BigTokes Hardcore, Bio-Buckets—Playing Around Is Over!!!

[Dr. D]

oxy-pot

oxy-pot

Hey bigtoke, the oxy pots a well simple system, bucket, lid net pots like with ur system, fish tank air pump and air stone, the air stone sits in the botttom of the buketthe roots grow into the water and the bubbles go over the root givin them loadsa oxygen. I made mine for about £15 so far the results r preetty impresive, though this is my first hydro grow. Il post pics soon to show u in more detail. peace

 

[BigToke]

BigTokes, Bio-Buckets!!

BigTokes, Bio-Buckets!!

Dr. D,

like with ur system, fish tank air pump and air stone, the air stone sits in the botttom of the buketthe roots grow into the water and the bubbles go over the root givin them loadsa oxygen.

I’ll just be patient until you get the pic’s, btw I don’t use any air in my system in generates it’s own air.

 

[BigToke]

BigTokes Hardcore, Bio-Buckets—Playing Around Is Over!!!

A Hydroponic System That Controls “Bacterial Disease?”

• Well, I knew I would have to write this one day. Hydroponics has a flaw, and I am sure that any day now we are going to get one of those light bulb moments that goes "bing" and it will all make sense. As a whole we treat disease as if it is one problem, and there really are a lot of diseases and they really have to be treated differently. Some people can solve their problem for years then something changes and nothing works.
  
• Hydroponics is not set up to develop these Beneficial Bacterium etc. A more fish tank approach to bacteria is a good idea. High oxygen, media for support Beneficial Bacterium growth, (like lava rock or some other porous rock), recirculating systems are the future of hydroponic bacterial disease control. None of these units exist at this time, for the home grower, other than the Bio-Buckets that I know of. Unless you look at commerchal green house units.

The 3 approaches cannot be used together.

1. Sterilisation - Bleach, chlorine, Monochlormine, Hydrogen peroxide, colloidal silver. Kill everything like a hospital approach.
2. Bacteriological - Beneficial microflora added to the nutrients, and oxygenated to over populate the nasties. Management of the microflora is important.
3. Fungicidal - fongarid/ benlate sprayed on the plants, low doses in the nutrients to provide a pharmaceutical approach.
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   I think that the development of the Bio-Buckets is the ultimate system for recirculation control. And I have chosen number 2 but it isn't a quick fix. It still takes time to build up enough good microflora Beneficial Bacterium. It takes me two weeks complete the cycle.

 

[BigToke]

BigTokes Hardcore, Bio-Buckets—Playing Around Is Over!!!

Good Guys, Bad Guys

• Consider that when the bad guys find a plant, they use nutrients that the plant already immobilized. How ya like them apples!!!
  
• Growing in a Recirculating DWC Bio-Bucket System of Hydroponics, the pathogens do not function to hold significant nutrients, because the good-guy bacterium compete with disease-causers, and prevent diseases and pests from being able to find or infect roots. The beneficial bacterium immobilizes a great deal of nutrients in their biomass, so that N, P, K, etc. Predators, such as fusarlum, pythium, rhizoctonia, phytopthera, sclerotinla; etc. feeds on dead pieces of root mass, pests and disease-causing organisms well inhibits the plants uptake of mobile nutrients. If the beneficial bacterium is properly managed (given a place to live) then they well aid in mobility of nutrients in the solution such as nitrogen (N) and potassium (K) should remain in the root zone to benefit the crop and yield. The beneficial bacterium keeps your solutions free from disease-causing organisms, thus creating a better echo-water environment, making nutrients more readily available for the plant mainly in the root zone.
  
• Soils and solutions are supposed to abound with numerous organisms. Each individual beneficial bacterium is so small that it takes a powerful microscope to see them. But while the bacterium are extremely small, they make up in numbers what they lack in size. There are more individual beneficial bacterium in a teaspoon of healthy mountain spring, or a drop of healthy ran water than there are people in New York City. The beneficial species of bacteria protect plant roots and shoots from disease organisms, keeping nutrients in the root zone clean and healthy thus preventing leaching, making more mobile nutrients available to plants at the rates plants require.
  
