Actually i need at least -2- 'Elite' Strains. I'd like for one of them to be purple. Otherwise, i have no idea. I need to do some research on the heaviest yeilding plants available -from seed-. I am, of course, open to suggestions. I've tweaked enough things that i think it's time to go back to the drawing board on strain selection.Genetics being what will make or break, what it all depends ON........ with Love...... of course....... You need an Elite strain!
Edit: And some of this hash I am smoking on....... Fucking A Man.... Fucking A
...... The Purple Maui Skunk would be fucking Amazing!!!!!........ I think if I back crossed it again with Twilight (female) it would be even better......
..... shrugs...... good luck, I am very curious to see where your search lands you......
LOL jusk kidding kinda
ah well. 
i saw mention of 4 lbs. per 1k light somewhere in there... but i don't know if its accurate.
as far as i can tell he was using 28 lights for that 44 lb harvest; 20 1k's and 8 600's. Plus its a sealed room with co2, chillers for the rez. etc. 30 thousand watts pretty easily. Way out of my league.
I'll have to re-think hydro setups after this second (ebb 'n flow) hydro harvest. Still want to see if there's a decent improvement over the last run.
Was looking at some Attitude seeds for 700 bucks per 10 fem. beans. Had my heart set on them (G13xHaze). Then i started to read smoke reports on the strain and found it completely standard fare (other than the beautiful silver / red appearance of the buds). So now i'm just popping the beans that i created. Mr. Nice crossed with 5 different strains: more Mr. Nice, White Widow, Durban Poison, White Russian and an auto-White Russian.
Still looking for a heavy yielder ... but it has to be from seed. And everytime i check out the seed recommended by someone it's out-of-stock
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Could be worse ... here's the current configuration; 2 gulleys each with 3k HPS over top and a 1k in the middle (total of 7k HPS):
you've deffinitely got an issue there. The Reverse Osmosis should take your water to, say, 15-30 ppm or less. This means that just a couple drops of pH up or down should raise your pH by like an entire point in a 50 gal. reservoir. I can't imagine why the pH would be outside a range of say 5.5-8.5 after being through an RO device. And, once again, at the miniscule level of ppm's left over, a single drop of pH up should have a significant effect on that water. I would guess that your RO machine is no longer working... what are your ppm's at after you RO the water and havn't yet added anything back in there? If the ppm's are still ... 50 or more ... it's time to change your filters or just go for a new one.
deffinitely looking better than the last hydro crop. your technique gave me the mental fortitude to do what was needed at 1 week into flower... i lollipopped several inches of bottom growth from all the bottoms and then <gasp> hacked about 6" inches off the top of all the durban poisons, evening the canopy and bringing them back down to a decent height. Had i been too scared to butcher them at that point i'd be using boat-loads of bamboo just to support the branches already. Low and wide was deffinitely the way to lean this time. A week later you'd never know that i bush-wacked those durban poisons
A week after that i went through and removed a lot of fan leaves from the upper half of each plant... for better light penetration and lower bud development. May de-veg again in a couple weeks, we'll see.100%. You take care of the roots and the plants will take care of themselves. Just wish that stuff wasn't so expensive. Everytime i treated the rez. with just those two products i'd be dumping about 130 dollars in. Could be well worth it, we'll see.
the ppm of my water after the ro is zero.
