2000w Purple Kush/Mystery Beans-RND3

#1Raiderfan420

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I just made a discovery today that is very interesting. I checked my tap water for ph/ppm/ec and this is what I found. Ph-6.3/ppm-35/ec-60. This makes me feel retarded for using a ro filter. H&G recommends a RO filter if your ppm's are over 100 so i am thinking of scrapping th ero filter all together. Please give me your opinions on this one. Man it would simplify my eniter system and really help with my new set-up to not have to wait for RO res to fill up.:clap:
 
I just made a discovery today that is very interesting. I checked my tap water for ph/ppm/ec and this is what I found. Ph-6.3/ppm-35/ec-60. This makes me feel retarded for using a ro filter. H&G recommends a RO filter if your ppm's are over 100 so i am thinking of scrapping th ero filter all together. Please give me your opinions on this one. Man it would simplify my eniter system and really help with my new set-up to not have to wait for RO res to fill up.:clap:
damn raider that sounds like you have been blessed with the option to run an experiment!

hey yesterday i went to the goodguys car show in pleasanton and i saw a sign that said #1 raider fan parking only! and i almost shit myself

also if you do need to get rid of a ro i need to get one! keep me posted if u do get rid of it cause i really cant spend the money.
 

#1Raiderfan420

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damn raider that sounds like you have been blessed with the option to run an experiment!

hey yesterday i went to the goodguys car show in pleasanton and i saw a sign that said #1 raider fan parking only! and i almost shit myself

also if you do need to get rid of a ro i need to get one! keep me posted if u do get rid of it cause i really cant spend the money.

That is funny man, yeah i get VIP parking everywhere in the bay man. lol :lol:
Yeah, if I don't use my RO I might be able to get it to you. You are in GV right?
 

#1Raiderfan420

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So I thought I would give you a peak at the new veg room. This is industrial steel shevling unit. 4'x2'x8' the trays are 2'x4' each..the lights are quad 4' t-5s..( i haven't hung the other one yet). The res is 27 gal tub. The top tub will have a little more heigth than the bottom for stretchier strains. I have two 500gph pumps that fill each res in 5 mins. I also have a 400 gph pump that I may use as a circulation pump in the res. Anyway that's where I am at so far. Next I am going to run water to the room and figure out a drain. Then it will be on to the air circulation.

 

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#1Raiderfan420

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Love the shelf system raider. Big Things in small places, I like it....

LOL thanks man. I had a 4x4 veg box before and this room is 4x5 so I just thought would make it easier to maintain if I went verticle. I was lucky to find this shelf ad friend had it from when gottshaks went out of business. I also have my cloner in the room and am thinking of cutting a door into the new flower room..not sure on that one yet. I am going ot run water to the room, so i have a faucet in there and am thinking of putting drain basin or sink in there too.
 

quickrip

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Your shit looks amazing from your setup to the product Raiderfan! Im 2 weeks into flower on my 1st grow with two 1000s over a 3x6.5' flood and drain scrog setup. Tryin out hindu kush x skunk. What is the distance between your screen and your lights by the end of flower ? Also between your tallest buds and your lights? Ive only got 3' 4" screen to lights. Do you feel that will that be enough room to finish without damaging the buds. Thanks for your valued opinion. Ive just read your last grow journal. A lot to be learned from your incredible work. Especially for a noob like myself. Look forward to seeing the rest of this grow. Looking beautiful already!
 
dude your new room is legit! holy hell thats gonna be amazing. so thats going to make both rooms functional right? damn i wish i wasnt renting. im havin trouble getting my head around the lighting tho, ill take another look at the schematic, but it looks like with the light spreader you could go wider? like i said ill take another look, but i had a question for anyone reading this that knows about light spreaders, "does the light spreader reduce intensity?" what do u think raider? have u noticed anything along those lines either to agree or disagree?

also, are you going to run plumbing for easy watering or hand water? the latter sounds redic but at the same time hand watering allows you to notice flaws and insects before they become a real prob. anyways im stoked to see this baby in action. congrats on the room again, and i hope you dont mind if steal certain ideas or just plagerise your room setup all together! haha jk
 

#1Raiderfan420

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Lookin good buddy!! Check out my grow in my Sig...
Dude, this is a RIU first for me, but pound sand and please do not post in my journal. I have seen this same exact post in two other journals by you, word for word. So my hunch is that you are pasting this in everyone's journal.

