I never understood vertical bulbs in hoods. Bare vertical bulbs for vert growing yes, but in hoods no. I'm no lighting expert but seems to me the spread is better horizontal.
Colorado
Right now they get watered twice a day for 2-4 minutes a watering. There's 0 runoff. So the only water we waste is the r/o units waste. If we had better water and didn't have to run r/o our wasted water would be 0...
Colorado
Thank ya for the kind words. Currently 4 of us do the gardening. We need a couple more. Automation helps. Our whole facility irrigation system is now up, saves a ton of time. We're focusing more and more of our time on the plants exclusively, but there's always something to build / fix /...
Right now in full flower I like 36 inches to canopy. I've got some closer and some further away. I'll let the plants tell me which is better. I look for 5000 foot candles on my meter, and that's between 3-4 feet.
Colorado
Mostly with a machine, but some strains need to be hand done. Our machine is nice, closest you can get to wet hand trimming, thing cost a ton though.
Colorado
Pretty much. Its NPK ratios and micronutrients. It's the exact same things that are in bottled nutes, just without paying for the water that they dilute it with. The reason there's 50 bottles for some nutrient lines is that they break up the nutrients into different bottles so that if you skip...
Mixing of dry salts is easy... If you get a good base with micros in it. It all mixes like liquid nutes, on parts, part A, part B, etc. There's only 3 parts to my basic veg formula. Nothing fancy, just complete nutrition.
Colorado
I can't give out the recipes, sorry, owner would not be pleased. I will tell you though that the components can be found on line from a company called Hydro Gardens from Colorado Springs.
Colorado