Whiskys CFL 2

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Oh and the paper towel method, i keep the plate in the bag out of the sun, it did just great in the shade, no light necessary.

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Oh and wanted to say once you buy an expensive strain, you can just clone it over and over, i wouldnt pollinate to get seeds, messy and fuck who wants seeds in there weed. Cloning is the way to go!

[whisky]

actually i had posted about 2 days ago but that post got abducted i guess.. so ill sum what i wrote " im going hydro ".

ok now ....... i bought most of the things, still need aquarium silicone and a drill.. the silicone ill buy but the drill my friend is bringing his over this saturday.. so the contruction will halt till then. other then that i have everything.

i have a long tray, a tank for the water; the pump couldnt pump the water up so i put a small table in there and have the thing higher then the tray so now it pumps easily... but where will water go after filling the tray you say... yea thats was a problem.. but i came up with a solution.. since theres no space left in the tent and even if there were it would be uncomfortable and i would spill break drop and break lights, the tray.. and other things, i though i could drill a hole under the tray and plug one end of the tube just like a normal drain but then cut out a hole in the tent and have the tube pouring out into a disposal bucket outside the tent. this way i dont even have to touch the tent i just take the disposed water pour it back into the tank and let it back to its place

so i have those and i bought an air pump, an air stone? something like that.. it makes bubbles in the water, a liquid pump (duh), and i found out what rockwool was in martial.. so i went to the store and asked for it and they had it tucked away in a dirty corner with lice and worms.. nah i finally got rockwool!

clay balls, lava balls, vermiculite, perlite.. wasnt able to find any..
but i got styrofoam ... a big fat huge slab of styrofoam ill grind into little balls and let them sit on the tray.. theyll float and fall off u say.. but the trays gna be closed so they wont fall out

that sure wont do no.. but itll have to until i get my hands on something that will. my friend found this interesting thing at some market. its like a little bag filled with balls, you throw them in the water and they get big and you can use them as soilless medium. seems pretty cool. ill get those when i meet up with him and he tells me where to get them .

seeds are such a problem i cant get them. im trying to convince people who can to get them but there not cooperating. i found this new weed and it was pretty good and its not related to the other weed so im germinating some seeds.. i dont care about how great it is i just want it to be a proper plant, like on the first grow.

so the system is ebb and flow hydro, the lights ill be adding 3 more so a total of.. 12 lights for 4 plants. ill have .. dono 4-8 plants in veg but only keep max of 4 females. more doesnt make it better.. i prefer growing less but of better quality. the hydro system is great because you just have to check it every day to see its giving water then do nothing else.. it does everything.. oh and put water from bucket a back to bucket b.. thats it

i have automated timers on the lights and on the pumps.
the bubble pump will be running for 3 hours before the water pump goes off then rest, then again before each feeding. the water pump will run for 15 minutes ( its the lowest on the basic plastic timer ) 2-3 times a day im not sure which one yet ( could someone suggest 2 or 3? ).
there is no problems because the pump has 3 settings ( low, medium, max) and ill see which setting clears 10 litres of water in exactly 15 minutes and let that one run, because if the pump is too slow it wont get enough water through, if its too fast then the water will be gone and itll be running without water ( its a submersible fan and they heat up if this happens).

i havent even started hydro but im very exited about it. i can see why so many people prefer this, its so much easier. i hate dealing with the soil of the other grow.. each time i do something to the plants theres soil all over the room and i have to come with the vacuum and clean it.. i still like soil but maybe for outdoors when i have my own house and im not in a 6x3 room .. yes my room is very small

in the 2nd soil grow i was unfortunate because of the seeds. and because of that i just gave in all hope and didnt care and let them all die. im positive this will work wonders, but will these new seeds? .. well we will find out pretty soon!
im going to continue my hydro grow on this thread!
the room will be done and the seeds will have germinated.

i wont be posting much because im afraid they are starting to read things that people post in the internet.. there monitoring what everyone does. so ill be posting smaller comments and just posting some pics most times..

peace to all:jointsmile:

[whisky]

everything is set up. there might be some drainage problems.. and there might be trouble with the rockwool.. its very hard and it doesnt take in water.. is it supposed to be like this? ive never used rockwool before.
seeds are germinating

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hey "whisky" i read one of your threads earlier today it was sooo long and it was like a book it is the most of anything i have ever read it was funny sad dramatic everything, your freaking hilarious. after seeing willie wortels website at hempcity.net i to me he was the number one person that i thought was the best at any kinda of cannabis cultivation. But after reading your work i say you are the number one. you are doing what i wish i could. i have a a plant that is going on 3 months of age i was wondering if you could get back to me some how. all of the plants you have planted were the best. a bud that you said you pulled from the plant you called daisy had to have been my favorit it had brownish looking hairs and looked great. your the best man peace!

