Flood table homemade growtent

Net Im not sure what you mean by controller all I use is my pump on a timer for the floods.I mean if you want to come back 8 times a day everyday at exacttimes and turn the pump on wait 15 minutes then unplug it you can but I have alot of stuff to do so a $5 timer will do it for me its well worth it????

Ok its been about another week of flowering with this flood table and tent setup. The sweet purple apparently will not be purple being grown in hydro as it has very little if any purple color.When I grew it in soil it started purple and finished dark purple.These sweet purple clones came from the smae mother but apparently grows different then when in soil the buds are much larger and stickier but hav e alighter green color with white crystals instead of purple with purple crystals.Smell is a lot strong in hydro also. The BB are just starting to get some fill in but alot slower behind then the sweet purps as I think the BB mom I used is a weak genitic choice so she will be cycled out and replaced by a better one. I also just started a new strain from subcool TGA seeds called The Flav which is spacequeen xromulan so as soon a s ai get a good mommy you will see that grown hydro or in a table.It ll be a completely new strain for me as its veryu new so we will expiremnt with a few grow methods to see what we get. Anyways heres some pictures>i snapped some with the hps light on then as it went out grabbed some with just the camera flash to try to show the sweet purpl cola sizes which seems this plant is a very good yielder..

Couple Colas are looking Fat Filthy

Yeah the sweet purps main colas are the biggest and then each plant has about 30 golfball or bigger nugs but the BB is lagging like I said. Still at least 4 weeks left before Id even consider any harvesting probably longer with the BB.

So it looks like the 600 will do work with certain strains. Thats a 4 x 4 your using right?

No I grabbed a 3x3 table since they were under $50 locally then had the old 600 watt magnetic light I grabbed on ebay for $35 so used them together.Next time I will use a different reflector has that old barrel one isnt right for this coverage. A 4x4 table will fit.I think I will aslo lower the stand 6 inches and use a low profile res that way I can gain some hight and get light over all the tops and not have to move them to the edges.The dutch master nutes did out but not as good as fox farm so I will not be using them again I dont think. Next nutes to try I will go grab maybe some canna as I have been curious on those too

Seen. Yo Filthy Im doing some research on norml, some states I like is NC & Ohio for more reasons than one. How is it in O town?

Whats O town? Ohio? Never lived there so dont know

My fault but I need a change pretty soon. Trust me.

Your storage is full

sorry its open now

Been a bit since I added any pics to this post so gonna update some..Im at about 2 weeks til harvest for most of the plants the sweet purple for sure.The Blueberry I might let just keep going after the large sweet purps are out as the BB is real real slow and will have more room and light after the sweet come out. The sweet purple isnt gonna be dark solid purple like it comes out in soil but it did get a nice light purple hue similar to other so called purple strains.They have about 60% orange hairs and trichs are just starting to get a milky look to some so I added my dose of Humbodlt counties gravit to harden the flowers for about a week then will do res change to flush the purple for a week take them down and then go back to the reg feed cycle for the BB.Anyways heres a few pics of whats going on...and just in case someone sees and points out the brown on the leaves yeah I know thats what happens when your light is just a bit too close.I got some burns from the 600 watt light as room has gotten tight so I just slide the bulb mount up 6 inches inside the reflector to gain some distance as it was about 6 inches from few tops and fan leaves so it made some burn blemishes but thats fixed

look good fletch.

Shits looking up Fletch with the 600. Wats your anticipated yield?

well I went into the grow with 12 pots lost 1 and a second I dont know it grew but never grew well and had ragged leaves so its there but wont yield but a tiny nug so basically 10 pots.My goal was 8-10 oz dry on this since I never grew this BB before and first time sweet purple in a hydro grow only grew 4 plants like it in soil before. I have been trying to guage whats in there and I can say I should reach the 8 dry oz I was shooting for from this 3x3 table Ill post and let the weight be known once I harvest

So another week and decided it was time to take some of the main top colas from the sweet purple plants. I have 5 sweet purps in there 4 BB and one of my normal indica strains.So I cut the sweet purp tops and left the ret of the plants to get a nother week or so of good unblocked light.I have a few pics of the untrimmed tops which made it little easier to see some of the purp as mentioned before the sweet purple was almost black purple in soil but in hydro its a very light purple/pink with green leaves completely different look.Anyways the wet trimmed weight was 16 3/4 oz from the 4 plant tops which was much better then I was hoping for as that should dry close to almost my whole hoped gosal dry weight and the rest of those 4 plants look like they will yield another 6-9 wet oz and I havent even touched the BB so Im happy. First time using Dutchmaster nutes and they did well. they didnt crystalize as heavy as FoxFarm nutes but did well and the late addition of the humbodlt countys gravity and Fox Farm Beastie Bloomz was very impressive.Buds are rock hard and very very heavy.so without more rambling heres some pics trimeed and untrimmed then a few shots of whats still growing.Might not be able to read but I put a tape measure to show size which was 22 inches long on the colas

I will post back more when I yank the rest of the sweet purps and the BB from this grow or if questions arise.

They look nice Filthy. Yo Filthy you ever used one of those Flip Flop relays on any of your grows?

I have seen the flip flops but I dont really have a need for one ever.I have multiple light setup and none of my grow areas are close to each other so I wouldnt have any use for it.I use digital switchable ballast so no real need for it. I know some people trying the new dutch method of alternating spaced lights where you have like 8-10 lights then you use flip flops to control the lights so only 5 are on at any one time they switch every other hour and the lights are setup in a pattern so you get overlap this way you cover twice as much are but use half the power. Just toy have a single flip flop isnt worth the money to me as I could get a whole second 600 watt setup for half the price of the flip flop

FilthyFletch said:

I have seen the flip flops but I dont really have a need for one ever.I have multiple light setup and none of my grow areas are close to each other so I wouldnt have any use for it.I use digital switchable ballast so no real need for it. I know some people trying the new dutch method of alternating spaced lights where you have like 8-10 lights then you use flip flops to control the lights so only 5 are on at any one time they switch every other hour and the lights are setup in a pattern so you get overlap this way you cover twice as much are but use half the power. Just toy have a single flip flop isnt worth the money to me as I could get a whole second 600 watt setup for half the price of the flip flop

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I understand but the flip flop method Im talking about is different.

The one Im referring to can work with 2-6 (or whatever) bulbs per room timed by the same timer,now that's maximizing your ballasts power.
With the two-4-two your energy spike will drop from 27/amps every time you turn those bad boys on,to 7/amps every time the power is relayed from room to room.

I put some examples below. This will cause for the end grower to have two grow rooms but at different interval's.