raygun
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Hello Its been a while since I have done anything as far as grow shows but life has been life and the show grows on. Some of you may have seen my Bio-bucket cab grow which is how I used to grow. I have no complaints about the system and loved the performance of it. Only issue is I wanted to get some variety and so that meant more than 4 plants at one time and different harvest times so I'm off to grow in coco, on this wonderful coco grow show.
The grow specs:
-400W digi with HPS bulb (basic Phillips bulb from HD)
-256 Dayton
-DIY carbon filter
-DIY muffler
-DIY air cooled light
-3x2x6 cab (aprox size)
Nutes:
-Floranova/licious/plus, grow & bloom
-koolbloom powder
-liquid Karma
-molasses
-Hygrozyme
-well water/RO water .2 ec and 7.8 pH to start
Media:
-100% coco (bio bizz I believe, been recycled a few times now) UPDATE- now using botanicare coco bail old coco phased out of rotation and now awaits use in future potted house plants.
-5x5x5(6?) black square pots (some 6x6x9 white)
-2gph drip lines
-400(+/-?)GPH mag drive
Feed schedule:
-4 times per lights on for 2 min (this varies currently run times are 4mins, 2min,2min,2min)
-ec between 1.2 and 1.8
-pH ? pH pen tip broke UPDATE - got that fixed pH sits 5.8-6.2 I don't mind the fluxuation and neither do the plants so far.
-auto topper on rez which holds about 5 gal at one time
-Rez able to hold up to 15 gal currently keeping 5-6 gal.
I switched a little over a year ago and can not complain. It has its challenges but was an easy change from my bio-bucket system. I am still a couple of CFL's for supplemental blue on the veg side of the cab. I'm wanting to get a 150W CMH to throw in and get rid of the CFL's, we'll see when I can get around to that.
I will change out the rez completely about once every 2 months. Basically when I changed over from my bio-buckets I kept the same rez and pump configuration. I did put an air stone in the rez however as the pump is not on 24/7 circulating the water. The change every 2 months was about what I would do before as it was always done with the flush of the harvest and between grows. It works for me now and so no need to change it. I think the auto topper helps out tremendously.
(edit: I have recently been changing every month as the plants are using more water and nutes as i get it dialed in so the add back of twice the water to the main rez is happening quicker. I also removed the air stone and installed a small external fish filter with just a foam filter pad, no carbon at all, to keep the res cleaner/filtered and some what recirculating.)
I will typically harvest 2-3 plants every 15-25 days and can keep up to 12 plants at a time all depending on flowering time of the plants. Here we are at day 43. This is just one of the gals. The cab is really full and I did not do much training as I wanted to see the growth structure.
This is my favorite of one of the varieties I have going right now. It's a Sourbubble back cross of my own design. I think I will be harvesting in about 12-14 days
Safe growing every one!
~raygun~
The grow specs:
-400W digi with HPS bulb (basic Phillips bulb from HD)
-256 Dayton
-DIY carbon filter
-DIY muffler
-DIY air cooled light
-3x2x6 cab (aprox size)
Nutes:
-Floranova/licious/plus, grow & bloom
-koolbloom powder
-liquid Karma
-molasses
-Hygrozyme
-well water/RO water .2 ec and 7.8 pH to start
Media:
-100% coco (bio bizz I believe, been recycled a few times now) UPDATE- now using botanicare coco bail old coco phased out of rotation and now awaits use in future potted house plants.
-5x5x5(6?) black square pots (some 6x6x9 white)
-2gph drip lines
-400(+/-?)GPH mag drive
Feed schedule:
-4 times per lights on for 2 min (this varies currently run times are 4mins, 2min,2min,2min)
-ec between 1.2 and 1.8
-pH ? pH pen tip broke UPDATE - got that fixed pH sits 5.8-6.2 I don't mind the fluxuation and neither do the plants so far.
-auto topper on rez which holds about 5 gal at one time
-Rez able to hold up to 15 gal currently keeping 5-6 gal.
I switched a little over a year ago and can not complain. It has its challenges but was an easy change from my bio-bucket system. I am still a couple of CFL's for supplemental blue on the veg side of the cab. I'm wanting to get a 150W CMH to throw in and get rid of the CFL's, we'll see when I can get around to that.
I will change out the rez completely about once every 2 months. Basically when I changed over from my bio-buckets I kept the same rez and pump configuration. I did put an air stone in the rez however as the pump is not on 24/7 circulating the water. The change every 2 months was about what I would do before as it was always done with the flush of the harvest and between grows. It works for me now and so no need to change it. I think the auto topper helps out tremendously.
(edit: I have recently been changing every month as the plants are using more water and nutes as i get it dialed in so the add back of twice the water to the main rez is happening quicker. I also removed the air stone and installed a small external fish filter with just a foam filter pad, no carbon at all, to keep the res cleaner/filtered and some what recirculating.)
I will typically harvest 2-3 plants every 15-25 days and can keep up to 12 plants at a time all depending on flowering time of the plants. Here we are at day 43. This is just one of the gals. The cab is really full and I did not do much training as I wanted to see the growth structure.
This is my favorite of one of the varieties I have going right now. It's a Sourbubble back cross of my own design. I think I will be harvesting in about 12-14 days
Safe growing every one!
~raygun~
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