Breeders Boutique Grow! Psycho Killer and UK clone only crosses SCROG

Don Gin and Ton

Don Gin and Ton

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bubbles! the tub is 25L so should i just stick to 1 or 2 plants in it or just one gert big fucker. that's what i'm thinking. more i've been reading about DWC the more i want to get cracking.

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nuff bubbles ???
 
cONkey

cONkey

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nice bush and massive trunk. killer work mate...and very sexy!! thanks uncle donny!!
awesome bubbles the roots will just LOVE it!!. i would grow one massive beast in that myself. did you have a diffiuculty with the drainage tube? i will get a crackin on mine as well in a couple weeks once i get my present garden full speed and all the kinks worked out.right now i feel like im tangled in extention cords and getting strangled by ducting .and then there is the ever persistant annoyance of timers that dont work properly and another broken oscillating fan. lol..take it easy mate and good luck with the new set up!
 
Don Gin and Ton

Don Gin and Ton

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hey conkey,

one beast it is then! difficulty with the drainage tube?! no, it hasn't got one yet :lol: was thinking of putting an elbow bend piece of plastic on the side with a piece of clear garden hose up the side so i can easily see the water level. does it need a drain tap too? i thought i'd just top it up through the grow rather than keep emptying and putting fresh nutes in. gues the option would be good though.

hope you iron the teething troubles out conks. it seems never ending the things that go wrong lol like running a car, needs new bits n bobs now n then. or constantly...

may the ganja gods smile pon us all!
 
Don Gin and Ton

Don Gin and Ton

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so i've taken one down and will probably take another tomorrow or maybe the lot depending on how it goes. looks like a decent weight off. scrog is better yield but it's hard work with a viny strain. I want to go back to easy trim jobs, took 2 hours for one plant.

looks like something took a big bite out of the canopy. the next round might actually get a bit of light now. i hadn't actually seen the plant in the corner for 2 weeks. really hoping it's not a bloke :shock:

spluffed the cheese with the stinky smelly cherry pollen and the purple sensi star i had in the freezer.
 
jigfresh

jigfresh

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I say paint it white, or cover in metal tape like me. I know a lot of people go with black, but that can absorb heat from the light and heat up the water. You want to keep the water cool. Might not matter though.
 
Don Gin and Ton

Don Gin and Ton

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Makes sense black does absorb heat. See the bit about keeping the water cool was what prompted me thinking you had a res separate and outside the cab lol. Your just winding me up aren't ya ;)
 
cONkey

cONkey

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HAPPY HARVESTING UNCLE DONNY!
im really intersted in how you create your new hydro set up...
not sure i follow how you are going to drain and change out your nutes...
as i see the waterfarm wayz.. there are 2 ways to recirculate your nutes. And its important to change your rez (nute solution) at least on a weekly basis for optimal growth.
The first option for reciruculation is like my waterfarm kit. It has a tube on the inside bucket that is hooked to my air pump and is reciruculated through the drip ring down into the bucket and back up to the drip ring.( i use a GH dual diaphram air pump ...one line for my drip line the other for my submersible bubbler in the bucket..) I have a drain tube, clearblue, on the outside of the bucket, which i can see the level of water nutes. when im low I add back a gallon or two...for drainage i simply turn the tube down and drain everything out for a rez change.
the other option.. (diY) large 10 gallon or more bucket... the drainage tube goes out of the bucket out the tent ( to keep it cool) to your rez nute tank. Inside that tank is a submersible pump that pumps the nutes right back into the plant via the top drip ring.(flowamaster methodolgy)
My experince with temps in the rez has been very good with no special anything..I find that if my tent temps are below 80degrees i dont have any problems. Others fear bacterial growth and do a variety of things to combat the potential problem. An easy fix that works well is covering the outside of your bucket with a silver insulation type matieral (THE DAWG does this) the other thing the DAWG does is make to make a special benifical TEA which he adds to his nutes to fight off heat related bad bacterial growth. I just simply add H2o2 for this potential prob, helps keep roots nice and white.
ah man, it can get complicated for sure ... are you going to use synthetic nutes or organic.. that is key as well..I use sythetic so i can use H202.. if you go organic you dont want to add h2o2 but the beni tea would be the way to go, as it is all organic.
have a wonderful day!
 
cONkey

cONkey

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lol, just a couple more important thingy before i forget.. i wish you all the succes in the world with hydro and if i can help you at all please dont hesitiate to ask, i dont have loads of experience but i understand enough about the basics that i do think i can help you . I personally use Scottyballs meathod because its so simple and so effective.
You need to get a ppm meter for hydro.I dont see how anyone hyrdo can possible grow without one. You will be using it almost daily to monitor your nutrient level.... both your intake nutes and your drained nutes to determine what your plant is requesting for food.. will she want more water or more nutes? your ppm meter will be your guide ..... Maybe when you go to Adam you can get one at one of the booths!!! i highly recommend a BLUE LAB ppm meter. I have one and love it.
 
