Who knows what the heat stress will do to my bitches??
Bro your room is looking alot nicer than when i last saw it (bare bone). And your right, I wouldnt be here today if I didnt listen to the people who know whatsup. Good looking out
Im probably gonna sprout the same ruderallis seeds in different pots do a solo cup, a one gal and a 3 gal, for shits and giggles a 5 gal. Same everything.
LOL I about peed my pants laughing. Thinking about how silly shit happens when you get forgetful or just complacent. Just thinking about how I almost sank my boat because I forgot to put the plug in!!! My traumatized son still will not go fishing with me. I now keep a checklist attached to the keys. Like the old saying if it fucks, flys or floats rent it.Well, now you have the first real taste of growing.....
Lah de dah..I'm going to check my plants...HOLY FUCKING SHIT, WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON.
My favorite grow room fuck ups of all time...
5. Contactor failed to close and my lights stayed off for 2 days.. thus flipping all my veg plants and clones.
4. Got lazy and didn't calibrate my cheap ass ph meter. Hmm why are my plants yellow? Ooh 6.7 ph
3. years ago panicked about hydro slime.. dosed 2x the amount of physian...killed 18 one month old plants.
2. was just be lazy. Fucking over growing..didn't check the flower room for 4 days. Day 4.. opened the door and to my utter horror..ALL DEAD in week 6. Tiny piece of perlite stuck in float valve.
1. And the number one grow room fuck up (and the reason I rarely get high anymore). Filling my Rez with a 3/4" waterline that I installed right where the water service enters the house. Hmmm, I'll smoke a bowl. Hey, I'll go upstairs while this fills. Man I'm hungry. I'm going to ride my bike to get some lunch. It's sunny, I'm riding my bike, pretty women are wearing skirts. I order my food, read the paper. The food arrives and I take my first bite. Then....FUCK!!!!! The water is STILL on.
I race on my bike home, open the door and can hear the water running. I run downstairs and there is literally 3" of water in the entire basment. Powers strips floating in water, trays of clones floating around like little boats, drywall soaked 1' up the walls, and a huge pile of laundry that most have weighed 100 pounds.
So I spent the rest of the sunny day dealing with that mess.
What can I say. Shit happens, make checklists, follow them and don't be lazy
Cheers mate. I'm off to do some training. Lets see a picture of these plants.
They already have the 10" net pot bucket lids.they're still looking great man. just a couple things for you to think on. one is that if you want a more solid construction for the tops of those buckets they make 5 gallon bucket lids with built in net pots in six or eight inch nets. i used the cut out net pots at first but with the constant removal of the lids for cleaning and rez changes they eventually got cracks and the plants eventually fell right into the rez. so i ended up having to tie the whole plant to the ceiling, floating suspended in the air, dangling into the rez. then i moved to the built in lids and I've never had a problem.
the other thing is they're looking pretty full, and seem to be getting heavy. when are you planning on netting/trellising them? or are you? i don't want to see em fall over on ya lol. cheers bud.
Thanks man, cant wait to spark it up! But gotta wait a while.
hey man, thanks for the re cap. i thought i saw some cut out earlier and mistakenly thought you were insert netting them. i like smaller net sizes, more room for roots to grow.
ok I just ran into this starting reading about heisinburg tea lolOk, I'm the interest of time I'm going to distill about 7 years of hydro experience on you in about three paragraphs.
Oh yeah..do post about the pump when it arrives, you are going to be very very impressed.
So the hydro thing...Sterile rez sounds great on paper. I mean you add your sterilization (h2o2,bleach, hydro sparkle, that dutch master shit) whatever, and it's supposed to be cool and the gang.
And depending on where you live and what your water is like..and if you have well water...beware, you can get bacteria in your water. It's a cyanobacteria that doesn't need light, it doesnt need air, the shit is nasty. And if you scrub your buckets with scotch bright, bacteria can live in those scratches and I have read peer reviewed journal articles that found that bacteria firmly attached to substrates can withstand 6x the usual disenfectent.
Once I got this stuff I tried EVERY FUCK ING THING. Everything. From bleach to physian 20..you name it. all the while there are plenty of folks saying "yeah dude, h2o2 is all you need".
finally I came across a thread on beneficial bacteria. There are several but there is a huge one here. Heisenburg tea. I tried it and wow! I mean wow. I had plants on the brink of death and after about a week they were fucking exploding!
I spent many many many hours researching this shit and I have subscriptions to several online journals (environmental science related). It has been shown time and time again that beneficials ward of disease, increase uptake and increase yield.
They won't reproduce in water, but they do live about a week.
It's simple really, a little molassis, a handful or two of ancient forest, and a scoop of myco powder. Bubble the fuck out of it... with your POS pump, and add to the rez. Once a week
In terms of the mycorhizal powder there are all.kinds available. Hands down the best by a long shot is ogbiowar. Get it..biological warefare. bio war was started by a biologist and grower over at thc farmer. He ordered the spores and mixed it himself. thc farmer makes rhis place look like a CFL grow in terms of the depth of knowledge. Anyways.. people were buying it by messaging him and the results were awesome. So much he started an ebay website...and BOOM His business exploded. Now it is in retail stores.
You can buy it directly from his website. Google og biowar. (whispering) use the code thc farmer at check out and you get it damn near wholesale.
Follow the instructions on his website. It's kind of a pain in the ass but whatever. It WORKS. I have pictures but I'm too lazy to dig them up.
If you Google beneficial tea or he sine burg tea you will find scores of people that are high fiving each other over this stuff.
Oh yeah ...notch that water down a couple clicks...like 67 Degrees
Happy growing mate. Serious clean and professional looking setup. Very very nice