hey i hope your still checking back on this..
I love your grow its exactly what im planning (im waiting on clone which i took 10 weeks into flowering, its going to be another month or so before i can get clones from her. shes a badass plant though so worth the wait)
moving on..
so can i just ask how long you vegged for again. from cuttting the clone.. was it like 2 weeks cloner and 4 weeks veg?
any tips for this sort of grow? how often do you change the water and how.. i always imagen it being really annoying to do.. i would love any feedback on it thanks
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hey daze, i had em in the cloner for about 2 weeks and about 5 week veg. Try and plan it out so your plants will be able to stay close to the light in the right temp ranges, thats where i screwed up. For instance, using my 400w hps again, i would have 3 instead of 4 plants and probably only vegged them for 3-4 weeks so i can keep them close to the light. Basically they can all but touch the glass with the fan hooked up the way it is and you can't over light them so it comes down to finding that happy medium of canopy size vs light intensity. Get a 600 if you can, these are apparently the most efficient. Also, stacking lights (what i plan on doing next) seems to be the best as you can lots more lumens/square inch and still keep the temps down with enough airflow through the tubes to keep the plants almost as close as you want. Another tip, when the plant gets into full flower, humidity rises so plan out how you're gonna set up a fan or 2.
I have my buckets hooked up to a controller bucket with a float valve. This bucket keeps the nute levels even in the buckets holding plants. A nute reservoir is hooked to the controller bucket. When the plants drink, nutes go down, float valve opens and fills back up from the res. With the right size reservoir, i like 1 5gal res/per 4 5gal plant buckets and 1 5gal controller bucket. This way you can slightly increase ppm without ever having to fully change out your nutes. As you top off the res with new ppm nutes, this mixes in with previous ppm (i.e. add 900ppm to 800ppm) and levels out slightly higher than before without a drastic change (less stress). However, always check the pH and ppm of your plant buckets. If any of them get out of whack, then you should completely change with fresh nutes, as they are either feeding more than drinking, or drinking more than feeding, which causes pH, EC and ppm shifts. I start around 250, work up to 13-1500 and back down to 100 over the whole life cycle. Hope this helps, i gotta roll.
I'll take some more shots in a bit when the lights come on and after I go tutor my friend's son... yay. Oh... I got my next round of clones coming. I rigged up a fog/dwc setup, finally. I'm thinking it will be most effective for increasing rootmass during veg and speeding up veg. I doubt I'll try it in flower... but maybe I will?
Can't wait! I'm broke and out of smoke.
...and it's all gone 