• Lack of oxygen allows anaerobic organisms to grow. Some anaerobic organisms produce some of the most phytotoxic materials we know about—alcohol, phenols, terpenes, tannins. But even beyond that, when anaerobic conditions occur, nitrogen is lost as ammonia, and sulfur is lost as hydrogen sulfide, which smells like rotten eggs. Your nose will tell you when anaerobic conditions have developed to a major level. Vinegar, sour milk, vomit and decaying flesh smells are other indicators that anaerobic conditions have occurred. The pH of the medium will be lowered by production of these organic acids. Fertility is reduced, the normal denizens of the root system cannot tolerate anaerobic conditions, and they go to sleep, giving the disease-causing organisms carte blanche in the root system. With no one to compete with them, the diseases take over.
  
• Maintaining aerobic conditions is critical for the growth of plants. Loss of oxygen means N, P, K, etc., are lost. Toxic chemicals are produced. We need to help beneficial biology survive, grow and out compete diseases and pests in hydroponic solutions.
  
• Just like the human body, plants depend on microbes to keep the proper balance of nutrients available for uptake. Beneficial organisms protect us against common diseases, just as the right organisms protect plant surfaces. An imbalance in your diet or in your hormones can change the conditions on your skin and your digestive system with ulcers, acne, ringworm or cancer as possible outcomes. The presence of the wrong set of microbes, and conditions that allow them to out-compete their normal opposition, can cause enormous economic loss.
  
• We can try to kill all the diseases and pests, but we also kill the very organisms needed to protect against those diseases and pests. The bad guys come back faster than the good guys because of the very nature of the pathogen lifestyle. And once we’ve killed nearly everything in the soil or in solution, sterility is very difficult to maintain. Because of diseases that find ways to disperse into places that allow their growth and development. Maintenance of sterile conditions is a nightmare, requiring ever more toxic, more dangerous and expensive chemical use.

 

[BigToke]

BigTokes Hardcore, Bio-Buckets—Playing Around Is Over!!!

Bring the Good Guys Back!!!

• So, what to do? How about putting back the beneficial set of organisms that should be present in solution? The organisms that compete with and consume disease-causing organisms. Bring back the ones that cycle nutrients the way they should in healthy conditions.
  
• What about soil less media? We still need the correct organisms, and the right foods to feed those organisms, so the good guys survive and the bad guys can’t get a toehold.
  
• The Recirculating DWC Bio-Bucket System Support Matrix. It should contain only the beneficial bacterium organisms that protect roots, retain nutrients, cycle nutrients into plant-available nutrients, and allow oxygen and water to move into the root zone easily. If now and again a disease or pest organisms attempts to move in, the existing organisms will prevent it from finding food, from finding the root, or otherwise causing trouble.
  
• We also need to prevent the conditions that allow the bad guys to proliferate. High nutrient loads in the water or support matrix, such as nitrate or ammonium, and lack of oxygen all help the disease-causing organisms grow. A number of publications document this, although more work needs to be done to determine the precise conditions in hydroponics that allow the disease-organisms to win in competition with the beneficials. Hint: Give the beneficial bacterium a place to live in your recirculating hydroponics system and leave no dead spots.
  
• Blight, wilt, rot, mildew and other fungal diseases are serious problems in hydroponic systems. We can predict, often to the day, when disease is going to show up. Some consultants can predict exactly what disease and how bad the disease will be, based on their understanding of the conditions in the hydroponic system.
  
