If you trash it, make sure to keep the reciept. In Colorado you can use it for Zero-Scaping and claim it on your taxes. While helping to preserve our precious water and pristine rivers.
16,000 watt warehouse grow part one
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If you trash it, make sure to keep the reciept. In Colorado you can use it for Zero-Scaping and claim it on your taxes. While helping to preserve our precious water and pristine rivers.
Mr.Bigbud
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This is the first time I've looked at this thread..... when I saw your flowering ladies I almost wet my pants, great work! It's a medical grow then right? I would love to do something on this scale, but I'm to pretty for prison!!! And I'm in the uk where space is not that cheap or plentiful!! Keep up the good work mate!!!
ancientmariner
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Patients seem to be the last consideration, from what I can tell. Making political hay from a hot-button issue is another story, and one that seems of much greater interest to media and politicos alike.
rmccinc719
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thanks guy's much appreciated. yes i do reuse some of my hydroton. I'm not all into trying to break all the rootmatter down but will collect and clean all the loose rocks off. i them try and use the rest in my garden at home. I'm planting a 9ftx 60ft spot at home to grow veggi's. that i plan on donating to our church's food pantry. all i do to clean the left over hydroton is scrub it in as hot watyer as i can and then i'll rewash it agian using a little sm-90 and hydrogen peroxide.
Hmm, I'm in the process of setting up my 16kw too, and am using 5X 55 gallon barrels. Each has a float valve hooked to a huge RO system, so they will always be full. 1 res goes to veg room, and each of the 4 rows of 4 lights has it's own 55g res, doing a perpetual system so I can have something different in each res (like, transition nutes, early flower, late flower, flush!)
Doing drip to no run-off in Smartpots with Tropf blumat autowaterers, all gravity fed, no pumps or timers.
I will just have to add nutes every few days but each tank has its own meter. Someday I'll have a pH doser in each one too, woot!
Doing drip to no run-off in Smartpots with Tropf blumat autowaterers, all gravity fed, no pumps or timers.
I will just have to add nutes every few days but each tank has its own meter. Someday I'll have a pH doser in each one too, woot!rmccinc719
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word sounds like a fun project. happy growing and good karma to you. keep us posted. man time does go fast doesn't it . it's already time for another update. week 6 and only 3 more to go. well is seems some of our plants might be ready in about 8. were planning on one more week of nutes and we'll start flushing at week 7 harvest anything thats ready and just let the rest of the room flush for a second week.
our second room just finished it's first week of flower and holy crap it's already got some great bud sites started and there stretching nicely these girls are going to be fat.
our 3rd room is coming along but some of the plants really took of and are getting huge wile others are just now starting to take off we still have 3 more weeks to veg this room so it's going to have some huge plants.
finally after alot of work we got our second location up and running. with only 9k lights in this room to start. we decided to only run 46 plants for the first round. then were going to add 3 to 6k more lights and go as high as 60 plants.
well hears some new pics. enjoy
hears the second room 1 week into flower
hears a couple of ak47 moms there alittle over 6ft tall.
hears the new biulding all up and running
our second room just finished it's first week of flower and holy crap it's already got some great bud sites started and there stretching nicely these girls are going to be fat.
our 3rd room is coming along but some of the plants really took of and are getting huge wile others are just now starting to take off we still have 3 more weeks to veg this room so it's going to have some huge plants.
finally after alot of work we got our second location up and running. with only 9k lights in this room to start. we decided to only run 46 plants for the first round. then were going to add 3 to 6k more lights and go as high as 60 plants.
well hears some new pics. enjoy
hears the second room 1 week into flower
hears a couple of ak47 moms there alittle over 6ft tall.
hears the new biulding all up and running
CannabisTHC
Member
Wow look at this madness. Beautiful grow man, those mothers are bigger than mine and I thought mine were huge. Only problem with having such big mothers is the stems turn woody and hence slows rooting time on clones. I'm about to chop my large mothers to make way for new moms.
rmccinc719
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yeh i know how you feel. were just trying to keep em around long enough to flower them with that room there in.
RockyMntHigh
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Thanks for the reply. That stuff is a pain. It gets everywhere, in your car, follows u home, sneaks into your dreams. I get about 2/3rds of it back though i do kept the control box 4" below the buckets and most of my vegging on a table. i'm getting a little yellowing for a week or so after transplanting into reused beads. Not sure if it is the beads holding onto the high levels of potassium being used or ? i do wash with about a 1/2 cup of h2o2 per bath tub of water.
bosshoggin
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wow-...............great fukin work-all i can say is keep it up and thnx for shareing
not to mention they break res's or pots, and if you ever stepped on 1 barefoot, the amount of screaming and flipping out over a single little clay pellet can ruin your whole day. I call em disease traps due to the porous exterior. However, they do what their supposed to and work great in so many applications. Obviously RMCC has few issues with the stuff, aside from a little pythium early on. I hate hydroton! but I love this grow! simplicity rules bro!
centeredchi
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Holy Shit!
rmccinc719
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thanks guy's much appreciated. i know what you meen to high i slipped on a piece of hydroton the other day that almost took me down hard. i was thinking of trying out some hygromite next timeand see how it works. and info on that stuff?
Hygromite is a great medium, but it almost reminds me of vermiculite & a soil the way it retains water. Seems better suited for top drip or to line the bottom of your ebb n grow with below rocks or rockwool croutons. I use croutons & hydroton on some mother stock and it's the fastest substrate next to coco out there.
rmccinc719
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word thanks for the info. I'm really interested in coco also. so i have a ? for you guy's. it looks like my partner and myself might be getting a new place and having a new invester stepping in. so we have a chance to sign a new lease on 2500sft and now are looking at new way's to put it together. keep in mind we stick to doing less than 100 plants and so far all my other biuldings are 90. I'm thinking of doing a smaller pre veg room and 2 large main rooms to veg and flower like 45 plants per room. maybe 16to20k lights per room ? and i was thinking of biulding a rdwc or even possibly soil in 33 gallon trash cans ? vert bulbs ? if you could biuld your dream grow what would it be. if this deal works out we have 35k to spend to biuld this.
ancientmariner
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I agree with toohighmf: "you know your craft. stick w it!" Your plants look awesome. Let the assembly line run, build up some capital, and save the tweaking and tinkering for a few months down the road -- when the weather turns, for example.
I like tinkering around, too.
The thing you have to be careful with is losing a crop.
R&D vs Assembly
Same goes for breeding and testing out new strains.
