My new grow :)

[hatecable]

I think it may be a male anyhow cuz its reaaaally spacey between chutes. the other plants are super dense. But fuck who knows???? lol

Its a quote from Family Guy by bill clinton. I guess if you hadnt seen it then it would make 0 sense, but it kinda flows with your above statement. Im a wee bit drunk too so.... It may make even less sense to me in the morning. We shall see

hatecable Reviewed by hatecable on 08-17-2008. My new grow :) Ok so I thought I would start a thread monitoring my new grow. They are still babies with just seedling feed right now but I decided to try out the gh flora series nutes... was using floranova series but I remember getting a better yield off the gh flora series nutes. Anyhow... as time goes on I will be wanting some helpful hints in ways to improve my yield. I am using a 400 watt hps light for this with a 3x3 hydrohut mini 170 cfm fan with an elf carbon filter. Rating: 5

[SAP420]

As you can see they are bushing out real nice. I don't know what is up with the little one. It IS growing but seems like its retarded or somehow may be of a different strain or something. Oh well.... Next week is bloom transition week so maybe we'll see some pistils soon

[Weezard]

I change the nutes weekly to avoid any nutrient imbalance and to help keep plant waste and salt buildup from occurring in the hydroton. I flush the hydroton completely. I used one of those water shower heads that you can disconnect and use as a sprayer to spray through the hydroton and to rinse my buckets. I usually rinse the hydroton for about 15 seconds each time I flush to make sure all salts and plant waste are flushed out.

Love the little dental pick seedling crutches.
Gonna watch this grow.

My first hydrotron exerience was not good.
Washed it, then soaked it in PH 5.5 for 8 hours.
Then screwed-up. Rinsed it with tap water!
My tap water runs about PH 7.2.
Then got real stupid and watered with tap water.
(Had the hose in my, basically lazy, hand.)
Almost killed a fine lady.
Sure ugly'd her up. Lost 80% of her fan leafs from nute lock.

How did you pre-condition the Hydrotron?
Or, is that not necessary with those grow stations?

Looks great so-far.
Best
Weezard

[SAP420]

funny thing is that I didn't precondition at all. I just flushed the hydroton lots with tap water. Then I let it dry out completely and then planted my seedlings in each station. Its funny that you mention that you used tap water to flush your plants. I do that every time with tap water. What I do is I will flush the hydroton of each water farm with a sprayer in my bath tub, then I mix fresh nutes for each station (2 gallons). Then I add ph down to each one. Here with our tap water, I usually use 2 and 1/2 dropper fulls for each station of ph down. Then I check the ph about an hour later to see the true reading. Usually I end up right around 6 which is perfect to me. Been doing it this way for the past 3 grows. Never had an issue. Thanx for your interest! :jointsmile:

[Weezard]

funny thing is that I didn't precondition at all. I just flushed the hydroton lots with tap water. Then I let it dry out completely and then planted my seedlings in each station. Its funny that you mention that you used tap water to flush your plants. I do that every time with tap water. What I do is I will flush the hydroton of each water farm with a sprayer in my bath tub, then I mix fresh nutes for each station (2 gallons). Then I add ph down to each one. Here with our tap water, I usually use 2 and 1/2 dropper fulls for each station of ph down. Then I check the ph about an hour later to see the true reading. Usually I end up right around 6 which is perfect to me. Been doing it this way for the past 3 grows. Never had an issue. Thanx for your interest! :jointsmile:

Mahalo! That's what I wanted to know.
The almost victim is a rescue and sits in a pot of hydrotron in the yard.
I use rainwater with a little PH down and 2 tsp per gallon of bloom nutes, usually.
Only took one "senior moment", to water right from the hose.
Argh!
She did recover but she's stunted and frowning.

Thanks for your time.
I get enough pieces, I'll finish dis puzzle.

Regards,
Weezard

[SAP420]

O.K. They are doing quite well with no signs of any sadness or stress. All of them are super green. I did get a controller although I have not attached it yet. I have some questions in another thread about that. But so far so good!

[herbie the love bud]

It's probably about time to put in a trellis. Tell me how tall they were when you switched to flower and how tall they are now.

[SAP420]

Still in veg right now. Gonna switch to bloom transition tomorrow.

[herbie the love bud]

OK, what is the height right now then?

[SAP420]

The tallest one is like 25 inches