Certified Redneck DIY Drain to Waste System

sandman83 said:

ahh so these are hempy pots with an automated top up feeder? Whatever works for you! seems like a winner. Solo cups are still great, I use the double pot system for my outside starts =).

Are you using straight perlite? or mixed? Can't say I'm brave enough to mix battery acid for ph adjusters!

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So it's probably 60/40 perlite/vermiculite. And I'm super careful making my ph down. Used vinegar and too slimy.

These do get top heavy at 6-10 weeks, so I see 1/2 gal pots, cut the copy off, and nestle it in with some 1" avg polished river rock

go go kid said:

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heres what a modern same set up would look like, wish i had some old pix

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This is literally the first hydroponic system I ever made. This was back when dial up and aol dominated the interwebz. Shit took forever to load but once it did I was able to print out the plans for this very design. Used perlite as medium and some Mexican brick seeds and bam some 4 months later some boof “dro” lmao!!! Awwe 1999 what a year.

jcdws602 said:

This is literally the first hydroponic system I ever made. This was back when dial up and aol dominated the interwebz. Shit took forever to load but once it did I was able to print out the plans for this very design. Used perlite as medium and some Mexican brick seeds and bam some 4 months later some boof “dro” lmao!!! Awwe 1999 what a year.

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My first grows were pre internet. Ooops. Just aged myself, lol.

It has been two weeks and two days since the last picture I posted. It's a different angle. There used to be a clone in the front left that's not there. Seems that strain is too LED leaning. There is a clone in the front right that's still looking good from the plant behind it one strain that I have found very hard to clone. Then way back in the center rear is the clone from the plant just to its left that is just now showing roots out the bottom, so it's going to really take off soon. Yeah, part of what you see over that front center one, which is a clone of one already in flower, is a bit of the rear left plant, I think. Yeah, I've got a good problem right now.

Well a lot has changed. Gave one plant away at three week flower because it didn't like my HPS.

I think I'm morphing from a pot farm to a pot factory, lol.

The Nursery is all clones from the plants in the Maternity Ward. I gave away the one I mentioned that didn't like HPS at three week of flower because of the obvious space problem, hehe. Down the left hand side of the nursery are the first clones, and there are two clones of those doing real well, as you can see from the one on the right.

There's actually four plants flowering, the one down on the left you can't really see gets harvested this week at which time I'll put its clone into flower.

PRODUCTION!

Here's some better pictures:

That's two plants budding. Growing in solo cups. There's a third in the lower center background, two weeks into flower.