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arcticsun
hey guys 
so now that i have bought this new and fancy camera, i thought id make a growlog. but bear with me, i am still only working with the auto functions, and this thing has like a gazillion settings and whatnot. im reading the manual like it was my final exam, but i guess im getting older as this technical stuff dont seem as easy and logical as it once did.
my grow is usually a variety of however many different promicing strains i can get my hands on. beans are hard to come by so everything i have are clones. up until now i have been growing mainly in soil, with the odd simple bubblebucket for experimental purposes.
i have 2 flowering rooms, and i am working on converting one of the rooms for hydro purposes. my plan is to run one hydro room and one soil room. i like working with soil aswell & get my hands dirty, it was kinda the way i learned how to grow also initially.
in this thread i will be focusing solely on the new resirculating hydro systems that i made tho, so far 1 of the 2 systems are already up and running with 2 out of the 4 planned tubes installed. there are some soil plants in the room at this moment aswell. i have some clones running in the system already, they are in week 4 at this moment. its 6 small afghan indicas, and 2 hawaiian mauiwaui.
i just took some quick shots of the system, i wasnt very happy with the picture quality, the lights makes the details impossible to make out. but as i said, new cam so bear with me, ill figure it out and get better. also, first growthread so i am sorry if the incoherant ranting is boring you by now.
system specs:
200cm lenght x 20 cm diameter
80 litre reservoir
2 pumps capacity 700l/h each
inner tube water level 4-5 cm
pot size 10 cm
pot distance 45 cm
as for the rest of the room specs, 2x 600w hps lights on 2x2 meters growspace + 1x2 meters workspace for me to move around on. i use adjust a wing reflectors with heat screens, and the walls are covered with mylar. lets get back to that later, i couldnt get any descent overview pics with the lights on.
on to the pics then enough yapping.
what you are seeing is the afghan in week 4. ill be honest i have had some problems already, the ph keeps dropping on me about 2 days after i change the water, also my stoned lazy ass forgot to turn on the damn night heat fan for a coupple of nights. and then i did the same thing AGAIN like a week later, so they had some cold nights. ill show you the damage done later, but look closely on the fanleaves you can see the yellow spots from the ph problems. fuck me hydro is stressful for a newb, 2 days where i dont pay attention and shit happends fast. not so used to that, but i think i know what caused the ph problems. you see i use AN sensi one powder nutes, and i have been having problems getting the powder to dissolve properly prior to changing the water. small powder nuggets stays undissolved in the water, but it seems that when these nuggets gets sucked through the pump fans the get crushed and dissolves, releasing more nutes into the water and lowering the ph. its a big fucking theory but thats what i think anyway, either that or its the leca pebbles i used in the pots to hold the plants.
the way the system works is i have 2 pumps running. 1 pump feeds water directly to the pots through the small hoses, you can see them connected with a T piece to make a circle around the plants at the bottom by the pots. a larger central hose feeds water to the smaller ones connected just by nips inserted in the soft hose rubber (sry i lack english words to explain very well). the second pump has 2 waterhoses, going to the top of each tube in order to create a good waterflow throughout the entire system. the runoff tubes are non-adjustable and 10 cm in diameter, they keep the water levels inside the tubes at a constant 4-5 cm. the entire system is overdimentioned on purpose, with 42 cm distance between the pots, 20cm tubes and 10cm runoff tubes in order to accomodate larger plants. the reservoir is easily replaceable with a larger one if needed. as you can see the current plants in the system are quite small, because i threw them in as soon as they rooted. so next on the agenda is definately a veg box of some sort.
i dont really care all that much if the plants turn out 80% this run, this is a test run, the plan is to correct any potential flaw factors before i assemble the second system which is identical. also i needed to finish the soil plants that was occupying that space. third reason is that i am kind of bored with the strains that i can currently clone, and i didnt want to fill an entire room with a strain i have been growing for years. but the good news is that i have gotten my hands on 2 different female blueberry pheno clones from spliff seeds seedplants, also i got 2 phenos of the ak48 nirvana, and a skywalker pheno. im going indica in the system, since i got super silver haze in the soil room. lets see, i think i have only uploaded a coupple of pics of the new babies. they will be the motherplants for the next grow, where i will run both systems next to eachother.
one of the blueberrys
and here is one of the ak48 pheno's, it has 3 branches in each internode, not a healthy sign i know, but the motherplant is a bute, and i have another ak48 pheno aswell.
