Mike Huntherz Presents: The Perpetual Variety Good Time Grow Show!

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chuckie86

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Michael Huntherz said:
A micro-grow journal where I run a few beans at a time to produce a variety of tasty smoke for me to choose from. I grow in Mordor, where the shadows lie, and the Eye of Sauron scans the landscape for tiny Hobbits growing that Longbottom Leaf. They lock people in cages for this, can you believe that shit? Barbarians!

Right now I'm running a tap water only organic soil I've amended with some stuff, mostly Espoma *-Tone products in Black Gold Natural and Organic base.

Black Gold Natural And Organic, 2 cu. ft. (12 Gallons)
I add about 3 gallons of chunky perlite.
1.5 Cups Plant-Tone
1.5 Cups Garden-Tone
2 Cups Holly-Tone
1/2 Cup Bone Meal
1/2 Cup Blood Meal
1 Cup Horticultural (Dolomite) Lime

If the base mix is dry I add a gallon or two of water so it is moist, but not wet.
I mix it up in big Rubbermaid storage bins, then I stir every few days and
let it cook for at least a month, preferably 6 weeks.

I don't plant seeds or cuts directly into it.
It seems to work.
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I use 5 gallon smart pots for flowering, and I usually veg in a size or two smaller, I may start going from 16oz keg cup straight to the 5 gallon Smarty. I need to buy a few more, and another small tent to dry flowers in. Odor is a real concern for me, so my early-flower tent, finish-flower tent and drying tent will all need to have carbon filters.

I have four plants two weeks into flower, all grown from feminized seeds:
  • 1 Scott's OG from Rare Dankness. Triangle Kush x Rare Dankness #1
  • 1 Devil's Harvest Strawberry Sour Diesel
Both of the above germinated on March 28. In the back left and back right, shorty and the tall bitch of the tent shot, respectively.
  • 2 Freebies I got from Delicious, called Candy this year, Cheese Candy last year. Their Caramelo x Exodus Cheese.
Both of these Germinated April 1. They are the two in the front of the tent shot.

I flipped them all to flower just over two weeks back.
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I also have some in veg,
HSO Blue Dream
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Elemental Honey Bananas
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Cream of the Crop Purple Paralysis
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Bomb Seeds Cherry Bomb
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I've attached some of the pics I have on hand, I'll add better ones going forward.

It is about time I started this thread.

The plan is to harvest two plants, then move two plants into the flower tent every month. It will probably take me some practice to make it happen, and I realized just now I'm going to need another tent, but that's the direction I'm headed. Peace for now, and forever. Yada yada y'all, I'm out.

I've been using Blumats in the flower tent, but the plumbing gets in the way of pruning and plant maintenance, I may switch to hand watering. I'll continue to dial in my process. Hand watering sounds like a lot of work compared to keeping the reservoir full and ignoring everything else. I like to automate things as much as I can justify.
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I got 2 cherry bomb going myself and 2 gorilla bomb
 
Michael Huntherz

Michael Huntherz

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ttystikk said:
Don't rush it, you've been through a lot!

I'll be looking forward to seeing what you're up to these days.
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I am doing sort of a 10 plant SOG, Basement Mix and Blumats, new cheapish blurple lights in my 4’x4’ tent. The lights work better than often reported and I fried my seedlings with them, nearly to death, but they are finally recovering. Will flip tomorrow, will post pics when it gets interesting. Will set up multiple stages again soon. :bigjoint:

I do not dig the Basement Mix compared to Tupur. Next run likely to be Blumats in big rockwool cubes, then maybe switching to aeroponics down the road.
 
ttystikk

ttystikk

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Michael Huntherz said:
I am doing sort of a 10 plant SOG, Basement Mix and Blumats, new cheapish blurple lights in my 4’x4’ tent. The lights work better than often reported and I fried my seedlings with them, nearly to death, but they are finally recovering. Will flip tomorrow, will post pics when it gets interesting. Will set up multiple stages again soon. :bigjoint:

I do not dig the Basement Mix compared to Tupur. Next run likely to be Blumats in big rockwool cubes, then maybe switching to aeroponics down the road.
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I'm told that it's best to run straight water or salts only through the Blumats.

Is that what you're doing?
 
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ttystikk said:
I'm told that it's best to run straight water or salts only through the Blumats.

Is that what you're doing?
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Yeah, salts only, Jacks Oasis Hydro 16-4-17, MKP, and MgSO4.
Oasis is a one part hydro fert, You have to keep it nice and dry or it precipitates out pretty fast. I bought a 25lb bag for $80 more than a year ago, so far so good.

Running about 4 - 3.5 - 6 most of the time. I have tried boosting the MKP in flower in the past, I don’t think it makes a shittin’ bit of difference.
 
ttystikk

ttystikk

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Michael Huntherz said:
Yeah, salts only, Jacks Oasis Hydro 16-4-17, MKP, and MgSO4.
Oasis is a one part hydro fert, You have to keep it nice and dry or it precipitates out pretty fast. I bought a 25lb bag for $80 more than a year ago, so far so good.

Running about 4 - 3.5 - 6 most of the time. I have tried boosting the MKP in flower in the past, I don’t think it makes a shittin’ bit of difference.
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Interesting choice of mix. It suggests that our favorite plant is really not terribly finicky about its breakfast.
 
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Michael Huntherz

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ttystikk said:
Veg;
2 parts 5-11-26 mix
2 parts calcium nitrate
1 part mag sulfate
Dilute to personal preference.

Bloom;
2.5 parts mix
2 parts calcium nitrate
1 part mag sulfate
Again, dilute to personal preference

I haven't bothered with MKP in quite some time.
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That’s almost painfully simple, I love it. I know you ran MKP when I came to visit, what prompted you to drop it?

I keep hearing from some grower friends of mine with a North CA background about how driving Phosphorus hard during flower is really important, but I just don’t see it, personally. I have heard some crazy stuff from them, like feeding soil grows at 2500ppm during flower. Their smoke is bomb, but so is yours, and mine, and there’s fucking fire everywhere these days.

Based on the variety of approaches that are successful I would agree, she ain’t picky.
 
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ttystikk

ttystikk

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Michael Huntherz said:
That’s almost painfully simple, I love it. I know you ran MKP when I came to visit, what prompted you to drop it?

I keep hearing from some grower friends of mine with a North CA background about how driving Phosphorus hard during flower is really important, but I just don’t see it, personally. I have heard some crazy stuff from them, like feeding soil grows at 2500ppm during flower. Their smoke is bomb, but so is yours, and mine, and there’s fucking fire everywhere these days.

Based on the variety of approaches that are successful I would agree, she ain’t picky.
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I found that my meds weren't any better with it than without.

Perhaps I wasn't using it optimally, I don't know.
 
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Well, I am into week two of 12 hour lights, finally.

I fried my seedlings nearly to death because everyone kept saying how weak the ViparSpectra lights are, turns out they work pretty well. I started 18” off canopy based on some forum posts, but I had to jack them up to the top of the tent. 570 watts is plenty enough, even for blurple. Cheap LED with lenses ain’t all bad. I wish they were all white and red, there’s a lot of blue in the spectrum, but once I got them dialed in the plants got happy pretty quickly.
 

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