Journal of my attempt at the "Mr Green" hydro setup (with influence from Al B Fuct)

[morrisgreenberg]

not a all, my tape water is great 25ppm and PH of 7.1, i just knew after a while the plants needed a boost, showing N p an K defs, the nutes i used had very small amounts of these, it stopped any and all discolorations and kept some leaves intake

 

[Ahzweepay]

I'm happy to report that things seem to be progressing along nicely.

The 3 taller plants in the full table pictures are the ones that replaced 3 of the original plants. These 3 were put in 2 weeks after the rest. I guess that pretty well illustrates what happens when you put clones in to flower before they have good roots...

As you can see, from the close up pictures of one of the smaller flowering plants (side and top), the original plants have recovered nicely and are packing on some nice buds. They're just a bit shorter than they should be, but I think they'll turn out just fine for my first batch

I also included a pic of one of the replacement plants in the flower side and a pic of the 3 new replacement mothers I have growing in my veg room.

The original flowering plants are now on week 6 and the 3 replacements are on week 4. I had let the original plants go with the week 1 nutes for 3 weeks so the current nute schedule is for week 4. It's pretty obvious that the original plants are going to be harvested a bit earlier than the replacements tho...

One thing that's been buggin' me is the daily pH increase in my flower tank. I'm finding that it's going up between .6 & .9 in 24hrs. Meanwhile the veg tank goes up between .3 & .5 after the first day and then moves up maybe .3 total over the rest of the week. The differences are the nutes - veg vs flower - and my choice of pathogen control - AquaShield & Hygrozyme in flower & H2O2 in the veg. Due to that I'm going to try an experiment for the next couple of weeks and change my flower tank to run with H2O2 instead of AS/Hygro. The AS/Hygro combo is being tried because I can no longer get H2O2 locally (although I have been pointed to BGHydro as a source for getting it online). A few weeks back I came upon a little stash of H2O2, so figure why not give it a shot. I'm guessing it may be a bit ugly for the first week as the H2O2 does it's thing, but am hoping that after a week or so the pH issues will subside a bit.
Any thoughts???

 

[prnkstr]

nice dude they are coming along! Good to see your getting your setup fine tuned looks sweet! Ill post an update to mine soon so you can see how im doing as well

 

[morrisgreenberg]

everythings looking good, may ask, how do you run your dripper system? at what lengths and night time drips?

 

[Keyzer]

Looks great! Glad to see an update from you. I as well found the Mr. Green video inspiring, & from there I just kept looking online. It's how I found this place. Just wanted to say I'm watching & thanks for the update.

 

[Ahzweepay]

everythings looking good, may ask, how do you run your dripper system? at what lengths and night time drips?

I run my dripper 4x per lights on (just upped it from 3x per lights on) for 15min each time. I'm currently running my veg room w/18hrs of lights on (helps with heat issues from the flower side), and have the last dripper run set for an hour before lights out.

 

[Ahzweepay]

Looks great! Glad to see an update from you. I as well found the Mr. Green video inspiring, & from there I just kept looking online. It's how I found this place. Just wanted to say I'm watching & thanks for the update.

Thanks!
I have to say the Mr Green video was what gave me the guts to give this growing thing a try, but the people on RIU have really helped get me to where I am today.

 

[morrisgreenberg]

bcus of RIU, you can get through any hurdle, all these videos dont cover problems indept

 

[Ahzweepay]

Things have been progressing nicely, so I decided to take a plant on the early side (for future reference).

The first 4 pictures attached are of the first plant I chose. This plant didn't have the "at least 50% amber hairs" which is why I say it was early. Any comments on how I trimmed it are appreciated.

I also attached a shot of my bud driers. Not sure if they are gonna cut it being chained together, but we'll see. So far it's doing its job well (with only 2 plants and none yet finished)...

The next batch of photos are from this evening. The 3 plants I added 2 weeks in have really taken off, so I took one of them (again on the early side). The one I took had at least 50% amber hairs, but the trichromes, at least the ones I could see on the leaves, didn't seem too milky to me (nor amber). I attached a couple pictures taken through my little microscope thing. Let me know whatcha think on this one as well.

By the way things are going I'd say the remaining 8's (tall ones) will get harvested this weekend. I'll likely have to wait a bit longer on the others - want to make sure they're good-n-ripe before I pick 'em.

...in preparation for the upcoming harvest I did a batch of clones on Sunday afternoon. I took 6 from each of my 4 mothers. I also replaced 3 of the original mothers with their clone offspring. Just 1 mother left to get a replacement for and I'll be totally without rockwool in my system! (pictures attached)

From seeing how the different plants have changed during flowering I'm now thinking that I've got 2, maybe 3 different strains. Will be interesting to see how they all turn out and compare to next round when they will all have good roots

I'd appreciate any thoughts/suggestions on how much longer these should have gone, etc.

...oh yeah! I smoked a bowl from the first plant harvested (some bud chunks that accidentally got trimmed). Twas a bit grassy tasting, but had some decent kick - sticky-n-skunky.

