One Lonely Blueberry

[horror business]

With a regular indica strain, how much do you think a maximum yield would be using a 250 watt hps? Also, would you recommend a 250 watt MH compared to CFLs for vegetative growth in order to get the maximum yield?

[Weedhound]

Well before I used my cfls I used a 1kwmh and I think there was a pretty good difference but I'm not sure about the 250watt...I've never tried it. The mh bulbs also run somewhat hotter than hps so keep that in mind.

[horror business]

This may be a stupid question, but I just recently noticed that the WaterFarm has a drip ring and I don't know why. I was under the impression that the WaterFarm was a DWC system, in that there would be an airstone in the bottom that would bubble and splash the roots to hydrate it, not a drip ring which is a drip system. Can you clear this up for me?

[Weedhound]

Sure.....alot of people call waterfarm DWC but they ARE drip systems. There is no airstone in the bottm of these although you could probably stick one in if you wanted to....would only help. After the plant gets to a certain size with a bunch of roots it does seem to become a DWC....the roots sit in the water constantly so they must be drawing nutes and water up.

i've never tried the true DWC.....started with the w/f's and have stuck with them. The only problems I've had is clogged drip rings so you have watch those and rinse them out every once in awhile (more when the plant gets older....like every few days) ....otherwise I don't think there's much difference.

[horror business]

I found this that convinced me to use an airstone if I get the water farm. I'm thinking of building my own DWC bubbler if I can find 5 gallon buckets, as I found lids with 10" net pots built in at the hydro store.

Anyway here's this link, to show the difference between the waterfarm with and without the airstone. Pimp My WaterFarm - The Garden's Cure

[orangeman]

Well before I used my cfls I used a 1kwmh and I think there was a pretty good difference but I'm not sure about the 250watt...I've never tried it. The mh bulbs also run somewhat hotter than hps so keep that in mind.

Do you think cfl's would be fine to grow out clones in their vegging period? I plan on taking 4 clones from my plant next time around and veg them until I decide to flower with 100w CFL's. 6400 lumen's. Will that be enough?

[Rock.Steady]

O-man,
clones n CFLs is a GO.

i'm in week 4 clone-ville, took em just b4 flowering.
had issue with goo where roots shoulda spawned.

but they been under 15w cfls about 6-8 inches away on 18-6 and are coming back VERY WELL!

this pic is about a week ago, they r better now, and i am transplanting this weekend!
da-clones

[Weedhound]

Oman I agree with Rock....they will do you fine and you are getting this info from a guy who has 12 OF THEM!! (hee hee). All lighting has its own problems but Im using cfls for my seedlings and they're doing very well on them so I don't think you'll have a problem there.

HB....I could be mistaken but I thought X-C had airstones in the bottom of his as well. Maybe THATS how HE'S GETTING OVER A POUND OFF ONE PLANT......we shall have to investigate this further and perhaps make changes. :wtf: I will check out this thread...thanks.

Here is the blueberry and today I start flushing. It seems to be suddenly going faster than I thought.....(it heard Stinky dictate the timtable ) so start flushing today and then just wait and see. i'm still afraid to guess the yield but X-C is right that it will be good.....tons of solid little thumb sized rocks just like he said.

Close up taken with tripod....big diff eh? Really IS starting to turn purple but just looks dark if you glance at it. Needs the photos to really show off it's pretty color. :thumbsup:

[xcrispi]

Looks so yummy , trichs stacked on top of trichs . :thumbsup:
The last 2 hydro plants I did seemd to like drip and dwc simutainously .
My next garden will be 4 - 5 gal. buckets , using the 325 gph 4-port g/h supplied air pump just to run the 4 driprings . I just got a new Sunleaves 950 gph industrial quality airpump to drive the 4 airstones -1 in each 5 gal. bucket using the hockey puck style airstones Deftdrummer is currently using . = almost 3 times the air to each stone compared to last grow . Hopefully the girls will be even happier .
Peace Sis.
Crispi :jointsmile:

[Weedhound]

My second blueberry is just having a terrible time. I believe it's hot spots due to mylar issues because you can see that the cotton candy right next to it is doing fine. I've moved this plant to several different locations to try to avoid the hot spots but can't seem to do anything really helpful for it besides pull the light back (which affects the others)

As you can see in the one photo I've simply pulled the mylar from that section of the wall and I will see what happens. My next step would (or will) probably be flat white paint or something along that line. I'm not happy with how much this plant has been affected but what can you do? :wtf: