swapmeet
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Hello everyone,
So my streak of about 10 years of being a member with 0 public posts is coming to an end with this, the beginning of my grow show.
So here is a general overview of the plan:
I am going to start a perpetual grow in a new place that I have just for growing, as well as my grow room in the place that I live.
I am starting this from seed after growing from clone-only for the last 10 years. I ordered seeds from MSNL seed company, and I will be ordering more soon. I also was gifted the cheese from my grow bro IS70, who will be lurking around here as well.
In addition to the cheese, I have Gorilla Glue, Girl Scout Cookies, Gelato, and Northern Lights, all feminized, to kick things off. There will be more beans popping as I go on my mother search. Those of you who know me from the OG or GC boards know that I love strains, and there will be several, however, this compound isn't all for pleasure, so there will be some monocropping involved once I decide which strains and which mothers to keep in the rotation.
I am going to keep my mothers in extended reservoir Hempy Buckets in my mother area under the stairs at The Compound. I have two 9 bulb floro fixtures. One is a T8 fixture, and one is a T5 fixture. I have been going back and forth about which fixture to use, for what. I have decided to keep my mothers under the T5, and root my cuttings under the T8. I used the logic that T5s promote more branching and foilage, and T8s promote more roots (Freds).
I will build an aero cloner with around 24 sites to handle the propagation, and I will have that cloner under the the 9 bulb t8 fixture, along with (tentatively) a pre-veg dwc tub or two that will pre-veg clones before I put them into the veg system.
The veg system is an 8 plant donut around a vertical 315w CMH bare bulb. They will be in an undercurrent system in 5 gal buckets.
In order to keep the flower rooms perpetually full despite an estimated 4 weeks of veg time in which I will be training with LST/Defoliation techniques, I will have two veg donuts staggered by about 2-2.5 weeks. I will be using Peters nutes. It will take a few runs to get veg time, shape, training...etc. dialed in, but after that it will be clockwork...(babyshit).
Once they are the right size/shape to be flipped, they will go into an 8 plant flowering donut around a single vertical bare 600w hps. The 8 plant donuts fit comfortably into 4 sq.ft. I will have a fan blowing directly up from below of course.
I also plan on experimenting in one of the bedrooms with some extra CMH lights I have... perhaps going full grow cycle with CMH.
The idea will be to dial this system in such that there is a harvest of one donut every two weeks.
In my next post I will show pictures of the grow areas, then catch you up to date with pictures of where I am now, which is that I just transplanted 6 young mother seedlings into their happy hempy homes and put them under the T5.
I look forward to the sharing of experience and wisdom in this thread...experience and suggestions are always welcome here... thanks in advance.
Swap
So my streak of about 10 years of being a member with 0 public posts is coming to an end with this, the beginning of my grow show.
So here is a general overview of the plan:
I am going to start a perpetual grow in a new place that I have just for growing, as well as my grow room in the place that I live.
I am starting this from seed after growing from clone-only for the last 10 years. I ordered seeds from MSNL seed company, and I will be ordering more soon. I also was gifted the cheese from my grow bro IS70, who will be lurking around here as well.
In addition to the cheese, I have Gorilla Glue, Girl Scout Cookies, Gelato, and Northern Lights, all feminized, to kick things off. There will be more beans popping as I go on my mother search. Those of you who know me from the OG or GC boards know that I love strains, and there will be several, however, this compound isn't all for pleasure, so there will be some monocropping involved once I decide which strains and which mothers to keep in the rotation.
I am going to keep my mothers in extended reservoir Hempy Buckets in my mother area under the stairs at The Compound. I have two 9 bulb floro fixtures. One is a T8 fixture, and one is a T5 fixture. I have been going back and forth about which fixture to use, for what. I have decided to keep my mothers under the T5, and root my cuttings under the T8. I used the logic that T5s promote more branching and foilage, and T8s promote more roots (Freds).
I will build an aero cloner with around 24 sites to handle the propagation, and I will have that cloner under the the 9 bulb t8 fixture, along with (tentatively) a pre-veg dwc tub or two that will pre-veg clones before I put them into the veg system.
The veg system is an 8 plant donut around a vertical 315w CMH bare bulb. They will be in an undercurrent system in 5 gal buckets.
In order to keep the flower rooms perpetually full despite an estimated 4 weeks of veg time in which I will be training with LST/Defoliation techniques, I will have two veg donuts staggered by about 2-2.5 weeks. I will be using Peters nutes. It will take a few runs to get veg time, shape, training...etc. dialed in, but after that it will be clockwork...(babyshit).
Once they are the right size/shape to be flipped, they will go into an 8 plant flowering donut around a single vertical bare 600w hps. The 8 plant donuts fit comfortably into 4 sq.ft. I will have a fan blowing directly up from below of course.
I also plan on experimenting in one of the bedrooms with some extra CMH lights I have... perhaps going full grow cycle with CMH.
The idea will be to dial this system in such that there is a harvest of one donut every two weeks.
In my next post I will show pictures of the grow areas, then catch you up to date with pictures of where I am now, which is that I just transplanted 6 young mother seedlings into their happy hempy homes and put them under the T5.
I look forward to the sharing of experience and wisdom in this thread...experience and suggestions are always welcome here... thanks in advance.
Swap