This isn't what it would be, if it wasn't what it is...
First night of flowering Lonely FLO:
Morning after, (flower: 1/56?)
Posting to consolidate "notes"... and because I'm scared of missing something vital and finding myself in some kinda major trouble. Anything you all see that I've overlooked is certainly welcome feedback...
Back Story:
After my last grow's epic failure, I was committed to doing something simple (coco in smart pots) that I couldn't screw up. I had a few salvaged cuttings sitting in a super mini-DWC (5" net pot in 6" square 'buckets') in very expensive, very crappy mom/veg cab... a BC SweetTooth from seed and a FLO cut that dominated it in final jarring...
Well, in breaking down the last house I got in in my clever head to transfer the 5" nets into 8" nets and set them into isolated buckets temporarily...
Well, as life goes, temporary became longer and longer... My simple plan hinged on a few really good ideas--getting an nice 5x5 tent, some viable cuts, coco and smart pots etc.--that hinged on a few really good ideas (mostly like having the money to pay for those things, etc.) While I'm making beautiful plans the plants keep doing their thing... so my schedule is getting crunched... and I figure I'd just take some cuts, flower out the DWC mom's while I was establishing the new clones for coco and my new simple system...
But wait... what about my most recent epic failure with my last RDWC system? Well, I better take my money and invest in a chiller. Okay. Now I better put in some kind of inline filter to protect that chiller. Okay. (By the way, I like the way you think. Very proactive buddy, very proactive.) Okay... better rethink my return lines to avoid the constant flooding I did not enjoy last time... okay... how about some three inchers... 'Cause that's the way the cool kids are doing it... okay... here we go with some uniseals and a hole saw...
Me to me: "What, you're broke? What kind of broke?"
me to Me: "Flat broke."
Me to me: "Awesome. Well, set it up... then We'll rethink it."
Okay... So now it's about to be plumbed and bubbling and circulating and chilling. But wait... you don't trust the Sweet Tooth mom being attached to the FLO. Now what... Turn it into a one cell rDWC. That's stupid. Might as well just have it in a bucket. But all the money was spent, so WTF? Use the damn totes and uniseals...
A week later things a 1 cell rDWC based around an 18" FLO mom and things are good... but a tent is still WAY out of reach. So.. I keep thinking I'll hold off and do it right... now she's 20"... now she's 22".
"Okay. Get off your ass and build a Panda tent," Me says. Tomorrow, I respond. Five times.
Well, I broke down, and built it two days ago... around the res, all out of salvaged lumber and old panda.
Set Up:
Lumatek 600W x2
Hydrofarm Cool Tubes
"TENT":
'Open Room'
46"x47"x63" Inflow from ceiling,
Big CanFilter horizontal at bottom of tent
Two 600w vertical Cool Tube HPS direct vent out-doors
Ambient res-66 deg.
2"x6" Panda 'tray' below plant for when it all fails...
3" PVC res. return...
400gpm dedicated recirculation pump.
Commercial Air 5... 1/2 capacity to res, half to roots
1/4 HP chiller
Total system seems to be running at about 40gal
Feeding:
Initial reservoir/food set up (I think... gotta keep better track/hence the diary):
---
Bubbled tap h20 (40 gal, ph 7.8, EC 120)
---
Botanicare TriFlex nutes
120ml Karma
120ml Base
120ml Grow
60ml Bloom
60ml cal/mag (MagiCal)
60ml Hygrozyme
Both Lumatek ballasts are running currently at 370W... (had one 600W burning overhead previously to getting this build done)
Will bump to 400W per in the next couple of days...
Then, up to 600W if all is well by the end of week one of flower...
me: Wish me luck.
Me: Good luck... you'll need it...
First night of flowering Lonely FLO:
Morning after, (flower: 1/56?)
Posting to consolidate "notes"... and because I'm scared of missing something vital and finding myself in some kinda major trouble. Anything you all see that I've overlooked is certainly welcome feedback...
Back Story:
After my last grow's epic failure, I was committed to doing something simple (coco in smart pots) that I couldn't screw up. I had a few salvaged cuttings sitting in a super mini-DWC (5" net pot in 6" square 'buckets') in very expensive, very crappy mom/veg cab... a BC SweetTooth from seed and a FLO cut that dominated it in final jarring...
Well, in breaking down the last house I got in in my clever head to transfer the 5" nets into 8" nets and set them into isolated buckets temporarily...
Well, as life goes, temporary became longer and longer... My simple plan hinged on a few really good ideas--getting an nice 5x5 tent, some viable cuts, coco and smart pots etc.--that hinged on a few really good ideas (mostly like having the money to pay for those things, etc.) While I'm making beautiful plans the plants keep doing their thing... so my schedule is getting crunched... and I figure I'd just take some cuts, flower out the DWC mom's while I was establishing the new clones for coco and my new simple system...
But wait... what about my most recent epic failure with my last RDWC system? Well, I better take my money and invest in a chiller. Okay. Now I better put in some kind of inline filter to protect that chiller. Okay. (By the way, I like the way you think. Very proactive buddy, very proactive.) Okay... better rethink my return lines to avoid the constant flooding I did not enjoy last time... okay... how about some three inchers... 'Cause that's the way the cool kids are doing it... okay... here we go with some uniseals and a hole saw...
Me to me: "What, you're broke? What kind of broke?"
me to Me: "Flat broke."
Me to me: "Awesome. Well, set it up... then We'll rethink it."
Okay... So now it's about to be plumbed and bubbling and circulating and chilling. But wait... you don't trust the Sweet Tooth mom being attached to the FLO. Now what... Turn it into a one cell rDWC. That's stupid. Might as well just have it in a bucket. But all the money was spent, so WTF? Use the damn totes and uniseals...
A week later things a 1 cell rDWC based around an 18" FLO mom and things are good... but a tent is still WAY out of reach. So.. I keep thinking I'll hold off and do it right... now she's 20"... now she's 22".
"Okay. Get off your ass and build a Panda tent," Me says. Tomorrow, I respond. Five times.
Well, I broke down, and built it two days ago... around the res, all out of salvaged lumber and old panda.
Set Up:
Lumatek 600W x2
Hydrofarm Cool Tubes
"TENT":
'Open Room'
46"x47"x63" Inflow from ceiling,
Big CanFilter horizontal at bottom of tent
Two 600w vertical Cool Tube HPS direct vent out-doors
Ambient res-66 deg.
2"x6" Panda 'tray' below plant for when it all fails...
3" PVC res. return...
400gpm dedicated recirculation pump.
Commercial Air 5... 1/2 capacity to res, half to roots
1/4 HP chiller
Total system seems to be running at about 40gal
Feeding:
Initial reservoir/food set up (I think... gotta keep better track/hence the diary):
---
Bubbled tap h20 (40 gal, ph 7.8, EC 120)
---
Botanicare TriFlex nutes
120ml Karma
120ml Base
120ml Grow
60ml Bloom
60ml cal/mag (MagiCal)
60ml Hygrozyme
Both Lumatek ballasts are running currently at 370W... (had one 600W burning overhead previously to getting this build done)
Will bump to 400W per in the next couple of days...
Then, up to 600W if all is well by the end of week one of flower...
me: Wish me luck.
Me: Good luck... you'll need it...
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