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Tired of reading dutch growing folklore-advice it's about time I start keeping my journals at RIU instead.
I switched to hydro early this year because I wanted to tinker some more with my plants and grow setup. While the result is for personal use only (me and the wife that is), I don't grow just for personal use anymore. I grow for the sake of growing as well. I love my plants. Unfortunately, I have limited space available. I got a small room of about 5x8 in which I have a small preveg/germ box of about 25x40x30" with 3x18w T5. This is a pic from 6 years ago (nooo I haven't been growing constantly for 6 years, on the contrary, just started again previous fall) :
And here are some more recent ones (1 from previous and 1 from current round)
For flowering I got a 3x4' closet, plan is to build a 4x4 later this year. I use a 400watt hps (philips agro bulb) up until preflowers, this round a little longer because of the hot weather. The rest of the cycle I use a 600watt hps.
General grow gear:
- Gavita Tripplestar reflector/hood (with wide, medium and deep setting)
- Philips 400w and 600w (agro, son T pia plus whatever)
- Ruck 125L Exhaust (X cfm with thermostat) and a Phresh filter of 500m2
- NO cooltubes, I need the warmth from the bulbs (horrible climate for growing here)
- 2 hurricane clipfans
- Handful of Zalman PC fans
- Reflective foil on the walls (yes, that's essential gear )
Hydro gear:
- Two flooded tubes with 6 sites 8 micro sprayers
- One 16-gallon tote/rez.
- Aquarium pump of 1350L ph
- Aquarium pump of 600L ph and a 1/6HP chiller
- Airpump 240Liter with 2 outputs, and an airpump with 120Lph and 1 output.
- Hanna gro check PH and temp
- Milwaukee EC pen (7 years old, still working fine)
Nutes:
- H&G line. I planned to go with GHE but they had such a sick deal at the local growshop for an H&G starterkit (about $100, half their usual price) that I decided to go with that one instead. And so far I'm very happy I did. The exact names aren't the same worldwide, but I got Hydro AB, MultiEnzym, Dripclean, Bud XL, Root Excel, Magic Green, Top Booster (PK13/14 and some iron), and the shooting powders. Except for the latter I all use them. Bought some new AB since, low on MultiEnzym, but the rest will last for several more rounds. I use about $40-50 in nutes for one complete cycle (which is largely because of that huge discount I got).
- Biogreen Cal plus or something... Hopped on the CalMag bandwagon there for a second, but fortunately discovered in time that there's quite a bit of Cal and some Mg in HG AB already, and that's in addition to my (relatively quality-) tap water. RO filter is one the wishlist, but decided to go for chiller first (which was really necessary). I use very little of the product.
Genetics:
1x Kolossus from Sannie Seeds (reliable, strong, with no surprises)
2x Skywalker Kush from Reserva Privada
3x Chocolate Fondue from DNA Genetics
I had this crazy idea of trying a different breeder every cycle for a while. One lives and learns...
As I mentioned earlier, I grow for the sake of growing as well. A hobby. Since life's so frigging short it gives me panic attacks thinking about it, I like to do more in a single cycle than just growing buds. This round I wanted to try a few things I hadn't done before:
- LST. I sogged, scrogged and cropped, but I really like LST. It suits me and it seems to suit my plants too. Low stress was a goal by itself this cycle - so far so good. I can grow big (and freakishly ugly) buds but prefer them hand grenade-size (humid climate can be a bitch here).
- Tiresias Mist. Wanting to make some beans the easy way. I'll post some more about it in a reply.
- Cloning. I've grown clones before, but never made them myself, so I wanted to give that a try too. One of the plants in my closet is a clone, the mother is a female from a feminized seed (Kolossus), the other 5 are from seed.
Various pics of my setup:
(last one is from during a test, the pipes have a sort of dam at the end so they are flooded - I was going for lp aero and changed my mind entirely, they are now flooded till just below the netcups, same as in DWC preveg box).
Some pics of the past weeks:
From yesterday:
Comments, tips and advice, bitching, or just saying hi, all is welcome. Stroking my ego about my zen-flat canopy is a plus.
