Zandor - Hydro grow setup :)

[Joel]

Sure its a possibility but itll have to take some time.

Anyways, anyone know where I can find plans to build a 5gal bucket to fit 2 mothers that will be in netpots.

[Zandor]

Mothers are better held in dirt then hydro and 2-5 gallon buckets work great for mothers. One you drill about 75 to 100 holes in and the other one is the catch bucket for the runoff. That's how I would hold mothers if I were you.

Just make sure you use a 50/50 mix perlite and soil fo quick drainage.

[Joel]

Hey zandor, thanks for your reply.

I will take your advice and plant 2 feminised seeds into soil and hopefully have both of them turnout female as I reviewed a thread earlier about a feminised seed possibly male or hermi.

Zandor, will a 400w HPS w/ hortilux enhanced spectrum be able to keep my 2 mothers at a healthy grow rate and keep the heat down to a minimum in a closet?
Im going to have my mothers in my closet that is in my room, and my clones that are going into that hydro system will be in a closet in my hallway wich I hope I have enough room to fit it in, if not Im growing wide open in my room , wich then I will garbage bag + carboard my windows . In the event someone comes over to my house and into my room, I will attach a shower curtain Uber stealth thinking , haha just joking.

Zandor, are those treys off that system able to take apart and downsize it 6plants, just incase it wont fit and I have to downsize.
What kind of lighting do you think I should have on 6 to 9 clones vegging for 1 week and force flower to bud for 3 weeks & harvest monthly.

[Zandor]

400w is fine for mothers but you need one per pot. don't make the mistake and have 2 mothers in the same pot, that's not a good idea.

Yes you can drop it down to 3, 6, or 9 plants but's it is a SOG system you know.

It's designed to work with a single 400w HPS light.

[Joel]

Alrighty, I will purchase 1 more 400w HPS light than, I am purchasing RastaKaze's on Decemeber 21st. With that check I will hopefully still have enough money to buy the system and then my seeds so I can get this badboy going.

I was just in my basement looking threw my equiptment and found , Schultz potting soil, Schultz Iron green 8-0-0 , 2 timers , rooting powder, scissors for pruning/cloning, spray bottle. I still have to pick up a PH and a TDS pen and then I think Im good to go.

Zandor as you were mentioning before about the water going into the hydro system & the res, I have to purchase some kind of powder? Does it get mixxed in with the water?

As for 2 plants in 1 5gal bucket, I know that as I am not complete newb to soil growing but to hydro I am, but I am learning and taking the correct steps to fufill my objective. As I carryed on digging around my basement storage & grow equiptment I came across my 6 fluorecent 60w lights so they may come in use to me for when I start new seeds or different clones to be new mothers, also found 2 5gal buckets and I will fill them with 50% Schultz potting soil and 50% perlite , I will drill 75 holes in the bottom of the containers for drainage.

Thanks alot zandor, much more information you can give me is much more appreciated.

[Zandor]

I check and GH does not sell their 3-part in powder form. There are a few sellers on ebay that offer free shipping and a quart of each will last you a full grow and then some.

Joel do I have an email for you???

I think so zandor at pot.com

drop me a line before you order any nutrients or ph products. I can pick up a quart for you of each of them and just add the cost to the system. I don't think it will change the cost for shipping at all now that I think about it.

We can't buy nutrients wholesale yet but working on it.

[Joel]

Awesome zandor.

I could do that with my next check, that would be roughly how much $$ CDN.
I will be sure to email ya to give you addy to setup how you want to be payed and so forth.

[latewood]

I have been leaning towards having mothers in soil/medium...sorry, Joel
I figure that it will be so much more manageable, because my dwc "mothers" are growing 'apeshit'...I could control that in soil...later

Joel I do have some threads I have been wanting to post start/finish
re-veg...
cloning my way, a new experiment that worked for us hydroton growers...
cfl light wiring how-to...
perpetual growing...
and my newest idea is: My system is designed to be aero-drip-circulating dwc, so I am going to do a clone grow with 3 different tub using the 3 different methods all at once...side by side...lw

I have just been too busy, too sick, too tired,...I am feeling better and I have caught up with a few things i needed to address...Got some new hardware and supplies tonight, so watch for updates...
ps I am going to add shortcuts to my ongoing threads to my signature, real soon...lw

Mothers are better held in dirt then hydro and 2-5 gallon buckets work great for mothers. One you drill about 75 to 100 holes in and the other one is the catch bucket for the runoff. That's how I would hold mothers if I were you.

Just make sure you use a 50/50 mix perlite and soil fo quick drainage.

[Joel]

Awesome man, I will grow 2 mother feminised plants on wich strain Im not sure yet any suggestions? 2 mothers in 5gal rubbermaid with Schultz Potting Soil.
One closet out of the 2 I am using will be dedicated to these 2 inperticular, my other bigger grow will be done in my hallway where no one can see anything from my room.