sky rocket
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Finally starting my perpetual cycle. I hate veg times and I hate trimming all at once. Every 3 weeks super lemon haze. I found a good pheno out of 10 that's frosty and has a flowering time of 55-60 days.
Harvest a Pound Every Three Weeks!
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letdown shifty
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Came across an ad in Hightimes for MagicalButter, has anyone seen one of these devices in action? Really intrigued with everything I've read on it. The real gold though is all the recipes that are on that site.
Veek da Freak
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I've got one. It does what it says, but for the money..... I'd just buy a double boiler.
letdown shifty
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Thanks for the honest input.
-Shifty
ShabbaDanks
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Sounds good to me!Cool grow bud!
i used to get an L every 2 weeks in a 4x8 using 1kwatt and 4 botinicare ebb & flows, in the og days. i love perpetual harvests! gl with this one!
BTW, 1/3 L a week to keep a medical condition under wraps sounds high?
Unless u are running a doctors officeof course?
sky rocket
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Weedfreak78 did you ever build your stinkbud style 24 site flower unit?
WeedFreak78
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yup, finishing up the first run in a week or so.
sky rocket
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Oh nice details please
WeedFreak78
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2 48" rails per tote, 6 spots per rail, i have 2 systems. I made a couple changes, I glued a piece of pvc pipe on the bottom of the fence post, then drilled thru the center with a 2" hole saw for a drain and attached 2.5" drain hose to that into the res. The pump feeds up pvc pipe to about 3" out of the tote, then I attached a piece of hose from there to the spray bars so i could lift the rails and pull the res out easily. The end caps are siliconed on both ends and i drilled holes for the spray bars to pass through, with water tight grommets. I also added hold down clips at the netpots to secure them, I used the little plastic clips that hold in screens. I wasn't expecting anything out of it really. It was a first run, in my first room with my first hydro system. I've only done outside organic soil in the past, so there was a BIG learning curve. I had early heat issues, which led to root issues, I tried bleaching the system to kill the root pathogen, but that hurt the plants because of the weak root system. I had water issues, we had awesome water in town, but multiple water mains broke in the spring, around the time i started, and our water quality went to shit. A pipe came loose dumping my res and went unattended for 24+ hours, a pump died around week 6 and i shut the pumps off for 24 hrs a couple times. I nute burned the crap out of them around week 4 of flower.
But it's all good ..i learned enough useful information to make the next go even better. I improved the airflow in my room to get the heat out, ducted my light separately. I started using Hydroguard as well in everything i have, my res's have hit upper 70's a couple times and not a sign of root problems. I need to insulate my rails, they warm up under the light and heat the water slowly over the course of the day. Once i do that I'm confident i can keep my res's under 72F even during the heat of summer. I had to get an RO filter. I need to connect pvc better, even though it can stay together just by pushing it together..it's not a sure thing..and it leaks. I now know the plants will survive at least 30 hrs in my environment, in the middle of summer, without the pumps, with only a little droop. I attribute it to my mostly sealed system maintaining internal moisture. I've also learned enough about nutes that i don't have to listen to advice from others anymore. I just needed the hands on learning, along with everything I've read to fully understand it.
I'm guessing I'm gonna see just under a LB out of this run. Hoping with improvements and newfound knowledge to at least double that next time.
sky rocket
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Nice I'm about to construct stinkbud style system to fit my magnum xxxl 8" hood using a 600 watter. It will be 3 rails. Each rail will have 4 sites to. The system will be design to be no bigger than the space of my hood to cover so it will be 3' by 3' area. Vegged 2-3 weeks topped and lolly pop and see what happens next.
Weed freak I run my lights at night which helps my tent temps stay around 72-75 degrees. I'll run 3x600's. I cAnt afford to run 2x1000s because of the temps. Here a hand drawing of what my flower system will look like. And don't laugh....lol.....I'll show pics when I complete it.
Weed freak do you run 600 or 1000 for flower?
Weed freak I run my lights at night which helps my tent temps stay around 72-75 degrees. I'll run 3x600's. I cAnt afford to run 2x1000s because of the temps. Here a hand drawing of what my flower system will look like. And don't laugh....lol.....I'll show pics when I complete it.
Weed freak do you run 600 or 1000 for flower?
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WeedFreak78
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I have both my systems under a single 600. I have an 8x4 flower area, but only using 4x4 until i get $$ for another 600, then each system will have it's own light. I didn't use the VEG system, my cuttings just stayed in the cloner, once i saw roots i gave them a weak veg nute in there for a week or so. I put 10"-12" rooted clones in to flower, They ended up around 20-24", so doubled in height. I'm trying to keep plant height under 36" so i can get full penetration with the 600. I strip the lower 1/3 of plants when they go into flower, and then again right around the end of the stretch
I'm building the veg tub so i can veg them for a couple weeks, I'd like to put 15"-18" plants into flower, that should end up right around 30-36" tall. I have much faith in this system, even with all my F-up's and lack of experience..the buds i do have are rock solid and falling all over themselves, I need to improve how the plants are supported. I can't wait to see what happens when it goes thru a run without issue!!
I'm building the veg tub so i can veg them for a couple weeks, I'd like to put 15"-18" plants into flower, that should end up right around 30-36" tall. I have much faith in this system, even with all my F-up's and lack of experience..the buds i do have are rock solid and falling all over themselves, I need to improve how the plants are supported. I can't wait to see what happens when it goes thru a run without issue!!
letdown shifty
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Thought I'd update with a photo of my flower tent. 2 plants remain in there, 1 of which is one of my last autoflower and the other is my Pineapple Kush. It's in 3rd week of flower and quite happy that it has made it thru all the learning and changing of my system. I'm pretty confident I've got things dialed in and learning my way. Have 7 plants in my veg tent doing really well. Update with those pictures later.
-Shifty
-Shifty
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sky rocket
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Better and just has good as store bought.....looking good. Are they from seed?
Keighan
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Yah pineapple express seeds, and two blue kush im going to keep ome blue kush in veg for mother, I have the mother outside flowering, it has taken nutes way better than the other plats I have in same condition the buds are litterally composed of all beautiful white hairs and its been bug resisteng, cant complain much eres a pic!
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sky rocket
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Is the blue kush from dinafem?
Keighan
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That was about two weeks ago. With the aero system I have a single pvc tube attatched to a pump with 360degree sprinklers along with drip hoses attatched to the pvc and run threw the top of the tote and clipped onto net pot with rapid rooter and lava rocks.
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dungeontrees
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Is that rot on the roots the brown mush?