50/50 perpetual tent grow!

drekoushranada

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I have an 4x8 tent that will be using 2 600 watters in it. On one side will be the Coco Coir grow and on the other side it will be the DIY 4 bucket Under Current system. While in the veg stage I was having mega problems with the Vermiculit and perlite Hempy buckets. So I said screw it and transplanted the ladies into coco. Here are the horrible before pic and the cal mag problems I was having at first. The strains are Critical +, Mastodon Kush, Critical Sensi Star, and THC Bomb.
 

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These are the plants after they were put into the system transplant and vegged for one more week under the 600w MH. The Critical + in the yellow pot is a beast for sure. The Critical + and THC Bomb rooted with ease and the CSS and MK take FOREVER to root but I did take clones from all the plnts while they looked like crap!
 

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I flipped all the plants into flower yesterday and this is how they look after one day. The Blumats are pretty cool and only problem which is my fault is that I didn't use two of them per plant with ther wide buckets I used. The buckets are still Hempy buckets with hydroton on the bottom. Though I have the blumats I still went in watered the buckets until water came out of the holes. I figure I will do that once or twice a week just for kicks. The UC system will be started in 4 weeks so I can get a harvest every month. I won't be using those buckes because I have 3.4 gallon Air pots for the next run. The clones are doing better than ever. Here is the other half of the tent with the UC system. Feel free to ask any questions you may have. Oh yeah that is a 600w hps I just used a filter on the lense of my camera.
 

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Yesterday I went and topped one of the Critical + clones to see how it would respond. It is doing pretty good. 3rd pic is the topped plant. 2nd pic is crazy veg system I made 1st pic is the top of the plant I will try to clone.
 

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The plants did a great deal of stretching and I had to tie the C+ in the upper left corner back. They love growing into a bare bulb. The blumats are still working fine and I don't think the plants ever stop drinking. LOL... The vegg chamber is doing awesome and they picked up a ton of growth since last week. I think I will make the vegg chamber into another flower room with a flip box. Is it okay to use bamboo stakes to tie the plants back?
 

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Thanks a lot. I think I let them get a bit too big. I'm sure some bamboo stakes will fix that. The next batch will be going in some 3.4g air pots and in my DIY UC. I hope I can get a pound or more every 2-3 weeks once I fire up my other other cab with a flip flop. Any suggestions?
 
I go bare because it was cheaper and I didn't want to make it mega complex with all the ducting. Overall I'm just trying to keep it simple. I cage around the light would be good but once I train them to the bamboo stakes in a couple of weeks I don't think it will be needed anyways.
 
I was going to run a flip box in my 5x5 tent but then I realized it would be easier and cheaper to run a 1k with the cool tube and reflector. I never did a horizontal grow so this should be fun. I still have a few weeks until that flower area is fired up though.
 
The flower room is coming along pretty cool. I will put up pics this weekend. The temps were at 68f but I hope it didn't stress them. I have to get some odor control ASAP!
 
Here is a little bud porn to start off week 3. The THC Bomb is not forming buds as fast as the other strains so I will keep an eye on it to see if I'm going to keep it for the next run.
 

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looking good man them plants in the bud pic looks pretty sativa dominant so be patient with them when in 8 weeks they arent where you would like them to be.
 
I'm pretty interested in THC Bomb and how that works out for you. My gut tells me it's some kind of critical mass hybrid, but I've heard a lot of good things about it.

I'm all aboard.
 
Yeah the pheno I have is very beautiful and short. It is just a bit slow with the bud formation but it is picking up. I'm not sure if I'm going to run it in the Under Current system when I fire it up next week.
 
I went and gave the C+ a bend. This is my go at LST. What do you all think?
 

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As I promised the DIY Under Current system is fired up and running strong. The Chiller will be hooked up tomorrow. I have a little root porn. The huge root set is the C+ and the smaller set with less veg time is the Critical Sensi Star. I am not running the THC Bomb in the system. Please feel free to ask questions and give suggestions. The bubbles is from the dish soap used on the Uni seals during the leak test. It is going to be a bloody jungle.
 

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