Harvest a Pound Every Three Weeks!

Aeroweed said:

Veg them too long and they do get tall... I have some 100% sativa from seeds that I started on 3/26. The plants alone are 4'... They have been topped once. I'll probably have to chop them again. I have rocks on the lid of the veg'r holding the net pots down. I definately left them too long... LOL

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What up Aero? I've got some Hindu Kush from seed on the 3/20.I'm pushing almost five feet with my tallest. I've cut it 3 times and it won't even flinch. So, 6 foot tall, piece of cake, but, I'm not trying to grow a beanstalk.

It spent 3 weeks in veg. Way too long for this strain. I've only been in flower for a week and my question is:

How severely can I cut down this monster to salvage any medicine from this behemoth?

The other plants in the first pic were from seed the same day but have had varying degrees of stress (too much heat, nute burn, etc). Thank God, because they'd be too big as well.

Thanks to everyone.

southern homegrower said:

this may be a stupid ? im new to this so bare with me. why do u use grow nutes the first 3 weeks of flower

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The plants go through a massive grow cycle for the first 2 weeks. I noticed that the plants where staying light green when I was using the bloom formula.

The grow formula has more Nitrogen so the plants stay a nice dark green. I use the bloom formula after 2-3 weeks depending on how lazy I am.

NewHiddenGrower said:

I doubt you can get your plants up to 6' tall with this system bro. But prove me wrong!

Goodluck

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Not that I am trying to prove you wrong... but I have a couple 6 foot + Headbands right now! The Stink system never ceases to amaze! Stink has had several too - look back and see the posts of tied down sativa monsters. If you had the vertical height and the plant support - who knows how high you could go...?

robotninja said:

Hey stink, or ne1? What's a good RO system to get?

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The units from HydroLogic are the industry standard... though many RO units are similar... I saw a nice one at Costco.

From Hydrologic, the Merlin Garden Pro is the best - with the only real difference in any RO unit being the amount of RO water they can produce a day... the smallest units produce about 100 gallons per day with 500PPM water as the source - The Stealth series produce 100 or 200 gallons per day while the Merlin will spit out as much as 30 gallons per hour!

I use the Stealth 100 - it's slow, but I keep a 50 gallon res full, filling it at night.

If you are handy, there are many DIY RO systems you can build yourself. The filters can be purchased at hardware stores.

jasonm230 said:

I'm new to growing myself just started my first in soil grow. and if all goes well with that i'm gonna try your method it just looks so simple. I'm not looking a lb every 3 weeks I just had a couple questions. What timers do you use for your pumps could you give me a link to where i can purchase them or are they avaiable at home depot or lowes? and how far apart are you placing your sprayers thanks. Gonna purchase everything for this set up next weekend. and how much different would my yeild be in the end if I had only 1 1000watt HPS and my MH ballast kit is 1000watt also how big of a difference will that make

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Search "digital recycling timers" for options... I like the Sentinel DRT-1, though there are many to choose from.

Consult the plans on page 75 - I believe they are spaced the same as the site holes - 7" (that is just a guess off the top of my head)

Not sure if you are intending to run 3 units just as Stink... if so, 1 - 1000 light may be hard to get good coverage over all three units... start with 1 light and get more as you can! 1 - 1000 will light the hell out of one unit!

An MH light and an HPS light would be great - that's what Stink is using.

NewHiddenGrower said:

Hey guys im about to flower , and i searched 2 weeks for PVC fence post...

I cant find any i ordered 2 from ebay and got scammed...


So i found a round 4" PVC pipe. Will this work?

the only difference is that its not a square but a circle

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It works - but there is not as much room for the plumbing and the round tubes are not as stable as the posts...

Contact a reputable vinyl fence installer in your area and order from them. Or try again on the web - many on this thread have ordered successfully, with great pricing too.

So I saw the post about running co2 in the pvc but I dont see anymore details about it =[

So I'm wanting to keep my grow room well vented but at the same time expose some CO2 to my plants.

How would I be able to do that?

Thanks in advance!

-currently on some sour bubble haa

LionsRoor said:

It works - but there is not as much room for the plumbing and the round tubes are not as stable as the posts...

Contact a reputable vinyl fence installer in your area and order from them. Or try again on the web - many on this thread have ordered successfully, with great pricing too.

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Thanks for the reply bro.

I found some Vinyl fence post but not pvc is that ok?

Also back to your 6' plants did they yield over a pound? Because i saw 6' soil plants and they yield over a pound. But it was the strain Critical Mass

LionsRoor said:

Search "digital recycling timers" for options... I like the Sentinel DRT-1, though there are many to choose from.

Consult the plans on page 75 - I believe they are spaced the same as the site holes - 7" (that is just a guess off the top of my head)

Not sure if you are intending to run 3 units just as Stink... if so, 1 - 1000 light may be hard to get good coverage over all three units... start with 1 light and get more as you can! 1 - 1000 will light the hell out of one unit!

An MH light and an HPS light would be great - that's what Stink is using.

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i will be using t5 floros mixed with daylight CFL's for cloning/seedlings MH for veg and HPS for Flowering one 1000watter wont flower 14 ladies?

jasonm230 said:

i will be using t5 floros mixed with daylight CFL's for cloning/seedlings MH for veg and HPS for Flowering one 1000watter wont flower 14 ladies?

