Harvest a Pound Every Three Weeks!

[DIRTHAWKER]

BTR, when growing from seed, I take 1 or 2 clones from the plant when it's big enough, then once the clones have rooted, I take the original plant and place her in my flower tent - within 2 weeks the plant will show it's sex, then I know whether to keep it and the clones, if they are female, or chuck 'em cause they have balls.

Hope this helps =)

SEE just when i think i know something,, somebody teaches me a better way. I love this class!!!

 

[BIGTIMEROOFERR]

Thanks GRINGO thats the way i was planning on doing it but wasnt sure about it. i thought i might put them into shock if i sexed them first

 

[BIGTIMEROOFERR]

This place is the BEST you cant ask for a better place to go for all your questions and get helpfull and easy to understand advice everyone helps everyone.
SPECIAL THANKS TO THE STINK MASTER

 

[Kash Krop]

almost there...

JESUS!!! Somebody's going "Big-Time" LOL.

 

[DubB83]

can someone tell me if i should take clones before i sex them or sex them first i started with seeds
THANKS FOR ANY HELP

I sex the clones and kill the mothers that are males (not mothers) so you don't have to re-veg before you can clone again. Less stress on the mom's = more healthy clones.

Wait long enough and most strains will show pre-flowers.

 

[DubB83]

went a head and tweaked your Aero NFT design, any thoughts or comments?

Looks like someone has a decent set of CAD skillz.

With your design I would recommend a larger based reservoir or a taller reservoir. If the goal is to lower the growing chambers and you use the same size reservoir as a regular Stink Bud design you are lowering your water table quite a few gallons. The fix to that is to get a wider/stouter reservoir.

A taller reservoir would work if you were just trying to keep contamination/algae growth down by not exposing the end of the tube.

 

[GringoLoco]

BTR, when growing from seed, I take 1 or 2 clones from the plant when it's big enough, then once the clones have rooted, I take the original plant and place her in my flower tent - within 2 weeks the plant will show it's sex, then I know whether to keep it and the clones, if they are female, or chuck 'em cause they have balls.

Hope this helps =)

Just to clarify, I leave the original plants in the flower tent to go all the way if they are female, I then make the best clone a mother if the original one matures nicely and is a keeper - unlike stink that cuts clones from veg, I like keeping a mother tent and switching strains in and out.

Variety is the spice of life!

 

[jem]

stink i found the fence post they are 4 4 72" they need to be 4 4 4 right? What is the easy way to cut them?

 

[mercilus]

stink i found the fence post they are 4 4 72" they need to be 4 4 4 right? What is the easy way to cut them?

The general consensus is a hack saw I believe.

Of course I always hear of unique and new ways of doing almost anything from this forum lol.

Maybe do a search for DIY laser cutter. I think someone made one to zap their spider mites.

 

[SOG]

thank you guys for jumping in on my lil tweaked setup
i am to in love with this class, cant wait to get up and checkout whats new


i tucked the fence post inside the res to keep water from splashing out.
the main concern is algae, second is the noise of the water falling down

the question i should really ask is,
how far up do the res water go, with the pump sunk in it
(before the pump starts cycling the water)
this will give me indication of how far down i can take it
to keep the "water drop" short

 

[BIGTIMEROOFERR]

thanks GRINGO i got 9 plants im taking 2 clones from each then im going to sex the 9 mothers and kill all males clones and all. and let the mothers go all the way. then take clones from the clones when i put them in veg.

 

[SOG]

got a prototype going, pics coming in a few

 

[GringoLoco]

thanks GRINGO i got 9 plants im taking 2 clones from each then im going to sex the 9 mothers and kill all males clones and all. and let the mothers go all the way. then take clones from the clones when i put them in veg.

Good luck BTR, and welcome to Stink U!

 

[nc1go]

It has been a week on my clones, no roots. How long should it be. The ppm was 550 and the ph was good. Also my veg 250 mh light is trying to turn on but keeps turning back off. One month old. Any advice?
You guys are the greatest.
Thanks, James

 

[SOG]

its just a prototype
what do you guys think, will this do the job?

 

[andyman]

Actually that is exactly how i did mine and it worked out perfectly however you will need to make a modification that cost about $12 or so in order to make things easier for you later on when changing you rez for cleaning. Where the 1/2 pvc goes into the fence post you need to add Union joints. They basically allow you to screw together and take apart at will the water supply portion. You will need this to make putting it all together and taking it apart again with no hassle. What i did was i added a union joint to each water line going into the fence post then i made my valve body assembly and added another union coming off the pump. Each union has a male and female end. If say i put the female end on the fence post side then the valve body had the male portion attached but at the pump i reversed it so that if i needed to i could detach one post and connect the pump to just one post. If you need more info please just ask.

For you guys in the process of building the flower units, I would install some sort of connection between the pump and the sprayers that can easily disconnect for cleaning and draining.
It has been my experience that when draining the reservoirs there has always been an inch or two of water and nutes at the bottom that will not drain. This way you can disconnect from the post and remove the whole res to clean etc. I put my pvc connect/disconnect between the T that goes down to the pump and the T that goes to the 2 pvc sprayer pipes.

Just some friendly advice from new experience.

What latin said above..lol

Well guys I dont think I will be worrying about that since I dont glue the pvc together. I just shove the parts together real tight. Nothing has come loose so far.
The main reason I planned on running the post into the side of the res, is so the light wont go inside and so I can keep the post even lower twards the floor since my room height is only 7' tall. That way I can have taller girls.

 

[andyman]

its just a prototype
what do you guys think, will this do the job?

looks good, did you use 4" or 5" post?
if you put the water to the bottom of the post it wont make as much waterfall sound.
checkout some of my pics to see how I found an easy way to run the cord out the top or side without water coming out. It makes it real easy to pull the cord out anytime. I just used a 90 degree 2" pvc drain elbow and a piece that slipped into it and stuck them together. It lets fresh air in but keeps light out. and doesnt leak water.

 

[SOG]

looks good, did you use 4" or 5" post?
if you put the water to the bottom of the post it wont make as much waterfall sound.
checkout some of my pics to see how I found an easy way to run the cord out the top or side without water coming out. It makes it real easy to pull the cord out anytime. I just used a 90 degree 2" pvc drain elbow and a piece that slipped into it and stuck them together. It lets fresh air in but keeps light out. and doesnt leak water.

its a 4" posts, the cord is out flush to the top of the res
made a cut for it, it comes out under the handle

 

[andyman]

its a 4" posts, the cord is out flush to the top of the res
made a cut for it, it comes out under the handle

I have a fishtank heater in my units cause of the cold here, they keep it at about 68-71f. So I needed to have a spot were 2 or more cords could come out. Here are some pix they are not even glued so its a snap to clean. I allso put a piece of foam in like a filter so air can come in but stay clean.

 

[andyman]

Hey everyone I came up with a great easy way to sprout your seeds and let the cloner do all the work. I take a piece of paper towel and put it into the netcup like a coffee filter. Then put the neoprene back on. But I put in a little straw for air to come in. (I used a blue electrical crimp piece cause I didnt have any straws)
This lets oxygen in from the top and a small amout of light so the sprouts grow twards it. I havent found this to be enough light to cause any problems and the paper towel blocks it anyway.

This way you dont forget about them and they overdry or not sprout. It works fine as you can see from the pics. hope this helps

also 1 pic of root porn , this lil one was a seed 1 week ago today