Phishtank's 4800 watt grow

Let me start off buy saying that this is a completely legal MMJ grow in the state of california according to SB420 and Prop 215.

Alright guys so I've been hard at work getting my flower room together and at the moment it isn't quite finished. I did however get my DR120 setup with a 1000W MH and got some clones today so i can go ahead and get some stuff vegging while i'm finishing up some construction and electrical work and picking up a few more toys for the room. Also working on setting up my spare bedroom for clones, seedlings and vegging. For the time being I'll just kind of be winging it...you'll see alot of building and more equipment over the next month. Going to be using Sunshine mix #4 Advanced and general hydroponics nutes.

Startin with the following strains:
Alien OG
Headband
OG Kush #18
Querkle
GDP
Skywalker OG

This first run will just be a test run to figure what out of those strains I want to keep growing if any...and to get this flower room all dialed in and running as good as possible. Going to be throwing the clones into 1 gallon pots tomorrow and starting them on a very light regiment of nutes and get them into the tent. For the time being they are hanging out under a 2' 4 light floro fixture that i'll be using in the future for my own cuttings or seedlings.

Few pictures of goodies and clones.

Finally getting the wall finished in the garage to separate the 10X20 flower room. Need to figure out how to make a light proof door out of black and white poly now. Thinking i might have to get some Velcro in the very near future. Also will be posting photos of my little clones all potted up and in the tent here in a few.

well got all of the plants in pots...guess that general hydroponics is a bit hotter then i expected...or my tap water just really sucks but i've got a bit of burn on some of the plants. The OG kush 18 clones got burnt the worse. Next watering will be plain water and then will go back in with the nutes the following at a much lower amount. Heres some photos even though it seems that no one is following...lol.

Looks great Phish. I'm sub'd for the ride man. Save one for me when I get to SoCal one of these days. Headed to my house in Sonoma at the end of next month. If you got the tie you should swing on up. I've got 3 extra bedrooms.

Yeah definitely brotha. Hopefully these little guys dont burn anymore. I'd go flush them but i've learned that freaking out and flushing the shit out of it when signs of nute burn can make things worse. I'll just let them ride it out they should be fine. Let me know when you're around i'll definitely roll through.

I don't see any nute burn on them. Slight yellowing but that can be from a couple things but not nute burn. Especially since from the 1-2 pictures I can see it is starting on the leaf margins and working it's way back in. Not nute burn in my opinion. I'd just leave them alone and also wait a while before you water them again. Let the soil get dry to about 2-3" below the surface. I bet they bounce back before your next watering.

Yeah when watering I just wait untill the pot feels nice and light again...usually every 3 days or so. I don't know how long this new medium will take to dry out though so i'll keep monitoring it. I've learned to not worry so much about every little thing over the past grows...and that its always worse to over-do something then it is to under-do something.

Yeah, I'm here for this one man!! Glad to see you got it all worked out. +rep and pm'd

Thanks man shot ya a PM and some rep back. Damnit I just wish these things would grow faster. I keep going back to the tent expecting them to be a foot taller...lol.

fwiw my tap water is ~250-275 ppm and 7.0-8.0 pH. you get yours from skinner? I had major problems with the water causing lockout in my first grow.

I'm gonna go get an EC meter today to see what the tap water is like. If it is too high then I'll either grab some kind of RO setup or some huge things of distilled water for the time being.

if you want to do this right, which it looks like you have the equipment and financing, then you MUST get a RO system. PERIOD

You are growing "soil-less" (basically hydro) and RO water is essential to preventing salt buildup in your soil.

Are you doing the whole cycle in the tent or transferring to the room?

purplehays1 said:

if you want to do this right, which it looks like you have the equipment and financing, then you MUST get a RO system. PERIOD

You are growing "soil-less" (basically hydro) and RO water is essential to preventing salt buildup in your soil.

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You don't NEED an R/O system to do hydro. I think it depends on the makeup of your water as well. Lot's of times you can get the water report from your utility and see what is in there. If it's mostly calcium and magnesium and has a ppm of 75 then what's the point. You water is fine.

Hey phish, didn't take you long to get it going. Looks like you have your fun ahead of you. I sub and check it out! Happy for you....rw

Damn I just checked the ec of my water....308 PPM...which means that i probably watered my clones with like 700ppm water. No wonder some of them aren't looking so happy. I'll go get an RO setup tomorrow. I also need a few more things...

And no I wont be doing this whole grow in the tent....I'm working on putting the finishing touches on my 4800W 10X20 flowering room. Just gotta run some 120V outlets know and get the co2 setup all put together and get the ducting on the lights and it will be ready to fire up and test.

phishtank said:

Damn I just checked the ec of my water....308 PPM...which means that i probably watered my clones with like 700ppm water. No wonder some of them aren't looking so happy. I'll go get an RO setup tomorrow. I also need a few more things...

And no I wont be doing this whole grow in the tent....I'm working on putting the finishing touches on my 4800W 10X20 flowering room. Just gotta run some 120V outlets know and get the co2 setup all put together and get the ducting on the lights and it will be ready to fire up and test.

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I dont think you did too much damage. Thise little guys should be getting 400-500ppm anyway. What R/O system you gonna get?

I don't know nothing special. I gotta make another run to the hydro store tomorrow anyways to get some light hangers and some kind of AC unit. And yeah I think a combination of things is making it rough on them. Totally new light schedule from the person i got the clones from, different nutes and possibly stronger amounts. Good thing is MJ is resilient as fuck so after a few days they should bounce back. I just hate seeing them in rough condition but know that if i start doing a bunch of shit to try and fix it then it will just make things worse.

Damnit smoking makes me so unmotivated....lol.

phishtank said:

Damnit smoking makes me so unmotivated....lol.

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Yes, it does that. Especially Indicas, lucky growing doesn't take much work after you have it started.lol...rw