Roseman's DIY Bubbleponics Tutorial

Roseman

Roseman

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southern homegrower said:
looking damn good roseman
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Thanks bro.
It is a lot of work, a lot of work.
I am sweating big time right now as I type, waiting for my wife to get home with the weekend beer.
Today I removed the tank in the far left side of the closet, lifted the lid off and sat it on two chairs so I could remove three males, leaving two females. Of course, it fell, and hydroton went everywhere, but not one branch or limb was damaged.
One male I removed was only about 12 inches tall and was a runt. Now I only have two plants in that tank.
 
Roseman

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I have posted this 19 times.
People complain about having to read and go through the 15,000 posts and 1550 pages on the SH Bubblponics Thread to learn, so I have tried and tried to reduce the clutter and traffic on this thread to a minimum.

SOME PEOPLE JUST CAN'T READ OR COMPREHEND WHAT IS POSTED..




IF I ignore you, it might be because you ignored this:


QUESTIONS might be answered here about YOUR Bubbleponics grow:
Questions about Bubbleponic Growing Thread
.



PLEASE DO NOT HI-JACK THIS TUTORIAL with BULLSHIT CONVERSATIONS.


PLEASE DO NOT POST YOUR GROW HERE.

PLEASE DO NOT USE MY THREAD AS A CHAT ROOM FOR YOUR DISCUSSIONS.

I am trying to replace my 1500 page thread with this thread so it can be read and used more often as a source of reference.

I really appreciated your consideration if I got it.
 
Roseman

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If you are following along with this grow,
I highly advise you not to try and duplicate the three reservoirs and as many plants on your first grow.
It is a lot of work. Of course I might yield a pound of dried manicured buds, I have done it with just two reservoirs.
I think this grow will yield more since i have 9 females, but tow of them are the smallest runts that I have ever seen for their age, like only 10 or 12 inches tall.
But I have never got one over 46 incehs tall either and now I have two females taller than that.......with 5 weeks to go.
 
Roseman

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This is a critical and important stage or cycle that will determine YIELD and Quality.
During this stage of the game, you can experiment with increasing nutrient levels, if on a high phosphorus low nitrogen nute.

PPM levels are different for CFL growers and HID light users. With HID lights you can have higher ppms. If you use a ppm meter, and stayed in the 500 to 750 ppm during late VEG, then you can get into the 800 to 1000 ppm levels now, discounting water ppm and any sups you use. Some growers with HID lights can go higher. If you do not use a ppm meter, then increase nutes every so slightly daily. Getting little yellow tips on the leaves as a sign of over feeding is not going to do a tremendous amount of harm or kill them, and is just a warning sign that you are over feeding.

You need to reduce humidity now, or if you was doing anything to increase it, like wet towels and Misting, then stop it. DO NOT MIST NOW, DO NOT FOILAGE SPRAY NOW. You MUST have and use an oscilating fan now blowing toward the tops and into the middles, to avoid bud mold. It is simple and easy to avoid, with proper air circulation. Growing in small areas and enclosed tents and cabinets is where the real danger lies for high humdiity and bud mold.

If you are growing with CFLS, you can tremendously increase yield of buds with more lights, especially by adding SIDE lights. The low kelvin bulbs help increase flower size and high kelvin bulbs increase the trichome and THC production. You also need to be bending them over to allow more light to penetrate deep into the middle of the plant. Position your CFL bulbs near the highest, biggest top to get that coke can cola you want. 42 and 65 watt CFLs can be found very cheap at Lowes, Home Depot and Walmart.

Expect to see more lower leaves die off now, that is normal.
 
Roseman

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Yesterday, I decided to buy 8 gallons of DISTILLED WATER at the local grocery store, it was "on sale" for 99 cents a gallon and was a no brand name water. I wanted to do a comparison to my well water. We have had a lot of rain lately, and my normally 7.0 pH well water has been coming out of the tap at 7.6 to 7.8 pH.

I got home and tested the Distilled Water and it was 9.5 pH!

I am going to use it in the aquarium.
 
