Absorbers Bell Syphon Grow

ttystikk said:
I grow a great batch of snot on the stems lol

I'm swapping the water every few days. It may not help so much more the the patient has taken hold but at least I can see if it keeps it at bay.
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I've grown my share deal of snot myself!

I put 1-2 ppm in anything going in to the reservoir. It doesn't really affect the positive microbial life either. I often have tons of Springtails in the coir telling me they're eating alive fungus and bacteria in the root zone.
 
Absorber said:
Super Skunk clones are in
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With multiple bloom spaces, I suggest your next expansion be a pre bloom veg tent or space nearly as large (maybe half the square footage) as your bloom tent so you can grow your girls to bloom ready size while the previous crop finishes. The more stages you have in such a room, the more bloom tents you can accommodate. With two, I would think just one or two stages would be perfect.

I think of it like this; a jet airliner makes zero money while it's sitting on the ground, so getting it turned around and back in the air with paying passengers is essential to make the plane pay for itself.

In a very similar way, your bloom space is not earning its keep anytime it isn't running IN BLOOM. Downtime is anytime it's not running a bloom cycle with properly sized plants in it. For comparison's sake, my turnaround was no more than 30 minutes; in that time I pulled the finished crop, changed the nutrient solution, vacuumed, mopped the floor and installed a fresh batch of plants already grown, trained, trellised and fully ready for their first day in the bloom cycle.

If you have two tents and you veg for a month in them before flip (just judging by the size of the plants in the pic), a pre bloom stage will effectively add another tent. Also, this allows you time to best train the plants for the space you have.

Since you're helping me with advice for running my cloner, I feel I should return the favor!
 
I don't think he'll need more than two weeks of veg with established clones being put in the system? They fill out very well in a dialed in hydro system.

He's running two tents in tandem already. Transplanting or moving plants two times instead of one seem like extra work and stress for the root zone without much gain?

He got a small clone space to establish clones for two weeks before transplant and that's what he needs in my book. So in theory he already got 3 "tents". One clone station to establish rooted clones so he won't loose that time in early veg from transplant.

What he can do is using the final net pot as early on as possible to lower stress at transplant/move which I think he's already doing?

Cheers!
 
ttystikk said:
With multiple bloom spaces, I suggest your next expansion be a pre bloom veg tent or space nearly as large (maybe half the square footage) as your bloom tent so you can grow your girls to bloom ready size while the previous crop finishes. The more stages you have in such a room, the more bloom tents you can accommodate. With two, I would think just one or two stages would be perfect.

I think of it like this; a jet airliner makes zero money while it's sitting on the ground, so getting it turned around and back in the air with paying passengers is essential to make the plane pay for itself.

In a very similar way, your bloom space is not earning its keep anytime it isn't running IN BLOOM. Downtime is anytime it's not running a bloom cycle with properly sized plants in it. For comparison's sake, my turnaround was no more than 30 minutes; in that time I pulled the finished crop, changed the nutrient solution, vacuumed, mopped the floor and installed a fresh batch of plants already grown, trained, trellised and fully ready for their first day in the bloom cycle.

If you have two tents and you veg for a month in them before flip (just judging by the size of the plants in the pic), a pre bloom stage will effectively add another tent. Also, this allows you time to best train the plants for the space you have.

Since you're helping me with advice for running my cloner, I feel I should return the favor!
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Thanks for the thought but as Wastei mentioned its all sorted he's got it spot on with how my set up is and a veg room would actually slow my process down .
I appreciate the thought tho❤️‍
 
Absorber said:
Thanks for the thought but as Wastei mentioned its all sorted he's got it spot on with how my set up is and a veg room would actually slow my process down .
I appreciate the thought tho❤‍
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I put plants in their final containers in the nursery so they drop roots through the netpot bucket lids sooner. I run RDWC in my big veg space and so moving the plants is trivial; they just go from one bucket full of nutrient water to another.

I'm growing much bigger plants than most so having a pre bloom stage is necessary.

The idea was about eliminating any time spent doing anything but blooming in the bloom tents.

I did not mean to suggest that your system is flawed; it clearly works very well! My thought process went like this; if I veg for two weeks then bloom for 8 weeks, that's ten weeks total or 5.2 crops per year. If I only run bloom stages for 8 weeks, then I get six and three quarters crops per year. More throughput.

With two bloom tents it won't make as much difference but add a third and I think it will really help. Food for thought from a guy obsessed with process control lol
 
ttystikk said:
I put plants in their final containers in the nursery so they drop roots through the netpot bucket lids sooner. I run RDWC in my big veg space and so moving the plants is trivial; they just go from one bucket full of nutrient water to another.

I'm growing much bigger plants than most so having a pre bloom stage is necessary.

The idea was about eliminating any time spent doing anything but blooming in the bloom tents.

I did not mean to suggest that your system is flawed; it clearly works very well! My thought process went like this; if I veg for two weeks then bloom for 8 weeks, that's ten weeks total or 5.2 crops per year. If I only run bloom stages for 8 weeks, then I get six and three quarters crops per year. More throughput.

With two bloom tents it won't make as much difference but add a third and I think it will really help. Food for thought from a guy obsessed with process control lol
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I took no offence ,but i really dont have the room for anymore tents . Ive maxed out the grow area .
As you can see i also have custom baskets on my setup that screw onto the lid the locking rings have sprayers in them my system is a flood and drain via a bell syphon a little different to a RDWC and has rapid growth . Its all fast enough for what i currently need .
Thanks for the idea im always open to ideas :peace:
:)
 
I see this is the Sheldon type hang out!
I'll try to keep up!
Nice, well thought out method. Automation tends to make me nervous, while I agree that while it's working properly it's all cheese but when a gremlin strikes!
 
Psyclops said:
I see this is the Sheldon type hang out!
I'll try to keep up!
Nice, well thought out method. Automation tends to make me nervous, while I agree that while it's working properly it's all cheese but when a gremlin strikes!
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Thanks for dropping by ,
automation can be a pain if designed poorly or using inadequate equipment or devices. I try to keep things simple even tho it might night appear that way .
 
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