Quick rundown: 150-300 plants total. Two flowering rooms, one veg/mother room. Not sure of their plans for lighting as of yet but i'm familiar with LED/HPS/CMH and would assume they'll end up with a combination of them all. They are trying to maximize yield given their small allotment (in comparison to the bigger liscenses) of plants allowed. I am very well experienced in growing RDWC using House and Garden Aqua Flakes, Hydroguard (because i'm on well water and REALLY need preventative measures) Big Bud wk 2-5 Flower then switch to Shooting powder (or MOAB), Sugaree, and Bud XL (H&G) the last weeks of flower. I had an interview at a place where the guy mentioned they don't use bloom boosters, and i forget why, either because of not passing for heavy metals or because of yeast/mold/bacteria testing failures.
The facility will be on city water so I think i can cancel the Hydroguard and maybe instead use Cultured Solutions UC ROOTS (or calcium hypochlorite if its all the same). My biggest concern for this place is passing testing and still keeping terpenes as high as possible while still growing using hydroponic methods. They mentioned they plan to grow in rockwool but i don't think they know much about RDWC, but they are open to trying stuff out. I've been able to get 3-5 lbs off a plant in rdwc with the proper strain and with vertical bulbs on the four corners of the plant. Could something like that be achieved without doing RDWC but instead filling a 20 gallon pot (because i need these things to get big fast) with rockwool chunks and just feeding like I normally would with my H&G Aqua Flakes? I'm hesitant to suggest RDWC because of all the extra equipment required and initial investment, in addition to having ~200gallons of bubbling water in the system and that creating extra humidity thus creating the potential for molds/yeasts/bacteria growths.
This place is looking to craft quality flower to help stand out against other places popping up. I love growing in the undercurrent/rdwc a lot but always feel it's lacking terps compared to my organic super soil grown flower. Was even thinking of suggesting to do one flower room organic super soil and the other room either RDWC or a 20-30gallon rockwool so that at least half the stuff is STELLAR in the flavor department.
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1. Looking to grow big plants to be able to compete (a little bit at least) with the bigger license holders.
2. Need to make sure i'm passing testing (molds/yeasts/bacterias/heavy metals) Need to know what products are ok and what ones to stay away from.
3. Need to make sure terps are high and preserved (keep leaf surface temperature low? Stay away from phosphorus or potassium boosters? Keep EC low? (have heard a lot of people have good success with just Aqua Flakes all the way to the end but haven't tried it yet. Have read mixed stuff on flushing hydro and it reducing terps and it only being necessary if you've overfed a bunch.
If you have worked for, or know someone who has worked for a commercial facility that has to pass testing, I want to hear from you. Also, looking for recommendations from people that have experience with Jacks 321 and how the end product compares with terps from other bottled nutrients. Any and all suggestions/clarifications/advice are welcome and I thank anyone in advance for taking the time to help me. At the end of the day, i'm trying to keep things as simple as possible using the least amount of inputs while still putting out high terp flowers.
