8 Beans DP Auto Ultimate - Soilless

[ondercuver]

Decided to start a journal , it should help me and entertain others... a win-win situation



What strain is it?-------------------------------------- Auto Ultimate from Dutch Passion
Is it Indica, Sativa or Hybrid? What percentages?-- Hybrid
Is it in Veg or Flower stage? ------------------------- Just soaked the beans in a cup

Indoor or outdoor?------------------------------------Indoor
Soil or Hydro?-----------------------------------------Not soil , I could go RDWC or COCO or Wylmas

Size of light?-------------------------------------------2X600HPS (flower ) , 1x400MH+mars hydro 200w( veg) and some cfl's for seedlings

Is it aircooled?-----------------------------------------Not
Temp of Room/cab?-----------------------------------~25 celsius
RH of Room/cab?-------------------------------------- where it needs to be mostly.
PH of media or res?----------------------------------- 5.5>6.2
Any Pests ?--------------------------------------------beter not
How often are you watering?-------------------------to be determined
Type and strength of ferts used----------------------GH flora series , as much as they want, less is definitely not more, canna rhyzotronic and some cal-mag if needed .

Very hard tap water , EC 0.64 , PH 8.2 , using hard water Micro GH
Some sort of filtration or RO will be installed at one point but not in the beginning .
All this in a homeLab 4x8 tent

 

[ondercuver]

displaying photos is a bit hard, guess I'll have to follow instructions...

 

[ondercuver]

don't get too excited, one didn't sprout .. I have some freebies auto big bud .... I'll wait till tomorrow.

 

[ondercuver]

Ok so all 8 girls are going well , I made an intermediary dwc , like a bbl cloner but for ~2 weeks or so , more than that and the roots will get tangled .

This should give me enough time to make some money for the RDWC build

Ph'ing the solution with trace amounts of nutes inside was a pita, pizza got cold ... ofc misus got upset all hell broke loose , don't get it why , it was my pizza.

 

[ondercuver]

Res temp running too high, took the airpomp out and put a fan on it , think that's gonna lower 1-2 degrees till I make some sort of chiller

 

[ondercuver]

Still no roots out of the baskets , switched to 20/4 , maybe that'll help a bit.

 

[ondercuver]

my insulation skills are lacking ...

I think the girls are a bit slow, I gave them more food today and some calmag. +0.25EC

 

[dom2mac]

Im subbing to this journal. Thinking about making the switch from hempy buckets to DWC.

 

[ondercuver]

thanks bro, thought I was in ghost town dot com

 

[dom2mac]

This is a very active community, I notice people like to congregate around certain threads. You have lots of lurkers about 225 view and your still on page 1 of your journal keep it up.

 

[AlienAthena]

Subbed. My journal has been a ghost town for months lol. My fault i guess for not speaking in other journals.

Everything is looking good!

 

[dom2mac]

Also remember posting comments requires effort and we ARE a bunch of stoners

 

[dom2mac]

Alien it helps a lot if you put a link to your journal in the signature and post on other peoples journals.

 

[ondercuver]

Went shopping today , made a 3 stage water filter , very cheap , lowers the ec 0.14 ... guess will have to buy a RO system after all.

I'm almost ready with the RDWC , I want to move the girls before the roots get too big.


so much to do so little motivation , I may be truly lazy

 

[ondercuver]

Hempy new year 420 !!!



Started the year with a bit of work.

I only had one 400w mh bulb around so the blurple will do till I get another bulb.

 

[FatNeil]

Looking damn good so far. I'm subbed

 

[ondercuver]

Thanks bro !

I'm super excited right now , I just raped the credit card ... wanted one mh bulb and ended up with a whole lot of other junk .

Now , if anyone wants to jump in the rdwc madness .. the way I designed my sistem is not exactly perfect , totes are too big and water return is too small and thru the totes .
I think a much better design would be with a big collector pipe/manifold that runs next to the totes and to the outside res . I mean something like 70-80 mm shower drains in every tote connecting in a 150-200mm drain pipe manifold that would connect to the res , and then feed the totes with a much smaller manifold from the res , a 4-5k L/h pomp will do .
This should make mixing and ph-ing faster .
Another problem I can see is the last tote has a bit higher water level , about 1cm higher than the others , don't think plants will mind though.

 

[ondercuver]

I got algae ffs

 

[ondercuver]

algae turned to root rot , root rot turned to another shopping spree

I'm gonna end up divorced or broke or working

 

[Troy01]

Just subbed. Looks like a fun grow. I am currently growing in Coco (first try) and have at least 2 DP Auto-Ultimate planted but not sprouted after 6 day. I dropped another 2 this afternoon and think I will keep them germinating a little longer.

To get more people on board it really helps to add your Journal Link to you Signature.