My Complete Guide to my Grow Setup! Come check it out

BrandonT

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six plants (white widow, super lemon haze, lowryder white russian, Sharksbreath, Barneys Farm LSD, and Lowryder/ ak47)

One 600W Metal Halide

One 600W High Pressure Sodium

A flow and drain system

15 Gallons Reverse Osmosis water Per Resevoir Fill, Running Into six large rockwool cubes (each seperate top feed)

A 240 CFM Panasonic Whisperline Fan Hooked Up With A computer cord

A Completely Mylar Covered Grow Room With 2mm Mylar Roll

A Micro Airstone for the resevoir with a large air pump from a 50 gallon fishtank

A Room Fan for Strong Stem Growth and Air Circulation

A Digital Ph Tester

A Digital PPM tester

Grotek Ph Up

Grotek Ph Down

Final Flush flushing solution for breaking down mineral buildup

Two High power Timers

For The Nutrients: DynaGrow Products (dynagro grow, bloom, protekt, magpro and also GH product: Floralicious)

First Week Of Veg
2.5 Grow
1.0 Protekt

(mls per gallon)
Bloom transition:
grow 3
bloom 5
protekt 5
Magpro 1.5
Floralicious Plus 1

Bloom:
grow 1.5
bloom 8
protekt 5
Magpro 1.5
Floralicious Plus 1

Ripen:
grow 0
bloom 10
protekt 5
Magpro 1
Floralicious Plus 1

Now For The Process

fill my resevoir with nutrients and water, 15 gallons Reverse Osmosis

Test the Ph and PPM making sure they are on target (first week veg 100-200 ppm), and the ph to 5.8

Set Up My Flood and Drain System (align 2 rockwool blocks beside eachother three blocks long) with the pump top feeding each cube with its own hoze for 15 minutes twice daily, at this time they will be smaller blocks untill they are a decent size and i will fit them into larger ones, the water will then drain back into the other resevoir.

Mount my Metal Halide Light Fixture, and lower to roughly five inches from plants (depending on the temperature i will test this first but my 240 cfm fan should keep this fairly cool)

Turn The Lights And Complete System On, setting the Timer for the lights at 18/6 and tthe timer for the feed system to 15 minutes twice daily (Right when the lights turn on, and roughly two hours before they go off)

Have This Repeated Daily Untill two weeks when i will change the Res and nutrients, which will now be more nutes because of plant size, set ppm and PH, and go again for the next two weeks

When they start drinking more and more ill start chaging the res more often, after fourth week ill change every week and a half, plus continue to change my nutes to the squedual

After the fourth week i will change to my 600 watt High Pressure Sodium

Forgot to mention i will top off any lost water to a line i will have marked for the 15 gallon line, and test the Ph/PPM of the water to keep it on target This Will Be Done DAILY

Im Going To Be doing the topping method for four colas and also Low Stress Training for a more Bushy Plant (bend the plant over and pin it to the rockwool cube with a hanger or something of the sort,(NOT A LEAD OR IRON HANGER, plastic) this will make it bush out alot more instead of get so tall)
Especially going to be topping the SuperLemon Haze as it gets tall!

keep my lights as close to the plants as possible without a high temperature(hopefully keep it around 80, with 60% humidity untill budd stage, Then ill get it to around 40% for budding)

hang out in my room whenever i can for co2, also am making a five gallon yeast and sugar/water co2 producer

I will tweek nutrients if even one plant is suffering, i want all the plants to succeed and because some are more sensitive, the others will have to pay with a little less nutrients, which i dont mind doing i will still have great results

for the last four days i will run only water and flush the plant with final flush mixed with sugar to get a nice flavored plant with tighter resulting buds

i continue to raise the PPM and nute amounts according to chart untill 2/3 of the hairs are orange, then i will harvest (different plants will harvest at different times, 1-2 week difference but im not worried about it)

One Day before harvest i will set it to 24 hours lights off to make the plant have massive streess and push all its remaining nutrients into its res production as it tries to protect itself

i will then harvest, make hash with trimmings/lower buds using a bubble bag, throw out the rest of the trim. , i will dry the buds on a line in a room with a dehumidifier and a fan on the buds, then put them in a cardboard box for a few days, then put them in jars to complete drying for a few weeks, opening the jars once a day to let in fresh air

That is my complete guide, let me know of anything else i might have missed, or any opinions you might have that might help me out to make this an even better op

Also any questions about anything i will be happy to help anybody out
 

Holla Man 219

Active Member
Nice guide. I will definately use this as a reference for my grow. Check out my grow, it's my first one and I need some advice.
 

shnkrmn

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Well, you've got some very classy strains. You didn't say if they were clones or seedlings. I grow flood and drain with Dyna-gro; love that shit. But I'm in Hydroton and I only flood twice a day most of the time except peak flowering. I'm scared of rockwool blocks :).

We have very similar grows. is your res/table DIY or store-bought?

