Harvest a Pound Every Three Weeks!

HydroRed

HydroRed

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If I'm on the same page as you, it just rest on the bottom of the bucket. The pvc pipes with the 4 corners support the top portion in the top container.
 
MouseE

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Talking about strains, anyone tried stuff from barneys farm or sour diesel (personal fav strain) from royal queen seeds (or would I have to drive down to cali for a good generics on that strain)? I'm always hearing about them in cannabus cup competitions.
 
StinkBud

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WeedFreak78 said:
Any experience with dutch passions blueberry? Comparisons to DJ's? I just started that and a Barney's vanilla kush to mother to feed the system, had a LSD but it never popped..:sad:. Also getting some WW cuts sometime in the next month...gonna be a good year i think:bigjoint:
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DJ Short worked with Dutch Passion on their Blueberry so it has the same original genetics. You never really know though as every plant from seed is a little different. The more stable the breed the less variance.

DJ lives a couple of hours away from me and I keep saying I'm going to go visit him one of these days but I've never got around to it. I met him a couple of years ago at Hempfest Seattle where we were both on the Grower's Hemposium along with Jorge Cervantis. Needless to say I was humbled!

The first really good strain I ever grew was Blueberry and to this day it's one of my favorites. What I like about it is the high. It's not mind numbing like some of the heavy Kush strains. It has a more uplifting high. I think it's because of the Thai Sativa in it. I guess it has some Chocolate Thai crossed with some Afghani. It's also one of the first true Oregon breeds I was able to try. When I think of Oregon bud, I think of Blueberry.
 
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StinkBud

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MouseE said:
So im starting my first aero grow using this method. One question

https://www.rollitup.org/attachments/aeroveg-jpg.209611/

in this pick I notice a connector that goes from the bottom of the pvc pipe to the bucket. Do I need to glue this down to the bucket or can I have it just sit?
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That's a pretty old-school design bro. You can find a more updated design here. http://harvestapound.com/aero-coner-ii-plans/


For my veg unit I just use the exact same design but with using two stacked strongboxes like in the old plans. All you have to do is lengthen the pipe from the pump to the sprayers. This is exactly what I'm using here:

 
yktind

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HydroRed

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StinkBud said:
That's a pretty old-school design bro. You can find a more updated design here. http://harvestapound.com/aero-coner-ii-plans/


For my veg unit I just use the exact same design but with using two stacked strongboxes like in the old plans. All you have to do is lengthen the pipe from the pump to the sprayers. This is exactly what I'm using here:

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I built a bubble cloner out of the same bin from home depot. It is perfect for 2" neoprene plugs cuz of the placement of the squares on the lid. Parts are: 1 dual outlet air pump ($9 @ Walmart)/ 4-10" long air stones($3 each @ Walmart) 35 neoprene plugs($8 on Ebay) / 27 Gal tote with lid (Home Depot $14) 5" silicone air line/3-1/4" t's ( maybe 3 bucks?). I already had the silicone air line and T's. I would assume it could serve as a start to finish grow as well. I had under $50 into it all together and it works wonders on getting clones to root. From clip to transplant in about 2 wks & 100% success rate so far. Also, it only took me about an hour to build and have up n running. As my name reads, I love hydro growing :bigjoint:
 
WeedFreak78

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Stinkbud, on that new design, well either design really.. is it totally needed to have a tub on a tub for vegging? I'm somewhat limited on head height. I was thinking of using a single unit from cuts to vegging to 10-12" for flowering(thinking 2-3 weeks?) I'll be loading it up with 25-30 cuts. I'm thinking just throw an airstone in there just for when the roots hit the water? I think I'll be fine but have no real world experience, so I'm deferring to yours, if you think the top tub is more beneficial than not..I'll figure something out.
 
