32 site aeroponic grow - Pot of Gold!
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grodrowithme
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grodrowithme
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also i updated check it out
DND
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It's working fine... the rez does not smell at all. I assume I'm not having any issues because the temps are low and there is no light getting into the rez. If you read up on the Lucas Formula, he never does a water change the entire grow unless the ppm/ph get way out of whack. The stratagy is to maintain 1300ppm within acceptable ph ranges for hydro. I never let my ph go below 5.8 and never higher than 6.5. The ph swings from day to day which I like because we know different nutrients uptake better at different ph levels and I'm using tap water which is harder to keep stable than reverse osmosis water which is supposed to be used with the formula.
I may after this batch is done, clean all of the roots, debris out of the rez with a fishnet/screen and use it the same mixture again.
grodrowithme
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so what is this lucas formula? im hearing alot of people ask/talk about it. who is it made bye?
DND
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Read this thread here... http://www.cannabis-world.org/cw/showthread.php?t=892
It's just a guy who goes by Lucas within the community. I like it because it's so simple. I use FloraNova Bloom instead of the General Hydroponics 3 part, one bottle formula the entire time. No additives, nothing... everything to grow a perfectly healthy plant is in that bottle. As you can see my plants are doing fine and show no deficiencies.
DND
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When I first came across it, I couldn't stop either. It really made me stop thinking so much into nutrients and growing in general, simplifies things.
Nice
Sounds like you may be my involuntary sounding board for a couple of questions and/or ideas I had from it, but I've gotta process some more info first..........also need to put together my damned flowering tent that I've been dragging my feet on.I'll PM you with questions and ideas to not muck up your journal, if that's okay with you.
DND
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Yeah no problem with that!Nice
I'll PM you with questions and ideas to not muck up your journal, if that's okay with you.
Earl
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Your looking pretty dense in that jungle,
but it looks like your getting a little tip burn.
I recommend that you lower the nute load.
Only light will make more yield..not more nutes.
At this phase of the game
you need to start lowering the food
until you are starving her at the end,
this will give you sticky buds and better smoke.
Your yield is not gonna be very much
because you don't have enough light
to get those lower buds mature.
If you trim the lower buds now
the plant can concentrate its energy on the well lit buds,
and they will be tighter and denser.
Fluffy buds come from lack of light,
not lack of nutes.
Great job so far.
but it looks like your getting a little tip burn.
I recommend that you lower the nute load.
Only light will make more yield..not more nutes.
At this phase of the game
you need to start lowering the food
until you are starving her at the end,
this will give you sticky buds and better smoke.
Your yield is not gonna be very much
because you don't have enough light
to get those lower buds mature.
If you trim the lower buds now
the plant can concentrate its energy on the well lit buds,
and they will be tighter and denser.
Fluffy buds come from lack of light,
not lack of nutes.
Great job so far.
DND
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Hey Earl,
Thx for the input! Yesterday I trimmed everything on the botton 6-8 inches of the plants. I have been trimming since the beginning of flower, but this plant is bushy as hell. I'm thinking POG isnt a good choice for SOG. I will keep a mother, but I'm moving on to my Green Crack moms next run.
About the nute load, I am trying out the "Lucas formula" for the first time which calls for 1300ppm the entire time. Just giving it a shot to see what happens, in the future I may go a different route. I think the tip burn you are refering to may be light burn. Either from water droplets on the tips or from the light being too close. I moved the light up a few days ago so that should help.
DND
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How are you Bob? Thx for stopping by!
A few things (mistakes) that I've learned thus far doing SOG with this many plants...
#1. NO VEG TIME! As soon as the roots are strong enough, flip them. I think this is what may end up affecting my yield in the end. And I bet I wouldn't have to deal with all of this trimming underneath the canopy.
#2. Instead of the pump being always on, cycle it. I just started using a cheapo 15 minute timer with 15on/30off. I think if I would have used this on a timer before, my roots would have doubled the root mass. Next time I'm going to buy a CAP timer using the 1on/5off cycle.
I'm sure as this progresses I will find more and share them.
A few things (mistakes) that I've learned thus far doing SOG with this many plants...
#1. NO VEG TIME! As soon as the roots are strong enough, flip them. I think this is what may end up affecting my yield in the end. And I bet I wouldn't have to deal with all of this trimming underneath the canopy.
#2. Instead of the pump being always on, cycle it. I just started using a cheapo 15 minute timer with 15on/30off. I think if I would have used this on a timer before, my roots would have doubled the root mass. Next time I'm going to buy a CAP timer using the 1on/5off cycle.
I'm sure as this progresses I will find more and share them.
DND
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Yep, between 8-10". Big mistake in hindsight, can't veg these bushy indicia strains that long when growing this close together.My pleasure sir - always looking for new ideas
Quick question for you - you don't have measurements (or even a decent guesstimate) about their height at the onset of 12/12, do you? Something like 8" maybe?
Just curious......