lol christ. What exactly is it that i experiment with? The only thing really that im doing thats new and feels wierd doin, is growing hydroponically. Putting a rooting medium down under or around the pots, and wanting to put up trellising, isnt doin anything extreme. Those are both tested and proven methods to growing, and they work. I dont really see whats so out there about that shit. ABF is pretty much the only ebb/flow grower ive read that doesnt use anything at all under his pots - and he does that because hes growing clones, and root mass isnt an issue. But, i do trust that you know what your talking about, so im gonna more than likely keep it at that. As for the netting, that shit is a GO, n i have no choice but to do that, because ive stuffed my trays with plants that im growing OUT, and Tray B is already looking so full its rediculous. If ida squeezed any more plants in there i dont know if they woulda grown to potential. But anyways, like i said - whats so experimental, or out there, that im not keeping it simple??
N i try to follow the Keep It Simple, Stupid (lol) method of growing, and i have kept it simple. The only thing ive had ttrouble with was when i was getting my trays dialed in to what the plants like. Thats it. Other than that, i stay within the parameters of my skill level for the time being. But if i listened to the whole "go with what you know" thing, then i wouldnt be growing hydro in the first place, eh? lol, it just seems like im doing pretty much everything by the book, so i just must not get it i guess then. My plants look beautiful.
n yeh TC bro, fuckin apparently this shit has been goin on ever since i got the damn lights n started the fuckin grow. Hell, i didnt know any better, ive never had a 1000w light before. I didnt have the cooltube set up, so how was i to know that shit was dimmer than Corky from life goes on, at a genius convention?? But yeah, im fuckin thankful that i figured it out now, because this is a critical time for my flowering plants, and if i get a REAL 1000w up there over top of them bitches, theyre gonna fuckin go into overdrive n blow the fuck up on me. I put my Cooltube over top of them last night, so they can Acclimate themselves to stronger lighting gradually, so they dont go into shock. going from what was apparently a 200-300w light, right to a 1000w would cause some sort of short term shock, wouldnt it?
Anyways, theyre replacing everything. I just got my two Sunmaster MH bulbs in today, n im taking my HPS n faulty MH bulbs in tomorrow. Thats right, im going TO htg directly man. ima be there in person bright n shiny when them bitches open in the morning. Im gonna give them an extra $100, n hopefully thatll be enough to upgrade me to some Digital Greenhouse 1000w ballasts so i dont have the whole magnetic failure thing happen ever again. I talked to Perry up there, n they have no quams whatsoever with changing out both my ballasts, n all 5 of my bulbs (two MH, two HPS, and the Growbright 600w that burnt out on me last week). They said come on up n well upgrade you at no charge. So fuck it man, ill take the 45 min drive to Cranberry in the morning n get my shit. I just dont want another set of 50lb ballasts thatll fuckin fizzle out on me n perform like shit. I wanna go digital, so i hope the extra hundo will be enough to talk them into doin it for me
Ill snap off some poorly lit pics tonight for you guys. I got pics of my trays already, but i didnt snap anything off of the flowering ladies yet, because i wanted to give them a night of 600w action before i did. I threw that cooltube in right next to my Solar Six hood, n turned it on, n it was fuckin rediculous how much brighter it was than the 1000w. So i took the 1000w down n cleaned everytihng up n got it ready for the return, n the plants almost instantly thanked me for the light change man. They perked right the fuck up over an hour's time, and they just look fuckin happier in general. I cant wait to put them underneath a 1000w SunMaster bulb thats workin at full force. Ive almost blinded myself like 100 times over the last week comparing the intensity of my 1000w's to my 600w over n over again. Im just glad my ass was right, n i dont have to do it ever again. (knockin on wood)
Anyways, sorry if i came off as crass, but i really dont think im over-complicating anything at all, or experimenting with anything other than the grow itself, cuz ive never done hydro before. Anything supplemental that ive done or wanna do for my plants just seems like common sense to do, n just cuz ABF doesnt do it, doesn't mean its wrong. S'all im sayin. Im not standing on the shoulders of giants, im trying to become one myself. I dont wanna Emulate somebody elses grow, i wanna have my OWN grow, that makes other people wanna emulate what IM doin. All of the experienced, successful growers who put journals on here and help people every day are awesome, and i cant thank them enough for the advice theyve given me, but its nothing more than a primer for me to do my own thing. Take what i can from other people's experiences, and then do it my way. I dont wanna copy anybody else, i just want to make sure i get what im doing right, and get it right the first time. The only people that have made a name for themselves by copying other people's workto the T are murderers. I'd hate to be pitted into the same categorie as those fuckin people, lol.
Keep it REAL,
-K1. (SrH)
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I also just wanted to add, that the four of us (me, Gypsy, TC, n Weedman) all pretty much started growing at the same time, so its safe to say that none of us are idiots. We all know how to grow pot, we've figured out the mystery to it, and we all can apply it and grow a successful crop of cannabis any time we want to, without any real help from anybody if it came down to it. All any of us are doing right now are just fine tuning our skills, and figuring out how we wanna grow from here on out. There aint much more technical shit to learn when it comes right down to plant biology, or feeding it nutrients -- we know what we need to, n the rest is symantics. Its safe to say that any one of us can call ourselves growers without any level of uncertainty, n were all pretty decent at what we do. Theres really not much else to add to that statement. We all know what were doing -- none of us are out there quizzing everyone we know about what were doin wrong, because chances are that if were doing something wrong, then we already know what it is, and its already being fixed.
-I just think that each of us deserves that level of respect. Each one of us has earned it since weve come to RollItUp, thats for damn sure