Your shit looks amazing from your setup to the product Raiderfan! Im 2 weeks into flower on my 1st grow with two 1000s over a 3x6.5' flood and drain scrog setup. Tryin out hindu kush x skunk. What is the distance between your screen and your lights by the end of flower ? Also between your tallest buds and your lights? Ive only got 3' 4" screen to lights. Do you feel that will that be enough room to finish without damaging the buds. Thanks for your valued opinion. Ive just read your last grow journal. A lot to be learned from your incredible work. Especially for a noob like myself. Look forward to seeing the rest of this grow. Looking beautiful already!
Thanks for the kind words. As for the light's, I have them on the pro grip rachets so I move them often. I keep them about 18" from my canopy and I have about 4' from the top of the screen. Where they end up depends on how they are trained.. lsting. toping, fim, etc.. For example, this time I topped the pk which I haven't tried yet and they look like they will be much shorter. If your plants look they are getting too high, at two weeks you can still do some lsting. Thanks again for the compliments.:-P

dude your new room is legit! holy hell thats gonna be amazing. so thats going to make both rooms functional right? damn i wish i wasnt renting. im havin trouble getting my head around the lighting tho, ill take another look at the schematic, but it looks like with the light spreader you could go wider? like i said ill take another look, but i had a question for anyone reading this that knows about light spreaders, "does the light spreader reduce intensity?" what do u think raider? have u noticed anything along those lines either to agree or disagree?

also, are you going to run plumbing for easy watering or hand water? the latter sounds redic but at the same time hand watering allows you to notice flaws and insects before they become a real prob. anyways im stoked to see this baby in action. congrats on the room again, and i hope you dont mind if steal certain ideas or just plagerise your room setup all together! haha jk
yea, the light spreader does give me better coverage. I am currently using movers and the standard cool sun reflectors. I will be using the 8" ocho magnum xxxl's with the spreaders so I should get better coverage yet. I will flooding the tables in the flower room, unless I go with the buckets. I will be ebb/flow in veg room too. Hey, man most of the ideas aren't mine anyway, so steal away.
 

quickrip

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Dude, this is a RIU first for me, but pound sand and please do not post in my journal. I have seen this same exact post in two other journals by you, word for word. So my hunch is that you are pasting this in everyone's journal.



Thanks for the kind words. As for the light's, I have them on the pro grip rachets so I move them often. I keep them about 18" from my canopy and I have about 4' from the top of the screen. Where they end up depends on how they are trained.. lsting. toping, fim, etc.. For example, this time I topped the pk which I haven't tried yet and they look like they will be much shorter. If your plants look they are getting too high, at two weeks you can still do some lsting. Thanks again for the compliments.:-P



yea, the light spreader does give me better coverage. I am currently using movers and the standard cool sun reflectors. I will be using the 8" ocho magnum xxxl's with the spreaders so I should get better coverage yet. I will flooding the tables in the flower room, unless I go with the buckets. I will be ebb/flow in veg room too. Hey, man most of the ideas aren't mine anyway, so steal away.
Thanks for the help Raiderfan Im gonna try to gain a few more inches if I can and it should work. Much appriciated.
 

#1Raiderfan420

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Thanks for the help Raiderfan Im gonna try to gain a few more inches if I can and it should work. Much appriciated.

Your welcome Bro, glad I could help.

Day 21

The room is strating to get that sweet aroma. Between the PK and the MK I it is heavenly. A Couple of the MK looked bleached on the tops, so I moved the lights up a few inches.
I picked up a couple more clones today.. one train wreck( which I don't know if I will keep. I may have found some pm unless it is something they treated it with. I will give it a few days and if there are any more signs it is a gonner. The other clone is a Chem Dog. I am planning on keeping these out of my new veg room until I am sure they are clean. I washed the cubes away from the medium they were in with the cups and moved the cubes and roots into 50/50 coco/perlite in 5" coco pots.

