Is 3.2 LBS good for 2000 watts?

[AquaponicHerb]

Weighed in at 3.2 LBS. This is very dry processed medicine with no leaves, stems, or seeds. This stuff is so crystally it glows yellow like gemstones, and under a microscope the trichromes are 50/50 amber clear.

I am using no carbon dioxide or ppm meters. I use about 100 dollars worth of plastic bins, hoses, buckets, and a pool testing PH kit. The nutrients (advanced hydro Sensi kit), lighting, timers, ground fault interrupters and 12 gauge cords, tools used, and water pumps are the only valuable thing in my system.

lighting: 2000 watts HPS, with supplemental 6500K CFLs. The lights emulate day night patterns and at any given time there is no more than 1500 watts of light being used but to be conservative I am using 2000 watts as my benchmark.

strains: bubble gum, blue dream, voodoo kush, grand daddy purple, sativa spirit, and bubbleberry.

method: hybrid system with NFT, DWC, FLOOD and DRAIN, BUBBLEPONIC, and SUCKIT BUCKET.

I want honest answers and some feedback. This is my first real "Hydroponic Cannabis" grow with an active system and chemical nutrients, however I have done quite a bit of research. This is a medical grow for myself and another patient and it is 100% legal, fire and electrical code, and under county limit. I have a video which will cover many concepts and I would love to know what the community thinks before I add any opinions to it.

Thanks fellow growers.
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AquaponicHerb Reviewed by AquaponicHerb on 05-26-2010. Is 3.2 LBS good for 2000 watts? Weighed in at 3.2 LBS. This is very dry processed medicine with no leaves, stems, or seeds. This stuff is so crystally it glows yellow like gemstones, and under a microscope the trichromes are 50/50 amber clear. I am using no carbon dioxide or ppm meters. I use about 100 dollars worth of plastic bins, hoses, buckets, and a pool testing PH kit. The nutrients (advanced hydro Sensi kit), lighting, timers, ground fault interrupters and 12 gauge cords, tools used, and water pumps are the only Rating: 5

[AquaponicHerb]

anyone?

[420session]

It's a goal to reach .5-1 gram per watt, right? So at 1500 of actual light power. My numbers are rough but @ 3.2lbs equal around 1414.5g more or less. Honestly- that's not bad at all :thumbsup:. Thats good productivity. And, if you don't mind sharing....let's have a session.

Peace.

[moody420]

How many plants did you grow?

[Daddynobucks]

Been looking back thru the pics from your other threads.
that figures to 3/4 Gm per watt and thats FANTASTIC.:thumbsup:
I run 2Kwatts and never get any more than 1/2 Gm per watt.I know things like strain and veg time make a diff. but I'm wondering if the day time simulation has something to do with yield as well.? you are talking about verying light intensity and simulating moving across the sky, correct?

MORE INFO PLEASE

Daddy
how many bushes we talking about at harvest?

[throatstick]

it's a good start not bad.now if you said you veg'd for 3 months then yea thats not very good at all. but if you pulled that with say 4or 5 months veg from seed then yea thats good.

i myself pull alil over 2 lbs per 1k with 1 month veg time.

[AquaponicHerb]

I grew 45 plants, I started with a few more but I killed several because they were pissing me off. The 7 Blue Dream jungle trees accounted for a lot of my weight.

I had severe spider mites which hit me very hard, and the the sprays that went with it.

I used some methods which are not orthodox-

It was a complicated grow and although it was hydroponic I used semi aeroponic "Suckit Buckets". For my biggest yielding plants the roots were dangling in air about 90% of the time without misters.

The day and night simulation was achieved with 3 timers and about 12 light fixtures positioned all over the room; some at ground level. A sunrise, midday, sunset, and eventing twilight was emulated. I used different spectrums and I had my 2 1000 watt lights mounted vertically but they were tilted so they hit the plants at an angle. The temperature was not steady but it fluctuated several degrees. Light intensity also fluctuated with strange patterns in addition to the day simulation, and during midday the lights were pushed to extremes for just 15 minutes followed by a cooling off.

I used my own ideas in how to manage my solution in reguards to nutrients and I refer to it simply as "Perpetual Instauration" because it was realtime:

I used permanent injectors which would feed the nutrients at 1 drop approximately every 4 seconds when pumps were on right into the waterlines leading to all of the beds. I never went over 1/3 of the recommended nutrient levels per gallon per 2 week period. I used about 150-200 gallons in my system, and my res was connected to several DWC units through a self perpetuating siphon. My reservoir was only about 25 gallons which was less than some of my beds. As the waterline in the reservoir went down, it was instantly balanced by the siphon streaming in from those other bins. In essence there was no central reservoir at all. I only changed my water 2 times in 3 months, one of those being for flush which I did do. Because my nutrient levels were so low my plants were not stressed and they still received all of their nutrients because of the large volume. I used regular tap water. My water temps were constantly between exactly 69 and 70 degrees. I did not measure my PPM or EC but my PH was between 5.7 and 6.0. The solution was recirculated very quickly because it was pumped at about 800 gallons per hour. My aeration was overkill and my solution resembled something close to a milky foam when it was pumped to my beds.

If you guys have any other questions please let me know because I recorded all of this data.

[LOC NAR on probation]

I don't care how many or how few plants you had. I don't care how long you vegged. 2000 watts of light and 3.2 pounds trimmed.

It don't get any better.

My hats off to you. Well done.

[ForgetClassC]

Yeah, this guys got it down.

I bet that stuff is amazing, that grown with the fishes as well?

-C

[AquaponicHerb]

thanks

No but I will be using fish on my next grow. I used advanced nutrients sensi grow and bloom.