Harvest a Pound Every Three Weeks!

Nice dude, shit looks just like the A1 grade in my med shops.

The more the smell the better imo, my plan is to get the entire house smelling like dank 24/7.

@AKGrowAreo thanks for your input on the subject, ive been looking into LED and honestly im kinda getting convinced to give it a go.
When doing your research did you also consider the CXB3590's? a few ppl on RUI seem to be having good results Growmau5 in particular, seems legit...

Let's play Name the purchase price! All this from a guy that honored his wife's price she put on the Craigslist ad. Respect goes to the local chapter of Devil's Disciples, I definitely owe them some more green.
-Shifty

Well, it appears that I'm missing the remote probe for the sentinel co2 controller. sucks, but for what I paid I'm not too heart broken. Anyone know a cheaper alternative than the $250 I'm seeing online?

Shifty you have your work cut out for you. When are you going to get started?

sky rocket said:

Shifty you have your work cut out for you. When are you going to get started?

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Most of that equipment is for when we sell our house & I finally get my pole barn. To grow some vegetables/fruits. Couldn't pass the equipment up for the $250 I paid.
-Shifty

Also exchanged 2 t5 6 bulb fixtures for a 8" Bigfoot hood & 1000w digital ballast.

So the real question is, who is coming to help setup my pole barn when I get it? I'll provide the green. 3 ladies Day 20, flowers are growing fast.
-Shifty

Daaaaamn Shifty you got it going on. I'm still trying to time my vegging plants, some wanna burst out of control while others wanna grow slow as a turtle.

I've been thinking about using fermentation to add CO2 to room, nn get some nice booze while I'm at it Get crunked

Well, a life update. Papers are signed for the sale of my house, it just became real. Spent my whole Sunday driving around with realtor looking at houses. We are on the hunt for a nice family home with detached garage or pole barn for my growing. We found a half way decent property today on 2.5 acres that has a detached garage roughly 20'×30'. Going to update tomorrow with some flowering shots, the three gals are growing some huge thick colas.
-Shifty

got a few questions about harvest and maintenance...
do you guys take your system completely apart to clean it, scrub inside rails, scrub down the sprayers?
or do you just run bleach or a cleaning agent through the system for a day?
my nutrients stained the inside of the rails, and the plumbing, it comes off if i scratch at it but... do i really need to?
also my roots where very brown, i believe from the nutrients not rot, and i could feel a grittiness like salt build up all over them... is that normal?
i only flushed for 10 days but it doesn't seem like i was flushing any nutrients out of the roots at all, it seemed like i was squeezing my nute soup out of them def not clear water or even close..
i am using AN sensi bloom, bid bud powder, budcandy, overdrive

As promised, some photos taken today. Around day 30 of flower. Also, a shot of my clones & single vegging plant. Going to flower her in another week or so, want her to fill my 3.5'x4' screen.-Shifty

joey green said:

got a few questions about harvest and maintenance...
do you guys take your system completely apart to clean it, scrub inside rails, scrub down the sprayers?
or do you just run bleach or a cleaning agent through the system for a day?
my nutrients stained the inside of the rails, and the plumbing, it comes off if i scratch at it but... do i really need to?
also my roots where very brown, i believe from the nutrients not rot, and i could feel a grittiness like salt build up all over them... is that normal?
i only flushed for 10 days but it doesn't seem like i was flushing any nutrients out of the roots at all, it seemed like i was squeezing my nute soup out of them def not clear water or even close..
i am using AN sensi bloom, bid bud powder, budcandy, overdrive

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I use flora flush and a cap full of bleach and let the system run,drain and repeat if need be. I'm in rdwc though. I don't like scrubbing if I don't have too

I haven't broken down or cleaned my systems in over a yeah

joey green said:

got a few questions about harvest and maintenance...
do you guys take your system completely apart to clean it, scrub inside rails, scrub down the sprayers?
or do you just run bleach or a cleaning agent through the system for a day?
my nutrients stained the inside of the rails, and the plumbing, it comes off if i scratch at it but... do i really need to?
also my roots where very brown, i believe from the nutrients not rot, and i could feel a grittiness like salt build up all over them... is that normal?
i only flushed for 10 days but it doesn't seem like i was flushing any nutrients out of the roots at all, it seemed like i was squeezing my nute soup out of them def not clear water or even close..
i am using AN sensi bloom, bid bud powder, budcandy, overdrive

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I had the same brown/gritty feeling on my roots, wasn't rot, but i thought it was from the AN B52, weird and I never figured it out. I also have the staining of the rails/pvc that scrapes off. I was running AN Connie line. I decided to follow stinkbuds advice and i just started running Botanicare. I only have some plants in dwc right now but in the 3 days since i changed nutes they've seemed to really green up and look a ton healthier..I always had brown spots/yellowing with AN i couldn't get rid of which has just about disappeared.

As for cleaning, other than inspecting the sprayers to make sure they are 100% clear, I would think a quick clean and then a bleach or H202 flush for 12-24hrs would be fine, just do it ASAP. I put the system off to the side after the chop( still had roots in it..DOH!!) and let it sit for a week. I had to breakdown and soak all the little parts: netpots, foam collars, small pvc pieces, sprayers, etc,etc in a 5 gal bucket of 10% bleach water and some dish soap for around 24-48 hrs, and i still ended up on deciding to toss the sprayers,collars and netpots and get new ones...lesson learned. I have a kit for cleaning engine blocks that I bought for the brushes to clean the rails and long lengths of pvc, goes from something like a 4" dia brush down to a 1/4" maybe, like this:

Gotta make sure it's a nylon/plastic bristle..they make some that are wire or wire cored which is no bueno, it'll scratch/gouge pvc easily.

