keepitcoastals 400w 8 plant hydro lst. 2nd week of flowering

keepitcoastal

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i wish i had been journaling this from the start but i was being lazy so now im a month in sense day one of clones being transplanted. i started with 12 plants packed in my 3x3 tent with the intention of taking several plants out to use for clones in my 120 ez cloner. after 1 1/2 weeks of lst'ing i took 4 plants out and cut them up for clones.. the remaing 8 are 3 purple diesels, 2 bluedreams(lots of lst to keep them controled. but there doing great!), 1 kandy kush, 1 ice, 1 la con.

as for my setup im using a simple drain to waist setup on a 3x3 flood tray with coco/perlite/coco husks. i use a dripper setup powerd by 550gph pump makes watering such a breeze.

for lights right now im using a normal 400w hps and 8 34w cfls and a 23 t5.. and in afew weeks ill be adding in 2 UVB 10.0 T8's and a 400w CMH.

nutrients...
floranova
dutch master silica
soul synthetics amino aid
soul sytnthetics big swell
in also used open seaseme the first week of flower and i plan to skip beasty blooms(sense i have the big swell) but still use cha ching

my ppm's are at around 1000 now and my EC can go around 1.8-2.1(i try to flush regularly)
and i only feed with in a range of 5.83-5.88. also i used to be religious about RO water now iv relized the money i waisted sense i did this whole grow off shower water!

havent had any deficientcys or really any problems at all coco's been a breeze!! had a little problem with spider mites on the bluedreams at about week 1 but i soaked and scrubbed the leafs with soap and water every 2 days and then iv been spraying with and incecticied i bought every 3 days into the first week of harvest. but now 2 weeks in and a week of no spraying and theres not a spider mite in site! but that dosent mean im gunna stop there ill keep my gaurd up and make sure these little fuckers know i mean buissness!

ok finaly the pictures!

this was day 1 of the hydro setup exactly one month from today.
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and here is today. im pretty fuckin baked so i was too lazy to pull all my drip linning so i could take individual plant pictures but some time this week ill pull them out so you can get better look at these beutiful girls. i know it looks crammed but they actually fit very nicley. i just wish i could of lst's the purple deisels more but they just grew alot slower than the bluedreams so they didnt require it as much and i was truley shooting for controling a moslty even canopy.

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BTW if i dont get 1Gram per Watt on this grow im switching to a 600w... 400grams dry with a completlty full 3x3 canopy shouldent be too hard.
i know that my lighting is way less efficient for the same electricity of a 600w hps but its what i have atm and i want to see what i can get out of it so dont hate! i didnt want to buy a cheap 600w setup i want a good ballest,hood and bulb so after this harvest it will be 600 or even a 1000w instead of all the cfls
let me know what you think! + rep for advice!
 

keepitcoastal

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thanks man! i have decided once the stretch is 100% over with i plan to make some light fixtures so i can put all the cfl's i have under the canopy in between all the plants. i think this will put them to the best use possible and should make the lower branching have more solid better developed buds. sense the 400w can effectively manage the top of the 3x3 canopy on its own
 

lostNug

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lookin good man. lookin forward to more pics.

check out my CMH grow if u want. just posted some new pics
 

queenster

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keep postin pics man i wanna see how you do. looks good so far just keep giving some N in your ferts for another week or two at least to keep them green. happy farming!
 

keepitcoastal

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keep postin pics man i wanna see how you do. looks good so far just keep giving some N in your ferts for another week or two at least to keep them green. happy farming!
will do and yeah the soul synthetics amino aid is full of Nitrogen and i still drop 1tbs/10gal of floranova grow in the mix for up to week two. but i seem to stay good on the N with just the amino aid. im hoping for a really good harvest even though it looks alittle overgrown if i need to ill harvest all the plants in halfs so the bottem halfs get an extra week or more to ripen up
 

jonblaze420

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looks good, i got a newb question because i've never grown in hydro. how come the buckets your plants are in aren't connected by a hose or anything?

i don't get it. can u explain? thanks man. btw nice plants, and fuck your ex gf's parents.
 

keepitcoastal

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looks good, i got a newb question because i've never grown in hydro. how come the buckets your plants are in aren't connected by a hose or anything?

i don't get it. can u explain? thanks man. btw nice plants, and fuck your ex gf's parents.
haha thanks man and its because im doing a drain to waist hydro setup were i just drip water from the top of the buckets were it drains through the coco and into my flood table were it then drains into a 10gal tote for disposal.

what your descibing is a recirculating dwc hydro setup.
 

keepitcoastal

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ok well due to being bribed to leave my apartment with 1500 dollars im packing up all my shit and leaving. my grow will be going to a friends house to finish up this crop, but this mean update pictures will only come like every couple of weeks or maybe even only like 2 more updates until harvest... sorry everybody and im sure the stress from this move is going to do a number on my final yields aswell
 

keepitcoastal

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well this is dumb but this is my last attempt or these are getting chopped tomorrow. anybody in norcal/bayarea interested in buying these or finishing them for the next 5-8 weeks ill pay extra electricity and nutrients, and you can take 50% of harvest for taking care of them.. i know its a long shot but its my only shot right now . i have to be moved out tomorow and i havent found a new place to move so ill be renting a storage unit for shit and staying in a hotel in the area for acouple weeks until i can find a house. if there is anybody in the area send me a pm. oh! and i have my valid prop 215 rec to put up at your place
 
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