Second 400w MH/HPS Journal. Pineapple Express & more.

YaK

just some guy
Not chilling my rez so temps vary from 65-70 which is a bit higher then I'd like. But mainly the reason is I want to maintain the root zone better this round and I felt like my roots last round could have looked a little more 'white' & healthy. Ok, so now that I'm rambling I realized I don't have a good reason....so I guess I just want to experiment and see if I see benefit lol
the stuff is just very expensive... that's why I ask. I've used it before. I dont anymore.

As for your temperatures... with ebb/flow (or flood/drain) water temps are not as crucial. Don't get me wrong, you dont want rediculously high temps, but it's not the same as DWC where the roots hang in the water all the time, or even in Aero, where the water is sprayed on the roots most of the time.

With flood/drain, the water hits the media, soaks in, and starts to dry out immediately after the flood. this can take hours, but the roots arent constantly subjected to warm temps, just the water transpiration alone cools it a bit.

I used to run both aero and DWC and i did use chillers. I don't use them with flood/drain tables.

Keep up the good work dude.... I'm curious to know if the cost of hyrozyme seems to make enough difference in your grow to merit buying it.
 

Someguy15

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Day 28 - 2/26:
Only used the hygrozyme for two waterings now. All of the plants have been FIMed in the last few days, planning two weeks then flowering. My watermelon is poping up there but it's behind the plant in the front right :( sry. I'll get a shot of her when shes a lil bigger and I get these plants rearranged.

Feedings 1xday

Veg:
1 Gal tap water
12 ml Ionic Grow
4 ml Liquid karma
2 ml Silica Blast
4 ml hygrozyme
3 drops superthrive
Ph: 5.8 EC: 1.4

Mothers:
1/2 Gal tap water
5 ml Mother A
5 ml Mother B
2 ml Liquid karma
2 ml Silica Blast
2 ml hygrozyme
2 drops superthrive
Ph: 5.8 EC: 1.6
 

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Someguy15

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Day 31 - 3/1:
Clones both were a success! So happy, with the bubble cloner they took 30 days (they had started flowering though) with my new tray/root riot setup they took just 14 days. I'm going to get both of these clones in pots tomorrow...Things are starting to get a little crowed in there, I plan on flipping to flower on Friday making it a 5 week veg. That should give my clones enough time to acclimate to the pots before flipping to flower. I'm also going to pull the large clone-to-be-mother pineapple (back center) into the mother room before friday. Should give me 5-7 girls flowering, we shall see!

 

Drella

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congrats on he clone sucess, i just got done with my new veg room, and new 400w hps bloom closet construction. i feel like the 4" inline might not be enough to cool the closet though, we'll see.
 

Someguy15

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Day 33 - 3/3:
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Filled up the rez via the new fill tube and funnel. Man was it nice to sit back and smoke a bowl while it filled rather then lugging all that water. Mixed up some nutes in the rez and I plan to water 2x a day. The pineapple mother was pulled last night and flowering will likely start Saturday. Time to make sure the flood system is good to go, it's flower time baby :mrgreen:

16 gal tap water
45 tsp Ionic Grow
30 tsp Liquid Karma
15 tsp Silica Blast
15 tsp Hygrozyme
Ph: 5.8 EC: 1.82
 

Drella

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its so nice to see how great ur doing this round, cheers to dialing it in! im so jealous of you guys with ur resins!
 

Someguy15

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Day 35 - 3/5:
It's getting really full in the room. I have 2 suspect males to be removed but I'm going to wait another week or so to make sure. Tonight will be the first 12 hours of darkness they see, so full out bloom in a couple weeks. Also, ordered a 600w Harvest Pro Elite HPS ballast and a 600w Eye Hortilux bulb. I'll start the bloom on the 400 but the 600 should be up and running by Thursday hopefully. At that point I'll retire the 400 until the future when I have more space. Then it will either be a veg light or I can run it as HPS and have 1kw in the bloom area muahaha. 8 weeks to glory stay tuned.
 

kali love

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sg those ladies look very nice and they gonna be thanking you once you get that 6 hundy thats ur gonna have a very nce setup on your hands :hump:as well as a very nice harvest coming up too 8 more ekks baby:leaf: but yea u should think about runnin the 400 mh with 600 hps will give you a good light spectrum that is good in veg in flower they sell hoods that will hose both those two i think it is made by sunsystem its a very nice hood has lots of little feature and options to help on cusomize it i used to have one but sold it cause it had 4 inch ducts and that does not quiet cut it for that light i think they have an option for a 6 inch duct let me know what u think of the hygrozyme and how it works i posted i would use it before but i got house and gardens multi zen supposed to be somewhat similar in what they do and im very excited to see the la women flower will u have in in flower this run or will that be in the future
 

Someguy15

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Yeah I was checking out that 'Large Convertible Reflector' which could use 6" duct and house the two bulbs, but I was a little concerned with it's light throw. I noticed it was a smaller hood like what I'm using now and I was leaning towards a larger Magnum XXXL 6". And it's 11 inches tall, versus 8. Still undecided, but I'll probably wait it out until I move in 6 months and figure it all out then. I am also considering running a veg area with the 400 and flower area with the 600 and do a perpetual style grow. That way I could have 3 mothers, 3 rooting clones, 3 flowering a month, 3 flowering 2 months... and still be at my legal limit of 12 and get a harvest of 3 plants every month :)

Yeah two of the LA's will be flowered this time. They are tiny clones you see in the pics, but I'm looking more towards sampling the bud then trying to get production... they were an after thought. Next round will likely be 4 LA woman clones and 4 Pineapple Clones. But that may change with the addition of some afghan kush or northern lights x skunk.... decisions decisions lol

 

Someguy15

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Day 3 Flower - 3/8:
The girls have been on 12/12 now for 3 days. Seeing the stretch and sticking with the MH until Thursday when the 600 HPS arrives. Everything with nutrients has been great, running grow nutes still @ 2.05 EC (1.65 nutes, 0.4 base water). I plan to change out the rez Friday, next time I'll do half veg half bloom nutes and the following week I will do all bloom. I learned last round 14 days is way too long to leave the rez, so my plan is to change it weekly on Fridays. Worst case I can get to it by Sunday making it a 9 day change. This is also part of the reason I hand watered to start, gotta save money on those nutes where ya can.

Unfortunately my camera is out of town, so no pics for a week. Let the suspense begin...
 

Someguy15

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K I lied, I have a pic for ya....but don't get your hopes up it's only a cell phone pic. Root porn from one of my recently removed males. No GWS needed :-P More to come on Friday.
 

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Drella

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things are looking better every round for you bro! all my pics are from my phone! i tried to upload pics from my nice camera, but it tool forever to load. is there a secret to make nice camera shots upload quicker!
 
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