Depending upon your wattage (I can't recall your light setup Smooth - remind me) 460 plants X 9.75g = 160.17 oz. 9.75g per plant is totally "do-able", I just pulled 14.25g/plant off of my BC God's Bud plants from soil, average around 12g/plant between two strains in my last couple rounds. Best of luck, 460 plants is a shit ton of work tho...
Based on your own observations and experiences, which is better for the rez area: 100% perlite or a 3-1 Per/Verm mix. Examples of importance is not needing to water as often, higher volume of growth and yield, Possible nutrient lock-ups or issues etc. Thanks
Either will be fine, it's just a matter of how often you'd like to water. With perlite only hempy's, they require daily watering unless you have cooler temps. I've been able to go every other day in my 100% perlite, but I find they are like BONE dry for that watering. They plants don't show any signs of drooping or problems though. With the vermiculite in there, you can retain water for a little longer. You might be able to stretch it out an extra day, but I've just stuck to an every other day water and the plants I have going look pretty good. Stick with a PH of 6.0 for hempy's though. It's when you dip below 6.0 that you start running into deficiency issues.Another question
I was looking for this thread and couldn't find it. You da man.
We will see. Peace!!
As far as the rez is concerned, building it with more verm is slightly counter intuitive. If you are going to mix in verm just use the same mix from top to bottom. IMO if you are going to take the time to mix the rez different, then make it all perlite, it wicks better than verm and what's the point in holding water in a rez? and in the same thought of mixing the medium in different layers. Then I'd only put the verm in the top few inches of the pot, to hold the moisture near the surface of the container for the top lateral roots.Another question
I should be able to regulate my temps pretty well. Right now I have daytime stable at 78.3 (give or take a degree) and night-time in around 75-77. I will be doing some experiments with temps. I'm doing a SoG so was thinking that as the plant gets taller, internodal spacing (bottom branches) gets wider. My thought is if for the first week n a half (give or take) I have my on/off temps as close together as possible to hinder the stretch and keep internodes tight. Then the next week n a half have the temps flux 10-15* to get a lil height out of them but keep the tight internodal spacing, as the top 6"-12" is usually tight nodes. Depends on Dom but want to see if I can make some pop bottle 18" colas
Thx DrD, I may just do half full Per in the rez and the other half with the main mix, As I won't know till after a runto find out how my system will run. Thx for the heads-up/reminder on the ph of 6.0 give or take slightly, as i'm used to ph set for soil. Will I need Cal/mag or will there be eno in my tap-water/GH nutes? I will also be doing a few in a 2.5L that I found at the Dollar Tree. This round most will be started in 1" cubes with 4 started in 2" cubes. I love this sh*t
After running 3 cycles in hempy now, I feel like I have a bigger cal/mag problem the first 0-21 days of stretch, and then it settles out. I use 7.5ml cal/mag up until 3 weeks, then back off to 5 ml/gal.
With 2X1000's. how many 2l's will you squeeze in there?After running 3 cycles in hempy now, I feel like I have a bigger cal/mag problem the first 0-21 days of stretch, and then it settles out. I use 7.5ml cal/mag up until 3 weeks, then back off to 5 ml/gal.
Thinking about upgrading my 600w to 1000w for 2 X 1000W. Will probably purchase the ballast and bulb tomorrow
Thanks, Jela - Wow, that thread is exactly what I was looking for. 15+ years at 8" tall, just awesome.
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I have a journal just get too tired and lazy to post. Considering the grow space is not at my residence so by the time I get home I knock out. I'm balancing growing into two full time job and full time community service as well. After 26th I should be a bit more free. Next grow house will be a full on grow house. Not just two rooms. Ill be bored and living there so while I'm not playing black ops 2, ill be posting everything for that grow. Cause pretty much ill be sitting at the house with a gun and a laptop so ill have plenty of pics then. Ill take updates of the rooted clones in a week for this grow tho.
Well shiva u wanted to do a sog grow. And my partner wants to do 40 large plants in 7.5 gallon buckets. Those large plants will veg for at least one to two months so ill be using them as mothers too. But originally I only have 15 mothers. We seeing who has the most yield using what method. And Feds only come knocking when lips are loose. We don't even tell our gfs so we should be okay. Plus 90 plants and 420 plants is the same charge in Texas. Like I said before go big or go home. When I was younger I was caught with 2000 pills of x. I got probation. Two yrs before that I got caught with 2 grams of cocaine I got more time back then for 2 grams then 2000 pills of a class a controlled substance. Plus I rather do fed time then state time any day. Fed prisons are like country clubs compared to them slave plantations I've been to known as state prisons. Like I said grow big or don't grow at all is my motto. If I was to grow 50 plants would be the same money invested as 420 so why not make it worth it?