ill return with pics of the future motherplants once they are well rooted and start to grow. in this thread we will follow the last 4 weeks of the afghans and the mauiwaui's in this system, and then after christmas around 10th of january the installment of the second system and the new plants which will be blueberry, ak48, and skywalker most likely. i just might throw some love potion #1 in there leaning on the g13 side of the pheno's.
i didnt include any pics of the other plants in there in this first post, but this is what is currently flowering in this room. lets see if i can remember them all.
whatever isnt finished when the system is finished will get transported to the other room. some of it might even get cut too soon because i have too much going right now.
love potion #1 40L pot, g13 pheno. -week 2 of flowering
ak48, 10L pot, small plant pheno test grow. -week 2 of flowering
afghan kush, known locally as dutch, or dutch mens trap, 15L pot. -week 2 (motherplant to the system clones, byebye last run of that strain)
stonehenge test run, 10L DWC bubblebucket, pheno test run. -week 1
mr.nice super silver haze, 10L pots, 100days pheno. -week 5
in the veg room, clones with and without roots:
ak48 2 pheno's
blueberry 2 pheno's
skywalker
strawberry cough
eva's monster
psychadelica
mr nice super silver haze
love potion #1
hawaiian skunkX mauiwaui
(hawaiian skunkXmauiwaui)Xnorthern lights - a friends cross
i think that's most of them lol, i wont litter this thread with pics of loads of soil plants, but if anyone is interrested ill show pics of any of the soil plants upon request. i have a soil room aswell as stated previously, and i guess ill make a soil grow thread aswell. but there's unfinished work everywhere here, so all in good time.
here is a shot of the love potion in the 40 litre pot, just cus its looking like its going to be a great grow, and cus well its nice with a pic at the bottom of the thread. maybe someone bothers reading all the way down my insanely long posts haha.
stay tuned, ill be back with more shots of this hard hitting afghan and the mauiwaui in the system as we come ever close to harvest time
if i can get the ph under control, there should be some nice shots of the afghan, usually it goes all woolly with crystals. i hope ill get a macro lens for christmas.
and please guys, shoot if you have questions, or want to see something more closely whatever. peace!
so now that i have bought this new and fancy camera, i thought id make a growlog. but bear with me, i am still only working with the auto functions, and this thing has like a gazillion settings and whatnot. im reading the manual like it was my final exam, but i guess im getting older as this technical stuff dont seem as easy and logical as it once did.
my grow is usually a variety of however many different promicing strains i can get my hands on. beans are hard to come by so everything i have are clones. up until now i have been growing mainly in soil, with the odd simple bubblebucket for experimental purposes.
i have 2 flowering rooms, and i am working on converting one of the rooms for hydro purposes. my plan is to run one hydro room and one soil room. i like working with soil aswell & get my hands dirty, it was kinda the way i learned how to grow also initially.
in this thread i will be focusing solely on the new resirculating hydro systems that i made tho, so far 1 of the 2 systems are already up and running with 2 out of the 4 planned tubes installed. there are some soil plants in the room at this moment aswell. i have some clones running in the system already, they are in week 4 at this moment. its 6 small afghan indicas, and 2 hawaiian mauiwaui.
i just took some quick shots of the system, i wasnt very happy with the picture quality, the lights makes the details impossible to make out. but as i said, new cam so bear with me, ill figure it out and get better. also, first growthread so i am sorry if the incoherant ranting is boring you by now.
system specs:
200cm lenght x 20 cm diameter
80 litre reservoir
2 pumps capacity 700l/h each
inner tube water level 4-5 cm
pot size 10 cm
pot distance 45 cm
as for the rest of the room specs, 2x 600w hps lights on 2x2 meters growspace + 1x2 meters workspace for me to move around on. i use adjust a wing reflectors with heat screens, and the walls are covered with mylar. lets get back to that later, i couldnt get any descent overview pics with the lights on.
on to the pics then enough yapping.
what you are seeing is the afghan in week 4. ill be honest i have had some problems already, the ph keeps dropping on me about 2 days after i change the water, also my stoned lazy ass forgot to turn on the damn night heat fan for a coupple of nights. and then i did the same thing AGAIN like a week later, so they had some cold nights. ill show you the damage done later, but look closely on the fanleaves you can see the yellow spots from the ph problems. fuck me hydro is stressful for a newb, 2 days where i dont pay attention and shit happends fast. not so used to that, but i think i know what caused the ph problems. you see i use AN sensi one powder nutes, and i have been having problems getting the powder to dissolve properly prior to changing the water. small powder nuggets stays undissolved in the water, but it seems that when these nuggets gets sucked through the pump fans the get crushed and dissolves, releasing more nutes into the water and lowering the ph. its a big fucking theory but thats what i think anyway, either that or its the leca pebbles i used in the pots to hold the plants.
