if you’ve topped four times you’ll have 16 colas, you won’t need to support your branches as much. I’d stop at four times otherwise you’ll end up with 32 colas and they’ll be small. Maybe that’s what you want??
nice setup!
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nice setup!
myke
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Yup, I top once and I end up with 120 colas lol.
meangreengrowinmachine
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5 x 10 spot I built, 4 x 3 ish and a 5 x 5 tent.. same addiction man!I have an addictionI've got a 2x4 cabinet, a 4x4 tent, a 2x2 tent, and a 2x3 cabinet.
myke
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Flipping the light = amount of soil x watts. Ya u figure that out.
par meter is supposed to arrive tomorrow so i can try to keep that fire in line
myke
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sweet, you'll be glad you did that 8 weeks from now.View attachment 5046688
Well the wife and kids are gone so first I tried her down.
Then I tried her up
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I decided to go with 32 this round just because the schedule worked out. That and a fear of mold or broken branches. Depending on how this one shakes out I might try more or less next round. I am still new enough, I will be happy with a clean run and decent yield if I can pull it off.
well said, that’s the whole reason I went with synthetic nutes, they say you flip when you have 75% coverage but I find with a sip you flip at 50-60% or you run out of space
Looking forward to your progress, nice manifold, looks really good so far!
Bignutes
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I find that too, I really liked the manifold method but I found the TBH’s 4 way method is faster and combined with super cropping its pretty efficient
CWF
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Just got 2 earthboxes, so I'll be joining the club wit y'all in my small hobby/personal stash grow. Trying organic as well; starting a compost heap in the backyard with these dang leaves and kitchen veg trimmings, coffee grounds and such. Hope to start a worm bin as well, both for growing and fishing. I'll pop a seed or 2 once the first mix cooks a bit (BAS stuff with promix base). My last grow was 1 plant (a freebie fem seed, ETS headband x blueberry) in promix with maxibloom, turned out well and got me several jars of bud. Need to add a dehumidifier because humidity is my main issue so far. 
Bignutes
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Sip made from rope handled tubs, grew like wildfire for tomatoes. 67 litre soil capacity and 20 litre water reservoir, would go 5 days between refills at peak plant growth. The blue recycling bin is to hold up the upper tub, it also has holes in it so water can flow into it. The lower tub have holes drilled just below the height of the blue recycling bin so reservoir can’t get overfilled. Tubs bought at Canadian Tire, can get at Home Depot or Home Hardware, blue recycling bin and kids sand bucket (green pail) bought at the dollar store. I have yet to try this setup indoors.
These tubs are 22” across so you can fit 4 of them nicely into a 4 x 4 area.
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Lower tub with recycler bin in it
upper tub with hole in it for kids sand pail, then put onto recycling bin/lower tub.
The rope handles make for good supports for 2x2’s going up and across so I can tie up tomato heavy vines
These tubs are 22” across so you can fit 4 of them nicely into a 4 x 4 area.
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Lower tub with recycler bin in it
upper tub with hole in it for kids sand pail, then put onto recycling bin/lower tub.
The rope handles make for good supports for 2x2’s going up and across so I can tie up tomato heavy vines
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GrassBurner
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I had to start feeding the big girl Aqua Flakes 2 days ago. Didn't seem like I could put enough liquid/dry organic nutrients in there fast enough. Gave her 3ml/gallon of A & B, and she drank that up in less than a day. Refilled the reservoir with plain water, gonna feed her again this evening. My buddy that's an experienced grower said feed her every other watering, so I'm gonna try that. Incredible how much better the plant looked the next day I reckon I better order some more aqua flakes, the plants in the small sips don't stand a chance
My guess is you need a soil container that's atleast the size of the canopy @ 10" deep to have enough nutrients available to feed a plant all the way through. I feel like I would need a 4x4 bed for this girl to have enough food.
Plant in the 2x4 just got flipped to flower. I loaded her up with dry ammendments for flowering, but I'm sure I'll have to get her on the bottle as well at some point, hopefully later than the big plant.
Cleaned up the gg4's in the small sips, took 4 clones off each plant. Let's see if I can keep up my perfect record and kill them all
Ladybugs appear to be making more ladybugs. Warning 18+ only
I reckon I better order some more aqua flakes, the plants in the small sips don't stand a chance My guess is you need a soil container that's atleast the size of the canopy @ 10" deep to have enough nutrients available to feed a plant all the way through. I feel like I would need a 4x4 bed for this girl to have enough food.
Plant in the 2x4 just got flipped to flower. I loaded her up with dry ammendments for flowering, but I'm sure I'll have to get her on the bottle as well at some point, hopefully later than the big plant.
Cleaned up the gg4's in the small sips, took 4 clones off each plant. Let's see if I can keep up my perfect record and kill them all
Ladybugs appear to be making more ladybugs. Warning 18+ only
GrassBurner
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Nice job, I bet those work great!!
myke
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You put salt food in the res or top feed?I had to start feeding the big girl Aqua Flakes 2 days ago. Didn't seem like I could put enough liquid/dry organic nutrients in there fast enough. Gave her 3ml/gallon of A & B, and she drank that up in less than a day. Refilled the reservoir with plain water, gonna feed her again this evening. My buddy that's an experienced grower said feed her every other watering, so I'm gonna try that. Incredible how much better the plant looked the next day
My guess is you need a soil container that's atleast the size of the canopy @ 10" deep to have enough nutrients available to feed a plant all the way through. I feel like I would need a 4x4 bed for this girl to have enough food.
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Plant in the 2x4 just got flipped to flower. I loaded her up with dry ammendments for flowering, but I'm sure I'll have to get her on the bottle as well at some point, hopefully later than the big plant.
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Cleaned up the gg4's in the small sips, took 4 clones off each plant. Let's see if I can keep up my perfect record and kill them all
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Ladybugs appear to be making more ladybugs. Warning 18+ only
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GrassBurner
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In the res. Ive done it a few times before on plants in flower, but never had to this early. Usually just a quick fix until nutrients in the soil were made available. When they're hungry, it's amazing how fast they drink up that salt water. Aqua Flakes says 5ml/gallon for soil, but I'm thinking that's for top watering into something like promix or a potting soil without a lot of nutrients. So I went with the dwc amount. I'll follow the 3ml/G recommendation for the next few weeks, then bump it down to 1.5 ml/G. I guess the plant can pick where it wants to pull nutrients, from the soil or from the res?