First hydro grow w/pics

[skriptkiddy]

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From left to right top to bottom:
Ice - 19 days
Bubbalicious - 25 days
White Widow - 25 days
White Widow - 33 days
White Widow - 33 days
White Widow - 33 days
Jock Horror - 25 days
White Satin - 28 days

They're all vegging under a 600w Horitlux HPS. (If you sit and watch the hortilux flame on, you'll see the blue spectrum which is pretty intense light up first before the yellow glow.) First time growing in this set up so the flowering hut and light were going to waste, but it won't be used for growing again once they all start flowering (1 to 2 more weeks).

After flower, will be adding plants maybe once every 2 weeks to the hut to flowering to keep a continuous harvest going every 2 weeks.

Closet shot (2 125w clfs). From left to right:
White satin clones
White widow clones
Ice

The Bubbalicious is going down the garbage disposal today. It's simply growing too fast, too wide and too tall. It will take up all the light soon. Any suggestions?

Most of the plants were started under clfs then went under the hps.

GH 3 part
Hut HPS - 20 on / 4 off
Closet clfs - 18/6

No tds or pH meter.
Add nutes at 75% strength then only add water until as much water has been added as there was nute water to start with. They grow best right before the nutes need to be changed.
Measure the pH with gh pH color solution at mix time. Can't really adjust the pH with the waterfarms because each has it's own res which are fed slowly by the controller res, and any changes to the main res won't affect the individual waterfarms for days. So gave up on pH. This is the one disadvantage with waterfarms on a controller. It does hover consistantly in the high 6's to 7, but never over 7 which might explain the leaf curl on hot days (magnesium and high pH), but the plants seem to being doing well.

These girls have been doing well only after I forced myself not to look at them but maybe 5 to 10 minutes a days

This is my second ever grow attempt and first hydro attempt and growing.

skriptkiddy Reviewed by skriptkiddy on 04-29-2006. First hydro grow w/pics From left to right top to bottom: Ice - 19 days Bubbalicious - 25 days White Widow - 25 days White Widow - 33 days White Widow - 33 days White Widow - 33 days Jock Horror - 25 days White Satin - 28 days Rating: 5

[KHAN]

Great job dude, good luck. Hows your temp. in that tent?

[skriptkiddy]

Great job dude, good luck. Hows your temp. in that tent?

Have a digital meter with an electrode on a wire and it ranges from 71 to 85 degrees, but mostly hovers around 79 to 83 ever since it stopped snowing here. I have a 6 inch exhaust fan and the top of the hut as well as a fan inside the hut at top left front corner blowing air right on the reflector.
However, the temps were in the low 90's until I change the light timing to that the off time is during the day's hottest time and on all night. The girls love it now.

Also have shrooms growing in the room, supplying CO2 to the plants. I really recommend this natural method of CO2 enrichment. Mushrooms are not plants and so only expend CO2. And the girls produce oxygen for the mushies.

[KHAN]

However, the temps were in the low 90's until I change the light timing to that the off time is during the day's hottest time and on all night. The girls love it now.

Also have shrooms growing in the room, supplying CO2 to the plants. I really recommend this natural method of CO2 enrichment. Mushrooms are not plants and so only expend CO2. And the girls produce oxygen for the mushies.

Yep I have a grow tent gets very hot, especially on 24/7, love the mushroom idea very natural, can you use any type of mushroom? will look into that

[skriptkiddy]

Yep I have a grow tent gets very hot, especially on 24/7, love the mushroom idea very natural, can you use any type of mushroom? will look into that

I've only grown shitakes, blue oysters, and pc's(magic). Shitakes taste the best but need to grow on logs and can only fruit bi-monthly, so my logs are in the living room. Blue oysters grow very fast and in mass, but they are messy and don't really taste that great. I'm growing two tubs of pc's, and they've had a noticable effect on the plants. With a seperate incubation and fruiting chamber you can have pc's growing and producing co2 all the time. I don't recommend doing this technique which I really didn't think up, but discovered accidently. The humidity the mushrooms need combined with heat and the plants is a recipe for mold and unwanted fungi. I live in the high desert above 4k feet and the humidity rarely passes 20%. So there are no molds in the people's bathrooms, you visit someone in this area and you'll notice how clean (from molds and fungii) their houses are. A guess, but I'm betting I've lucked out because of the low humidity here, otherwise there would be mold and fungi growing everywhere. But you never know, I would give it a try. It is not illegal to buy pc mushroom spore syringes online because the spores do not contain any of the pyschoactive drug. So there are tons of spore sellers in the US. Except in CA and some other state which have currently outlawed the spores as well.

[skriptkiddy]

First day of the flower cycle.
You'll notice the Bubbalicious is gone. It was horror watching it go down the garbage disposal but ironically, it was just growing to fast.
Started with 24 hours of dark before starting the 12/12 cycle tonight.
I hope the two Ice plants make it because it looks like they're going to be covered up by the older plants.

Enjoy the pics.

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[KHAN]

Awesome

[FOXBIRD]

yeah great looking room and plants. keep us updated.
Oh and next time you wanna kill a plant send it to me

[LOC NAR1958]

There are always in ever grow I have had a dominant plant that takes over. It always want to shadow the rest. Bend, tie, top but never the disposal. LOL. Looks really good can't wait to see what you get.

[skriptkiddy]

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Day before, I left CA.

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Today when I got back.

The white satin and the jock horror turned out to be males. The other plants were from female seeds and they all show hairs except the youngest ice.

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The white satin before it went down the garbage disposal.

The plants are just growing too fast. They're hitting the light and there's no more vertical room as the hps is right at the top now. I can't believe these girls (and 2 guys) grew 3 feet in 2 weeks.

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Plants without the white satin and jock horror.