Don Gin and Ton

Don Gin and Ton

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DST said:
black on the inside, white on the out then.....
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Shame it couldn't be black n white stripes lol.
cONkey said:
HAPPY HARVESTING UNCLE DONNY!
im really intersted in how you create your new hydro set up...
not sure i follow how you are going to drain and change out your nutes...
as i see the waterfarm wayz.. there are 2 ways to recirculate your nutes. And its important to change your rez (nute solution) at least on a weekly basis for optimal growth.
The first option for reciruculation is like my waterfarm kit. It has a tube on the inside bucket that is hooked to my air pump and is reciruculated through the drip ring down into the bucket and back up to the drip ring.( i use a GH dual diaphram air pump ...one line for my drip line the other for my submersible bubbler in the bucket..) I have a drain tube, clearblue, on the outside of the bucket, which i can see the level of water nutes. when im low I add back a gallon or two...for drainage i simply turn the tube down and drain everything out for a rez change.
the other option.. (diY) large 10 gallon or more bucket... the drainage tube goes out of the bucket out the tent ( to keep it cool) to your rez nute tank. Inside that tank is a submersible pump that pumps the nutes right back into the plant via the top drip ring.(flowamaster methodolgy)
My experince with temps in the rez has been very good with no special anything..I find that if my tent temps are below 80degrees i dont have any problems. Others fear bacterial growth and do a variety of things to combat the potential problem. An easy fix that works well is covering the outside of your bucket with a silver insulation type matieral (THE DAWG does this) the other thing the DAWG does is make to make a special benifical TEA which he adds to his nutes to fight off heat related bad bacterial growth. I just simply add H2o2 for this potential prob, helps keep roots nice and white.
ah man, it can get complicated for sure ... are you going to use synthetic nutes or organic.. that is key as well..I use sythetic so i can use H202.. if you go organic you dont want to add h2o2 but the beni tea would be the way to go, as it is all organic.
have a wonderful day!
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sup conkz, i'm deffo not going organic. synthetic all the way lol. like the white roots not gunky brown tho i hear it's unavoidable with GH nutes so i'm going to go dutch i reckon.

i'm going to try dwc first and see how the temp in the water fares. then think about a recirculating waterfarm. getting grief off my girl about that much water and electricity. no amount of me telling her it's fine, still grief lol.

the thought of ph'ing makes my head hurt but i think i've got a handle on it, need to take a reading daily and see if the girl wants water or water and feed.

I've got a cheap ph pen but i'm told they aren't too good but we shall see, if i do ok with it, fine if not i'll get a good pen. got an EC meter for PPM to go with but again only a cheap one.

this is very much a toe dipping experiment lol. if i take to it i might consider switching to bubbles full time :shock:

I'll be silver tape lining the outside of the bucket. that tapes expensive but i know my temps in the cab are going to be around 26-8c and hotter in the summer, might have to move the res out then.

thanks for the well wishes and support! i'll no doubt be asking loads of noob questions in the coming weeks lol.


few snaps.... I swear there was more there when it was in the scrog :rolleyes:

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can't seem to biggedy up the pics. the uploaders reet temperamental some times
 
cONkey

cONkey

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morning donnie!
can see them pix
WORD! who ever is dishing out this information about GH nutes always giving root rot is completely wrong and misleading you very much.
I use GH Flora Nova Grow and bloom and never ever had any root rot.
My roots will be a slight brown tintedcolor from the powerful brown color of the nutrient, but never ever root rot.
All one really needs for waterfarming in one nute and that would be GH flora nova bloom.!!!
My friend noob78 , a master waterfarme,r uses only General Hydrodponics FLora Nova bloom... one nute with spectacular results again and again.. never root rot, ever.To be honest i really really wish you would just get a waterfarm kit and GH flora nova bloom and do waterfarm to start. I have seen sooo many new hydro growers start with DWC and fail miserably. Not that you would, but the statistics show a much greater chance at success with waterfarm from seed.
 
DST

DST

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They are all invalid attachments.

I use to work when I was a Uni at Sky BSB, this women phoned up one day and announced that she had a message on her screen saying her card was an "Invalid", (pronounced as if the machine had an illness or disability). Needless to say I was rofl-ing quite a bit.
 
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