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StinkBud

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WeedFreak78 said:
Stinkbud, on that new design, well either design really.. is it totally needed to have a tub on a tub for vegging? I'm somewhat limited on head height. I was thinking of using a single unit from cuts to vegging to 10-12" for flowering(thinking 2-3 weeks?) I'll be loading it up with 25-30 cuts. I'm thinking just throw an airstone in there just for when the roots hit the water? I think I'll be fine but have no real world experience, so I'm deferring to yours, if you think the top tub is more beneficial than not..I'll figure something out.
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Yes, you can just add an airstone and use one res. I went to this system a few years ago. It works great but you need a pretty big air pump and stone. The problem I ran into was the extra heat the air stone pump created. The air you are pumping in is actually warm compared to the water temps. Since it runs 24/7 it tends to warm the water just a few degrees. It wasn't really a problem most of the year but the dog days of summer it's just enough to cause root rot. If you can keep everything cool then it works great. If not, you might want to think about switching to a sterile res with synthetic nutes. I had to switch from organic based nutes to synthetic and then keep everything sterile. It worked great then. I was able to harvest 20oz. of Sour Diesel from just one 27gal tote.

I switched back to the double reservoir because it just works better. The roots grow all the way to the bottom and then hang out there, never touching the water. It works great! I can take the plants out at any time and either transfer them to my rail system or soil.

If you want to veg or even flower your plants in a double system you can keep the height down by finding shorter containers. You might find an ice chest or something that works even better. All my new cloners are made out of ice chests. The keep the water cool and never leak.
 
kingpyro

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Stink, are you going to put out plans for the new Oregon system? Either way keep fighting the good fight

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Epsom

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First time poster long time reader/hobbyist.

I am a soil grower attempting to make the leap to hydro. My question is about your system and plant numbers.

If plant numbers don't matter and the goal was simply to harvest as much as possible over 12 months what would your system look like, ie. pump size per number of plants and res size given the number of plants without running into res heat issue's?

I ask this because SOG has always yielded more in the long(IMHO) run then any kind of vegging and it makes for very very easy trimming which I am for.

Did you ever get a chance to try http://www.jrpeters.com/Products/Jack-s-Classic.html nut's?

Bought your book as well and waiting to give it a read, thanks so much for the time and effort you have put into all this. I haven't seen so much useful info since the old OG forums.
 
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StinkBud

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Epsom said:
First time poster long time reader/hobbyist.

I am a soil grower attempting to make the leap to hydro. My question is about your system and plant numbers.

If plant numbers don't matter and the goal was simply to harvest as much as possible over 12 months what would your system look like, ie. pump size per number of plants and res size given the number of plants without running into res heat issue's?

I ask this because SOG has always yielded more in the long(IMHO) run then any kind of vegging and it makes for very very easy trimming which I am for.

Did you ever get a chance to try http://www.jrpeters.com/Products/Jack-s-Classic.html nut's?

Bought your book as well and waiting to give it a read, thanks so much for the time and effort you have put into all this. I haven't seen so much useful info since the old OG forums.
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If I didn't have to worry about plant numbers I'd run a Sea of Green (SOG) setup. I'd use full 8 ft. fence posts for each reservoir. Plants 6" apart, 14 per rail for a total of 28 plants per system. 2-1000W HPS per system. I'd go right from clone to flower as soon at the clones have a nice set of roots. No topping, just grow one big bud with some smaller side buds. The more room you have, the more systems you could run. If you had a huge warehouse the sky's the limit!

As far as nutes go just about anything will work if you dial it in. If you decide to run synthetic nutes then I recommend a good flush before harvest. If you run organic based nutes you really don't need to flush much if at all. On this last batch I just let the nutes run down over the last 2 weeks. By the time I harvested the plants were all turning colors.
 
StinkBud

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Room #1 Love
I've been giving all my attention to my #2 tent and good old room #1 was getting jealous. So I decided to give you a quick update on how that never ending project is going. Here are a couple of shots of the veg room. I'm running 2-400W Fluorescent lights. It's actually a shit load of light and surprised the Hell outta me the first time I fired them up. I really think I could bud under these lights, they're that bright! The way to do it would be to use 3 of them, one on top and one on each side. Anyway, you can see a couple of mother plants in soil, one is Blueberry Muffin and the other I haven't named yet. It's drying right now so I'll have a better idea what to name it after I smoke it. You can see my standard cloner and veg unit. Pretty much old school StinkBud.