• Wouldn’t it be wise to recognize that disease is inevitable when we attempt to keep things sterile? Disease may be inevitable in some amount in any system, but in a biologically healthy system, such as The Recirculating DWC Bio-Bucket System Support Matrix, the disease won’t run through the production cycle practically overnight. It happens in sterile systems constantly, but never in systems with healthy support matrix, functioning, complete food-webs. Diseases are present in biological systems, but only rarely will crop or yield production fail. In instances when disease begins to outstrip the healthy biology, typically a disturbance has occurred which allows the disease to win. Hint: This is one of the resins that I never do rez change-outs or flush my system. And in those instances, the disease should be controlled through the use of a pesticide. Biology killed by the use of the toxic chemical should then be replaced, to return the system to a condition of health. Pesticides and inorganic fertilizers have a place in production agriculture, but they should not be used as preventives.
  
• Plants feed the “good guys” by releasing sugars, proteins and carbohydrates from root and leaf surfaces. More recalcitrant molecules are released by plant surfaces like stems, bark, stamens, pistils. But because pesticide use has been easy and cheap, in the past, biological interactions have been an area where research has been languishing for many decades. But the ever-increasing need for more and more toxic, greater and greater quantities of toxic chemicals in order to maintain hydroponic systems has brought interest back to understanding biological interactions.
  
• Species by species addition of the needed beneficial bacterium in our hydro systems so that the good guys is present on our plant surfaces. But if we have destroyed the life in the water, by using chemical applications, then the good guys need to be brought back.

 

[BigToke]

BigTokes Hardcore, Bio-Buckets—Playing Around Is Over!!!

Plan of Attack!!!

• The how-to is what we want to concentrate on. Each hydroponics system is a bit different, because the differences are the result of site-specific conditions. Most hydroponic systems allow the roots to hang down into a solution while the crowns are held above or nearly above the solution.
  
• Disease organisms contaminate hydroponics systems through a variety of ways. Nutrients added into the system may contain disease organisms, people moving in or out of the building bring inoculum from other places, insects get into the houses through open doors, through cracks and crevices in the building, and when the plant itself is planted, its surfaces may harbor pathogens, especially the root system. Microorganisms grow in places where the conditions are right for them, but people have a hard time reaching. Cracks in floors, between windowpanes and the window frame, crevices in the hydroponic table itself, stone on the floor of the growth chamber are all great places for disease organisms to get a foothold. Cuttings that aren’t doing well are pulled out and thrown on the floor. That’s food for the disease organism – especially if those diseases were in the flooring material as spores.
  
• The floor is often a perfect place for disease organisms to grow. Nutrient solution drips onto the floor and moves into the cracks and crevices where cleaning solutions don’t reach. Limited oxygen sets the stage for preventing the beneficials from getting a good foothold. Additional food and inoculum comes from diseased cuttings being thrown on the floor. The disease organisms now have a foothold.
  
• Plants need the correct biology in their root systems in order to grow normally. If the normal microflora is not present, then people have to try to perform the jobs of the microorganisms. We can’t communicate with the plant the way beneficial bacterium does, in the root system communication through the language of biochemistry. So we over apply nutrients sometimes, setting the stage for the diseases to win, and then we stress the plants through lack of adequate nutrition at other times, because we can’t talk to the plant to determine minute-by-minute exactly what it needs. Both situations favor the diseases and pests. We need to stop taking the nuke 'em approach and recognize that addition of the beneficial bacterium back into the system is the sane approach.

 

[BigToke]

BigTokes Hardcore, Bio-Buckets—Playing Around Is Over!!!

How To Break the Cycle!!!

• Add the beneficial bacterium organisms into the nutrient solution. Don’t add easy-to-use foods which encourage the bacteria to grow rapidly, so no sugars, no simple protein, no fish emulsion. While beneficial bacterium are needed to immobilize nutrients. The plant produces exudates to grow beneficial bacterium around the root zone, and no further growth substrates are needed.
  
• Plants need aerobic microorganisms around their roots to compete with disease-causing organisms, to help the plant take-up nutrients, and to decompose toxic materials that might harm the roots.
  
