sublbc
Well-Known Member
Alright everybody,
I have posted here before when I was a noob and I felt that it would be better to give back to you all and update you with what I have done. I plan to complete my first Purple Grandaddy Grow (which will be my 5th overall) and will share all pics, specs and final dry weight of my grow. Pics that I have now are weak because of my shitty camera. I plan on getting high quality pics in future posts.
First, the setup:
2X (yes 2) - Deep H2O cultivation + drip feed systems
each includes:
HYDROHUT Deluxes 8 X 4 (7' tall) (for flowering)
15 X 5 gallon buckets with baskets (for 15 plants)
25 gallon res
3X 400W full spectrum MH lights
3X Sunleaves Aurora 6 reflectors
NK-2 sub pump
Sunleaves Air pump for 15 airstones
dedicated res air pump with 2 stones
3 X 6 inch oscillating ceiling fans (mounted in each corner)
2 X 6"inline fans (approx 310 CFM)
1 X analog photosensitive cycle-stat timer (for watering)
1X 4X4X7 HYDROHUT (Vegetative Growth room)
2 Sunblaze 44 CFL lighting arrays (4 bulbs each)
4 X 2 drainging tray
25 gallon res
air pump w/ 2 stones
NK2 sub pump
water heater (78 degree)
1X 19" oscillating fan
1X 4" inline fan
1X cloning hood (50 or so clone capacity)
1 X analog photosensitive cycle-stat timer (for watering)
3 X white 3 gallon square pots ( for 3 moms)
20X plant sites for vegetive plants
1X HYDROHUT (mini) Drying and curing room
1 X 4" inline fan
All of the fans are connected to a custom manifold which vents all of the air out of the room. This is essential for both heat and humidity control. Ambient temps never exceed 75 and humidity is 50% or below at all times.
Max temps in the Veg room are 80 with RH of <50%. Flowering rooms are a bit warmer usually maxing out at about 84 with good RH. To all of you starting out tring to go big, KEEP TEMPS AND HUMIDITY IN CHECK AT ALL TIMES!!!! Powder mildew, leaf damage and root rot is a motherfucker and can be avoided if you address your enviroment. I had to add a 12,500 BTU AC unit and a high velocity fan to get my shit in check. This has been the greatest upgrade I have made since I started this in January. Dont fuck with heat. Any consecutive days of temps over 90 will kill your shit or damage it heavily. Sad thing is that the damage may not be realised until days after things are corrected. Also, please do not try to aimlessly kill mildews and funguses with sprays if RH is your issue. Over spraying things like Bi-Carb, Serenade and other things will realy fuck up your plant especially the later you are in flowering. In fact do not even spray them with water if you can avoid it. Only spray when you need to! The only spray that I use is Messenger and Floramite (in the 2nd week to keep spider mites at bay) and I pray that the Flora mite will get me through the grow with only one application. Keeping your enviroment cool and dry is a great way to eliminate the need for all of these sprays. DO NOT LEARN THIS LESSON THE HARD WAY!
My setup is designed to be harvested every 30 days so each HH delux is set to 12/12 with the plants being started 30 days apart from one another. Evey room is doing something, be it vegging, starting clones or flowering. Having the seperate veggie room is key to making this setup work. I can keep 3 full sized mothers and 20 veggie plants. The best 15 are selected then moved into the flower room. The remaining 5 are then transfered to the outdoor garden
A SELECTIVE BREEDING program is huge when trying to acheive large yields and easy grows. Of my 40 clones, the best 20 are chosen to be taken from small rockwool cubes and transplanted to 4"X4"X4" cubes to be vegged. Of those 20 transplanted plants, the best 15 are selected to move on into the flowering room. NEVER put yourself in a situation where you are taking 100 clones to then flower into 100 plants. You are always going to have some plants that will not make the grade and it is expensive (especially indoors) to waste precious money and resources on flowering a shit plant. It will more than likely be over taken by other stronger plants and will cause you problems down the road. Only the fittest should have the right to flower which is why a selective breeding program is so important.