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Hey that is perfect.

Stinkbud has 3 1000HPS 1 for each system.

NewHiddenGrower said:

Hey that is perfect.

Stinkbud has 3 1000HPS 1 for each system.

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excelent thanks

jasonm230 said:

excelent thanks

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But i use T5 for veg too, stinkbud himself wanted to change from MH to T5 as well.

Holy Crap! This system is amazing! Built a cloner and veg unit a few days ago. Sprouted about 25 seeds and transferred them to the cloner 5 days ago. Since then they've popped some huge roots! I also had some seedlings a couple weeks old in rockwool cubes. I broke off as much of the rockwool as I could without hurting the roots, and stuck them in the veg unit four days ago with nutes @1800PPM (GH nova for now, will try organic after this batch runs out). Since then the seedlings have tripled in size! The stalks are getting a lot thicker too, and there's new growth showing up all over the damn place!

Vegging under a home-made 4-bulb T5 fixture, you can make one for yourself by following my tutorial here (the tutorial makes you two 4-bulb, 4-foot units for $120): https://www.rollitup.org/indoor-growing/193769-build-your-own-t5-fixtures.html

I have another I'll hook up soon.

Here are some direct comparisons from right before stinkbud's system, and after just four days in the veg unit. Here's what the seedlings (strain unknown/bagseed) looked like in the rockwool cubes just a few days ago:


And here is just FOUR DAYS LATER after switching to stinkbud's veg unit. The red circles in the image show the SAME LEAF for comparison purposes, so you can see that the photos are just about the same scale:


I can hardly believe it! It's like a miracle! As you can see the entire top half of the plant is brand new explosive growth in the past four days, and the plant is way healthier looking overall. I've been checking them two or three times a day, they haven't needed any work yet. I can practically see the roots grow they are going so fast!

If anyone has any doubts about this system just look at the images above, they speak for themselves.

Bravo StinkBud! I can't thank you enough.

crap guys lost my first clone in like 6 months, only cause I dropped a light on it. other than that still no loss of clones due to cloner problems. I love this thing. I have lilac bushes in my cloner now along with rasberry bush. both seem to have werid little root nubs starting. I think im going to sell other plants on the side.

NewHiddenGrower said:

But i use T5 for veg too, stinkbud himself wanted to change from MH to T5 as well.

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hmmmmm i already bought this mh from htgsupply i guessi can put it on ebay if stinkbud was wanting to do there has to be a reason for it I'll stick to T5's for veg then

Jagermaster said:

What up Aero?

How severely can I cut down this monster to salvage any medicine from this behemoth?

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Hey Jager! I thought I had redwoods. LOL
I chopped mine early down to about 6" tall. Since I'm close to flowering these I doubt it would be a good idea to do that. The root mass is so freaking large I can't pull the net pot out of the veg'r, so I'm gonna have to ride this one out in a crane...

For everyone else reading this... Do yourself a favor.

DON'T VEG TOO LONG!

robotninja said:

Hey stink, or ne1? What's a good RO system to get?

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I bought a 6 stage RO from eBay, 100 GPD for $100. I use it for my fridge ice cubes too! Don't bother with the dual output. It sucks. The unit is slow.

My tap water was 500 PPM to start, this unit brings the PPM down to 110. I may add another DI filter to bring it down to 0 PPM. A 7 stage would have been perfect.

If you need a lot of water fast, this is not the way to go. Use the one Lion recommended.

has anyone done or needed to do a 120 site cloner with stinks plans? i need a 120 and i dont wanna run 4 units, ya know?

Well, Lol, I'm up to about page 83 of this thread, I think. Taken me a couple of weeks to get this far. It's a great read. Iv'e been itching to go to the last page(#589) and see If Stinkbud and some of you others are still sticking with this one. Most of you are. Lol

Anyway, This is my first post on this site. I have some DWC/Bubble experience from when I grew years ago. This one thread has got me wanting to get back into the game. My friend is housing some bagseed plants that I started bout 6 weeks ago mostly for fun. One in soil(bout 6-8inches tall) and and 3 pitiful looking ones in almost straight vermiculite with some nutes. I'm gonna get a pic of them on here in a few just to get some opinions on how I should treat these plants (as far as topping, cloning, when to flower, and just for some general ideas of what YOU would do with them). I am gonna set myself up with this system soon but for now just wanna have some fun with what I got.

Thank you to everyone for all this info.

Wish me sanity with my next 500 pages. LOL!

Hey bugs you are probably gonna need multiple cloners for that many, or one huge container.

I was going to post this in my journal but i thought it was a question that everybody could benefit from. I think i have some nute burn? my room temps and humidity and co2 levels are perfect so i narrowed it down to possible over fertilizing. Its only one strain out of 3 in this unit (cheese). The leaves near the top are yellow and crispy. This strain has always done this but still have always yielded great. I thought once i had my controller all the plants would stay lush until the flush, so it has to be too high a nute ppm. I know there is no way to save the affected leaves now but what is the best course of action?

should i drain and flush with clean water for a few hours then readjust the nute ppm to be lower?