sD's 6 bucket recirc. DWC White Rhino / Orange Crush

[skunkydelight]

ever seen the x-games or the olympics? it's what the skiers and snowboarders do...

[Gen]

Oh, okay I get it. Very dangerous. Be safe, Skunky.

[skunkydelight]

Hey everyone...just wanted to give a few updated pics....I also have a smoke report for the Hash Plant....

First off, only grow this if you are looking for the highest grade marijuana with no ephasis on weight....this is the "lightest" as in non-dense bud that I've ever grown....This stiff is 15% T.H.C. which is about the max you can get these days, so it def. does the job...Keeps me high for HOURS on end and it's a happy, non-couchlock high from what I have felt. I let it go about 65 days....A quarter of this stuff looks like a freakin ounce, but it's some of the best I've ever smoked...I guess I know now where the name Hashplant comes from since it's so crystally and would be EXCELLENT for making hash...even the trim is just exceptionally loaded with crystals. Anyway, here are some pics. Coming along nicely since I put the recirc DWC system in and have been able to regulate everything...
-sD

[Gen]

Hey skunky, nice smoke report. Where did you get seeds for hash plant? Could you take a picture of your cloner? I had to bail on the skunky cloner. Afte five days of being in a jar with way toooo much light. I didn't have any roots. So I stuck them in a bubble cloner I had going. I put them under fluoros for 3 days and they curled up awful bad. So I stuck them in the dark and they straightened out. Amazing. They were trying to get away from the lights. I do want to try your method again.

[Gen]

What's the strain your growing white rhino or hash plant? I've got the big book of buds and can look up your strain to see if they recommend different flowering time. For white widow, The Greenhouse (I don't know who they are, but are very reputable) suggests 8 hours of light last two weeks of flowering in order to halt regrowth on the buds and produce just enough stress to coax out the maximum amount of sticky resin per inch. They claimed they got tighter buds this way.

[skunkydelight]

Gen, thanks for the advice! Currently, I use a 11/13 flowering light cycle as I believe you get the same amount of product but it finishes about 1 week ahead of schedule usually. I can believe about the 8 hour light cycle helping tho, I may try this eventually. The only problem is I do a continuous harvest cycle, so I'm at all stages of flowering in the bloom room, so cutting the hours on the lights is not possible right now...
As far as the clones go, You had the right idea...btw, for you to get roots in 5 days you have to have absolutely perfect conditions and a strain that roots fairly quickly...I don't know your strain, so....but what you wanna do is get a deep rubbermaid or whatever with tranparent lid, make sure the temps don't exceed 85, make sure the medium is pretty wet and put the lid on...Put them under flourescent light 18/6 light cycle because you're right, they root in the dark, so there must be some dark time...20/4 works as well, but maybe not as quickly. If all of this is good, you should def. have roots in 7-10 days time with most strains. Hope this helped! Goodluck.
-sD

P.S. - Make sure you are wetting the medium (i.e. spraying) if need be for the duration of the week..if it gets too hot, they could dry out, but usually don't since closing the lid keeps all the moisture in. You want to start taking the lid off for about an hour a day after about 7 days...once you see roots, get them in the bubble cloner or system...

[Gen]

Skunky, 11/13 flowering cycle. Is that 11 on, 13 off? I'm growing white widow. By continuous harvest, do you mean you are chopping every 2 weeks? I can only dream of that. Wow. How long did it take to perfect that method?

[skunkydelight]

Gen, it's not really that difficult once you get everything up and running...The only hard part is timing the clones and veg time and having them root ontime is crucial as well. And yes, 11 on, 13 off will make any strain finish up about 5-7 days early...Some people run 12/12 for 4 weeks and 11/13 for 4 weeks, but I think 11/13 works just as good all the time. Just my opinion tho....
-sD

[Gen]

I'm going to give your method a try.

[skunkydelight]

Ok, so it has come to my attention that my system can be tweaked yet again. Last week I was running a airstone to each bucket in the room, plus a 12inch airstone in the control res. I also run my drip lines wide open at 10 gallons per hour which creates a 5 inch waterfall in each bucket as well. I thought to myself, do they even need the airstones in each bucket, since a Krusty Bucket setup is pretty much the same thing and they don't use airstones in each bucket. So I gave it a try and what do you know, you don't need them! The plants look better than ever. This creates kind of a running stream/current type waterfall thing (if you've ever read of Krusty Bucket or Freedom Bucket setup you will know what I mean, minus the helpful bacteria) that I guess keeps the plants really happy. Plus they seem to be eating more in general as a whole too! Maybe this will work for your system as well...Just wanted to throw it out there for everyone!
-sD