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New sealed ppk room

Earlmarne

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Guess i should start a thread.
Started building a few months ago after my last vertical run. Got an 8x11 room with 4ft by 11 next to it i fix on making a drying room eventually.
Running a 4 site ppk system with 7g feed tubs on top of 3 g buckets being fed 30 seconds on every hour. Was up to 1.8 ec due to some serious deficiencies after transplant. Back down to 1.2 for now to see if they yellow up.
Jacks + calnit + epsom and pondzyme.
Got 2 Solis-Tek 1k de ballasts with 10k bulbs right now on 24/0
Got co2 at 1000 ppms
Humidity between 60 - 80 percent with a 3 disc fogger on a timer.
Will have for sites in a ventilated veg room once cleaned. Found root aphids in there so everything was chopped, and bombed. Vegging in my flower room for this first run.
I am 3 or 4 weeks into veg now.
This pic was taken 2 days ago when netting was put up.
 

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Earlmarne

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Got my media dusted heavily with de, and once a week foliar with neem, peppermint soap, alcohol. Tanglefoot on stems to keep the pests away


This is 2 weeks ago. Came back from a week away and realized i had too high perlite to turface ratio and not enough watering. Super sad girls with lots of yellowing.
Swapped out to 10 k bulbs, added a bunch of turface and raised ec
 

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Earlmarne

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Hoping for some input as this will be my first go with de lights and horizontal growing.
Got 5.5 feet from net to lights
They are set at 1k right now.
My plan thus far is to keep pulling everything back down til my screen is full then flip.
Got sour bubble leaning gorilla bubble bx2 in the closest container, deadhead x longbottom leaf in second, gb stretchier glue leaner in 3rd and 3 beans i found in a burnt rubber smelling , high yeilding gb pheno that threw some nanners and was culled
 

Earlmarne

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Did some pretty heavy defoliation tonight and sprayed em down with some maxicrop+ fulvic.
Really interested in the far container and the selfed gb plants. Got a short, seemingly sb leaning pheno and 2 stretchier phenos. The stretchier 2 i have high hopes for
 

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Earlmarne

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You get a full flood with 30 seconds ?

I had worries of the tail pipe clogging up with roots so i have a few 1/4 holes drilled into to container to speed drainage.
Never experienced a full flood besides when roots clogged the tail piece
 

Earlmarne

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How long are you going to veg for? 5.5ft can disappear pretty quickly, no?
At the rate they are going maybe 2 more weeks. Im really not sure.
My hope is that if i fill the screen then flip they will stretch 2 feet and leave 3 ft to the light
 

Earlmarne

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Will get some updated pics up here tomorrow.
Root systems are drinking way more than anticipated. Dropped my air gap to like 7 inches in a couple days and trim a bunch of unhealthy stuff off that stayed drooped too long.
Cut clones tonight. As soon as they root im flipping this room.
20 gallons a week they are going through at this point. Bumped feeding up to 45 seconds every hour, probably going to switch to 30 seconds every 30 min
 

Earlmarne

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Pre trim.
I fix on cleaning them up tonight a good bit
 

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Earlmarne

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Waiting on roots to show on clones and this rooms getting the flip.
20 seconds on every 20 min seems to be working well. Got the feed down to 1.3 ec without any adverse effects. Going through 3 gallons a day right now.
Nothing exciting.
 

Earlmarne

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This is the selfed gbubs. Def most vigorous of everything
 

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Earlmarne

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Cleaned everything up last night. Chopped everything that wasn’t coming up to the screen. Its a pain in the ass to work under that screen.
Dang selfed gbs are really impressive, starting to throw 9 finger leaves and filling out real fast. Next run will be nothing but the selfed gbs. Hoping for my burnt rubber pheno to be in one of them.
I topped the hell out of the deadheadx
 

Earlmarne

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Think I should have taken clones earlier. I have a feeling im going to be overgrown.
Got the hps back in at 800 on both ballasts. They seem to be happy with it. Feeding at 20 sec every 20 min with a 4 inch air gap. At 1.3 ec. This seems to be working really well
 

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Earlmarne

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After cleaning the ac filter i didnt kick the ac back on, got to 95 at canopy and have some leaf tacoing. Got temps back in check. But still showing on some leaves. Soon as i see that go im shutting the lights off for 24 or so to start 12/12
 

Earlmarne

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Ph was high. 6.8 yesterday. Still some tacoing in one pheno. Adjusted ph and brought ec to 1.4, added some enzymes Turned lights down to 750 and shut them off this morning.
Only light i can find is from my wall ac. If i look down inside i can see light hitting internals. I dont think that will screw me up. So lights are off til tomorrow or maybe tue
 

Earlmarne

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Ph rose again to 6.5 over night and ec dropped to 1.2 going to start inputting 1.5 and 5 ph to adjust. I think it is due to under feeding.
Lights came on this afternoon. Everything is stretching through the net pretty good
 

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Earlmarne

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Dang roots are filling the buckets. Dont know what to do about it
 

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Earlmarne

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Got my ec up to 1.6 and ph still is raising hard.
I adjust it at lights on to 5.5 and come lights on next day its 6.2.
Since i started adjusting every day i have no more leaf taco.
Humidity has always been a trip for me. Cant get much above 50 even with my fogger until i have a room jam packed.
This sealed room proved much easier to keep at 70 percent but if i didnt run the fogger full time it would drop fast.
A few days ago i had wet walls n such and 95 percent. I shut the fogger off and im still at 80. Think i may need to pick up a dehumidifier soon. I ain’t worried for a few more weeks.
All plants besides my sour bubble leaner are stretching out pretty good. No flowers as of yet.
Cant help but to pluck big fans blocking lowers but am trying hard not to fuck with them much til stretch is over. In past grows my deadhead responded poorly to defoliation of any kind so i leave her alone. My #8 gb keeper does not put on foliage much so she gets left alone too. Ill post pics on sunday of the canopy.
Hoping root growth stops soon as the 3 gallon buckets underneath are plumb full. This is due in part to my 1/4 inch holes for better drainage i think and will be only adding a couple to future builds, if any
 
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