Stinky's Crash Course in "nOOb Hydro"... Welcome to the Darkside

LOL @ two time!
psssst...buy a box of cheapie medical gloves. I'm like Howard Hughes. I touch nothing.

Hey Stinky I just read through this thread start to finish and wanted to say Im happy to see you enter the world of Hydro with such a Grand entrance. Did this thread die out for a reason? No ones put anything on it in over 3 weeks from what I can see. Well either way I like the logic in your system hope it does well for you!!

Hey stinky I was wondering I was going to start up my grows again and I might need some help with question about breeding is it alright to ask them here in your log here or do you have another log i can post them in because there isnt a breeding log to post question in.:rasta::rastasmoke::pimp:

The hydro log... ehhhh... the system is just sitting there doing hydro things, not especially exciting. I know, I should post some updates. Sorry... :D

BigWeed, start your own thread with questions so that other members can also help answer.

I'll try to get some pics tonight, but it looks abotu the same as it did. The plants are nothing to write home about- they have some issues (my temps are spiking back up into the 90s) so glamour shots are going to be disappointing!

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Originally Posted by stinkyattic

The hydro log... ehhhh... the system is just sitting there doing hydro things, not especially exciting. I know, I should post some updates. Sorry... :D

BigWeed, start your own thread with questions so that other members can also help answer.

I'll try to get some pics tonight, but it looks abotu the same as it did. The plants are nothing to write home about- they have some issues (my temps are spiking back up into the 90s) so glamour shots are going to be disappointing!

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Hey thanks stinky I will do that.:rasta::rastasmoke::smokin:

Update... I took down the first couple plants out of the hydro system. Yield is looking promising! So far:

1 unknown cross of 2 unknown BOG mix-pack plants, in at the first planting (Oct 8), out as a 10" x 3" diameter single bud.
1 NorCal Daddy's girl, in at the second planting (Ehhhh... Nov 1?), out as a 8" x avg. 2/5" diameter single bud with virtually no foliage (I think I had to take off like 4 fans and a dozen sugarleaves; the bud is the most outrageously high calyx-to-leaf ratio I have ever seen and I will be running this again).

Still to come down are a bunch of Yeag's MTFs that were put in at the third planting (mid-Nov) and the largest of which is a single cola that at the moment stands 24" tall, averages more than 4" in diameter, and is SOLID and has not even begun to ripen yet. HOly crapola batman.

No pics yet (camera died) but I give 2 thumbs up to nOOb hydro.

I ended up running only the canna aqua a+b , topmax, and molasses, no bloom boosters, city tap water, no pH adjustment (or even checking lol) after the hydroton had stabilized, only like 2 res changes during the whole grow... that doesn't count the couple overflows I had, lol. And I let the res get down VERY VERY low, even to dryness, pretty frequently. Oh- and temps were up into the 90's at several points during the grow. And I got mites, lol. I literally did everything wrong and still lucked out. The system is obviously VERY forgiving.

As a side note, if you don't want to come home and find a piece of your living room ceiling sitting on your sofa, an attic hydro system should have some type of secondary containment to catch res overflows or tubes popping off their fittings... For example, a frame of 2x6s around the perimeter of the room with a pond liner draped over them...

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I ended up running only the canna aqua a+b , topmax, and molasses, no bloom boosters, city tap water, no pH adjustment (or even checking lol) after the hydroton had stabilized, only like 2 res changes during the whole grow... that doesn't count the couple overflows I had, lol. And I let the res get down VERY VERY low, even to dryness, pretty frequently. Oh- and temps were up into the 90's at several points during the grow. And I got mites, lol. I literally did everything wrong and still lucked out. ............

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WeedHound is gonna lose her mind when she reads this:S2:

Nice job, get that cam crackin!:thumbsup:

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Originally Posted by Rock.Steady

WeedHound is gonna lose her mind when she reads this

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We are already less-than-sane here in the canncom grow forums as far as I can figure...

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Originally Posted by Rock.Steady

Nice job, get that cam crackin!

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The first pic will have to be of the missing CHUNK of ceiling... that's fun. Calcium paint over horsehair plaster is a BITCH to restore... remove all loose chunks and vinegar wash first, dry, stabilize with oil-based primer (KILZ), patch with spackle and mudding-tape (I'm going for the woven sort rather than paper), dry, sand, and prime again, paint, reinstall hydro system upstairs, wait 2 months, do it all over again... :wtf:
I will do a plaster repair tutorial for y'alls amusement... :D

1 and 2- Daddy's Girl bud from the hydro system. Frosty and wonderful, and when dried the pineapple smell really comes out more than the grapefruit. I'm getting RAVE reviews on her and everyone I know wants a cutting.
3- Yeag's MTF plant still in the system getting LARGE. Those are only 6" pots supporting that monster...

ho big was it by harvest time?

and da buds look bangen.:D :thumbsup: :jointsmile: