Farm Life With Snype!
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Holy smokes that is some photo worthy growing right there!
That bud pick that I just showed on the last page next to a 1 Liter Bottle of Water should be small compared to what the last pics that I just showed of the plants that just went into flowering. That bud pic at 60 days is a RDWC crop that I only vegged to 16 or 17" but that last pic I vegged until 24" and there's more cross light as well. The first room only had 3,000 watts and 1,000 of those watts got hidden in the tent.
Don't judge your current grow to what RDWC can do. You are in DWC but RDWC is another animal. Don't get me wrong, DWC is still an animal but RDWC in systems with the same clones go much more crazy. Follow along and good things will come your way.
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I may not grow that much quantity but I will surely study hard and work hard to achieve that degree of insanity!
I wouldn't say that this life is easy. It's actually more work than a real job but I love my work. I am pretty much a slave to my grow though.
Ok, you are in luck! I have a harvest starting this weekend so I had to put my cuts into VEG-A today so I will take you through my process right now in a few posts. Here we go:
First, I took my cuttings 17 days ago so that when my plants get out of flower, they will already be finishing VEG-A at the same time so I can place them into VEG-B without any delay. I know how to delay my cuttings by keeping my medium a little more on the moist side until I need them to root. I can keep them in limbo for a while so that they can root all at the same time and build a decent root structure. Here are some pics today before I placed them into VEG-A. These rooted clones are at day 18 of the cloning stage today:
More pics and info on the way...
First, I took my cuttings 17 days ago so that when my plants get out of flower, they will already be finishing VEG-A at the same time so I can place them into VEG-B without any delay. I know how to delay my cuttings by keeping my medium a little more on the moist side until I need them to root. I can keep them in limbo for a while so that they can root all at the same time and build a decent root structure. Here are some pics today before I placed them into VEG-A. These rooted clones are at day 18 of the cloning stage today:
More pics and info on the way...
That pump that you see in the last set of pictures cost like $20 and pumps faster than the water leaves. I use it on the highest setting. This will all depend on your fittings and they make many. I try to use the biggest one I can find but you will have to test that out with different pumps to find the right one. Here is how I place all of my fittings and the system is all together now:
These last pictures, I transferred the plants into VEG-A today at 9 PM and we begin Day 1 Veg-A. I can't tell you how often I am going to hand dunk them because I have to be observant of the roots to tell me what's going on. What I can say is that I may not have to dunk them again for maybe 10 hours or maybe 12 hours, or it could be 6 hours or possibly 8 hours. I don't know until I keep seeing how each one is doing. I purposely have 5 extra plants on this tray that will be thrown in the trash. I only take the best plants to go into RDWC and I only need 10 plants per tray for each RDWC system. Have a look for yourself:
And now we are up to date of what is going on. I will show you more details as they grow. Oh and I always cut the paper thing on those Grodan Mini-Blocks before I place the cuttings into net pots.
And now we are up to date of what is going on. I will show you more details as they grow. Oh and I always cut the paper thing on those Grodan Mini-Blocks before I place the cuttings into net pots.
I'm in the process of making my first diary on here and was looking for some to look at as examples. Basically I found your thread, and couldn't stop reading it. Right off the bat you sucked me in when I read you moved away from civilization and all the headache that comes with it. Your thread is a breath of fresh air my friend! And an inspiration to do the same; I've been dreaming of doing this for some time now... but I'm a "lone wolf" in my area and would really be taking my dog and nobody else if I were to do so. How do you deal with the boredom? I'll be following this along as it continues, youre thumb is def green bud lol
Glad you found the thread. I kind of made this thread hard to find on purpose. I've been growing for over 20 years and am very used to being isolated for months. I'm not going to lie, it can make you crazy sometimes. Just going out and seeing people is like a high. Humans do need some type of human interaction and I try to get what I can out of IC for that and there's my girl here also at times which really helps. Before my girl, there were many months of no human interaction and it does take a toll on you. You have to remember what your real goals are or you can get very lost. It's best to have a good plan and set goals for yourself. I just try to remember why I'm doing this and where I'm trying to go. I enjoy being in the middle of nowhere in the mountains but I don't plan on being isolated forever. I have no plans at all for the future of where in the world I will be. It most likely depends on how things go for the next few years. I plan on retiring within the next 3.5 years and that's always been my goal. That's when I turn 40 and i always planned to live out my dreams after that. Not saying my life has been that hard as a grower the last 20+ years but I saw no real reason to save in my younger years but there's only a few years left so now I'm more frugal with the way that I live my life to prepare for my life after 40. I just try to just keep thinking about my goal and why I'm working so hard. I try to stay as positive as I can. It's not easy but I have an open mind and just try and better myself as a human. To go into isolation alone with no one at all will be very tricky. You have to really keep your mind active or you can start doing things you wouldn't think you could do. Reality can get a little weird. Just how it is. But just think about the end when there's nothing at all in life to worry about because you worked your ass off and made the ultimate sacrifice. That's what I think about.
Yeah, I can only imagine how complete isolation would be. I'd at least have my dog, I already talk to him all day long so that's gotta be like another human right? LOL
I'm probably a lot like you were 10 years ago, I blow $ as fast as I make it... strugglin a little bit to make ends meet and move out to a home I really like in the country. You make good points on setting goals and making plans, I've learned this the hard way already. Have gotten a little better at it though, minus the money management of course.
I envy you for how you live, I couldn't imagine myself happier if in your shoes. Whats your goal by the way? That youre working towards? Mine is to be a caregiver for some patients some day... that would make me so happy to be able to help someone in need
I always had animals. Mostly cats. Never really helped the isolation. Just keeping busy usually helps and I stay on plant time which means I sleep during the day and I'm up all night doing my chores and doing my various test. My testing probably helps keep my mind the most stable. Eating right also helps me.
I blew 250k a year for many years. I'd just do the dumbest things with money because it was so easy to make. I had many years where's pounds were 6k plus which was real nice. Now pounds are down to 4k - 4400 for my more mass produced and my other small crops of other pheno's that aren't mass produce usually go by the oz for 300-500 depending on many factors.
My goals are pretty simple. Life is very expensive if you make it the age of 90's. About every 15-20 years it will take us twice the amount of money as today. If a candy bar cost $1 now, it will cost around $2 in 15-20 years. So if you need about 50k-100k to live a comfortable life now, you'll need twice that every 15-20 years. Let's look at the low end and say 50k will be good if you own your own house already. In another 15 years I would need 100k to live similar to 50k now. So lets say that I'm 40 now. I'll need 750k to make it through the next 15 years which would take me to 55 years old. The next 15 years after that I would need another 1.5 million and I would be 70 years old. To make it from 70 to 85 years old I would need another 3 million. So just to make it to 85 years old, I need a total of 5.25 million. Now that doesn't mean that I have to retire at 40 with 5.25 million. What it means is that I need to make the right investments so that I can live on say 5-10% return that can hold up with inflation. Real-estate has always been an investment of mine which I plan to continue over the years. Mostly buying multifamily homes to rent out. So for me to make 50k a year by having investments would require an investment of around 500k for 10% or 750k for 7.5%. Of course you would also want some money in reserves for when things go bad.
The other part of the equation is that my girlfriend of 7 years (Snypette) is only in her early 20's and I have to plan out that side of the equation as well and she will be on this planet much longer than me so there will be much more inflation in that case which changes some parts of the equation.