I just cut down my critical mass grow and now I am ready to start my PG grow. All tubing and water containers (including the res and the buckets) are to be cleaned with H2O2 before being re-assembeled. My grow medium for this grow is going to be a mixture of Coco and perlite. My previous grow was with Hydroton which had good results but I have been hearing that better yields and tastes can be achieved with Coco. THe main reason why I am going back is because of coco's ability to retain beneficial biologicals as well as nutrients for the plant to uptake. You also have to water it less and I think that the roots seem to mass up more effectively with Coco.
In order to avoid the coco falling through the bio basket I will be using wooven Coco baskets made by GH. These are neat little contraptions that will keep your DWC system safe from clogging. THey allow plenty of space for root droppage and I hope that they work as advertised. The remaining space in the bio basket will be filled with H2O2 rinsed hydroton.
1/2" tubing is used for the water return lines and the top feed drip system in the flower rooms while the veg is a more simple top feed drip system with run off recycle.
As far as nutes go I am using:
for Flower:
Botanicare's Pure Blend Pro Bloom (30ml per gallon)
Botanicars's Liquid Karma (12ml per gallon)
Fox Farm additives : Open Sesame, Beastie Bloomz, and Cha Ching
Cutting Edge Solutions : Hum Tea (when needed)
Hygrozyme : First 2 weeks only
for Veg:
Botanicare's Pure Blend Pro Grow (30 ml per gallon)
Botanicare's Liquid Karma (12 ml per gallon)
Hygrozyme
Hum Tea
I must say that I have become very good at vegging but could use a little help for the flowering process. THere are some things that I am going to try and would like some input from all of you.
First off, to get the DWC started, 30 gallons of pre mixed solution must be pumped in the bucket system with a 10 gallon res left over giving me a total of 40 gallons in the system. I plan on starting the bucket system on GROW nutes and the res on BLOOM nutes. I am doing this to avoid possible N defenciency as well as tring to avoid shock to my plants. Is this a good idea?
I also plan to add a 4th 400MH light to the system to give me more light and better yields while not going to overboard with the bills.
Like I said b4 please feel free to post. I will be getting a new camera in a day or so to give you all better pics.
See you all soon!
Sub
I have posted here before when I was a noob and I felt that it would be better to give back to you all and update you with what I have done. I plan to complete my first Purple Grandaddy Grow (which will be my 5th overall) and will share all pics, specs and final dry weight of my grow. Pics that I have now are weak because of my shitty camera. I plan on getting high quality pics in future posts.
First, the setup:
2X (yes 2) - Deep H2O cultivation + drip feed systems
each includes:
HYDROHUT Deluxes 8 X 4 (7' tall) (for flowering)
15 X 5 gallon buckets with baskets (for 15 plants)
25 gallon res
3X 400W full spectrum MH lights
3X Sunleaves Aurora 6 reflectors
NK-2 sub pump
Sunleaves Air pump for 15 airstones
dedicated res air pump with 2 stones
3 X 6 inch oscillating ceiling fans (mounted in each corner)
2 X 6"inline fans (approx 310 CFM)
1 X analog photosensitive cycle-stat timer (for watering)
1X 4X4X7 HYDROHUT (Vegetative Growth room)
2 Sunblaze 44 CFL lighting arrays (4 bulbs each)
4 X 2 drainging tray
25 gallon res
air pump w/ 2 stones
NK2 sub pump
water heater (78 degree)
1X 19" oscillating fan
1X 4" inline fan
1X cloning hood (50 or so clone capacity)
1 X analog photosensitive cycle-stat timer (for watering)
3 X white 3 gallon square pots ( for 3 moms)
20X plant sites for vegetive plants
1X HYDROHUT (mini) Drying and curing room
1 X 4" inline fan
All of the fans are connected to a custom manifold which vents all of the air out of the room. This is essential for both heat and humidity control. Ambient temps never exceed 75 and humidity is 50% or below at all times.
