[noreason]

When I write about watering schedule and roots it's because you can take advantage of this too.

When you have a roots carpet on the tray and the air is hot, the quantity of water evaporating is huge and roots can cool down naturally, giving a real effect on the final quality of the flower. It's easy and works, if all it's done in the correct way.

Here in the pictures some trays with old roots of just chopped plants. As you can see they're quite a lot and could have been more.

The only two issues are light and algae (just cover with something) and avoid letting them go into the drain line, using a filter or just the hands.

[ODF]

Man. You have a serious green thumb.

Thanks for the informative posts. The info you are sharing will be of great use to me and, I'm sure, many others.

And... Those buds are just perfect. Looking forward to every update!

[noreason]

Thanks ODF, glad someone is finding some useful informations

Here some Amnesia Core cut, full of thick trichomes, nice selection!




Usually I use a duct ozone generator where smell is a problem, but sometimes ozone can't be used so I mount a regular carbon filter. When I have extra-smelly flowering plants like exodus cheese I learned to use a recirculating carbon filter, mounted with a boxed fan (HDF wood) inside the room. Simple and effective.




GSE Timer box and Lumatek 400V. Maybe not the best but a good combo, simple and effective.




Green vibes dudes

[noreason]

ChocoTonic at 57 days from the switch

[noreason]

CT at 57 days - Overall view

[noreason]

New run with mixed strains. Got 4x PCK-Tonic, 4xGreenPoison, 4x AmnesiaCore.

Many times I saw newbies asking about using the same nutritive solution for various strains. In my case, I see no problem at all with it. I had many strain growing with the same solution many times and usually nothing strange happens.

Sometimes, if you get a N sensitive plant, you can notice a little darker and droopy leaves, but nothing serious. Just low pH and/or nutes.

Now they grow with 3x 400W, when first flowers come out I'll switch to 3x660W
pH 6.5 - 7
EC 1.0 - 1-1 mS/cm


Amnesia Core, it grows fast and strong!



GreenPoison...the weak one of the group. Maybe the last run with this cut.




PCK-Tonic, grows like a perfect hybrid, but if during the stretch get some heat, it can delays the flowering for a month getting huge.




You can clearly see the differences between each tray




I also mounted an old water filter with a 30µ mesh. Not mandatory at all, but I modified it to take advantage when I need to change water or take some of it away, or just fill the rez again with tap.

For sure it keeps things cleaner, so it can't do any damage!

[dimodz]

yeah that a good update mate

[PaulieWaulie]

Perfection as usual noreason. Do you track your G/Watt. Im curious.

[noreason]

Originally Posted by dimodz

yeah that a good update mate

Thanks bro, I try to do my best, like everyone...hoping to not end surfing in Dallas...you know

Originally Posted by PaulieWaulie

Perfection as usual noreason. Do you track your G/Watt. Im curious.

Thanks Paulie, however I'm pretty far from perfection...and this is good, because my mind is still thinking about growing like in the first years, just with more informations and more complicated things...to avoid doing complicated things

I'm now trying BIOCANNA in my hydro setup, just with one lamp with 4 ExodusCheese. If I can end this run without problem I will try if there is any difference in the smoke.

Along this I'm also studying a way to grow without using medium, so the target is HPA, trying at the same time to have a cooling effect for the roots while using no medium, just little nutritive solution and in the same time maximizing metabolism.

So if anyone has any real feedback about BIOCANNA and recirculating hydro OR has any information on where to get an HPA pump (booster pump, membrane pump, diaphragm pump) in Europe or from wich household appliance I can get one, please tell me as I'm having little time for studying right now.

Oh and sorry Paulie...about the G/W....I think it has to be G/W/Days or at least G/KWh. Only G/W is not a good indicator overall IMHO.

However I don't know right now the numbers. I have all the datas wrote but I should export and make the math.
For me a good goal starts from getting 3K/Year for each 600W lamp, and usually I get it. Depending on the strain I can get more, or spending more days of flowering.

[noreason]

Had spider mites in a mother room some times ago. Treated with many products and they're gone. To prevent any return I keep rotating different natural acaricides.

Like this combo by eco-prot, seems mites don't like it and it also leave a nice smell in the room for a couple of days. Mixed together at the lower dose.




To spray everything I like so much my berry5 from Matabi, a good friend of mine. Very nice mist, easy to use, strong and spare parts available, it worth the money. Max. capacity is 3.5 liters (not 5).