[whisky]

thank you im happy you liked it "h0c" hehe i though noone read those long messages.
its not really that hard to grow, just plan and organize the thing once then give it water and watch it grow. it might not turn out like the other plant pics on this forum but you will learn and get better at it, and eventually learn to control the force if you have questions or need help id say just open up a journal thread take a couple pics and (unlike my thread which people just look at the pics cuz the writing is so long) people will help you:thumbsup:

Im almost done with the new room... its starting to turn out really good but i have encountered some problems.

1) rockwool --> bad bad. not only is the rockwool is so hard it doesnt take in water it smells like fish and piss. i told the store about this and i wanted to give it back and they said oh you must go find the person who is incharge of that material blabla.. ( find the person that peed on it kid, we dont give a f*** )

2) watering will be manual.. ill just use the pump to pump water into the plant watering thing, and the bubler can be there working set on a timer. drainage problems... some water stays in the bottom.. thats why i decided not to use the flood technique for watering.


just those problems i guess.. for the veg stage i have 6 white cfl + 2 orange cfls in the middle, total of - 11,200 lumens. the planter has been covered so that no light reaches the roots and theres space for 8 plants.

i put 8 foam cups and ill pluck some holes into the bottom so the roots can grow out. these cups will be filled with cotton and will hold the seedlings for their first 2 weeks. when the plant grows out the bottom itll be in the actual mixture of the tray which consists of
styrofoam and gel. im still breaking up the styrofoam into bits 1 by 1.. it takes so long, zzzz.

and for flower there will be 10 orange cfls and 2 white, a total of - 18,300 lumens.
i was thinking of a HPS this time, but itll have to wait for next year. ive also taken the pc fan and mounted it in the tent.. the growcab will not be used anymore. veg and flower will be done in the tent.

this said ill get back to breaking up the foam. i had seeds in germ for about 4-5 days and some have sprung up, those will be planted today when the thing is done. ill post pics when its done

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[whisky]

it didnt work... the drainage was one problems but even if I got that sorted out, without proper rockwool or lava rock balls .. cotton, styrofoam and gel didnt do the trick.

happy that the first seeds had just begun to crack I took them out of the cotton and placed them inside soil. not worrying about the failure, it didnt cost me anything. everything I have bought I still use, so no problems there.

Fan goes on 30 mins then goes off 30 mins from lights on to lights off. Water bubbler (this makes the water more oxigenated which is a good thing) goes on for 45 minutes 4 times a day.

Photos are coming when the little youngones are about in the garden. Right now 10 have cracked and ive planted them. Theres 8more i think germinating.

Ill be happy with 4 proper females. The reason ive planted so many is because with these bad seeds I have about a 1/4 female ratio and even among the females theres many mutants and weak plants that dont flower properly and suffer my wrath and get killed.
Only strong and brave ones may remain under my tent of fame.

(Yes ive been reading alot of forgotten realms lately.. I also got an audiobook of the whole series and I put on one of the books, turn on classic music, turn on the lava lamp, and let my mind dream off to the adventures of Drizzt)

So Glad that everything is fine now.. Were back on the grow!:jointsmile:

[whisky]

Here are photos from today, took them just after watering.

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so what happend to UR other plants?

[whisky]

they were too weak and mutated.. didnt grow properly, so i threw them away. the only thing I dont like about soil is that you have to buy new each time and with those 40L of soil went out the window.

now lets not get exited, the same thing might happen again. these plants now are from a collection of 4 diff seeds I had. I put 4 seeds of each 4 types and had 16 germinating. 9 are little plants now, 1 broke, and the rest are still germinating but they look as if there not going to open, even though i spray fresh water onto them every 2 days.

I will take care of these little babies, and start nutes earlier then usual. In the failure grow the plants turned yellow in the first 3 weeks and just died off.. the females that did survive were skinny and weak, so I decided it wouldnt be worth the electricity and everything to keep them. It was good because this way I reassembled the growroom and now its much better then before.