After getting my feet wet with my first hydro grow (First Indoor Hydro Grow) I decided to set up a perpetual grow where I harvest every 2 months. I figure I can only smoke an ounce every 6 weeks, so even a modest harvest every 8 weeks should keep me in free high quality bud.
Strain: The strain I have chosen is White Widow. It was very easy to grow, and very noob friendly and forgiving. The buds are very powerful and as tasty as anything I had ever smoked. The plants are small but very dense and the yield was more than I expected/deserved with the 12-18" plants that I grew.
Grow type: My indoor is DWC (I started with RDWC but got rid of the pumps, they were more trouble then they were worth) in different size containers. Outdoors, I have 2 very nice WW clones in 3 1/2 gal planters in Promix. These will likely double in size, but it will be an October harvest (unless I bring one inside) I am probably going to experiment with some other hydro systems later in the grow.
Bloom Room: This is a windowless bathroom. I have utilized the shower stall as the bloom area and currently have just one, nice sized WW already 2 weeks into flowering in this 14 gal container.
This will likely be my only August harvested plant as the other 4 ("free seeds") I had in the container turned out to be boys. Good riddance.
Veg Room: After deciding to do a perpetual grow, I started looking for a grow tent. I found an awesome on that I thought was 2 x 4 x 7, but turned out to be 3 x 5 x 7! It's a very good size. I currently have the mother plant in there in a 10 gal res.
And another unknown (Never seen anything like it) Indica dominant monster. I'm putting it outside in promix today as I don't want to waste time and nutes if it's a male.
Cloning Rig: This is a piece of the puzzle that I have not been able to get as of yet. My first try was with rockwool cubes and a humidity dome. That actually worked the best as I got 4 decent rooted clones and two additional ones I gifted to a friend. Unfortunately the survival rate was about 25% and was unacceptable. My next try was with rapid rooter cubes, cloning gel, humidity dome and heat pad. I thought I got it as the cuttings looked awesome right away.......But they withered and died within 3-5 days without rooting.
So then I did some research here and looked at a bunch of threads here at 420 (Supergroomer Tries to Clone with the Clone King 25 and Making The SH Mistic Cloner) I decided to make one myself using the Oxyclone as the base unit. I added an air pump and 12" difuser plus the "fog machine" from the second thread.
I kept the heating pad on until I checked the water....It was very warm!!! I lost the heating pad, but the temps are still high despite the air-difuser and water pump going full blast. The "fog machine" adds a considerable amount of heat, but the plants are all doing well 24 hours later. I did lose one clone (out of 6) but it was before adding the fog machine component.
Lighting: I experimented with a few different lights. I started my first grow with a 315w CFL lamp. It is a formidable light and I still use it for the veg tank. You can get within inches of the plant without harm and the plants seem to love it. I have 2 x 6500k and on 5000k in the middle. I bought 2 other 2700k CFLs for flowering but I decided to go with LED in the bloom room. 3 3x100 Mars Hydro lamps to be exact. My lone mother WW has a 2' T5 lamp all to herself
Nutes/Ferts I got the Technaflora suite of nutes with my first hydro rig and will stick with them. I did however decide to only use the no-organic solutions....Boost, Grow and Bloom and eliminated the Thrive Alive products and other "brown" ferts.
Enzymes/Water treatments I started my last grow with Hygrozyme (I grow slime) and treated root issues with H202. I'm not sure the H202 did anything, but as I'm unable to control the res temps (almost always over 80f) I quickly had mold/mildew issues. A capful of bleach takes care of everything and the plants don't seem to mind one bit. That was probably the best lesson that I had learned from my last grow and not too many people on here will agree, but squeaky clean roots and great smelling tanks prove that bleach is your friend!
Strain: The strain I have chosen is White Widow. It was very easy to grow, and very noob friendly and forgiving. The buds are very powerful and as tasty as anything I had ever smoked. The plants are small but very dense and the yield was more than I expected/deserved with the 12-18" plants that I grew.
Grow type: My indoor is DWC (I started with RDWC but got rid of the pumps, they were more trouble then they were worth) in different size containers. Outdoors, I have 2 very nice WW clones in 3 1/2 gal planters in Promix. These will likely double in size, but it will be an October harvest (unless I bring one inside) I am probably going to experiment with some other hydro systems later in the grow.
Bloom Room: This is a windowless bathroom. I have utilized the shower stall as the bloom area and currently have just one, nice sized WW already 2 weeks into flowering in this 14 gal container.
This will likely be my only August harvested plant as the other 4 ("free seeds") I had in the container turned out to be boys. Good riddance.
Veg Room: After deciding to do a perpetual grow, I started looking for a grow tent. I found an awesome on that I thought was 2 x 4 x 7, but turned out to be 3 x 5 x 7! It's a very good size. I currently have the mother plant in there in a 10 gal res.
And another unknown (Never seen anything like it) Indica dominant monster. I'm putting it outside in promix today as I don't want to waste time and nutes if it's a male.
Cloning Rig: This is a piece of the puzzle that I have not been able to get as of yet. My first try was with rockwool cubes and a humidity dome. That actually worked the best as I got 4 decent rooted clones and two additional ones I gifted to a friend. Unfortunately the survival rate was about 25% and was unacceptable. My next try was with rapid rooter cubes, cloning gel, humidity dome and heat pad. I thought I got it as the cuttings looked awesome right away.......But they withered and died within 3-5 days without rooting.
So then I did some research here and looked at a bunch of threads here at 420 (Supergroomer Tries to Clone with the Clone King 25 and Making The SH Mistic Cloner) I decided to make one myself using the Oxyclone as the base unit. I added an air pump and 12" difuser plus the "fog machine" from the second thread.
Lighting: I experimented with a few different lights. I started my first grow with a 315w CFL lamp. It is a formidable light and I still use it for the veg tank. You can get within inches of the plant without harm and the plants seem to love it. I have 2 x 6500k and on 5000k in the middle. I bought 2 other 2700k CFLs for flowering but I decided to go with LED in the bloom room. 3 3x100 Mars Hydro lamps to be exact. My lone mother WW has a 2' T5 lamp all to herself
Nutes/Ferts I got the Technaflora suite of nutes with my first hydro rig and will stick with them. I did however decide to only use the no-organic solutions....Boost, Grow and Bloom and eliminated the Thrive Alive products and other "brown" ferts.
Enzymes/Water treatments I started my last grow with Hygrozyme (I grow slime) and treated root issues with H202. I'm not sure the H202 did anything, but as I'm unable to control the res temps (almost always over 80f) I quickly had mold/mildew issues. A capful of bleach takes care of everything and the plants don't seem to mind one bit. That was probably the best lesson that I had learned from my last grow and not too many people on here will agree, but squeaky clean roots and great smelling tanks prove that bleach is your friend!
I just transplanted her into Promix and he/she is showing signs of transplant shock....There's nothing I can do and I know he/she'll be OK, but I hate to watch 
This plant has the best root structure of any plant I have ever seen. Almost too much for the container and amazingly white with that fresh hay smell.
