Solids Autopot Adventure
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Solidopc
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Yea, i've had her 2.5 years now, and grown her in soil, coco, hydroton. She will thirve in any situation. Anbd yes, she is really really smelly. So bad that it does get on my nerves at times. Even 1 little spliff will fill a large room with a really potent, pungent smell. I've had so pre-roll joints to go oit with, because i can't carry the weed on me in a baggie. It just smells too much.
Take cuts from yours. They root easily, really tough buggars. And she's well worth keeping. I at one time hgad pychosis, pyschoberry, exo cheese and exo x nl. Only this one is still around after 2.5 years. For me, that speaks volumes.
Looking good there buddy! Bloody kids, never managed to get into my room, but the little bugger of mine has deleted all my best photo's lol, little shite! I like the Secret Jardin's, i picked one up for a buddy & he's impressed with it, except he said the floor covering on them could do with being thicker, so id consider an extra covering to protect the floor if i had one.
Heres hoping ya get a nice Pheno of the Tangerine D bro, the Bigun looks promising. G'Luck!
Not sure on your running fans in series that way? personally id match the outputs if i was gonna do it.??
Heres hoping ya get a nice Pheno of the Tangerine D bro, the Bigun looks promising. G'Luck!
Not sure on your running fans in series that way? personally id match the outputs if i was gonna do it.??
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filth_element
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hey solid! How s the grow? I was wondering about getting a second inline fan too! I guess it would b fine to run the two in line with each other!?!? I guess you would have the powerful one 1st coming offa the filter then the light then the 2nd inline fan... I think...
Try it out mate and let us know, cause I need same kinda problem to sort!
My line of thinking was to have my more powerful rvk on my cooltube light and just pump that back into the room, then have a second less powerful (silent please god be quiet!?!!!?!?! ) inline fan attatched to the filter pumping out excess heat and smell... what do you think? I'm a little worried bout heat. I have the same tent as you and I am thinking surely it won't need alot of power for a descent amount of air to be chucked out the tent????!?!? the fan attatched to the carbon filter would work all day and all night as my current fan switches off with the lights, I want to rectify this with a new second fan so they get fresh air through the night.
Try it out mate and let us know, cause I need same kinda problem to sort!
My line of thinking was to have my more powerful rvk on my cooltube light and just pump that back into the room, then have a second less powerful (silent please god be quiet!?!!!?!?! ) inline fan attatched to the filter pumping out excess heat and smell... what do you think? I'm a little worried bout heat. I have the same tent as you and I am thinking surely it won't need alot of power for a descent amount of air to be chucked out the tent????!?!? the fan attatched to the carbon filter would work all day and all night as my current fan switches off with the lights, I want to rectify this with a new second fan so they get fresh air through the night.
Solidopc
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I use a 150rvk for my filter and its good enough to a point, but i think with the added 125 sucking the heat from the light aswell, temps should drop nicely to mid 20's, room temp even maybe, that would be nice. Still gotta buy the light yet though, which aint happening in the immiediate future. Got my mrs bday 20th so that will have to come first. Wouldnt it be great if she would love an aircooled light for her bday? i would love one, would make things alot cheaper, lol.
Solidopc
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First proper decent update. Finally setup the rest tank today, and now the 2 tangerine dreams are being fed via that. The whole system works perfectly (touch wood), and the plants seem to be very spritely. Very happy with them at the moment. Just wish i had setup the exo x nl ones right, so i could have all 4 hooked up and not just 2.
Here's a picture of the whole tent.
This is the exo x nl in a normal 10 litre non-autopot pot. Definately smaller than the two in autopots, even though they aint been res fed.
Here are the two exo x nl that are in autopots, but wont be fed using the tank, or have their airdomes switched on. So just basically handwatered like the other exo x nl. Dunno why they seem bigger and more branchy.
Here is TD#1, my favourite of the two. Glossy leafs, smells nice, vigorous. And getting the full monty now, with airdome and aquavalve.
TD#2 is in the middle of the tent, you can see it in the first shot. My battery died before i culd take the last shot of it.
Here's the inside of my 47 litre res tank. Got a korean ceramic airstone ball in there, which does give off really really fine bubbles, and is quite impressive. Best airtstone ive used sop far.
