Racerx's G13 3000watt recirculating DWC grow

[latewood]

I think these airstones work great and thats all I said. Im tired of people looking for a way to put down peoples shit instead of going, oh that might work pretty well. An open air line wouldnt create as much surface agitaiton. Give me a break dude. Im not tryin to OUT DO you. chill. I wont have to replace my airstone for years to come. Thats something I think is worth it. Try em out people. Peace

he just replied to your post...I am not picking on you, but perhaps you should slow down a bit and read before posting. There was no cut-down here...peace

[latewood]

I see you varied your formula...What are you using RacerX?

BTW. I did finish a couple plants with 3x's the bloom part, similar to your old recipe, because I ran out of any type of Booster. Worked great. Buds got Super Frosty by tripling the Bloom part factor. Peace

[BlazeIdo]

What week in Flower did you flip to the 3X bloom?

[Racerx]

Hey guys! I am back after a month long hiatus and things are in full swing. In fact a little to much in full swing. Its nearly impossible for one busy person to take care of 2 large DWC gardens so with my absence, things got out of control and I have a jungle again. However its in somewhat control right now and shouldn't get any bigger then it is at this point. I never see that much growth past the 2nd week of flowering, not atleast significant. I see there are some questions to answer, I will get to those in a second, first a small update.

Both the room and the closet are in bloom, they are into their 2nd week with obvious flowers showing in the G13. We are still fairly close to a 1/1/1 ratio right now. This strain seems especially affected by the powerful 750 digital lights and the slightly less then perfect light spectrum. When I turn up the P and K, they start to bleach a lot easier. But first few weeks of veg they like nitrogen anyways. So were using a good bit of Grow and Micro but now about the same amount of bloom as well. PPMs are at about 1000-1100. I almost dont want to give them more then that because the 3 large plants just go crazy on it and grow 2-3". Well max out around 1400-1500 since this G13 like my last G13 grow likes a lot of nutes, havent seen a spec of burn.

CO2 stays at about 1050 right now. Next week well go to 1150. The week after 1300 or 1400, and well max out about 1600ppm. We will stop a week or 2 before cutting. This is supposed to be an 8-9 week strain so we will see. The pictures you see here are all from the last few days. They are all the G13.

Now questions. Lets see.

heya RacerX, glad to see you starting back up again. I was glued to your last thread and will be to this one as well.

What is the make & model of the air conditioner you are using? I did a search last week for recirculating air conditioners and came up with a goose egg.

It is I believe an HBQ1000. Its a Hampton Bay, 10,000 BTU, window mount. I learned valuable lesson with portable A/C's last grow and essentially wasted $500 by getting one that has only one exhaust hose and intakes from the room. If you get a portable, you must get one that has 2 hoses out the back, not one. Otherwise you will just be exhausting your air/co2 right out the place; with 2 hoses you are drawing air from outside and exhausting it outside, not creating negative pressure so to speak. There are ways to get around it but its annoying. "Most" window mount A/Cs have a recirculating feature that "mostly" closes off the exchange of outside and inside air. Some do it better then others. This is when a carbon scrubber are nice so you dont really have any smell exiting the spot. Our model (which is like 5 years old, i got it for $10) seals well enough so that smell isnt a problem, but we have a large filter in case. If you can find a way to use it, a window A/C will be drastically cheaper and cool much more effectively.

I see you varied your formula...What are you using RacerX?

BTW. I did finish a couple plants with 3x's the bloom part, similar to your old recipe, because I ran out of any type of Booster. Worked great. Buds got Super Frosty by tripling the Bloom part factor. Peace

Hey Latewood, hope everything is rocking nicely. I didnt change my formula a huge amount. Mainly I am keeping a more 1/1/1 ratio for a little bit longer then I normally due, like 2.5 weeks into flower. Some of my plants stretched with this, some didnt. Then I am kicking into a 1/1/2 for 2-3 weeks, then eventually well hit the 1/2/3 and possibly 0/1/2. Flush for a few days. But I just plan on being less aggressive and a more consistent and smooth upward slope change. I might toss in some Big Bud if my ppms are a little low. Not a huge change but some tweaks.

The really big problem is that I havent found a strain I have just been crazy in love with that I can grow over and over so I tweak my recipes but it is sometimes with a completely different strain which could react totally different from another strain.

[Racerx]

And here are some more pictures. First 3 are more G13. The last 2 are some bubble we made. Its hard to get bubble pictures with a crappy camera. But its wonderful, a combination of White Widow, Trainwreck, and a few other random plants. The 160, 120, 73, and 45 melted like nothing else. Never had a 160 bad melt on me.

I forgot to add that we are also completely pest and disease. Fingers crossed we can keep this up.

[xxxhazexxx]

first time i saw this thread,amazing grow dude well done:thumbsup:

[SmokenJoe]

Nice grow!!!! I wish I had the space to do a grow like yours. I am really interested in seeing how much you yield off your grow all be watching this one.:thumbsup:

[ModernDayHippy]

Hey Racer. Nice Grow!!! I am currently using about the same space as you. But have been growing in soil but am seriously considering going hydro. I like your set-up a lot. I have been trying to figure out what kind of hydro set up to use and your thread has helped me determine which way to go... Thanks!!! Still leaning tward aero though. I'm just waiting for my 13 girls that I have in flower now to finish up before I make any major changes to my rooms... Keep Up the Good Work. Any other suggestions you may have for me in getting going with hydro would be GREATLY appreciated... Check out my thread
http://boards.cannabis.com/hydroponi...-go-hydro.html
Soil grower here wanting to go Hydro... I look forward to your input. I'll be posting more about my current set-up soon...
PEACE:hippy:

[Racerx]

The system once it is established is incredibly simple and easy, although it does require attention. I have to fill my gravity reservoir atleast twice a week which is 50 gallons. The system goes through between 100 and 150 gallons a week of water. However, aside from nutrient and water top offs and phing once every week or so, it runs by itself. The growth is explosive and massive and often hard to control. Do not leave for 4 weeks while vegging!!!

I expect to yield around 6 pounds from this setup. We got around 4 last time and harvested early and had some problems.

[Racerx]

6 weeks in. less then 2 weeks left. Going swell, except a couple weeks of neglect have left us with some light, nutrient, and pH burning. Doh! Still looking great and the buds are incredibly dense. I am positive we are at the 4 pound mark right now, so anything beyond this will be good.

The NYCD is the real treat. She is doing just spectacular, couldn't be happier.