birdmananyweather
Well-Known Member
It's Time To Shine!!! How's it goin' my happy RIU family!? Birdman Anyweather here checkin' in! Rain or Shine, Indoor growing specialist labels me as stated. After many years of lurking and tryin' to help my fellow growers out, it's finally time to come out
of my shell and thrive like my baby girls always do!!!! Let me tell ya a little something about myself.
I'm a Stinkbuddy at heart and started off with little closet grows when I was younger and ended up with a beautiful 4 Unit Stink bud system (NFT/Aeroponic hybrid). I was pulling over a lb of the sweetest, best tasting, and str8 up quality organic every 2 weeks (16 days actually) under 4 1000watt HID, but due to law changes and growing tiresome of all the work on top of a full-time business, I decided to change my ways. Although it pains me to know that I can no longer help out some patients in need, I gotta take care of myself too =/
Anyways enough of that nonsense....Moving on!
I've heard so much talk and speculation of LED panels and what not. TOO expensive, NOT enough penetration, LOW yields, Tech is not there yet, blah blah blah...all rubbish to me....a simple gander into the LED section of RIU and you'll easily be swayed in the other direction of those ridiculous thoughts, especially with all the solid evidence of the hard work from some of the greatest growers I've seen! I don't even try compare lighting, they are entirely different animals with pro's and con's to each. Just go with what you want to do and can be happy with
I've used every type of light except for plasma and now can say I'm a LED grower for life. (as of now that is lol)continuing with my situation....
I have two 62-inch x 36-inch x 20 inch grow tents in a spare bedroom closet, Ive learned SO MUCH about perpetual growing over the years and figure a lot of Cool Cats on here are growing so they don't have to smoke garbage, expensive, and definitely not super high quality sweet leaf from buster drug dealers but are having to wait 2-3 months for each harvest and still only get about 1-2 oz per harvest...yikes bro......That would last me 3 weeks tops being extremely frugal and that's not even getting to make/smoke concentrates
So with all that being said....Let's get down to the specs~~~~
Tent #1
Genetics~~~~
~1 Raspberry Cough Feminized from Sativa Seed Bank
~1 Cream Carmel Auto from Sweet Seed Bank
~1 Black Jack Auto from Sweet Seed Bank
Lighting~~~~ 20/4 light cycle, 12/12 when autos are finished
~1~ 100watt Diamond Series LED - Extreme 3 Watt LED technology
Tent #2
~SEA OF RANDOMNESS~
Lighting~~~~ 12/12 light cycle
~1~ Raptor 140 watt 3 single watt diode LED panel from Black diamond
Medium~~~~
FFOF mixed with even more perlite....straight from seed dun dun daaaa!!!! (haha some people have their opinions on FFoF from seed, I've never had a problem)
I had a Bag of the stuff leftover layin' around and figured I'll just use it all up. I'm an Aeroponics grower but with LED's I like to use coco, so after the soil is done for....coco from then on.
PH~~~~
Always 5.8-6 (depending on how elevated I am on any particular day haha)
Humidity~~~~
juuuust the right amount (never had a problem and never managed it unless using CO2 in the big daddy room)
Nutrients~~~~
ALL ORGANIC!!!
Botanicare Everything
Pure blend Grow
Pure Blend bloom
Cal-mag
Liquid Karma
Sweet -Berry, Raw, and Citrus
Clearex
I'll go into detail with my exact recipe and ppm I use at another time. Stay tuned haha
Method~~~~
Okay so tent #1 is kinda like my mother/clone tent...but I also have autoflowers in there for different flavors and for special random harvests during my perpetual.
On the left i have a photoperiod Raspberry Cough that I just fimmed (I actually think I missed and cut too high so its like Fuck I missed the Fuck I missed technique hahaha) in 7 gal smart pot that will veg for quite some time for clones.
In the middle there is a Black jack auto that i topped in a dollar store bucket with holes drilled in the bottom lmao same for the other auto
And to the right is a Cream Caramel auto that I am lst training.
There is a little shelf under where they grow for my clones when the raspberry gets big enough. The light cycle is 20/4 while the auto's are in there thriving and switches to 12/12 when they are finished. I take clones from the Raspberry every two weeks and move them into tent #2 after they've rooted for two weeks. all the while having automatics in flowering as well. When I grow tiresome of the mothers genetics ill just switch and start with different strains so it never gets boring. I Will switch each to 3-5 gallon air pots after these are done, Airpots rule!
Tent #2 12/12 lighting cycle forever!!! At the moment just has random bagseeds in super small little square 3/4 gallon pots (just a guess but they are small) I figured after seeing the beautiful LED party cup compitition that these will do just fine as they fit almost 3 times the amount of those cups. After they are done, I have {8} 1.5 gallon airpots that fit perfectly with much room to grow for the perpetual clones. More on that a little later after the SEA OF RANDOMNESS is done haha. I'm only using these up because I visited my parent's house in missouri a couple weeks back for vacation and looked through some old crap of mine...found like 30 seeds in a little baggy from like 10 years ago so I was like suuuure why not haha
15 started
8 females after showing sex...sounds about right
Thats where I am right now progress wise
If you have any questions or comments just let me know, I'm literally on RIU every single day to help answer any questions on your grows. I will post weekly updates or at least try to, of course with random mouth watering teasers throughout the week haha. I don't have the exact dates of what I have going on right now because I'm aiming to focus of the perpetual when it finally takes effect. I do everything by the books so it should be a flawless show with my fellow peers getting to join in on my excitement
Take care, stay medicated, and hope you enjoy the ride my friends!Oh and if my font/font color or layout is garbage, let me know how I should change it, I think it's legit though =)
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