Hydro: Bubbler Style - a story in the making.

[willybblue]

LS-

I would agree with llamaman, but didn't you have an overfert prob in the beginning? Maybe they are just still recovering from that...otherwise, I think they look really good!!! Thanks for sharing...

PEACE

[lordsoth666]

I did have some nute burn in my plants a couple of weeks ago, but it's all good now. The color is a bit distorted due to lighting I use a combination of floro and Mercury Vapor, the Mercury light is VERY heavy in the blue spectrum and has a poor CRI, and contrary to all I have read, I get amazing results using it... For example, in the 24 hours before I took those pictures the plants were topped and then grew 2 inches. I started using the MV when My MH ballast got fried, like 2 months ago, and for the $$$ MV is great. I am NOT saying that it is better that a MH or HPS, but it is a more viable light source than most growers would have you believe. And it makes my pics look ultra GREEN.

PS should I cut off all the burnt leaves?

L0rdsOth

[llamaman666]

wow, i had no clue a mv would work at all! I thought it was heavy green, is it enhaced at all? and dont cut the leaves

[lordsoth666]

The bulb I use for veg is not color corrected, but the one I have for flowering is.

The clear bulb is heavy in Blue, 5900K

The corrected bulb is more Red, 3900K

In my flowering room I have 2 lights under one large reflector 400W HPS and 175W MV. Also from what I've read Mercury Vapor bulbs are an excellent source of UV-B Radiation that is involved in tricome development, and THC production.

Interesting eh?

I bought the MV lamp (175W) and ballast from Walmart for $25.44 it is easy to wire up, if you are interested let me know, I will post some pics or something. However, I recommend the color corrected bulb ($12.00 ish at home depot) for the flowering room, the spectrum is better suited, closer to red...

The plant in this pic is about 3 1/2 weeks in flowering at time of pic, 10x magnification

ps the sun also makes UV-B, maybe that's why outdoor grown weed is stronger??

L0rdsOth

[lordsoth666]

Well the girls(I hope) are big enough, I put them into the flowering room and changed the nutes to flowering formula. All three are 13"-15" tall, and I topped them 4 days ago, I only have 1 pic today but more will follow, as soon as there is something to see...

L0rdsOth

[The Student]

Hello,

lordsoth666 - That baby is looking awesome.

I'm keeping my fingers crossed, hoping for a female.

Here's to knowing that harvest is one step closer.

Peace

[notanovice]

sorry about your loss, i just read your sad post. I think you did the right thing.
better safe than sorry, and you should be proud to have a friend helping watch your back with that scanner. again i sympathise about the loss.

i have been sitting here reading all these threads, and looking at the pics, y`all are doing such a fine job. all that i`ve seen looks so good, and i would be proud to have any of these as my own, again props goes out to all involved.
also, any one involved with THE GREAT BUBBLER RUN of 2005, i would be more than happy to help out in any way i can. feel free to get ahold of this old hippie, and i`ll give it my best shot.

GOOD LUCK TO ALL INVOLVED
GOOD GROWING
EXCELLENT JOB GUYS and or GALS

[jimmy5150guitars]

hey guys i took these seeds out of my pocket exactly 3 weeks ago they were of some skunk weed from a friends garden. i dont know if you guys can tell but a few of these plants have wide leaves and are a little stubbier than the others in my last grow the plants that showed these chacteristics were females. we shall see if thats how it goes again anyways the great bubbler run of 2005 lives on good luck all.

[notanovice]

hey guys i took these seeds out of my pocket exactly 3 weeks ago they were of some skunk weed from a friends garden. i dont know if you guys can tell but a few of these plants have wide leaves and are a little stubbier than the others in my last grow the plants that showed these chacteristics were females. we shall see if thats how it goes again anyways the great bubbler run of 2005 lives on good luck all.

those look very healthy
those decorative buckets look cool
good luck

[Torog]

those look very healthy
those decorative buckets look cool
good luck

Howdy notanovice,

Jimmy is doing a good job and is very resourceful too..is creating a dwc bubbler,as simple as gittin an aquarium pump and dropping an air-stone into the container ? Here I am,thinking that it's much more complicated-when it appears that it's not. For some reason..I was thinking that one had to git a water pump as well..and move the water around between the containers and a reserve tank.

Duh ! What was I thinking ? lol

Have a good one...Torog