. Popping also increases air flow under the plants. With Aero/NFT the canopy is not as thick so I don't need to pop as much. Of course I say that as my latest batch is hitting 4ft+ right now!

Whenever I see failure it usually comes down to two things. They are both easy to avoid...

Which brings me to my #1 most important tip. Keep your room under 78 degrees. That one simple thing will save you all kinds of headaches down the road. And tip #2...You should be able to eat off of any surface in your grow room. You may never do the dishes and your bathroom may reek but your grow room better be spotless. My grow room could pass my old boot-camp commanders inspection, it's that clean!

Temps and cleanliness! If you can't keep your room cool and the place clean, grow in soil. Has anyone here ever noticed that I've never said a bad word about good old fashioned soil? Well, I have said it's heavy as fuck and dirty but still, it's a guaranteed success if you use Subcool's Super Soil recipe. Aeroponics is for the guy than never has to look for his keys.

Why do I grow Aero? I'm lazy, nuff said...

StinkBud said:

You do want to lollipop your plants so you did good. You just don't want to go overboard when you do it. When I grow in soil I lollipop ten times as much as I do with Aero (same with DWC). The reason has to do with light penetration. The large plants get so tall the light never reaches the lower branches. Popping also increases air flow under the plants. With Aero/NFT the canopy is not as thick so I don't need to pop as much. Of course I say that as my latest batch is hitting 4ft+ right now!

Whenever I see failure it usually comes down to two things. They are both easy to avoid...

Which brings me to my #1 most important tip. Keep your room under 78 degrees. That one simple thing will save you all kinds of headaches down the road. And tip #2...You should be able to eat off of any surface in your grow room. You may never do the dishes and your bathroom may reek but your grow room better be spotless. My grow room could pass my old boot-camp commanders inspection, it's that clean!

Temps and cleanliness! If you can't keep your room cool and the place clean, grow in soil. Has anyone here ever noticed that I've never said a bad word about good old fashioned soil? Well, I have said it's heavy as fuck and dirty but still, it's a guaranteed success if you use Subcool's Super Soil recipe. Aeroponics is for the guy than never has to look for his keys.

Why do I grow Aero? I'm lazy, nuff said...

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This is only my 3rd grow. I'm having zero heat issues but I could clean the room up a bit. The equipment though gets scrubbed after each grow.

In fact I'm going down to do it now lol

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HydroGrowLover said:

This is only my 3rd grow. I'm having zero heat issues but I could clean the room up a bit. The equipment though gets scrubbed after each grow.

In fact I'm going down to do it now lol

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Good for you bro! I like to wipe everything down with a mild bleach solution. Bleach pretty much kills everything it touches. It's easy to keep a clean room clean. I know that sounds silly but it's true! It's just like the kitchen, if you do the dishes everyday you only have a few to do but if you wait a week, you have to clean every dish in the house.

Another great option is to run a chiller in your res. That way you can keep the water nice and cold. The cooler the water the more oxygen it can hold. That's why fish die when the water gets too warm, not from the heat but from the lack of oxygen.

On another note...
Grow room #1 is done and I'm setting up the new grow there tomorrow. You might be curious as to how the last harvest went but you know how much I hate to brag so let me just say this...Fuck yea! What do you get when you mix mix Kandy Kush and Blue Cheese. The new Blue Kandy, StinkBud cut. Imagine the subtle taste of Blueberry combined with the spicy hash taste of the Trainwreck with the classic fuel/diesel finish of the OG Kush. One of the phenotypes I have is very special. Stay tuned for more photos.

Grow room #1 is the room you've seen over the last 3 years or so. I have 3-1000w HPS lights in there now but I think I'm going to cut it down to just two lights and two systems. I just don't have enough space to move around the systems. I can't even access the plants in the back at all. With just two systems I can get to all the plants. I could fit another system in the room but with my other grow (#2) I have my hands full enough. I just got 2-4ft 8 bulb fluorescent lights for my veg room. I'm getting rid of the 1000w MH light. The Fls will run a lot cooler and I love the way they keep the plant internode length short.

Let's talk C02. I have a CO2 tank but it's too much of a pain in the ass to keep filling it. We don't have a station close so it's a 40 mile round trip. Fuck that! So we got a CO2 burner a few months ago. Nice in the Winter but it's going to suck this Summer. I should have got a water cooled one but I didn't want to have to fuck with hoses, water chillers, etc... The thing is I'm not using any C02 in grow #2 and it's going bonkers. I may decide not to fuck with C02 unless I can keep the temps dialed down. I have a nice A/C unit though so no matter what at least set for the Summer.

I do have to admit, three lights and C02 would be the shit! I'm thinking of running the systems end-to-end so I could use all three lights. It only costs another $30 a month so why not.

