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pico

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Have I ever mentioned I can procrastinate.....a lot? I have been putting off some work in the room, been busy with other random stuff, but I should have made time. I did a bunch of work today, but have more to get done tomorrow. As you can see, I have about 10 lights worth of plants that are flowering under 4 lights. Out of control in there. No problem, I will spread them out under the nets and all will be fine. Not optimal, but they will come back no problem. They are 3 weeks in to flower or something like that, I don't even remember when I changed the lights over.

Here is the G13


and here is the Mazar



Ok, the buckets are great. Besides setting them up, I just filled up the reservoir once and that is it. They could have grown faster if I kept the res full all the time, and if I didn't have a crappy dual 600 ballast over the top of them for the first few weeks. I gave them a couple thousand watters and they blew up. Probably even too big. I added another light to this side of the room and now have three 1000w super sun 2s over the buckets. I wanted to fit 4000w over the tops of these buckets, but I don't really have the space. We are up to 13 lights in this grow now, which is enough.

So today I trimmed the Cheese clones in the buckets, here is a picture of one plant trimmed, and one not trimmed. I noticed I never even topped these plants. They have a nice bushy growth pattern without topping, very nice.



Now here is this area getting cleaned up a bit.


Now with the plants in there
 

pico

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Got those plants on the 4 tables spread out today. Under 8 lights now with nets. I will take some pictures this weekend.

The buckets are under 3 lights and I think I am going to spread them out to 5 lights. I have 13 lights total up and ready to burn.
 

pico

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Pilot keeps going out on my damn Green Air Co2 generator. Anyone else had that problem? I wonder if it is just dirty inside there and needs a cleaning. Started happening after I got this new badass AC unit,so maybe when that turns on, it blows out the pilot.
 
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Purple_trees

Hey pico.. Are you goin to ever air cool those hoods? If not i would remove the glass. After i did i noticed a difference. It diffuses the light a bunch
 
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unta

Pico procrastinates for a while then come out of nowhere with an amazing updated and new plants or new something. I'll just be here waiting...
 

Babbabud

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tables and buckets ... very cool . I run the same thing only on a bit smaller scale .... very cool thread ... Thanks for sharing with us all :)
 
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manwithnoname

i'm guessing updates take the backburner when you have that much going on.

that electric bill has to be freaking huge! but the payoff probably is too :woohoo:

i love my ebb and gro bucket system, except one of the cheap ass pumps gets a little wacky sometimes and i have to give it a few light slams to get it back on track. it will leave my buckets full. bastard
 

pico

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Worked great the first round. Second round I moved the buckets to a new room and had to leave town. In the rush, I didn't notice the floor had a bit of a slope to it. So the plants at the bottom were sitting in water. I ended up getting some root rot that is going to hurt my yield a lot. I have the 3rd round vegging out in buckets right now, and I will fix the water level problem. We shall see. They should do great.

They are easy to use, I love just having a reservoir outside the room, instead of one on the floor under the tables. Much more efficient use of water I think. They are kind of a pain in the ass because you have to clean them really well each round, but that isn't a huge deal. I also replace the tubing each round, but I suppose this isn't mandatory.

I will post pictures as this new round gets underway and we will see how it comes out. I also have some coco plants about to be flowered.
 
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