Originally Posted by 420BudMan

Major Tom.......... those are some bad ass pics man. I want one of whatever camera you are using, I remembe you told us, but I don't remember what it was, a Canon if I'm not mistaking, still, awesome pics.

Originally Posted by MostlyCrazy

Of course what Roseman says is true. Dried my last crop as indicated and it works great. My big buds took 5 days and the little ones were done after 3. They are in three mason jars as we speak. Have them in a file drawer in my "office" under "P". You can tell the difference day to day in the smell. Smells green, then kind of nice, then really nice, then OMFG. Last grow I tried them at a weekly stage (honest they just hopped out of the jar, they were talking to me, Smoke me MC, smoke me!). Got a new bong on Saturday, smoked my best bud and can't for the life of me remember yesterday.

First grow/dry was the cut the plant and hang the whole thing and that took what seemed like forever to dry. This is quick, easy and effective.

Originally Posted by Thrasher645

Hey guys I got a kit from SH. It comes with three 105W CFL's and Im going to add 3-4 more 105w cfl's for the sides so like 500-600 watts. I am only growing 3 plants at a time. What do you think I would yield from that kinda setup w/ those lights? Im asking cus I felt like I should have bought the other kit that came with a 400W HPS light. what do you guys think?

Originally Posted by fred1

hps hps hps

Originally Posted by Roseman

With the DUAL SPECTRUM BUBBLEPONICS KIT, you will find within the instruction manual, two distinctly different ways to get started. On way says: you can add rooted cuttings or seedlings to the net pots and then cover the remaining area with hydroton. The other way says:
Rockwool cubes containing seeds can be added at this point as well.

So which way is best? Well, like my granny said, "there is more than one way to skin a cat".

With my first grow, I was sitting on pins and needles waiting for my kit to arrive. I was told to expect it to get here in two days and in two days the UPS truck arrived. The day before it arrived, early in the morning, I began the germination process. I took six seeds and put them in a porcelain cup to soak in pure clean unclorinated water and I placed the covered cup in the darkness of a kitchen cabinet.

When I arrived home that evening, I took the 6 soaking seeds and carefully removed them from the cup without touching them with my hands. I drained the water from the cup and gently placed the seeds on a twice folded wet paper towel. I refolded the paper towel twice again, covering the seeds in darkness. I laid the wet paper towel on a plate and covered the seeds in the paper towel with an upside down bowl. I then placed the plate and bowl back into my warm kitchen cabinet. There I had the three key elements of germination, MOISTURE, DARKNESS AND WARMTH.

The second evening, I looked at them, and all I could notice through the wet paper towel was a little swelling. The paper towel was still very wet. The third evening, I looked at them again, and could see little "tales" or little roots growing from the seed and that the seeds were cracking open.

The fourth evening, the root was about half to 3/4 inch long and the hull of the seed was cracking open. I was ready, I had my StealthHydro system assembled and running, so I ran and got the tweezers. I had one inch of hydroton in the cups and the tubes in the center of the cups, bubbling out water. I took the rockwool cubes and very quickly dipped them into pure water.

I shock them to stop the dripping but I did not squeeze them. I removed the plastic cover from the cubes. I only needed the cubes damp or wet, but not soaking. I placed each seed in each cube, with the baby root pointed downward and poured more hydroton on the sides and top of the cubes, making sure the tube butted into the cube. I made sure the tube was feeding the cube and I was good to go. I put covers over the cups made from styrofoam saucers, for two days, blocking the room's light from the cube.

After one day, I saw the two first leaves climbing out of the cubes looking for the lights and then I laid the covers aside and thanked the angels for looking after my baby seedlings. From dry seed to sprouted leaves took about 6 days. On my second grow, I placed wet soaked "for only one day" seeds directly into the cubes and I started the bubbleponic flow. I made sure the cubes were very damp but not soaked and crushed. I covered my cups and cubes with a damp folded paper towel, because I did not have any styrofoam saucers to use for covers. In 5 additional days, I saw 5 cubes with sprouted seedlings looking for light. The next day, the 7th day, my 6th cube sprouted the baby seedling. Both ways of germination took 6 days from dry seed to baby sprout. Like Granny said... there's more than one way to skin a cat.

On my third grow, well, by then, I was feeling like a botanist or a horticulturist or at least like someone who knew something about germination of seeds. So I ordered the Mistic Cloner. I was about to harvest my herbs and was anxious to start my third grow, so I snipped off about 6 inches of the tops of my plants, making sure I had two nodes or two branches growing form the tops. I put them in my Mistic Cloner and in 3 days I saw new baby roots.

The 4th day, my patience was gone or no longer needed, and I moved my babies from the Mistic Cloner to the StealthHydro Bubbleponics growing system. I added 1/2 of the GROW Nutrient packet, and I saved over two weeks of time germinating and waiting for growth. I had roots over an inch long and they were so happy to be fed by the Bubbleponics tubes. Ta Da ! Another way to skin a cat!