Al, great thread you got yourself into here!
Thanks for all the great information you have passed onto us!
Thanks.
I completley understand your information: do this to a "t" and you get these results! KISS= keep it simple stupid (don't try to change anything, try to make a CLONE of your assebly line).
Yep, that's the nut. Thanks for your close attention to the thread.
I do have a question about Co2. Do you stay away fromt eh Co2 b/c of not having a/c?
Mostly. I now have the AC mains capacity to run aircon if I want to, where I didn't in previous locations. Also, the setup costs for CO2 are just tremendous. Good CO2 controllers which automatically dose based upon a built in CO2 concentration meter reading are the shit - and usually over a $grand. It is not hard to drop $2-3000 properly setting up an op for CO2.
Is there a way around not using a/c and using Co2?
Not really. If you control the room temp with an exhaust blower, every time it kicks on, your CO2 goes out the exhaust line. Cooltubes (with a closed air circuit- takes air from outside the grow room airmass and dumps warm air also outside the room's airmass) will cause a thermostatically controlled exhaust blower to run a lot less often, but again, every time it runs, out goes your ga$.
Does a/c cost that much to run in a small area like yours?
An a/c unit that can cool an op like mine with a pair of 1000s, even though it has cooltubes, will pretty easily cost about as much as a 600 or 1000HPS. Cooltubes will SIGNIFICANTLY reduce the amt of time the a/c unit runs, but a roughly 10000-12000 BTU unit still would be required, good for about 800-1000W.
Also, would chillers be more effective than traditional a/c untis?
What's a chiller?
soes your strain help with chronic back pain?
Most primarily indica strains are good for back pain.
So question 1 would be what would happen if i started a SOG with 6"-7" tall clones?
Should be OK, they will finish up a bit shorter than taller clones. The biggest concern is the thickness of the stems you are getting off your mums. Thicker is better.
Is there something i can do now or do i have to clone it and grow it up proper next time?
If you have an underperforming mum, replace it with a good clone as soon as you can.
should i just keep them all until flowering, just in case the nice lookers are not the heavy flowers?
Keep vegging the mums you have now until you are sure that the plants you've put in to flower are taking off OK. Get a couple spare clones that look good into the veg area soon to get them started on vegging up to replace the slackers.
Hey Al, I just picked up 5 clones rooted in RW
Im going to veg them into my mother plants, Im going to place them in a 6" pot with those little RW cubes. How often do you suggest i flood them? And should i flood to the top of the RW cube?
Treat pots of mini RW cubes like pots of RW floc. Flood 1x/day only to about 50-75mm deep then drain immediately. Depends on your pump as to how long that will take, but you will probably want to have a digital timer as they allow for single minute increments in programming, rather than the minimum 15 min runtimes of most mechanical timers. Sufficient water will wick up into the RW to keep thing moving. Don't flood any higher than about 75mm.
But I thought, if Al B. is using a x500 meter at 1400ppm, then that would be a 1900+ ppm if i set my meter back to x700.... just dont sound right.
So, is 1.0EC = 700ppm the factor that i should be using cause im starting to lean back to that direction now?
I don't use the EC scale, even though my
Truncheon meter has CF, EC & PPM scales.
Consult your meter's manual for conversion instructions.
al, what do you do with all the trim?
do you extract in any way (hash, oil, butter....)?
or do you just toss it?
Compost. I don't mess with it. I do get some finger hash when manicuring, but I smoke most of that and give away some to favoured clients.
. thanx again im just gonna price a ppm and ec tester on ebay. i have hanna now but theyve onlyu been in service for a couple mos so i cant exactly vouch for them but ill try something diff.
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