Get a harvest every 2 weeks - Page 195

rdgx34 · #**1941** 05-21-2008, 02:01 PM

I mean when you cut the growing tips

Al B. Fuct · #**1942** 05-21-2008, 02:03 PM

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Originally Posted by firsttimegrowerr

AL! I finnaly got most of my equipment in!
I have 4 3x3 flood systems the reseviors are 30gallons each
But i was wondering if i could just use two systems with 1 resevior?

Sure, if that rez is 60 gallons.

If you try to run 2 trays off 1x 30gal tank, I think you'll see the ppm jump up quite a lot every day. You'll be topping up with water frequently, if not daily. My 125L tanks are 1/3 empty when the trays are being flooded. That gives close to 2/3 of the tank as headroom for water consumption. Remember that the pump has to remain submerged, requiring a minimum level of about 1/4 the tank volume. If you use a single 125L tank for 2 trays, 2/3 of the tank will be up in the trays when flooding. You'd have a difference between 1/4 and 1/3 of the tank as headroom for water consumption. That would be sucked up in only a couple of days by 2 trays worth of vigorous plants.

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So that way instead of changing 4 reseviors every 2 weeks i can just change 2.

Can't see the difference myself, other than it'll be a lot harder to find 60gal (250L) tubs as easily as you can get 30 gal (125L) at the dollar shop.

Al B. Fuct · #**1943** 05-21-2008, 02:17 PM

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Originally Posted by rdgx34

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Sorry I meant when you cut the main stems not cloning, Do you cut the main stem at the end where the leaves are? So the leaves fall off when you cut?
Sorry im trying to understand

Ok, I've said that when you are putting a new clone in to be raised as a mother, you nip off the growing tip to force growth to divide. I've provided pictures. I don't know what else I can do to make you understand what to do.

rdgx34 · #**1944** 05-21-2008, 05:25 PM

Sorry Al, I think my question is where is the growing tip? If you have the time can you circle it in a picture? Sorry for asking dumb questions just trying to make it clear.

Thanks AL

firsttimegrowerr · #**1945** 05-21-2008, 07:20 PM

Thanks Al dont know what id do without you =)

Al B. Fuct · #**1946** 05-21-2008, 10:04 PM

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Originally Posted by rdgx34

Sorry Al, I think my question is where is the growing tip? If you have the time can you circle it in a picture? Sorry for asking dumb questions just trying to make it clear.

growing tip being removed

three growing tips removed. Click to enlarge.

It's real obvious what's happening here if you just look. If not, perhaps you should take up knitting instead.

daddychrisg · #**1947** 05-21-2008, 11:09 PM

Hang in there Al, you are a saint for sticking with this thread this long....I would add a snappy question for ya, but I think I will digress...I can't wait for your next thread! Maybe next time you can focus your teachings even more, for example....How to roll a joint in less then 5 min. or perhaps, how to screw in your HID light bulb, or even, How to start a thread that will make you need to smoke all your pot to relieve your repetitive answers to already answered questions....Thanks for what you do... C

PlasmaRadio · #**1948** 05-21-2008, 11:20 PM

Yeah, we do need some new questions... can you grow pot on the moon? Is it possible to build a robot that will grow weed for me (and not kill me a la terminator)? What does the "B" stand for?

DR. VonDankenstine · #**1949** 05-22-2008, 05:30 AM

Al-
I was talking to a growing buddy of mine about your set-up(he's been into drip hydro for a long while) and he really liked the idea a lot, I directed him to this link. Anyway I know in one of the prev post we were talking about the high cost of canna boost per flowering cycle(especially with the SOG set-up.)

My friend uses the canna products and has for some time with great results, but he swears by a product called "floralicious plus concentrate". It's by general hydro or something--he says it has a ton of good things in it that the plants just love, he also stated that he has had as just good results with the FPC as the canna boost if not better.

