bongmonger
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would white poster board work purp?? or how about aluminum foil?
Roseman and purpdaddys guide for my Bubbleponics setup from Stealth Hydroponics
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bongmonger
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the paint is so that the light doesnt get to the roots, i hear the bubbleponics blue lid allows through - which it does if you hold it up to a light.
purpdaddy
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hell naw.,,check my last bp grow in my sig,,i aint paint shit,DP and anfghan.i had a perfect grow.
bongmonger
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Couple questions... Is tap water ok? And will white poster or aluminum foil work for the walls?
purpdaddy
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will it work,,of course!Depends on the Ph of ur tap water,,in hydro you need to keep the ph around 5.8-6.0
warlock22
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My ph is about 6.2 and my girls are doing great, they have been in my bp system for a week now after transplanting them from soil and they all have great root growth. Light doesn't seem to penetrate enough to matter. The roots are white and healthy. Im with purp on this one. It isn't necessary to paint the tub itself, Just the walls. Take my word for it Purp knows what hes talking about......
bongmonger
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Hey purp or anyone, how often to apply the pre-measured nutes and how much to put?
warlock22
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Hey PURP check the girls out man. This is exactly a week from transplant to the BP System from soil. The Girl in the bottom left is doing the best but they are all very happy. The last pic is the root system on the plant in the back left.....I thought it was odd that the biggest and bushiest plant isn't the one with the most developed root system. And one quick question.....I am changing my res. water this weekend. Is it to early to start flowering?
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purpdaddy
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all i can say bout that is
yea a lil too early to flower,but u can put them on 12/12 and they will show sex as soon as they mature enough,but id wait a bit longer,keep me posted and ill let u know
purpdaddy
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warlock22
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Yeah I don't wanna outgrow it. So I changed my res. water today. Went pretty well. I was reading rosemans tips for the Bp sytem and I have a question. By no means am I doubting Rosemans skills, it states to add 1/4 tsp. Hydrogen Peroxideto the water for ten minutes prior to draining, Are the plants going to be harmed by the peroxide being fed to the roots? I know its kind of a dumb question, but you know im a newb so I went wihtout this time, just to be sure.....
bongmonger
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hey guys.. i started my seeds in the rockwool, i had bowls over the top of the cups and now i see a few of them have white things poking out a little, but they are not above the top of the rockwool.. should i wait until i see green and it is above the rockwool to turn the lights on?
warlock22
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The First Pic. is One week before I transplanted them into my BP System. The next is one 1 1/2 weeks after the transplant, this system is FUCKING AMAZING and very very easy, Props to Stealth. I do have a question for ya, as you can see the growth and foliage of the second pic. it is pretty thick. Should I do any kind of trimming other than trimming dead leaves? I have researched trimming and can't come to a conlclusion with myself......please help....
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warlock22
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Right on thanks man. So I am changing my water in a week and judging by the mass growth they achieve in 24 hrs. I am thinking I might start flowering. Do you agree??? Also what is your take on this, I have heard to go completely dark for 24 hrs or 36 hrs. to sex and go into flowering, which is the wiser??? Also Have you ever grown the Bubblecious strain? I have four feminized seeds for my next grow.....
Roseman
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Never remove a leaf. simple, NEVER remove a leaf. EVERY leaf has a purpose and task or job to do, let it do it.
There are two sides of the argument on removing leaves.
One is, if it is dying, remove it, it will rob the plant of food.
TWO, When you see a large fan leaf beginning to yellow, that means that your buds ae sucking nutrients (food) from that leaf to make your plant or buds grow. Let your buds or plant get it all out of that leaf, by leaving the leaf there. When it is used up, it will fall off.
I am not certain which is correct. personally, I remove half dead leaves, but I wait until they are half dead.
AND I NEVER REMOVE A HEALTHY LEAF. NEVER.
At two weeks, it is time to TOP, PRUNE or FIM.
Read this:
Topping, Pruning, Fimming
Essentially they are the same, "Pruning" and "Topping", just two different commonly words used. Fimming means a lot of indesriminate Topping. It is also known to some as "Pinching" as well. In this page it will be refered to it as "Topping"
Topping is done to increase yield and make them bushy, bushy, bushy, make more buds, promote "branching", and increase the overall yeilds of the plants. With higher overall yeilds, a grower will successfully harvest many more budds, or floral clusters, and from smaller, bushier and more compact plants.
To the indoor grower that does not use this technique, but allows their plants to grow tall, it can be a waste of their artificial lighting, and growing spaces potential. With its own natural growth pattern, and without the benifit of topping, your lady will have one main central "khola" budd, at peak flowering. Several other small branches will grow outwards, down its main stalk, with much smaller budd topps.
The natural growth pattern is to grow upwards at its main stalk. From this main central stalk will begin to grow side branches. The side branches come out as tiny shoots with leaves, and usually there are a pair of them on opposite sides of the main central stalk.
When the seed leaves have long dyed off on the main stalk. The first true seed leaves commonly can or will, wilt, dry up, or dye off of the plant as well. (the little round ones) Once healthy new vegative growth begins the rate of growth can be very fast, with excellent lighting supplied.
As the new growth increases the light reaching the lower portions of the plants becomes less. Thus it is common to see first leafs wilting and dying ect. Growers that see leaves wilting or dying, ect, will opt to pulling them off of the plants. It is cool to remvoe dying, yellowing unhelathy leaves. I NEVER remove a helathy leaf.
