MY DIY 21st Century 'Flood' & Drain

PetFlora said:

Tiny plants? Previous grow I had to snap the F & D plant at 3ft: the cola after the break grew another 3ft.

Alas, had a nasty SM issue + aphids, so yield and quality suffered.

APs, allow for a much larger plant in a smaller container. Lava Rock allows for much less nutrient per feeding.

I could go with 2G APs, which I have, but first going with the smaller 1.1G APs.

Was thinking about your comment "Better off in Hempy" No knock against Hempy, but I can grow 4-6 plants with a total of 2G nute rez. Once they get big I may need to refill it a couple times a week.

Not only am I saving nute money, but time it takes to squeeze RO from my system @ 2G per 6- 8 hours. AND, replacing nutes in 4-6 Hempy Buckets + Rez every ~ 7 days would be back breaking. Plus, the added cost of air stones in each bucket + bigger pump.... So, I think I'm better off

If I had a booster pump on the RO then I could crank out 10-20g of RO water in a day

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I think you don't understand hempy (air stones and pumps?), as well as saving money and ease of grow. Maybe someday son.

Like your grow method I think your reaching for something just want to go about the hard way.

Contrar mon ami

I have as much nutrient in my ONE rez as each Hempy Bucket. Will have 4 adult plants in one tub with nutes draining back to one rez. Repeat 24/7

Watch and learn

Son? Hahahahahahaha

If you are old enough to remember the Beatle's song When I'm 64, well that's my age

How much of a discount on the 5lb box???...I wanna run a chem vs organic grow next, that V&B line doesn't get any simpler and the dosage is tiny per gallon; no defs at all when using the recd amounts pet????

thanks

Unless they just recently updated their label this looks pretty complete to me
I'm only using it on two plants next round, so this freebie should be enough

Wouldn't normally take pics so soon, but, I moved one clone that I had in HPA for over a week with no new growth.

Since moving it into MY F & D set up YESTERDAY, a couple new leaves have already popped. So for sure it likes the combination of leds, OR, the many more lumens/watt, as well as My DIY method

PetFlora said:

These clones were taken during beginning of bud development. Buds kept growing instead of new leafs, so yesterday, I trimmed the buds back as far as I could


Overnight, all have new leafs. They are funky looking leafs, but this is normal for first couple new leaf sets

Bitches Be Bustin Out Now


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interesting.. i cant se wat thsoe pvcs are doin, thats the drip feed im assuiming im just wondering what u plugged into pvc to gravity drip

Where can I find that specific fixture at flora? Kinda.looks like a octopus of endless opportunities lol. Link? Or did u mash up that fixture yourself?

Are you referring to the wagon wheel? Image taken from www.ledwholesalers.com

PetFlora said:

Where most use Rock Wool, or Hydroton, RW has has too many issues, not the least of which is high cost, there is also the need to dispose after one use; hydroton, is difficult to clean for reuse. Neither allows for the removal or moving of a plant within the tray, or to take a sick/bug infested plant out. I use a small amount of hydroton ( ~ 2") as a cap on each small AP to stabilize the plant and to block the light from the roots.

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I love it when someone gets an idea and runs with it...Nice to see, keep up the experiments. I use rockwool in a ebb/flow and through trial and error I found the opposite of your statement. I found it very user friendly and the cheapest medium out there. A slab of RW is running about 8 bucks per, if you buy them single, I cut them into 3-12" pcs. and use the remaining for starting newbies. My medium costs me a little less than 3 bucks per site. As for issues...I have none because each girl is on their individual square of rock on a flood table and if anything was to happen you can individualize easily.


Keep it up man love the fact your playin around...hope my info instills some ideas for you.

Thanks Sir G. Honored to be communing with a member of the Monarchy

PetFlora said:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2KGa4Ysxq0

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Sup PF... great link, very informative video. I love that they did EMF tests... that thing jumped hugely when they plugged that thing in. Damn. I have CFL's, a fair amount of them. I gotta get them out of my fucking house, LOL.

I wonder if non-compact fluoros have the same issue or if it's something about the CFLs specifically.

I am into sacred geometry. There is definitely a connection. Basically, the way it "works" is that everything is sacred geometry within sacred geometries within more sacred geometries. Even the structure of an atom is essentially the basic "platonic solids" built in layers around each other like a russian nesting doll. There is really nothing except these vibrating structures in a sea of intangible dark matter. This is why we can perceive as wave or particle depending on how we observe... because they are basically the same thing... when we observe a particle we are observing a "point" of the geometric "structure" (using the word loosely as it is basically a vibrational pattern flowing through what we perceive as negative space) but when we observe it as a wave, we are simply measuring the vibration itself. When you insist on pinning down something you can't see, you're likely to do it incompletely, lol. It's not that it "can" be a wave or a particle depending on how we observe it so much as it's actually both at once and how we perceive it is a product of how we choose observe it.

...but I digress.

The point I wanted to make was, I think you're onto something, and it's actually a great idea. If for no other reason than maximizing potential within a given space. Lots of things in nature are made up of sacred geometry (well, everything is, but certain things show it really obviously... like the pattern of a honeycomb... that distribution of tightly arranged circles (flower of life pattern) is the same way cells manifest and collect to form what we perceive as organic matter on a much smaller scale, for instance. It's inherently present in nature, (hell, it basically IS nature) and all of the best inventions by man are essentially forms of nature-mimicking--of recognizing the sacred geometrical patterns that allow physical manifestations and biological machines to work in harmony with themselves, and to make an effort to recreate that... rather than to self-contradict and create resistance against one's own structure, sacred geometry allows structures to be designed in a way that energy/tension/et cetera will be distributed throughout the whole and therefore create harmonic alignment that allows smoother performance.

So yeah, I support your idea! Any design of any man-made item will be greatly benefited by studying sacred geometry!!