My Legal, Medical, and Soon to Be Perpetual RDWC

Stoner Smurf

Active Member
Hello ladies and gentlemen and welcome to my grow show. The strain is Nirvana's Wonder Woman. On a side note I will never grow Nirvana beans again. Out of 15 beans, 14 popped. 3 Males, 7 Hermies, 2 Crappy Non-Hermie plants, and 2 mother worthy plants. I don't grow dicks so 2 out of 15 is unacceptable. These plants all come from the same mother so I've already weeded out the crap.

For nutes I am using the Dyna-Gro line. Foliage Pro, Bloom, MagPro, & ProTek. Also throwing some Dutch Master Zone (Gold) in the mix. Both Zone and ProTek require you to add them first, but there can only be one first. So I went with Zone first, but I made that decision then created the flawed logic to justify it. If someone smarter than I knows which one should definitely be added first I'd be much appreciative.

Anyways heres some pictures taken right after being transfered into the RDWC (And some mothers in the background and one in a cup).
PPM: 500
PH: 5.8
Temp: 72.5 :( (Will buy a chiller soon, money is a commodity I have little of at the moment.)

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As you will surely be able to see, they are kinda big to be just getting transfered out of the cloner. My first hydro system totally fell apart on me, so this system went in last minute. Even though it was put up in only a couple days I had already let them sit in the abortion of a cloner I have (it's terrible, it leaks like a screen door in a submarine.) way too long.
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This is the epicenter. The 3 black vinyl tubes are the return lines, which are powered by gravity. The PVC is the feed line which goes to a 500GPH Mag-Drive pump which is just out of frame in that picture. But it is remotely located, it's not being used as a sub-pump.
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Here you can see the feed line sitting on top of the return line. In the feed line there are 1/4" barbs which connect to the feed lines for the individual buckets. Those connections tend to leak, so I sealed them with Loctite for vinyl. It's some toxic shit but it's on the outside of the tube only. Only one air line is shown in the picture, but there are 2 air lines 2 air stones connected to the epicenter. The white hole next to the pictured airline is a un-hooked up float valve. I've been busy with trimming, but I plan to hook up the fill-up res this week.
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Here's a random plant, and a very poor picture of some roots. The roots look much nicer in person. They're about 24" long.

Oh yeah, for air stones I am using 12 alita 3.75" air diffusers. They are supposed to be like micro-pore air diffusers in the fact that they don't clog like air stones, but they are much cheaper (than MPDs). I think I paid $7.95 a piece.
 

Stoner Smurf

Active Member
So since there has been zero interest after 48 hours, I am discontinuing this thread. I know I just bumped it to the top, and for that I apologize, but I will not be coming back here. Please don't get me wrong RIU, no hard feeling on my end, I know there are a ton of similar posts here. And truth be told, it's your guys (and girls) loss not mine. Not every grow show hits that 1.0 g per watt, which I can almost guarantee (90% sure) that I will not only hit that mark but leave it behind in the dust (shooting for 1.05 g per watt). But I am completely content reading other's posts and expanding my knowledge. Just thought I try to return the favor to RIU and share some of my knowledge. Since there are only so many hours in the day, not having to update this weekly will actually be nice as I am already often strapped for time.

For those of you who did take the time to read, thank you and I hope you enjoyed the small thread. :) I shall see you all around in your threads. Until then
 

DaGrapeApe

Active Member
Wow. I was actually interested in this, but then you went and got all sensitive over nothing. Good luck on your grow my friend!
 

Gastanker

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I read tons of posts but don't necessarily post in each one. I read this and enjoyed it but until I see more progress or problems there's not much for me to say. Most grow threads don't really get any traffic until you throw your plants into flower and even then you might get a bunch of views and few posts. One of my threads has 26,000 views and only ~300 posts and this is only because it's been running for over two years. I was on my 19th update before I had anyone comment.

If you are going to make a grow thread make it for yourself to keep track of things and organize your thoughts. Enjoy it for just that and if other appreciate it or you have a question people will chime in over time.

Looks great so far, I subscribed to this and am looking forward to seeing more.

/e since I left a comment I expect you to check out the top link in my thread and leave me one as well. :)
 

MediMary

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Hey smurf man, I wanted to see your show more than anyone ~ you know that , I had a shitty weekend didnt even see your thread, if you do it on another site please hit me up man, sending some rep your way hoping you will come back.
And gastanker said it true man, fuck bro so many people been peeping my thread, trying to share good info, but the number of comments to view ratio is insane, wtf, i don't understand it. LOL
 

Flo Grow

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I read tons of posts but don't necessarily post in each one. I read this and enjoyed it but until I see more progress or problems there's not much for me to say. Most grow threads don't really get any traffic until you throw your plants into flower and even then you might get a bunch of views and few posts. One of my threads has 26,000 views and only ~300 posts and this is only because it's been running for over two years. I was on my 19th update before I had anyone comment.

If you are going to make a grow thread make it for yourself to keep track of things and organize your thoughts. Enjoy it for just that and if other appreciate it or you have a question people will chime in over time.

Looks great so far, I subscribed to this and am looking forward to seeing more.

/e since I left a comment I expect you to check out the top link in my thread and leave me one as well. :)
Very well put.
When I first began posting threads, I too got bothered others weren't posting more.
Now any grow thread I start is for my own virtual library and data log.
If others post with questions or knowledge, then that's cool too.
You can go so far as to do a daily log of all activity with infinite details, AND without a paper trail/notebook to keep.
Just keep a thumb drive or portable external hard drive available for back up.
 
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