Manifolding (Menorah'n) Plants in a GreenHouse

hydra-glide

hydra-glide

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Syp.2.JPG Here's how I feed mine in 7-gal. fabric pots. Note how the Siphon-X blue feeder is place ahead of the pressure regulator. This keeps nutes from passing through the regulator and prevents back-filling of the gallon bottle when the Dramm wand is turned off with the hose pressure still on.[ Note: There's Aqua-Gold finisher, instead of blue Jack's veg nutes. ATTACH=full]4164031[/ATTACH]
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Miyagismokes

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Best dramm wands are the unvalved.
Keep better pressure, if a bit wasteful...
Although this feed idea is novel to me, I don't think it works for my methods. Good idea, though.
 
hydra-glide

hydra-glide

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Miyagismokes said:
Good idea, though.
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Farmer's not mine. He said< When you use this, makes sure the throttle valve on the wand is wide open. I use (8) TBLS of Jacks (non-organic) veg., or bloom, and/or finisher (Aqua-Gold) which is 50% strength. Just like (2) TBLS of the same nutes per (2) gal. on water = 50%, as well. Handy mixing for those 3-gallon blue watering cans. Jack's includes a nifty tsp/TBL measuring cup in each bucket.
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Jack's Aqua-Gold Finisher, the only way to avoid buying a 25 lb. bag
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Never any cal-mag, silica, or Ph-ing the water. It doesn't matter with Jack's. I mix Jacks w/ Kontos for a systemic drench, two in total, 3-days apart for soil saturation. Jacks isn't for the strictly organic, but maybe the Kelloggs organic Raised-Bed soil can make up for it. *The only additive I ever put into my plants during and up until the 4th week, is Epsom Salts (for crystal stacking). The contest here is always who can buy already cheap Epsom Salts, the cheapest. Really, that's all that counts, with the systemic, and translaminar, and kill-all 3-N-One insecticides during veg, the rest is relatively easy. I'm liking the manifolding and the extra growing room. I'm fitting (7) plants + catnip where I used to have room for only (3). :peace:
* I bucked about switching from Botanical nutes, Happy Frog soil, Humbolt Snow, Budswel, etc. I was hooked on them and my Hydro store. Farmer showed me the methods and poisons mentioned above. I fought hard against change, until I found out how much time and $$ I've saved. I was reborn in the nursery dept. @ Home Depot in front of a $9.97, 3 cu. ft. yellow & green bag price-sign. Praise the plant.
https://www.homedepot.com/p/Kellogg-Garden-Organics-3-cu-ft-Raised-Bed-and-Potting-Mix-Premium-Outdoor-Container-Mix-649/204643152
 
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I use 18" diameter 5/8 plywood bases painted white and nail 62" of 2x4 poultry wire at the bottom using poultry wire surrounds. 62" allows for each end to have bare-wires. Those wire ends get rolled into circles. Those circle-ends can act as latches temporarily, until foam-wire secured. Starting at the opening, I nail a 3/4" staple at the second panel from the opening, and another staple on every 4th wire for cage stability. Before I make-up the cage, I wrap four turns of foam-wire in at least (6) places around the bottom perimeter. This sound-deadens the contraption, so when rolled across concrete it isn't as loud as a metal garbage can. Initially close the opening with foam-wire pieces, and the wire enclosures can stay for easy access. Access holes are also snipped at the 3rd or 4th pane on each side of the cage, and another access hole snipped in the back perimeter opposite the front opening. Any number of supports can be hung from the wire cage rim, yo-yo's, extra stringers across the top. Having the plants on caster bases is a good thing in veg. "But in flower, the plants don't like being moved", it's said.
Also, when the access holes are created, I file smooth the wire-ends and coat them with RTV silicone, or you will tear your forearm reaching in eventually.
I have a 0.28Amp fan at the bottom of each of the four corners. I have no fans on top, or on the side, only the bottoms of the leaves get direct air. Every leaf moves 24/7.
 

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ganga gurl420

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Sithlord88 said:
Based off whats in the pics do you think mine will reach a similar size?
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Due to the fact you are now in flower and with the age and pot size I will say probably not.
Not saying 100% no but in most cases to get that size of stalk, Pot size and age is key. I'm talking hundreds of gallons.
My avatar pic was 200 gallon in ground...and this yr is 400 gallons above ground but has access to all the soil below the box.
 
Sithlord88

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Gotcha.
First time doin outdoor. Yours are rediculiously huge lol
These smartpots are sweet tho, decent size and square. Ive seen roots come out everywhere on em
 
ganga gurl420

ganga gurl420

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Sithlord88 said:
Whats an avg yield in 200-400 gal?(per plant)
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That completely depends on the grower, and methods along with where you live.

I've seen some growers in southern states get 8 pounds or more off of 200 gallons.
I've also seen people get 2 pounds off of 400 gallons.

In ground last grow (200 gallons) I got an average of 4.5lbs.
I'm aiming for much more this yr so we will see lol.
 
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