Let's face it. Lot's of stress and problems come about due to money concerns in this day and age. We are supposed to be consumers and spend more than we make. I'm not saying it's right and I'm not trying to live that way but that's how a lot of others live. Money to me just equals less stress going through life. We are all walking business's and we all have to learn to manage our money and prepare for our future. Most people live like they are retired now and spend all their money and have a lot of fun but they will be paying for it when they are older. I'd rather be fully prepared and play later on in life. So my goal is to basically be financially stable for the rest of my life and do whatever I feel I'm supposed to do at the time. If I feel like I'm supposed to go to another state or country and live there for a while, then I will be free to do that. I'm sure I'll be doing some sort of work that inspires me at the time but I'm not set on anything at all. That's how it should be though, in my mind. I already lived that crazy stupid spend crazy money and have fun life and it's so old.
Its my turn now! LOL!
Ive always been dirt poor and never had anything. Im like the little pigeon who keeps getting beatup and misses out on the main course. I get the scraps that nobody else wants.
BYTCH grow is looking great.
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Didn't realize we are about the same age Snype. Funny how these forums are like that, you can talk to someone for years and have no clue to their true identity. I admire your forward thinking, in my brain I know I should do that, but somehow from my brain to action is lost in translation. My wife keeps telling me we will have tons of fun when the kids leave the house, but I am not that patient, I would prefer not to have to wait another 12 years before I have any fun.
Well, the pics of VEG-A that you see was right when the clones got put into the tray. It is not from Veg-A at all. The plants have been in the cloning dome for 18 days. I take off the lid at around day 14 and most of the roots have come by then. From that point I'm supposed to pour my solution onto the cloning tray every 3-6 hours or they don't get enough nutes. A lot of times they don't get anything for 8 hours but I'm not trying to grow them at this point. I'm just trying to let the roots come out more to prepare for VEG-A. Once they get into VEG-A, I keep the lights raised because they get hand dunked about every 8-10 hours and if I kept the light closer, they would also continue to show those signs because they need more nutrients. Once the roots grow out in a few more days, I'll be able to flood more frequently and then all the plants will be green again.
I just finished my 3rd dunk. I stayed up all night just to be able to observe the roots so I can dunk at the right time. My plants are my #1 priority in my life. I sacrifice myself for them at all times because without my plants, their would be no life. What can I say, I'm passionate about my plants.
Dunk #1 was when I transplanted for the first time
Dunk #2 was 6 hours after dunk #1
Dunk #3 was 8 hours after dunk #2
Observations: Looking at the roots while I was dunking, you could see some roots grew about a half of an inch, maybe more. It's very obvious that after 6 hours it was still wet enough but at 8 hours it was slightly wet and almost too dry. 8 hours right now is the sweet spot.
I dunk these into a solution of:
3 Gallons Tap (140 PPM)
3 drops Clorox Bleach
12 mL GH FloraMicro
18 mL GH FloraBloom
pH down to 5.9
I dunk each plant into a 5 gallon bucket which contains 3 gallons of the solution above. In this 5 gallon bucket I have 2 air stones and an air pump that I turn on for the dunk. I dunk each plant into this bucket for 30 seconds. I will take pictures every day at 9PM which will make 24 hour intervals from the very beginning to show you what happens when you treat your plants as a priority and learn to make key observations to maximize your grows to the fullest extent.
Dunk #1 was when I transplanted for the first time
Dunk #2 was 6 hours after dunk #1
Dunk #3 was 8 hours after dunk #2
Observations: Looking at the roots while I was dunking, you could see some roots grew about a half of an inch, maybe more. It's very obvious that after 6 hours it was still wet enough but at 8 hours it was slightly wet and almost too dry. 8 hours right now is the sweet spot.
I dunk these into a solution of:
3 Gallons Tap (140 PPM)
3 drops Clorox Bleach
12 mL GH FloraMicro
18 mL GH FloraBloom
pH down to 5.9
I dunk each plant into a 5 gallon bucket which contains 3 gallons of the solution above. In this 5 gallon bucket I have 2 air stones and an air pump that I turn on for the dunk. I dunk each plant into this bucket for 30 seconds. I will take pictures every day at 9PM which will make 24 hour intervals from the very beginning to show you what happens when you treat your plants as a priority and learn to make key observations to maximize your grows to the fullest extent.
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