Harvest a Pound Every Three Weeks!

@jblwired bud I'm sorry to hear about your tribulations, and wish you nothing but good things in the coming days. I understand full well the life of pain & depression day in and day out. Also the many disadvantages of pharmaceutical pain meds, and the many mood swings that go along with them. What State you located in? If you don't mind me asking. I find when you get stuck in a endless routine of the same shit, the only way I can get out of it is to give my life purpose; that being family & my grow. Just have to move forward, one foot in front of the other.
-Shifty

letdown shifty said:

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

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haha yea me too, I didn't use one for weeks then....made all the difference in the world.

keep posting away man we need eye candy up in this bitch and I'm sure stinkbuds super busy with all that fame and weed shop. being a baller url basically.


JD, it was only a little over a year ago I was facing huge depression issues. mostly symptoms from iv coke withdrawals but it continued for a long while. I have found growing to be hugely therapeutic do highly recommend you play around with something.

also meditate, go for some hikes, nothing like taking my mind off life with some healthy physical exercise.

good luck.

And cause I couldn't leave without at least 1 pic

Appraiser comes tomorrow for the sale of our home, last real hurdle as it's sold as is. Also we've reached a verbal agreement on a home, we'll be going to sign the documents tomorrow. As soon as I can get back to the home I'll snap some photos of my new grow garage (looks more like a barn). I would estimate 16'×25', 2 story with approx 12' ceilings. Plan on doing veg & fruits/vegetable growing on ground level, then flowering in the top level. Going to start a grow setup thread once I begin.
-Shifty

jblwired said:

Hello fellow Stinkers!
Sincerely missing my stinkbuddies,
JB

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Yo JBL! I remember you because I asked if you had JBL speakers. Do you remember? I can't remember what you replied but I still have my JBLs! People come and go. I still see old-school StinkBuddies around here from time-to-time. Everyone knows I love them and they'll always be welcome here.

I'm still growing and I work in the industry now. I'm using my photography and marketing skills helping people get started. I'm working with a large farm right now. They won a local award and grow some amazing strains.

Bud Shots - Here is the latest batch of girls:
Ozma (high CBD)
Jesus OG
Sour Diesel
Tangie
Blue Cheese
Blue Dream
Monster Bud
Chem Dawg

StinkBud said:

Bud Shots - Here is the latest batch of girls:
Ozma (high CBD)
Jesus OG
Sour Diesel
Tangie
Blue Cheese
Blue Dream
Monster Bud
Chem Dawg

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That's a little forest I wouldn't mind getting lost in.
-Shifty

So we've officially signed papers. I'm looking at the ventilation side of my new grow garage. Thinking of installing this power vent in the ceiling, rough room dimensions 16'×16' flower room.
http://www.menards.com/main/building-materials/roofing-soffits-gutters/power-vents/all-season-roof-mount-attic-ventilator-1500-cfm/p-1444423377672-c-13258.htm?tid=3232212248725147129
Is it overkill? Would you do one single can filter or a couple smaller ones?
http://hydrobuilder.com/filter-12-x-39-1700-cfm.html?dzid=csegps_701030&gclid=CjwKEAiA2ve0BRDCgqDtmYXlyjkSJACEPmdwIPBnHhcjKuPlNudWBONK_Iyb7CvjvcB_C_S0eZ8XGRoCSIDw_wcB
-Shifty

well shifty if your space is 16x16x8 thats 2048 sq ft that exhaust fan is 1500cfm seems like alot and not sure it you can connect a can filter to it.
and with a fan like that drawing air out of the soon to be stinky room you will want to deodorize the exhaust b4 its out and gets unwanted attention.

420Barista said:

well shifty if your space is 16x16x8 thats 2048 sq ft that exhaust fan is 1500cfm seems like alot and not sure it you can connect a can filter to it.
and with a fan like that drawing air out of the soon to be stinky room you will want to deodorize the exhaust b4 its out and gets unwanted attention.

