Thundercat's Groooooooow

Its coming along good guys. Its a tad smaller then I planned, but not bad. Like half a foot smaller in each room. I'm gonna get the lights, and ventalation hooked up today, and the clones in some ph'd RO water to soak the soil out of the roots. Then tomorrow, I should have the clones in the flood trays, and the system operational hopefully. I'll hit you guys with some pics once its done. Peace TC

Looking forward to it TC. Sould be fun geting the whole thing up and running... then dialing it in.

Hey thundercat... i like your light setup ,,, if you dont mind me asking how did you make the light ficture.. i am tryin to man a 3 bulb light ficture... any ideas

Whats going on guys, so it been awhile!

Kap, all it the light is made from are outlet connectors, with light sockets. I built it for like 20 from parts from lowes. The hood I made from a cardboard box, and put wrapping paper on the inside to make it reflective. It was all pretty simple. You could easily make a 3, or 4 bulb version.

So I got my new room up!! THe plants are in the hydroton, and under the 1000w in the trays. I made a rookie mistake of not rinsing my hydroton, so I need to clean the trays, and rezs now. The last two days my PH has been jumping up to like 7.5, I'm not sure if its from the nutes, or from not rinsing the hydroton. So I've lowered the PH several times, and I'm gonna clean the rez tomorrow, when I'm off work. I got an RO system to use for this grow, but my new house doesn't have high enough water pressure to use it, so I'm sending it back, and getting another fan for my ducting, so I can hoook up my 400w light next. I lost about 3 of the smallest clones with the whole PH thing. The rest seem to be doing ok. I'm gonna get my moms under my 400w asap, so I can take the next generation of clones going. So I still havn't taken any pics, but eventually I'll get some. Hopefully I'll be able to get this PH thing taken care of, and I'll have some nice young buds for you guys to see in abouta week or so. Peace Guys, TC

glad to hear its successfully up and growing TC. cant wait to see the pics for this one..

Hey TC you must keep in mind that the pellets will affect the pH and PPM at first...

then they will adjust...

It usually takes two 15 minute floods to stabilize things on a new res... in my op...

Same when you change the res... left over nutes and salts will affect the water..

Expect a little fluctuation in the beginning...

One thing that I do... and I believe it helps...

I flush for half a day with fresh water when I change res... 2 or 3 floods...

Then I clean again and reset the res with nutes...

I do this to avoid the fluctuation we just talked about and more importantly to WASH the hydroton of any salt build up...

and the hydroton dust looks "dirty" but i have never had it affect anything in my op... the times I forgot to wash too...

Truth is... you will always end up with some sediment... it's clay.. it will flake and dust...

Also... worth mentioning...

SZ was having troubles with his pots tipping over in flood...

Dry hydroton floats... wet hydroton sinks...

If you allow your pots to dry between floods, they may want to float up and tip over... if your tray is not "jampacked" with pots...

Thundercat said:

THanks 5 appreciated. We have just a bit more packing to finish today, and then gotta clean up to house so we get our security deposit back hopefully. I'm kinda pissed with budget rental trucks, apparently a reservation for a truck and a car dolly isn't a guarantee that they will be there. The truck is there(because we called three times to make sure they got us one) but the car dolly is MIA. They told us sorry, but a "reservation" is not a gaurentee. We made the reservation 2 weeks ago, and I thought that a reservation meant the stuff was "reserved" for us for that time frame. But I guess I'm crazy like that, thinking things will actually work out as planned. I don't know. Its frustrating, now we are gonna have to drive the truck, and our car seperatly, and put gas in them both!

So on a different note, I need to get my clones into my new system asap. They are getting bushy, and are curently in 9 oz cups, so I am having to water them every 2 days. They've all basically been veggin for the last month under my floro lights. I've cut them way back 2-3 times to keep the canopy even, and keep them small. I'm gonna have to rinse the soil off all of them when I get there. I'm gonna mix up a nice tub of ph'd water, and soak the root balls for a couple hours. I'm hoping they take the change over ok, its my only option at the moment. Then into the hydroton, and under the 1000w on 12/12 hopefully I'll have it all setup by about monday, or tuesday. I'm gonna have to start work out there on wednesday. Its gonna be a busy weekend for sure. Hopefully with some great results in the end!! I'll be back later prolly, when I need a break from packing, Peace guys! TC

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Well guys the move is done, and the truck is returned. I went last night and got all the wood I'm gonna need for my new room(s). I'm gonna be building my room and tray stand later today, and tomorrow, and I'm hoping to have the plants in the ebb and flow, and on 12/12 timers by tomorrow night. I've given the plants about 24 hours of dark so far, and they are gonna stay there till tomorrow when they go 12/12. I'm hoping this will help to jump start the flowering. I also gave them a dose of open sesame with the last feeding earlier this past week. THen I watered them all real heavy the day before I moved so they would be ok for day or two. So I've got a bunch of work ahead of me today. The room I'm building will be about 12'x8'. It will be devided into an 8x8, and 4x8 room. Obviously 8x8 for flowering, 4x8 for moms and clones. Both my lights will be air cooled this time, and I got a dehumidifier too! I'll get some pics up once its all built, and post them soon. I'm going to be doing remote updates, cus I won't have internet for awhile. So I'll try to hop on a couple times a week, and do pics every week too. Hope everything is well for you guys, I didn't have time to check out everyones threads. Peace guys TC

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glad to hear you made the move and are working hard !
i got wood and sheet rock 2 months ago and barely started my new rooms.
too much work OUTSIDE.
i gotta get back into it

Well to be honest 420, I don't know how hard I've really been working. I kinda feel like I've been neglecting the plants a bit. But its been hot as shit here, and about 95% humidity, so I really havn't felt like doing much after I get home from work. I've got a dehumidifier in my basement, but its not actually in my grow room so its only helping so much. Once I get fuller flowers on them I'll have to move it into the room to keep the humidity in check. The have just started to show flowers on maybe thursday or friday, so the count down is on. Its gonna be 8-9 weeks from this weekend. Coinsidently thats exactly the same time my baby is due to be born, its gonna be a busy month of October.

