Harvest a Pound Every Three Weeks!

sherriberry said:

but is there a next level? absolutely.

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Nice post Sherryberry.
I would love to see pics of your set up.

Sheri your ideas are great and I thought about this too. But in the end I thought Stinkbud system fit my needs better and it is super simple. All my replacement parts are local to me. I can remove 1 rail at a time on my system, clean it, load it up again, away I go. Res gets cleaned biweekly anyway, it is all just too simple this way.

The only problem I have with this type of system (small problem at that) is that all my roots grow together and make it impossible to remove 1 plant without damaging the roots it is intermingled with. Now I don't ever have to remove any plants but some people grow different strains with different finish times in the same tube. Other than that small inconvenience it is a simple and effective growing method, even without the misters inside.

Metalarc Lemon said:

The only problem I have with this type of system (small problem at that) is that all my roots grow together and make it impossible to remove 1 plant without damaging the roots it is intermingled with. Now I don't ever have to remove any plants but some people grow different strains with different finish times in the same tube. Other than that small inconvenience it is a simple and effective growing method, even without the misters inside.

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you are correct, but as you learn a strain, and how much it bushes, you dont have this problem anymore....

The roots only grow together after week 4ish, from clone or seed.

by that time, i have already taken the plants from the lid where they are all next to eachtoher, and placed them in a lid which has their final spacing... 6 per tub lets say.

At that point, they can grow together ALL THEY WANT... it doenst matter, plants will finish in that placement.

MeJuana ssays "Sheri your ideas are great and I thought about this too. But in the end I thought Stinkbud system fit my needs better and it is super simple. All my replacement parts are local to me. I can remove 1 rail at a time on my system, clean it, load it up again, away I go. Res gets cleaned biweekly anyway, it is all just too simple this way."



If you think about my setup a bit longer, you will see that cleaning is actually SIMPLER.

I will explain:

The plants are attached permenantly to the lid once the roots explode and bond together.

So, what do you do? You buy an extra tub.

This extra tub is the one that gets cleaned.

The dirty tub that needs cleaned, that the plants are in, all you have to do is lift the lid with the plants off that tub, and put it on the clean tub.


Then, shut off the circulation pump for a min.

Raise the dirty tub on one end so that the low side is the drain side that flows to the next tub.

Most of the water drains out of that tub, and now its not going to spill once you detach the hoses.

Then, lift the tub that it drained into, so that its tilted, put a cinder block under this end for a sec, then detach the hoses from the dirty tub, and the other tubs that still have all the water in them, the last one is tilted high, so it doesnt leak all over the floor.

Bring the clean tub over, attach the hoses, and then swap the lid from the dirty tub to the clean one.

Turn your pump back on. Plants arent phased a bit.

Now... if you have more than 5 tubs, like 10 tubs... at 2 different stations... then cleaning is a piece of cake.

THe tubs that have harvested plants... you clean those tubs completely.

You then lift the lids off the dirty tubs, and put them on the clean ones.

Now the old dirty tubs, you clean those... and the new clones go in that setup.

Further... i dont clean my tubs during bloom... i havent had a problem yet.

One other little tip... if you have the circulation feed line come in high up the 2 end tubs, you can attach a 20 micron filter diesel fuel catch sack sold for a few bucks on ebay...

as the water cirulates, it waterfalls through that filter sack.

You can also attach a permenant small pump in one of the tubs, prob the middle, and just take the guard off the pump, and have it lift the water, and drop it back through one of these filter sacks, and hanging the filter sack so taht the top of the sack is above water level so that no debris falls from the filter sack.

But again... theres really no need to clean anything, but once you have 10 tubs, and a staggered harvest, it becomes a piece of cake.

IF you want to swtich out the res before tub cleaning, its easy, you just go down the length of the tubs and tilt them, and have the main circulation pump pumping to a drain somewhere in your house.. and you tilt tubs one by one until ALL water is back in the middle tub, and then just swap out that tub, or use the sump pump to drain it to the bottom.

Cleaning a tub is 10 times easier than a fence post.

Further... you cant clean the fence posts during the 2 month bloom phase without pulling each individual plant out of the post... and ripping roots.

