growman3666
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thats fucken badass man
DaGambler's 4k HPS 99 Plant Hempy Grow
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raiderman
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lol, yea i got 26 oz. on my 600s. do the math.trting for around three this time, may go to Maui this spring break ,lol, done maxed out the bedroom las year...specialty strains usually go a bit more to.ha! ya you've deffinitely got enough light in there... i think a 5x10 with (2) 1k HPS is like 40w sq. ft. so your deffinitely above that.
man, with this economy, everybody is living on the edge.
i just gotta believe that a bad day in Maui is still better than a good day in Texas.
... this is only my second piece of glass ... so say a little prayer with me that it doesn't break in transit (dry pipe, but dang ain't she purty) spose i can always get creative with a whip attachment leading into a small bubbler bottle after the tale.
form over function this time around: (click the image and it gets sharper)
... this is only my second piece of glass ... so say a little prayer with me that it doesn't break in transit (dry pipe, but dang ain't she purty) spose i can always get creative with a whip attachment leading into a small bubbler bottle after the tale.
form over function this time around: (click the image and it gets sharper)
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SpruceZeus
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Nice grow, i'll be watching this one!
420weedman
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subd! ..
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Thundercat
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Well man, I like the set up, I've never seen someone use just perlite for a medium, hows that working for you man? Can't wait to see what you can do with all that light man!
it seems to be working out very well 
(see the 'Hempy Collective' for other pure perlite growers) it seems to be a bit more like a hydro setup than a soil setup, though i'm keeping the pH'd solution around 6.3... i'll probably also have to watch for any residual buildup in the containers reservoirs, which wouldn't be a concern so much in hydro. I would guess that the rate of growth will be somewhere in between a soil grow and a aeroponics setup.
i've been waiting for you to shift away from mushrooms and go into gear on a weed grow, i see ur making some good strides on that. (Not that i wouldn't love to get into growing mushrooms someday... ur mushy grow is very inspirational.)
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(see the 'Hempy Collective' for other pure perlite growers) it seems to be a bit more like a hydro setup than a soil setup, though i'm keeping the pH'd solution around 6.3... i'll probably also have to watch for any residual buildup in the containers reservoirs, which wouldn't be a concern so much in hydro. I would guess that the rate of growth will be somewhere in between a soil grow and a aeroponics setup.i've been waiting for you to shift away from mushrooms and go into gear on a weed grow, i see ur making some good strides on that. (Not that i wouldn't love to get into growing mushrooms someday... ur mushy grow is very inspirational.)
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BAYAREAMEDICAL
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Sometimes ya just gotta toss the dice ... and then leave nothing to chance.
+rep for ya grow, looking great, stop by my journal.
+rep for ya grow, looking great, stop by my journal.
Thundercat
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I've been tryin to get these girls goin man. Most of them are between 2-4 weeks old, and they are all looking decent. My purple powers seem to be very sensative to nutes, they keep getting just a bit of burn on the tips. I'm hoping they will grow out of this, cus I have only fed them plain water for the most part. One very light feeding, but then only water for the last week and a half, I've watered twice in that time. I'm gonna start the otehrs on nutes once my TDS meter gets here, and I'm gonna keep them on water till I see improvment I think. I gota check my tap water and make sure Im not giving them total crap water too. I've been letting it breath, but its still tap water. I may be getting a purification system if my tap is bad, or filling water at my brothers house down the street, he has a full house filtration system. Any talk to ya latta man, gotta get back to work, I'm on lunch ! TC
Ya, city tap water can kill plants fast.
Update: i've noticed that about 1/3 of them have yet to even root into the perlite... and i'm still struggling with my ppm's. A few of them are as dark green as you would want them to be, a few others are a bit lime, but the top leaves have begun to go 'twisty' after i gave them a shot of 2000 ppm nutrient mixture. I hate to do it, but i may have to start just watering with a lighter nutrient mix, and then come back with some mixture in gallon containers for those that need to be hit with extra nutes. (pain in the butt)
Looks like they'll end up needing a full month under the HPS lighting to get some good root growth, they are getting bigger but still don't have anywhere near the vegetative growth that i would like to see.
I'll have some difficult choices ahead of me as far as Cloning goes... I don't think i'll have the optimal selection of plants until at least the third grow. I've got some auto-flowering white russians (about 1/3 of them turned out to be autoflowers) that i am leary of cloning... but as long as they grow in veg at a decent rate and then pack on the flowers; i don't see why i shouldn't clone them. I also have one plant (of which there are currently several cloned offspring) that never did show pre-flowers... so i'm just hoping that that bitch is a bitch. So far i'm not balls to the wall on the perlite Hempy grow, but i've given them lots of pH problems to deal with as well. I beleive that Lumberjack Ian called Hempy growing 'twirky'. And i would have to agree, especially if he meant that you have to be vigilant about what ppm you are offering them every time that you water. While i'm on the subject, props to the original Hempy dude and also to Azgrow who popularized the method here on RIU.