Thanks for the feed back on the PH and shit gypsy. I changed my rezs the other day, and rinsed all the clay out of my trays. Then rinsed down all the plants with the fresh ph'd water. I had to lower the PH once the next morning, and its been good for about 4 days now I think. So they are growing. I am waiting for my new inline fan to get here so I can hook up the rest of my ventalation. Its been getting warm in the rooms, so I am gonna need to do something to handle that, and I hope the new fans will be a big help. After this round, once it cools down agian outside I'm sure my temps will be decent, but when its 90 outside, its hard to keep it cooler inside. I made some pot covers for the plants, and they are working nicely. I still have alot of room on my trays, but I think these girls are gonna stretch out a it still, and that leaves me room to put another round of clones in the trays in a couple weeks.

All the plants had a tough time with the move, and the bad conditions for about a week. But I'm pretty sure the rest are gonna all make it nicely. I have around 25 I believe, down from about 40 that I started with. But these are the strongest of all the clones, and have all been vegging for about 4 weeks under my floro lights. They've also bee topped several times, so I think they should bush out a bit, and still give me a good yield if I can dial in this hydro thing. I'm gonna be getting my mango seeds, and kush seeds I have left germinating here in the next week so I can start them for the next round on the table. I've also got 2 WW moms that I'm keeping to keep that going. Its been a busy couple weeks, and its gonna continue to be so for a few more months I think. I'll eventually get some more pics up, I just havn't gotten around to it, and the plants havn't looked that happy, but soon!

So with that I leave you and hope you have a great afternoon, and week. I'll check in again in a few days. Peace Guys TC!

sounds like you should have some good budding plants here in a few weeks TC. im sure youll be able to do pretty well on the first run of hydro as long as u dont over feed. cant wait to see the pics of the new set up!!!

Good to hear your up and running again TC.....

So still no pics my GF has the camera or I would have taken some tonight. But all 25 or so have some very nice little flowers forming. None of these plants has stretched at all since I put them into flower, and all the new nodes are forming very close. So when you do get pics there should be something to look at. Other wise everything is pretty good. I've been trying to get rid of a bit of yellowing on some of them. Looks like they need some N, so yesterday they got a dose of a new nute I got from the shop as a sample. Its somes stuff called Envy I think. We'll see how they like it. I topped off my rezs yesterday when I added the nutes. I would tell you what ppm I'm running, but I don't know, I havn't been ableto find my PPm tester since the move, but my ph is right around 6. So any ways, justa quick update, I was out at the store running errands, so I brought the comp with me. It sucks having to use public internet. You wouldn't believe how many places have this site blocked, lol. I'll catch you guys the beginning of next week, and I'll try to get those pics for ya. Peace TC

Well I think its a week after I said I was gonna post, but well thats what happens when you don't actually have internet at home. Things are finally going pretty smoothly. I took a batch of clones last week. I'm hoping they take root ok, since they were 2 weeks into flower already.All the clones have flowers on them, hehe. Its ben 3-4 days, and they are all looking pretty good though, I've got them uner 24h floro light. The trays are looking good as well. I'm down to about 18 plants out of around 40, but I'm racking that up to all the stress from the move, and sitting aorund while I got everything built. Of those 18, I'd say that 75% look like they will give me an ounce each. I'm not gonna get my hopes up to high, with how everything has gone so far, but I'm hoping for about 10-12 oz from this run. I'm also hoping to have another batch of clones into the trays in about 2-3 more weeks, and some mango and kush plants going in the next week or 2 aswell. So with any luck I'll have a steady run of plants going by thanksgiving.

I've been using the fox farms beastie blooms, and tier bloom for the last week. I've also got some of the Envy veg nutes in the rez for some extra N. So far I really like these envy nutes, I may try to get the bloom nute when I run out of FF. I've got some more ventalation to get hooked up, I got my new inline fan the other day, and a bit more panda film to put up, but other wise the room is pretty well together.

So finally the pics. Nothing fancy, but a couple of the girls. Tomorrow will be 3 weeks since they showed flowers. So I'm gonna give them another 6-7 to finish. Hopefully since I've got my dehumidifier this time, I won't have any mold problems either!! So heres a couple shots of the girls in flower, and of the clones.















HOpe you guys enjoy, and I'll see you all in a week or so hopefully with another update! Peace All Tcat

AMAZING BRO!!!

So how do you like ebb/flow so far?

looks GREAT TC. im stoked on how well things look like they are going for you. ya you didnt quite fill the trays up yet but looks like the buds on those girls are fat and only at 3-4 weeks flower. hope you reach your goal shits going to be DANK hahah

Sorry about the challenges TC. The stress of moving is enough, let alone moving an op!

Great job!

You may find it hard to root clones that far into flower but I guess anything is possible. Why did you wait so long to take your cuttings?

It's 5 o'clock somewhere said:

You may find it hard to root clones that far into flower but I guess anything is possible. Why did you wait so long to take your cuttings?

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I took 15 clones from my plants as a part of some pruning at Day 17-18 (almost week 3).

Have had 100% success rate rooting.

Use a dome if you have to TC!

bigjesse1922 said:

I took 15 clones from my plants as a part of some pruning at Day 17-18 (almost week 3).

Have had 100% success rate rooting.

Use a dome if you have to TC!

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Didn't say it can't be done I've done it myself just not with that much bud showing but some strains are easier than others.....

Done a great job man,
+rep!