DaGambler's 4k HPS 99 Plant Hempy Grow
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theloadeddragon
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no floaters for you 
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This time will be better than last....
And next time you will really start to get it down
.....This time will be better than last....
And next time you will really start to get it down
god bless you.no floaters for you
This time will be better than last....
And next time you will really start to get it down
i hope ur right
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Nice and sturdy Botanicare Fittings.
Tossed out all the media i had mixed up. Back to the drawing board.
Dueling Tri-Meters. Perhaps the Truth lies somewhere in-between ?!
RESULTS OF THE NEW CLONE SET-UP TEST RUN:
- River Pebbles: Bad idea. (Not nescesary.)
- M.G. Seed Starting Mix 50/50 w/Perlite: Bad idea. (Holds too much water.)
- 2 mil. Plastic Sheeting: Bad idea. (Damaged in at least 3 places during installation.)
I'll be cloning in -pure- perlite in 18 oz. cups. I'll be replacing the 2 mil. plastic tomorrow with 6 mil. plastic. Still looking to take clones tomorrow.
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slipperyP
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Nice and sturdy Botanicare Fittings.
Tossed out all the media i had mixed up. Back to the drawing board.
Dueling Tri-Meters. Perhaps the Truth lies somewhere in-between ?!
RESULTS OF THE NEW CLONE SET-UP TEST RUN:
- River Pebbles: Bad idea. (Not nescesary.)
- M.G. Seed Starting Mix 50/50 w/Perlite: Bad idea. (Holds too much water.)
- 2 mil. Plastic Sheeting: Bad idea. (Damaged in at least 3 places during installation.)
I'll be cloning in -pure- perlite in 18 oz. cups. I'll be replacing the 2 mil. plastic tomorrow with 6 mil. plastic. Still looking to take clones tomorrow.
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Youll find your mark....Thanks for posting detailed info...Great journal....Very Professional looking...I think your harvest will be nice.
southern homegrower
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dagambler hows things going
Thanks for asking. I got ...paranoid... and had to Chop -Everything- Down !!! (Just Kidding
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Day 7: I removed all the domes thinking to give them a day or two in the open air... 5 minutes later i wasn't sure if any of them would survive !! Though they shriveled up to nothing and lost all turgidity... I placed the domes back on and all of them recovered. REMINDER: crack domes and remove them a bit at a time so as not to stress the plants, rather than all at once.
Day 14: Clones in -pure- perlite. I was concerned about this because i've had trouble in the past while trying to clone in pure perlite in a hand watered setup. It seems very well suited to a once-a-day ebb 'n flow setup however. They started at 100 ppm of a rooting formula and went to 200 ppm Lucas formula at the first signs of active growth.
Twelve flourescent fixtures over 132 clones (down from 240 clones the last go-round). I'm split between doing either 99 or 49 in the next flower cycle. (Currently running approx. 199 plants in the flower room.) I'm getting the urge to run 49 mothers and 49 clones... keeping at 99 or less. Do i really want to piss off Los Federales ?! No. Not really.
Some ALGAE visible on the root poking out of this cup. I'll be uping the dose of H2O2 to about 900 mL per day in the 30 gal. reservoir. Hopefully that will clear it up. If not then i'll go down next weekend and try to find something that kills algae but is safe on other plants.
The girls in the flower room are Ridiculously tall. But i wanted to make sure that the Ebb 'N Flow was running smoothly before i flipped them to flower... they are now 14 days into flower and starting to put on flowers nicely. They are due for another trim to the under growth. Will try to picture update on those in the next couple days.
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bigjesse1922
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I say keep it 99 or less.
They are itchin to fill up their privately ran, for profit dungeons of nonviolent offenders.
Its the American way! Gotta keep the people safe, doncha know?
You can rape and sodomize children and be out sooner than a drug dealer!
Oh say can you see, by the dawn's early light...Land of the free? Home of the brave??
What a fuckin joke!
Nothing but best wishes DG. Lookin great.
They are itchin to fill up their privately ran, for profit dungeons of nonviolent offenders.
Its the American way! Gotta keep the people safe, doncha know?
You can rape and sodomize children and be out sooner than a drug dealer!
Oh say can you see, by the dawn's early light...Land of the free? Home of the brave??
What a fuckin joke!
Nothing but best wishes DG. Lookin great.
theloadeddragon
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algae is one of the problems related to just perlite as a medium.....
thanks man, i'd be happy to pull 1/2 of what JackMayOffer just got under the same HPS watts. (He got 12 with CO2... i'm just shooting for 6.)
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thanks man. ya, its been on my mind lately. i don't seem to be getting this done overnight... so i'd like to get to 99 or less. If someone decides that i need to have everything stripped away from me and be locked away in a cage... for what i am doing now... they will be committing a crime more heinous than anything that i am up to.
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theloadeddragon
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word........ word
i've had no problem with it in my flower room. but the ozone generator in there also helps... as do the UV lights on the water pumps. and the aerated reservoir.
the problem in the clone room is that i havn't been adding enough H2O2 to the reservoir... and it isn't being aerated... and i have some standing water directly exposed to the light. Oh well, there are ways of knocking it down.
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After 2 days of 30 mL per gal. of H2O2 the algae at the bottom of the DIY Clone Tray is almost completely cleared up. I added some Algae Destroyer today just for good measure and will keep on the 30 mL per day for a couple more days then dwindle down to 15 mL per day ... as I have finally added a couple of air stones to the Clone Reservoir as well.
Girls in the Flower Room - 2 weeks into flower. Bleach jug for reference.
Another view with the 5 gal. white bucket in the background.... they are up to my chest... though if they were in the ground instead of containers they would probably be about waiste height.
I look forward to running many fewer plants next go round... will be keeping them shorter and squatter, hopefully more bush-like rather than the stretched out girls that i have now. I'll have to use some 4 ft. bamboo stakes just to keep these girls upright when they start to put on the buds.
The hardest part right now is deciding which ones to thin out (destroy). As the space may be better utilized by a better developed plant nearby. The bigger girls are already just popping with some buds. I can deffinitely see how growing fewer, better developed bushes / trees could lead to some nice weight coming off individual plants.
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Girls in the Flower Room - 2 weeks into flower. Bleach jug for reference.
Another view with the 5 gal. white bucket in the background.... they are up to my chest... though if they were in the ground instead of containers they would probably be about waiste height.
I look forward to running many fewer plants next go round... will be keeping them shorter and squatter, hopefully more bush-like rather than the stretched out girls that i have now. I'll have to use some 4 ft. bamboo stakes just to keep these girls upright when they start to put on the buds.
The hardest part right now is deciding which ones to thin out (destroy). As the space may be better utilized by a better developed plant nearby. The bigger girls are already just popping with some buds. I can deffinitely see how growing fewer, better developed bushes / trees could lead to some nice weight coming off individual plants.
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southern homegrower
Well-Known Member
look like things are going pretty good
theloadeddragon
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Looking good! see, what did I tell yah 
see, what did I tell yah meh, live and learn. this is my first go-round with hydroponics (both clone and flower rooms) ... so i'll be happy if i pull 4 lbs. or more. Any less would make me sad.
Now that i've got the quirks mostly worked out, i'll deffinitely be expecting a better harvest next time around. One of these days i gotta pull at least 6 elbows under these 6 lights. That would make me happy.
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