I have three big veg plants I don't know what the fuck I'm going to do with. I really don't want to have to put them in soil unless that's my only option. What about something like a single rail system. Right down the center and train the fuck out the plants to fill the whole net. It was totally easy to fill the whole rack with just four plants. I could use the three plants I have to test it out. Stay tuned for the StinkRail...

Wow a 1000w bulb runs you $30 I'm kWh ? Good deal

joespit said:

Wow a 1000w bulb runs you $30 I'm kWh ? Good deal

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Yea, 30 bucks per light is cheap! Down in California it was $90/month per light! Here in the NW I have two major power dams within 45 miles of my home.

The Pacific Northwest...What a great place! Did you know that in Oregon it will be legal in to grow four plants starting this July? No permits are needed, anyone can do it. I've personally seen 10lb plants grown outdoors here. Of course the grower has been growing his whole life so he knows what he's doing. The plants were as big as trees. I'm not joking when I say his plants were so big you could see them from space. I looked it up on Google Earth one day and sure enough, there they were! I wonder what his grams per watt is?

I thought you guys might enjoy seeing what 5 weeks in the Oregon Special is like. Aren't photos great! They really do tell a story. You don't have to be an expert to look at this photo and decide if things are going okay or not. Do these plants look healthy to you?

I'm using the classic Botanicare recipe:
1000ml Pure Blend Pro Bloom (or Veg depending on cycle)
250ml Cal-Mag (double if you use RO water)
350ml Liquid Karma
I mix everything together in an old milk jug. 2 cups of this mixture takes my 20 gallon res to 1550 PPM. I changed the res on Monday and it was down to 1050 PPM five days later so this seems like good running numbers for this set-up. This is as simple as it gets fellas! You can make it hard on yourself or you can do it the easy way. This is pure fucking KISS...Keep It Simple Stoner

Crazy growth stink. Was the growth in the pics from veg to flower?

Can't see any trees, that forest is in the way!?

4 plant limit huh? This looks promising..IDK how Aero would handle that root mass though..

sky rocket said:

Crazy growth stink. Was the growth in the pics from veg to flower?

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I had just switched lights to 12/12 when the first photo was taken. So all this growth was during the flower period. Right now the buds are setting up. They are getting thicker everyday. All the small leaves are already covered in sugar!

The big news is the new system I'm building today. Twice the normal size. Stay tuned...

I'm only halfway thru this thread, which means im reading posts from 5 years ago......but i wanted to jump in say something.
Has there been any real alternatives/advances to the cap art timer and the 1 on 5 off watering shedule in the last 5 years? Not being in the USA finding a timer proved impossible, I did buy a cap art just in case it could be modded or would run on 240v but looking at all the electronics inside figured it wasnt worth trying. So I am running a custom made unit. This unit is fixed to 1 on 5 off, no dials to bump, no light meter, heavy duty relay. It is just a box with a male plug on a short cord one end and female plug on a short cord other end, and a LED thats green when its on and red when its off. Its working flawlessly, cheaper to. Cant take a pic sorry its nightime.

ozzybuds said:

I'm only halfway thru this thread, which means im reading posts from 5 years ago......but i wanted to jump in say something.
Has there been any real alternatives/advances to the cap art timer and the 1 on 5 off watering shedule in the last 5 years? Not being in the USA finding a timer proved impossible, I did buy a cap art just in case it could be modded or would run on 240v but looking at all the electronics inside figured it wasnt worth trying. So I am running a custom made unit. This unit is fixed to 1 on 5 off, no dials to bump, no light meter, heavy duty relay. It is just a box with a male plug on a short cord one end and female plug on a short cord other end, and a LED thats green when its on and red when its off. Its working flawlessly, cheaper to. Cant take a pic sorry its nightime.

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They do make a cheaper 1/4 fixed timer that I like better than the one with dials. It's too easy to fuck up the dials and kill everything. All you have to do is bump the knob and it will turn on for 1 second instead of 1 minute? Of course this doesn't help you but it sounds like you got the timer under control. By the way, I still have my original CAP timer from 2006 and it still works fine.

I feel for you bro! I imagine you have to pay twice as much for everything because of the shipping. The good news is everything is a good investment that will pay for itself the first time. I don't know many businesses that can take their numbers from red to black in the first 4 months but you can do it easily.

The Oregon Specials are stacking up the bud. Some of the strains smell amazing! I can't believe how tall some of the plants ended up. I really should have topped them more when they where young. I just wanted one plant with a huge arm sized cola for the full page magazine photo. Is that too much to ask for? No worries, I'm going to end up with some real sic photos and video. Wait to you see the video I've been doing...

I thought I'd post some pics of the new StinkBud ??? system. I'm not really sure what I should call it. I'm thinking StinkBud Maximus or maybe StinkBud X. Help me here...

Here's the latest photo of the tent and here's the SBX system. Check out how clean the drain is. Also notice the dual shut-off valves. Have fun!