GroErr Grows...

[ttystikk]

Airstones...oh and eliminate the whole wick aspect of sips...its just wannabe hydro...

The wick in my case is a 5 gallon bucket of coco perlite mix. The bottom will sit a few inches deep in aerated nutrient water.

The reason for the change from bare root RDWC has everything to do with the substrate's ability to buffer against nutes and pH swings.

It's a blatant attempt to gain the best of both soil and hydro worlds without suffering a penalty, lol

 

[Evil-Mobo]

The wick in my case is a 5 gallon bucket of coco perlite mix. The bottom will sit a few inches deep in aerated nutrient water.

The reason for the change from bare root RDWC has everything to do with the substrate's ability to buffer against nutes and pH swings.

It's a blatant attempt to gain the best of both soil and hydro worlds without suffering a penalty, lol

Well you beat me to it my next SIP test was going to be to try and run an auto beginning to end in the same SIP I am using but with the coco/perlite mix and bottom feed the Nova nutrients to see what would happen.............

Guess I will wait a bit

 

[ttystikk]

Well you beat me to it my next SIP test was going to be to try and run an auto beginning to end in the same SIP I am using but with the coco/perlite mix and bottom feed the Nova nutrients to see what would happen.............

Guess I will wait a bit

By straight in the 5 gallon bucket, I meant without any structure inside to create a wick; the entire bucket IS the wick. The buckets are drilled all around the sides near the bottom.

I do veg the babies in smaller containers and pot up.

 

[redi jedi]

The wick in my case is a 5 gallon bucket of coco perlite mix. The bottom will sit a few inches deep in aerated nutrient water.

The reason for the change from bare root RDWC has everything to do with the substrate's ability to buffer against nutes and pH swings.

It's a blatant attempt to gain the best of both soil and hydro worlds without suffering a penalty, lol

I was just messin with ya..but once the roots make there way out of the coco and into the water..your back to DWC. So why bother in the first place?

 

[ttystikk]

I was just messin with ya..but once the roots make there way out of the coco and into the water..your back to DWC. So why bother in the first place?

Buffering!

 

[redi jedi]

Buffering!

Maybe...honestly I think your going backwards.

 

[ttystikk]

Maybe...honestly I think your going backwards.

The problem with RDWC is consistency. Sure they get fabulous results sometimes, but not every time.

The coco approach happens to mirror the way most facilities here in Colorado already operate, which is a big plus when trying to work with them.

It remains to be seen if this is a step forward or not. I haven't done anything irreversible, so I could crank the RDWC back up anytime. The plants, as always, get the last word.

 

[GroErr]

Back to some old school soil, Day 37 and Day 3. New batch has 2x DOG, 2x Fireballs, 1x Plemon, and 1x Blue Ripper. Only one pheno has my eye from the BB plants. The Plemon pheno is looking and smelling nice. The one DOG smells nice but both the DOGs and the Fireballs got some PM and had to be sprayed so won't be staying around.




Cheers

 

[Humanrob]

2x 15gal outdoor Blue Ripper's. This is the sativa leaning F1/pheno 1 and finished last week of September last year. I basically mainline them with the trellises and let them grow out to keep the height down. 6-7 more weeks to veg & train, targeting 12-14 zips each

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Cheers

I really like the way you trained those outdoor girls. I've thought a bunch about keeping mine low and wide... but haven't done much. Next year I want to try that method, looks great!

 

[DesertGrow89]

That's a bummer I've heard DOG is a fire strain.

 

[GroErr]

I really like the way you trained those outdoor girls. I've thought a bunch about keeping mine low and wide... but haven't done much. Next year I want to try that method, looks great!

Cheers Rob, those trellises are great for getting the main colas growing sideways, these would have been 6ft.+ after stretch but I should be able to keep them 4-4.5' in there. They'll just be 4-5 feet wide Here's what they should look like in a few weeks, just bigger, they were bigger coming outdoor and 15gal vs. 10gal last year

 

[GroErr]

That's a bummer I've heard DOG is a fire strain.

Yeah sucks, I have PM all over outside so can't afford any phenos that get PM. Have more seeds to try down the road, resistance to PM can be pheno specific.

 

[GroErr]

Couple of crappy phone pics, my Canon T2i dSLR finally crapped out. Opportunity to upgrade though so not really bummed about it

Flash shot of the 3.5'x3.5' LEC girls at day 41 so 6 weeks. Couple of those Blue Ripper F2 phenos will finish in 8 weeks, couple will go 9 weeks. The Harlequin is looking ripe, it typically goes 49-51 days under the LEC's so should be good to go by end of next weekend.



Shot of one of the colas coming up on the BR2-3 Blue Ripper F2 keeper, finished in 8 weeks from seed.



Cheers

 

[GroErr]

Lights on, slightly better pics. 1 of each DOG and Fireballs ended up being males, was keeping an eye on them as they hadn't fully sexed and they started growing balls. No biggie, the best phenos of DOG, Fireballs, and Plemon ended up being the fems and the healthiest.




Cheers

 

[GroErr]

Veg update, most of these won't flower out but some potential breeding coming up. Have a potential tri-leaf male with that Harlequin x Blue Ripper cross, will be very happy if it turns out male. If the second tri-leaf seedling that just popped turns out female, it'll be a good opportunity to cross those 2 and see if I can keep the trait. Apparently it's difficult to pass on but chances with 2 of them would be better Will confirm that male 100% and flower it out. Clones are in the cloner for all of them as I may cull these other than the male and skip a flowering round. It'll be easier to manage through the summer, have pretty well every weekend booked already.



Harlequin x Blue Ripper Tri-leaf pheno looking like a stud to me




Cheers

 

[green217]

Which ones are the Plemons? how far along are they in flower? I ask cause I have a few going now.

 

[GroErr]

Which ones are the Plemons? how far along are they in flower? I ask cause I have a few going now.

It's the short one middle-left in the second pic from the flower room. Just went in 7 days ago. It and he Blue Ripper were smaller than the DOG and Fireballs but decide to flower them out. Put them on stools to even out the canopy tonight. That's a first one, smelling good and stretching quite a bit.

 

[Growdict]

Blue ripper pheno 1 is developing tri leaves. Very cool.

 

[GroErr]

Blue ripper pheno 1 is developing tri leaves. Very cool.

Hey very cool, I thought this (tri-leaf) trait was introduced in the cross between Harlequin & Blue Ripper but you're running Blue Ripper F2's so the mutation was already there. I'd run quite a few but didn't see any of these until I started popping the Harlequin cross. Got a tri-leaf male, now hoping the second one is a female to see if I can lock that trait down. I'm thinking the mutated version could be called Tripper

 

[Growdict]

ya, thats why i posted it. so you would know where the mutation came from. I also noticed i topped it at the fourth node and only one side is doing it for now. i am hoping it is a male, as i dont have any pollen yet. however if female, i may keep it as a mom and grow out some of the clones to see how they turn out.