Advice after reading your post:

Don't overdo trying to keep the lights really close unless the light is air-cooled. Even air-cooled I run my 600s about 20 inches above the canopy.

Relatedly, it's always a challenge to grow 6 different strains in one setup. Maintaining uniform height is key. 600s really only penetrate about 12 inches into foliage, so you should try to keep them that high through topping, lst, etc. until flowering; then everything gets nuts anyway lol. I grow White Russian and it's a little sensitive to high nute loads, so it's like the canary in the coalmine; if it gets any issues, you know you are at the max nute level you can go for all the rest of the strains. Personally, I think maxing out nutrients is not the best way to grow.

I'm not a fan of growing mixed strains, but I do it anyway, because I can't get my shit together (so far) to grow one strain per tub.

Topping off: I don't do it every day. In a 20 gallon reservoir, I'll let it drop to like 16 gallons before topping with plain RO water. This does (theoretically for me, anyway) let the pH slowly drop from say 6.0 to 5.5. At different points in that range, some nutrients are more available to the roots, thus making up for any accidental lockout spikes I might get. Beats trying to have it dialed in every single day. I have no idea what I'm talking about, but it works for me. :)

If you harvest when the hairs (pistils) are 60% red, it will be way before your plants are truly ripe. The pistils should be pretty much all red or brown. It's the resin glands (trichomes) that you have to look at to judge ripeness.

I'll be following along.
 

BrandonT

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Well, you've got some very classy strains. You didn't say if they were clones or seedlings. I grow flood and drain with Dyna-gro; love that shit. But I'm in Hydroton and I only flood twice a day most of the time except peak flowering. I'm scared of rockwool blocks :).

We have very similar grows. is your res/table DIY or store-bought?

Advice after reading your post:

Don't overdo trying to keep the lights really close unless the light is air-cooled. Even air-cooled I run my 600s about 20 inches above the canopy.

Relatedly, it's always a challenge to grow 6 different strains in one setup. Maintaining uniform height is key. 600s really only penetrate about 12 inches into foliage, so you should try to keep them that high through topping, lst, etc. until flowering; then everything gets nuts anyway lol. I grow White Russian and it's a little sensitive to high nute loads, so it's like the canary in the coalmine; if it gets any issues, you know you are at the max nute level you can go for all the rest of the strains. Personally, I think maxing out nutrients is not the best way to grow.

I'm not a fan of growing mixed strains, but I do it anyway, because I can't get my shit together (so far) to grow one strain per tub.

Topping off: I don't do it every day. In a 20 gallon reservoir, I'll let it drop to like 16 gallons before topping with plain RO water. This does (theoretically for me, anyway) let the pH slowly drop from say 6.0 to 5.5. At different points in that range, some nutrients are more available to the roots, thus making up for any accidental lockout spikes I might get. Beats trying to have it dialed in every single day. I have no idea what I'm talking about, but it works for me. :)

If you harvest when the hairs (pistils) are 60% red, it will be way before your plants are truly ripe. The pistils should be pretty much all red or brown. It's the resin glands (trichomes) that you have to look at to judge ripeness.

I'll be following along.
i am starting from seeds in the smallest rockwool cubes, then changing to the large ones when there is a good root system

i have a microscope to make sure the trich's are fully "mushroom" shaped, but when most of the hairs go orange or red it is usually ready for harvest; i am saying this only to help people that dont have a scope

i will top off once a day only because i dont want to much PPM and Ph changing, but if i notice the change isnt that bad i will leave it for longer before topping it off

and my res is store bought, nothing special

ALSO check "homebrewer"s grow as all he uses is rockwool cubes, and he has unreal results
 

BrandonT

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Wheres the journal?
i havnt made a journal yet as i havnt started my next grow yet, currently i have trainwreck albino rhino morning glory dwarf star critical+ and roadrunner growing but there almost finished, im going to start the journal for these after i harvest
 

bigv1976

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I figured you might be. Try to find the best google image plants you can and I know what your strains look like so do your homework.
 

BrandonT

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I figured you might be. Try to find the best google image plants you can and I know what your strains look like so do your homework.
are you depressed just looking for shit to bitch about? im at my buddys house as its lunch time and im in school, your a douchebag for no reason, and i can tell your half retarded from your avatar. good luck with life idiot and ill have pics up later just to prove you wrong
 

BrandonT

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this guys the one being an idiot, im sure his last 20 posts were people he was hating on because he has a shitty life so he tries to bring other people down to his level, to bad my lifes awesome and im actually laughing at this guy
 

kingme

Active Member
lol what is his motive in lying ? nice post brandon i like the dehumidifier when drying. im running somwhat parallel to what you are doing.
 

BrandonT

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lol what is his motive in lying ? nice post brandon i like the dehumidifier when drying. im running somwhat parallel to what you are doing.
thanks for the positive feedback i dont see why this guy had a beef, probably didnt get laid for a month
 
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