Roseman

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pH Battle

The 5 gallon bucket and one of the tanks, the tank to the left, are doing just fine, just like they are supposed to do. All three containers are really growing fine, but one tank's pH is flucuating too much.
I get home daily, and the bucket and the tank to the left have a pH of 6.4 to 6.7, which is normal to me. As the plants eat, the pH is going to go up. I add a gallon of water, 1/6 packet of nutes, and reduce the pH to close to 6.0 as daily maintenance.
But the tank to the right, I find it at 7.4 to 7.8 daily. That is not normal to go from 6.0 to 7.4 in one day. And I know somethign is wrong to find it at 7.8. I reduce it to 6.0 in two steps, one adjustment in the morning, another adjustment in the evening. Adjustments from 7.8 to 6.0 in one step are too drastic and not as safe. In an emrgency, ocasionally, it is OK, but not daily, everyday.

I was able to ask the BubbleHeads on Rollitup if they had any ideas or suggestions and a good friend named Mostly Crazy asked me about my airstones, something I did not think about. He suggested the possiblity that the airstones are holding embedded trash. He reasoend the water pump and hub were out of the tank, there was no dead debris in the tank, and it had to be something causing the pH spikes. So two days ago, I stopped at Walmart and bought two new 12 inch airstones for that tank. I brought them home, and soaked them in 4.0 water for an hour. I drained the tank, and refilled it 4 times with plain water, draining it again after each re-fill. I really rinsed the tank clean.
I cut 3 or 4 inches of the bottoms of the root off. The root ball was gigantic and may of being harboring trash. I added my nutes, one and 1/6 packet of BLOOM nutes, one packet of Micro nutes, and with my water at 100 ppm, it made my tank a ppm of 1000. That was Thursday evening, and when the dark period began, the pH of that tank was 5.8. I got up this morning and the tank was 6.2. When I got home this evening, it was 6.4 and a gallon and a 1/4 of water was gone.


If you are battling drastic pH fluctuations, something is causing it that you can do something about. Sometimes a drain and Replinish really needs a complete draining and cleaning of the bottom of the tank. I would rather get it clean, than to resort to buying one of the additives like SM-90 or Hygrozyme that balances dead debris in the tank.
 
diggitydank420

diggitydank420

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Roseman, have you considered changing your nutrient package?

I use tap water with a starting ppm of ~330 and a starting pH of about 7.5.

With General Hydroponics Flora Series I have virtually zero pH flux.
 
Roseman

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diggitydank420 said:
Roseman, have you considered changing your nutrient package?

I use tap water with a starting ppm of ~330 and a starting pH of about 7.5.

With General Hydroponics Flora Series I have virtually zero pH flux.
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I orderd Advanced Nutrients this past Thursday.

I had over ten people tell me you do not have to do pH adjustments with them, that they automatically adjust the pH for you.

I just want to experiment with them to see if their claims are true..
 
Roseman

Roseman

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Visitors,
If you are considering starting a grow,

it is MUCH MUCH easier to do an indoor grow in Winter time,
than in the Summer time.


It is easier to bring heat to a cool room, than to bring COOL air
to a Hot room.
 
macinnis

macinnis

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Roseman said:
I orderd Advanced Nutrients this past thursday.

I had over ten people tell me you do not have to do pH adjustments with them, that they automatically adjust the pH for you.

I just want to experiment with them to see if their claims are true..
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I have never had to balance the pH with my SH nutes. It always stays between 5.75 and 6.0
 
HomeGrownHairy

HomeGrownHairy

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Just an FYI - The SH site now says their SH nutes are pH balanced between 6.2 -6.5. Do you happen to know why it's not closer to 6.0
 
diggitydank420

diggitydank420

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Roseman said:
I orderd Advanced Nutrients this past thursday.

I had over ten people tell me you do not have to do pH adjustments with them, that they automatically adjust the pH for you.

I just want to experiment with them to see if their claims are true..
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I've heard nothing but good things about Advanced Nutrients, so you should do well with them.

GH says they use "pH buffers" and I would guess AN is using something much the same.

Anyway... all this talk of pH going up and down almost had me worried! Thinking why isn't my rez going up?
 
Roseman

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macinnis said:
I have never had to balance the pH with my SH nutes. It always stays between 5.75 and 6.0
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You have done everything right for sure.
Just going in and out of the lid can let a dead leaf in there or tear up some roots and mess up the pH.
Most time, it is dead root debris that does it.

I have done grows, that for a month, the pH was no hassle.
My bucket and one tank was not ever a hassle, but the one tank was, until Mostly Crazy told me it was the airstone harboring trash.
 
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