OffGridGrowers journey with ISS, Vsog (stadium)

offgridgrower · #1 10-20-2008, 04:53 PM

This grow is my 5th.
I tried outdoor a long time ago, didnt work out so well as I didnt have vast internet access at that time to get the good info.
The second grow was one plant in a 5gal bucket with holes drilled out the bottom in my closet in my second ever apartment, basic dirt in a bucket.
The third was the best so far, it was Afgani #1 pure shet my first aero setup with hid lights as well as my first Sog decent yield for the space 4x4.
The fourth was the highest yield all aero bigger hids, sog and a try at Sscog with a 4x8 net and a nice quite light mover, many lbs good times for sure!

This grow is going to be aero, sog, and stadium thanks to HBR Hbr's Stadium Vsog . I love DIY so I will be building the majority of what I need starting with my aero cloner using a couple of the most popular plans on the net, one is off this site check out Harvest a pound every three weeks!
I will be starting out with Island Sweet Skunk, using the aero cloner to clone, duh, and grow bags to start out with, I will be converting this area later down the road to be an aero/stadium setup but for now the stadium will just house the grow bags.
I will be using 30/30/20/20 spag moss,perlite,vermiculite,worm castings as my medium, hand watering for now.
I dont have a nute formula in mind yet I have a couple weeks to figure that out.

as of this weekend I got my ISS, and completed my aero cloner, I also got a surprise when I was told I could keep the mamma as well, yeah!!!
My cloner is a 25 gal ruffneck cause I wanted more than 25+ clones per unit I got 43 right now. Other than that all the rest is the normal componets that are on the net. Right now it under a dual t5 fixture, found at a pet store in my area, the mama is in a dwc solo using GH nutes for veg and hard water. I had to empty my cloner rez yesterday cause in one night the calcium had flaked out all in my rez and the ph was back to like 8, floated the babies in the tub and wash, and refill my rez again added a bit of hardwater GH floramicro to it and it checked fine today, the ph had jumped back up to 7 today lowered it will check again tommarow.

I know I have alot of work ahead of me but I wanted to get this started to mark my starting point and such so for today:
put mama in dwc with 2 gal water with only hardwater GH floramicro and adjust ph down from 8 to 6, using the dropper ph test for now, cheepo!!
got my timer today cap nft 1, 1min on 4min off running my cloner pump and dwc air pump on it
added a 2'x3' mylar sheet over the t5 and cloner so its like a tent, with the ends open, added another piece around the mama and its light (didnt snap a shot of the mama today, will try tomarrow, these pics are from this weekend before the dwc and extra lights)

offgridgrower · #2 10-22-2008, 04:31 PM

Replaced the old bulbs today in the 4by floro with t12 cool white and daytime bulbs, they are hella brighter than the old bulbs were! still this is just a standby untill the veg room is complete

SOMEBEECH · #3 10-22-2008, 05:20 PM

Think ill just sit right here. Sounds good,so you have grown hydro before?Been way to hot where i live but gonna get my trays going soon now its cooling off.

offgridgrower · #4 10-25-2008, 01:20 PM

ah, I was busy the last few days an i didnt do to much checking in on the girls, but I did last nite and whoop whoop I see roots!! 2 out of 7 are nippin! I could see anything else on the others but they all are still green , it did get cold the other day I hope that didnt do any harm!

SOMEBEECH · #5 10-26-2008, 05:38 AM

ill take thats a no then.

offgridgrower · #6 10-27-2008, 08:10 AM

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Originally Posted by SOMEBEECH

ill take thats a no then.

sorry beech, well if you count aero for hydro then yes, but I havent used any other from of hydro ie ebb n flow or dwc.

offgridgrower · #7 10-27-2008, 08:20 AM

well it looks like some of my friends are a lil behind on their schedules, because I got a mini xmas this weekend! some one needed their mamas cut back and guess who got to cut them! yea! plus I got my 2 clones of SourDiesel as well, they are the big ones in the back of the pic, they are already rooted so I have them in the cloner untill the veg room is complete.

but on a sour note, I think the sourdiesel has mites or something i noticed that the leaves had spots and their are micro black pin heads on the underside of the leaves, but i didnt see anything moving, is this major concern or am I tripping?

so I flushed all the h20 in both rez's again this weekend and put in distilled water and some route 666 for the cloner and some GH veg to the mama. we have hard water here and all that calcium was building up on my pump.

SOMEBEECH · #8 10-27-2008, 10:15 AM

Sounds like you got some good friends.The reason i asked was 6 is a little high for you ph i start at 5.3 and let rise to 6 running at over 6 can lock out certain nutes.Hell i had a chart showing nutrient avalibility at ph levels but cant seem to find it this morn.Im not gonna tell you you need a better way to check PH you NO. Do you have a scope?Ive used a warm soapy water then rinse for mites.Whats the purpose ofthe tips being cut off the fan leaves.I see it all the time and never have asked so im asking, lol.I like your cloner.Im doing a get a harvest every 2 weeks in soil now and would like to have bigger starts as i need em every 2 weeks,but im gonna do it in my trays also so ive gotta get more moms are a faster cloning system.I dont know, you eat some shrooms lmao.WARNING ill be back.Gonna go some more AK 47.Yep it looks like mites.Welcome to RIU.

offgridgrower · #9 10-27-2008, 05:44 PM

after being reassured that I do have mites I went out and pick up a bunch of organic stuff to combat the problem. KiLL YouR SPiDeRMiTeS TODAY!!

I started it out with some safer soap and cayenne pepper mix 3 1/2 cups of distilled h2o with 1/2 safer with 1 tbs of cayenne, mixed it up in a pitcher and dunked everything, expect the mama, I had to mist her.

if after 3 days I see any signs that I still have mites, I will use the mite exterminator mix , that should take care of the problem, Note to self sterilize and disinfect the shit out of the new place!!!!!!

SOMEBEECH · #10 10-28-2008, 05:34 AM

Doctordoom works great.

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