• Small amounts of humic acids, fulvic acids, kelp, and possibly small amounts of fish hydrolysate could be added. These foods help the beneficial bacterium to be more active, and keeps bad bacteria from growing rapidly and taking up oxygen too rapidly. Rapidly growing microorganisms use up oxygen, and release carbon dioxide. By monitoring the nutrient solution for oxygen, carbon dioxide, or for microbial activity, you can find out if the solution has been compromised by too much microbial growth before the problem gets too bad.
  
• It is important to prevent anaerobic conditions in the root system, because plants are very sensitive to certain anaerobic metabolites, such as alcohol. Any kind of alcohol. We tend to think about ethanol as being the only kind of alcohol, but there are many, many other kinds of alcohols, any of which can harm plants. The phenols, terpenes, tannins, ketones, aldehydes, and organic acids produced by anaerobic organisms can also harm roots. To say nothing of the loss of N, S, and P in anaerobic conditions. With the use of beneficial bacterium, you can keep these anaerobic conditions from acering.
  
• Can some bad guys grow in aerobic conditions? Only if the beneficial bacterium aren’t active and growing. Hint: If your living space’s are not large enough to sustain a healthy beneficial bacterium colony, most likely they will be over come with a bad case of bad bacteria and lead to rot root if not treated soon, THE NUMBER ONE RESAN for slow beneficial bacterium growth is a lack of oxygen and it slows down the good guys and helps the bad guys have the run of the root system.
  
• Care needs to be taken to make sure the roots are not putting out so much simple food to grow beneficial bacterium and fungi that just that per-unit-of-root food resource results in too rapid microbial growth. Hint: A good balance is needed here, let me explain; for example if your using a five gallon bucket like I do and your using lava rock to give your beneficial bacterium a place to live, as I do. Then you would thank that if you were to put a lot of lava rock in your buckets this is better, I mine don’t we all think along this line? If you have a head ache and the label on the bottle say take two, we’ll take four,dubble what the label say’s! Well to much of a good thing is not good in some cases, and in this case it most certainly is, a good balance is what we need, Mother Nature has found this balance, but in hydroponics we have a ways to go yet. I did careful research and I decided on using the 8” net-pots, because I thought this was a good enough balance, (for a five gallon bucket) and in my initial run of the Bio-Buckets, I grew my plants dabble the size that I normally would, just to see if I could over load the system, but it preformed beyond my expectations.
  
• If that starts happening, what do you do? You add predators to the system to keep the bacteria in control. There are inocula of protozoa available, or you can make your own. It’s simple, effective, and reduces the amount of inorganic nutrient you have to add to the nutrient solution, because the protozoa release plant-available nutrients right in the root zone. In fact, in hydroponic solutions, it is just in the root zone that we see this interaction occurring, not in the rest of the solution.

 

[Guest]

Damn brotha....sounds like you went to Weed College


Grow on and be safe

 

[Huck Fin]

Hey Big Toke,

It's Huck, So, I came on over here to see what else was going on... pretty cool. I'm glad you told me, so I could check it out. back to my original question... Now that I'm about ready to fire up my Bio Bucket, what is the water level that you keep in the 5 gallon bucket? BTW, it looks like you saved and reposted, but I see a few add ons.

 

[BigToke]

Sharp_Pain, “Weed College,” ant that a hoot. Haaa haaaaaaa

Huck Fin, Good to see you came over, I should be able to answerer your questions a lot faster if your were I’ll at, btw check your pm and see what you think.

 

[BigToke]

BigTokes Hardcore, Bio-Buckets—Playing Around Is Over!!!

A Few Considerations.

• So, to start, you have to make good, actively aerated, recirculating designed right bio-buckets. Measure oxygen and make sure it stays in the aerobic range, which is typically above 6 mg/l oxygen. Hint: If you will allow a foot drop back into the reservoir, you will have enough oxygen to sustain over 36 plants, in a twenty five gallon reservoir.
  
