Ebb/Grow Buckets FF + AN Nutes "Grand Daddy Purple"

[cigarettes42]

Hey guys! welcome to my first grow log. I have had past experiences in soil but now switching to hydro only because soil is so damn hard to maintain. i hate having to manually flush my plants, mixing soil, and getting rid of the soil! not to mention having to mix the nutes every 2-3 days....... i love the taste of good ol' organic soil grown pot but man its a lot of work. After a few grows i dont ever feel bad about paying high prices for good bud and never try to ask for a better price.....

STRAIN - Indica/Grand daddy Purple from seed then clone.

Veg:

Light Source = HO T5 65k Flouro's
Style of Hyrdo = C.A.P ebb & grow buckets
Medium = Hydroton
Nutrients = Fox Farm "Grow Big and Big Bloom" , cal-mag, root 66.
water source = 6 Stage RO water system
Rez. Temps = 68 - 76 F
pH = 5.8 - 6.3
Ec = 1.9*
Water cycles = every 4 hours
Light Cycle = 20/4
Room Temp = 72 - 85 F

* Begenning of week 4 of veg cycle


Flower:
I plan on switching nutes to advanced nutrients "Sensi" with conjuntion of using FoxFarm granular powders, only because i plan on using the rest of my ff powders(to damn expensive to get rid of). my hydro guy said i shouldnt have a problem as long as i keep the ppm's in range

Light Source = 600w hps
Style of Hyrdo = C.A.P ebb & grow buckets
Medium = Hydroton
Nutrients = Advanced Nutrients "Sensi Part A + B" plus ff granular powders
Rez. Temps = 68 - 76 F
Room Temp = 72 - 85 F

my flower stats is only speculative, i havent had hydro yet in my flowering room. Rez. tanks are in the closet. If there is something im missing please let me know because this is my first hydro grow. i want to keep this thread as informatable as much as possible(kinda inspired by divestone). ive seen soo many beautiful grow logs and want to contribute to something i believe in so much. So if you have any input or tips let me know. please no tips from parrots. what i mean by parrots is there are people on this site that have no to little experience with growing and give input by simply remembering what they read rather than experience. i want this thread to go to the right direction for future mmj patients.

cigarettes42 Reviewed by cigarettes42 on 07-16-2009. Ebb/Grow Buckets FF + AN Nutes "Grand Daddy Purple" Hey guys! welcome to my first grow log. I have had past experiences in soil but now switching to hydro only because soil is so damn hard to maintain. i hate having to manually flush my plants, mixing soil, and getting rid of the soil! not to mention having to mix the nutes every 2-3 days....... i love the taste of good ol' organic soil grown pot but man its a lot of work. After a few grows i dont ever feel bad about paying high prices for good bud and never try to ask for a better price..... Rating: 5

[cigarettes42]

harvesting my flower room now. here are a couple pics of some of the bud. it was grown in FFOF Soil with the 6 part nutes. strain is grand daddy P

[homerun]

were in week 3 of flowering. Any advice. first time grower, like outdoor grow, but cant wait until i start indoor grow.

[headshake]

everything looks good. the pH might be a tad high though.

where did you get grand daddy purp beans? isn't it a clone only strain?


-shake

[cigarettes42]

I have never grown this outdoor cause never done it, but if you growing it check the soil ph often and don't let it get lowered than 5. If your outdoors you can check easily if your in a bucket rather an ground. But still don't take me serious cause I'm a natural indoor-grown guy.

And shake my ph isn't to high for veg. They actually love around 6.1. My ph range fluctuates high in the begining because when hydro roots thrive it tends to take out lts of nutes causing the ph to constantly rise. If you ph loweres during veg means your getting a fungus or rot problems. I have my flowering hydro plants under 5.3. Oh and yes GDP is only from beans but I got some through bud I got from a dispensary. Musta Hermed but after the first run of beans the finished stuff was great. All fem too

[DOUGAL25]

Very nice operation...I'll be checking this as it goes...GL!
:stoned:

[mrfertilizer]

Hi there I noticed in your 1st post you said that you did not like growing in soil because of mixing ect... The part that confused me was when you said you have to mix nutrients in every 2-3 days, is this needed and what nuts did you use?

Cheers mate! :jointsmile:

[cigarettes42]

mrfert- my mistake on the typo about the nutes mixing every 2-3 days. it was more like plain ph water one day, then about 2-3 days when it dries out, the next watering regimen would be mixed with foxfarm nutrients (complete 6 part line). every watering time you will always want to water - feed - water, if that makes sence?

[cigarettes42]

a needed update: anyways havent had a chance to update my log so here goes. since my last pictures i have moved my veg. plants into my flower room and have took a cutting off each before doing so.

i also made a few changes to my room: Added Co2 tank, Added another hydro set-up. moved my ez-clone in the rez.closet, also added a light mover.

through those changes i have made a terrible mistake on putting my cloner in my rez.room. i actually raised the cloner above my rez.tanks which i thought would keep the heat away from my tanks while utilizing space. well since heat rises it kept my ez-clone crazy hot. the temps were good at first cause we had a constant cool weather week but then decimated a third of my clones due to heat. and the shitty thing about it is that i bought a water chiller knowing i was going to face a heat wave but the water chiller sent to me was a defect!!!! im still waiting for a damn replacement!!!

the pictures are just a few visuals. the plants flowering are beginning 4th week @ ph of 5.3 respectively. tank contents are Advanced Nutrients - Sensi A&B bloom, cal-mag, michrozeah(spelling wrong but it is a root inoculant, and FoxFarm beastie blooms powder

[cigarettes42]

I forgot to add that in my flowering room my nutrient level is at ec 2.4 - 2.5. Converts is about 1700-1800 ppm.