I switched to hydro early this year because I wanted to tinker some more with my plants and grow setup. While the result is for personal use only (me and the wife that is), I don't grow just for personal use anymore. I grow for the sake of growing as well. I love my plants. Unfortunately, I have limited space available. I got a small room of about 5x8 in which I have a small preveg/germ box of about 25x40x30" with 3x18w T5. This is a pic from 6 years ago (nooo I haven't been growing constantly for 6 years, on the contrary, just started again previous fall) :
And here are some more recent ones (1 from previous and 1 from current round)
For flowering I got a 3x4' closet, plan is to build a 4x4 later this year. I use a 400watt hps (philips agro bulb) up until preflowers, this round a little longer because of the hot weather. The rest of the cycle I use a 600watt hps.
General grow gear:
- Gavita Tripplestar reflector/hood (with wide, medium and deep setting)
- Philips 400w and 600w (agro, son T pia plus whatever)
- Ruck 125L Exhaust (X cfm with thermostat) and a Phresh filter of 500m2
- NO cooltubes, I need the warmth from the bulbs (horrible climate for growing here)
- 2 hurricane clipfans
- Handful of Zalman PC fans
- Reflective foil on the walls (yes, that's essential gear )
Hydro gear:
- Two flooded tubes with 6 sites 8 micro sprayers
- One 16-gallon tote/rez.
- Aquarium pump of 1350L ph
- Aquarium pump of 600L ph and a 1/6HP chiller
- Airpump 240Liter with 2 outputs, and an airpump with 120Lph and 1 output.
- Hanna gro check PH and temp
- Milwaukee EC pen (7 years old, still working fine)
Nutes:
- H&G line. I planned to go with GHE but they had such a sick deal at the local growshop for an H&G starterkit (about $100, half their usual price) that I decided to go with that one instead. And so far I'm very happy I did. The exact names aren't the same worldwide, but I got Hydro AB, MultiEnzym, Dripclean, Bud XL, Root Excel, Magic Green, Top Booster (PK13/14 and some iron), and the shooting powders. Except for the latter I all use them. Bought some new AB since, low on MultiEnzym, but the rest will last for several more rounds. I use about $40-50 in nutes for one complete cycle (which is largely because of that huge discount I got).
- Biogreen Cal plus or something... Hopped on the CalMag bandwagon there for a second, but fortunately discovered in time that there's quite a bit of Cal and some Mg in HG AB already, and that's in addition to my (relatively quality-) tap water. RO filter is one the wishlist, but decided to go for chiller first (which was really necessary). I use very little of the product.
Genetics:
1x Kolossus from Sannie Seeds (reliable, strong, with no surprises)
2x Skywalker Kush from Reserva Privada
3x Chocolate Fondue from DNA Genetics
I had this crazy idea of trying a different breeder every cycle for a while. One lives and learns...
As I mentioned earlier, I grow for the sake of growing as well. A hobby. Since life's so frigging short it gives me panic attacks thinking about it, I like to do more in a single cycle than just growing buds. This round I wanted to try a few things I hadn't done before:
- LST. I sogged, scrogged and cropped, but I really like LST. It suits me and it seems to suit my plants too. Low stress was a goal by itself this cycle - so far so good. I can grow big (and freakishly ugly) buds but prefer them hand grenade-size (humid climate can be a bitch here).
- Tiresias Mist. Wanting to make some beans the easy way. I'll post some more about it in a reply.
- Cloning. I've grown clones before, but never made them myself, so I wanted to give that a try too. One of the plants in my closet is a clone, the mother is a female from a feminized seed (Kolossus), the other 5 are from seed.
Various pics of my setup:
(last one is from during a test, the pipes have a sort of dam at the end so they are flooded - I was going for lp aero and changed my mind entirely, they are now flooded till just below the netcups, same as in DWC preveg box).
Some pics of the past weeks:
From yesterday:
Comments, tips and advice, bitching, or just saying hi, all is welcome. Stroking my ego about my zen-flat canopy is a plus.
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