Howdy people
Most of you saw the explosive growth I indured last try and had to take clones and chop everything. I'm taking a differant approach this time, 5 rooted clones, NYCD pheno were placed is the 3.5 gal drip buckets 7 days ago today under duel 250w mh and 18/6 light. They have been topped once and are well rooted, roots out the bottom of all the 6 inch net kups, but there not real even in growth but oh well.Today I drained the rez, mixed up bloom ferts at 1100 ppm, installed 2, 400w hps bulbs, flipping to 12/12 tonight and try and make some buds. Its been since last May when I had a harvest and I desparatly need some fresh buds to smoke. Dont care about getting a monster harvest, just want some quality smoke.

Here's some pics from this morning













Heres the 15 gal rez, its under the cabinet, all the buckets gravity drain back to it.



Well hopefully I will be able to keep them under control this time with only a 7 day vegg

70s

[Teresa]

This should be fun .Looking nice handsome :wink: .

[buzzerd]

allright pot head glad to see you got it back up and running, keep your weed wacker handy this time

Very nice setup 70's Pot

Do you run a full drip the whole time? on timed cycles? what kind of flow rate?

Do you kill the drippers once the root mass starts to fill the bottom bucket? are there airstones in the bottoms of the buckets? whats the bottom stagnent water level?

Sorry for all the questions but I am thinkin about building a setup about like this and want to cover my basis.

Tex

Originally Posted by Texas Kid

Very nice setup 70's Pot

Do you run a full drip the whole time? on timed cycles? what kind of flow rate?

Do you kill the drippers once the root mass starts to fill the bottom bucket? are there airstones in the bottoms of the buckets? whats the bottom stagnent water level?

Sorry for all the questions but I am thinkin about building a setup about like this and want to cover my basis.

Tex

Tex, i'll answer best I can, since this is my 1st hydro I have no clue how well its going to work. Teresa is my teacher Gave me the idea to build a bucket system after seeing her tree grows over the last couple of years.

I've got 1/4" drip rings right at the top of the RW, there are 6, .073 holes drilled in them, 3 aimed at the center of the kup and 3 straight down. Right now I'm watering the whole time the lights are on, but i'm thinking of having the pump come on once during dark like you do with your E&F. The pump is a 170 GPH

Cant answer about the root mass since I havent got that far yet, but I believe T girl still waters when the lights are on all the way to harvest and that was my plan.

There is about 2 inches of standing water in the bottom of the buckets at all times. no air stones in the bucket, but 2, 10 inch air stones running 24/7 in the rez. The drains are directly out the bottom of the buckets using bulk head fittings, the buckets just sit in place and a short pvc pipe fits into a hole in the floor, so I can remove them or move them at will. There are 3/4 pvc pipe mounted under the floor of the cab that drain directly into the rez. If you want a more detailed pic, send me a pm, i've got some pics over at the Klozit.

Hope that answers most of what you wanted. Talk with Teresa about watering times and stuff, she is the drip bucket qween

70s

Its been 8 days since last update. They have been 12/12 for a week now. I had some minor problems after the rez and light change last week. Mixed the nutes a little strong so I had to back them down a bit after getting a little burn. I was also experiancing root die off after the roots exited the net kups, I suspected lack of water and or oxygen so I increased to a larger pump which I already had this also gave more splash in the bucket for the roots and I also quit turning the pump off. I also started using H202 whitch I wasnt before. I hit the nail right on the head, the roots responded instantly.
Take a look for yourself



Growth has been good, in fact I think there a little over watered now, so I need to keep tweeking the water schedule till I find the happy spot. They have some really funky looking leaves, allot of 3 finger leaves for some reason, the growth seems unorganized right now, just kind of going everywhich way, so thats where were at now, heres some pics to hold over till next week.
















Thanks for stoping by, comments always welcome

70s :wink:

Gday 70's, looking good!
All the best on your hydro grow! Hope you dont mind i keep tabs on your journal. Im learning alot about hydro myself these days,and grow jounrals like this are great.

[Teresa]

Good save on the root's.Nice and healthy looking all around :wink: .

[BigToke]

Nice setup dude, and your plants look very healthy and that say a lot!!

[sunnyside]

very tight nodes 70's...looks like your gonna keep them in control...