I did a little research for you and found out that the stuff is about 160.00/gallon online-probably 20% more at your local hydro shop. That does seem like a lot but when you fig. you use about 500-600 gallons of h20 on a 8 week cycle in your res's. ******here's the beautiful thing about the prod***********one teaspoon treats 20/gallons @ full strength*********---That would mean the cost would come out to 4-5 dollars per 8 week cycle

and one gallon would do 38 cycles(enough to last a few years). Of coarse, you would probably want a smaller size but that was the only size I could find at the time. It seems the product and the price are right. I hope if anything, this will give you further info to look into. Thanks again for all the help.

Al B. Fuct · #**1950** 05-22-2008, 06:40 AM

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Hang in there Al, you are a saint for sticking with this thread this long....I would add a snappy question for ya, but I think I will digress...

I'm reasonably well informed that they don't often let atheists become saints. Exceptions could be made, I'm sure, given the broadly malleable nature of belief.

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I can't wait for your next thread! Maybe next time you can focus your teachings even more,

zomfg, I feel like a Buddha. Or two.

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for example....How to roll a joint in less then 5 min.

It takes me 10. I'm lousy at rolling. Always have been. I can't even make a spring roll with a rice paper wrap. If it hadn't been for Dugouts, I'd have given up smoking dope.

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or perhaps, how to screw in your HID light bulb,

Would you believe... there really is some special instruction for screwing in an HPS light bulb?

Wear cotton gloves and clean the lamp surface with methylated spirit (denatured alcohol) before lighting for the first time. Smart to mark the installation date with a permanent marker on the lamp's screw cap and on the glass on the tube's nose. I relamp every 12-18 mos.

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or even, How to start a thread that will make you need to smoke all your pot to relieve your repetitive answers to already answered questions....

Strangely enough, those sorts of things seem to happen on their own...

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Thanks for what you do... C

no worries.

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Originally Posted by PlasmaRadio

Yeah, we do need some new questions... can you grow pot on the moon?

Whooooo. Good one. Of course, you'd have to provide a rather good glasshouse, airtight, with an atmosphere. Now, the fun begins when you work out what the lighting conditions are on the moon. No atmosphere outside your glasshouse, so lots of sunlight (and UV... and gamma rays....) How long is a lunar day? Where on the moon would you locate your grow op so it got 12/12 lighting? Endless!

However, it would certainly be possible to put an ordinary artificially lighted hydroponic grow op on the moon or on a space station. Hydroponics goes back to the Aztecs but it is the main means considered for food production in space.

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Is it possible to build a robot that will grow weed for me (and not kill me a la terminator)?

Yes. There are already nearly fully automated hydroponic rose production operations. It would be somewhat impractical to robotically produce less than warehouse sized quantities due to the mechanisation involved, but with CAD/CAM, all things are possible.

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What does the "B" stand for?

I'm not sure. Will ask old Mother Fuct one of these days. I'm fairly sure I'm not named after my weird Uncle Butt. He's changed his name by deed poll. Now it's spelt 'Butte' but still pronounced 'butt.' If I was gonna spend the $72 to change my name, I think I'd be looking for more bang for the buck, if you see what I mean. My sister Royal Lee has a pretty name, lot nicer than my nieces Ghett and Jusst. What was Roy thinking? We're all kinda hoping that Jusst doesn't do the hyphenated name trip if she marries that George Look boy. Imagine... Jusst Fuct-Look. eek.

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Al-
he swears by a product called "floralicious plus concentrate". It's by general hydro or something-

Thanks for the heads up.

To be deadly honest, I generally avoid what I refer to as 'magic sauces,' which are any proprietary mixtures of something or another and whose makers claim all manner of benefits. Few have been trialled in peer-reviewed or double blind studies. These things are not unlike the patent medicines of the 19th century, where ingredients were secret and not always safe.

Canna are better than a lot of magic sauce makers as they will sometimes give you a scientific basis for what their particular magic goo is supposed to do and what's actually in it, such as PK-13-14. I don't think they're so generous with Boost, Rhizotonic, etc.

It's often very hard to gauge the real benefit of magic sauces. If trialling something, you should run plants in parallel with and without the sauce under test instead of trying to compare differences between successive whole crops. This will come close to assuring that differences between crops were not due to differing environmental conditions in the op between trials.