 

[LiEBE420]

looking good man!

happy growing!

 

[bluebeard]

Looks really good. I started my plants 10 days ago (Mr Green set up). You said your not using rockwool what are you using and why?
When did you start your plants?

 

[Keyzer]

The trim job looks great bro!! I'm on my blackberry I zoomed in keep up the good work I'm enjoying the pics!! I'm at work if people only knew what I was looking at on my phone.

 

[Ahzweepay]

Looks really good. I started my plants 10 days ago (Mr Green set up). You said your not using rockwool what are you using and why?
When did you start your plants?

My plants were started from seeds on October 31st 2008. I had a ton of trouble cloning using rockwool, but once I switched to an aerocloner things got much better. I have noticed that the rockwool seems to be a place where mold and other non-desireable gunk will collect. Part of my issue is that I didn't bury my rockwool in hydroton, but I still feel I'm better off without it.

At this point I use the aerocloner for my clones and then just put them directly into pots of hydroton.

Good luck with your grow!

 

[Ahzweepay]

The trim job looks great bro!! I'm on my blackberry I zoomed in keep up the good work I'm enjoying the pics!! I'm at work if people only knew what I was looking at on my phone.

Thanks for your input!

I'm "at work" too, but nobody I work with has a chance of seeing what I'm looking at since I'm working from home

 

[madazz]

sweet grow dude!! come check mine out. i reckon u will like!

https://www.rollitup.org/grow-journals/201627-2400-watts-12-slabs-canna.html#post2588156

 

[Ahzweepay]

I've been harvesting a plant every other day now. Just trying to see how much of a difference there is day to day.

The dryer seems to be doing it's job quite well thusfar, though I don't yet know how it works with a full load. My normal connection has been dry for a week now, so I've been forced to smoke some of my grow a little before its time.

Overall I'm finding it to be a good learning experience even if I've smoked some that was a little more green tasting than I like. At this point I have enough in the dryer/jars that I don't have to worry about that anymore bigjoint

Last night I harvested one of the 2 #16 plants. I've been getting a decent whiff of skunk each time I go into the flower closet, but once I cut the stem on that #16 it really blasted the room with skunky goodness!!! I've attached a few pictures of the plant before and after the trimmin' along with a shot of the trichromes.

Also attached is a picture of my clone roots on day 8 in the cloner.

Good times... Good times...

 

[Ahzweepay]

Well, after a very long wait I have finally finished with my first grow!!

I had some luck along the way (all the seeds I started turned out to be female) and some difficulties (rooting clones using rockwool). I'm still fighting a heat issue in my flower room, but otherwise I feel I have a nicely repeatable grow process started and know things will only get better.

I got a scale a bit late in the game so didn't get weights off everything, but the little plants I did weigh turned out to be about 1/4oz dried. I'm also happy to report that they are tasting ever-so-lovely and have a nice amount of kick too. They're not huge, but a great start for a newb with a black thumb

Spent some time in the flower room cleaning up and doing some ventillation upgrades yesterday.

The next batch of clones were planted in pots of hydroton (attached shots of the clone roots and the flower tray) and setup in the flower room last night - they are on their first 12hr stretch of darkness now...

Thanks to everyone for their suggestions along the way - I wouldn't have been successful without the help of my fellow RIU members

 

[morrisgreenberg]

i see that cloner turned out to be a good investment, i am very happy for you and your plants look like fat boys, now after your first harvest it becomes second nature and flowering period seems like it flies by

 

[brontobrandon1]

DAM bro everything is looking legittt as fuck. On your aero cloner thing do you run intervals like 15 min on 15 min off or do u run the water 24/7?? im really looking to get one but im not to sure man. Also how long did it take you to get good roots like that??

Thanks bro, i hope everything goes well

late

Well, after a very long wait I have finally finished with my first grow!!

I had some luck along the way (all the seeds I started turned out to be female) and some difficulties (rooting clones using rockwool). I'm still fighting a heat issue in my flower room, but otherwise I feel I have a nicely repeatable grow process started and know things will only get better.

I got a scale a bit late in the game so didn't get weights off everything, but the little plants I did weigh turned out to be about 1/4oz dried. I'm also happy to report that they are tasting ever-so-lovely and have a nice amount of kick too. They're not huge, but a great start for a newb with a black thumb

Spent some time in the flower room cleaning up and doing some ventillation upgrades yesterday.

The next batch of clones were planted in pots of hydroton (attached shots of the clone roots and the flower tray) and setup in the flower room last night - they are on their first 12hr stretch of darkness now...

Thanks to everyone for their suggestions along the way - I wouldn't have been successful without the help of my fellow RIU members

 

[Ahzweepay]

DAM bro everything is looking legittt as fuck. On your aero cloner thing do you run intervals like 15 min on 15 min off or do u run the water 24/7?? im really looking to get one but im not to sure man. Also how long did it take you to get good roots like that??

Thanks bro, i hope everything goes well

late

Thanks!!

I have my cloner set to run 15min on 15min off - been working great. Those clones were in the aerocloner for 15days total.