Max temps in the Veg room are 80 with RH of <50%. Flowering rooms are a bit warmer usually maxing out at about 84 with good RH. To all of you starting out tring to go big, KEEP TEMPS AND HUMIDITY IN CHECK AT ALL TIMES!!!! Powder mildew, leaf damage and root rot is a motherfucker and can be avoided if you address your enviroment. I had to add a 12,500 BTU AC unit and a high velocity fan to get my shit in check. This has been the greatest upgrade I have made since I started this in January. Dont fuck with heat. Any consecutive days of temps over 90 will kill your shit or damage it heavily. Sad thing is that the damage may not be realised until days after things are corrected. Also, please do not try to aimlessly kill mildews and funguses with sprays if RH is your issue. Over spraying things like Bi-Carb, Serenade and other things will realy fuck up your plant especially the later you are in flowering. In fact do not even spray them with water if you can avoid it. Only spray when you need to! The only spray that I use is Messenger and Floramite (in the 2nd week to keep spider mites at bay) and I pray that the Flora mite will get me through the grow with only one application. Keeping your enviroment cool and dry is a great way to eliminate the need for all of these sprays. DO NOT LEARN THIS LESSON THE HARD WAY!
My setup is designed to be harvested every 30 days so each HH delux is set to 12/12 with the plants being started 30 days apart from one another. Evey room is doing something, be it vegging, starting clones or flowering. Having the seperate veggie room is key to making this setup work. I can keep 3 full sized mothers and 20 veggie plants. The best 15 are selected then moved into the flower room. The remaining 5 are then transfered to the outdoor garden
A SELECTIVE BREEDING program is huge when trying to acheive large yields and easy grows. Of my 40 clones, the best 20 are chosen to be taken from small rockwool cubes and transplanted to 4"X4"X4" cubes to be vegged. Of those 20 transplanted plants, the best 15 are selected to move on into the flowering room. NEVER put yourself in a situation where you are taking 100 clones to then flower into 100 plants. You are always going to have some plants that will not make the grade and it is expensive (especially indoors) to waste precious money and resources on flowering a shit plant. It will more than likely be over taken by other stronger plants and will cause you problems down the road. Only the fittest should have the right to flower which is why a selective breeding program is so important.
I just cut down my critical mass grow and now I am ready to start my PG grow. All tubing and water containers (including the res and the buckets) are to be cleaned with H2O2 before being re-assembeled. My grow medium for this grow is going to be a mixture of Coco and perlite. My previous grow was with Hydroton which had good results but I have been hearing that better yields and tastes can be achieved with Coco. THe main reason why I am going back is because of coco's ability to retain beneficial biologicals as well as nutrients for the plant to uptake. You also have to water it less and I think that the roots seem to mass up more effectively with Coco.
In order to avoid the coco falling through the bio basket I will be using wooven Coco baskets made by GH. These are neat little contraptions that will keep your DWC system safe from clogging. THey allow plenty of space for root droppage and I hope that they work as advertised. The remaining space in the bio basket will be filled with H2O2 rinsed hydroton.
1/2" tubing is used for the water return lines and the top feed drip system in the flower rooms while the veg is a more simple top feed drip system with run off recycle.
As far as nutes go I am using:
for Flower:
Botanicare's Pure Blend Pro Bloom (30ml per gallon)
Botanicars's Liquid Karma (12ml per gallon)
Fox Farm additives : Open Sesame, Beastie Bloomz, and Cha Ching
Cutting Edge Solutions : Hum Tea (when needed)
Hygrozyme : First 2 weeks only
for Veg:
Botanicare's Pure Blend Pro Grow (30 ml per gallon)
Botanicare's Liquid Karma (12 ml per gallon)
Hygrozyme
Hum Tea
I must say that I have become very good at vegging but could use a little help for the flowering process. THere are some things that I am going to try and would like some input from all of you.
First off, to get the DWC started, 30 gallons of pre mixed solution must be pumped in the bucket system with a 10 gallon res left over giving me a total of 40 gallons in the system. I plan on starting the bucket system on GROW nutes and the res on BLOOM nutes. I am doing this to avoid possible N defenciency as well as tring to avoid shock to my plants. Is this a good idea?
I also plan to add a 4th 400MH light to the system to give me more light and better yields while not going to overboard with the bills.
Like I said b4 please feel free to post. I will be getting a new camera in a day or so to give you all better pics.
See you all soon!
Sub
