many thanks to all the people who helped me get here. donjuanmatus for the bulk rockwool method, this is the shit! delta9nxs and flower farmer for turning me onto jacks nutrients.
many more to thank......i would also like to thank all the people who spouted off saying that my defoliation was gonna kill my plants! you even had me doubting myself for a day and then they perked up and EXPLODED. to each his own. this is all one big experiment for the greater good of growing techniques for all of us.
with that being said..onward to the details!
mostly all chemmy jones in the main donuts rings with one random pot of gold in there. 4 plants per cage. 600w per cage. the chemmy's were a bit overgrown and stretched like crazy but the cage helped a lot. the POG barely stretched. the MH ring in the pic is my seed tester ring consisting of 501st OG and one blue dream. the BD being haze and BB was hyper sensitive to nutrients(should have known lol) and was fried early on but still surviving kind of lol.
everything is being fed jacks and calnit at 1.2 EC with drip clean and silica until i ran out of silica a couple weeks ago.
they were set up on a dripper system but they were watering uneven because of the hand drilled drippers so now i am hand watering until i fix the drippers. other than that, all is well and super happy.
if you have any questions just ask. i am in no way a master at any of this. first time with bulk rockwool, first time with jacks nutrients, first time in vert/vert donut scrog. this is a lot of firsts for me lol. i will say that i have grow in just about every style for at least one grow and the transition was flawless and easy. no learning curve for the most part. acts just like rockwool EXCEPT for the shitty prep work involved. and its extra shitty and long lol but dont let that get in the way. i took the leap of faith after reading a strangers post online and drove over 2 hours to source my bulk rockwool and took the plunge and im so happy i did! i havent even thought about going back to anything else for any next runs. this is it.
i guess i should lightly touch the subject of prepwork as to not scare anyone off. the RW is to be broken up by hand(WEAR LONG GLOVES!!!) and placed into a BIG trash can or what have you, filled with light nutrient solution set at 3.0 ph......yes i said 3.0. its not a typo. fear not lol. this form of bulk RW is highly unrefined and highly basic in ph and will cause your ph to shift upwards if not soaked 48 hours at 3.0. by the time you are done soaking your ph will be well within acceptable range as the two extreme ph's meet in the middle. then its drain and fill your pots. takes a while but its well worth it.
im done for now. all these are at ~4/9.5 weeks into flower right now. the POG finishes in 8 weeks in average but the chemmy is far superior in all aspects.
many more to thank......i would also like to thank all the people who spouted off saying that my defoliation was gonna kill my plants! you even had me doubting myself for a day and then they perked up and EXPLODED. to each his own. this is all one big experiment for the greater good of growing techniques for all of us.
with that being said..onward to the details!
mostly all chemmy jones in the main donuts rings with one random pot of gold in there. 4 plants per cage. 600w per cage. the chemmy's were a bit overgrown and stretched like crazy but the cage helped a lot. the POG barely stretched. the MH ring in the pic is my seed tester ring consisting of 501st OG and one blue dream. the BD being haze and BB was hyper sensitive to nutrients(should have known lol) and was fried early on but still surviving kind of lol.
everything is being fed jacks and calnit at 1.2 EC with drip clean and silica until i ran out of silica a couple weeks ago.
they were set up on a dripper system but they were watering uneven because of the hand drilled drippers so now i am hand watering until i fix the drippers. other than that, all is well and super happy.
if you have any questions just ask. i am in no way a master at any of this. first time with bulk rockwool, first time with jacks nutrients, first time in vert/vert donut scrog. this is a lot of firsts for me lol. i will say that i have grow in just about every style for at least one grow and the transition was flawless and easy. no learning curve for the most part. acts just like rockwool EXCEPT for the shitty prep work involved. and its extra shitty and long lol but dont let that get in the way. i took the leap of faith after reading a strangers post online and drove over 2 hours to source my bulk rockwool and took the plunge and im so happy i did! i havent even thought about going back to anything else for any next runs. this is it.
i guess i should lightly touch the subject of prepwork as to not scare anyone off. the RW is to be broken up by hand(WEAR LONG GLOVES!!!) and placed into a BIG trash can or what have you, filled with light nutrient solution set at 3.0 ph......yes i said 3.0. its not a typo. fear not lol. this form of bulk RW is highly unrefined and highly basic in ph and will cause your ph to shift upwards if not soaked 48 hours at 3.0. by the time you are done soaking your ph will be well within acceptable range as the two extreme ph's meet in the middle. then its drain and fill your pots. takes a while but its well worth it.
im done for now. all these are at ~4/9.5 weeks into flower right now. the POG finishes in 8 weeks in average but the chemmy is far superior in all aspects.