So... again, your point makes absoluetly no sense that its easier... when in my setup all you have to do is lift a lid from one tub and put it on another one thats clean.

But if you dont feel like changing setups, thats fine too, its a free world... im just saying, is there a better one in many aspects? yes. and does it cost more? no.

i'm on pg.94 in this book and it looks like the villain has come in. this guy is a real pickle sniffer, I hope he gets written out.

Thanks stink you have gone above and beyond. I think I may even be able to do this.

you wont if you listen to SuckBud's lame ass advice.... and maybe he will rob from you too!

and maybe just maybe the mods at RIU wont be such gutless taint lickers.... staff here is pathetic and beyond biased.

SB, hide behind your fake "friends" all you want, yer a fraud and sooner or later you will reveal yourself for who you are.... now, be the little bitch you are and whine to have this post deleted too.

anyway, i wouldnt have been back but someone told me i was deleted....

Metalarc Lemon said:

The only problem I have with this type of system (small problem at that) is that all my roots grow together and make it impossible to remove 1 plant without damaging the roots it is intermingled with. Now I don't ever have to remove any plants but some people grow different strains with different finish times in the same tube. Other than that small inconvenience it is a simple and effective growing method, even without the misters inside.

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It is kind of like picking a lock. You get a little safe thing to poke with like a wooden ruler. Then you be gentle, lift, wiggle, shake, lower it, wiggle a little lift. If you have to slide your spray PVC posts a little. Continue, when it is high enough you have to be gentle and lift the roots with the ruller and use it to wiggle, pull gently, all of a sudden she will just come free but watch it on the spray nozzle. I practiced this with my males I am like an expert now. hehehehe

greengenez said:

i'm on pg.94 in this book and it looks like the villain has come in. this guy is a real pickle sniffer, I hope he gets written out.

Thanks stink you have gone above and beyond. I think I may even be able to do this.

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I read all the beginning pages too up to into the hundreds. There is the the Stinkbud forums too, downloads on stinkbuddies.com as well. I am still on RIU too, I like it here but I get my info about the SB system from the SB forums. Really knowledgeable people using the exact system you are.

Second one up and running; 430w HPS on a 6' light mover.
3rd 6-Hole is under construction...

I have to admit...I'm mostly a lurker. The last couple hundred pages of this thread should be reason enough on why that is. First of all to greengenez...I TOTALLY got what you were saying, and I'm still sort of chuckling!

Second of all to Stinkbud...I started reading this thread about a month after you started it, and followed it until the drama started. But by that time, I had already learned what you were teaching, and had it printed out, and memorized. I didn't NEED to keep reading after the initial instruction, but I did because I saw the effect you had on people. I saw you diffuse situation after situation. I saw people say really rude things to you, while you calmly answered their question, without anger or retaliation.
Everyone you had taught would have gladly posted every name in the book at these "flamers" in defense of you...but I saw a few post after the attacks that you had enlightened them even more with your peaceful posture.
A few months after the post began I went and purchased what I needed, and my journey began. It was a different journey for me because I had never tried to grow before, and I don't smoke....weird, right? My 19 year old daughter has had 4 knee surgeries and will now have to have a knee replacement after all of that. She hates taking pain medication...but loves life. Anyway...that's how this began for me. I HAD to grow, and I HAD to succeed. I couldn't watch my daughter miss out on anymore life. It may sound backward to some of the population, but it made sense to me.
Everywhere I looked and everyone I talked to gave me different information, and everyone wanted to be right and everyone wanted to say that everyone else was wrong. In my mind I was thinking, "WTF???? I thought this was about the love." That's when I just happened to stumble on your thread.
I could go on and on...really I could. But all I really want to say to Stinkbud, is thank you. Thank you for your generous and patient soul. Thanks for being a teacher, and thanks for your experience. Thanks for never giving pieces of yourself away to those that need their self importance and the spotlight.
yea...this is a little "emo and chick-y". But I AM emo and chick-y....because of what I learned here, my daughter can function like a normal person. She can surf and ride her skateboard and walk her dog. Those things still cause her pain, but she is equipped to deal with that pain now because of what I learned in this thread.

