TwistItUp
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For this grow I have six king klone brand blue dream clones in 3 gal smart pots, each with TGA super soil and Sunshine advanced ultra coir. Then I have two king klone white buffalo, one in a 3 gal smart pot with only Sunshine advanced ultra coir. The other white buffalo is in a bato bucket with growstone aeration stones in the bottom half, then a layer of growstones coco ready mix, and on top of that a layer of sunshine advanced ultra coir. All pots and the bato bucket are topped with gnat nix. Both the bato bucket and the one smart pot filled with coco will both be fed house and gardens brand coco's A and B. All plants will receive Dark Energy, and hi-brix molasses. I don't intend to PH anything this grow and see how that works out. Each smart pot/bucket sits in its own saucer. This grow is in a 4x4 tent setup with a 600watt phantom ballast, drawing air from outside through 4" booster fan and into a intake filter. The fresh air is circulated by two 6" clip on fans clipped to a length of pvc pipe standing in the tent, which also has a webcam attached to it. To cycle the air out the air then goes through a 4" phresh filter strapped to the ceiling of the tent which the air gets pulled through with a 4" sunleaves wind tunnel, that is hanging outside the tent and then vented into the attic. The hood is cooled separately using a 6" phresh filter hanging from the ceiling in my room, then into a vortex s-line 6" fan, from there my ducting runs into the tent and connects behind the bulb socket on a raptor 6" hood, then out the other side of the tent and up into the attic. I added some 6" 90 degree vent ducting bends on either side of my hood because the negative pressure in the tent was causing the tent to press in on the ducting and those metal 90 degree bends prevent the ducting from getting squished. Both the 4" inline fan that cycles the tent and the 6" fan that cools the hood are each connected to their own speedster fan speed controller. I did this thinking I would have some control over humidity in the tent and heat from the hood, more humidity or heat less fan speed, less humidity or heat turn the fan speed up, but it seems I don't have much control with just these basic controls. As far as feeding and other than the coco's A and B as well as the Dark Energy and hi-brix molasses, for this grow I am going to try using some ceramic automatic watering spikes just for plain water between feedings. Each of the plants in a smart pot will have its own 1 gal jug for the watering spike to sip from, the bato bucket will be hand water only. About the only things I plan to change for this grow would be getting a tower fan to place in one corner, instead of running the two 6" clip on fans, and I also plan to get a Digilux HPS bulb next month. Someone recommended Cannazym and Microbe Life Plus-C. Although I'm not sure just yet if I will add either of these to this grow. One more piece of gear I would like to get but don't have any plans to get right away would be a small boy de chlorination filter. Something to brew compost tea might be nice as well but again I'm not too set on buying that just yet and I can get tea from my local store for free anyway. I do have a few other things such as sticky yellow traps for flying insects and some stakes to help hold the plants up later in bloom, I could be forgetting to mention some other things as well, but for the most part that is the run down on my setup for this grow.
If anyone noticed any major flaws with what I have going please let me know, or if there is something you know my grow could benefit from that won't cost me too much I would like to hear your suggestions. Also I have RO but I don't plan to use it this time around. I'm planning to just use tap water, no cal mag, no ph'ing anything.
If anyone noticed any major flaws with what I have going please let me know, or if there is something you know my grow could benefit from that won't cost me too much I would like to hear your suggestions. Also I have RO but I don't plan to use it this time around. I'm planning to just use tap water, no cal mag, no ph'ing anything.
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