Gavitas, Og's and rockwool

High Grade Only · Apr 4, 2015

Legal medical grow, Gavitas set at 1K. 4" rockwool stacked on hugos. Closed system with c02. botanicare and advanced make up most the nutes. all fan leaves are stripped week one and week four of flowering. questions are welcome

High Grade Only · Apr 4, 2015

before and after stripping

https://www.icmag.com/ic/album.php?albumid=60316&pictureid=1416343

McKush · Apr 4, 2015

Nice room High Grade, what strain(s) are those?

LoveofKush · Apr 4, 2015

Nice room what cut of OG?

Piff Rhys Jones · Apr 4, 2015

Very nice!

Have you ever not stripped some plants to see if the stripped ones out yield the unstripped?

Peace

BasementBreeder · Apr 4, 2015

The room looks awesome.

How many plants/sqft?

I'm assuming these are clones, correct?

How tall are they when you start flowering? and finish?

Meison · Apr 4, 2015

Holy, nice setup. How much you yield avg per plant? How many plants per light?

Cheers

High Grade Only · Apr 4, 2015

Thanks everyone.

So the total number of strains on deck usually runs at about 25. Everything is in clone form. The cuts of OG we have range from sfv, larry, master P, skywalker to a few others. some of the cuts of og are very old.

Jones, yes we have tried not stripping and stripping at different times. because we pack our canopy so heavily we really see a difference in flower site development and overall yield when they receive direct light. Also,the stripping aids in air movement and pm prevention.

Basement, Yes, clones. 9 to 12 plants per light. and height wise usually we try and put them in the bloom room at anywhere from a foot tall to 3 foot, finish at 2 to 5ft. The room never stops being on a 12/12 cycle with no down time. So if they are smaller, we pack more in to properly fill the canopy.

meison, never have checked yeild per plant. Though we usually hang around 2 per light.

jointventure420 · Apr 16, 2015

Hello High Grade....Thank you for sharing....have a few questions about your set up with the gavitas...How high up did you mount your fixtures from the floor..?...and...did you increase your light coverage compared to a normal 1K..(4'X4' vs 5'X5'...etc..)

Looking forward to more posts..!!

JV

davidyhan · Apr 21, 2015

Do you ever experience any light burn from Gavitas? like top leaves yellowing and brown spots??

High Grade Only · Apr 26, 2015

jointventure, the lights are on ratchets and not mounted at a specific height. We have seen that they need to be much higher than normal HPS lamps from canopy level. sometimes up to three feet away. as far as horizontal spacing, they are under four feet apart. not saying that is necessary, but it is working for us.

david, yes. more often if the lights aren't raised properly lots of light bleaching occurs. not heat burn, but full on bleaching.

High Grade Only · Apr 26, 2015

so week one stripped. them at week four, and chop time

BadRabbit · Apr 26, 2015

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Thanks for sharing this ... I'm going to test that fan trimming cycle out on a plant - I've been growing hydro/rockwool for a long while and I must admit it surprises me - but your photos are a good argument. I'll try some side by side comparisons a bit and see ...

High Grade Only · Apr 26, 2015

I understand there are valid arguments against defoliating plants. It works for us. Though, i believe it works for us because we are packing the canopy so tight, if we didnt strip leaves we see a severe underdevelopment of flower sites. So i dont think you can see the overall result from just one plant compared to another. Its more about an application of pruning practices on a larger scale than just one plant if that makes sense,

High Grade Only · Apr 26, 2015

Frankly i'd prefer not to have to spend all the time stripping leaves, time wise it's a minimum of 20 minutes per light twice a harvest.... that adds up quick.

jointventure420 · Apr 26, 2015

Thanks for the Pics and response HGO....!!!..

Looking forward to more threads from you in the future...

JV

BadRabbit · Apr 29, 2015

High Grade Only said:
I understand there are valid arguments against defoliating plants. It works for us. Though, i believe it works for us because we are packing the canopy so tight, if we didnt strip leaves we see a severe underdevelopment of flower sites. So i dont think you can see the overall result from just one plant compared to another. Its more about an application of pruning practices on a larger scale than just one plant if that makes sense,

Makes sense - Maybe I'll test it "in a portion of the grow table" rather than "a plant". Do one half in my usual fashion (just tucking fans when they block a bud site) and the other half defoliated.

Using matched clones, perhaps I'll see a difference.

But thanks High Grade, even us old dogs can new tricks.

RulaTone · Apr 29, 2015

nice room HGO
whats difference between hugos and regular grodan rockwool cubes?

if i see correctly you dont use drippers? how you water them?

Timboy5 · Apr 30, 2015

RulaTone said:
nice room HGO
whats difference between hugos and regular grodan rockwool cubes?

if i see correctly you dont use drippers? how you water them?

hugo is just the name of the 6" ones

High Grade Only · May 3, 2015

rula, tim is correct. hugo is just the name of the 6" blocks. and they are hand fed once per day

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