I hadn't been back to the thread in about 7 months and I just finished reading everything I had missed. It took awhile. To the people who had been there since the beginning...it must have made you feel bad to watch the tone of things change. To watch the commraderie fade into high school drama. But we were there at the beginning and know how cool it was to read how it all came together and watch everyone list the supplies they had bought, see photos of the grow rooms come together and then listen to the "anxious parents" waiting for roots to pop, until finally we heard the harvest stories...all of us on the edge our seats.
To the people who just have to shout, argue, condescend, critisize, and hate....go ahead. Some of us here not only learned how to grow AMAZINGLY...we also learned how to be better people. Thanks to Stinkbud and to all of those who made the first few hundred pages of this thread a blast!

Peace, love, waves................

SoccerMomZoey said:

I have to admit...I'm mostly a lurker. The last couple hundred pages of this thread should be reason enough on why that is. First of all to greengenez...I TOTALLY got what you were saying, and I'm still sort of chuckling!

Second of all to Stinkbud...I started reading this thread about a month after you started it, and followed it until the drama started. But by that time, I had already learned what you were teaching, and had it printed out, and memorized. I didn't NEED to keep reading after the initial instruction, but I did because I saw the effect you had on people. I saw you diffuse situation after situation. I saw people say really rude things to you, while you calmly answered their question, without anger or retaliation.
Everyone you had taught would have gladly posted every name in the book at these "flamers" in defense of you...but I saw a few post after the attacks that you had enlightened them even more with your peaceful posture.
A few months after the post began I went and purchased what I needed, and my journey began. It was a different journey for me because I had never tried to grow before, and I don't smoke....weird, right? My 19 year old daughter has had 4 knee surgeries and will now have to have a knee replacement after all of that. She hates taking pain medication...but loves life. Anyway...that's how this began for me. I HAD to grow, and I HAD to succeed. I couldn't watch my daughter miss out on anymore life. It may sound backward to some of the population, but it made sense to me.
Everywhere I looked and everyone I talked to gave me different information, and everyone wanted to be right and everyone wanted to say that everyone else was wrong. In my mind I was thinking, "WTF???? I thought this was about the love." That's when I just happened to stumble on your thread.
I could go on and on...really I could. But all I really want to say to Stinkbud, is thank you. Thank you for your generous and patient soul. Thanks for being a teacher, and thanks for your experience. Thanks for never giving pieces of yourself away to those that need their self importance and the spotlight.
yea...this is a little "emo and chick-y". But I AM emo and chick-y....because of what I learned here, my daughter can function like a normal person. She can surf and ride her skateboard and walk her dog. Those things still cause her pain, but she is equipped to deal with that pain now because of what I learned in this thread.

I hadn't been back to the thread in about 7 months and I just finished reading everything I had missed. It took awhile. To the people who had been there since the beginning...it must have made you feel bad to watch the tone of things change. To watch the commraderie fade into high school drama. But we were there at the beginning and know how cool it was to read how it all came together and watch everyone list the supplies they had bought, see photos of the grow rooms come together and then listen to the "anxious parents" waiting for roots to pop, until finally we heard the harvest stories...all of us on the edge our seats.
To the people who just have to shout, argue, condescend, critisize, and hate....go ahead. Some of us here not only learned how to grow AMAZINGLY...we also learned how to be better people. Thanks to Stinkbud and to all of those who made the first few hundred pages of this thread a blast!

Peace, love, waves................

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Thank you for this post. I too, have been around here for a while and am grateful for all I have learned. Like you, I didn't check in for several months and was shocked at the new tone in here. It gives some weight to the theory that given enough time, people will screw up everything they touch. And the better something is, the quicker they try to tear it down. Thanks again to stink and all the old time stinkbuds.

Hello all-really great information on here everyone, i've been lurking for the last few months. I've been doing the system with different nutes, General hydroponics 3 part, Cal Mag, Diamond Nector, Liquid Kharma. I havn't reached the holy grail 1 lb yet but I don't have C02, which everyone says is the ticket to success.

