Ouch....sorry about those..Quote:
Originally Posted by Opie Yutts
Thanks very much for mom info. :thumbsup:
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Ouch....sorry about those..Quote:
Originally Posted by Opie Yutts
Thanks very much for mom info. :thumbsup:
What if the nutes your are using or laying around are bloom nutes? Do you still use them for your moms?
I should have been more specific, sorry. No, I don't use bloom nutes for my moms, only veg nutes. It used to be Grow Big by Fox Farm. The moms seem to do about the same on that as Supernatural's Gro Aqua. If they perform the same, I'd rather use stuff by Supernatural since it's a powder, and very hand, and lasts forever on the shelf instead of a year. It's also pre buffered so I don't have to use PH down. In actual grows I've found the Supernatural to produce slightly better results.
What's a shallow water culture.....time for me to go google things.
I'm not sure you'll find it in a search engine. I think it's just something I kind of made up. I'm thinking DWC (deep water culture), only less deep, like in an Emily's Garden set up. I'm a little concerned with vertical growth in my mother area, so I'm thinking the net pot will sit directly on the bottom of the res instead of propped above it. Is it still Deep water culture if the res is only 3 inches deep? Not sure.
My WW never got all nice and bushy like that.
I'll see if I can't do something about that. I've got 6 WW seeds from the same place you got yours, and I'm going to see if I can't get them to crack fairly soon. Maybe under my lights and food and stuff, I can get a nice bushy mom.
How about a photo of your lights?
OK, hold on a few minutes.
LOL, that's like, deep water culture without the depth!
EXACTLY what a bubble cloner is, mine anyway.
with what you're considering Opie, i would be concerned about oxygen intake, i'm no expert though, hopefully someone with more experience will read this and either de-bunk my erroneous conclusion or confirm it. i know you want the roots to dangle down into the res, i just don't know how it would be to have ALL the roots ALWAYS submerged.
if not then i'd try it and see what happens, shit i may try it myself, LOL
anyway, toke amongst yourselves
bozo,
peace, love, dope
What I'm talking about is not really new. Net pots sit on the bottom of the reservoir which is only 2 or 3 inches deep. Air stones make bubbles, the more the better. When the res gets low you feed again, and give em flush once per month or so. Works out quite nicely, like in this grow: http://boards.cannabis.com/indoor-gr...-training.html Run "emily's garden" through a search engine to learn more.
I appreciate everyone dropping by, and I'm eager for any and all advice.
Shhh, we're not supposed to talk about that in this forum. Actually, I don't know what kind they were and nothing illegal was going on. They may have been edible, psychedelic, deadly poison, I don't know. I imagine it's something I brought in from letting my soils sit outdoors, then no air circulation, damp soil, boom - mushrooms. If you are further interested, there's some pictures in this post: http://boards.cannabis.com/plant-pro...weed-pots.html. The title and some content was rearranged or deleted due to the delicate nature of the subject matter.Quote:
Originally Posted by Weedhound
Upon further inspection, I need to make a couple of corrections.
1) The fixture in the bottom of my mother area is not drawing 40 watts, it??s drawing 80, since it has 2 40 watt bulbs. So for 67% of the electricity, the T5 puts out about 21% more lumens, according to my light meter. Someone feel free to correct me on my math or logic, but I think that??s right. The down side is the bulb is 6500K instead of the preferred 5700K. In fact, according to the chart, 6500K will stimulate about half the chlorophyll activity that 5700K will. To make matters worse, I??ve not seen a decent 4 foot budding T5 bulb. They all seem to be 3000K or above, and again that??ll do about half as good as the preferred 2500K, or even the more common 2700K color. Good thing I??m only using it for vegging.
2) One of the bulbs in the T12 fixture is 5000K, instead of 5500K as previously mentioned. That, combined with the 6500K should make a real nice veg spectrum in lieu of 2 proper 5700K bulbs. That??s probably why this set up seems to perform equally to the one making more lumens, but keep in mind it costs 33% more to run. Hmm, I see all vegging T12s in my house soon being either trashed, or converted to budding fixtures. Just think how efficient the T5 would be if I found the right color bulb. They??re more expensive up front, but like LEDs, will pay for themselves shortly.
3) The rules clearly imply that one must take hits as they wait for photos to either upload or download, instead of merely as they upload as previously mentioned.
The T12 bulb in the very bottom of the photo (plant and aquarium) is not to be used during veg, unless you really don??t mind your plants growing slow. It??s a full spectrum bulb, with emphasis in the red spectrum for better flowers. I might try it in budding some day, but only with a cool blue type bulb. My plants nearly seemed to hibernate when I used only the full spectrum bulbs. Notice the lower lumen count compared to the other bulbs in the second photo in the last set below.
The T5 is on the upper level. It??s made by Hydrofarm. I think I paid $45 or $50 in a grow store for one reflector and bulb set up. I think it??s really cool the way you can chain these together in several configurations (5th photo below). They also have plug-ins to plug up to 8 together in series. Just for fun I searched this, and the first unsponsored result was this, http://www.ecogrow.com/index.cfm/product/1621/mid/7/nid/33/home.html, which has it on sale for $31.50, plus shipping, plus waiting on it, plus sending it back since it got damaged either before or during transit, plus not being able to talk to a real person about it, or have them return your emails. I??d say I got a good deal.
The T12 combo with 2 bulbs is on the bottom level. If you buy ??Lights of America? brand shop light, you may find that the version that comes with a switch on a pull chain doesn??t work properly. I took back my third and final one yesterday. It looked like it was working fine, then I??d come back 2 hours later and the light would be off. I??d pull the chain, the light would come on, and it would happen again, continuously. They have another version of shop light that works perfectly for me. It does not have an on/off switch, and the lettering on the box is red instead of blue. It also has white instead of silver as a reflective surface (better), and is $5 cheaper ($10.95 without bulbs). Cheap bulbs can be as little as $1.50, and good ones are about $7. This ballast can handle both T8 and T12 bulbs, and several different wattages (1st photo below). Color rendering index (3rd photo below) is a scale from 0-100 which measures how accurately the bulb renders colors, with 100 being perfect. I laugh when grow bulb manufacturers boast of something like an index of 94. Who the heck cares? We want blue for veg and red for bud, both of which look nothing like the actual colors of things.
Well that was a bit of uploading so I'm a little buzzed. If you've been following along you know what I'm talking about.
Thank you for your cooperation.
Hmmmm....how hard would it be do you think to set something like that up on a stand....Actually.....the make those stands don't they.......hmmmmmm
Thanks Opie.....that is GREAT info...:thumbsup:
PS.....hmmmmmmm
For a woodworker like myself, not hard at all.
I've seen those stands for 2 footers, but I'm sure they make em for 4 footers as well.
Your quite welcome.
So you're saying "hmmmmmm"?
Well I'm off to take the dogs and kid for a walk in the woods. The kid's right. I shouldn't stay in the office all day.