Freedom 45's Three Ring Coco Circus!

[Arminius]

USD Week 3 complete

USD Week 3 complete

I am very pleased so far with this run. I had to tuck quite a few tops back to the front of the screen! I would say they grew at least 12" in the 5 days I was away. They were pretty thirsty, but were not showing any signs. The Hygromite retains plenty of moisture, which likely bought me a day or so. I need to automate this shit asap...
Full shot

Close up

Buds showed up while on vacation

According to the 40/60 rule, I have 10 more days of stretch, and I am planning on taking them to at least 77 days...

 

[Arminius]

Multi-Crop Week 3 Complete

Multi-Crop Week 3 Complete

I will be splitting off the HK#1 and Sour Grape into their own circle tomorrow, so I will doing separate updates.
Group shot before breaking up these 13 plants

Sour Grape. She is a lanky bitch, and will need full bondage when I do a full run of her soon...

HK#1

These being 9 week strains, end of stretch will be this fri/sat.

 

[Arminius]

Cherry Pie Day 18

Cherry Pie Day 18

Not sure if I should have vegged these another week or so. They are not very stretchy, and look like they would be perfect candidates for budsicles...

 

[Mister_D]

I like what you've got going here arminius Subbed.

 

[megayields]

A-

Yeah the CP needs a "little" more veg than the USD (which as you know, stretch like mofos), Man I LOVE the new room, KISS bro......I think this is going to do MUCH better and I need to talk to you more about those X nutrients, they sound like "dah shit".

Oh and congrats on the new opportunity down in Soquel ..happy for you and your boys and the g/f and of course the dogs!

 

[Ichabod Crane]

You will like the coco better then the under current. I tried the same thing you did first but I have terrible heat problems and switched to coco. So much less stress.

Looking good.

 

[megayields]

Did you catch anything today? Old boot? Radioactive material from Japan? LOL

 

[Arminius]

Did you catch anything today? Old boot? Radioactive material from Japan? LOL

I just finished eating barbecued salmon with a sour cream, horseradish, dill sauce...
Supposed to go out again tomorrow. If we get more salmon, I can save some for you if you like.

 

[megayields]

OH HELL YAH....save me some salmon! You don't even have to ask me I am ALLWAYS up for fresh Salmon mmmmmmmmm with a herb (get it) dry rub LMAO!

 

[Arminius]

I let my g/f and her dad go today, was up late in the garden...
I have a couple of salmon steaks vacuum sealed in the freezer I will hook you up with.
My focus today is to figure out how to jimmy rig a DTW system with my leftover DWC parts and a timer.
I am thinking I can use the 15 minute interval timer, with maybe a shutoff valve in front of the manifold to control the flow to the 1/4" lines.
I need to be able to dial it in where there is minimal runoff due to only having saucers under my #2 smartpots. I can tolerate some spilling over the saucers since my floor is waterproof.
I really need to drop some cash on blumats, but I have to sort too many things atm.
I will do a photo update later today.

 

[Arminius]

This dialed enough for you DHF?

This dialed enough for you DHF?

Here are my highs and lows from a 24 hour period that is pretty typical. The high/low temps rise and fall a few degrees depending on weather, but the spread is the same. RH range pretty much stays the same. The min/max's don't represent the averages, which I think would be more helpful...
Min: Temp during lights off, RH during lights on

Max: Temp during lights on, RH during lights off

The hottest it has gotten with lights on is 74 degrees. It may jump a couple of points when I add the light for the third site, but I can just throw in one more 6" inline fan to offset that.
As far as air exchanges go, I am a little short of 2x a minute.
Room dimensions 10x12x8= 960cf x2= 1920
Extraction= Three 6" inline fans at 454cfm= 1362cfm
Intakes= Six 6" passive intakes, plus my AC/Heater/Dehuey adds another 250cfm as an active intake.
With those calculations I think it is time to get another 6" fan either way. That would bring me up to 1816cfm, and with the active intake another 200 or so...
I also have 3 honeywells under each light, and a 12" orbital oscillating fan stirring things up.

 

[catalyte]

looks like an efficient use of space.

I'll have to follow this...

 

[Sqydro]

very nice mate are you hand feeding all these bad boys? some nice strains i just hit up HGO with about a xillion questions as im about to build one of these in coco pots an drip fed like him with 2 stacked 6's but im goin to go cage and was going to build it like a octagon but instead of fixing screen to 8 posts make nine so i can edge a gap big enough to get in the octagon lol sounds ufc like when i say that i prob am not describing it rite if u want il do a drawing??

 

[Arminius]

very nice mate are you hand feeding all these bad boys? some nice strains i just hit up HGO with about a xillion questions as im about to build one of these in coco pots an drip fed like him with 2 stacked 6's but im goin to go cage and was going to build it like a octagon but instead of fixing screen to 8 posts make nine so i can edge a gap big enough to get in the octagon lol sounds ufc like when i say that i prob am not describing it rite if u want il do a drawing??

Regrettably, I am hand watering for now, but that is going to change ASAP! This is my first run with Coco, coming from RDWC, so I have most of the parts, just need to put it together...
Was hoping for an answer on how in HGO's latest thread, but he is pretty busy I imagine.

 

[megayields]

........heads over to HGO's thread to catch up.........(walking away)

 

[Arminius]

And Then There Was Three

And Then There Was Three

I finally got a chance to break up the cherry pie from the others.

I was able to get the plants a bit closer, 16" from plant stem. I also did some light defoliation.
Hk#1

The USD octagon is approaching 4 weeks this Tuesday. They should have less than a week of stretch, and I will be able to start defoliation.

 

[Bonzo]

Lookin good Arminius are you followin' bottle directions with the X nutes? they seem a lil' high to me...i have lowered them and plants in veg are doin' great...

 

[Arminius]

Lookin good Arminius are you followin' bottle directions with the X nutes? they seem a lil' high to me...i have lowered them and plants in veg are doin' great...

Thanks Bonzo, I am very happy with X Nutrients. Like all feeding programs, I started at half strength, then work up from there. I was at .8 EC in veg, and i just fed them at 3/4 strength, and I think the EC was around 1.6, which is probably as high as I will go.

 

[Arminius]

First Attempt With a Drip System

First Attempt With a Drip System

Decided hand watering is for the Corey, and Trevors of the world, not me...
Started with my res. Put a tee off of the pump, with shutoff valves. When mixing my soup, I can shut off the water to the loop manifold, forcing the soup to mix, speeding up the time spent stirring each product...

I put the loop manifold around my fan, and ran equal lengths of 1/4 tubing and a drip stake to each plant.

I set the first feeding for 2 minutes which gave me just enough runoff to be absorbed within 20 minutes. I set the next feed for 1 minute 5 hours later, which was too much, too soon... I am going to let them dry for a day, then try again. I am thinking 2 feeds for 1 minute twice during lights on, and 1 minute during lights off...
Drippers in action.

 

[DHF]

Hey Arm ....Been havin trouble postin on vacation......Your lights off RH concerns me in that it oughta be reversed with lights on ftw till end of stretch , .......but....

The basket stakes are a plus , but with bigger containers more timed feeds are`nt necessary and lights off feed needs ta go away cuz it`ll raise RH in late bloomage and work against yas guaranteed....

HGO`s usin like lil over 1.5 gal containers that dry out faster and require more feeds to keep the medium constantly "moist" , so bigger smartpots need backed off of from there to find their sweet spot , and trial and error will rule the day Bro.....

Keep dialin Bro....Yas`re gettin there Killer work....

Peace.....Freds..........