Harvest a Pound Every Three Weeks!

[StinkBud]

hey stink what do you think of using a fogger system instead of sprayers on the flower unit? i posted i neat video from u tude but i guess the powers that be did not like it sorry. do you ever have problems with sprayers getting cloged? this sysem gust had the pump feeding a short piece of fence post on top of the front holes and a small nebulizer inside found on fleabay for around 25 bucks. what are your thoughts?

I'm curious how it would work with organic nutrients. The nutrients I use is made from compost tea and contains quite a bit of solids compared to synthetic nutes.

You should try it and let us know how it works.

After spending all day trimming bud I honestly fell my system is enough! You ever trim a pound of bud? It's fun the first few times but after 14 years it really sucks! I have to do it every three weeks!

 

[LVsFINEST]

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I recommend using feminised seeds. That way you won't have to pull any males and kill all the females in the process (the roots all grow together).

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Stink, or anybody who knows,

Would I really have to pull the females if the males were identified and pulled before any pollen was released?

 

[Picasso345]

Stink, or anybody who knows,

Would I really have to pull the females if the males were identified and pulled before any pollen was released?

The problem isn't the pollen. All the roots grow together, males and females, into one giant root mass and by the time sex shows, separating the males would kill the females.

 

[Thundercat]

Hey stink if your trimming alone, I am sorry. I wish I could help, really I do I wish I could help, lol. I've never trimmed a LB, but I did a QP with my GF's help and it took like 2 hours. I think I feel your pain. That shit you grow is sticky as hell too!!! Which strains did you just harvest? A couple of each? Also my GF makes a good point, have you ever considered getting an autotrimmer? Either the hand crank one, or a full on electric one! Just curious...

 

[LVsFINEST]

The problem isn't the pollen. All the roots grow together, males and females, into one giant root mass and by the time sex shows, separating the males would kill the females.

Duh! Can't believe I didn't realize... I knew that plants cannot be transported from the aero/NFT, I just didn't put 2 and 2 together... So with that being said, could you just cut the male at the very base and just leave the remaining (dead) stem/roots? It wouldn't necessarily be ideal, but at least it would salvage the females right? Or would the dead roots be an invitation for "the funk"?

 

[iBLaZe4tozErO]

Funk and root rot

 

[iBLaZe4tozErO]

After spending all day trimming bud I honestly fell my system is enough! You ever trim a pound of bud? It's fun the first few times but after 14 years it really sucks! I have to do it every three weeks!

poor you


so I took clones one week ago. And they all look good. Only one is showing root nipples but I hope they all start showing in the next week.
Thanks for all Ur help

 

[StinkBud]

Hey stink if your trimming alone, I am sorry. I wish I could help, really I do I wish I could help, lol. I've never trimmed a LB, but I did a QP with my GF's help and it took like 2 hours. I think I feel your pain. That shit you grow is sticky as hell too!!! Which strains did you just harvest? A couple of each? Also my GF makes a good point, have you ever considered getting an autotrimmer? Either the hand crank one, or a full on electric one! Just curious...

My wife helped some but then she bailed. I should get some electric scissors at least. "I've got blisters on my fingers" (you have to say it like John Lennon)

Two hours for two people to trim a QP sounds about right. Now image one person and four times as much bud! OUCH!

I harvested Shishkeberry, Purple Silver, Snowbud, Elvy, Blueberry and my new strain. My friend suggested I should call it Snowberry because it is a mix of Snowbud and Blueberry. It sounds good to me. The buds are dark green with purple almost black hues! Dank as fuck too!

 

[StinkBud]

Duh! Can't believe I didn't realize... I knew that plants cannot be transported from the aero/NFT, I just didn't put 2 and 2 together... So with that being said, could you just cut the male at the very base and just leave the remaining (dead) stem/roots? It wouldn't necessarily be ideal, but at least it would salvage the females right? Or would the dead roots be an invitation for "the funk"?

If I did have a male in my aero/nft system I would cut it down to just a few stems and leaves. Then just pull the male flowers before they get ripe. It takes a long time for the flowers to form and start producing flowers.

The best option would be to keep any plants in veg long enough to see preflowers. This usually takes about 6-8 weeks. If you find a male you can just yank it with no harm. You won't waste a space on you Aero/NFT system either.

You can not have dead roots in your system!!! They will rot and kill everything...

 

[StinkBud]

poor you

so I took clones one week ago. And they all look good. Only one is showing root nipples but I hope they all start showing in the next week.
Thanks for all Ur help

Somehow I knew I wouldn't get much sympathy.

You guys just wait though....your time is coming. Don't ask me what to put on your blisters...

Be patient with the clones. 7-10 days is normal and not bad. Remember, once you're up and running your clones will have 3 weeks to root and another 3 weeks in the veg system.

 

[DIRTHAWKER]

Hey stink, hows your new dehumidifier workin out?

In my neck of the woods, when the rain comes, the RH jumps up to 80-85, and my room was in the low to mid 70s for like 3-4 days. Im gonna have to get one soon.

 

[StinkBud]

Hey stink, hows your new dehumidifier workin out?

In my neck of the woods, when the rain comes, the RH jumps up to 80-85, and my room was in the low to mid 70s for like 3-4 days. Im gonna have to get one soon.

I'm having to empty half the container every morning! That's a lot of water that was going into the attic.

The mold was the big issue with me. I had found 2 different buds that had mold. I don't fuck around, I pull the complete bud off and chuck it. It sucks but it's not worth spreading the spores to the other buds.

