Rasta Roy's Old Country Grow (simplicity at its finest)

Thank you!

I should point out then when I water I also go through and pick off the more obnoxiously large fan leaves. Especially those at the top of the canopy that block light from getting to the lower middle regions of the plant.

Rasta Roy said:

I should point out then when I water I also go through and pick off the more obnoxiously large fan leaves. Especially those at the top of the canopy that block light from getting to the lower middle regions of the plant.

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If they are blocking light I remove them too, but if not they are big solar panels

Vnsmkr said:

If they are blocking light I remove them too, but if not they are big solar panels

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For sure! Anytime I label anything obnoxiously big that means it is blocking light from others. But yes, you don't want to take off too many of your light collectors!

This is great, I like the simplicity. I'll just click that little 'watch thread'.

A few Q's?

Do you add compost as the containers' "earth" shrinks or..? Got any info on your home made fish stock? Did'jya go to the docks by the river and talk up some game to the fishermen for their fish scraps? lol

RuRu.The.Half.Elf said:

This is great, I like the simplicity. I'll just click that little 'watch thread'.

A few Q's?

Do you add compost as the containers' "earth" shrinks or..? Got any info on your home made fish stock? Did'jya go to the docks by the river and talk up some game to the fishermen for their fish scraps? lol

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I put a 2 inch layer of compost as a top dressing when I transplanted them into their pots. Pretty much to the brim of the pot, so I haven't had much earth move back. I have to be careful when I water to let it soak in or it'll flow over the top.

I used good old Alaskan Fish Fertilizer at first but there's some locals around here that make their own fish hydrolysate, they stabilize with fulvic acid that they make instead of phosphoric acid. Npk is similar to Neptune's Harvest but I think the p is 3 instead of 4 and the potassium is like 0.3 or 4 instead of 1. I use like 1/4 a cup per five gallons of water so I don't use much.

Sorry I had to take these pictures with the lights on and they got the whole black bar thing going on. They're one week into flower. Looking big as hell! I spread out the plants in the front of the room after these pics were snapped. I'll snap some pics in a couple of days so you can see how the spread out let's them really do their thing during the early flower stretch out.

Took these pics yesterday, once again sorry for the shitty quality my camera phone doesn't do well with the hps lights.

You can these girls praying to the light though! They're past their first week of flower and our just starting to show all the glorious signs of a cannabis plant entering flower. I gave them plain water last time and with the exception of a couple heavy nitrogen eaters in the back, the plants are all a nice dark green. The not as green ones still have a healthy look, no yellowing. But the green is clearly not the darker shade of the others. It's just that particular strain.

Here's a picture to give you perspective on their size. That's a four foot tall, 35 pound Co2 tank in the bottom corner.

holy cannoli! those are big ladies. quick question. reading about you going from a 1 gallon to your ten gallon pots, am I okay going from 750 ml yogurt container to a 5 gallon bucket? or should i do it gradually?

sunandsky said:

holy cannoli! those are big ladies. quick question. reading about you going from a 1 gallon to your ten gallon pots, am I okay going from 750 ml yogurt container to a 5 gallon bucket? or should i do it gradually?

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It is better to do it gradually, typically. Especially that size. I have great compost and get massive root balls in no time. Until you get confident in your root ball growing skills I would definitely recommend moving up gradually. I'd go from your cup to one gallon, to your five gallon buckets. If you do want to go straight to the five gallon bucket though you have to be doing some kind of liquid feed. I use fish fertilizer but guano mixed with water could work too. You just can't depend on proper nutrition uptake from the soil until you have a proper root ball. At least from what I've seen. I'm sure there's a much better and scientific explanation as to why. Lol. That's just what I've noticed I have to do.

alright that's what i'll do. i feed grow big. right now the roots are starting to come out of the bottom of the containers. i have them double containered because theyre white, so there's water in the bottom of the second container, between the two, and the roots have grown in there a bit, probalby time to go to the 1 gallons eh?

sunandsky said:

alright that's what i'll do. i feed grow big. right now the roots are starting to come out of the bottom of the containers. i have them double containered because theyre white, so there's water in the bottom of the second container, between the two, and the roots have grown in there a bit, probalby time to go to the 1 gallons eh?

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Haha yea I'd say so my man! Best to transplant them once the roots fill the containers, before they start to crawl out of the containers. You should be in good shape.

It is like looking through window blinds. Voyeuristic Agricultural Porn. I'm surprised there is not an actual group for that.

I wish I had the height space for something like this.

RuRu.The.Half.Elf said:

It is like looking through window blinds. Voyeuristic Agricultural Porn. I'm surprised there is not an actual group for that.

I wish I had the height space for something like this.

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If you have a pole barn or similar type space it is extremely simple to build a room like this inside of it! Next time I get a call to build one I'll make a post about it.

I was too frantic trying to stake everything to take pictures this morning...but goddamn did I walk into a shit show when I stepped into the barn today! A bunch of fallen over branches and stalks! Thank god nothing snapped or broke, but Jesus is that a scary sight! It's my own fault I should have went through last week and staked up everything before the buds started to gain too much weight. I staked up the fallen and am gonna finish the ones that arent that heavy yet tomorrow morning. I'll get some pictures once I got everything looking photo ready again!

In other news...so I deviated a little from the simple plan...not much though. It takes about 60 gallons of water to soak the whole room so I filled my big resovior with 60 gallons and dumped in 3 and a half cups of kelp. Let it sit for 24 hours and then watered. No air pump out at this grow site unfortunately I just had to do some vigorous stirring. I like doing a variation of this kelp tea every couple weeks in my personal room when I'm flowering during a hot summer month...it seems to keep them stress resistant... I don't know if it's the potassium or trace mineral boost from the fresh kelp that they like but they definitely miss it when I don't do it so I figured I would introduce a similar element into this grow room. Especially with how much kelp I just got for cheap. My local grow store is doing a 30% discount all month on Organically Done brand products and they've got some awesome bagged kelp and I stocked up on pounds and pounds. It's from a local company and I got it for cheap so I figured it was in the spirit of the room and meant to be.

If you take anything away from this thread...let it be the knowledge that you can fertilize your plants simply with low cost, local based products.

should have taken pictures of the fallen over stuff haha, like a car accident, you don't want to look but you can't look away. Hey man if you need cheap fertlizer, come on down to my place and shovel yourself some chicken poop outta my chicken coop!

sunandsky said:

should have taken pictures of the fallen over stuff haha, like a car accident, you don't want to look but you can't look away. Hey man if you need cheap fertlizer, come on down to my place and shovel yourself some chicken poop outta my chicken coop!

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Haha yea I didn't want to have a visual of such an awful site immortalized forever!

Thanks for the offer bro! I haven't been a fan of the results I've gotten when I've experimented with chicken manure, it was store bought chickety doo doo brand. I do have buckets and buckets of rabbit manure. I'm feeding it to my worm bin and compost piles but I've still got a bunch and more coming. I've thought about top dressing with some.

*Crossing Fingers for Updated Pix* + *Bump*

RuRu.The.Half.Elf said:

*Crossing Fingers for Updated Pix* + *Bump*

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My phone camera hasn't been working but I get a new phone this week! Pictures to come soon!!! It's a fucking jungle in there!