• Make sure the balance of beneficial bacterium is present in bio-system before you put your cuttings in it, and have sufficient enough living area to sustain your cuttings.
  
• Having beneficial bacterium is a real benefit in the system, but perhaps not absolutely necessary in high numbers in solution systems. We need to understand these beneficial bacterium better in hydroponic systems.
  
• How much less nitrogen can be added if the organisms are cycling nitrogen? Hint: I use General Hydropoincs Nutrient Solution, and it has been my personal observation, that because of the introduction of beneficial bacterium into your system, you will not need as much nitrogen in your system, so this well be my ratio for my second grow, veg, 0-2-1 and in flowering, 0-2-3, everything looks to be doing very wall at these levels so far. We know that in solid media we have to have 20,000 or more protozoa, typically present as flagellates and amoebae, in order to have enough N release from the bacteria and fungi to maintain plant growth requirements on a daily basis.
  
• So, during the time plants need nutrients to cycle and become available right in the root system, beneficial bacterium needs to have numbers in the 50,000 per ml range. Hint: This is way I let my system set and run for 24/7 for two weeks before I put my cuttings in the system. If we have beneficial bacterium present in our systems when we start our plants, the plant will grow bacterium through production of the plants life, and stimulate growth of the of your plants, causing them to increase in size rapidly. By the time the plant needs nutrient availability maximized, the beneficial bacterium numbers will be high. The beneficial bacterium will be producing maximum amounts of available nutrients, and extra nitrate produced will be taken up by the beneficial bacterium and kept in the system, preferably right in the root zone.
  
• As the plant no longer needs that much nutrient to be made available, as it has stored most of the nutrients it needs for seed and fruit production, it stops releasing as many exudates, and the nutrient cycling system begins to slow down in the root zone.
  
• So, in each root system, each plant requires perhaps 2 to 6 ug of nitrogen (as nitrate or ammonium) to be produced each day during rapid growth. So, you need 50,000 beneficial bacterium per ml to cycle that much nutrient. Later, when the plant doesn’t need as much nutrient availability (assuming you’ve met its demands previously), you’ll be OK with 20,000 beneficial bacterium.
  
• As long as you don’t allow conditions to kill beneficial bacterium, they well remain alive and performing their function.

Week Three In The: Recirculating DWC Bio-Bucket System Support Matrix

Well here it is at week three in the bio-buckets, man time fly’s when your having fun!!! I flipped the timers to 12/12 flowering today, so in 65 day we’ll see what happens?

• The first two pictures are of the right and left sides of the bio-systems at day 1 of flowering.
  
• I also took a picture down the middle of the system so you can see what it looks like…..yes I know, thank you, thank you.
  
• In this photo is what appears to be a stressed plant, every thing is in check, the humidity, air, temp, 02, and nutrients. I had this same problem the last time and I personally thank that the plants are growing so fast in this system that they can’t keep up, this starts happening at week two and usually goes to the second week of flowing.
  
• In these next few pictures I well post from: Week one, Week two, Week three.

1. Week one.
2. Week two.
3. Week three.
   
   
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[BigToke]

BigTokes Hardcore, Bio-Buckets—Playing Around Is Over!!!

Immune System Anti-Viral Support Matrix
Bio-Buckets Excusive---Don’t Be Caught Without It!!


Hey Guy’s, well here we are starting off in the first week of flowering I usually start off the first couple of weeks with the lights set at 10/14, and then go back to 12/12. It’s time to take new readings.

• I thought I would try something new this time, so I bought this stuff called Tomato Bloom Spray II, it’s made by Green Light and it says it well increase yield, here’s a few pic’s of what I’m talking about.
  
• Well in these next few shots I’ll show you what my DO readings are in my rez and in the furthest bucket in my system, at the end of my main line, looks like I’m losing a 1% between my rez and my last bucket in the system, that not bad!!!
  
