lukio
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yo, yeah they seem ok...i thought they'd be freaking out by now. they do seem to be drying out quickly so i'll put em in solo cups soon. i think im gonna try and keep them small for a while...
had 1 male show.
lights, camera, procrastination.
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had 1 male show.
Gond00s
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honestly I was thinking about just popping all my mccs or (Forum Cut Gsc x A13) then throwing them in veg for a few weeks like 4 weeks in solo cups and just flower them to get to know if its a boy or a girl but those mccs looks promising i found a nice mom out of 3 and im loving her very stretchy hoping she has super dense nugs everywhere on her because their is alot of space between nodes which is cool
Gond00s
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got her sent into flower and got the clones in their pots I kinda waited to pot them up but god damn their roots were a foot to two feet long and nice and white which is a plus for me and they all got to a foot tall but that's prob bc I had them under 21 watts of t5 but I like my stretchy strains
lukio
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welcome, dude. growin anythin at the mo?Im here for the party
Short answer: will be harvesting 2 plants within 5 days.
If you think what I have posted is too much, I will happily delete, but thought growers might want to know the main cause of Root Rot. Several advanced growers here and elsewhere offered their knowledge, but none figured it out. The back and forth got heated, and I stopped posting to my thread here and one other popular site
I am happy to say that after 4 straight grows where my plants all died of RR, and in this grow, should have, I finally figured out what the cause was. Over the years my methods included HPA, DWC, F & D, then I got an idea to try LPA (using HPA mist heads and a large GPH pump. When you see the root pics, you'll see it has great promise, as well as see the problem: the spray was hitting the underside of the lid and penetrating deep into the net pots.
I always start seedlings/clones in my DIY bubbler, then transfer to my DIY F & D, very successfully. But I decided to push it by increasing feed cycles to hourly, which should work, BUT, I set the water level too high, which, unknowingly, was soaking the starter cubes 24/7. After 2 failed grows, I decided to try low pressure aero + HPA mist heads. I had great root development, but then the dreaded RR. So, I went back to bubbler, but this time with a twist. I have been on a quest to optimize DO for several years, while eliminating air stones.
This time I developed a super technique using a plastic bottle half filled with platonic solids and marbles with a pump inserted into the mouth. I drilled holes in the bottle, but the pump was too big (or the tote was to shallow). All of these would work great, but all suffered from the same issue: my starter cubes were getting soaked 24/7, thereby creating the environment for the dreaded root rot. Here's pics of each +plus this saved grow (last 2 pics) which is within 5 days of harvest. She's 40" tall, the plant from the ugly pics with RR. Should be smooth sailing from now on
If you think what I have posted is too much, I will happily delete, but thought growers might want to know the main cause of Root Rot. Several advanced growers here and elsewhere offered their knowledge, but none figured it out. The back and forth got heated, and I stopped posting to my thread here and one other popular site
I am happy to say that after 4 straight grows where my plants all died of RR, and in this grow, should have, I finally figured out what the cause was. Over the years my methods included HPA, DWC, F & D, then I got an idea to try LPA (using HPA mist heads and a large GPH pump. When you see the root pics, you'll see it has great promise, as well as see the problem: the spray was hitting the underside of the lid and penetrating deep into the net pots.
I always start seedlings/clones in my DIY bubbler, then transfer to my DIY F & D, very successfully. But I decided to push it by increasing feed cycles to hourly, which should work, BUT, I set the water level too high, which, unknowingly, was soaking the starter cubes 24/7. After 2 failed grows, I decided to try low pressure aero + HPA mist heads. I had great root development, but then the dreaded RR. So, I went back to bubbler, but this time with a twist. I have been on a quest to optimize DO for several years, while eliminating air stones.
This time I developed a super technique using a plastic bottle half filled with platonic solids and marbles with a pump inserted into the mouth. I drilled holes in the bottle, but the pump was too big (or the tote was to shallow). All of these would work great, but all suffered from the same issue: my starter cubes were getting soaked 24/7, thereby creating the environment for the dreaded root rot. Here's pics of each +plus this saved grow (last 2 pics) which is within 5 days of harvest. She's 40" tall, the plant from the ugly pics with RR. Should be smooth sailing from now on
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lukio
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nahhh its all good, man.
