Harvest a pound every three weeks! The Stinkbud way

[TheAnswer1776]

I sure do miss AC Grow, he's a super dude!

I second that!

 

[Michaelsbuds]

Anybody?
I've got my clones in baskets with rockwool.
Is that set up OK?
I notice in the first pages of this thread that no medium is used.
Does it matter?

 

[simondetroit]

Anybody?
I've got my clones in baskets with rockwool.
Is that set up OK?
I notice in the first pages of this thread that no medium is used.
Does it matter?

I've done it before. Just carefully break the rockwool in half ( if possible) around the plant stem. Some of the roots wiil be stuck to the rockwool and hopefully some won't. Once you get the plants alittle bigger in the veg stage you can scrape the remain g rockwool off. I've never had issues with root rot or clogged sprayers because a little rockwool stayed in he roots. In the future if you decide to take your own clones and do not use an aero type cloner, you are better off using rapid rooter plugs. They break apart really nice. They work good when you're stRting from seed too. Good luck

 

[Michaelsbuds]

S Detroit!
Waz up!
Thank you, im getting rid of that rockwool crap!
Its been the weak link in my progressions!
Rapid Rooter plugs?????
Can I find those anywhere?
Are they a medium that i just stick the clone into????

 

[simondetroit]

S Detroit!
Waz up!
Thank you, im getting rid of that rockwool crap!
Its been the weak link in my progressions!
Rapid Rooter plugs?????
Can I find those anywhere?
Are they a medium that i just stick the clone into????

You can buy them online. Like $15 for 50pcs. They break real clean and easy when your ready to transplant. If you decide to break the rockwool now, just take the clone and put it in the eazycloner neoprene sleeve and never use grow medium again!!! Check out my journal later tonite I'm posting some actual bud porn (finally) ay 6 weeks.

 

[Michaelsbuds]

S Det;
Done deal.....
The rockwool is already in the fireplace!!!!!!!!!
Can't wait for the pic's!!!! My wife's outaa town!

 

[Bigbud13]

Like SDetroit says. & u don't need that. I do beeds & clones In neosleeves they work great!

 

[simondetroit]

Heres some bud pictures from my 2 racks that are in week 6:

I've got a few more posted over at my Grow Journal.

 

[Bigbud13]

What's up with the yellow leaves on the colas? Is that from leaching the fert?

 

[simondetroit]

What's up with the yellow leaves on the colas? Is that from leaching the fert?

Ya pretty much. For the last 2 weeks I have been having PH dropping issues. So I've flushed 3 times in the last 18 days. I'm actually flushing again right now to try once again to figure out the issue. Plus I was getting some nut burn on the nl x sk and lowered my ppm.

 

[gorilla5]

Changing the post size isn't really going to change the amount of 02 available to your roots - that is based on how much 02 is in the nutrient solution being supplied to the plants. If you want to increase this just add an air stone to your res.

I have read some of the posts regarding your situation, I may have a missed a few things... but it seems most everything is in safe ranges.

I see you are supplying CO2 - I cant remember if I read what level ppm you are keeping the CO2 at - but 1200 to 1500 is typically ideal - if your using CO2 you can safely keep your temp at 90 degrees with out harming your plants. Of course if your using CO2 you want higher temps and 85+ are ideal so your plants can metabolize nutes at a faster rate....

You might like more air movement... a few extra fans will help - CO2 is heavier than air. Your just not getting optimal use of your CO2 cause it is sitting around.... move it around, although this has nothing to do with what your experiencing....

Your res temps and pH are at acceptable levels.

RH of 20 - 27 is a little low - but this wont kill any plants - if anything it will increase trichome production a little and maybe make your buds a little more crystally.

Your nute PPMs seem safe... Having a lower RH will cause faster dissipation and evaporation of your reservoirs and the plants will experience higher transpiration rates....are you letting your res evaporate and the PPM levels inadvertently rise to exceedingly high levels? I think if this was the case it would be affecting more than just a couple of plants but your entire crop....

What I am seeing is an intermittent problem. You had one plant die in wk3 of flowering and a couple more plants die later on, for no apparent reason. if it was something with your environment, adverse symptoms would most likely be more prevalent among more of the plants.

My gut feeling says you are experiencing some sort of hardware failure. Salt build up on a nozzle. Something like that is more likely to happen if your running sprays on timers - like 1 minute on 4 off or in your case 15m on 1h off.... than if your running it 24/7. You can safely run the system 24/7. The o2 is resupplied to the nute solution best thru agitation and contact with the air. I would conduct a really good visual inspection of the plant sites that had plants die... it could be the roots themselves clogged the sprayheads.

I guess it is possible that the 1st plant that died contracted some disease and died, and it took this long for the disease to manifest itself in the other plants. Although this idea seems to be less likely.

Yea still not sure cause it happened to plants in different systems different times. I check ppm ph and temps daily no big spikes. Also have a 12 inch air stone in each rez with a 70 liter per min pump running 7 air stones total so 10 liter per min per rez. Just limping throught till harvest on all the systems one done and the other two will be done in about 7 to 10 days all are flushing right now. But the one i did harvest the roots had some rot and some algee in the very bottom where they were siting in the tube. Just to much water not enough air? I think the few days of high temps room and rez and to much water started the rot and I just never got them to recover. So it time for a room make over and a grow journal of my own

 

[Bigbud13]

Thanx 4 the info Gorilla

 

[Roseman]

Does ACGROW ever come back around here?

 

[Bigbud13]

Don't know.

 

[Bigbud13]

Put my C02 in 2 days ago. If u ain't got u need it!!!

 

[gorilla5]

Put my C02 in 2 days ago. If u ain't got u need it!!!

very nice got pics or a journal going?

 

[MIFarms]

thanks man its working wonders

 

[Bigbud13]

Will be taking pics soon. Need to pick up the camera & have just been too busy.

 

[Thetablesturn]

Ac,

I have read this thread top to bottom, bottom to top. Now for my question, how do you get water to just leak back down to the reseivor and not on the the bottom rubber-maid lid in the vegging unit?

Thanks
TheTablesTurnin

 

[Sky Rocket]

Ac,

I have read this thread top to bottom, bottom to top. Now for my question, how do you get water to just leak back down to the reseivor and not on the the bottom rubber-maid lid in the vegging unit?

Thanks
TheTablesTurnin

There's a whole in the bottom of the top bin that holds the plants and there's a hole in the lid of the bottom rubber maid bin.