• Well we all know what this look’y look’y look’y at them there roots, this is the first root shot of week one of flowering, say cheese!!!

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[BigToke]

BigTokes, Bio-Buckets

BigTokes, Bio-Buckets

Hunk Fin,

does having the roots in the net pot emersed in the water do anything to the roots... pros/cons?

Yes, as your roots grow throughout the lava rock which is in the net-pot they will be at there safest, this is the critical area of the bio-system, as it is the only area that is able to sustain high beneficial bacterium colonization levels, therefore your roots that are in the net-pot is the most safest

 

[BigToke]

BigTokes Hardcore, Bio-Buckets—Playing Around Is Over!!!

The Battle Is On, Between Good & Bad!!!

Well there’s been a lot going on around here to say the lest, it’s like the title say’s WAR!!! I was so amazed at how efficient my last grow was that I thought I would try to go over the top again. In my last grow I grew my girls 7 to 8 foot tall to see if I could deplete them of DO, but I was unable to do so, so I’m trying something new, this time I decided to introduce bad-bacteria or as we know it (algae) in the system to see if the Beneficial Bacterium would over-come the bad-fungi, and win the war. So here’s what I did.

• I took some left over lava rock, and soaked them in some out-side ran water for several day’s, plenty enough time for the bad-bacteria to build up. WARNING: If you buy lava rock from a land-scape co. it is advisable to soak your rocks in H20 & H202 mix, to kill the algae
  
• I then placed them in three different net-pots with plant’s in the Bio-Buckets to demonstrate just how powerful and to show you the viewers Beneficial Bacterium looks like, so here it is and what came next was no surprise, but it was shocking!!!
  
• Bad-Bacteria or algae-fungi began to spread faster than I ever imagined, and the war was on!!! In two day’s the algae-fungal-bacteria had spread so fast it was frightening, if it were not unwavering belief and knowledge in the Beneficial Bacterium I would be taking nerve-pills, it almost looked like that preformed horticulture jenisced, but what came next was even more amazing than that!!!
  
• In a blink of an eye the damage was done, normally at the site of that I would have been running around my grow room pulling my hair out!!! But I layed back and turned on some Hank Williams Jr. and was more than confident that the Beneficial Bacterium would win this war.
  
• You see, when you go to the doctor and tell him/her what’s wrong, let’s say it’s your throat, the doc doe’s not treat the septum, but the cause……He may give you cough medicine for your throat, but he gives you penicillin to get reed of the cause, which is bad-infection.
  
• The Recirculating DWC Bio-Bucket Support Matrix System, acts like penicillin to the bad-bacteria and algae fungi, if you will notice that the Beneficial Bacterium (which is white) has began to cover the green infested lava rock and is wining the war, or NOT!!! I will post the results.

This is ground braking science fellows, the only kind I know! Show and tall, I also took some photo’s of my bio-buckets at the first week of flowering, and a few other pic’s also. I’ll be showing them a little later on, so just to do a little recap:

1. I have not made any rez change-out’s since I started and I am coming to the end of the first week of flowing and every thing looks great.
   
2. I have not added any air at all, and there are 36-bio-buckets all using the same rez, a 25 gallon rez, and I take DO readings with a DO-Meter every two weeks.

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[Einsteinguy]

Nice Thread

Nice Thread

Way to go Bigtoke. Your a brave man.
Damn that looks like algea and mold. Is that mold the good stuff you talk about? Guess I need to reread your thread Does this good bacteria live in the water and the air?

Going to keep eye on this one. That algea/Mold looks like it is everywhere.

Einstein

 

[BigToke]

BigTokes, Bio-Buckets

BigTokes, Bio-Buckets

Einsteinguy, more confident then brave you could say, the green stuff you see is algae but the white stuff is not mold it is the Beneficial Bacterium, it’s just a way of showing other growers what it looks like and how it works, I used three plants for this experiment, and would you believe that non of the other plants were infected by this and I have 36 buckets, because of the Beneficial Bacterium was so well established/colonized, that the algae could penetrate through the net-pot and spread to other buckets, although the sight of it did send chills down my spin, but after awhile you get used to it. Thanks for stopping by and hope you enjoy in show.