I thought I'd give you a wide-angle shot of the flower room. You can see it's pretty dialed in with water and a sink right there. CO2 hanging up high and A/C on the left. I only have one system in the flower room right now. I'll be filling up the new rack soon though. I do have to say that I love being able to walk around my system. Believe it or not I've never been able to do it before. For my whole life I've always packed the room to the hilt! Of course I say that now but in a few weeks it will be back to normal. Photo time...
 
HydroGrowLover

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StinkBud said:
Room #1 Love
I've been giving all my attention to my #2 tent and good old room #1 was getting jealous. So I decided to give you a quick update on how that never ending project is going. Here are a couple of shots of the veg room. I'm running 2-400W Fluorescent lights. It's actually a shit load of light and surprised the Hell outta me the first time I fired them up. I really think I could bud under these lights, they're that bright! The way to do it would be to use 3 of them, one on top and one on each side.
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When you say fluorescent do you mean like cfl or t5?

yum
 
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Epsom

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StinkBud said:
If I didn't have to worry about plant numbers I'd run a Sea of Green (SOG) setup. I'd use full 8 ft. fence posts for each reservoir. Plants 6" apart, 14 per rail for a total of 28 plants per system. 2-1000W HPS per system. I'd go right from clone to flower as soon at the clones have a nice set of roots. No topping, just grow one big bud with some smaller side buds. The more room you have, the more systems you could run. If you had a huge warehouse the sky's the limit!

As far as nutes go just about anything will work if you dial it in. If you decide to run synthetic nutes then I recommend a good flush before harvest. If you run organic based nutes you really don't need to flush much if at all. On this last batch I just let the nutes run down over the last 2 weeks. By the time I harvested the plants were all turning colors.
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Perfect and thanks so much.

In the above system would res size be the same as your other setups?

Would the pump in you other setups be enough to cycle water through the above system? I tried hydro before with a 24/7 ON pump and res temps just got to hot. I think it was a combo of a over sized pump and the always on, so bigger is not always better :).

Also what are you using to check your ph/tds. I could be wrong but in all the pages of this thread I don't remember anyone talking about which meter's they liked.

Thanks
 
WeedFreak78

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StinkBud said:
Room #1 Love
I've been giving all my attention to my #2 tent and good old room #1 was getting jealous. So I decided to give you a quick update on how that never ending project is going. Here are a couple of shots of the veg room. I'm running 2-400W Fluorescent lights. It's actually a shit load of light and surprised the Hell outta me the first time I fired them up. I really think I could bud under these lights, they're that bright! The way to do it would be to use 3 of them, one on top and one on each side. Anyway, you can see a couple of mother plants in soil, one is Blueberry Muffin and the other I haven't named yet. It's drying right now so I'll have a better idea what to name it after I smoke it. You can see my standard cloner and veg unit. Pretty much old school StinkBud.

I thought I'd give you a wide-angle shot of the flower room. You can see it's pretty dialed in with water and a sink right there. CO2 hanging up high and A/C on the left. I only have one system in the flower room right now. I'll be filling up the new rack soon though. I do have to say that I love being able to walk around my system. Believe it or not I've never been able to do it before. For my whole life I've always packed the room to the hilt! Of course I say that now but in a few weeks it will be back to normal. Photo time...
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The T5's are awesome aren't they? I bought a 6 bulb and picked up some PurePAR bulbs for mine, they are almost purple. They really promote short bushy plants, I had to raise it up to get the plants to grow vertically.. I had 5 nodes sitting on top of each other within about 1/2" of stem..it's ridiculous, My plants are only ~3weeks from seed and have side branches popping out everywhere and thick, thick main stem..I want to set up my 400mh and do a side by side..I think the T5 might put the MH into retirement, or it will end up in flower for some spectrum mixing
 
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