The Big $6,500.00 Adventure UnderCurrent 8XL13 under 7000w

Hey woodsmaneh,

I really love the grow so far! Despite the few angry plants, the rest should come out lovely. I must say your plants sure are bushy, even after you trimmed them up. I would relate quite a bit of that to the massive root growth, helped along nicely from the UC system. For every root, there is a leaf attached to it...

I have been doing bucket DWC myself and I can't preach enough about using beneficial bacteria in my buckets. You've been doing the Zone & H2O2 which is good, I've heard great things about Zone. I tried doing just the H2O2 at first but it wasn't working out so well. I switched to using bennies and the difference was astounding, especially in root growth!!! I find it important to note that if you do try bennies for your next grow cycle, start with the bennies ASAP, from your clones or seeds or what have you, and keep using them. Breed them separately then add to your rez. Some people say to just inoculate once or twice, but without the bennies in there, you're opening the door to the bad bacteria to come in. Anyway, something to think about in the future. Can't wait to see how this turns out woodsman. Cheers and +rep!

Oh, and +rep for alexonfire also for having such an epic rack in your profile photo. XD

Regards,

Mr. Bond

Thanks for the advice Mr Bond, I use bennies in my organic grows and just started using Zone. Not sure what I will do for the next grow.

Alex thanks for stopping in and the nice comments. If I told you you had a great rack would you hold it against me LOL The Blue Storm is the best work I have ever done and I grow about 10 new strains every year. This year so far I have 12 different strains on the go. I'm just smoke testing Dr Atomic now. Hope to see you all again. I'll post up some of my other breeding.

disposition84 said:

The uc systems have great potential to be one of the easiest forms of hydro available given its
design. With a dosing system and a RO reservoir on a float valve you can pretty much make
the whole thing automated.

I'm not sure if you're on thcfarmer at all, but they have a whole sub directory dedicated to the
UC systems and they're all pretty nuts, you should totally check them out.

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Yup you will find be there same handle but without !

April 15 and not much new, I switched to flower nutrients last week and they have been happy so far. So a recap, I lost 2 plants and crippled three others due to my screw up’s, you can tell from the pics which they are it’s very clear one’s not to stunted. The other three are going great, I turned another light out and they appear to be doing better. They are running at 5.6 to 6.1 for pH, 440 to 530 ppm and temp in the buckets is 66 to 68. Another 6 to 8 weeks and payday. Going out to get some air conditioning, looking at one ton of spot air. Still keeping it simple but added DM Zone as recommended buy the designer of the system. So cool to be able to talk to him. Well I’m smoke testing some Shiva from Dr Atomic, not knock your socks off but like to give them all a fair shake. Do have issues with his seeds!!! But will cover that in a different thread. I have 9 other strains going for Sannies and just cloned the plant to sex them. I expect great things from Sannie’s in the UC. Stuck a pic of ny Vape Tower great system.

Hey Woodsman, too bad u lost a few. The others look pretty good though! I've used DM zone b4, works well.(its also a decent foliar treatment for PM) I always prefer bennies over a sterile environment, but its a tricky balance. Rez temps of 62-64 seem to work best for me, never over 67. To me, your plants seemed to be in too compact of a growth mode when flipped. I see this type of growth when young plants get a little too streesed(for whatever reason) and trigger into an almost flowering kind of tight growth. Maybe a week or so more veg would have brought the vigor back and filled your screen more? How are things lookin' now? PICS!!

BTW your Blue Storm looks really nice!! Great colors. Excellent work

I have 2 updates coming with pics and I am building a 30 gal 6 site system from scratch to see what it cost me. I have the barrels and have a 1 hp chiller on order along with a 2200 gph pump and a 220 watt air pump, so have been busy. Will post one update tonight as it is faster to upload pics then. be back in a few hours

i am subd looks great

Well their growing, kind of boring right now. Next week I add the PK for a week. I think I am going to try DM for my next grow. So I started sourcing the materials for a larger system, 30 gal barrels with 4 inch uniseals, 1 hp chiller, 2200 gph water pump, and 280 watt air pump. I'll post some of the construction here in this thread I'm building one because I can and like doing stuff like that. I could buy one but they don't have one the size I am building. They do have a new 45 gall system but it's too big.

more pics and a couple of my power panel I am building for my new system. It's kind of odd but the 3 plants on one side are way better then the three on the other side, The next update for this week shows some good growth after the addition of the PK. They still look like they need something almost like a N diff. It's been a great learning experience but at least the 3 bigger plants will give me an idea of what I can yield if I don't screw up.

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You can see the the difference in the bud size since I added the PK, tomorrow I will switch out the nutrients, heading into week 6 of flower and still feel I'm missing something in the nutrients just from the look of them , Hummmm

I also attached a pix of some of my feathered friends, kind of cool having 2 of them going in circles around the tree. Got lots of wild shit hanging around, love it

Took these pix with the flash and will take some more when the lights turn on.

Did I mention I bought an air conditioner 13000btu = 1 ton, now I need to see how hot it gets in the summer??? I can always move the ballasts and or buy new hoods and vent them also thinking or chillers for the lights. The new system will have 10 inch HD net pots.

Some frostyness happening for sure on them buds, 3 to 4 weeks to go Wowhooooo

Phew, just read every page. You sir are living my dream. Breeding your own strains, massive high tech grow room and! laptop with a vaporizer next to it lol. I use Canna Aqua line (think thats what you said your using, sounds like it from the PK references) I too feel like I'm lacking something...Are you set on organic nutes for your hydro? I've got some humboldt nutes on order for my next grow if only to see the difference from the Canna. amazing blue colors on those buds btw

Nice grow! Very very clean. Updating soon? I'm sure they're damn near done

congrats on your first grow, had some bumps but u pulled um off
looking forward to seeing your modded out system for the next run..
havn't been posting much latley,, one of the mods here just killed all my fun

Hi Guys working on my other jumbo grow system, it is eating up my time, anyway here are shots from last week and they should be done by weeks end. Better pics when the wife gets home with the camera. Power went out for 5 hours at least it was black out time in the rooms. You should see the sixe of the air pump I got 280 watts and it must be about 20 lbs. Pics to come.

Hay Mary FDD cramping your style, were losing some of the fun bunch, darn.

Here are some pics with my scope small bud at the bottom of the plant.

Tbh, at the beginning, I had doubts. Seeing all the problems you were having and stuff. I wasn't sure it would pan out but you proved me wrong! Those are magazine quality bud there by friend. Plus getting over all the obsticles you had really says something about you grow ability imo. Anyone can throw a seed in the dirt and with half a brain, get something decent. It's when the problems start happening that separates the internet know it all from real growers. Congrats.

Thanks for stopping by, I will chop them in a 24 hr they will have been in the dark for 48 hrs and temp in the res is 58 degrees. It worked out in-spite of my screw up's, will post the final pics this weekend and than 7 to 11 days drying and we will have a weight. Looking at my best plant if they were all like that I would be very happy with my first go at RDWC. I have new plants vegging right now and they are doing so well, I'll include a shot of the replacements. The big system is on hold for a week, while I deal with some other stuff.

Congrats on the harvest, hope its tasty

Well I'm chopping them tomorrow and will take some microscope pics them but here is what they look like right now. I have to say not quite an epic fail but about 50% due to my screw ups, next one will be better...