Yah I’m a dick I know. I just got confused by one aspect and found the whole system and method link back to site he got a system from. StinkBud I’m sorry, you have helped many people give diagrams and plans that many people would never have been able to come up with them. You have also given personal insight and experience beyond anything contained at Astro Grows website. Any grower would understand trial and error and having someone else’s experience to build on is key. I commend you for that. I never suggested you invented aeroponic growing and I’m sorry if anyone thinks I have.
Besides pointing out everything is slightly modified version of another companies system a method, the only real question I asked, is your plant cycle. You keep saying 3 -> 3 -> 9 not hard to understand. You made a beautiful chart.
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3) I take my cutting from my veg plants. This way I can run 10 different strains without having to keep 10 mother plants.
7) I run a three part cycle. The plants stay 3 weeks in the cloner, then 3 weeks in the veg system and then the move to flower for the last 9 weeks.
Anyone can do this! If you can read a number you will have the same success as I do. Everything is measured and it is as easy as baking a cake.
Also in post you comment on how you feed each strain differently.
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Some of my new strains just can't hang at 2900 PPM without showing some tip burn. I've lowered my PPM to 2000 to see what happens.
Its weird how different strains like a different amount of nutes. My AK47 and Snowbud can easily handle over 3000 PPM but my Blueberry starts showing tip burn at 2200.
Could you please explain to everyone (not just me) how you don’t mix strains in flower room sections but still plant a batch of all 10 strains every 3 weeks? You can only grow 3 at a time if their not mixed. Maybe mod you existing chart to go further into time and include when you introduce each strain to flower section.
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You are limited to the number of strains by the holes in the veg unit. Clones are taken from the veg plants so if you don't have a plant in veg to take clones from you will loose the strain.
It sounds like you keep mothers. A plant in veg waiting around for its next open space in the flower room is a mother. @ 9 weeks flower it could be 27 weeks before you run 3 strains through one flower section. I don’t understand how you have 10 strains every 3 weeks without mixing them in flower section. And your pics and quotes show their not mixed.
Do you keep mothers?
So if not how do you flower 10 strains every 3 weeks without mixing strains?
No worries bro. Once you get to know me you will see that I have a big heart.
Like I say I don't keep mother plants. Taking cuttings from small plants in veg is not the same thing as running large full time mother plants.
I mix all my strains together in flower. I have to keep strains that finish about the same time. If one plant is ready before another I just cut the main part of the plant and leave enough so the roots don't die.
I actually wrote a detailed post in this thread about why 9 weeks is good time schedule for a Sativa/Indica mix.
One thing you need to realize is plants are not machines. I say 9 weeks but that is just a general time I'm shooting for. If the plants aren't ready, I don't harvest. In fact right now according to my calendar I was supposed to start my flush last week. But I know the plants needed some more time so I gave them an extra week. It's really not a big deal.
Same with PPM. I say 2000 as a ballpark figure to start out with. If you are growing just one strain you can dial in the PPM perfect for just the one type of plant.
Check out the photos. The first photo has Blueberry, Shishkeberry and Snow Bud. The Second is Elvy and Goo. I just took the photos a minute ago.
Remember the photos of those little plants in the middle system from a month ago. That's the same plants in the third photo! I moved them to the left side of the room and put the new girls under the lights.
We are all very friendly in this thread. Everyone makes mistakes. I make more than my share. Sometime we say things that we wish we could take back. It happens all the time. I honestly love everyone here and hope that others pass it on.
It takes a big man to forgive and forget. How about we all be friends now and grow some bud!
I'm a shitty cheerleader.