Anyway here are a few pics of the ladies. My fucking camera went dead so excuse the pic quality.

Puple Kush

Mango Kush

Spice Creek


The Mango with some leaf bleaching

 

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you definatley have this under full control when your flowers are that hairy at day 21. u must be stoked. i have seen full grow rooms ruined by clones with powder mold. and unfortunatley a lot of clubs sell clones with pm. ive seen this happen many times, and most of the time the clubs dont even know that they have pm, others dont care what they sell you as long as your moneys good.

chem dog is a great strain, i also like sour pur deez, ny deez, pretty much all of the deisels so im curious to see how this chem dog does. did they give you a flower time?
 

#1Raiderfan420

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you definatley have this under full control when your flowers are that hairy at day 21. u must be stoked. i have seen full grow rooms ruined by clones with powder mold. and unfortunatley a lot of clubs sell clones with pm. ive seen this happen many times, and most of the time the clubs dont even know that they have pm, others dont care what they sell you as long as your moneys good.

chem dog is a great strain, i also like sour pur deez, ny deez, pretty much all of the deisels so im curious to see how this chem dog does. did they give you a flower time?
Yea, the dude at the dispensary didn't say much about the strains. He didi say however they have had the same vendor for years at both clubs and that they haven't had mites complaints come back. The CD is the one that will stay for sure, I am not sure if I want to grow the TW anyway after hearing some of my buddies that had trouble with it. If it has pm, there will be no hesitation. I would rather buy some seeds anyway. Since they both came from the same dispensary I am wondering if I should even fuck with either one.. Any opinions are welcome. There was one of the leaves that had a whitish film on it. It wasn't enough to identify as pm, it could have been some type of dried foliar treatment..neem or somthing.
 

#1Raiderfan420

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I checked the ppm's of my tap water again tonight and still around 30 ppm- 63 deg - ph of 6.3. I should bottle this shit. I live 100 meters from the water treatment plant and the same distance from the lake it comes out of. Anyway, it looks like I will be eliminating my r/o filter soon.
As for the ladies, the purple kush looks to be developing bigger buds than last round at this time. It is early to tell, but I do see some sublte differences. They have more of tip on them, they look frostier, and they look a bit fatter too. So this could be premature, but the Bloom just might be in my line up from now on. Also, I know I complained about the roots and I still would not recommend anyone to put it in there res, the roots on the top of the medium look thicker and more white.

Here are couple more bud pics.


First my tap water

Purple Kush


Mango Kush


Spice Creek
 

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#1Raiderfan420

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looks like a lot of fire bud to me ;-)

Thanks Brother! I should have some fatty's in a few weeks. :bigjoint:

Just a little update. I cleaned out both reserviors today. They had a slimmy scum that coated the sides of the res. I haven't seen this before and think it was the Bloom Roots. Anyway it was a pain in the ass to clean up. I checked the ppm of hose water in my small res and it was 30 ppm again, so I am very comfortable removing the ro filter now.
As for the clones I picked up Super Kimo x Blue Dynamite, The Black, Train Wreck and Chem Dog.. they were treated with a combination of GreenCure, SucraSheild and Coco Wet. As I said earlier, I noticed a little film on a leaf of the train wreck that may have been something it was treated with, but I will not put these clones in my room until I am confident they are clean. There are no mites and they look healthy, but I am not taking any chances.

Oh I also bombed the new veg room today with a pyrethrum bomb. Most of the clones in the new cloner have pooped roots so I am planning on potting them in the next several days.
 

wonderblunder

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Looklng damn good in there. I am hoping to spend some time and get my journal and more pics updated. How far in are you
 

#1Raiderfan420

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Looklng damn good in there. I am hoping to spend some time and get my journal and more pics updated. How far in are you

Thanks wonder. I am on day 24 man and I hear ya on the pic thing. I try to post some every other day, but I am pretty high on some cinderella tonight so I will be skipping the pics. I'll try to get some up tomorrow. i would love to see your ladies though.
 

bender420

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Everything is looking fine and dandy man as always. Raider's room is one place that is guaranteed green year round with snow fall every few weeks.
 
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