General Explanation of My Setup, Always Trying to Improve/Learn

General Explanation of My Setup, Always Trying to Improve/Learn

OK So here it goes. I never post about my grows or at least it's been a long time, but definitely have some experience under my belt

I'm using Sunshine #4, Jobe's Organic Fertilizer, Extra Perlite, House & Garden full line, Liquid Light/Saturator, VooDoo Juice, VermiT which consists of worm castings, humus and other bacteria. This round I had two 600s with no reflector vertical in the middle, along with 9 plants surrounding them and two 1000s hanging horizontally.

Half from seed and half from clone. Been topping once really early after roughly 4 truenodes, then taking the 2-4 branches and bending them sideways so I can grow short and wide. I have a perpetual setup with some solo cups/clones(ezcloner), 1 Gallons and 5 Gallon painters buckets to continually have one or two plants per light. Then depending on strain I'll either supercrop or bend the plant to be trained to a certain shape with several tops. I generally veg for 5 - 7 weeks and have been messing with vertical lighting on top of horizontal lighting.

The main goal is to increase light and have only one plant per light with either a large bush or a great SCRoG.

I'll have pictures soon, but any suggestions as far as my grow goes and are the 5 gallon painters bucket too big or should I have some sort of transition....





(wishlist: filter, co2 and Big Bud instead of Bud XL. I don't know what a good foliar spray is for my plants outside of my tea that's good alongside with H&G)

mY yields just aren't there though and my best explanation is my lack of setup after losing most of it last summer. Now finally on to my own individual setup and slowly getting all the details purchased haha. My only guess on my yield issues has to do with no CO2, better FAE setup and slowly getting a better soil combo. or are my buckets just too big ??

My first and biggest suggestion is CO2. Hands down CO2 will result in a definite increase. You can't just add it to your room though, you also have to keep it in your room. That means not sucking it all out with fans.

The most high tech solutions will involve:
-CEA (closed environment agriculture)...achieving it while not having to exhaust your room's atmosphere is difficult.
-a CO2 controller (not a monitor) keeping your ppm's to 1400 or above
-do LST & supercropping.

You want bigger yields? (Don't we all!?!) One thing I want to try is putting air stones buried in the soil. Pumping some air into the root zone would be a cool, but I've not tested the theory.

Increase lighting is always an idea...remember, no matter how much light you provide...the sun will always be able to provide more. You can't overdo light on a properly grown plant, you can only overdo heat.

There are five factors that affect marijuana growth: light, CO2, nutrients, water, oxygen, and temperature. Your plants will only be as good as factor that they're hurting on the worse. So you could provide stellar everything else but underlighting them and they will never produce to the best of their potential. My point is, find the factor that you're doing the worse at and raise it...to me, that sounds like CO2.