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ineverveg

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Well things have been interesting this round. Playing with JOTIs Godbud (3 phenos with 2 being similar) and 1-THC Bomb (sat pheno). Popping the rest of the THC Bomb ceeds soon. I had a low ph and some low temps (freezing outside with a few feet of snow). It looks like it will still be goods tho. Peace!!!

ahh, one of my favourite strains,they are looking very nice indeed! when you get the temps right they go a pretty pink! respect all the bomb seeds

all under one 600w hps?
 

sky rocket

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they look solid/dense buds, how many grams did they produce?
Isk....I weight both of them together they came out to be 24.2 grams total. So about 12.1 grams avg....from 12/12 seed.....now if I can do 120 like that under 2x600's. That would be 1.21 gpw.......
 
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gr865

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A large overdose of cal/mag will throw the whole plant into sever shock. Looks alot like a sever ph lockout.
I did it once by over pre-charging a brick of coco, at 30ml/gal and then didn't rinse it. The day after the transplant they looked like they were going to die. They recovered after some heavy flushing. Made me wish I had a drain plug in the buckets.
It works very well Watt!
 

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ineverveg

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wanting tp trans plant from a 2L to a 5 Gal. How do you go about that? dont wanna see it fall apart, 50/50 coco/perilite
Whenever i transplant a 2L i will get a full bottle of pop and put my container in a bath,put the pop bottle in the center, fill with coco to desired height and then top off with coco,
Now i flush the whole thing with the shower until the water runs clear and salts are flushed ect, then warm up with some warm ph 'd water rinsed through.

here's the good bit ,the drenched coco will hold in place after you remove the bottle of pop allowing for a smooth transplant ,then give it some rhizotonic with a good feeding and shock is minimal. and dont forget to feed nice luke warm water. hope this helps ,its just what i do ! nothing special, but easy!
 
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Shaggn

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Depending on how close the nodes are would tell you if you would benefit from lolly-popping them or not. I found on a few strains I actually lost weight from lolly-popping. Try a couple with and a couple w/o to find what works best with each strain/pheno. Sorry needed to add in that I ran 64 - 2L under a 600. Also I would not reccomend lolly-popping a 12/12 from seed, but that is just my opinion and don't know if you would benefit from it or not. :) Peace!!
 
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gr865

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Quick shot of my 120 girls shooting out roots. Just plain tap water. 4 minutes off 1 minute on while putting two 2 liter frozen bottles every 12 hours to keep from the water getting too warm.
What cloner are you using? I am trying cloning in straight coco solo cup hempys, 7 out of the 8 Black widow clones have rooted and taking off. I like using it but requires a lot of hand watering.
 

gr865

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Update

Day 28 of 70 under 12/12

Well they say give the bad news first and then the good news will fix it all. Hummmmmmmm?

Ok, today was a flush day!
During the flush I was doing the clones in the solo cup starter hempys. I had just given them their second drinch and places them all on the drainage rack on my work table. "BAM" my table collapsed sending all the clones to the floor and some landed on their little heads, but all came out of their cups and spilt coco and perlite all over the place. I scooped up the clones and placed them back in their cups and tried to get as much coco and perlite that I could. Well now they are not Hempy solo cups, the are just a clones in a coco perlite mix but still in the cups. Will see how it goes, that shit went everywhere. The clones were two weeks old yesterday and I was very impressed with the amout and density of the root mass. Seven of the 8 clones made it, started directly in the solo hempy cups. I did the same thing when I sexed the plants got all 10 clones rooted in straight coco. I like the method but would prefer to have an aero cloner, but just can't justify the cost for the amount of plants I do.

Now for the reason I flushed today, the pH of my rinsate is fine, Going in it 5.8 to 5.9 coming out is 5.9 to 6.0. YEA! Think I got a handle on the coco. The problem and it is inherent with coco is the tendency to hold salts, and since the nute I use are chemical base the salts build up. My ppm going in is approx 850 with each batch of nutes i make up, Each time I check the ppm in the runoff it increases until I flush, I usually wait to flush at between 1300 to 1500 ppm. The salts have been increasing with each watering/nutes, and yesterday when I checked the rinsate it was 1480 so today was a flush day. Now is the time I'm glad I have the drain plug. I take untreated rain water, fill to the top, I have my drain hose tied up so the liquid stays in the bucket. That takes about 3/4 gallon, I let that sit in the bucket for about 10 to 15 minutes to help desolve the salts then I remove drain plug and let it drain rapidly and completely. I do this passing about two gallons thru the bucket. I then treat 5 gallon of aerated rain water with 25 ml silica and 25 ml Cal/Mag. I follow the same method as the untreated water, filling the buckets with the two gallons of treated water, the last fill is drained from the drain tube.
I will begin using nutes tomorrow. One thing I did notice this time is BW1 has tip burn on the very tip of the leaves and BW 5 has some minor clawing. I think it was really time to flush. I have been flushing about every 3 weeks, may make that two weeks and try to control the tip burn and clawing.

