babygro
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Holefillers 64w CFL Micro-grow
Yield 42g per 64w = 0.65g per watt
I'm 'championing' this micro-grow as an excellent example of what can be achieved by knowledge, determination and limited resources. I like the way this guy goes about things, he's read up on all the information he needs to know and he's used it very effectively in designing a system to produce a pretty decent gram per watt of lighting ratio.
This is an example an awful lot of new growers will learn from.
There's two things you'll notice in this 'grow-log'. Firstly, that his 'growing methodology' is little different from anyone elses grow methodology - it's just on a smaller scale. Secondly it might appear that he's made some 'basic errors', like feeding his plants too early. He hasn't, he's simply modified his grow technique to fit in with his circumstances, because he understands what those basic grow processes are.
If you're growing in 3 inch pots, you'll have to watch three things very carefully - your watering frequency and amount, your nutrient feeding frequency and your salt buildup and flushing. Each one of these problems he's understood and dealt with. His watering he took the guesswork out of and used an 'active wick' system. His nutrient feeding he realised that 3 inch pots cannot hold a lot of nutrients and therefore nutrient fed much earlier than you would in a larger pot and at higher doses. He also understood that feeding at that nutrient level with chemical based fertilisers would build up a high salt level in a fairly short period of time and therefore flushed every 3 weeks with plain water to rid those excess salts so he could continue feeding at the higher nutrient doseage levels.
I suspect from reading his notes that he over-fertilised towards the end of harvest and perhaps needed to reduce down his nutrient feeding and grow versus bloom balance and also needed to water with plain water for longer than 7 days to remove all those residual chemical salts from the soil and the plant. This is probably the reason for the poor burning buds - it's an easy mistake to make and an easy one to remedy.
His results speak for themselves 0.65g per watt of light, proving categorically that not only can CFL grows produce decent yields in small spaces but also be cheap and economic to run at the same time.
0.65g per watt would put a lot of those HID system yields to shame!
I've edited Holefillers posts slightly to compress the necessary information into a smaller area, the words and story however are very much Holefillers.
Many thanks go to him for allowing me to edit his posts and for allowing his grow to be highlighted like this.
Yield 42g per 64w = 0.65g per watt
I'm 'championing' this micro-grow as an excellent example of what can be achieved by knowledge, determination and limited resources. I like the way this guy goes about things, he's read up on all the information he needs to know and he's used it very effectively in designing a system to produce a pretty decent gram per watt of lighting ratio.
This is an example an awful lot of new growers will learn from.
There's two things you'll notice in this 'grow-log'. Firstly, that his 'growing methodology' is little different from anyone elses grow methodology - it's just on a smaller scale. Secondly it might appear that he's made some 'basic errors', like feeding his plants too early. He hasn't, he's simply modified his grow technique to fit in with his circumstances, because he understands what those basic grow processes are.
If you're growing in 3 inch pots, you'll have to watch three things very carefully - your watering frequency and amount, your nutrient feeding frequency and your salt buildup and flushing. Each one of these problems he's understood and dealt with. His watering he took the guesswork out of and used an 'active wick' system. His nutrient feeding he realised that 3 inch pots cannot hold a lot of nutrients and therefore nutrient fed much earlier than you would in a larger pot and at higher doses. He also understood that feeding at that nutrient level with chemical based fertilisers would build up a high salt level in a fairly short period of time and therefore flushed every 3 weeks with plain water to rid those excess salts so he could continue feeding at the higher nutrient doseage levels.
I suspect from reading his notes that he over-fertilised towards the end of harvest and perhaps needed to reduce down his nutrient feeding and grow versus bloom balance and also needed to water with plain water for longer than 7 days to remove all those residual chemical salts from the soil and the plant. This is probably the reason for the poor burning buds - it's an easy mistake to make and an easy one to remedy.
His results speak for themselves 0.65g per watt of light, proving categorically that not only can CFL grows produce decent yields in small spaces but also be cheap and economic to run at the same time.
0.65g per watt would put a lot of those HID system yields to shame!
I've edited Holefillers posts slightly to compress the necessary information into a smaller area, the words and story however are very much Holefillers.
Many thanks go to him for allowing me to edit his posts and for allowing his grow to be highlighted like this.