Gastanker's 600+w Organic UV Grow

Gastanker

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Wish I was your fellow patient :P
:) I'm glad I had someone to pass them along to versus just killing.

My 8 UV bulbs just arrived. Worst packing job I have ever seen so lets hope they all work. I'll throw half of them in the tent tomorrow and the other half in several weeks. Now I just need to decide if I'm flowering under 600w or 1000.
 

suchnsuch

Active Member
I got my 2 superstars the same way, a generous individual such as yourself! Pay it forward! Good Karma always comes back to you, bravo Tanker for spreading the love!
With that many girls, you have your hands full anyway, can't wait to see the buds start poppin!

Thanks for the compliments on my 1st grow :cool:
 

HawkDidIt

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Looking very nice!! You will enjoy the Chocolope. I just harvested a little one and about to haverset 2 5' plants. It is a very great flavor followed by a nice buzz. Here is a pick of my little chocco before I killed it. Loved everything about this strain.



Keep up the awsome job you are going to love the outcome.
 

Gastanker

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I got my 2 superstars the same way, a generous individual such as yourself! Pay it forward! Good Karma always comes back to you, bravo Tanker for spreading the love!
With that many girls, you have your hands full anyway, can't wait to see the buds start poppin!

Thanks for the compliments on my 1st grow :cool:
I'm having a hard time waiting as well. You're grow is going well. Props again.

that grow room is sick!!!! plants looking good too...
Thanks. I try :)

Looking very nice!! You will enjoy the Chocolope. I just harvested a little one and about to haverset 2 5' plants. It is a very great flavor followed by a nice buzz. Here is a pick of my little chocco before I killed it. Loved everything about this strain.

Keep up the awsome job you are going to love the outcome.
Nice and frosty! I've smoked it before and really enjoyed it. Taste is off the charts and so is the buzz if I remember correctly. Lets pray I don't fuck up the cure.
 

Gastanker

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Here are the UV bulbs I purchased. Got 8 in all and have 4 running at the moment. I'll add the other four later into flower. These bulbs glow an eerie blue - should compliment the HPS bulb once I switch over.



Top ones are the UV


Bottom ones here:
 

hoagtech

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Very nice. I just read all 15 pages of your thread and it had answered a lot of questions I had about side supplemental lighting. Very nice setup. I would love to see proof of the differences that UVB and PAR make. Thanks for your careful research
 

Gastanker

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Very nice. I just read all 15 pages of your thread and it had answered a lot of questions I had about side supplemental lighting. Very nice setup. I would love to see proof of the differences that UVB and PAR make. Thanks for your careful research
Curious myself. In the past I've used singe UV bulbs and noticed a difference in resin content so it will be interesting to see what it does for these. I'm really tempted at the moment to purchase a gas chromatography device so that I can test all my bud's THC, CBD, CBN, CBG, heavy metals... Think about the fun I could have - test at different harvest times, with and without UV, indoor vs outdoor... Not to mention charging the local dispensary to test their stash.

tanker they are growing like weeds. wow i cant believe the diff in the days ive been away excellent job

That they are. I planted a single tomato plant in each pot - thought it would encourage the weeds to grow even faster. I guess it worked as I haven't seen any tomatoes. :)
 

Psychild

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I planted a single tomato plant in each pot - thought it would encourage the weeds to grow even faster. I guess it worked as I haven't seen any tomatoes. :)
wait, you really planted a tomato seed in every one of your pots that had a weed plant??
 

hammer6913

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That they are. I planted a single tomato plant in each pot - thought it would encourage the weeds to grow even faster. I guess it worked as I haven't seen any tomatoes. :)[/QUOTE]

hmmm so u think it helped? how could the root system of the tomato plant have anything to do with the roots of the weed?
 

Gastanker

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wait, you really planted a tomato seed in every one of your pots that had a weed plant??
That they are. I planted a single tomato plant in each pot - thought it would encourage the weeds to grow even faster. I guess it worked as I haven't seen any tomatoes. :)

hmmm so u think it helped? how could the root system of the tomato plant have anything to do with the roots of the weed?
Hehe, I'm just joking. I bet it would work though - and if not talk about a huge tomato plant.
 

Gastanker

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Nasty yellow light:

Still haven't purchased a new bulb for either of my ballasts so I decided to go ahead and throw my old 1kW Hortilux in there and see if my 600w Lumatek would run it. Seems to be working fine on super lumen setting. In a few weeks I'll change ballasts and let the 1kW run for a while.

You can't see it in the picture but the 3 different spectrum are super trippy.

 

Gastanker

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Wow those things are healthy. Wish I understood nutes and organics as much you do.
It is easier than you would think. If you ever want to give it a go let me know and I'll do my best to help.

i can be so fuckin gullable sometimes lmao happy april frikin fools day lmao
;)

So I'm thinking that I want back drops for my tent. I want to be able to sneak in there and travel to another place - perhaps a tropical rain forest.




 

Gastanker

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This little guy is jealous of my plants - he's been trying to stomp this poor cutting to death for the past hour.

 

Psychild

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Of course /i'd like to learn Lol...I just don't really understand how you can add 3 different NPK's together and come up with a usuable solution?
 

Gastanker

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Of course /i'd like to learn Lol...I just don't really understand how you can add 3 different NPK's together and come up with a usuable solution?
It's all about maintaining the ideal ratio of N:P:K while accounting for time released nutes and immediately available nutes.

Here is a chart of roughly my nute schedule:


I aim for a high N with some P to start with, then have the P gradually over take the N around second week of flower, and finally ramp up the K at the end.

On my chart the names of the nutes are just labels - so the second bat guano watering would be in week 3, not week 2, and disburse 5-1-1, the 10-3-1 is there just to remind you of the actual rating on the box.
 
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