I have had great luck with clones rooting so far. As long as some of these root, I wont be sad if those sativas dont make it.

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Some of these seedlings are coming up nice. I have never done it, but when they get big enough to top, I will root the tops and put them into flower to determine the sex as early as possable. This summer I took care of a shit load of outdoor plants that ended up going male on me. I have since vowed to never do that again.

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None of the Sative clones made it. Trashed them last night. The two plants are looking pretty bleak too. Will trash them any day now.

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Pressure washed buckes for hours yesterday. I have pretty much all the parts together for a nice ebb and grow system.

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I plan on building the control panel for the hydro system today. It's going to look more complicated than the store bought ebb and grow, but I got lots of free control stuff from my electrician buddy.

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Used fish emulsion today for first time on the ladyies that are in their final month of flowering. Pretty stinky shit! Almost covers up the weed smell! LOL

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Right on dude! Nice first set up. I will also be going with the ebb and grow type system next time around. My system has performed for years but it is a little on the complicated side. I will set it up outside this spring for veggies. You are going to love hydro. It's so much faster than dirt and you get a lot less bug activity. There are a few things you might want to know about the Ebb and Grow type systems. When they drain they leave about 1.5" of nutes in the bottom bucket. This standing nute will eventually start rotting roots that make it to the bottom bucket. To fix this all you need to do is run an air hose through the top bucket so the hose extends from the bottom of the inner bucket about an inch. Put a small air stone on the end and a flow back on the other end so you have a place to disconnect it if you need to move plant around for better light or if you are on a perpetual harvest type system. You might want to get another barrel and connect it to the rez with a couple of hull fittings because if you are going to run 5 gallon buckets you are going to use a lot of nutes. You will fill each bucket with 4 or so gallons of water during flood stage. I like to have at least 30% left in my rez at the end of my flood cycle as to prevent running a pump dry. It also makes for a more stable res. The larger the res the longer it takes to make large movements in TDS count or pH. Make sure to get a particle pen and pH meter. I can not state just how important those items are.It can be the difference between a wonder crop and a wilted pile of yellow shit. On the 5 gallon bucket thought ,plants in hydro don't require nearly the root space that plants in soil do. Even when the roots get relatively bound by soil standards they are fine in hydro because they are constantly being bathed in nutes. You might want to consider going to a 3 gallon set up. If you shove those lights in cool tubes you can get them right down on top of your plants. Remember every foot you move away from the bulb your lumens are cut in half 100, 50, 25, 12.5, 6.25 and so on. You have a really nice room, Way better than mine right now; and I have been doing this for a while. Most of my gear is just sitting idle. It sucks! If I had that room I would put 2 ebb and grows up, Split the room about 60/40. Get some cooltubes and put a CO2 system in the flower room. Then all you do is feed clones into one end of your system every week or two and advance the previous plants through the system till they come out the other end. Then you are harvesting every week!! The Ebb and Grow system is perfect for this perpetual harvest method because of the removable inner pots. This post went on a bit longer than I planned. And you really have a shit ton of potential with that room. Good luck.

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http://www.rollitup.org/grow-journals/256532-thc-bomb-super-silver-haze.html

http://www.rollitup.org/grow-journals/258893-oregon-medical-out-door-09-a.html

All good shit! Thanks! I will change some plans based on your advice. I have aquired four 55 gal drums. I will do two set-ups. One in the veg room, and one in the flower room. I will use two 55 gal drums for the resevior on each system. Then I will cycle buckets through the system, room to room. One reason for the five gallon buckets is because I got them for free. I was thinking that having some water in the bottom of the bucket would be good. I was reading about hempy buckets, and they have standing water in the bottom. Wouldn't it be okay if it is cycled and flushed every four hours? Put a nice airstone in the brain bucket? I realize now the with air cooled hoods, I could double my lumens. Had I thought about it that way before ordering, I would have gone with enclosed hoods. I would like to grow the plants larger than most because of legal restrictions on plant count.

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These are from seed. I am topping them and rooting the clipping. If they root, I will be flowering them to early sex the plants.

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Do you think I am asking for trouble if I put hydro and dirt in the same room?

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