My First Coco Grow!

Dan Kone · Jan 17, 2012

shankae said:
just on another note are you useing proper coco nutes??

House and Garden coco A & B, pk 13-14 at start of flower, Sea Cal/Sea Mag alternating feedings, then the last few weeks before final flush humboldt nuts big up powder. And on 6 of the purps I'm doing a special feeding with that nut mix + 4ml per gallon of purple maxx as a test.

1800 ppms co2. AC set to 68 (I actually can't make it go warmer than that ATM, lol fucking AC), ~45-50 humidity (working on that, but it'll do for this cycle), 3 600w lights per 4x8 table with the bulbs tested once every few months with a quantum meter to make sure they're still kickin. (less than 1/3 sun strength I replace bulb)

Am I doin it rite?

shankae · Jan 17, 2012

Dan Kone said:
House and Garden coco A & B, pk 13-14 at start of flower, Sea Cal/Sea Mag alternating feedings, then the last few weeks before final flush humboldt nuts big up powder. And on 6 of the purps I'm doing a special feeding with that nut mix + 4ml per gallon of purple maxx as a test.

1800 ppms co2. AC set to 68 (I actually can't make it go warmer than that ATM, lol fucking AC), ~45-50 humidity (working on that, but it'll do for this cycle), 3 600w lights per 4x8 table with the bulbs tested once every few months with a quantum meter to make sure they're still kickin. (less than 1/3 sun strength I replace bulb)

Am I doin it rite?

Well that sure sounds good exept temps.
68....far too cold IMO .Your using Co2 so you want your temps 80-85.Again thats just my opinion and I am in no way an expert.
Alos have never heard of "purple maxx", will look it up now........

shankae · Jan 17, 2012

Sorry just read "cant make it go warmer than that"thought you wrote can make it go warmer than that!!HAhaha sorry

Dan Kone · Jan 17, 2012

shankae said:
Alos have never heard of "purple maxx", will look it up now........

As of now, I'm convinced it's just bullshit snake oil, but I'm going to stick with the test throughout the cycle just to know for sure.

Dan Kone · Jan 17, 2012

shankae said:
Sorry just read "cant make it go warmer than that"thought you wrote can make it go warmer than that!!HAhaha sorry

yeah, it's messed up. At the moment my AC has two settings, on and off. Either I can have my room be 90 or 68. So I'm sticking with the lesser of two evils until I get my AC guy out here at the end of the cycle.

shankae · Jan 17, 2012

Dan Kone said:
yeah, it's messed up. At the moment my AC has two settings, on and off. Either I can have my room be 90 or 68. So I'm sticking with the lesser of two evils until I get my AC guy out here at the end of the cycle.

does your AC plug into the wall for power??or is it hard wired??
If it has a plug simply plug it into a timer and have it on for 1/2 an hour then off for 1/2 an hour,or play with it until you get better temperatures.
And I think that if your runningCO2 then 90 in fact would be a bet temp,so long as it get no hotter.

Purple Maxx.....snake oil for sure.But cant hurt to try right??

Dan Kone · Jan 18, 2012

shankae said:
does your AC plug into the wall for power??or is it hard wired??
If it has a plug simply plug it into a timer and have it on for 1/2 an hour then off for 1/2 an hour,or play with it until you get better temperatures.

Thought of that. It's a proprietary plug. 120-240 doesn't work.

And I think that if your runningCO2 then 90 in fact would be a bet temp,so long as it get no hotter.

It probably would. Don't want to roll those dice. That's cutting it real close. IMO too cold > too hot

Purple Maxx.....snake oil for sure.But cant hurt to try right??

Yep. If it's snake oil, I'm out $20. Not the end of the world.

I like doing small controlled tests like this though. Usually do one every cycle. On these nutrient supplements, the answer is almost always "snake oil".

shankae · Jan 18, 2012

Its funny where i am at the moment if my AC broke down the temp would get to about 110 in 1/2 an hour, so I need to spend extra on a realy good AC ,and if the power goes out for too long Im fucked.......

Dan Kone · Jan 20, 2012

shankae said:
Its funny where i am at the moment if my AC broke down the temp would get to about 110 in 1/2 an hour, so I need to spend extra on a realy good AC ,and if the power goes out for too long Im fucked.......

No not get a kilmaire. I got their 24k btu split mini. While it is EXTREMELY powerful in terms of blowing out cold air, the electronics on it sucks bad. The controls are terrible. The temp settings don't work at all, it's either "on" or "off". Oh, and I had to have my AC guy come out 3 times because it leaked from everywhere! He ended up having to take apart both the indoor and outdoor unit and put it back together.

itsaplant · Jan 20, 2012

Has any one looked at http://www.minisplitwarehouse.com/ ? TIm told the prices and products are the best.

Dan Kone · Jan 20, 2012

itsaplant said:
Has any one looked at http://www.minisplitwarehouse.com/ ? TIm told the prices and products are the best.

My AC guy (who does grow houses all over the bay area) told me "you should have gotten a fujitsu". He said they never break and the controls are far superior.

As far as the prices go, I have this one http://www.minisplitwarehouse.com//product/klimaire 24,000 btu 17 seer inverter mini split heat pump air conditioner

I paid $400 less for mine than advertised on that site. So I'm not sure that the prices there are all that good.

shankae · Jan 21, 2012

Dan Kone said:
My AC guy (who does grow houses all over the bay area) told me "you should have gotten a fujitsu". He said they never break and the controls are far superior.

As far as the prices go, I have this one http://www.minisplitwarehouse.com//product/klimaire 24,000 btu 17 seer inverter mini split heat pump air conditioner

I paid $400 less for mine than advertised on that site. So I'm not sure that the prices there are all that good.

Ha mines a fujitsu ,its been running for about 3 months without being turned off once,great unit.

Dan Kone · Jan 24, 2012

update! only a few weeks left!

The Purps

Dan Kone · Jan 24, 2012

Also the blue dream is coming along. Still a few weeks behind the purps though. Both are caked in crystals and the yield looks to be not too bad.

Dan Kone · Jan 24, 2012

few more blue dream

Dan Kone · Jan 24, 2012

[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][/FONT]Also at this point I can say with confidence that Purple Maxx is bullshit. I see no difference whatsoever between the plants being fed purple maxx and the plants not getting it.

berrykid · Jan 27, 2012

looking good m8 very nice keep it going cnt wait for the results keep us posted m8

SFguy · Jan 29, 2012

looks great man just stoppin thru

Dan Kone · Jan 31, 2012

Turned off a few lights to get better color on my pictures.

I'm in week 7 now. Still haven't started final flush yet. Probably going to start flushing the purps in a couple of days, then just let them go as long as they need to get real purple. Going to do some ice water flushing in about a week to shock the roots and bring out even more purple. Don't want to do that just yet because they've got a tiny bit more filling out to do, but I've decided to let them go a little bit passed when they look done just to get extra color. So once the buds have completely filled out, it's on!

Dan Kone · Jan 31, 2012

more purps

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