Here is the whole res tank on its stand. Must be higher than the pots, as gravity is all that makes the aquavalves fill.
Here are two of my airpumps. I do have one like the blue one but with 4 connectors for when i hook up all 4 autopots to the res, but using the two port one, which was gonna be used for my 2 res tanks feed/plain water. Using my old cloner airppump for the res at the minute.
And lastly, here is the connections for my 2 autopots. I have 2 little stop taps there so i can turn them off and change the pipes about to the plain water res tank which will go up soon, in a few weeks.
I filled my tank with 40 litres of tap water. Added 125ml of canna coco a & 125ml of canna coco b. Then 40ml of headmasta, and 4ml of drip clean. Got a EC of 1.5, and ph;d to 5.81. My ph stick was going a bit funky in the tank though, was jumping about alot. It would say 6.02 then 7.45, then 6.14, then 7.66, and i couldnt get it to calm down, until i tipped 2 litres into a watering can and did it that way, and thats how i got my readings. Fed the other 3 plants using 2 litres each from the res tank, so 34 litres max left in there now.
Didnt use any rhizotonic as was worried it would stink the place out and go disgusting. I might just go back to cx regenaroot, as it doesnt stink as bad, and if the headmasta works, that should too, plus ive used it before with good effect.
Just worrying a little about my ph going crazy and all that now overnight or shit. Seems too easy it will just stay at 5.8.
Here's a picture of the whole tent.
This is the exo x nl in a normal 10 litre non-autopot pot. Definately smaller than the two in autopots, even though they aint been res fed.
Here are the two exo x nl that are in autopots, but wont be fed using the tank, or have their airdomes switched on. So just basically handwatered like the other exo x nl. Dunno why they seem bigger and more branchy.
Here is TD#1, my favourite of the two. Glossy leafs, smells nice, vigorous. And getting the full monty now, with airdome and aquavalve.
TD#2 is in the middle of the tent, you can see it in the first shot. My battery died before i culd take the last shot of it.
Here's the inside of my 47 litre res tank. Got a korean ceramic airstone ball in there, which does give off really really fine bubbles, and is quite impressive. Best airtstone ive used sop far.
Here is the whole res tank on its stand. Must be higher than the pots, as gravity is all that makes the aquavalves fill.
Here are two of my airpumps. I do have one like the blue one but with 4 connectors for when i hook up all 4 autopots to the res, but using the two port one, which was gonna be used for my 2 res tanks feed/plain water. Using my old cloner airppump for the res at the minute.
And lastly, here is the connections for my 2 autopots. I have 2 little stop taps there so i can turn them off and change the pipes about to the plain water res tank which will go up soon, in a few weeks.
I filled my tank with 40 litres of tap water. Added 125ml of canna coco a & 125ml of canna coco b. Then 40ml of headmasta, and 4ml of drip clean. Got a EC of 1.5, and ph;d to 5.81. My ph stick was going a bit funky in the tank though, was jumping about alot. It would say 6.02 then 7.45, then 6.14, then 7.66, and i couldnt get it to calm down, until i tipped 2 litres into a watering can and did it that way, and thats how i got my readings. Fed the other 3 plants using 2 litres each from the res tank, so 34 litres max left in there now.
Didnt use any rhizotonic as was worried it would stink the place out and go disgusting. I might just go back to cx regenaroot, as it doesnt stink as bad, and if the headmasta works, that should too, plus ive used it before with good effect.
Just worrying a little about my ph going crazy and all that now overnight or shit. Seems too easy it will just stay at 5.8.
Nice update Solid,
Looking good in there & getting better all the time. G'Luck bro!
Looking good in there & getting better all the time. G'Luck bro!
filth_element
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awesome#, looks sweet man. LOL i wish my girl would allow me to buy grow tent updates as bday prezzies too, but alas this is not how the world works... Oh well one day, one day.
Good luck mate, hope she has a good one and all goes well.
Good luck mate, hope she has a good one and all goes well.
anyone know how these root control discs work? i think there used in these auto pot systems.
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/AUTO-POT-REPL...arden_PlantsSeedsBulbs_JN&hash=item3f08a88e4b
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/AUTO-POT-REPL...arden_PlantsSeedsBulbs_JN&hash=item3f08a88e4b
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Buffoonman
Hows the smell on the Tangerene dream? A friend of mine has one going and you can almost smell the fruity tangerine rubbing the stem in veg.
