BadKat's CannaFarm... a few 1000 watts, and a few decades of world-wide experience..

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Couple thousand watts, coco, Dutch Master nutrient, human grade additives (silica, colloidal minerals), and away we grow....

A few excerpts from my last grow/s...

I've traveled the world several times over, specifically for the growing and cannabis community, I've set up and maintained over a dozen small scale grows (garage/basement size) around the world, as well as pitching in on larger grows, warehouses, edible labs. I grow all styles, hydroponically, aeroponically, aquaponics, soil... they all have their benefits. I breed, more often than I continue growing store-bought genetics as they are, taking them further than their original breeders, and more towards my own preference.

 

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Some genetics I've been breeding for about a decade, feralocity for only a little over 5 years... those POGS started out from the same pack of seeds, that's what selective breeding and isolating a pheno can do; now the seeds themselves are consistent to each other, but very different from their close relations (#9 produces much larger seeds).

 

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I practice in small-scale aquaponics these days, using species like guppies and bettas.

I wanted this to be brief but I feel I should cover a few things for people who are genuinely curious or possibly concerned.

First off, in aquaponics everything about your environment needs to be geared for the health of the fish, period. These are living creatures and need to be regarded as such, and if your Ph is correct for the fish, and if your beneficial bacteria and fish are all healthy and thriving, so will your plants. I've seen factories with successful, large aquaponics systems, with consistently healthier, more vibrant fish, than I ever usually see in most home aquariums.

These are not full grown, nor are they store-bought fish.

They are small fry bred selectively from my own guppies and platies, I am a hobbyist breeder of live bearers, what fish I have space for are saved from the parents, given to friends and sold to local shops when I run out of space myself.

The fish used in any and all of my aquaponics set ups are in fully cycled water and substrate, taken from their original tanks. If it is not done this way, and done properly, it is highly stressful for the fish and can result in both general illness, and death.

I have hundreds of fry, 'fancy guppies' create a variety of similar but still-varied offspring, the parents can look entirely different, and spawn offspring both with flamboyant longer fins and abrupt short fins, and hundreds of color morphs. The platies all in general look very similar, the black markings will vary slightly, I will be using 'sunburst' (yellow black) and 'red wag' (black red) at this time.

Each week the fish housed in the aquaponics system are released back into one of several tanks ranging from 20 to 175 gallons with a partial water change, and a new group is selected.
No single fry is confined to the gallon system for any extended period of time, although doing so in a more traditional and larger system does no harm to the fish, but a larger system is really more suitable for a larger hardy species like Koi.

Mom and Dad, chilling out under a root system...

The above juvenile guppies, bred and gave birth over a month and a half earlier in an aquaponics environment, than any of
their hundreds of brothers and sisters of the same age in larger, standard planted aquariums, and each batch of fry they
produced, was nearly twice as larger.

This aquaponics excursion was for a competition run on another forum. The idea, was to see who could grow the largest plant, with the plant contained in only 3oz's of root space (the white cup). I picked aquaponics knowing the health of the plants would excel, even in such a small space.

It was a three-month-long competition.. my plant was larger here, at three weeks from seed, than any of the other competitors were (clone or otherwise) by the end of the competition That is a solid root ball, with an air stone buried inside.

 

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I've been trying to sell my house for about a year now, usually I rent, and now I'm reminded why... when renting I can just get up and move in 24 hours if I need to, I always pay in advance, so for my landlords it's a free few months rent, double payments if they get someone else to move in soon enough. But this house due to some shoddy craftsmanship, without going into detail, unfortunately needs a lot of babysitting so I can't just up and leave like I would like to, and besides that I wouldn't feel right renting it to someone, I wouldn't be able to trust they'd keep up with what maintenance it needs on an almost daily basis. And of course, selling a house these days isn't all that easy, even under the best of circumstances.. when people hear something integral may be wrong with a house, they don't care if it's selling for 40-50% below appraisal, even when the problem was taken into consideration during that appraisal and would be cheap to fix. There are a thousand 'working' homes on the market they could buy.

So for the last few grows, each one is supposed to be 'the last' in this house, I've been operating in closet-like/stealth conditions, and for this grow I've had to increase the stealth even further:

No ventilation, no fans, cut the space in half; we give tours of the home now, and I've been showing the actual room I'm working in, to potential buyers, in-person, several families a day, practically five days a week. I can't go into detail how I have the room set up so that people are none the wiser, because I've had about 75 families through here in the last two months alone.. and not just that, but there are photos of the room, with plants inside, on about two dozen different realtors websites.

So no one knows what's behind that wall, and they won't know, until the day they buy the house

And all they'll know then, is that the room is actually 'much more roomy' than they thought

15 or 16 days bloom, about half the room, cuttings taken the first week of Jan, the plants then spent two weeks in complete darkness, hidden inside tupperware crates while I redesigned the grow space, and had a series of appraisers in and repairs done... they were in 10oz plastic solo/party cups, until just two weeks ago.
Strains are 'Feralocity', 'POG # 8', 'POG #9', 'Purple POG', Frost POG, 'Devastating TrainWreck', 'Green Erkel', 'Bubblegum Haze', 'White Widow', 'Widow of Oz' (Aussie Widow).. I'm probably leaving a few out.

 

[ogenko]

those is some bud waving buds there

 

[exploziv]

I'll follow this! great pics for sure.

 

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Thanks for stopping in The whole stealth thing makes it very hard to be in the work room, but I'll post updates as often as I can and when it seems worthwhile.. I've been neglecting it quite a lot, compared to where I'm used to having anywhere from a large basement to an entire warehouse with separate nutrient mixing rooms.. instead I've been hiding it from house-lookers, random appraisers, and I can hardly turn around in there right now to mix up my nutes. Using only 2,000watts (and another 400 in a separate room), without any fans or extraction, it just feels like such a tiny grow in a tiny space. It's the fewest watts I've had running in well over a decade.. a little boring and irritating lol. Just so long as I get 4 or 5 lbs, I guess I'll be happy.

 

[Zen Master]

sounds and looks awesome.

 

[RipVanWeed]

Tagged,

I'm gonna pull up a chair and watch.

Much Respect,

 

[laughingmoon]

Looks like you're ready to start sellin seeds on the bay...

 

[Veno.Amana]

going to grab a seat here... nice show!


Veno.A

 

[Docteur]

Incredible aquaponics setup !!!