My Current Grows Continues

honestly I love both. I am using soil right now because I only have one strain of these plants now, but when I get more than 5 of a strain I will pull the hydro back out and use it.
Hydro has given me faster growth and a higher yield, last hydro gave me an average of 1.7oz per plant (OG Kush) and soil is giving me 1.3 (Strawberry Kush).
So they each have their ups and downs and I wont knock either.

But hydro is very very touchy, I have killed 3 plants in hydro by not watching what I was doing and soil is very forgiving.
 
Those are some beautiful plants. Are you pruning the tops to make them shorter and fuller at the bottom and sides? Or is this a credit to the hydroponic system? I'm involved in a first time closet grow using soil and a 125 watt cfl. My Mazar-i-Sharif is about 16" tall. If I can get my plants looking half as good as yours, I would be ecstatic :clap:.
 
Those are some beautiful plants. Are you pruning the tops to make them shorter and fuller at the bottom and sides? Or is this a credit to the hydroponic system? I'm involved in a first time closet grow using soil and a 125 watt cfl. My Mazar-i-Sharif is about 16" tall. If I can get my plants looking half as good as yours, I would be ecstatic :clap:.

I top the plants twice in veg and when they start to grow back I throw them in veg. I also trim the bottom 1/3rd of the plant for more air circulation and take out some of the useless smaller branches.
 
Hey, great grow so far. Can you show off your DWC a little? I want to try one and yours look great so far!!!

NOthing special, 1 5 gallon bucket with a hole thru the top for the air hose and for the plant to sit.
If you are talking about the recirculating sprayer thing I had made I have pics somewhere, Ill have to find them.
Both really easy!!
 
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440 pump, 10' of 1.2" cpvc piping, a few spray nozzles from Lowes and 1/4" grommets for the tubing between buckets.
 
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White DOmina a little mroe than 2 weeks into 12.12
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SMile at 3 weeks 12.12
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Jilly Bean 4 weeks tomorrow
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Cheese at 5 weeks
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Cheese at 5 weeks
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Cheese at 5 weeks
 
Cool, and the water just flows from bucket to bucket through those pipes near the bottom? So do you run 24 hours or are you using a timer? And when it comes to food, do you just drain it every week and refill with new nutes or just keep it at a certain PPM?

Thanks!
 
Cool, and the water just flows from bucket to bucket through those pipes near the bottom? So do you run 24 hours or are you using a timer? And when it comes to food, do you just drain it every week and refill with new nutes or just keep it at a certain PPM?

Thanks!

the nutes are all the same deu to they run from one to another thru the tubes in the bottom and the pump is running 24/0 so a constant spray is always on the roots, but the key is how much water is in the res. IO keep it low so the roots have plenty of O2 and arent swimming in nutrients all the time, even though they are being sprayed all the time. Make sense?
as far as filling its like any DWC just having to change the res. every 2 weeks or so whenever the ppm gets out of wack.

Example.
WHen I go into 12.12 they are in nutes around 650ppm.
IN 3 days thats down to 200 ppm just by the plants using all the nutes available and as long as the Ph stays in the 5.5-6.0 range its all good and I just add more nutes at 650 ppm.

around the 4th -7th week of 12.12 the plants dont eat as much nutes as before, just enough to keep growing and flowering and they get fresh nutes around 750-850 ppm to keep them happy.

8th week- the end I flush with Ph water and very low dosages of nutes 100-200 ppm
the very last days, maybe 3-4 before the final cut they get some flushing nutrients to get them clean and quick.
I have some clones on order and when they get here I am bring that system out of hibernation.
 
the nutes are all the same deu to they run from one to another thru the tubes in the bottom and the pump is running 24/0 so a constant spray is always on the roots, but the key is how much water is in the res. IO keep it low so the roots have plenty of O2 and arent swimming in nutrients all the time, even though they are being sprayed all the time. Make sense?
as far as filling its like any DWC just having to change the res. every 2 weeks or so whenever the ppm gets out of wack.

Example.
WHen I go into 12.12 they are in nutes around 650ppm.
IN 3 days thats down to 200 ppm just by the plants using all the nutes available and as long as the Ph stays in the 5.5-6.0 range its all good and I just add more nutes at 650 ppm.

around the 4th -7th week of 12.12 the plants dont eat as much nutes as before, just enough to keep growing and flowering and they get fresh nutes around 750-850 ppm to keep them happy.

8th week- the end I flush with Ph water and very low dosages of nutes 100-200 ppm
the very last days, maybe 3-4 before the final cut they get some flushing nutrients to get them clean and quick.
I have some clones on order and when they get here I am bring that system out of hibernation.

Thanks. I like the setup and the idea, I think I'm going to try this with a single bucket next run. One last question, I've seen people mix a super concentrated version of their food, then just add this to the reservoir until PPM's reach what you are shooting for, as opposed to trying to get the number right say in a 5 gallon and then pouring it into the reservoir. I think the first way is best and would be much easier to do so that I could have like a gallon of concentrate and just add it as needed, but I wanted to get the opinion of someone actually doing this.

Thanks for all the info.
 
I mix mine up in a 5 gallon bucket, probably 3 gallons at a time, and pour it into whatever I am using to a container. That way I can be sure what the #'s are like before they are put directly into the system, if an accidental rush of too much nutrients gets into your plants with hydro you got problems.
I'd rather mix them outside the actual container and add as needed.
 
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Light Green is the White Domina and the dark green is the Cheese
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Droopy (in the dark) Smile
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Jilly Bean finally growing again
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Cheese with Baking soda in water to kill that fungus-amung-us
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Cheese
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HeadBand from Oregon
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6 Headband in 35 gallon container
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HeadBand in the front and White DOmina in the back.
 
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HeadBand, 2 weeks of veg on Monday, looking for 3-4 weeks of veg so at 9 weeks of 12.12 it is 4/12 and almost ready for 4/20/11
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Cheese with the calyx's on top
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Jilly Bean at 5 weeks of 12.12
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Jilly Bean at 5 weeks of 12.12
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Cheese
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Cheese
 
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