Ekomsi's learning curve with 6kw and more

[ekomsi]

Hey All First of all I need help, how do I post big pictures in my journal?

I had to wipe my hard drive so all my pics from the first two grows are gone but............

This is my third grow in my room and I still do NOT have it dialed in.

I run 9 600W hps in my main room and I also have a 600W hps/MH closet for scrogs, test plants, or what ever I have laying around to flower IE,,, Plump Mothers.

I use the Ebb n grow system in my main room with 36-48 buckets depending on my legal limit at the time.

I run a simple Lucas Formula but I run it a little low EC only 1600-1800 EC and 5.6-6.0 ph

For Soil plants in Flower I feed simply 7g of Maxibloom per gal and an occasional Kool Bloom feeding once or twice in the last two weeks before flush.

I clone using a 30 Site ezcloner and aerocloner I built using a tut, in this forum. 1/4 clonex clone solution dip cutting in clonex gel and let the cloner work its magic. 99% success if you disinfect system before use.

Its some great Cannabis for my patients but Im always striving for better quality and improvements so HELP me OUT ICMAGGERS!!!

The first pics are some dried meds from my second harvest, so I hope you enjoy some bud porn to start the show.

The flowering plants are from my 600W closet, It has an intake hole and a Carbon filter exhausting air out of the closet, I feed the soil plants in there maxibloom and they are frosty as heck for this point in time. Still have a month to go.

Most of the plants are in 5 gall FFOF soil, I have a test plant each of Blue mystic and swiss cheese in there flowering, mothers are getting big and i also have a few in my main room.

 

[cody2white]

Awesome man I'm a big fan of maxinloom too. I don't know what you mean when you say you don't have it dialed down. Shit looks awesome man id be proud how do you like the 600's? You wanna get 1ks?

Good job man keep it up

You need a pool of genetics

 

[ekomsi]

Here is some Veg shots from my main room,

Im going to hopefully only veg for two more weeks and then flip, Im hoping they will be where I want them in 2 weeks.

The couple flowering shots are from a Blue Mystic and Swiss Cheese from Nirvana seeds, they are a lot more stretchier then my other strains but I like that trait a little. I have some mothers of the BM and SC under some t5's in my mother room.

Hey cody, thanks for taking a look at my show, as far as the 600's go they are pretty nice for my room atm, I would like to upgrade to 1000 sometime in the future but I would like to run them on light movers and I cant do that in my current set up.

What I mean about not having my room dialed in is, I havent had a bumper crop, and my temp, and humidity are not on point, I need a bigger exhaust fan/carbon filter. I draw in fresh air from outside.

Atm I have a Can Filter 100 with 800cfm fan I think? I wanna go way bigger!!! That's coming very soon, Also like to get a really big humidifier for Veg and a DeHuey for Flower.

Im just trying to give everyone some info into my grow and style, I guess the motto is KISS for now......

Got any Q's Holla

 

[ekomsi]

Yo I need 50 posts to send a PM help me out lol

 

[OSBC]

Q,s

Q,s

how often are you feeding? schedule ect..feed water feed? and do u get run off at all?

 

[ekomsi]

how often are you feeding? schedule ect..feed water feed? and do u get run off at all?

Ebb n Grow Light Cycle is 18hrs on and 6 hrs off
Well normally I would feed every 4 hrs lights on and once during a 12 hr dark period in flower, but since the plants are still in veg its a bit different. I have noticed that the roots are not as healthy as I want them so I took a flood cycle out during lights on and no flood for the 6hrs lights out.

Your question kinda sounds like your asking me how I feed my soil plants?

In that case for soil I feed maxibloom just about every feeding at this point in flower, I will start the flush in a couple weeks on the soil closet. I water until I have about an inch or two of run off in my heavy duty trays, the plants suck that water up in a few hours.

 

[OSBC]

Ya.. I was asking bout ur feed schedule in soil.Every other time? Feed water feed ect?From 12/12 till finish..

 

[Maj.Cottonmouth]

Nice looking grow.

There is a thread on how to post large images here

http://www.icmag.com/ic/showthread.php?t=223583

 

[Kitsym]

awesome room ya got there!


thanks for posting.


telling by your buds, looks like you really know whats up, got it down pat bro!

 

[ekomsi]

Ya.. I was asking bout ur feed schedule in soil.Every other time? Feed water feed ect?From 12/12 till finish..

Just go with what your plants tell you, I'm fertilizing my flowering soil plants every time I water them atm. I will start using straight ph water for 2 weeks before I chop them down.

