Sorry guys wasn't able to access RIU for a couple days.
End of week 8 flower update (day 57)
No changes from last week. For the next couple days I started flushing with just ph'd water, the reason is because I never flushed the rockwool this whole time, even though there was no problems and the fact that I ran out of the bloom formula. The next update will be after harvest and drying.
So I have cut, trimmed, dried, and de-stemmed everything (extremely long and tedious process). After trimming I hung up the buds attached to the stems to dry for 72hrs at 40% humidity and 66f. Then I de-stemmed the buds and laid them out for an additional 36hrs. The end result was 3170 grams or 7lbs of dried bud. This has been a great learning experience for me even though I started out a little big. If anybody is interested in replicating these results these are the 2 threads that I basically got all my information from, thanks homebrewer and everyone else who contributed valuable information and advice:
If you don't mind me asking how much was your electric bill for each month? I'm planning doing a setup similar with maybe 5 1000hps...Maybe 15 plants to each 1000
Amazing run! I think I may have to copy you How does it smoke?
Whether you run recirculating or dtw, rockwool prefers top drip (you rocked it with e&f). Dripping essentially flushes any salts out of the blocks on a daily basis.