White Ryno
Active Member
Hi all,
Over the last year I've been developing a potentially highly energy efficient method for growing. I take my clones straight from under their hood, transplant them, trim them, and throw them into flower. They are planted in 4" containers and trimmed so that they will develop into a lollipop shape. They generally yeild around 4.5 g per plant.
I'm experimenting using mini T5 grow bulbs. This enables me to keep the lights very close to my plants (they never get taller than 7"). By tracking their growth patterns I've been able to optimize the distance of the lighting to the plants pertaining to the flower stage. So this isn't a heavy yeild, right? It gives me about 4.5gX9plants/sqr ft = 40.5g per foot....Now, since this lighting system is compact and the flowers are short....Imagine stacking them bitches on top of eachother in a shelf system.
Anyways, I am looking to automate my watering process. I am growing using soil and am pretty stubborn to switch, so please don't tell me it can't be done unless I switch to hydro. I have seen plenty of automated watering systems with soil. However, I'm not so sure that any of them use molasses, as I DO use it, in their pumps. Anybody have any ideas so that at the last 3-4 weeks before harvest I can start alternating with a molasses mixture? Thanks so much!
Over the last year I've been developing a potentially highly energy efficient method for growing. I take my clones straight from under their hood, transplant them, trim them, and throw them into flower. They are planted in 4" containers and trimmed so that they will develop into a lollipop shape. They generally yeild around 4.5 g per plant.
I'm experimenting using mini T5 grow bulbs. This enables me to keep the lights very close to my plants (they never get taller than 7"). By tracking their growth patterns I've been able to optimize the distance of the lighting to the plants pertaining to the flower stage. So this isn't a heavy yeild, right? It gives me about 4.5gX9plants/sqr ft = 40.5g per foot....Now, since this lighting system is compact and the flowers are short....Imagine stacking them bitches on top of eachother in a shelf system.
Anyways, I am looking to automate my watering process. I am growing using soil and am pretty stubborn to switch, so please don't tell me it can't be done unless I switch to hydro. I have seen plenty of automated watering systems with soil. However, I'm not so sure that any of them use molasses, as I DO use it, in their pumps. Anybody have any ideas so that at the last 3-4 weeks before harvest I can start alternating with a molasses mixture? Thanks so much!