Hopefully the dehumidifier will take care of any future mold problems. My room was running 60%, now I'm running it 30-40%.

 

[DIRTHAWKER]

is mold an issue in ealy flowering like less then 2 weeks?

no buds yet but i can see them starting to form.

 

[oneeyejedi]

I'm curious how it would work with organic nutrients. The nutrients I use is made from compost tea and contains quite a bit of solids compared to synthetic nutes.

You should try it and let us know how it works.

After spending all day trimming bud I honestly fell my system is enough! You ever trim a pound of bud? It's fun the first few times but after 14 years it really sucks! I have to do it every three weeks!

i was just curious i am not planing on changing this system if it aint broke dont fix it right! i know how it is triming ive sat in the woods and trimed hard 16 hour days for weeks at a time when i was younger and not such a pussy. too much to loose now. im happy with providing for us people who really need it.

 

[StinkBud]

is mold an issue in ealy flowering like less then 2 weeks?

no buds yet but i can see them starting to form.

It happens late in flowering when they buds are so thick that no air can circulate to the inside. Combine warmth and humidity and you have a perfect environment for mold to grow.

No worries for the first 6 weeks, just watch out for little dead spots on your buds. Look inside for mold if you see any. Ditch the whole bud if you find any.

 

[andyman]

the room Im wanting to do stinks style setup is 10x12 so I figure with room to walk around I will use 9x11 of the room. Im thinking of running 8' 5x5 pvc fence post and running 10 of them total. That would be 5 flower setups and 5 res. Under the 4ft post stinkbud uses. to keep the same setup for the 8ft long post I would need to double the amount of sprayers and pump size. Or use one res. per 8ft post. any other ideas so I dont have to buy so many pumps and res. Im going with l.e.d. lights and HO flouresents and 200w compact ones also. so heat wont be a huge issue. any suggestions

 

[andyman]

I'm mostly building mine the way I am cus I can't afford an actual air cooled reflector right now. The one I have is built for a piece of glass, and I'm gonna put the flange on it to make it air cooled, I unfortunatly can't put a flange on both ends, so I'm just workin with what I have. I gotta take and get the metal cut and welded some time this month, so its ready for the new year. I figured if I put like a 450-500 cfm fan, and an inline carbon filter, it would take care of venting, and air filtration in one shot. I'll just have a passive intake, and my basment stays a steady 65 degrees, so I hope this will take care of my heat!

yeah thems my first outdoor grow. some were purple and some were neon green. did well for first time. This year was awsome havent took the pics from my camera to the pc yet though. need a card reader thing.
thanks

 

[DragonPhoenix]

the room Im wanting to do stinks style setup is 10x12 so I figure with room to walk around I will use 9x11 of the room. Im thinking of running 8' 5x5 pvc fence post and running 10 of them total. That would be 5 flower setups and 5 res. Under the 4ft post stinkbud uses. to keep the same setup for the 8ft long post I would need to double the amount of sprayers and pump size. Or use one res. per 8ft post. any other ideas so I dont have to buy so many pumps and res. Im going with l.e.d. lights and HO flouresents and 200w compact ones also. so heat wont be a huge issue. any suggestions

I actually put alot of thought into this because I planned on running more posts myself and there are a TON of options...you can change the res size, the pump size, etc. etc. It really depends on how you plan to harvest but for this example lets say you harvest every 3w. The thing is with this if you want to be able to slowly up the nute solution (say every 3w when you add new plants) you need 3 reservoirs. There is a 40 gallon rubbermaid that has the same height (if not smaller than) the 20 gallon, it's just way wider. You could run one of these res to accomodate 21-28 plants and just have 3 pumps and 3 res's.

My room won't accomodate this due to the layout I built so I'm going to just run one extra post into a 20 gallon res. I know the 3 post is going to be outside of the typical gravity drain right into the res so I'm going to add a funnel at the end of the post where it normally drains and then just run tubing from the bottom of the funnel into the res. Presto! Problem solved. You just really need to think about what you want to do and what all the possible solutions are.

Good luck with it.

DP

 

[DragonPhoenix]

yeah thems my first outdoor grow. some were purple and some were neon green. did well for first time. This year was awsome havent took the pics from my camera to the pc yet though. need a card reader thing.
thanks

FYI you don't need a card reader..there is a USB cable that directly hooks up to the camera and you just download the pics onto your PC. The card is treated like any other USB storage device. Your camera should have come with this cable if you bought it new.

 

[StinkBud]

the room Im wanting to do stinks style setup is 10x12 so I figure with room to walk around I will use 9x11 of the room. Im thinking of running 8' 5x5 pvc fence post and running 10 of them total. That would be 5 flower setups and 5 res. Under the 4ft post stinkbud uses. to keep the same setup for the 8ft long post I would need to double the amount of sprayers and pump size. Or use one res. per 8ft post. any other ideas so I dont have to buy so many pumps and res. Im going with l.e.d. lights and HO flouresents and 200w compact ones also. so heat wont be a huge issue. any suggestions

One option is to run more of the same systems and harvest more often.

You could also use a larger res and pump in the setup you are describing. Something like 1200 GPH pump would run all your sprayers no problem. You can pick one up at Home Depot for about $80. 40 gal res would be perfect.

LEDs and Fls are great for clone and veg but you need at least 2 - 1000W HPS or 4 - 600Ws for the huge dank buds. Light is always your limiting factor and the most important aspect of your grow by far.

On the other hand, I highly recommend HO fluorescents for veg and clone.