MY DIY 21st Century 'Flood' & Drain

PetFlora

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Welcome. I'm expecting big things as this is the culmination of 3 grows tweaking the hardware each time

For anyone who plans to try the screw bulb led method, make DAMN sure you wear sun glasses. As they are all globes, light is also well above horizontal and can easily hurt one's eye balls
 

BigBuddahCheese

New Member
Tiny plants? Previous grow I had to snap the F & D plant at 3ft: the cola after the break grew another 3ft.

Alas, had a nasty SM issue + aphids, so yield and quality suffered.

APs, allow for a much larger plant in a smaller container. Lava Rock allows for much less nutrient per feeding.

I could go with 2G APs, which I have, but first going with the smaller 1.1G APs.

Was thinking about your comment "Better off in Hempy" No knock against Hempy, but I can grow 4-6 plants with a total of 2G nute rez. Once they get big I may need to refill it a couple times a week.

Not only am I saving nute money, but time it takes to squeeze RO from my system @ 2G per 6- 8 hours. AND, replacing nutes in 4-6 Hempy Buckets + Rez every ~ 7 days would be back breaking. Plus, the added cost of air stones in each bucket + bigger pump.... So, I think I'm better off

If I had a booster pump on the RO then I could crank out 10-20g of RO water in a day
I think you don't understand hempy (air stones and pumps?), as well as saving money and ease of grow. Maybe someday son.

Like your grow method I think your reaching for something just want to go about the hard way.
 

PetFlora

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Contrar mon ami

I have as much nutrient in my ONE rez as each Hempy Bucket. Will have 4 adult plants in one tub with nutes draining back to one rez. Repeat 24/7

Watch and learn


Son? Hahahahahahaha

If you are old enough to remember the Beatle's song When I'm 64, well that's my age
 

PSUAGRO.

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How much of a discount on the 5lb box???...I wanna run a chem vs organic grow next, that V&B line doesn't get any simpler and the dosage is tiny per gallon; no defs at all when using the recd amounts pet????

thanks
 

PetFlora

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You can buy through their website, OR, www.cheaphydroponics.com

Told me I can buy 1 pound at 5 pound price. He's in Michigan, I think

I turned him on to it, as have others.

Deficiencies? This stuff is on steroids. Not all ingredients listed though
 

PSUAGRO.

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Unless they just recently updated their label this looks pretty complete to me
001.jpg I'm only using it on two plants next round, so this freebie should be enough
 

PetFlora

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Wouldn't normally take pics so soon, but, I moved one clone that I had in HPA for over a week with no new growth.

Since moving it into MY F & D set up YESTERDAY, a couple new leaves have already popped
. So for sure it likes the combination of leds, OR, the many more lumens/watt, as well as My DIY method

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bassgrowth

Member
These clones were taken during beginning of bud development. Buds kept growing instead of new leafs, so yesterday, I trimmed the buds back as far as I could


Overnight, all have new leafs. They are funky looking leafs, but this is normal for first couple new leaf sets

Bitches Be Bustin Out Now


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interesting.. i cant se wat thsoe pvcs are doin, thats the drip feed im assuiming im just wondering what u plugged into pvc to gravity drip
 

PetFlora

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Not a drip system. Those are low pressure spray heads.

PVC connects back to a low pressure pump inside my outboard rez. Pump is on a timer to softly spray the top of the medium, as well as the plants, until the plants grow above the spray
 

PetFlora

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Know anything about Merkaba shape called Cosmic Energy?

Notice the shadow image the leds created in the center of the image below, taken by Guod, who did not see tangible benefits. I'm thinking a larger panel, made up of multiple clusters is needed




To me, seeing them cast an actual sacred geometry image is very significant.

Proof to me, that there must be something to Sacred Geometry's relationship to pure energy.
Light is an expression of energy, and life itself.

I'm thinking how to enhance it. Perhaps a small power crystal (amplifier) in the center of each cluster... then,
duplicate the clusters, from the center out (encircling the first cluster, and so on). Panels can be as large as you want. Personally, I would follow Astir Grows panel size, and make 3+ small panels at least 3 ring wide

This may be the ultimate UFO/shape, whose cluster's cumulative energy effects might energetically super charge anything grown under it.