Other than that the ladies are doing just fine, I am so impressed with the way the maintain color. Both plants look great.
They are for sure Sativa dominate, trained for 4+ weeks, started flower at 2 inches above the ring or around 10 inches, they are now above 28 inches. I can imagine what they would look like had I not trained them Manifold (mainline) style.
BW 1
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BW 1
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BW 1
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BW 5
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BW 5 the canopy's are both equal height.
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Both of the ladies in the cabinet.
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Well thats it for tonight, see you next week with another update.

GR
 

WattSaver

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Looks Great GR. Special request. You've talked about the "Cabinet" many times, but I can't recall a photo of it. So could you step back a couple of ft from the photo above and give us a view???
If it shows too many details then no problem. 8-)
 

gr865

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I'd have to shoot you if I showed you! LOL

Yea Watt I can do that, if I had it all to do again I would just buy a good tent. I am not a carpenter so this was way too big for me to try, but hey it works well so I guess I did something right.

It is 48"X30"X72", 5/8" plywood, very sturdy. I put the foam insulation sheets covered with Mylar on the insides and door.

Pics will show it better than I can tell it.

Cabinet 1.jpg Cabinet 2.jpg Cabinet 3.jpg Cabinet 4.jpg Cabinet 5.jpg Cabinet 6.jpg Cabinet 7.jpg
 

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gr865

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could not get these to post above
Cabinet 11.jpg Cabinet complete, 10-23-13.jpg cabinet 13.jpg

The set up prior to the MH and HPS lamps.
You can see how cluttered it is.
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Intake air comes from a closet in the house, LED inside the closet while I finished the cabinet.
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Sealing it was a bitch, wood for door was warped and had to brace. Then just could not get a good seal, put two layers of stickup insulations and ended up having to add a third, had seal all seam in the cabinet had to redo the area where the wires entered the back of the cabinet and ended up making a block system to hole the wire in a single place the used lots and lots of black caulk to seal around them all.
I no longer use the LED for flower I use it for beginning veg in a closet and then when the cabinet is empty from the flowering I put them in the cabinet to finish veg under a 400W MH and then flower under a 400W HPS.

Current setup This is about as clean as it gets for the space I have.
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Note the filter is mounted vertical and the ducting runs to the cool tube and then to the exhaust fan.

Any question ask.
I bitch about building it but I would do it again. Only I would use different materials.
It is not silent, don't guess I can get it there, but I have an oscillating fan on the top of the cabinet that comes on when I turn on the light and its sound mask the sound of the cabinet. That's in case some should go in the garage.

That's it,

GR

The two Black Widows currently residing in the cabinet.
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gr865

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I posted some pics a while back of this bucket that I am using for my next project. Since I did not follow through with the post I am starting again. I would really like some good honest opinions or hell even lies, LOL, about what you think. Ideas of course are more than welcome, I want this to be successful.

20150307_120246.jpg 20150307_120331.jpg With it sitting on the three wheel dolly I should be able to rotate the container regularly to increase the light penetration into the canopy.
This container is 21" in diameter and almost 10" deep or 13.5 gallons. Putting the drain hole at two inches gives me a about a 3 gallon reservoir and 7 inches of mix, I plan on using 70% coco, 25% Perlite and 5 percent worm casting. If it has to be move from the cabinet the weight will be tolerable.

.20150307_161413.jpg I want to grow these 7 Black Widow clones in there. May send a few to a friend so grow 4 in the new bucket. That would be about two gallons per plant. I will start to flower in a few week using the SS 400 LED and keep the mothers under the T5's. They have surprisingly taken off after that spill from the other day.

Ok, What can I do to improve, is this a bad idea, should I just stick to smaller buckets? At some point when I get enough 3 lb Folgers coffee containers, G/F gathers them from work, I would like to do a SOG. I guess this would be considered that sort of.

GR
 

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