Update: i've noticed that about 1/3 of them have yet to even root into the perlite... and i'm still struggling with my ppm's. A few of them are as dark green as you would want them to be, a few others are a bit lime, but the top leaves have begun to go 'twisty' after i gave them a shot of 2000 ppm nutrient mixture. I hate to do it, but i may have to start just watering with a lighter nutrient mix, and then come back with some mixture in gallon containers for those that need to be hit with extra nutes. (pain in the butt)
Looks like they'll end up needing a full month under the HPS lighting to get some good root growth, they are getting bigger but still don't have anywhere near the vegetative growth that i would like to see.
I'll have some difficult choices ahead of me as far as Cloning goes... I don't think i'll have the optimal selection of plants until at least the third grow. I've got some auto-flowering white russians (about 1/3 of them turned out to be autoflowers) that i am leary of cloning... but as long as they grow in veg at a decent rate and then pack on the flowers; i don't see why i shouldn't clone them. I also have one plant (of which there are currently several cloned offspring) that never did show pre-flowers... so i'm just hoping that that bitch is a bitch. So far i'm not balls to the wall on the perlite Hempy grow, but i've given them lots of pH problems to deal with as well. I beleive that Lumberjack Ian called Hempy growing 'twirky'. And i would have to agree, especially if he meant that you have to be vigilant about what ppm you are offering them every time that you water. While i'm on the subject, props to the original Hempy dude and also to Azgrow who popularized the method here on RIU.
ha ha. ya, when i take a shower i feel 'slippery' from the water being 8.9 pH (and 500 ppm). i'd be unable to even grow w/o a RO filtration system.
Update: I can attest that anyone with FUNGUS GNATS would be well served (during vegetative growth) to do the following: add 1/2 teaspoon of '50/50 Malathion' per gallon of water to your reservoir or water supply and make sure that you are doing a "drench" watering such that all of your media (including the bottoms of the containers) gets wet. Malathion kills both the gnat and its larvae DEAD. Havn't seen a single gnat in a couple weeks now. I just added it to my reservoir one time. In a soil grow you'll only need one drench treatment, but if you miss some media, then you may need to hit them again a few days later. I don't know what the break down of Malathion is ... so be leary of doing this anywhere close to harvest.
Update: I can attest that anyone with FUNGUS GNATS would be well served (during vegetative growth) to do the following: add 1/2 teaspoon of '50/50 Malathion' per gallon of water to your reservoir or water supply and make sure that you are doing a "drench" watering such that all of your media (including the bottoms of the containers) gets wet. Malathion kills both the gnat and its larvae DEAD. Havn't seen a single gnat in a couple weeks now. I just added it to my reservoir one time. In a soil grow you'll only need one drench treatment, but if you miss some media, then you may need to hit them again a few days later. I don't know what the break down of Malathion is ... so be leary of doing this anywhere close to harvest.
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Thundercat
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Well I got my meter on friday before I went out of town. I found out that my tap water wast at 400ppm!!! So I'm hoping that that is the problem with the burn, all that nasty other shit has prolly been building up in my soil. I switched to distilled water last night for a flush. I'm gonna be trying to get a RO system, or filtratoin system of some sort, cus other wise I have to haul water across town from my brothers house. When I flushed it was with just the distilled water at a ph of 6.4. When I tested the run off(of all the plants collectively, I'll do individuals with the next flush) it showed a ph of 6.7 and was at 1000ppm! So I'm gonna flush once more this week with distilled water at a ph of 6.0 to try to lower the run off ppm alot, and lower the ph down to the 6.3-6.4 range. I'm also getting a 400w mh either today or tomorrow, so this should boost growth, and help them cope. I'm hoping to get them on a nute regiman by next week, I just don't want to over do it now. They are turning into some nice little platns though, I'm gonna post pics on my thread later today.
Thundercat
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Lol, forgot reason I started that post. So gambler I'm feelin you on the going slower then planned, and the nute issues man. Shit is driving me nuts. This is one reason I really want to try out hydro, seems like it will be alot easier to control!
BloodShot420
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thats crazy... not all city water is bad.
i get water at ph 7.8 and TDS of about 68 - apparently i am blessed
i get water at ph 7.8 and TDS of about 68 - apparently i am blessed
Thundercat
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my last grow I used tap water, and had no problems at all with burn or any thing.
silverhaze20
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Your only shooting for 5 lbs? thats almost hard to believe, do like to pick early? I noticed that achieving 14 oz was capable in 5 gallon buckets. Your only at 3 gallons so its ok to say you would get atleast half that being around 7 oz a plant. With your hopes, your only hoping to get about 3/4 of an ounce..... please explain?