 

[BigToke]

BigTokes Hardcore, Bio-Buckets—Playing Around Is Over!!!

Well guy’s here it is at the end of week one of flowering, really not a hole lot to say so let me just go over a few things that’s going on in the first week of flowering in the bio-buckets.

Atmospheric Conditions.

But before we start with the picture show, let’s talk about the atmospheric conditions or growing environments

• Temperatures: The grow room it’s self is maintained between 75F to 85F.
  
• Temperatures: The water temp’s are maintained between 67F to 72F at all time’s.
  
• Airation: I have four fan’s on the floor blowing upward, and one about seven foot above the floor blowing down, and then I also have exhaust running also.
  
• Humidity: I must admit I have been challenged in this area a little bite, the levels have been between 55% to 65%, although I did buy a dehumidifier the other day so I am curies to see what it so, I’ll keep ya posted.

Well now it’s time for the picture show!!!

1. Of curies this is a photo shot looking down on both bio-bucket systems.
   
2. And this photo is down the middle of one system all eighteen buckets of how they drain.
   
3. This is a shot on the floor of a side view of lift system.
   
4. And the same, on floor side view of right system.
   
5. This is a shot of individual system’s looking down.
   
6. Root’s we all know what these are, but we love to see them anyways.
   
7. Nutrient meters, this one is the only one I have every used and it has been a great one! It is the Nutradip Tri-Meter, it is a Continuous-Monitoring Multimeter and will simultaneously display the Temperature, PH, and PPM’s. I must say that this thing has preformed outstanding! Just drop the probe’s in the reservoir and leave them there, that’s it!!!
   
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[BigToke]

BigTokes Hardcore, Bio-Buckets—Playing Around Is Over!!!

Putting Clone’s In Stasis?


Well here it is folks, after reading Lothars refrigerated clone stasis theory, I decided to give it a try, so here’s what I did…..

1. I waited until the second week of flowering because I have found that the clones seem to root faster if there’s not as much N, in the solution, the stems were medium/soft when the clones were taken, I used a sharp clean razor blade (new never been used, btw imo I don’t think that it’s a good idea to reuse old blades) to take the cuttings with, I believe you would be just asking for trouble.
2. As you can see I used a one gallon Ziploc bag to put them in, I also put about two inches of water in the bottom of the bag, (Tap-Water).
3. I then put them in the bottom of my refrigerator, I will not reopen them until one mouth later. Hint: it may be a good idea to reopen them once a week and just breath into the bag.

Like I said, I took 25 clones from the very best looking plants that I had……The resin for this is to do an experiment on my next grow….I’m going to put eighteen of the very best looking clones from a clone in one system and eighteen of the best from a seed mother plant clones, I am looking to see which one will give me better high/yield ratio.
Stay tuned for more from the bio-buckets.


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[Californian]

Question

Question

You mentioned you use GH nutes. What else do you use? Great tutorial, worth reading more than once.

 

[BigToke]

BigTokes Hardcore, Bio-Buckets—Playing Around Is Over!!!

Updates From The Land Of The Bio-Buckets!!!


Well not really a hole lot to say other than the obvious, I’ll include a few pic’s to help give you a visual.

• Well the first four pic’s have to do with humidity, remember that I said I was challenged in this area, well not no more, I included a picture of my dehumidifier in a few post back, and man oh man doe’s that thing every work, it was the biggest one I could find around my area. Btw I do trim my plants twice in a grow, I included before & after pic’s, the trimming will reduce your humidity a great deal.
  
• And here is some photo’s of my girls in there thread week of flowering first bud formation, I thank there looking pretty good.

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