Hydroponic Perpetual Grow Community

[DeweyKox]

You could still place all clones in at the same time, just veg the bad ones till there good, and keep vegging the good ones till there all fully rooted. Then place them all in at once.

 

[grandpabear3]

You could still place all clones in at the same time, just veg the bad ones till there good, and keep vegging the good ones till there all fully rooted. Then place them all in at once.

that sounds like a lot of work especially coming from a dirty hippie, to lazy to trim his girls' gnarly bush.


jk

 

[DeweyKox]

I meant, when I take a batch of clones, I wait till there all ready and rooted together as a group to place into flowering....and do it again right afterwards for that great idea of growing called "Perpetual" Duh! Dam Hippies! J/K

 

[onthedl0008]

Whats up soggy bottom dwellers.. DK man thats actually a good point. I try to do the same cause the slower clones will get beat out in the lamp race to the top if the rooting is not uniform.. Good stuff.. Something else i found is transplanting to pots is just as important. Taking clones all the same size helps here but if ya got a couple smaller ones its better to transplant them a little higher in the pot so there tops are flowing with the rest of the tops..

Happy 420 day Soggers.

 

[dirtysteve]

Well I am glad to see there is still a place for this topic. Still working on my room but things are coming along nicely. Got my exhaust fan and a 250W MH for the mothers. Gonna wait on the 600W for a bit until mothers are mature and ready to clone. If all goes as planned (it never does) I should be sprouting something in the next couple weeks. Happy 4/20 all.

 

[DeweyKox]

that sounds like a lot of work especially coming from a dirty hippie, to lazy to trim his girls' gnarly bush.


jk

HAHAHA, "to lazy to trim his girls' gnarly bush." Funny Funny, wait till ya see me next snatch! You should be drooling!

Ur too funny Bugz! Hippies!

 

[DeweyKox]

Whats up soggy bottom dwellers.. DK man thats actually a good point. I try to do the same cause the slower clones will get beat out in the lamp race to the top if the rooting is not uniform.. Good stuff.. Something else i found is transplanting to pots is just as important. Taking clones all the same size helps here but if ya got a couple smaller ones its better to transplant them a little higher in the pot so there tops are flowing with the rest of the tops..

Happy 420 day Soggers.

True.... I take clippings about all the same size, and give the smaller ones another 2 weeks and there ready to go. I got some clones right now waiting to show roots! Its been 7 days, no roots. Some strains are def. harder or take longer to clone! Oh well, thats the way it goes till I get an Aerocloner going. Hopefully I can get the rooting time cut in half coming from Rockwool! I have been using it for over a year, and wanting to make the switch to see it I like it better. Will see...

Happy 420 Everyone!

 

[DeweyKox]

Well I am glad to see there is still a place for this topic. Still working on my room but things are coming along nicely. Got my exhaust fan and a 250W MH for the mothers. Gonna wait on the 600W for a bit until mothers are mature and ready to clone. If all goes as planned (it never does) I should be sprouting something in the next couple weeks. Happy 4/20 all.

Nice Steve, Keep us updated. I hated it when I was at the stages of rebuilind my grow area for the second time! But once you get it built right, and work out the kinks and get it down, things start to produce real nice!

 

[dirtysteve]

Yeah. It is just the initial expense that is killin me. Shit aint cheap. But I am the type that like to do things right, the first time. And I am always gettin into expensive hobbies. Only difference is that this one pays back.

 

[Thundercat]

I'm in the process of planning my next grow, that part of why I started posting on this thread. I'm wanting to go perpetual hydro. I've been thinking about ebb + flow, with hydroton so I can reuse the medium, instead of having to dispose of rockwool every 3 weeks.

 

[DeweyKox]

That will work great! I'm one of those rare guys who use 100% perlite! cheap and effective except for the reuse part. I dump mine out and recycle into a soil mixture for the plants out side.

 

[grandpabear3]

i was doing the 1-2'' of floc in the bottom then the rest perlite. then i switched to all perlite in favor of multiple watering cycles (dumped mine too) then switched to hydroton only and going to bump my watering up to 3 per lights on.

 

[sparkafire]

i was doing the 1-2'' of floc in the bottom then the rest perlite. then i switched to all perlite in favor of multiple watering cycles (dumped mine too) then switched to hydroton only and going to bump my watering up to 3 per lights on.

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Hey Numb Nuts if you can get more nutes to the roots why not go 5 or more times? If your soup has enough air in it you can only benefit from exposing them to more juice.

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[GypsyBush]

Hey TC... good to see you...

Welcome to this very fucked up world of Weed Barons... RW haters.. and Sogging....lol...

Life is Good!