Solidopc
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Yea. Does that package include both the root control discs? This is where i fucked up with the two exo x nl in the first two autopots, and now cant hook them up to the res.
You get a black tight cloth type one, anbd a more wired one stlll very tightly packed gores, with gold on one side and black on the other.
You place the black one in the bottom of the pot (which i forgot to do with the exo x nl), then fill it with your medium. The black/gold one, goes gold face up i think if i remember correctly, in the tray the pots sit in.
They are there to stop any medium or roots coming out from the holes in the bottom of the pot, and perhaps clogging/blocking thr aquavalve, which could mean if its jammed on and not off, 47 litres of feedwater all over the growroom floor. So they are an absolute must, and i bought a shitload of them, as you replace after ecvery grow.
They do smell sweet i have to say. TD#1 is smelling better at the moment, but to start TD#2 had a very orange like smell, so who knows. I'll be pretty psuprised if either end up smelling exactly like tangerines. I'm expecting a sweet fruity smelling bud.
As for the autopots
The growth of the autopot plants is far superior to the plants in normal pots. Much bigger, branchier, and larger all round. So far, very impressed with them, and glad i chose them over other systems. I'm convinved its the airdomes, as the two exo cheese aren't hooked up to the res but have airdomes, and are much better looking and larger than the exo nl in the 10 litre regular pot.
Thinking of buying another 2-4, but i got to get my new light first.
Solidopc
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Cant upload pics for some reason for an update. Says file error. Uploaded them on other sites fine, so not sure what the problem is.
So basically, day 16 for TD#1 and an exo x nl. The rest are all on about day 7 or 8. TD#1 is a beast, very stretchy and being vent here and there. A hugely vigourous plant though, would be amazing from cutting. TD#2 however, is a very sickly, thin branched looking plant, but smells spot on of oranges, so not sure whats going to happen there.
The exo x nl is performing like a beast as usual and has budsites everywhere allready. All 3 plants not hooked up to the res tank are being fed out of it via a 2 litre watering can. The autopots are performing very well so far and i like them alot, as the plants seem to. I'll be buying another 2 or 4 sometime.
The ph stays pretty dam steady in there, and iasnt rising as much as it did the first two days. It rises about 0.5 every day. So i usually set to about 5.6 and wait for it to rise up to 5.8, which is about 6 days. Only had to fill the tank once with 30 litres to fill it right to the top, and that was after i had watered the other 3 not hooked up to it.
Nutes are just canna coco a+b and headmasta, plus drip clean. ph is currently 5.71, ec 1.65.
No pics sorry, it wont let me for some reason. Not much to see apart from exo x nl though i guess.
So basically, day 16 for TD#1 and an exo x nl. The rest are all on about day 7 or 8. TD#1 is a beast, very stretchy and being vent here and there. A hugely vigourous plant though, would be amazing from cutting. TD#2 however, is a very sickly, thin branched looking plant, but smells spot on of oranges, so not sure whats going to happen there.
The exo x nl is performing like a beast as usual and has budsites everywhere allready. All 3 plants not hooked up to the res tank are being fed out of it via a 2 litre watering can. The autopots are performing very well so far and i like them alot, as the plants seem to. I'll be buying another 2 or 4 sometime.
The ph stays pretty dam steady in there, and iasnt rising as much as it did the first two days. It rises about 0.5 every day. So i usually set to about 5.6 and wait for it to rise up to 5.8, which is about 6 days. Only had to fill the tank once with 30 litres to fill it right to the top, and that was after i had watered the other 3 not hooked up to it.
Nutes are just canna coco a+b and headmasta, plus drip clean. ph is currently 5.71, ec 1.65.
No pics sorry, it wont let me for some reason. Not much to see apart from exo x nl though i guess.
Solidopc
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Managed to get some new pictures uploaded, so here are the pics. In the res tank - canna a+b, headmasta, drip clean, ec 1.64, ph 5.75
First up is the exo x nl at day 19, soon to be 20.
