50/50 perpetual tent grow!

Evo8Emperor said:

Great set up man. Just looked through and the plants look great. Only thing I noticed and Im not trying to bash, but with your UC your have your buckets pushed into the corner so the plants has only like 10in to the center of the bucket. Your going to get a lot of dead leaves and no growth back there on every plant. Im running a cch2o UC as well but mine is built by me and customized to fit my 4x8 tent.

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Do you flower in a vert set up? Yeah I just figured it would give the more space to actually grow towards the light. What do you suggest? I am doing a SOG stadium on the other side of the 4x8.

Oh I see. My bad I thought you were just running the uc as is and the other side of the tent was the vert set up. But in that case I would say that you did your home work so im not going to say anything else. lol.

No problem. Yeah I am doing all vert. I love the UC system though. I used the Blumats on the other side of the tent and they sucked in my opinion. It may have been user error but I think a active drip system is going to fair well in the stadium grow with coco.

Only thing I was wondering is how you will be training your plants ? Are you going to use a vertical screen more like a scrog and let the plants grow around it and up it ?

Just curious is all. I know its more common to have a sog set up with vertical growing. Different ideas and paths to the same point so I was just seeing what your plans were ?

I honestly have no idea what the blue mat deals even are. I read about them through your thread but didn't really get what they were exactly.

I always built my own aero/rdwc set ups like yourself it seems but this time around I decided to go with the uc and see if its worth the money. It should be by all accounts so far. Ill be doing 4 plants in a 4x8 tent with a net across the whole top. Hoping to fill out a carpet of bud. lol.

great setup but those plants looked f'ed in the A

Hell yeah. The Coco Coir side were ass raped but the UC side is awesome. I actually pulled the Coco side early because after that much stress I didn't want to have them herm. I suppose the blumats caused salt build ups or whatever. I never had that problem in a true hydro system. But the other side is getting changed to a multi feed DTW coco stadium grow.

been thinking like you that I'm going to build a vertical set up as well in a separate tent so I can keep three cycles going for a perpetual set up. Just been trying to figure out the least space I need and which way Im going to lean towards for building it and grow style.

pretty cool setup. looks very promising

Just a little tip, u wanna get all of ur high stress training done 2weeks before u flip to flower, hormone thing. Not supposed to top flowering plants, a stress free plant will bud much faster. And I have also found that leaving the metal halide in for first 2 weeks of flower will cut down on stretch, along side with a 24 hour dark period when flipping to flower to force the plant into flowering, u will see pre flowers much faster this way. Just a thought

thcrystals87 said:

Just a little tip, u wanna get all of ur high stress training done 2weeks before u flip to flower, hormone thing. Not supposed to top flowering plants, a stress free plant will bud much faster. And I have also found that leaving the metal halide in for first 2 weeks of flower will cut down on stretch, along side with a 24 hour dark period when flipping to flower to force the plant into flowering, u will see pre flowers much faster this way. Just a thought

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I have found the opposite on most of your points above... I pinch the stems on my sativa dom. Plants fir the first week of flower, to no ill effect. It helps create more of an even canopy. However i find that topping does delay flowering a little. The 24 hours of dark also caused some mid flower hermies for me. Never had a problem before i tried it. I have not tried the halide for the first two weeks though, but i think a single mixed spectrum bulb would be better.

How are you liking the light distribution without the hood and hanging the light vertically?

I've had my doubts, but, results I see in pictures have made me curious.

DO you notice that the buds are distributed only on the one side of the plant where the light shines? Or it is distributed through out the entire plant?

I imagine that with only one side of your plant getting light, it's going to reduce output of main top kolas, so instead of having 5 nice kolas from 1 plant under the light, you end up with 2 really nice ones and 3 kinda stretched ones that didn't get enough light....

Know what I mean?

Which is why I will need to see for myself, won't I? =) Just figured I'd ask for some pointers first before electrocuting myself..... Not that it ever stopped me from flying a kite in a thunderstorm.. but still...

Not everyone is going to grow the same amout of plants in the same size area. So with that being said they also are going to be many different styles in which you set your system up.

With a vertical grow the point is to have the plants around the light in a circular shape is best while building shelfs or to have the plants stacked vertically on top of one another. They will no matter what grow towards the light.

So you can either just grow a bigger amount of plants in the same place to optimize your space or you can set up a sog or scrog vertical grow which is where I tend to get the most out of. With sog you only end up growing the plants to about 12" and place them directly in flower along with say 50 or so more so you have a "sea of green".

There's a little bit on th subject anyway any questions search vertical grow on google you will get good results.

The plants in the UC are coming along well. This week is actually week 6. I put the 600Mh over here just to see what happens. I figured it was a good idea being that the Stadium set up is not ready yet on the other side of the tent. Any suggestions or questions?

I shall harvest around Jan 15 I hope.

looking good man. can't wait to see the buds out of the tent.

Someone else already mentioned it but I will second his thoughts. Don't rush those sativa dominates. They seem to take a lifetime but well worth the wait.

I agree. The plants are looking better than ever. I will get some bud shots up after the trim. I want to throw in a 1000w on one side of the tent for the next crop.

i think my friend we will be strimming our little fingers away at the same time

Matt the Mastodon Kush from the first jacked up crop is killer. I can only imagine what it would be like now that this grow is going well. A good amount of buds got heavy and I had to tie them up. It would be nice to grab another 4x8 tent. hmmm...

drekoushranada said:

Matt the Mastodon Kush from the first jacked up crop is killer. I can only imagine what it would be like now that this grow is going well. A good amount of buds got heavy and I had to tie them up. It would be nice to grab another 4x8 tent. hmmm...

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man thats the shitty thing about this hobby....without fail upgading is like a addiction....

i say as long as you can do it, do it..i havent made a purchase that has dissapointed me....well. I did buy a shitty 400w ballast but i got a nice hood...anyways yeah...im so fucking high lol. DO IT

my 2¢