BCNL Producer Grow #2

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NoDrama

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ok so i will start a journal of this next grow. gonna try a few different things this time around. Less nutes for one, and the shorter pheno of my BB/NL cross.

So I will start with the clones. Pic is clones in the aerocloner, and the mothership used to grow moms and make clones. 400W MH.

Note: No nutes, plain PH 6 water with some hydroguard and a few drops of superthrive.
 

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Ok so 12 days after putting in the cuttings we have clones.
These get put in 3" rockwool cubes and placed into the producer to begin Veg. The 3 inch cubes are placed in 3 inch net pots and the veg light(18/6) and flower lights (12/12) are both turned on. Watered 2 times/day for 5 mins a pop.

PPM at this stage is 200. SensiGrow a&B, superthrive and a little voodoo juice.
 

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wow, nice. Hey i've been trying to get an answer for this, how much can u notice after using the bcnl on your electric bill. is it energy effecient? 1-10 10 being great what wuuld you rate the bcnl? thanks
 
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We have cheap power where I live .06/KWH. so running a producer 12/12 and a mothership 18/6 gets me about $40 extra on the bill.
I rate the producer a solid 8, a few improvements could be made and have, considering mine is last years model.
 
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On the cloner its a manual operation, i found that using rockwool you really only need to water 1xday, so I just blip the switch when i get home and leave it on for a couple minutes. I don't use the neoprene inserts, just 1" RW cubes.
 
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Quick update, just some of the clones here, not a lot of growth up top, but they are putting some good roots down. Next weeks pics should have much better growth showing.
 

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Week 3, got some good root growth so we should start seeing fast vegging. Running 600 PPM here. Superthrive, sensizyme, sensigrow a&b.
 

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End of week 3 UPDATE!! Beginning of week 4, one to 2 more weeks of vegging to go. they have doubled in size in 1 week here. 1 plant isn't growing as fast as I would like, I may move it to a middle location. Running 700PPM here. Sensigrow A&B, Superthrive.
 

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NoDrama said:
On the cloner its a manual operation, i found that using rockwool you really only need to water 1xday, so I just blip the switch when i get home and leave it on for a couple minutes. I don't use the neoprene inserts, just 1" RW cubes.
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Hmm no neoprene.

Why have I not thought of this!!!

I have an EZ-clone but they go into Rockwool right after so they are only in for about 4-5 days, since they have to be moved when swelling starts, before the roots actually pop out.
 
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- thought the same thing... It's a fucking great idea!

I also have 6 EZ Clone machines, I stopped using them because the neoprenes were a pain in the ass... (Sterilizing them, buying new ones when they wore out) I switched to Rapid Root plugs... And clone domes...

Damn, wish I would've thought of that, you'd only need to blip it to wet the rockwool... But, it is taking away the aeroponics for rooting, might be better?
 
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Yeah you just get the RW wet each day, once you got roots blowin out the bottom thats when I let her go aeroponic. Flip the switch on and in 2 days roots will be 8 inches long, that gets coiled up into the 3" cubes and off into veg we go. This method lets me go from cutting to flowering 1 week earlier than normal due to cutting out some of the veg/clone time. Makes it easier too as you dont have to go dicking around with the neoprene inserts which I found will let mold grow on them when a stem is inserted. Granted the RW cubes can get some algae growth, but something to block the light will cure that.
 
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Well I found out why the very front right most plant hasn't been growing as expected, i took a look at the roots and found that half of them had dried out. lo and behold when I did a water pump test the drip fitting had gotten clogged, cleaned it out and found a small piece of rockwool wadded up in there, now thats fixed lets see if it gets on track.
 
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End of week 4, end of veg. plants are doubling in size every week with 750PPM. Starting flower at 200PPM for a kind of flush and will pump that up each week with res change. Also starting CO2 injection at 1500 PPM. I took Veg bulb out so It can't accidentally be turned on. Will use AN SensiBloom A&B, AN Big Bud, AN Vitaboost Pro, AN Carboload, AN VooDoo juice.

In 2 weeks I will be doing some pruning, plants will lose a bunch of foliage then also. More weekly updates to come!!!
 

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hey man, yea thanks alot. nobody ever sayd highlander! thats wut i always think of when i say that, although zepplin is fucking amazing highlander is just wut sticks out, for me at least. but hey u seem like u know wut ur doin, ill stay in contact
 
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Update end of week 5, 1 week of flowering done. Using 350 PPM here, plants again have nearly doubled in size. Tomorrow I will be pruning off about the lower half of the plants stems. If they don't stop growing so fast I may have to resort to a screen to keep them from touching the hot part of the glass, we shall see.
 

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