Hi everybody @ roll it up~!

It's been a while since I've posted online. I had to share this grow with people, I'm super excited.

I'm going to grow out my last two dozen lowryder #2 seeds hydroponically in order to make a ton of seeds for the years to come. I love to grow outside as well as inside and I've found this strain to suit my needs perfectly.

Well, here's what I've got goin so far:
A 4x4x8 Hydrohut with two 2x4' ebb-n-flow trays.
A Hydrofarm Daystar AC reflector with flow vents.
A 600 watt lumatek digital ballast.
A 600 watt MH, and a 600 watt HPS.
One gallon of G.H. grow, bloom, and micro.
24 4"x4" grodan rokwool cubes.
A 120 CFM carbon filter.
An 85 CFM silent computer fan for in-line cooling (if it gets too hot).
An AC to DC power converter & wiring.
A 110 CFM silent computer fan for exhaust to my filter.
Some 6" ventilation tubing.
& the last of my remaining seeds

Today is technically day #2, Here are the photos so far:













Anyone done anything like this before? please feel free to comment, 'll definitely need input on some issues I'll have to face eventually...

Thanks! & Happy Growing!

hey,

your set-up looks sweet.

glad to see someone doing lowryders hydro.


good luck

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Originally Posted by sativaplanet420 To get your big harvest you water cool the bulbs (removing over 80 % of heat) and put the lights one inch from the top of the canopy. Too much light is bad

Thanks Fyfe ,
I'll take a couple photos tonight since a few are poppin their heads up out of the rockwool. After that I'll probably post photos every week while I change the water and clean.
+ rep for the 1st post!

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& please let there be snow snow snow snow!

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My Journal (with a trifoliate phenotype)

"There is nothing better than smoking a fat one on a pow day" -period-

sounds like a nice grow i like the setup so far...i hope its better then the weak ass autoflowers i been seeing...i just put my auto ak x hindu kush in for grem..good luck i'll be watching...make me proud

Thanks meangreen, I'll check out your grow later this evening unfortunately I've got some work I need to finish up before tho. & thanks for postin.

Update:

Yesterday was day #3 and I cleaned and calibrated my pH and EC meters. the pH was 5.9 and the ppm was 310.

Today is day #4 and the pH dropped to 5.5, if it remains the same (or less) tomorrow I will add some pH up to the reservoir. The ppm today is at 330. The high temp in the tent was 80*f and the low was 59*f. the RH maxed at 40% and the min was 25%.


I've also tied a thin climbing rope from the top of the drainage pipe into the reservoir. The water from the flood table falling the 18" into the reservoir seemed too loud to me, so now it follows the thread down and makes a lot less noise. There are 4 seedlings starting to show their first true set of leaves.

That's it for today! & again, I'll post pics up on day #7.

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My Journal (with a trifoliate phenotype)

"There is nothing better than smoking a fat one on a pow day" -period-

nice goodjob, ill be checking in on this one man, i hope all goes well.

soudy

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I've been out for a few days, but tomorrow/later today I'll be cleaning and changing the water so I'll take some photos and give an update.

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My Journal (with a trifoliate phenotype)

"There is nothing better than smoking a fat one on a pow day" -period-

So I've got one trifloriate(?) seedling , ie it has 3 leaves and 3 bud sites at each node instead of the regular two. I know that my original plan was to grow all 20+ plants out to get a good mix of genes and possibly thousands of seeds; but I've decided to only grow out a few plants for seed and grow the rest for bud. I've decided to breed the trifloriate plant with one or two of the other strongest lowryder #2's so that I can still get a decent number of seeds and also so that I can maintain the desired phenotype of the plant being trifoliate. I've still got a couple of weeks before all my plants are sexed (including the trifoliate) so I'm going to use this time to construct a ghetto box to breed in.

The plan for the prototype-ghetto breeding box:
- 2'x2'x3.5' box made from cheap scraps of plywood and some screws and bolts.
-2 to 4, 42 watt CFL's
(these could actually keep the temperature high enough in my shed)
-A manual or passive hydroponic set up for the 4" rokwool cubes the plants will be in

Anyone have any tips or suggestions to keep the trifloriate plant and its mate alive? The winter can be cold around here and I'd like to use the lights to keep the plants warm. I don't think ventilation will be necessary.

any Help??

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My Journal (with a trifoliate phenotype)

"There is nothing better than smoking a fat one on a pow day" -period-

Temps will prob correct themselves with lights on mate, i got mine to sit nicely at 25c with the lights on, its when they go off its a prob, the only way of sorting it would be to get a thermostat heater me thinks

where's these pics we been promised anyway

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Originally Posted by sativaplanet420 To get your big harvest you water cool the bulbs (removing over 80 % of heat) and put the lights one inch from the top of the canopy. Too much light is bad

Here's the early hours of day #8! sorry for the delay I've been watching HBO on the tele...












I've got my lights on 24/7 at the moment and I still have temp sways at night... it's always around 80 for the high and 58 or 60 for the low. I've taken the liberty of ordering a small "energy saving" digital space heater. I guess it kicks on only when it gets below a certain temp so its not always running. For $50 total with shipping and handling that doesn't seem soo bad.
I'm also running pure water to the plants for a day because a lot of them are still very small, I'll add the nutes back into the fresh reservoir when I wake... & the pH is sitting at 5.9 right now.

hope everyone enjoys! time to drift away for 8 hours.... & ....

oh and let me know if you all want photos more often... they're pretty boring right now though.

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My Journal (with a trifoliate phenotype)

"There is nothing better than smoking a fat one on a pow day" -period-