12/12+CFL+HB's=perpetual?
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minor problem today all the plants looked droopy and overwatered, I figured I would do a flush... long story short my holes on the hempy buckets are a bit too small and were getting clogged with perliteso I made some minor adjustments and gave them a good flush I think we are back on track... also one of them is showing female I beleive... i will try and get some pics up later
well I have 2 confirmed girls they are so tiny and cute, so to recap I started 5 seeds each spouted about 22 days ago give = or - 2 so far 2 are girls the other 3 remain unknown, I also have my 2 clone experiments which are basicly little buds growing right out of perlite already have trichs.... and I have the seedlings that were started 8 days ago......I started 2 more seeds today as I am still unsure of the health of 2 of the first 5, th new seeds were germinated in a paper towel as usual once I saw a tap root (48 hours) I plant, this time I am using jiffy pellets, I normally use rocwool cubes but I am running low and really want to find an alternative anyway so we will see how they work... a pew pics of the girls I used a aaa battery for size ref... I know they look tiny but keep in mind they each had another 3 nodes but the leaves all died due too my nute experiments so when I replanted them I burried them up to the heathly point........ the future batches will be better I am gettng the nutes dialed in....
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another female showed herself today that makes 3 of the first 5 the other 2 havent havent shown yet I am not surprised since those were my worst looking 2 but I fim'd them both and they are recovering nicely. I am gpoing to start a few more seeds today and get the box full I think I can run 18 cups if I stuff them in there... I never posted a pic of the back of my box it shows the exhaust that I ill be adding some sort of filter too and the 2 intakes on the bottom one of them now has a pc fan pushing fresh air in you will see I used those painters mask on my intakes figured it would help keep dirt and dust out of my enviorment.......
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I am sure they do have to reach a certain point of maturity but I have 3 plants 12/12 from seed ranging in ages from 20-24 days old and they are throwing out pistils already...2 others from the same batch that were fim'd have yet to show sex, I have 2 in the box that are "clone" experiments taken from a plant that had flowered and harvested and I have 11 seeds and seedling ranging in age from 1-10 days old everything has gotten 12/12 from day 1.... 0 veg time.....hope that answers your question
i did it because I have a ton of seeds, and I have read alot of post over at icmag, about the method and wanted to see if I could do a perpetual without having to manage a seprate area for moms and clones.. growing this way should keep the plants much smaller thus optimizing the use of the cfls in the grow box, it all makes sense in theory imho..... its only for personal use so I only need to produce about 1/2 oz per week, I think once I get it dieled in I will exceed that....
Wolfman Zen
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Yes this is very interesting =]
lol hb=hempy bucket its how i grow I am using cfls in the box 6 bulbs total 4 42w 2700k and 2 26w 6500k so 220w not sure about the lumen countcomputer made me post twice soz,dont know what hb lights r? if u like to keep things small have u come across these,only very short thin 10 watt each,t4< can link 5 0 6 together.
marc.jeoffories
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looks like a good grow may try it myself . *subscribe*
can anyone rec. a good tutorial on hempy buckets? i know the idea but i wanted a good guide... nothing in the growfaqs or google... THX
can anyone rec. a good tutorial on hempy buckets? i know the idea but i wanted a good guide... nothing in the growfaqs or google... THX
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welcome.. I can answer basic hempy questions if you want this is my 2nd go with them but here is the plaace to be https://www.rollitup.org/general-marijuana-growing/59705-hempy-collective.html
couple of quick notes all of the new seeds are poking out of there pellets/cubes at about the same pace so no difference so far..... my little girls are starting to kick off a small smell so I am preparing for odor control, I read a diy here about a $3 filter so I was going to give that a try but all walmart had was the premade filters (same thing) so I got one of those I also ran across a filter fresh home air freshner, it is designed to attach to home vents to provide odor control so I grab one of those also I will test them both at some point and see which works I plan to simply attach them to my exhaust tube when the time comes.....
Wolfman Zen
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In the fish section of walmart they should have granulated carbon.... you can make one of those can filters with that.
nothing major to report everything coming along nicely I will probably start updating weekly unless there is a question or something I put one of the jiffy pellets into a hempy bucket today so far all of the nex generation are sprouting... here are a couple of pics I know one is of my experiment plant as you can see its just a bud and a stem
