LA's Budmaster & Oxygen Pot Systems - All Business Thread - Fluxing with GG#4 & More!

[Seraphim]

Re: LA's Budmaster & Oxygen Pot Systems - All Business Thread - Fluxing with GG#4 & M



I was looking at those buds and... my jaw.. my jaw!! I can't find it!! Where did it fall??

 

[Light Addict]

Re: LA's Budmaster & Oxygen Pot Systems - All Business Thread - Fluxing with GG#4 & M

I hope the day finds everyone well and blitzed on your own bud!

 

[Light Addict]

Re: LA's Budmaster & Oxygen Pot Systems - All Business Thread - Fluxing with GG#4 & M

Now lets get this journal all sewn up with a nice little bow!

Firstly let me thank this great community at 420 and of course its great sponsors, as without you and them this thread would never have been possible!
A special shout out goes to Onavelzy on this run, your a diamond my friend. Put simply I was blessed with some Gorilla Glue!!!


CATCH UP;
I was always a baseline grower, I live in a unfriendly country! I worked with low budget equipment until my sponsorships through this great site. This has meant for the first time I've been able to play like a big boy Unfortunately this brought new challenges such as security etc. (Now my equipment was worth pinching also!!!) This lead to myself having to run this journal scraping time here and there to build a time frame buffer. This on top of the grow being at my friends place! (Safety first and all that lol)

Now I walked into this run with pretty high and quite silly expectancies. I've never ran LED, or ever even thought of anything but straight dirt in a pot grows before. So this was all new ground an if truth be told I thought I'd walk it lol!!!
NAH!!! Stupid thought

Negatives this run!;
My set-up this run had no air stones for res or pot bottoms.
I ran norm tap water instead of RO (which my nute line requires)
My PH meter was off for a good while and caused lock out!
My NON Oxygen Pot Reservoir failed and leaked on me during flower. (Switched to top feed)
My access to the girls this run was quite limited, so my ability to manage low down growth etc was poor!
I also probs overcrowded the tent, I'd have done loads better off 4 girls instead of 6 with a bonus 7th.
Running differing strains in an Ebb & Flow system is problematic.
Unknown ground with the GG genetics lead to some piss poor production with those two plants!

ISSUES CAUSED:
PH imbalance caused lock out and loss of prime budding time.
Differing time frames on girls caused me to cock up a foliar spray with some. this caused halt in budding!
Reservoir failure caused my extended root mass in the bottom of each pot to fail and rot away. (Stunt caused)
I also suffered the first decent summer in years lol (Sodding UK )



Now we will have some pics with some explanations along with em!

We start a way back at first! As you can see I've already started to harvest the Cream Caramel Fast at this point. Most girls were taken in 2 stages! Everything is yellowing up, not due to my work more due to my cock-ups!

This is my second bonus girl a Skywalker Kush!

So now some bud pics of the CC fast.

Some early low and little GG nugs for testing

Back to the tent we go!

More GG bits! and some AH tester buds

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[Light Addict]

Re: LA's Budmaster & Oxygen Pot Systems - All Business Thread - Fluxing with GG#4 & M

Tent

Some of the RD, big nice Colas on this girl and she stank so sweet!

Some Crop!

So now we come down to it!!!
Numbers were poor for me to say the least lol I could have done better off to good and managed fluxes lol!

RD Came in 171g
Gorilla Glue X 2 132g
Blue Kush 182g
CC Fast 175g
A Haze 150g So a pretty piss poor yield this run!!!!!!!!

I WOULD LIKE TO MAKE IT CLEAR THE YIELD IS NOT A RESULT OF THE EQUIPMENT!!!! JUST ME BALLSING UP LOTS

PRODUCT REVIEW

Oxygen Pot Systems Ebb & Flow!
This system is quite good. It has the ability to run any medium, so therefore gives you the scope to expand and experiment with your growing styles and methods.
It does have some draw backs in my humble opinion. Firstly the roots do not air prune enough on the bottom of the cloth pots. This leads to your roots growing into the bottom of the green plastic buckets. The system, does not provide aeration to buckets or the reservoir. These are needed in my opinion for a healthy plant.

Its an easy to use and assemble system. Also quite quick to dismantle and doesn't cause the mess I had imagined.
I would not unless running air stones etc use this system for extended vegging time runs. Rather I'd use the system earlier to get the best out of it for a really quick veg cycle and norm flower.