I wanted to tell everyone about a new product I'm trying at week 6 of flower. It's called Humbolt County's Own "gravity flower hardener" analysis .75% Ascophyllum Nodosum -Sea Kelp Extract, and Vitamins B1, B2, B3. Supposed to be some real powerful shit. I added just a bit (4mL), and Black Strap Molassis (just enough to brown a gallon of water) 1-1.5 mL) to 12 gallons of water. Ran it for 1 week then switched to regular nutes for week 7 and beyond. It really seems to be bulking up the size of the flowers, more purple in color earlier. I'm hoping for my biggest harvest yet, arn't we all.

Sorry to hear all the bad Kharma on here now. I hate money-but I need money. Everyone is on edge, the nation isn't able to get anything done and meanwhile our country is spiraling down the toilet. I wish I could get all you guys super high so you could quit fighting. Thanks SB for the best system ever. SB you saved my butt from some serious economic turmoil-thanks

whats up everyone I havent been on in a long time. Just stopping in to c whats up. I think I left off a few hundred pages ago. lol guess I got some catchin up to do

andyman said:

whats up everyone I havent been on in a long time. Just stopping in to c whats up. I think I left off a few hundred pages ago. lol guess I got some catchin up to do

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Hey, good to see you again. I haven't been around for a while myself. Are you one of the guys that was using veg units to flower in? Thats what I did and was wondering how it was working for other folks that didnt go the fence post route. It is really working out well here. 31 gal root tub on top of a 14 gal res.

txhomegrown said:

Hey, good to see you again. I haven't been around for a while myself. Are you one of the guys that was using veg units to flower in? Thats what I did and was wondering how it was working for other folks that didnt go the fence post route. It is really working out well here. 31 gal root tub on top of a 14 gal res.

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I like the idea of using the veg unit but I have a problem with roots growing into the bottom of my unit. So I thought about using screen or something on the bottom, but then my males would lock into that shit. The flower unit has some advantages in this area.

great read

After a month or so of flowering, I just raise the lid enough to reach in an move the roots around where I want them. Separating them like that makes it really easy to pull a single plant or two if you are running strains that finish at different times.

StinkBud said:

Ouch! I hate to see pics like those! Spider mites. By far the worst thing that can happen to a grower. Unfortunately it happens to everyone.

Buy some triple threats for your flower room. Remember, you can't buy too many predators. The more you buy, the faster the problem will end.

Spray all your clones and veg plants with Neem oil. Don't over due it though. Turn the lights off when you spray.

Wash every surface with bleach water, twice.

Normally I tell people not to worry but in this case, worry. Mites are bad. I've lost entire crops to mites many times in the last 15 years.

You can kill a lot of bugs just by running your fingers over each leaf.

Plain water is great. It makes it hard for the bugs to move around. Enough water will drown them. You can't spray thick buds with water though because you might end up with mold.

You can spray new buds and all the large fan leaves with water. I set my water bottle to spray a hard stream. I lift each leaf and spray the bottom hard to knock off as many pests as possible.

I do the same thing to the clones but with a tablespoon of Neem oil added. I also put a couple of drops of liquid soap in the water also. It helps the water flow better.

All this should be done while you're waiting for your predators to arrive.

Good luck and keep us posted!

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I had a question for the grand master, StinkBud. kiss-ass What is the BEST option to eliminate pest, spider mites root aphids, if you already have them. and once gone keep them away for good. Is it possible? There are So many different answers to the same question.. haha

Hey guys I'm wondering if anyone has used the 18gal 'Toughbox' from Lowes for the stinkbud aeroponic system? Does it leek?

I can only find the 14gal ROUGHNECK rubbermaid container. Which one should I use?

Also, can you run more than one pump off one timer? (them things are expensive!)

sbkg said:

Hey guys I'm wondering if anyone has used the 18gal 'Toughbox' from Lowes for the stinkbud aeroponic system? Does it leek?

I can only find the 14gal ROUGHNECK rubbermaid container. Which one should I use?

Also, can you run more than one pump off one timer? (them things are expensive!)

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You can use the 14 gallon and you can also run more thanone pump off the timer easily. I have ran up too four off my timers. Have Fun