Nice looking grow.

There is a thread on how to post large images here

https://www.icmag.com/ic/showthread.php?t=223583

Thanks cottonmouth

awesome room ya got there!


thanks for posting.


telling by your buds, looks like you really know whats up, got it down pat bro!

The meds are great but I deff do not have it down pat, thanks anyways bro take it easy and stay tuned

 

[Guest 226076]

nice bud porn ekosi, looks great. do you use digital ballast. happy trails...

 

[ekomsi]

nice bud porn ekosi, looks great. do you use digital ballast. happy trails...

Hey Bud, thanks

I have 10 quantum 600w digital adjustable ballast's

I am running the digi's at only 75% in my main room b/c they are vegging and i dont want it to get to hot for them. I will turn it up to full power when i switch to flower and/or when it gets colder outside I just want my temps to be in the sweet spot.

 

[Korngut]

nice lookin set up, buds too. looks like u should be helpin me

 

[ekomsi]

nice lookin set up, buds too. looks like u should be helpin me

Prolly not but thats the point of these forums and posting. Im just trying to give back to the community, if it wasnt for some of these journals on these forums I wouldnt be where Im at. So read up fella's and my grow ladies there is a lot to learn from other peoples experiences.

Just dont believe everything you read lo

 

[socialist]

What nutes are you running in the ebb and grow? I used to run 6k with 1000w lights but found it more economical to switch to all 600w. The lumens per watt is higher on a 600w and the temp is way lower. Another advantage is having more lights using the 600w's so you can really adjust your light footprint better.

 

[ekomsi]

What nutes are you running in the ebb and grow? I used to run 6k with 1000w lights but found it more economical to switch to all 600w. The lumens per watt is higher on a 600w and the temp is way lower. Another advantage is having more lights using the 600w's so you can really adjust your light footprint better.

Yeah thats why I bought 600W instead of 1000W.

I run General Hydro FloraMicro at 8ml per gallon and Flora Bloom at 16ml per gallon. I also like to add powder kool bloom for the last 2 weeks before the flush.

 

[ekomsi]

So I brewed an ewc tea a couple days ago. It consisted of 4 gallons of decholrinated water, inside a paint strainer I added 1.5 cups ewc, couple scoops of zho, and a couple scoops of great white. I also added about 30ml of molasses. I added some air stones and let it brew for over 30 hrs. I used the mix and top feed all 36 of my ebb n grow buckets with a 2.5gallon sprayer I have. The rest of the tea I just dumped into my rez.

I tried uploading this post last night but something was wrong with the server.

Agian the flowering plants atm are of my closet room the plants are in ocean forrest soil, they were feed 7g of maxibloom per gallon in flower, but they are currently being flushed with molasses+water. Almost ready for the chop


The first two pics and last two pics are my main room vegging (ebb n grow system), they have a couple more weeks still to veg, One of my strains MYS#2 (the front row on the right are not growing the way I would like them that are not going to make it into this room in the future.

Nothing too special, just thought I would share, but when/after I chop my soil closet Im throwing in some monster soil plants (old mothers) to flower. I should get some monster colas

 

[Phaeton]

Whoa, I have nine 400 watt lights in my main room and a pair of 400 watt CMH's in my test room. Little version of yours.

 

[ekomsi]

I'm actually only using 75% on my digi ballasts right now in veg, so that 450W per lamp atm lol very close. I'm getting close to switching to 100% tho.

Im going to go ahead and put it out there that the EWC TEA I made has helped my plants roots become white, strong and fibrous. Before I added the tea I tried numerous other products. My last grow (summer) ended in 1/3 crop loss because of root problems. I think ewc tea is the solution, within 48hrs of adding the tea to my rez/plants I have numerous bright white roots coming from the bottom of the inner pots. Before they were discolored tan and you could tell there was a pathogen/ and something not healthy was going on. Im so stoked right now because this has been a headache of mine the last 6 months.

 

[socialist]

Im going to go ahead and put it out there that the EWC TEA I made has helped my plants roots become white, strong and fibrous. Before I added the tea I tried numerous other products. My last grow (summer) ended in 1/3 crop loss because of root problems. I think ewc tea is the solution, within 48hrs of adding the tea to my rez/plants I have numerous bright white roots coming from the bottom of the inner pots. Before they were discolored tan and you could tell there was a pathogen/ and something not healthy was going on. Im so stoked right now because this has been a headache of mine the last 6 months.

Are you sure its not because your res temps were higher durring the summer months?