The Making Of A Monster!

abudsmoker said:

My Electric usage is not a issue. what is a problem is the hundereds of pounds of co2 i consume. a homebrew company doesnt need 25 tanks every 17 days. To cover up all this is the key. if you give them a clue then another clue you will be toast.

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HOLY MOLY ABUD!
why the need for so much co2?
are these static rooms or something? that'd be understandable...

co2 is a critical part of flowering and food uptake. i take this part very very seriously. every room dumps a tank every 3-5 days. all my rooms are static. i have the need to control every detail. and temp and enviroment are #2 onlysecond to the lights

abudsmoker said:

co2 is a critical part of flowering and food uptake. i take this part very very seriously. every room dumps a tank every 3-5 days. all my rooms are static. i have the need to control every detail. and temp and enviroment are #2 onlysecond to the lights

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need any more help???

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sounds like you have quite the undertaking friend...
i figure to learn quite a few things from this grow...

bestofluck

First of all, exelent work man. I loved looking at ur pics. Anyways, not to be nosy, but how could u possibly cover up that much electricity use? If you would rather not say i understand.

very nice thread abud

what kind of camera do you have?

Cannon powershot.

i use a few different ones as i leave a camera at these gardens and just take the memory cards media update in a few hours see you really soon

You are truly a master,unreal pics

very nice thread abud

what do you think of the super hps vs the hps/mh? i'm very interested to know

kindprincess said:

very nice thread abud

what do you think of the super hps vs the hps/mh? i'm very interested to know

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Kp it makes the buds tighter if used the whole cycle. i would overlook these bulbs if i had to do it again. i use the dual spectrum bulb for the trasnition period. i find better results with the hps.

however the super blue makes greener plants hands down. about 20% less yellowing than the other bulbs

Ok i have a few threads going so things can get kinda scattered. i am tired of looking at these trays being empty. i have been working to get these gardens up and running and full.

There are lots of problems involved in this. the biggest problem i suffer is i need supplies, lots and lots of stuff. To fill these trays i need the better part of a pallet of fox farms.

When it came to bringing the moms into the garden i royally screwed up.
So let me tell you about the probems first.

I had nearly converted to Hydroponics this is a large conversion on my scale. but this was adding so much moisture the op was dripping wet all day long. as the temp started changing everything starting rotting. So in the end i had to take many many plants to the burn pile. To restart this op i needed 15 bottles of co2 10 bags of soil and about 100 hours of work. plus i have to shift from summer to winter condition.

So i had to take cuttings from some sick mite infested mommys. Cloning sick plants is not easy as many die during this process. this causes mold and bacteria in your clone dome. while those were attempting to root we took the best remaining hydro plant and cloned them. These are what we are resarting with. To make things worse I was nearly out of soil.

So i cut corners........ And it cost me more.......... What i did was take the clones i saved and used USED soil. this ultra salty mix locked these plants up. then flushing these back out caused a serious overwatering problem. this stupid move ADDED 2 weeks of recovery to my long road.

So i spent 2 days rounding up every thing i could soil co2 fans and goodies. and i have spent the last week getting the plants unlock ed and recovered. Now let me show you some new pictures.

so just a few days ago these were repotted and transported here. you can see they looked very healthy.

This idiot reused soil to avoid making a trip to the store and this screwed these plants. i have almost fixed the lockup, however it will be at least 10 days before i would recomend cloning them again. UGGH what stupid things i can do sometimes

ok here are the front runners. these are recovering and the growth rate will decrease as they lost alot of solar pannels. they are under a super blue dual spectrum hps/hm bulb 1000watt by hortilux

In another week these trays will be more productive. the left tray was transplanted and started last night it is 600 watt mh by sunmaster. in this room we are veggin 2200 watts
we need to veg up 66 plants for this location so it will be a few weeks before we have that many. my goal is to move 9 more plants in every week for 5 weeks. While this is going on we are veggin 35 more new plants from seed so it is imperative i dont make anymore stupid mistakes as this will cause backup....

Now from a glance these look like little bitty and frail. make no mistake they will form nice little bushes. the blueberry need special treatment or it will get really stretchy very quicly. its flower period is much longer also so i need to keep this in mind.

The way i have cloned these helps the plant get really bushy fast. these tiny plants are packed with growth nodes. Thats exactly what we want short bushy plants right????

blueberry yummy yummy....

nice... i especially like the bulb...

you can actually see it go from hps to mh in the color of the light coming from the bulb... crazy =]