The main central stalk is topped of just above the branches that are coming out below it. A pair of scissors is best be used.
There are no rules to where you top your plant or how old it needs to be. As long as your plant has shoots protruding further down the main stalk it is able to be topped. When topped the growth of the plant will be concentrated towards the new, younger vegative shoots.
Once you have topped your plant(s) the younger shoots will rapidly begin growing. With the removal of the main central stalk the lower braches grow more. With topping completed we keep the plants on their regular lighting and feeding schedules.
Now each new shoot tip will essentially grow as the main stalk did, however the growth is not concentrated to only one central stalk. So as each new shoot grows outward new shoots will grow from each one of them stalks as well.
Therefore topping can be done again, and again, and as each shoot becomes a growing tip with other shoots forming down its stalk, it is removed. By completing these topping or pruning tactics, a grower can acheive any desired height, or desired bushiness, they desire in their plants.
I TOP and FIM, at the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th week, (I do a rapid Hydro grow) . Look at the results in the pic of my dozen stalks.
With pre-planned Topping and Prunnimg, I was able to persuade a plant to make 12 or 13, (depending on how you count them) to produce 12 oe 13 stalks. got about 46 inches tall, and produced 7 ounces of dried manicured buds.
purpdaddy
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makes alot of sense.i agree 100%.but if the dang leaf is too damaged to where it cant shake back,,thats the only ,ONLY way ill remove a leaf...i got in a huge argument with these guys in this thread a while back that frakin removing fan leaves to penetrate to lower foliage!!!!I couldnt believe it.Fan leaves are very ,VERY important!!Never remove a leaf. simple, NEVER remove a leaf. EVERY leaf has a purpose and task or job to do, let it do it.
There are two sides of the argument on removing leaves.
One is, if it is dying, remove it, it will rob the plant of food.
TWO, When you see a large fan leaf beginning to yellow, that means that your buds ae sucking nutrients (food) from that leaf to make your plant or buds grow. Let your buds or plant get it all out of that leaf, by leaving the leaf there. When it is used up, it will fall off.
I am not certain which is correct. personally, I remove half dead leaves, but I wait until they are half dead.
AND I NEVER REMOVE A HEALTHY LEAF. NEVER.
At two weeks, it is time to TOP, PRUNE or FIM.
Read this:
Topping, Pruning, Fimming
Essentially they are the same, "Pruning" and "Topping", just two different commonly words used. Fimming means a lot of indesriminate Topping. It is also known to some as "Pinching" as well. In this page it will be refered to it as "Topping"
Topping is done to increase yield and make them bushy, bushy, bushy, make more buds, promote "branching", and increase the overall yeilds of the plants. With higher overall yeilds, a grower will successfully harvest many more budds, or floral clusters, and from smaller, bushier and more compact plants.
To the indoor grower that does not use this technique, but allows their plants to grow tall, it can be a waste of their artificial lighting, and growing spaces potential. With its own natural growth pattern, and without the benifit of topping, your lady will have one main central "khola" budd, at peak flowering. Several other small branches will grow outwards, down its main stalk, with much smaller budd topps.
The natural growth pattern is to grow upwards at its main stalk. From this main central stalk will begin to grow side branches. The side branches come out as tiny shoots with leaves, and usually there are a pair of them on opposite sides of the main central stalk.
When the seed leaves have long dyed off on the main stalk. The first true seed leaves commonly can or will, wilt, dry up, or dye off of the plant as well. (the little round ones) Once healthy new vegative growth begins the rate of growth can be very fast, with excellent lighting supplied.
As the new growth increases the light reaching the lower portions of the plants becomes less. Thus it is common to see first leafs wilting and dying ect. Growers that see leaves wilting or dying, ect, will opt to pulling them off of the plants. It is cool to remvoe dying, yellowing unhelathy leaves. I NEVER remove a helathy leaf.
The main central stalk is topped of just above the branches that are coming out below it. A pair of scissors is best be used.
There are no rules to where you top your plant or how old it needs to be. As long as your plant has shoots protruding further down the main stalk it is able to be topped. When topped the growth of the plant will be concentrated towards the new, younger vegative shoots.
Once you have topped your plant(s) the younger shoots will rapidly begin growing. With the removal of the main central stalk the lower braches grow more. With topping completed we keep the plants on their regular lighting and feeding schedules.
Now each new shoot tip will essentially grow as the main stalk did, however the growth is not concentrated to only one central stalk. So as each new shoot grows outward new shoots will grow from each one of them stalks as well.
Therefore topping can be done again, and again, and as each shoot becomes a growing tip with other shoots forming down its stalk, it is removed. By completing these topping or pruning tactics, a grower can acheive any desired height, or desired bushiness, they desire in their plants.
I TOP and FIM, at the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th week, (I do a rapid Hydro grow) . Look at the results in the pic of my dozen stalks.
With pre-planned Topping and Prunnimg, I was able to persuade a plant to make 12 or 13, (depending on how you count them) to produce 12 oe 13 stalks. got about 46 inches tall, and produced 7 ounces of dried manicured buds.
warlock22
Active Member
Right on thanks guys.....So here are some beautiful new pics. taken just now. It will be two weeks tomorrow since I transplanted them from soil into the BP System. Not to bad for my first grow........
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purpdaddy
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hell yea man lookin real good to me!good job man!The BP really makes em shoot up!Right on thanks guys.....So here are some beautiful new pics. taken just now. It will be two weeks tomorrow since I transplanted them from soil into the BP System. Not to bad for my first grow........