smacksjack
Member
Hi RIU - I thought that I would start to contribute after a bit of just leeching information from y'all.
Here's what we got:
Starting with the first pic, we have "Silver", "Truman", "Mr. Popular" & "Wiggles" - these are the Blue Dream. Next, we have "Pinky", "The Brain", "Sister Mary Francis", and "Buddy" - these are the Aliens On Moonshine.
Notice the huge difference with genetics. You get what you pay for...
EQUIPMENT
8'x8' Gorilla Grow Tent
8-Bucket General Hydroponics Powergrower (a cross between recycling DWC and Top Drip) with 17 gal reservoir and 17 gal controller
4-Blackdog 750w Platinum XL-U LED's (Only running 2 in Veg, 3 in Flower)
2-Can Fan 6" HO
2-Can Lite Carbon Scrubbers
Airstones, etc.
1/10 hp Sunleaves Elemental H2O Chiller
NUTRIENTS
Using the 0-8-16 LUCAS Formula to get our system fully dialed in before switching to alternatives and additives
CaliMagic
Hydrogen Peroxide
PLANTS (Hydroton)
4-Aliens on Moonshine
4-Blue Dream
This is our baselinegrow using Blackdog's Platinum XL-U series LED. Right now we have two, 750W vegging our eight plants.
We have run into a couple of issues so far:
1) Platinum XL-U's get hot - we have a constant room temp of 75-86 degrees (night-day, respectively)
- An aside, always replace the ratchet systems that Blackdog gives you. You buy a $1000 light and the hanging clips are so so so terrible. I refused to dangle my investment from puny aluminium clips.
2) General Hydroponics gives you blue tubing with the kit...which wont keep out algae growth with the warm water. Ridiculous. So we had to do a bit of an emergency flush and redesign a week into veg. But we have now covered our medium and got black tubing - so no more algae.
3) High res temps have given us some root rot. So the Blue Dreams are hurting quite a bit as they are much more an environmentally dependent genetic. Aliens on Moonshine, however, is going like gangbusters (though would benefit from a cooler res temp). This JUST got solved with the addition of a chiller.
I will have pictures up ASAP - and will pull some timelapse video of the grow as soon as I can.
My first report is that the Platinum XL-U's are just rocking and rolling. Especially with the better and more resilient genetics, I have 3/4 thick epistems/stalks and we are just hitting our three-week mark in vegging!
I'll keep everyone posted!
Best,
Smacksjack
Here's what we got:
Starting with the first pic, we have "Silver", "Truman", "Mr. Popular" & "Wiggles" - these are the Blue Dream. Next, we have "Pinky", "The Brain", "Sister Mary Francis", and "Buddy" - these are the Aliens On Moonshine.
Notice the huge difference with genetics. You get what you pay for...
EQUIPMENT
8'x8' Gorilla Grow Tent
8-Bucket General Hydroponics Powergrower (a cross between recycling DWC and Top Drip) with 17 gal reservoir and 17 gal controller
4-Blackdog 750w Platinum XL-U LED's (Only running 2 in Veg, 3 in Flower)
2-Can Fan 6" HO
2-Can Lite Carbon Scrubbers
Airstones, etc.
1/10 hp Sunleaves Elemental H2O Chiller
NUTRIENTS
Using the 0-8-16 LUCAS Formula to get our system fully dialed in before switching to alternatives and additives
CaliMagic
Hydrogen Peroxide
PLANTS (Hydroton)
4-Aliens on Moonshine
4-Blue Dream
This is our baselinegrow using Blackdog's Platinum XL-U series LED. Right now we have two, 750W vegging our eight plants.
We have run into a couple of issues so far:
1) Platinum XL-U's get hot - we have a constant room temp of 75-86 degrees (night-day, respectively)
- An aside, always replace the ratchet systems that Blackdog gives you. You buy a $1000 light and the hanging clips are so so so terrible. I refused to dangle my investment from puny aluminium clips.
2) General Hydroponics gives you blue tubing with the kit...which wont keep out algae growth with the warm water. Ridiculous. So we had to do a bit of an emergency flush and redesign a week into veg. But we have now covered our medium and got black tubing - so no more algae.
3) High res temps have given us some root rot. So the Blue Dreams are hurting quite a bit as they are much more an environmentally dependent genetic. Aliens on Moonshine, however, is going like gangbusters (though would benefit from a cooler res temp). This JUST got solved with the addition of a chiller.
I will have pictures up ASAP - and will pull some timelapse video of the grow as soon as I can.
My first report is that the Platinum XL-U's are just rocking and rolling. Especially with the better and more resilient genetics, I have 3/4 thick epistems/stalks and we are just hitting our three-week mark in vegging!
I'll keep everyone posted!
Best,
Smacksjack