Here is the tangerine dream #1. Got to be some a5 haze or g13/haze heavy pheno, as it's also at allmost day 20, and though i think stretch has just about stopped, buds aint appearing yet.
She a really nice looking plant, and very vigourous, just looking a long one, plus i've had to tie her down, she'sover 4 foot now, while tangerine dream #2 is only about 3 if that.
Here is tangerine dream #2, perhaps a g13 heavy pheno, as both plants were the same size when they went in, allthough she hasn't been in aslong, its obvious she wont be getting much taller and even looks closer to starting to bud!. Bit of a creeper, looks a bit thin branched and sickly most her life, but is starting to look alot better and come into her own. She smells alot like oranges, definate orange smell. Not orange smell on #1, just funky. Allways have high hopes for plants, but have only ever found 2 worth keeping in 5 years and one i didnt the clone and the other was such a fast flowerer she was so hard to clone i lost her after only 2 runs. Maybe this time, who knows, would love to find something special, dont care where it comes from.
First up is the exo x nl at day 19, soon to be 20.
Here is the tangerine dream #1. Got to be some a5 haze or g13/haze heavy pheno, as it's also at allmost day 20, and though i think stretch has just about stopped, buds aint appearing yet.
She a really nice looking plant, and very vigourous, just looking a long one, plus i've had to tie her down, she'sover 4 foot now, while tangerine dream #2 is only about 3 if that.
Here is tangerine dream #2, perhaps a g13 heavy pheno, as both plants were the same size when they went in, allthough she hasn't been in aslong, its obvious she wont be getting much taller and even looks closer to starting to bud!. Bit of a creeper, looks a bit thin branched and sickly most her life, but is starting to look alot better and come into her own. She smells alot like oranges, definate orange smell. Not orange smell on #1, just funky. Allways have high hopes for plants, but have only ever found 2 worth keeping in 5 years and one i didnt the clone and the other was such a fast flowerer she was so hard to clone i lost her after only 2 runs. Maybe this time, who knows, would love to find something special, dont care where it comes from.
Solidopc
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Mini veg update. I was giving a friend of a friend some of the exo x nl cuts i had taken, and some of the tangerine dream, and he kindly, gave me two rooted cuttings. One is power plant x lemon skunk from a accidental cross, and the other is unknown, but he had some bud of it there he had chopped very early, was really immature, but is was still a nice smoke, and really purple calyxs. Has kush like small leafs, and smells acrid, skanky and dirty, in a nice way, reminied me of mr.nice shit, but more piss than shit, lol. Pretty chuffed as i had nothing in veg, and now i got two small plants.
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Buffoonman
All looking good. Watching this with interest as my next grow will be the Cheese x NL. Was thinking of growing one massive bush style.
Solidopc
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She is certainly enough of a branchy bush type grower that would be easy. Just got to have ways of holding up the branches from week 4 onwards roughly, its got them weak stems like the cheese, not as bad, but by no means strong, and the buds are bigger, so you can find branches actually bent 180 degrees to the plant downwards and touching the floor. She is very supple though, and i've never had a stem snap.
You're going to love her mate, super dense rocks of buds, yields very well, and i swear stinks more than cheese. Taste is so strong takes some getting used too. Earthy as hell, with aniseed/liqurice, and i still cant fully descrbe the aroma and flavours as they are so complex.
I've got all the local growers i know personally, and their friends growing this cut now rather than the bbcheese cut that was floating about a couple of years back. Never see that now really.
You're going to love her mate, super dense rocks of buds, yields very well, and i swear stinks more than cheese. Taste is so strong takes some getting used too. Earthy as hell, with aniseed/liqurice, and i still cant fully descrbe the aroma and flavours as they are so complex.
I've got all the local growers i know personally, and their friends growing this cut now rather than the bbcheese cut that was floating about a couple of years back. Never see that now really.
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Buffoonman
Can't wait your getting me excited now. Maybe a screen is the way forward. Having the same problem with my Cheese x Triesel at the moment, branches keeling over everywhere.
Solidopc
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Yea, she'd do really well in a scrog, but i like my variety, so allways have a couple of different things about. The TD#1 is literally taking over the growroom, she is huge and just starting to bud at day 22/23, the TD#2 is well behind a 12 days and is allready budding, so two very different phenos of it, hope one is woth keeping.
