SH Bubbleponics grow, 400w MH/HPS, 3 Sour Diesel, 3Northern Lights

Sounds to me like you've done your research so good job on that. As for the nutes, your plan sounds good, but keep an eye on them because they may not be ready for full strength yet. Remember under-nuting is a lot better that over-nuting. Roots look very nice. When they are a couple inches in the water (which it looks like they are) you can remove the water pump and tubes. I subscribed so I'll be around if you have more questions. Best of luck!

Originally Posted by Lt Shiny Sides

Sounds to me like you've done your research so good job on that. As for the nutes, your plan sounds good, but keep an eye on them because they may not be ready for full strength yet. Remember under-nuting is a lot better that over-nuting. Roots look very nice. When they are a couple inches in the water (which it looks like they are) you can remove the water pump and tubes. I subscribed so I'll be around if you have more questions. Best of luck!

Great to hear you're watching over my shoulder, I look forward to a great grow!

Wow, here it is day 12 and things seems to be going just fine.

I couldn't believe the growth this morning. I hadn't measured them before last night, they were 4" tall for the most part. The tall one back left is 6" and the short on on the back right is 3", the other 4 are all about 4" tall.

Well that was last night. I measured first thing this morning and the 4" plants were 5" tall. I've definitely hit the fast growth period. And all but the back left are looking real tight and compact.

Today I will be adding more nutes, 2 tsp of grow and 1 of micro to the res. They are still not at full strength as I only added 2 and 1 when I did the drain and replenish two days ago. I'll add more nutes on Saturday to bring them up to full strength. As it is the plants are not showing any stress from over nuting so I think I can move it up a notch w/o problem.

I believe now is the time I need to think about the first topping. Obviously the one at the rear left is ready for topping, and the rest probably also, they all have at least 4 leaves coming out. But my question is they are not growing leaves in pairs as the mother plant they were taken from was obviously mature and sending out one leaf at a time. Do the same rules for topping apply with plants like these?

Enough for now. I'll add some pictures for a record of their progress.

Things seem to be going just fine so far. Today I drained the res. and then refilled with the same water. The nutes still weren't at full strength so today I added the last third of those so now they are at full strength. I gave them 1/3 at the water change last Tuesday, then another third on Thursday and the last third today. I'll drain and replenish (with new water) the res. next Tuesday that being 7 days after the first.

I think this time I'll give them 1/2 nutes at the water change, then the rest on Thursday. I'm thinking they are ready to get hit with nutes, they've been growing so fast! I'm glad I took pictures last Tuesday, seeing how much they've grown in just the last four days is amazing.

The close up is of the northern lights in the front row middle, I think this and the sour diesel to it's left are the two best plants. Hope you like the pics!

im doing the same grow as you,you might want to invest in another bubbleponics system,its going to get real crowded in that one,i think 1 bubbleponics is suitable for 3 plants max,i have 4 in one of mine,an three in the other...im going to have to yank one an put it into a dirt pot as a mother plant...nice grow,im subscribed,keep us up-to-date l8r

What are the demensions on that bubbleponics resivor? How tall, wide, and deep? Also how many gallons is it?


Just tryin to figure out if i can fit one in my cab

Originally Posted by ROBBIE313

im doing the same grow as you,you might want to invest in another bubbleponics system,its going to get real crowded in that one,i think 1 bubbleponics is suitable for 3 plants max,i have 4 in one of mine,an three in the other...im going to have to yank one an put it into a dirt pot as a mother plant...nice grow,im subscribed,keep us up-to-date l8r

Bingo! You've hit the nail on the head, you're thinking exactly what I'm thinking. This might be sufficient if I was doing a Sea Of Green, but I've decided that as long as I'm this far along I may as well see just how much I can get from these plants.

So now I'm investigating what I can do to bring each of these plants to it's optimal maturity as efficiently as possible. From what I've learned the bulk of the advantages of the SH Bubbleponics system are realized in the first two weeks of the planting life cycle. So it looks to me as though I have started them correctly, but from here I need to place them in another system to continue their growth to obtain optimum performance.

So for today I'm investigating just exactly which system I should transition to. This Bubbleponics system is obviously a great way to start the plants, but they are way too close together. I need to split them up, but do I go with one plant in a 3 gal. bucket, or two in 5 gal? How do I connect them all, I could feed them all together in one irrigation system, drain and replenish every day? Lots of questions to answer.

I am researching as we speak, I'll let you know what I come up with.

Here's the pic I told you about. Hopefully a picture is worth a thousand words. If this doesn't work for you let me know, I can get you better pictures, but it is getting pretty late on a Friday night and I just got back from a benefit for a friend who is a musician and just had a bi-latteral hip replacement. Yes, I'm not a spring chicken either, I got my new knee almost 5 years ago.

Hope this helps.