MY DIY 21st Century 'Flood' & Drain

[PetFlora]

After a day of hand-wringing + doing several things, most notably replacing the nutes (even though they were fresh), and rinsing the roots in pure H2O, this morning the girls are > 95% back to normal.

Not sure whether to change the 17w 5000K out. After all, induction bulbs are ~ 5300K and are being used from start to finish, although Splifferous (on another grow site) added deep red + FR pontoons for flowering

My clones looked very Indica dom early on, once I flipped they morphed into Sat dom

Thinking to take a couple low branch clones

And, Tinkerbell looks more like T Ball, but is far behind. Possibly use it to pollinate some clones, unless you have some other ideas for me

 

[polyarcturus]

i wouldnt use tinkerbelll, she, he, wasnt really up to PAR with the other plants. you could grow some more seed out and look for pollen. or clone one and make a herm from it and get some fem seeds.

 

[PetFlora]

No more WH seeds. Was thinking to get to F2. Do you think genetics suffered? I think it is just this expression. I doubt the pollen would be affected, but will defer to you on that

 

[polyarcturus]

they are alive and looking well to me, im sure they are fine to breed with im unsure what you asking. the pollen generated from hermieing them would be fine i mean should be viable and work i dont see any reason why not.

honestly if your referring to dryer incident, i think that if they where genetically damaged something would have shown by now, plus i dont even know if they would have germinated from that point.

 

[PetFlora]

^^ I have no other pollen to breed with, which is why I am thinking to use TinkerBALL. I doubt the abuse it suffered will affect its' genetics

 

[PetFlora]

LED Tent

Well, adding the 850 lumen 5000K has resulted in a ~2" growth spurt on both plants.

I am manually screwing it in/out to ~ simulate mid day intensity

The smaller, although very full of secondary branching may be developing ball sacks

 

[polyarcturus]

LED Tent

Well, adding the 850 lumen 5000K has resulted in a ~2" growth spurt on both plants.

I am manually screwing it in/out to ~ simulate mid day intensity

The smaller, although very full of secondary branching may be developing ball sacks

that sucks. maybe not so bad you can get F2 they may be easily hermed tho. you think its from stress? i have a woodys ive been abusing them no herms on me yet.

i did have a chernobyl cross herm on me i picked the balls off(and some other strain same situation) an havent seen them since i settled down on trimming and nutes ans such. but like i said ive been abusive.

 

[PetFlora]

In the end, one male and one female could be a good thing. and, it could be a hermie, or just too soon to tell

 

[PetFlora]

LED Tent

Well, one plant the top 4 nodes have nanners. Odd, in that it is short, squat, and loaded with lower branches, otherwise looks very female. On a positive note, the taller appears to have its' first pistil

HOT5 Tent

All's well. Buds getting bigger every day. Starting to smell

Pics tomorrow


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[PetFlora]

Friday Update

Both tents/systems are rolling along.

I am very pleased with my HOT5 tent. I will be dropping ppm from ~ 950 to 800, working down. Also, after each change I will be replenishing with just pure H20.

First 2 pics are HOT5 tent

 

[PetFlora]

Hurray, finally seeing lots of pistils on the larger plant.

It occurred to me to move the 22w WW closer to her

Also placed 2 Alnico magnets on opposite sides - important to make sure repelling sides face each other. This creates an energetic space ala Sacred Geometry

Thinking to cut away most of the male's lower branches, to provide more energy to the nanners, so I can harvest more of them. Poly?

 

[PetFlora]

I decided to trim the male's lower branches and noticed nanners everywhere, plus one was getting ready to open. Couldn't leave it in the tent as it would completely pollinate the female, and I only want to p a couple branches. What to do?

Aha (DOH), I moved it up stairs to the HOT5 tent. Even though they are ready to be mated, I placed it farthest from the fan, which only goes on twice an hour. Plus, the other plants should block the air. Any that get pollinated should produce some nice hybrids. They are all clones from a sat dom high q bag seed

Oh, I took 2 clones of her a week ago, waiting for decent root develop then will put them in with her to keep her company

Since it was out, thought you might enjoy some root porn

 

[polyarcturus]

id throw a gallon zip lock baggie over it and tie it at the bottom and cut a corner out of the bag for air exchange, that way you dont end up with seed city.

 

[PetFlora]

Thanks, I'll keep that in mind. Anyway, the two were competing for space under the leds

Oh the HOT5 is not really a tent. It's a frame, open on all 4 sides. The room is dark at night, so any pollen will fly out to the back wall

 

[Trichy Bastard]

Been discussing my pale green dilemma with SDS on his LED thread. He makes a valid scientific argument that is hard to refute. Although the pale has mostly changed to a healthy green, it coulld well have been the low ppm. They are now getting ~ 650ppm

OK, so my pale green problem could have been due to low ppm for this strain, and not low 5000K.

Just replaced the 5000K/850 lumen with a 3000K/450 lumen

Easy enough to swap back.

You can't do that with fixed panels

I know this is old by now, but I'm finally finding time to catch up... I can say with fair confidence they were short on nitrogen... Simple to fix by upping the ppms...

 

[PetFlora]

Yes, that was an old query. When I took the plants out into daylight they were a perfect shade of green. Poly, why did you Like this? RU high?

 

[polyarcturus]

Yes, that was an old query. When I took the plants out into daylight they were a perfect shade of green. Poly, why did you Like this? RU high?

am i ever not high is the question.

i thought i said the same things, he saying, now back when that was posted? not the lighT(spectrum) it was the nutrition.

maybe i misinterpreting the post, in sorry trichy i have to disown you jk

 

[PetFlora]

I have been contemplating doing this once my bulbs lose intensity

Go to http://www.ledwholesalers.com/store/...&productId=957

These 4ft bulbs (@20w) are $30- almost the same price as aqarium bulbs, BUT, with 3-4 times the life expectancy.

Buy some T8/12 connectors, reflectors and some wood for a simple DIY frame.

A buddy of mine put these in his dental lab (10ft ceiling), replacing standard bulbs as is really happy

I was thinking to start a new thread based on this, but I am not physically doing it-yet- and people want more than concepts.

Since the bulbs handle 100-240, euro growers can jump on board

If you run with this, please post a link.
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[polyarcturus]

i think you have to wire those directly to 120v. meaning in the fixture you dont use the old flouro ballast at all.

 

[PetFlora]

Yes, NBR= No Ballast Required. SWEET!

Super Simple, right? And years of high quality lighting