My pineapple express 6k watt, co2 sealed room

ricky6991

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Ok, to start the room is a 19x24 and it has 6 1000w adjust-a-wings. it has a gas co2 burner and ppm sniffer to 1450ppms. 2 shitty AC portable dual hose which suck my co2 out when it turns on still. 12k btu each. although the room always has sniffer at the 1450 mark so co2 fills up quick. 45% RH but i had it lowered to 27% figured it was too low. Room is made for 24 plants as per my legal limit. Only had 12 ready lol.

the hydro system is a "oxygen pot" ebb n flow setup. it consists of 12 5 gallon buckets all connected by 3/4" tubing which fills 4 times per 12hrs. the 55 gallon and control bucket is outside the room to keep colder water temps. inside the 5 gallon buckets are fabric pots filled with a rock medium and silica rocks(wont use again).

ok so onto the pictures... they start when i first planted them into veg and pictures are in correct order but are not once a week type basis so just look at time stamp to see growth difference. they were inside a 6x6 tent which were WAY to crowded after week 5 veg but had no choice but to leave them until week 9 cause flower setup was not done. Then they were moved into flowering room finally and lollipoped and stressed from the move with uhaul truck. after, i started having a ton of nute burning issue which were bothering me cause it was killing off new growth. So, i looked at roots and noticed how roots bound they were and the way the system is setup, the bottom of roots are always sitting inside inch worth of nute solution. Ontop of that, the dehumidifer was sucking the water out of that solution so it was pretty much all nutrients. If you look at the picture of roots, the entire white roots section has one of the black inserts wrapped up inside the roots! you can see where fabric pot ends and then the roots kept growing in and out of the black plastic peice until it was now one peice with the fabric pot lol. Finally, I added another one of those black spacers under each bucket so it was not sitting in nutes all time and had more room to grow. I have been updating another thread in general section just to upload pictures somewhere so i figured i would make a beginning to end journal since ive been adding few pictures every few days.

Last pictures where from yesterday and is week 3 day 5 of flower and about 6ft tall. I had to move plants off to side of bulbs rather than under the bulb so wont burn... i see a difference everytime i go see them. sorry for crappy pictures. i try to grab some when lights just turn on before the lines show up.
 

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Not bad for a second time grower lol. My first grow was few months ago with 3kw an co2. So i guess i learned with all the nice stuff right away haha. I have to say i do find myself on here every day reading. The whole defoliating subject i have been trying to follow and research but i have no intentions on going to town on my plants until i am very comfortable with loosing possible 50% of a plants yield. Right now i am trying to recap my money as i bought a 48,000btu minisplit for 2 rooms. (Current one plus a matching one for a cardholder)
 

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3 light was 1 zip shy of 3 lb... but multiple strains and organic soil but it tested at 21.8% ... this run given 9 week veg by accident an all the lights. Hoping 7 lb but 4 lb pays for everyything so thats the min needed
 

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I flowered my last batch is an 8x4 with 3kw... this setup im using 8x4 and 6x6 for veg stage for 4 weeks. Then they are moved into flower 19x12 room.

Sorry, i messed up in first post... my flower room is 19x12... my entire flower setup is 19x24 but is divided in 2 rooms. So right now room you see if 19x12 and there is another 19x12 on other side on it with another 6kw also but for another cardholder.
 

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Day 1 of week 4 before lights on... the burn on top leafs in picture is old from when the roots sitting in water whole time. I have seen HUGE improvement since raising them out of water.
 

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Ahhh, so did some trimming today cause super bushy and buds were not getting as much light as couldve... long story short, a friend completely stripped the 2 plants in picture 41 in my first post, to nothing but sugar leafs and every fan leaf is off it. I could potentially lose a lb of meds from those 2 dieing or not continuing growth... of course pics will be posted tmr of the after affect... im super nervous
 
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