Far East Buds
Well-Known Member
OK so here is the current deal.
I have been growing all along (2014) but haven't been posting on 420 due to a lack of time and also motivation. I have continued with my perpetual run and have had up to 25 ? strains running simultaneously. I have things pretty well dialed in and consistent for the most part. I have battled Gnats and Spider mites along the way. I rarely have dealt with the mites and seem to take care of them effectively. The gnats I can't seem to 100% eradicate but they usually are kept at very low numbers and meeeh little impact. I will list the strains I was running when I get a chance. The key is the was. See I am in search of the best strains that I like and work in my environment. I am a caretaker for a few people so their likes are important as well.
Out of the 25 I was running I forced myself to narrow it down to my 10 favorites. that was hard to do but it was because recently I added 27 new seed strains. (yes 27) I only popped 10 so far (7 are in peapods and 3 should be soon). My quest for the world's best strains will continue.
So to give some info on my hardware. My apologies if my laziness does not supply pictures of the details but you will see the stuff over time. This is current but I have used various setups over the last 3 years and some better than others. But this current setup I really like and it is very good on maintenance and labor to keep up. Sometimes growing has become a part time job.
I run out of three rooms. All run Drain to Waste in Coco that is new un fed each plant.
Work room- This room I use for chopping plants, drying, nutrient storage, supplies etc
Veg Room- This room runs a 1x2 Fluor, 1x4 Fluor, and 2x4 Fluor. I run 3 stages in Veg. Clones. Medium Veg and Big veg as I call them.
Small is for clones. My clones get cut , put in peapods with some gel and fed only tap water until rooted. Yup that's it.
Medium is for 1 gallon pots auto fed from an Octo feeder (30 gallon nute barrel).
Big Veg is plants prestaged for flower. Fed by a separate Octo on same res. That is when they get uppotted to 5 gallon pots and groomed for when a spot opens in flower.
I am lazy! The nutes are fed light and from the same Res. 700PPm typically. When it runs empty I usually let them feed on 60ppm tap water for a day or two to get some of the salts out.
Flower room I run 3x315W CMH's on 4200k ushio's and one Black Diamond perfect sun 1000W on a mover (6ft) (more on that down the road. Maybe) 2 of the 315's are brand new replacements for a mars LED and a 600W HPS. I ran one and liked it so I added 2 more
I run a 55 gallon Res and feed about 1000 PPM to everything in the flower room. Yes I feed them 1000ppm from day one in that room. I finish each plant with a 1-2 week flush dependant on it's appearance. Straight tap water flush for all.
As I said I currently run Drain to waste, Coco, A mix of nutrient brands, Octo auto feeds with Darts on a timer, I only usually run Photo plants.
So I do not anticipate posting pictures daily etc. I am not totally sure how often I will post etc. I will do my best tho to participate here in some way. LOL. I will figure out some format i follow and hopefully it will be interesting.
This is my old Journal if You want to compare the old me to the new I might even have another one out there too
Perpetual Grow Among Other Things!
I guess I will end this post here. I may edit it if i find mistakes.. LOL but I definitely will have more info in the following posts..
Peace
FE
I have been growing all along (2014) but haven't been posting on 420 due to a lack of time and also motivation. I have continued with my perpetual run and have had up to 25 ? strains running simultaneously. I have things pretty well dialed in and consistent for the most part. I have battled Gnats and Spider mites along the way. I rarely have dealt with the mites and seem to take care of them effectively. The gnats I can't seem to 100% eradicate but they usually are kept at very low numbers and meeeh little impact. I will list the strains I was running when I get a chance. The key is the was. See I am in search of the best strains that I like and work in my environment. I am a caretaker for a few people so their likes are important as well.
Out of the 25 I was running I forced myself to narrow it down to my 10 favorites. that was hard to do but it was because recently I added 27 new seed strains. (yes 27) I only popped 10 so far (7 are in peapods and 3 should be soon). My quest for the world's best strains will continue.
So to give some info on my hardware. My apologies if my laziness does not supply pictures of the details but you will see the stuff over time. This is current but I have used various setups over the last 3 years and some better than others. But this current setup I really like and it is very good on maintenance and labor to keep up. Sometimes growing has become a part time job.
I run out of three rooms. All run Drain to Waste in Coco that is new un fed each plant.
Work room- This room I use for chopping plants, drying, nutrient storage, supplies etc
Veg Room- This room runs a 1x2 Fluor, 1x4 Fluor, and 2x4 Fluor. I run 3 stages in Veg. Clones. Medium Veg and Big veg as I call them.
Small is for clones. My clones get cut , put in peapods with some gel and fed only tap water until rooted. Yup that's it.
Medium is for 1 gallon pots auto fed from an Octo feeder (30 gallon nute barrel).
Big Veg is plants prestaged for flower. Fed by a separate Octo on same res. That is when they get uppotted to 5 gallon pots and groomed for when a spot opens in flower.
I am lazy! The nutes are fed light and from the same Res. 700PPm typically. When it runs empty I usually let them feed on 60ppm tap water for a day or two to get some of the salts out.
Flower room I run 3x315W CMH's on 4200k ushio's and one Black Diamond perfect sun 1000W on a mover (6ft) (more on that down the road. Maybe) 2 of the 315's are brand new replacements for a mars LED and a 600W HPS. I ran one and liked it so I added 2 more
I run a 55 gallon Res and feed about 1000 PPM to everything in the flower room. Yes I feed them 1000ppm from day one in that room. I finish each plant with a 1-2 week flush dependant on it's appearance. Straight tap water flush for all.As I said I currently run Drain to waste, Coco, A mix of nutrient brands, Octo auto feeds with Darts on a timer, I only usually run Photo plants.
So I do not anticipate posting pictures daily etc. I am not totally sure how often I will post etc. I will do my best tho to participate here in some way. LOL. I will figure out some format i follow and hopefully it will be interesting.
This is my old Journal if You want to compare the old me to the new
I might even have another one out there too Perpetual Grow Among Other Things!
I guess I will end this post here. I may edit it if i find mistakes.. LOL but I definitely will have more info in the following posts..
Peace
FE
I will be starting a new grow in a few month time.. Need to move to another country first.