It certainly won't hurt, so why not? The remaining question is, which nm diodes, and where to position them to further amplify the energy

Anybody willing to test this? Pretty PLEASE
kiss-ass I promise to only say nice things about you (espcially if you let me Beta test :bigjoint: , like... Pioneer



 

gamestwin

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Where can I find that specific fixture at flora? Kinda.looks like a octopus of endless opportunities lol. Link? Or did u mash up that fixture yourself?
 

Sir.Ganga

New Member
Where most use Rock Wool, or Hydroton, RW has has too many issues, not the least of which is high cost, there is also the need to dispose after one use; hydroton, is difficult to clean for reuse. Neither allows for the removal or moving of a plant within the tray, or to take a sick/bug infested plant out. I use a small amount of hydroton ( ~ 2") as a cap on each small AP to stabilize the plant and to block the light from the roots.

I love it when someone gets an idea and runs with it...Nice to see, keep up the experiments. I use rockwool in a ebb/flow and through trial and error I found the opposite of your statement. I found it very user friendly and the cheapest medium out there. A slab of RW is running about 8 bucks per, if you buy them single, I cut them into 3-12" pcs. and use the remaining for starting newbies. My medium costs me a little less than 3 bucks per site. As for issues...I have none because each girl is on their individual square of rock on a flood table and if anything was to happen you can individualize easily.


Keep it up man love the fact your playin around...hope my info instills some ideas for you.
 

PetFlora

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Working from home, I am constantly looking in on my girls. New growth SEEMS slow, so 2 hours ago I added back the ufo. The vanity bar blocks a lot of it, but will monitor for a few days
 

PetFlora

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23 hour report on adding the ufo into the mix:

All plants have responded with much more rapid growth, so it's staying

I just noticed that all but the one plant that I recently included still have single leafs, though many are now serrated, but that one's new leafs are 3s
 

AltarNation

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I am into sacred geometry. There is definitely a connection. Basically, the way it "works" is that everything is sacred geometry within sacred geometries within more sacred geometries. Even the structure of an atom is essentially the basic "platonic solids" built in layers around each other like a russian nesting doll. There is really nothing except these vibrating structures in a sea of intangible dark matter. This is why we can perceive as wave or particle depending on how we observe... because they are basically the same thing... when we observe a particle we are observing a "point" of the geometric "structure" (using the word loosely as it is basically a vibrational pattern flowing through what we perceive as negative space) but when we observe it as a wave, we are simply measuring the vibration itself. When you insist on pinning down something you can't see, you're likely to do it incompletely, lol. It's not that it "can" be a wave or a particle depending on how we observe it so much as it's actually both at once and how we perceive it is a product of how we choose observe it.

...but I digress.

The point I wanted to make was, I think you're onto something, and it's actually a great idea. If for no other reason than maximizing potential within a given space. Lots of things in nature are made up of sacred geometry (well, everything is, but certain things show it really obviously... like the pattern of a honeycomb... that distribution of tightly arranged circles (flower of life pattern) is the same way cells manifest and collect to form what we perceive as organic matter on a much smaller scale, for instance. It's inherently present in nature, (hell, it basically IS nature) and all of the best inventions by man are essentially forms of nature-mimicking--of recognizing the sacred geometrical patterns that allow physical manifestations and biological machines to work in harmony with themselves, and to make an effort to recreate that... rather than to self-contradict and create resistance against one's own structure, sacred geometry allows structures to be designed in a way that energy/tension/et cetera will be distributed throughout the whole and therefore create harmonic alignment that allows smoother performance.

So yeah, I support your idea! Any design of any man-made item will be greatly benefited by studying sacred geometry!!
 

PetFlora

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Thanks, bud!

Pass the idea along. Hopefully someone will build some panels as I described

I've been experimenting with screw bulb leds. As I find ones with K rating I want I replace and move the others around the house. 5-7 LED watt bulbs provide a hell of a lot of light in a room
 
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