HBBum Ebb & Flow - F*cking Incredible R2

Just to keep myslef from getting confused when looking logging this grow I am starting this new thread to track my second run of Fucking Incredible. This will be my first run with a new flood and drain syste, with cuttings taken from 2 girls I currently have in flower in this thread:
https://www.rollitup.org/t/hbbum-going-hydro-f-cking-incredible-og.846446/

I used a cement mixing tray from Home Depot for the tray and 6" netpots with the entire tray filled with Hydroton. I put some pvc in the bottom of the tray with 1/16" holes drilled in that provides additional oxygen in the hydroton but pretty sure this is not needed.

Cuttings taken on 11/6 and put into a 1gallon aeroponic cloner:


By 11/22 the roots are getting tangled in the clone bucket so I decided to make a temporary veg area to stage these while my flowering tent is about 4 weeks in.

11/22:


Transplanted into the E&F tray with tap water and 1ml/gal GH 3 part PPM of 415. Since they have no rockwool, I am flooding every 3 hours while lights on for 3 minutes.


27 tote under tray with 10g of water/nutes:

Was still a work in progress for pics, the wires have been cleaned up. Lighting is a 90w UFO LED and 2 23w 6500K CFL. Once they grow up a bit, I will be covering the Hydroton with reflectix to help with evaporation.

Got a little 2'x4'x5 tent while these girls are in holding. Just a 90w LED and a couple CFL to supplement.

I added some reflectix over the hydroton to reduce any evaporation, though it seems minimal with the flood and drain.



If I can find a good deal on an extraction fan on CL, I may throw my 400W MH in the tent a couple weeks before my flower tent is ready for harvest. 2 weeks of 18-6 with MH, then 2 weeks 12-12 with MH then into the flower tent with the 600W HPS.

Filling out, upped nutes to 50%

Nice, i just bought a few of those tubs yesterday. I was concerned about the roots having enough space to grow out....I was planning on lolipopping and cramming as many as possible.

Your plants look good, I would get them under that mh tho....

I want to put in the mh, but I am just trying h to keep them small and alive until I know when they can move to the bigger tent. I will probably wait until I have 1 week left on the flowering girls.

Screw it, I put the MH in last night anyway. I don't have a spare extraction fan for heat, so I had to do some "creative engineering", but temps are topping off around 78 so far.

Moving right along. Will be flipping this week while still in the veg tent, hopefully by keeping the 400W MH on them, they won't stretch as much as their mother did:

hey hbbum glad to see youre still at it im still shut down untill my house sells i think half the fun is in designing & fabricating stuff e&f is still my prefered method & the 2 gal smart pots & coco/perlite medium flooding once a day is what ill be going back to recently aquired a 1000w. dimmable ballast & a 4x4 tub how does this f-ing incredible og smoke??? im also fond of the gh 3 part flora series nutes

I don't know yet. The moms are still in flower, tomorrow will be 7 weeks. I hope to be doing a New Years harvest.

I just trimmed these girls up today so they will be ready to flip the lights in a couple days.

I think after I go through this bottle of Flora Gro, I will be moving to Lucas Formula using just Micro and Bloom.

hb i like ur setup, nicely done.

SeedHo said:

hb i like ur setup, nicely done.

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Thanks, will decide if I like the table or the buckets moving forward.

Learning a lot about hydro in the process. So many different variations I could run different styles each grow for years it seems.

Flipped lights to 12-12 with the 400w MH today. Flowering girls are 7 weeks today, so should be able to transfer these to the bigger tent in 2 weeks.

Coming right along:


Just need to wait for these 2 girls to finish:

Rez swap - 10g

M- 75ml
B- 75ml
G- 50ml
c/m- 25ml
Sil- 20ml
SZ+- 5ml

PH- 6
PPM 994

The far left rear plant is a major runt. Not sure what the problem is (they all came from the same mothers). I don't know if I should just cull it now, or leave it be and see what comes of it.

So I have 2 of the plants that are runts and have curling and cupping leaves like this:



I am wondering if they are not getting enough water in the table. I am running flood every 3 hours for 3 minutes during lights on, then once during lights out. I think I will try upping the flood time to 10 minutes since these are just straight in the hydroton, with no rock wool to hold any moisture.

Also worth noting, I have a large number of single and double leaf fan leaves. So interesting since the mother did not show any of these traits, but was grown in a different hydro style, so I would assume it must be something they don't care for in how I have it set up.

Any suggestions?

Adjusted my intakes to make sure no light is getting in. Suspect the problem may be a light leak from the 2 lower intake vents causing an interruption of the dark cycle.

yeah looks sounds like revegging

Sucks, but I guess that is the advantage of doing more plants instead of a couple really big ones. I will keep an eye on them and either cull them or harvest them in a bit later than the rest.

Better late than never. Howya been man? Looks good there. Did u get a new space?

Hope u had a merry Christmas!