Newbie Hydroponic/CFL system

[dopeedogg]

Thanks Sap, I'm gonna go down to my hydroponic store today and see what they got.

[SAP420]

I'm hearing that you only use the bloom booster the last week before you flush your plants.. to help bulk up your buds. Also I have been told to actually use less than the manufacturer's recommendation due to plants tending to burn when used at the recommended dose. Like half of what is recommended. Hope this helps!

[dopeedogg]

I'm hearing that you only use the bloom booster the last week before you flush your plants.. to help bulk up your buds. Also I have been told to actually use less than the manufacturer's recommendation due to plants tending to burn when used at the recommended dose. Like half of what is recommended. Hope this helps!

Right on for that tip man. Ok so i went to the hydro store and told they guy what im using right now. ( general hydro 3 part flora). I told him i wanted a bloom booster. He pointed right at "KoolBloom." He said to use it through out the entire budding phase, with a 2 week flush at the end. The kool bloom bottle says 1-2 tsp per gallon, and I did 1.5 tsp per gallon. I just did right in the middle. So now do i only use koolbloom the last few weeks? Or through out the whole budding? :jointsmile:

[SAP420]

I actually got some quotes here from a different thread from me askin similar questions ... check these out

[SAP420]

er sorry ... check out the thread that talks about bloom boosters on the main hydroponics page. The one I started.

[dopeedogg]

Well as you can see, the roots are still going strong. It been about 10 days or so since i started budding. The pic is a little hard to see the buds starting.
Im gonna lay off the Kool Bloom untill weeks 3-6, then do one week of "PK 13/14" from Canna., follwed by 2 weeks of flushing. I picked this up at my local hydro store. The dude sounded like he knows his stuff, he's been giving me advice through-out this whole grow. He said the PK 13/14 is good when used one week before the flush, and it just pumps the buds up a little more right at the end. It's only like $8 so i'm giving it a shot.:thumbsup:

Any comments? advice? any one used these products before?

[dopeedogg]

just some new pics. it's been 2 weeks now since i started budding. The plants are both about 34" tall. I'm gonna start kool bloom next week.

[elskeetro]

Wow man, looking great for your first grow! and a CFL grow to boot! bravo! I tried a couple CFL grows and not much came of it.

It looks like you went with the liquid kool bloom rather than the powder. I believe there is a difference where the liquid is 0-10-10 and the powder is something like 0-26-58 or something wild like that. I know a guy who uses the powder in his hydro setup and it REALLY fattens the buds up.

I used the B*Cuzz PK 13/14 with my GH 3 part and it had some kind of crazy reaction and like...curdled all the nutes...i stirred up my nutes in the reservoir and as soon as i added the pk13/14 it got all chunky and weird looking. so i stopped using that. i look forward to seeing your progress and how the boosters work for you. maybe i'll pick up some of the canna or kool bloom.

looking good.
Skeet

[SAP420]

:thumbsup:How many gallons do those power growers hold? I just bought some kool bloom powder myself. The hydroshop guy told me to buy the powder because it goes a lot further and will last many many grows. Good shit tho man! Those plants are getting huge. Good thing you started the bloom phase cuz usually plants will double or even triple in size after switched to the bloom phase. Nice first grow! I got like 3 oz off my first plant since I only had one girl. I using the basic 2 gallon reservoir waterfarms and I had to add a gallon of water to each one today. I will doing a regular feed next week and then a transition to bloom feed the week after and then full bloom the week after that. I will prolly add the kool bloom about 3 weeks into my bloom phase depending on the bud development at that time.

[dopeedogg]

:thumbsup:How many gallons do those power growers hold? I just bought some kool bloom powder myself. The hydroshop guy told me to buy the powder because it goes a lot further and will last many many grows. Good shit tho man! Those plants are getting huge. Good thing you started the bloom phase cuz usually plants will double or even triple in size after switched to the bloom phase. Nice first grow! I got like 3 oz off my first plant since I only had one girl. I using the basic 2 gallon reservoir waterfarms and I had to add a gallon of water to each one today. I will doing a regular feed next week and then a transition to bloom feed the week after and then full bloom the week after that. I will prolly add the kool bloom about 3 weeks into my bloom phase depending on the bud development at that time.

sap, My growers are 5.7gal reserve with a 3gal grow bucket. What kind of light do you use? HPS or MH or CFL?