Harvest a Pound Every Three Weeks!

StinkBud said:

Everyone is acting like I'm some kind of expert or something. You need to think of it like this. If you give a monkey a typewriter sooner or later he will type a word. Well I'm the monkey and the Aero system is my word...

So in reality I'm just an average Joe just like everyone else here. I've just been fucking up longer than most. I thought I would expose some of my stupid mistakes so you all know how I arrived where I am now. Plus they are really funny!

1) 1977, me and my buddy decide to become weed barons. We take a bunch of shitty Mexican seeds and throw them in the dirt. All of them sprouted and then died except for one.

We grew that plant until it was 10ft. tall! We were so fucking excited! Then it started to flower. We couldn't figure out where all the buds were. All there was was these little tiny yellow flowers. We didn't even know what a male plant was.

We harvested the plant and tried smoking it but we might as well been smoking a turd because it tasted like shit and gave us a headache....

2) I had a small grow going in my garage. I heard that urine was high in nitrogen and if you piss on you plants they will grow like crazy! Well that might be fine for outdoors but I was indoors.

So I pissed on a plant to try it out. The plant died and the piss stunk up the whole room. You only need like a teaspoon of piss per gallon and I must of pissed a half of a cup!

So I dried the buds and tried smoking some. Tasted just like piss....

3) I heard that organic nutes was the way to go and fish emulsion was the shit! So I tried it out. Sure enough the plants grew like crazy! I keep feeding them until the leaves where almost black/green and curling under. I figured if a little nutes is good a lot must be great!

I had yet to learn about flushing so I ran the plants hot as shit all the way to harvest. The harvest was actually pretty good. I dried the buds and tried them out. They tasted just like fish ass....

4) Back in the day I didn't know how to clone so I ran seeds. I was getting ready to move so I ran a seed batch to have plenty of seeds to get started at my next house.

I harvest all the seeds and put them in little film containers and packed them away with everything else. It took few months for our house to be finished so the seeds set in storage until I could start up my op again.

I finally got all moved in and set up. I opened the film containers and every fucking seed was completely molded and dead. I lost every seed I had! Oops...

5) One time I was up snowboarding at the mountain. I was setting in my car taking bong hits. I was right in the middle of a bong hit and looked to my left. There, one foot away was a cop watching the whole thing. It scared the shit out of me!!!

So I rolled down the window and tried not to blow all the smoke in his face. He made me get out and asked me for all my stash. All I had was this one huge dank bud. So he made take it out to the snow and stomp it in with my boot. He let me go but I was still bummed because that was my only stash.

So I went up riding some more and when I came down I thought, emmmm, I wonder if that bud it still in the snow where I stomped it. So I went over to look and started digging. Sure enough there was the bud! I was a little wet but in perfect shape. I dried it on the car heater and smoked it on the way home....

You guys having fun yet? Shall I go on?

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untitled1 said:

I have a question about germinating seeds. I've read you should put them in a damp paper towel in a dark, warm area, but what do you do with them after they sprout? How soon before you can put it in the cloner?

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untitled1 said:

I went looking in stores and online today and found out that none of the 20 Lowes & Home Depots in my city carry PVC fence posts. Does anyone know anyplace else I can them? Otherwise, I guess I'll have to use the round PVC pipes.

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Picasso345 said:

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Originally Posted by vertise
quick question man i love the thread. gave you rep would give more if i could. I am only able to work with seeds how do i go about growing with hydroponics starting with seeds. like what do i use instead of that foam
Start the seed in a wet paper towel. Once they pop put them in a Rapid Rooter plug. Put the plug in the 2" net pot and stick it in the cloner.
You can't use the neoprene collar yet but you can buy a different type of collar that will allow the sprout to come up through (they are white and snap on). Or you could make something temporary (to keep the water from spraying out).
One you get a good tap root coming out split the plug in half and take the sprout out. Be gentle!
Now just take the sprout and place it in a neoprene collar. Put the net pot back into the cloner.
This is what I did for the Skunk seeds I used and it worked great.

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About starting from seeds - do you think it would be okay to leave the germinated seeds in rockwool and put them in the cloner or would you have to wait until the rockwool has roots popping out?
Either way should work fine.
Also - how long to leave the plants in the cloner until you transfer them to the veg unit and give them nutes?
You can do it as soon as you see roots.
My cutting stay in the cloner 3 weeks because there is no where for them to go until the veg plants go into the flower room.

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Originally Posted by torrey420
I have the aero cloner all built, just wondering when I should put seedlings in it, did you start your seed in the aerocloner?
[FONT=&quot]Start your seed in a wet paper towel as usual. When they pop put them in a Rapid Rooter plug under fluorescent lighting.
Soon you will see a long tap root coming out the bottom. As soon as it is about 2" long break open the Rapid Rooter plug and remove the seedling. (be gentle!)
Take the seedling and very carefully put it in the neoprene collar and net pot. Place it in the cloner and your done.
Another option is to leave the plant in the plug and just put it in the net pot. You will need to buy a $10 pump filter bag for your pump. Little pieces of the Rapid Rooter plug will break off and plug your sprayers if you don't have a filter bag.
Seedlings can go into the veg unit sooner than cuttings because they already have roots. So within a few days go ahead and transfer the seedling to the veg unit.
Remember, seedlings have to stay in veg until you see preflowers. You can take them into flower sooner but it won't do you any good. Plants have to reach a certain maturity to flower, just like us. Clones are already mature...[/FONT]

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andyman said:

a store called "Menards" there new and are cheaper than lowes and home depot. plus they have 5" post .

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untitled1 said:

Thanks picasso, err...stinkbud.
Just a couple more questions.
Is rockwool the same as a rapid rooter plug?
And instead of a filter bag, what do you think about covering the end of the fence post with panty hose?

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mymentorisawebsite said:

StinkBud question for you. You use a Milwaukee SM802 pH/EC/TDS meter right? How do you care for it? Do you store it in MA9015 storage solution or dry? How often do you calibrate it or how off is it when you do?

For everyone else - if your looking for one of these meters, good for aero per they go to 4000ppm. The best price I ever found was 165 @ a site that says they have a lowest price guarante even they wouldn't match this [FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Authorized Milwaukee Master Distributor at $140
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DIRTHAWKER said:

Dude my first batch is blowin up!! I was thinking about what i should do when these girls are up by the ceiling? Ya know i vegged them a little too long and there gonna be big. I have been training them a little, but when i get the other 2 systems into the flower room and with my 2 lights at the moment i guess i will just need to raise one of the lights higher above the big girls?

heres a pic of one week of growth.

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