TEST LAUNCH-Operation Redwood Tree

[Weedhound]

bozo lots of people use hydroton and are quite happy with it so don't base this one experience on it......it DOES have its advantages so once the ph issues stop you may find you like it fine.

[justanotherbozo]

So Opie had been asking about the grandkids....

The three on the left are Power Plant clones taken yesterday (in case anyone thought the PP wasn't much bushier.....here's why ) So far so good with them.....having been an entire 20 hours or something.

Four on the right....This is a very special strain of Ak47 I discover called Fort Knox AK. So far we've lost four.....how? I'm honestly not sure but I AM sure they died. Just wilted up a bit more each day. Pray for the remaining gene pool please.

and my prayers go out to you and the youngin's

[hydrocannabis]

damm they all look great WH. mine look like crap. I must be doing something wrong with mine.

what kind of water do U use. and whats the ph of the water just by its self.

[Weedhound]

Hey hydro, thanks for stopping by.

Well I use RO water but I never check the ph until right before I use things so I couldn't say.....I only check and adjust it very last before I use it.

What strain are you growing?

[MVP]

THOSE are STUNNING. I have a few of those seeds....I may not wait to plant them outdoors since they look so delicious inside your house. I may well just have to plant a few and grow them in soil inside until I'm sure I have a female.

BLOODY CRYSTALLY ALREADY!!!
:thumbsup:

They cloned very easily so starting in soil or hempy (75% perlite, 25% vermiculite) would make sense. Hempy is great since it is a neutral medium - basically hydro with no moving parts. Biggest piece of work is watering every other day...

[Weedhound]

Well what kind of things can go wrong with hempys? I've seen a few people with issues and no clue why....someone said that you don't have to worry about ph with them....is that true? And do you feed them nute solution every time you water? And why wouldn't you want moving parts in your hydro so that you wouldln't have to water any more?

Pros?
Cons?

Do tell please.

[MVP]

Are you kidding.....always LOVE to see your stuff. Hope works not killin' ya. 87 you bastard.....101 here today....IN THE SHADE.

Those strawberry twins are gorgeous as well......:thumbsup:

What's the background on your "cough" strain...do you know?

The background is limited to the fact that I picked them up as clones from a co-op in Van Nuys. They are rumored to be a 3/4 sativa 1/4 indica renowned for very nice anti-anxiety properties.

[MVP]

Well what kind of things can go wrong with hempys? I've seen a few people with issues and no clue why....someone said that you don't have to worry about ph with them....is that true? And do you feed them nute solution every time you water? And why wouldn't you want moving parts in your hydro so that you wouldln't have to water any more?

Pros?
Cons?

Do tell please.

In the past I had hempys with no problems. It has been as simple as mixing full strength nutes according to the directions on the bottle and watering them every other day until runoff spills into the catch tray. They can be over watered but it takes a lot of work to do so. I never checked the PH in the past, nor am I doing it now.

The main advantages of hempy right now is that my 2 hydro rooms are full and I have a cabinet in the garage that is now the Hempy Hotel. It gets 10 degrees hotter out there and that would put reservoir temps in the 80's - 90's which I have found to be a problem. Also with hempy it is a shorter height setup so I can grow easier in confined spaces. Last but not least it is simple for my GF to care for these girls when I don't have the time. She is slowly being trained into hydro, but has never grown before so we are taking it in small steps.

Technically it is a hydroponic setup - no soil, neutral medium - so it is easy to flush and recover from nute problems.

Overall it produces similar results to DWC or drip/WF types, but a bit smaller on yield. The downside is that I have to mix and manually water 3x week, and nute consumption is pretty heavy. But for the time being I think it suits me fine as a complement (not replacement!) for the hydro.

P.S. Just picked up a kickass Lumitec 600W digital ballast, Eye Hort HPS bulb and top of the line Daystar air cooled hood... When GDP is done in June I have an upgrade planned for the grow closet! :jointsmile:

[Weedhound]

Dude that light sounds KILLER! Hortilux eye is supposed to be the best....that's what I use. And I LOVE my digital ballast.....I'll never go back to the standard ones again.

Thanks for the hempy info. I really want to get into these and explore them further so glad you know about them. Hey, can you transplant those things? Doesn't all the perlite break apart if you try it?

Here's a couple of pics of Fang yesterday.

[SnSstealth]

fang is lookin GOOD WH....:thumbsup::jointsmile:
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