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midwestmmj said:
Pfft supersoil over any bottles any day of the week. I lol at people like I used to be spending 2-300 on bottles per grow. I'm happy to announce that my grows now excluding electricity cost me about 30-50 bucks. The half batch of supersoil will fill my tent 5-6times and it cost me 100$ max. Sometimes I use compost teas but they are cheap. Anybody growing organic should use teas. I see hydro like results using tea and supersoil. Hope u don't have any males!!! Say u would though and cut it would the dead roots cause a issue?
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:) Just what I like to hear.

If I was growing in coco or peat I would be worried about dead roots, but in 50+g of active organic soil I'm not to worried. The problem with dead roots is that they can rot, mold, or attract pests. In active soil the mold will be a healthy one just utilizing the carbon while mineralizing my amendments - because of this I do not need to worry about anerobic rot. I might have to contend with gnats but i don't think it likely as long as I allow my soil to dry between watering.
 
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Looks like 2 males and 4 females. Pulled one male - pretty sure the white russian cross, and have bent the bomberry out of the way but have not pulled it - I might take pollen, haven't made my min up yet.

I thought I would be more upset but after a tiny bit or training and supper cropping a couple shoots and the gaps are all filled in. Looks like I'm growing 4 of the same cross - lets hope it's a good one :)

 
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So four hours later and look at this -



I should have set up my stop motion camera. That is a ton of bending/adjustment in such a small amount of time.
 
Psychild

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Gastanker said:
So four hours later and look at this -



I should have set up my stop motion camera. That is a ton of bending/adjustment in such a small amount of time.
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Wow dude, that C02 is doing some work! Think you can help me figure how to get a system going, and how much to use? That thread you posted a couple of weeks ago went WAY over my head.

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edit: Do you prune any of your Fan leaves off?
 
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Psychild said:
Wow dude, that C02 is doing some work! Think you can help me figure how to get a system going, and how much to use? That thread you posted a couple of weeks ago went WAY over my head.

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edit: Do you prune any of your Fan leaves off?
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Let me know how many square feet your grow area is and I'll try and walk you through the calculations. I do not prune off any fan leaves unless they are diseased or more than 50% yellow.
 
Psychild

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Gastanker said:
Let me know how many square feet your grow area is and I'll try and walk you through the calculations. I do not prune off any fan leaves unless they are diseased or more than 50% yellow.
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Well I have a 4x4 tent, but in all reality, probably use about 3x3....so I'd say somewhere around 9sqft. I won't need a exhaust fan & filter for this will I?
 
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Psychild said:
Well I have a 4x4 tent, but in all reality, probably use about 3x3....so I'd say somewhere around 9sqft. I won't need a exhaust fan & filter for this will I?
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I should have asked for the height as well. Here is the basic forumla X*.0013 = Y (Y/8.7)12*1.1=Z X=cubic feet of grow room Z = amount of sugar in pounds used per day

So if your room is 4x4x8 then you would want to use a total of 0.25lbs of sugar per day. You should either use a 4 gallon container or four 1 gallon containers for this. Start off with 1lb of sugar per container (or 4lbs in the 4gallon) and add an additional 1/4lb per container every 4 days (or 1lb in the 4gallon).

Ideally your room would be sealed for this but if you cannot control the heat then make sure your vented hood pulls from the very top of your cab - CO2 is heavy so if you pull from the very top you'll hopefully be removing just the hot air and leaving the cooler CO2 at the bottom - I would also recommend putting your vent fan on a dimmer so that as little air exchange as possible is going on. Of course if your canopy is only 4' high then you can probably cut the amount of sugar in half as long as you are directing the CO2 to where it needs to go.

At night I encourage you to increase ventilation as the plants prefer O2 than CO2.
 
Psychild

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Gastanker said:
I should have asked for the height as well. Here is the basic forumla X*.0013 = Y (Y/8.7)12*1.1=Z X=cubic feet of grow room Z = amount of sugar in pounds used per day

So if your room is 4x4x8 then you would want to use a total of 0.25lbs of sugar per day. You should either use a 4 gallon container or four 1 gallon containers for this. Start off with 1lb of sugar per container (or 4lbs in the 4gallon) and add an additional 1/4lb per container every 4 days (or 1lb in the 4gallon).

Ideally your room would be sealed for this but if you cannot control the heat then make sure your vented hood pulls from the very top of your cab - CO2 is heavy so if you pull from the very top you'll hopefully be removing just the hot air and leaving the cooler CO2 at the bottom - I would also recommend putting your vent fan on a dimmer so that as little air exchange as possible is going on. Of course if your canopy is only 4' high then you can probably cut the amount of sugar in half as long as you are directing the CO2 to where it needs to go.

At night I encourage you to increase ventilation as the plants prefer O2 than CO2.
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Sounds good....I'm only using about 3 feet of vert space, so I'll probably just try 2 1 gal containers at the strength that you said. Thanks for the help GT!
 
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Stretch is starting to slow down and buds are just begging to form. Starting to get closer to the juicy stages :)

 
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hey b ro lookin good. is the bomberry in the back left? that plant really stretched.but if it is the b/b it will fiull in pretty good.
 
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hammer6913 said:
hey b ro lookin good. is the bomberry in the back left? that plant really stretched.but if it is the b/b it will fiull in pretty good.
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The bomberry was in the back left but got the pull two days ago. :( I'm growing 4 females of the exact same strain :( all my alternates ended up male.
 
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Wow... know it's an old thread, but my bro worked on/sold/and wrote the tech manuals for those machines while employed at GE! Wild stuff.
 
hammer6913

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Gastanker said:
The bomberry was in the back left but got the pull two days ago. :( I'm growing 4 females of the exact same strain :( all my alternates ended up male.
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shit that sucks man. well goodluck with the ones ya got left. i built another pollen catcher and put holes in it this time. but i dont have a light box yet. been to busy, got the plant now and the cat is eating it (plant) pretty fast. lol hope he survives
 
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Swapped to my ugly ugly orange light today. Photos might be color edited due to its ugly hues.

Happy to report I have at least two fairly different phenotypes so not all of my bud will be the exact same. They are all fairly indica heavy but the ones in the front are much more open with longer internodal lengths and more bud sites and the plants in the back have larger wider leaves, shorter inter nodal spaces, fewer growth points but larger buds.



2 supposedly femmed chocolope and two others that are a project of mine. These will be rotated into flower in the next week or two.

 
Psychild

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Dam son! Your plants are about to pass mine up! Haha, good grief....I need to invest in that C02 ASAP!
 
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