White vinegar should clean up any tough salts residue fairly easily, might even take off the brown staining..i haven't tried yet.

I don't really flush, from everything I've read and seen if you do hydro correctly( meaning only give the plant what it's asking for and don't try to shove nutes down it's throat), it's not needed. i start cutting back nutrients for the last couple weeks so for a 9 week run: week 6 might top out around 2EC, week 7 would go down to 1.6EC, week 8 would be like a 1.0EC, then I'd run like a .5-.7EC for week 9 and I only do RO top ups during those weeks, trying to maintain at , or just below the EC I'm shooting for..all these #'s are for illustration only..you're mileage might vary. I did a 24hr flush in just RO last run and saw no change in the EC or ph, which told me the plant was clean. If you monitor your EC daily you will see what the plants are doing ( more water or more food) and you can tailor feeding around it..during the "flush period" just give them less than they want so they use up reserves..< there that should be enough kindling to start another "flush/don't flush" argument...

What up peeps. Been busy, but ya'll are looking good! I am flushing (w/clearex as recommended on the bottle) currently and will harvest the left side of Acapulco Gold, and some random afgan seed that a buddy gave me in the next 2 days. AG is stinky as fuck and looks pretty good. The jury is still out on the random afgan plant, but ya never know.

The genetics that I am really stoked about (Girl Scout Cookies, Cotton Candy Cane, Trinity Kush, and Blackberry OG) are on the right side of the tent and they will harvest in about 4 weeks, and those gals are looking really good too, so I am stoked all around.


Topped the shit out of my veg plants last night for the second time. Gonna top again this weekend and throw them in flower next week.
AG that is flushing

AG Flushing
mystery afgan that is flushing
mystery afgan that is flushing
more ag in flush cotton candy cane
Trinity Kush Girl Scout Cookies

letdown shifty said:

As promised, some photos taken today. Around day 30 of flower.View attachment 3583760 View attachment 3583761 View attachment 3583763 View attachment 3583764 View attachment 3583765Also, a shot of my clones & single vegging plant. Going to flower her in another week or so, want her to fill my 3.5'x4' screen.View attachment 3583766-Shifty

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shifty, you hung a screen to your t5s?

that's craziness

MouseE said:

shifty, you hung a screen to your t5s?

that's craziness

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Working my gals from an early age. Like the screen, love the screen. Lol

The house hunt is proving to be, Fun </sarcasm>. Trying to find something at a bargain price, that is also functional for the families needs as well as mine is proving to be a task. Put an offer on a house with not much land, but lots of room for the family. Also, a basement that I could convert around 500 sq ft into a functioning sealed/locked environment. Don't want the stink of my flowering plants filling the house, as most people don't like it. Unfortunatley, was told by realtor that multiple offers were made that same day. Waiting game at this point, but have roughly 30 days til we close on our house. Wherever we end up, I think I'll have to start a build out & grow thread so I don't clog up Stinkbuds.
-Shifty

Hello fellow Stinkers!
It's been a long, LONG time since I've been on this thread, or any grow site for that matter. I see a lot of new Stinkbuddies here that I don't think I've met yet, but I am truly happy to see all of you guys keeping this thread and this fabulous grow technique going so strong. I used to primarily help with a lot with peoples electrical questions many years ago, and started reading this thread sometime around the beginning of it all. Surely StinkBud has to remember me, though we never talked much personally.

I don't see any of my old buddies that would remember me for sure, in any of the last few pages anyway, but any of you guys see me, then please give me a holler. I'm trying to get out of this funk and could use some help, and some good friends to talk to that have similar interests again for a change. I'm even going to have to catch up on a few pages here I see(quite a few). Lol

I've honestly been battling some of the worst, life altering, pain and depression that I can ever imagine a person having. I've been reduced to having to live dry from good green meds, but not by choice, as I seem to have lost my green-thumb for quite a few years now, and have even lost touch with any connections that I ever had. Plus, I am in the type of pain management program that has me on narcotics for pain, and they require patients to stay clean of herb, but their meds don't work well and I need a change, instead of this up and back down sickness every morning. I am so far beyond sick of being in pain, of being completely alone, of being too sober to think straight, of being so poor on this minimum of disability benefits in a state that has absolutely no compassion of any kind.

I am so terribly sorry Stink, for so depressingly hijacking your thread for a moment here, but I just felt the need to explain the state of my being and where I've been, to SOMEBODY, all while wondering how to make a change towards creating good things, like everyone in this thread is doing. I would love to be a bigger part of this scene and these techniques, but it just seems that I have no way to even get started. I'll shut up now.

Anyway, I hope all keeps going well with everyone's grows and all of you keep on stinking up the world with that absolutely awesome lookin premium herb I saw above. Maybe I'll go mess with trying to get my air-cooled, 600 watt, recirculating, top-feed setup w/ 6 hydroton filled pots, to feed right, and then try to practice with getting some peppers going or something.

Sincerely missing my stinkbuddies,
JB