the way the system works is i have 2 pumps running. 1 pump feeds water directly to the pots through the small hoses, you can see them connected with a T piece to make a circle around the plants at the bottom by the pots. a larger central hose feeds water to the smaller ones connected just by nips inserted in the soft hose rubber (sry i lack english words to explain very well). the second pump has 2 waterhoses, going to the top of each tube in order to create a good waterflow throughout the entire system. the runoff tubes are non-adjustable and 10 cm in diameter, they keep the water levels inside the tubes at a constant 4-5 cm. the entire system is overdimentioned on purpose, with 42 cm distance between the pots, 20cm tubes and 10cm runoff tubes in order to accomodate larger plants. the reservoir is easily replaceable with a larger one if needed. as you can see the current plants in the system are quite small, because i threw them in as soon as they rooted. so next on the agenda is definately a veg box of some sort.
i dont really care all that much if the plants turn out 80% this run, this is a test run, the plan is to correct any potential flaw factors before i assemble the second system which is identical. also i needed to finish the soil plants that was occupying that space. third reason is that i am kind of bored with the strains that i can currently clone, and i didnt want to fill an entire room with a strain i have been growing for years. but the good news is that i have gotten my hands on 2 different female blueberry pheno clones from spliff seeds seedplants, also i got 2 phenos of the ak48 nirvana, and a skywalker pheno. im going indica in the system, since i got super silver haze in the soil room. lets see, i think i have only uploaded a coupple of pics of the new babies. they will be the motherplants for the next grow, where i will run both systems next to eachother.
one of the blueberrys
and here is one of the ak48 pheno's, it has 3 branches in each internode, not a healthy sign i know, but the motherplant is a bute, and i have another ak48 pheno aswell.
ill return with pics of the future motherplants once they are well rooted and start to grow. in this thread we will follow the last 4 weeks of the afghans and the mauiwaui's in this system, and then after christmas around 10th of january the installment of the second system and the new plants which will be blueberry, ak48, and skywalker most likely. i just might throw some love potion #1 in there leaning on the g13 side of the pheno's.
i didnt include any pics of the other plants in there in this first post, but this is what is currently flowering in this room. lets see if i can remember them all.
whatever isnt finished when the system is finished will get transported to the other room. some of it might even get cut too soon because i have too much going right now.
love potion #1 40L pot, g13 pheno. -week 2 of flowering
ak48, 10L pot, small plant pheno test grow. -week 2 of flowering
afghan kush, known locally as dutch, or dutch mens trap, 15L pot. -week 2 (motherplant to the system clones, byebye last run of that strain)
stonehenge test run, 10L DWC bubblebucket, pheno test run. -week 1
mr.nice super silver haze, 10L pots, 100days pheno. -week 5
in the veg room, clones with and without roots:
ak48 2 pheno's
blueberry 2 pheno's
skywalker
strawberry cough
eva's monster
psychadelica
mr nice super silver haze
love potion #1
hawaiian skunkX mauiwaui
(hawaiian skunkXmauiwaui)Xnorthern lights - a friends cross
i think that's most of them lol, i wont litter this thread with pics of loads of soil plants, but if anyone is interrested ill show pics of any of the soil plants upon request. i have a soil room aswell as stated previously, and i guess ill make a soil grow thread aswell. but there's unfinished work everywhere here, so all in good time.
here is a shot of the love potion in the 40 litre pot, just cus its looking like its going to be a great grow, and cus well its nice with a pic at the bottom of the thread. maybe someone bothers reading all the way down my insanely long posts haha.
stay tuned, ill be back with more shots of this hard hitting afghan and the mauiwaui in the system as we come ever close to harvest time
if i can get the ph under control, there should be some nice shots of the afghan, usually it goes all woolly with crystals. i hope ill get a macro lens for christmas.and please guys, shoot if you have questions, or want to see something more closely whatever. peace!
Anyways you have an impressive lineup of strains bro; the only ones I havent personally thought about getting before or even heard about is the eva's monster and psychadelica. Think you could give me a little info on those two girls? Also whats your opinion about the SSH (growing, smoking, ect...)? I cant wait to see how the LP #1 and AK48 turn out. Ive been meaning to get me some LP #1 seeds, just gotta save up enough money to buy a few packs. I totally agree with you about the quality over quantity thing, especially when your growing your own meds. Glad to hear you got your pH issues under control now man, hopefully itll just be smooth sailing from here 