HPA isnt something i was expecting ha! never really see it...good luck tinkering with it, some of those roots look real healthy. i would probably flood everything!
I REEEEALLLLLLY need to build a cloner...got all the bits..
i remember reading about that when i first got into growing...doesnt water temp dictate DO? i stopped caring about rez temp...maybe i shouldn't have.
looks odd, sounds even odder! if it works it works right
she doesnt look too bad. what kinda strain is it? so no RR next run?
lookin happy, dude!
Axion42
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I finally built one, it's just a mini system but perfect for my new small space.nahhh its all good, man.
HPA isnt something i was expecting ha! never really see it...good luck tinkering with it, some of those roots look real healthy. i would probably flood everything!
I REEEEALLLLLLY need to build a cloner...got all the bits..
i remember reading about that when i first got into growing...doesnt water temp dictate DO? i stopped caring about rez temp...maybe i shouldn't have.
looks odd, sounds even odder! if it works it works right
she doesnt look too bad. what kinda strain is it? so no RR next run?
lookin happy, dude!
lukio
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hmmm very cool! i like the bucket ones too, more roots from the get go is all good in my book. ive really gotta do it!!
what clones are they?
Axion42
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2 cold snap, and 3 Han solo burger - no idea lol my buddy gave them to me, before that I've never heard of it but he says its dank.
lukio
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nice, man. you smoked the gdp before?
plants are good, cheers. got some GG4 BX3 i need to flip two months ago! and the 40 new bodhi need potting up and sexing...one of the Guava Wookies has the craziest stem rub and roots everywhere...so its probs a male.
lost a load of clones while i was away so need to do those again also...
lol fingers crossed dude
No longer doing it because the grow room is too hot 8+ months out of the year (learned the had way of course). But, the things I learned, I applied to the LPA with HPA mist heads using a deep cycle timer. That definitely has promise.
My issue was the spray was too strong, bouncing off the underside of the lid and soaking the net pots; probably combined with too long spray times. A deeper tote or smaller pump will solve that
hth
She had such a tough beginning, IMHO, that she lived and grew is a miraclenahhh its all good, man.
HPA isnt something i was expecting ha! never really see it...good luck tinkering with it, some of those roots look real healthy. i would probably flood everything!
I REEEEALLLLLLY need to build a cloner...got all the bits..
i remember reading about that when i first got into growing...doesnt water temp dictate DO? i stopped caring about rez temp...maybe i shouldn't have.
looks odd, sounds even odder! if it works it works right
she doesnt look too bad. what kinda strain is it? so no RR next run?
lookin happy, dude!
Rez temp dictates how long DO remains in solution. DO meters are > $500 and apparently don't last long. One benefit of creating DO via the bottle/platonic solids is to eliminate air pump sucking CO2 and injecting it into the rez: the other is to circulate the nute solution. I kept the stones this grow, as I was being overly cautious
HPA is a mist, which is very sensitive to ambient temp inside the grow chamber, as are HPA roots, which looks like cotton candy. Temps above 68*s prevent the shy root hairs from developing
The seeds are from 2011 and I abbreviated what strain on the jar, and I'm not sure. It could be MedMan F2 Blueberry Cheesecake, a mix of Sat and Indica. From my first grow, one was a male and I pollinated a female. These seeds are obviously Sat dom
hth
Gond00s
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I’ve smoked the gdp I’ve been growing before I think this will be one of my better grows of it what else is nice is how much height these Mccs put on in height can’t wait for those beautiful bottoms to start shooting up so I can train them into bushes but I wanna finish up the rest of the mcc pack then after I’m out of them I’m going to do some a13x forum gsc hoping to get something very nice out of those but after those I wanna go and pick up some packs of chems sis from katsi seeds , space monkey from Bodhi and phone home from Bodhi night change up because I still got like 20-30 seeds to pop
