nortonriderr
Member
I guess I need to clarify that this post will not be in real time. I am actually in flower right now. I have been taking pics the whole crop.
I have a good friend with tons of strains available. He was nice enough to give me 26 cuts to work with. I think I have about 6 strains in the tray. I wish I had kept better track of what was what. They got all mixed up. I have indicas and sativas going together. Hopefully they can do OK with tall and short plants together. Some are 50 day strains and some are more like 75 days. I may have to harvest some earlier and leave the rest in the tray to finish.
My room has 5 x 400 watt MH that I custom built from parking lot light fixtures. I bought all the lights at a garage sale for $5 each! I took the ballasts and sockets out of the fixtures and made my own reflectors and stuff. I just went to a local metal scrap yard and had the guys bend me the reflectors out of aluminum. I ended up with a 4 foot reflector and a 5 foot reflector. I put 2 bulbs in one reflector and 3 in the other. So I really have an 800watt fixture (2 x 400 halide) and a 1300 watt fixture (3x 400watt halide and 4x 26 watt T5 bulbs). I used to have two rooms with one reflector in each. The 800 was great for veg. Then I could roll the table from the 800watt room into the other 1300watt room for flowering. My old DIY system was falling apart so I had to change my setup. Now I can't really roll the trays around so I just put both lights over the same 4x4 tray. So i'm rockin 2100 watts in a 4x4! My lights are crap for growing though. I am still using the bulbs that came with the fixtures. They're made for lighting parking areas and are about 3 years old now. I really need to get another set of bulbs but that shit is EXPENSIVE. 5 bulbs at 75-100 each! I spent $800 for my used treefrog on craigslist so the new lights have to wait. The guy i got it from siad he had bought alot of extras. so the price wasn't that bad at all. About half price.
I haven't seen anybody using the tray I have so I was really nervous about buying it. I never buy built stuff. I love DIY so it hurts my ego to buy stuff like this. My time is too limited to try engineering another system. The company that makes it was cool with a few questions i asked about the system but I prolly can't ask about weed shit. Their videos are incredible. but i didn;t get a manual or anything. If anyone here has one of these please PM me, I have a few questions.
I started the clones in rockwool cubes. The cuts went directly into my 3" net pots in the tray. I just dropped in the cubes and covered them with hydroton. I saw some videos on youtube so I was just trying to do it the same way. I was running a Recirculating Deep Water Culture (RDWC) with the water level adjusted to come up to about 1/8" below the net pots. With air stones providing bubbles in the tray and the fogger running 15 minutes per 2 hours to barely wet the rockwool cubes. As soon as the roots start coming out of the cubes they hang down into the water. I seemed to get better early root growth with the RDWC than going straight to aero. Once the roots get big enough I switch to aero. I wish i knew what type of settings to use. Their videos say 30 seconds on 2 1/2 mins off. So that was my first setting. Anyone have suggestions?
I have a good friend with tons of strains available. He was nice enough to give me 26 cuts to work with. I think I have about 6 strains in the tray. I wish I had kept better track of what was what. They got all mixed up. I have indicas and sativas going together. Hopefully they can do OK with tall and short plants together. Some are 50 day strains and some are more like 75 days. I may have to harvest some earlier and leave the rest in the tray to finish.
My room has 5 x 400 watt MH that I custom built from parking lot light fixtures. I bought all the lights at a garage sale for $5 each! I took the ballasts and sockets out of the fixtures and made my own reflectors and stuff. I just went to a local metal scrap yard and had the guys bend me the reflectors out of aluminum. I ended up with a 4 foot reflector and a 5 foot reflector. I put 2 bulbs in one reflector and 3 in the other. So I really have an 800watt fixture (2 x 400 halide) and a 1300 watt fixture (3x 400watt halide and 4x 26 watt T5 bulbs). I used to have two rooms with one reflector in each. The 800 was great for veg. Then I could roll the table from the 800watt room into the other 1300watt room for flowering. My old DIY system was falling apart so I had to change my setup. Now I can't really roll the trays around so I just put both lights over the same 4x4 tray. So i'm rockin 2100 watts in a 4x4! My lights are crap for growing though. I am still using the bulbs that came with the fixtures. They're made for lighting parking areas and are about 3 years old now. I really need to get another set of bulbs but that shit is EXPENSIVE. 5 bulbs at 75-100 each! I spent $800 for my used treefrog on craigslist so the new lights have to wait. The guy i got it from siad he had bought alot of extras. so the price wasn't that bad at all. About half price.
I haven't seen anybody using the tray I have so I was really nervous about buying it. I never buy built stuff. I love DIY so it hurts my ego to buy stuff like this. My time is too limited to try engineering another system. The company that makes it was cool with a few questions i asked about the system but I prolly can't ask about weed shit. Their videos are incredible. but i didn;t get a manual or anything. If anyone here has one of these please PM me, I have a few questions.
I started the clones in rockwool cubes. The cuts went directly into my 3" net pots in the tray. I just dropped in the cubes and covered them with hydroton. I saw some videos on youtube so I was just trying to do it the same way. I was running a Recirculating Deep Water Culture (RDWC) with the water level adjusted to come up to about 1/8" below the net pots. With air stones providing bubbles in the tray and the fogger running 15 minutes per 2 hours to barely wet the rockwool cubes. As soon as the roots start coming out of the cubes they hang down into the water. I seemed to get better early root growth with the RDWC than going straight to aero. Once the roots get big enough I switch to aero. I wish i knew what type of settings to use. Their videos say 30 seconds on 2 1/2 mins off. So that was my first setting. Anyone have suggestions?
