Howdy my fellow gardeners! I'm no-one special and probably not worth watching, but for my own enjoyment I'll be sharing my hobby 
So, I'm gonna go through a few pix - blast from teh past shall we say. Hm... OK, so in January I got off my arse and built a batcave. The space is about 53" by about 118" by 8' tall (the right side is a gutted closet, so is a bit shorter, but that's just the far right 2' or so.) Using two vertical cooltubes, currently running at 600w on 1kw Galaxy Select-A-Watt ballasts, with some cheap eiko bulbs.
Now i'd finished a second run off, making something out of near failure - i should have waited 2 weeks with veg before flowering them, they were too small, but i got several zips off a 600 so w/e - on the upside the girls grew to about 16-20" tall with all but the bottom couple inches being buds, cpl branches or 3 each - 19 girls survived the whole round lol.
It really got me thinking tho. If anyone's taken a glance at Budbunker's grow, or at SpeedQuick's documented setups, there are tons of great examples where one generates huge colas on a girl - big single or so cola girl machines. On the other hand, there are a many great examples of having several well manicured branches producing huge colas each.
GroTunnel v.2010 by k33ftr33z and passive plant killer by delta9nxs show the kinds of girls I would like to grow, the second type mentioned above.
K33ftr33z's Inspiring Results:
delta9nxs Mastery of the PPK:
At first I thought I would try to do the full PPK by delta9nxs, but got bogged down on bucket connectors, and decided not to connect them (read - be lazy). The GroTunnel uses hydro, and i'm not that bold, I'll be staying in my coco!
delta9nxs's PPK:
K33ftr33z's GroTunnel:
So, my first couple trys told me I needed to find a nice nute schedule that was reasonably simple and not complete crap! I settled on REZDOG's Sticky: ==The Recipe== Super Simple!
So with the nute regimen choice down, I thought i was ready!!! Oh, hells no was I ever wrong!! (I wanted to start in Jan!) I had some relationship issues, then one of my best friends did as well, and of course his woman had come over and knew. He insisted she wouldn't find my grow again, but i waited and waited and vegged and waited, GOD IT SUCKED. The girls grew tall, I forgot to water much for a while, I cut them in half, they grew again, I cut again. (they were getting to about 4' high and getting cut in half.)
In the meantime the stems on the girls have gotten thick as fuck, I'd say the smallest is still well over an inch in diameter. I ended up getting #5 pots and setting on top of 5-gal buckets, using the empty space as a water rez. The concept came from delta9nxs's thread, but i was too lazy to connect the buckets. Currently I hand-water 1 time per day, with about a half gallon of water each. This should be much higher quickly.
<Break time here, I'll be back!>
So, I'm gonna go through a few pix - blast from teh past shall we say. Hm... OK, so in January I got off my arse and built a batcave. The space is about 53" by about 118" by 8' tall (the right side is a gutted closet, so is a bit shorter, but that's just the far right 2' or so.) Using two vertical cooltubes, currently running at 600w on 1kw Galaxy Select-A-Watt ballasts, with some cheap eiko bulbs.
Now i'd finished a second run off, making something out of near failure - i should have waited 2 weeks with veg before flowering them, they were too small, but i got several zips off a 600 so w/e - on the upside the girls grew to about 16-20" tall with all but the bottom couple inches being buds, cpl branches or 3 each - 19 girls survived the whole round lol.
It really got me thinking tho. If anyone's taken a glance at Budbunker's grow, or at SpeedQuick's documented setups, there are tons of great examples where one generates huge colas on a girl - big single or so cola girl machines. On the other hand, there are a many great examples of having several well manicured branches producing huge colas each.
GroTunnel v.2010 by k33ftr33z and passive plant killer by delta9nxs show the kinds of girls I would like to grow, the second type mentioned above.
K33ftr33z's Inspiring Results:
delta9nxs Mastery of the PPK:
At first I thought I would try to do the full PPK by delta9nxs, but got bogged down on bucket connectors, and decided not to connect them (read - be lazy). The GroTunnel uses hydro, and i'm not that bold, I'll be staying in my coco!
delta9nxs's PPK:
K33ftr33z's GroTunnel:
So, my first couple trys told me I needed to find a nice nute schedule that was reasonably simple and not complete crap! I settled on REZDOG's Sticky: ==The Recipe== Super Simple!
So with the nute regimen choice down, I thought i was ready!!! Oh, hells no was I ever wrong!! (I wanted to start in Jan!) I had some relationship issues, then one of my best friends did as well, and of course his woman had come over and knew. He insisted she wouldn't find my grow again, but i waited and waited and vegged and waited, GOD IT SUCKED. The girls grew tall, I forgot to water much for a while, I cut them in half, they grew again, I cut again. (they were getting to about 4' high and getting cut in half.)
In the meantime the stems on the girls have gotten thick as fuck, I'd say the smallest is still well over an inch in diameter. I ended up getting #5 pots and setting on top of 5-gal buckets, using the empty space as a water rez. The concept came from delta9nxs's thread, but i was too lazy to connect the buckets. Currently I hand-water 1 time per day, with about a half gallon of water each. This should be much higher quickly.
<Break time here, I'll be back!>