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All valid points. No stinky air will be leaving my room. I'll have exact measurements as soon as we get closer to closing. I want to totally seal environment my flower room, with quick and proper venting of the room when needed. Overall just looking for suggestions.
-Shifty

A few photos from today. The 3 gals maturing just fine.
-Shifty

@luv2grow @superstoner1 @WeedFreak78 sorry for the late reply, and thank you all for your responses. being my first time doing a clean i guess i was a little over cautious, i took everything apart, scrubbed inside each rail with bleach and a brush, took a tooth brush to each spray head, got all new net pots and collars, took apart the pump filter and scrubbed it clean, let the system dry out over night, then ran SM90 and water for a few hours before adding some new plants... glad to hear my next clean wont be so much work
@WeedFreak78 thank you for mentioning your experience with AN, i just ran out and was considering picking up some 10L bottles of sensi A/B but it really is expensive stuff, and to use the full line of nutes would def put a hurting on the pocket which is what i was eventually planning to do. the Botanicare line is not as pricey, should i make the switch as well?
any other stinkbuddies recommend a product line over AN? i can get Botanicare, Optimum Hydroponix, General Hydroponics, TechnaFlora, and Ionic at my local hydro store.

@joey green I've been running Botanicare Kind product line, pretty impressed with its results.
-Shifty

I'm still amazed how the first day when you put your rooted clones in the stibkbud veg and 18-19 days later (mine just under 4 T-5's) they explode. Of course for me to avoid root rot I was putting in frozen water bottles in the morning and at night every day.

I'v been looking at many different systems for my first grow. This seems to be the simplest from what I've found. My question is if it's necessary for the 3 separate systems for the 3 stages (clone, veg, flower). Would it be possible to start the clones in the aeroponics veg system and leave them there until harvest, and only change lighting and nutrition needs? Thanks.

@BAM! You could definitely just use the same rail system all the way thru. Some just find it easier to not have to change out lighting and other miscellaneous equipment each cycle. But if it's easier for you, no reason that I can foresee why you couldn't do exactly as you asked.
-Shifty

is anyone using a chiller with this system? and do you need one?

so i went and picked up some botanicare, i ended up getting the CNS17 line (grow, bloom, ripe) since it was crazy cheap, along with some Sweet original berry, and some Growtek monster bloom, i needed to save a few bucks to build my new system. ill probably get the Kind line after this tho.
As for my new system, i put together a custom design after my first designed showed several flaws. now i can turn off each rail individually which is nice for harvest or repairs, i put wheels so i can pull them in and out of the grow space to do reg maintenance, this way i don't need room to walk around the plants so i can use the full light footprint over the scrog, and i made every aspect detachable so it can be completely taken apart. love to hear what you all think.

@s20009k . i am not using a chiller myself, just started over winter but i know a few ppl are. they are good for keeping res water temps down in the summer, or you can go full out and replace a/c with a water cooled system. if you have full control over your room temps now and you keep it in range, i dont believe you need the chiller... again im just starting out myself so im not 100% sure

does anyone know if the sprayers in the flowering unit should be shooting out a mist like in the veg unit?
i just hooked up a 633gph pump and im not getting a mist...

joey green said:

@WeedFreak78 thank you for mentioning your experience with AN, i just ran out and was considering picking up some 10L bottles of sensi A/B but it really is expensive stuff, and to use the full line of nutes would def put a hurting on the pocket which is what i was eventually planning to do. the Botanicare line is not as pricey, should i make the switch as well?
any other stinkbuddies recommend a product line over AN? i can get Botanicare, Optimum Hydroponix, General Hydroponics, TechnaFlora, and Ionic at my local hydro store.

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Price seems to be a wash..depending on what additives you use. Just from using botanicare for the last few weeks I can tell you it's a more diluted solution than AN. In veg i was at a 1 ml/L dose with AN, I'm at 2 ml/L with botanicare, in flower i couldn't go over 2.5ml/L of AN but I'm now pushing 5 ml/l of botanicare. The prices work out almost the same 1qt botanicare is appx $25 where AN is $50 for the 2 part, but I'm using twice as much botanicare. I'm probably going back to AN for my veg nutes, I liked the PH stability, I let my veg res's go for 2 weeks and the AN always held right around 6.0, even with top ups and add ins, it was literally a set and forget system for me. For flower I like the control I have with the botanicare.

joey green said:

does anyone know if the sprayers in the flowering unit should be shooting out a mist like in the veg unit?
i just hooked up a 633gph pump and im not getting a mist...

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I never got a mist, more of a spray, like the pop up sprinkler heads. How many sprayers are you running? They need about 25-30gph/spray head so a 633 pump should only be feeding 20- 25 spray heads.