All in all a good system when it comes down to it. They just need to tinker with it some before its perfected.
I'll of course be passing my info on to them in the hope they can combat some of the minor issues the system has! ( although new bucket designs are as we speak in production! I should get some new buckets to test at some point soon!

I give the system a 8/10

Budmaster 1200 XG
My big beast of a light
Now as all know this is my first ever LED!
Damn I got lucky!!!!!!!!! All Ill say is that without doubt my yield would have been up on a HPS run if I hadn't fooooked it up so much.
I kid you not this light even at the standard XG mode is an awesome thing to behold. The coverage is awesome with truly daft penetration through thick foliage. My popcorn buds were nuggilicious!

Anyone doubting BM and their PAR power claims should just shut up lol they really are the bomb!

I have the benefit of having all three levels of BM boards; XG, OD, GOD.
Well in this field there truly is just one GOD!!!!! The GOD edition boards are without doubt the most mind melting things. They stand light years ahead of the others.

My next run with the big boy light will be full GOD so watch this space!




So in short a successful run with some good bud! not the best in yield or quality due to the plants being through so much stress and hardship. Lots of lessons learned for next time.
One thing, Am I sold on LED???? YES!!!!

Growing with LED is quite different from hps etc, yet I truly rate BM lights against hps, honestly full stop! The power of their lights is just baseline awesome!

So thanks to one and all for joining me on this first part of the adventure! [/QUOTE]

 

[Seraphim]

Re: LA's Budmaster & Oxygen Pot Systems - All Business Thread - Fluxing with GG#4 & M

Congratulations on your harvest LA!!!

 

[Light Addict]

Re: LA's Budmaster & Oxygen Pot Systems - All Business Thread - Fluxing with GG#4 & M

Many thanks Seraphim

To any that want to follow me in my new adventure please hit my Sideline grow link below with a self build BM light!

 

[David Bowman]

Re: LA's Budmaster & Oxygen Pot Systems - All Business Thread - Fluxing with GG#4 & M

Thanks for sharing your grow with us.

Please head over to the 420 Strain Reviews forum and post your smoke report there too.

I’m moving this to Completed Journals now.

Hope all is well in your world.

Love and respect from all of us here at 420 Magazine.

 

[CCOiler]

Re: LA's Budmaster & Oxygen Pot Systems - All Business Thread - Fluxing with GG#4 & M

Congratulations on your awesome harvest LA, and thank you for doing a business only journal. It really helps to learn instead of having to go through all of the other post. You truly are ahead of your game.

 

[FrenchDudee]

Re: LA's Budmaster & Oxygen Pot Systems - All Business Thread - Fluxing with GG#4 & M

how long do you veg a plant to get it on this level of flux?

 

[Light Addict]

Re: LA's Budmaster & Oxygen Pot Systems - All Business Thread - Fluxing with GG#4 & M

To me a flux without setbacks would only take 10-12 weeks max for a nice big girl! its just getting veg environmental stuff dialled in! Then you could just prep a mom and with forward planing have pre fluxed clones.

 

[Big Sparks]

Re: LA's Budmaster & Oxygen Pot Systems - All Business Thread - Fluxing with GG#4 & M

Good stuff L.A! Very good job indeed! as usual, it's been a fluxing pleasure! Now I'm on to your next adventures and hope to be catching up with you soon in a current journal. Plus reps....much deserved.

Sparks

 

[Countrygrower]

Re: LA's Budmaster & Oxygen Pot Systems - All Business Thread - Fluxing with GG#4 & M

im here abit late but i must say what fantasic work.

A nice read with my morning coffe
Lightaddict i been following your work since i joined... you my friend are a genius.

Your work is truley inspirational.
Im also in the uk so having a tent looking like this is a dream of mine.

Love it keep up the good work pal

 

[Light Addict]

Re: LA's Budmaster & Oxygen Pot Systems - All Business Thread - Fluxing with GG#4 & M

Countrygrower many thanks for the kind words! Its just experience, patience and the ability to live life in your front room forever lol if you've a thread going drop me a link and I'll subb up

 

[Dennise]

Re: LA's Budmaster & Oxygen Pot Systems - All Business Thread - Fluxing with GG#4 & M