First grow, first ppk, and here is the unfolding story... which will hopefully be a success.
Long story short, I've borrowed and copied ideas from folks primarily on this forum but haven't had the bandwidth to take action until recently. I built some pvc screens around Marlo's designs, a PPK system based off delta9nxs, and was originally inspired (and continue to be) by Bobblehead and DHF.
Several weeks ago I got ahold of some Blue Dream cuttings that would not root. They were placed in wick-fed sterilite containers (same as delta9nxs cloning containers). I did not have a humidity lid/dome over them, they were under 24/7 light and the temp was around 76-78F... and I probably had them in 500ppm flora nova bloom I would later find out as well. Gave them a couple weeks, and was resigned to leave them to die under a couple T8 6500k. I then got ahold of 4 well rooted BD in soil, in solo cups. I had to go away for about a week... the solo cups were under four T8 bulbs while I was out and being watered daily in about 76-78F 50-60% humidity - weather conditions.
When I got back I re-read about cloning/cuttings and talked to a friend. Between his info and what I gathered I went ahead and gave the dead-looking cuttings another cut a half inch or so farther up the stem, scarified them, dipped them in rooting gel, and gave them another try in the wick-fed turface this time with humidity domes. 5-7 days later they're rooting and looking great. Like little zombies. Thought they were toast for sure.
When I got the solo cup Blue Dream's there was one about 7" tall, two 4-5" tall, and a runt maybe 3" tall. While under fluoros for a good week they all grew up towards the bulbs, gaining a few inches each, with the largest starting to wrap around the bulbs. Those plants were placed into a PPK system (this is my reminder to start keeping better track of things if I want to improve) maybe 1-1.5 weeks ago. For a few days they did nothing. Then it seemed like they were all gaining about an inch a day. 40-50% Humidity, temperature swings are 70-75F now, they were more around 75-82F for awhile there.
All clones have had indications of what is probably leaf burn from 500ppm flora nova bloom. I didn't get my hands on NaCl ppm/EC calibration solution for my hm digital tester until just a few days ago. I really didn't expect my readings to be as far off as the solution revealed to me... but I chalk that up to another lesson learned. I diluted the clones down to 320ppm (20 ppm water) and am still working more water into the PPK system to bring it down around 620ppm (currently 850-900) and this is Jacks Hydroponic Special mixed with YaraLiva calcnit. Flooding containers every hour.
Water pH says 6.0 out of the faucet and managed to be around 5.0 as of a week ago. Need to take another reading of that soon.
I forgot the size of the pump but it takes 60-75 seconds to fully flood the upper tubs (Little Giant 6.5gallon tubs). I believe the air gap in the lower 3.5gallon buckets to be around 4". The air porosity of my turface mix drains a little bit faster than I intended, I might be draining fluid 10% faster than the ideal 30-33%.
Pictures... the room is a little small at around 7.5ft wide and 8ft long. If I can measure some real success out of this grow I'm thinking more about a 10x10 room. You can see the Marlo screens in the background, currently unused and originally built to sit over a taller top bucket. You can see my big $$$ way of measuring temperature and humidity resting on the 27gal pump house.
If you follow delta9nxs PPK designs some of this is going to look familiar. I'm using the same manifold, same size garden hose, same float container. I'm probably using a different float valve
This is the larger of the plants. This is about a week ago, I'll get another shot real soon. Long as my camera holds up, it wants to take a picture every 3-4 shots or so. Was sitting in a drawer gathering dust for ~4 years. I guess it didn't like that.
You can then see my cloning containers.
I built a plywood box to place a Suncourt 10in fan into. I want to talk a little about this pain in the ass in the next post.
Long story short, I've borrowed and copied ideas from folks primarily on this forum but haven't had the bandwidth to take action until recently. I built some pvc screens around Marlo's designs, a PPK system based off delta9nxs, and was originally inspired (and continue to be) by Bobblehead and DHF.
Several weeks ago I got ahold of some Blue Dream cuttings that would not root. They were placed in wick-fed sterilite containers (same as delta9nxs cloning containers). I did not have a humidity lid/dome over them, they were under 24/7 light and the temp was around 76-78F... and I probably had them in 500ppm flora nova bloom I would later find out as well. Gave them a couple weeks, and was resigned to leave them to die under a couple T8 6500k. I then got ahold of 4 well rooted BD in soil, in solo cups. I had to go away for about a week... the solo cups were under four T8 bulbs while I was out and being watered daily in about 76-78F 50-60% humidity - weather conditions.
When I got back I re-read about cloning/cuttings and talked to a friend. Between his info and what I gathered I went ahead and gave the dead-looking cuttings another cut a half inch or so farther up the stem, scarified them, dipped them in rooting gel, and gave them another try in the wick-fed turface this time with humidity domes. 5-7 days later they're rooting and looking great. Like little zombies. Thought they were toast for sure.
When I got the solo cup Blue Dream's there was one about 7" tall, two 4-5" tall, and a runt maybe 3" tall. While under fluoros for a good week they all grew up towards the bulbs, gaining a few inches each, with the largest starting to wrap around the bulbs. Those plants were placed into a PPK system (this is my reminder to start keeping better track of things if I want to improve) maybe 1-1.5 weeks ago. For a few days they did nothing. Then it seemed like they were all gaining about an inch a day. 40-50% Humidity, temperature swings are 70-75F now, they were more around 75-82F for awhile there.
All clones have had indications of what is probably leaf burn from 500ppm flora nova bloom. I didn't get my hands on NaCl ppm/EC calibration solution for my hm digital tester until just a few days ago. I really didn't expect my readings to be as far off as the solution revealed to me... but I chalk that up to another lesson learned. I diluted the clones down to 320ppm (20 ppm water) and am still working more water into the PPK system to bring it down around 620ppm (currently 850-900) and this is Jacks Hydroponic Special mixed with YaraLiva calcnit. Flooding containers every hour.
Water pH says 6.0 out of the faucet and managed to be around 5.0 as of a week ago. Need to take another reading of that soon.
I forgot the size of the pump but it takes 60-75 seconds to fully flood the upper tubs (Little Giant 6.5gallon tubs). I believe the air gap in the lower 3.5gallon buckets to be around 4". The air porosity of my turface mix drains a little bit faster than I intended, I might be draining fluid 10% faster than the ideal 30-33%.
Pictures... the room is a little small at around 7.5ft wide and 8ft long. If I can measure some real success out of this grow I'm thinking more about a 10x10 room. You can see the Marlo screens in the background, currently unused and originally built to sit over a taller top bucket. You can see my big $$$ way of measuring temperature and humidity resting on the 27gal pump house.
If you follow delta9nxs PPK designs some of this is going to look familiar. I'm using the same manifold, same size garden hose, same float container. I'm probably using a different float valve
This is the larger of the plants. This is about a week ago, I'll get another shot real soon. Long as my camera holds up, it wants to take a picture every 3-4 shots or so. Was sitting in a drawer gathering dust for ~4 years. I guess it didn't like that.
You can then see my cloning containers.
I built a plywood box to place a Suncourt 10in fan into. I want to talk a little about this pain in the ass in the next post.
I'm leaning towards wanting to fight the disease if there is one. For experience if nothing else.