Dewey, thanks for the input... but it's done a month ago... and yesterday... there's more than eleventeen in there now... lol ... freaking nightmare...

Bugs, as for untrimmed bushes... HELL YEAH!!! I'm a Dirty Hippie!!!

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Hey Numb Nuts if you can get more nutes to the roots why not go 5 or more times? If your soup has enough air in it you can only benefit from exposing them to more juice.

I was flooding 12x a day with no adverse effect..

Decided to cut back to allow the tray do dry between floods.. less algae...

 

[DeweyKox]

i was doing the 1-2'' of floc in the bottom then the rest perlite. then i switched to all perlite in favor of multiple watering cycles (dumped mine too) then switched to hydroton only and going to bump my watering up to 3 per lights on.

With all perlite, I water 6 or 8, i have to check again, while lights are on. Seems to be doing a hell of a job!

 

[Thundercat]

I was figuring on flooding prolly every 4 hours, should give them time to get air to the roots, and still keep them well fed. I was thinking about getting 4 of the 10 plants ebb and flow systems, and putting them all under my 1000w. Harvest 1 system every 2-3 weeks. I'll keep mothers, and clones under my other lights. I'm hoping to build or buy an aero cloner, so they root fast. I may also add a 5th unit to veg them for 2-3 weeks before they go into the flower room. That would allow me to eliminate haveing mothers, I could just take the clones off the veg plants before I flower them. I'm liking this idea more every time I think about it.

 

[DeweyKox]

It's a lot of work, so put away a good amount of time. Once you get your routine down, you will forget about time.

 

[Thundercat]

Lol, I was talkin to gypsy over on my thread, and he's just about got me talked into just using a 4x4 tray with a single res. He said he runs the same nutes on all his plants. His clones go right into flower, and then they get the same nutes from beginning to end. This seemed like a pretty simple way to do things. If I got some 5-6 inch pots, I could fit about 70 clones in to a 4x4 tray. I would think with that many under my 1000w I should get a decent yeild. He said he averages about 20g per plant under 600w, so if I got that with that many plants, it would put me well over the mark I want to hit. I don't know, a single tray sure would be cheaper, and simpler then running 5 systems with differant nutes in each.

 

[grandpabear3]

Attention all trolls Attention all trolls, Sparky has posted something.

Hey Numb Nuts if you can get more nutes to the roots why not go 5 or more times? If your soup has enough air in it you can only benefit from exposing them to more juice.

Attention all trolls Attention all trolls, Sparky has finished posting something.

to be honest with you.......remember on als thread when i cooked my ww? posted pics. been scared to death ever since. was nervous about going to 2 times per lights on. now my yields suck and i spose thats why......well that and the fucking white flies (come on lady bugs....get here) and the damned mold.
so, oh ya....i harvested a moldy crop...dried a moldy crop....started to cure the moldy crop and it smells none to pleasant. i call "it ode to a rotting white widow". (would make an excellent vogan poem.....any nerds out there like me?) should i smoke this? can i ? is it dangerous?.....this is a subject i know nothing about so be nice!
should i still market it? and can i fix it?
so maybe if i fix the mold issues and kill tha bugz then try this extra flooding (only makes sense) i can be a weed baron.

but today....ladies and gents i hereby seceed from the throne and relinquish my title as the weed baron. you win sparky........happy?

dont cry for me argentina!

hopefully one day i will grow well enough to show my face here again. but not today.

Lol, I was talkin to gypsy over on my thread, and he's just about got me talked into just using a 4x4 tray with a single res. He said he runs the same nutes on all his plants. His clones go right into flower, and then they get the same nutes from beginning to end. This seemed like a pretty simple way to do things. If I got some 5-6 inch pots, I could fit about 70 clones in to a 4x4 tray. I would think with that many under my 1000w I should get a decent yeild. He said he averages about 20g per plant under 600w, so if I got that with that many plants, it would put me well over the mark I want to hit. I don't know, a single tray sure would be cheaper, and simpler then running 5 systems with differant nutes in each.

you are 100% right and i think you should do it and you'll impress the shit oput of yourself with the results.

 

[Thundercat]

I thought of 2 things regarding this idea. One is I think I'm gonna do some sort of veg system. Maybe something like stink buds, maybe just like a 2x2 tray. Any way I want to be able to veg the clones for 2 weeks before they go into the flower tray. This way they are good enough size to really produce from buds. This way I can also eliminate the need for mother plants eventually once things get settled in well. I was thinking about the 2x2 tray, which I could then take like 20 cuttings for the next batch, and use the best 10, veg them, and take another set of clones, flower the ones vegging, and move the new ones into veg. Do this every 2-3 weeks depending on the strain, and how they grow.