Gavita's, OG's, and Rockwool

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Start of week 8

 

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[genuity]

Love watching you work....

You hand water all that?

 

[Hot Diggity Sog]

Love watching you work....

You hand water all that?

That's what he said earlier. Sounds like a daunting task but he's got a system that works for him. I still can't believe one person manages this as he says.

Edit: I was not implying anything you said was false.

 

[707humboldt]

Nice set up bro. DE is the way to go, I changed all my rooms over to it.

 

[Hot Diggity Sog]

One thing I've noticed with these large grows is that it seems like the lights are so far away from the plants when people scale up. How is this? The lights I can see in the pictures look to be every bit of 4 feet if not more above the canopy.

 

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Genuity, yes hand watered. It only averages out to around three gallons per light per day, so it really doesn't take very long at all.

Hot Diggity, yes, the lights are three to 4 ft away. It seemed crazy to me at first as well. any closer and light bleaching occurs. I'll post some pics later of light bleached buds.

thanks 707

veg room

 

[High Grade Only]

so chop, plant, strip

 

[sehnsee]

What nutrient line do u run ? if u don't mind me asking

 

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Mostly botanicare, and advanced which i named earlier in the thread. New pics coming soon

 

[Newgrowth42o]

They look so delicious bro. I have a lot to learn before I try the Rockwool method. How many gavita are you running and how big is your room?. Your setup is bad ass

 

[High Grade Only]

sorry for such a long delay.

newgrowth, frankly growing in rockwool and hand watering is comparable to soil growing, the only difference being you need to be on top of your pH and test your run off often because you no longer have the buffer that soil allows. well that and faster growth and bigger yields and i believe i stated it before, the gavitas are spaced 40" center of the bulb to center of the next. this is a completely legal licensed grow, and frankly on the small side for the legal grows in the area. so that's how big it is lol i'll post new pics soon! sorry for the lag

 

[Sativied]

FamMan, Thanks. They are all Gavita Pro's, so they can be set as high as 1150, though the electric that is ran can not handle that load with all a/c's running . They are all set to 1K. The room has high ceilings, its a good sized space, the yield is consistently 1g/watt. There are rumors of people getting 1.5g/watt with gavitas so we are tweaking a few things and trying to push for more Meds

Those people don't remove the part of the plant that soaks up Gavita light and probably use a strain better suitable for long filled up colas, while vegging shorter. Surely you'd come a lot closer to 1.5 with something like amnesia haze... Great job though, looks delicious.

 

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sativied, with jack herer crosses we get 2.5 a light, og 2 to 2.2. the funny part is is that im seeing people get 3 a light with gavitas, however we are getting more per square foot.
for instance, on two 4x8 trays we run 5 lights and they run 3, sure they are getting 9 units, but we are getting 11 in the same space. commercial power is cheap and we would rather have a larger yield in square footage than trying to measure gram per watts.

 

[Sativied]

we would rather have a larger yield in square footage than trying to measure gram per watts.

Spoken like a pro. Indeed, space is a given and not infinite. 5 on 8x8 is a lot though, 4, as in 1 per 4x4 is a bit much already. But yeah, electricity is cheaper than the bud it produces so if 5 gets you more...

 

[w0034]

That's definitely an interesting way to do it. Here we are limited to number of plants as a caregiver (36 max). So, that determines the way we grow. Do everything to get the max yield out of one plant. I guess that certainly cuts down your labor in vegge.....!!

 

[Hot Diggity Sog]

All in all, very impressive. Your operation appears to run like a well oiled machine. Kudos to you.

 

[Hot Diggity Sog]

What is your average Kwh price?

How many sq/ft is your space and, if you're renting it, what is the monthly cost?