Farside05 Goes SIPs, Mars Hydro FC4800, Osmocote, FN Nutes - Supplements - & GroBuckets

[farside05]

Hey Farside, greetings. What size buckets are those? 5 gal? How much medium are the plants in? I am contemplating a SIP grow but I have to get my head around logistics and DIY still. I see mention by you of running autos in a SIP setup. Have you done it yet?

Sorry. I've been MIA. Wife decided to share her bronchitis with me the day before Thanksgiving. Then it tore through my workplace and I was recently promoted so guess who got to work while sick and all my other employees took off. Yep, me. Had a 24hour shift I had to do last Thursday.

These are 5 gallon buckets with a 1 gallon reservoir and 4 gallons of Pro Mix.

Despite adding plenty of Cal-Mag and Potassium to supplement the Osmocote, I still can't get them back to green. The last 2 days I've went ahead and fed them the full compliment of FN Fertilizer ™ (FN Silica, FN Micros, FN A, and FN B). We'll see if they were just running out of Osmocote.

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• farside05
• Dec 6, 2022

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• farside05
• Dec 6, 2022

 

[nick5311]

Since I failed to mention earlier. The Osmocote product I am using is Osmocote Plus Indoor & Outdoor.

Osmocote Plus comes in 2 variations - 3 month release and 6 month release... which are you using?

 

[farside05]

Osmocote Plus comes in 2 variations - 3 month release and 6 month release... which are you using?

It says feeds up to 6 months on the container. The standard reddish pink container available for purchase at Walmart, Home Depot, Amazon, etc. On the professional product side, Osmocote makes 8 versions of Plus that feeds up to 14 months.

 

[nick5311]

It says feeds up to 6 months on the container. The standard reddish pink container available for purchase at Walmart, Home Depot, Amazon, etc. On the professional product side, Osmocote makes 8 versions of Plus that feeds up to 14 months.

cool - it looks like they took the retail version of the 3mo version off the market. I was asking in relation to your most recent post, but if it's 6mo release, it should still be active. I remember reading threads here about OC+ 10 years ago, guys like @WattSaver (who I think is still around) . Anyway, I think he used to add OC 14-14-14 during flower (going from my memory, I could be wrong -- need to dig up the old threads).

edit: found it - Osmocote Plus Plant Food: Discuss Its Use With Cannabis Here!

and then here he states he does 1/3 OC+ and 2/3 14-14-14

Osmocote Plus Plant Food: Discuss Its Use With Cannabis Here!

this is the page i was lookingfor and i "dont have permission to view this page"...am i too noob to visit the page or is this what everyone is talking about when they say the thread just "dissappeared?" thanks agin, be easy, Dr.J It's not anything with you bro, that thread has been unavailable...

www.420magazine.com

 

[InTheShed]

Sorry. I've been MIA. Wife decided to share her bronchitis with me the day before Thanksgiving.

Oof, sorry to hear that.

Then it tore through my workplace

Damn, bronchitis Mary!

and I was recently promoted so guess who got to work while sick and all my other employees took off. Yep, me. Had a 24hour shift I had to do last Thursday.

You got promoted because you spread your wife's bronchitis to all your coworkers? That's an oddly run workplace...

These are 5 gallon buckets with a 1 gallon reservoir and 4 gallons of Pro Mix.

I am so not used to seeing untrained bushes in your tents!

 

[farside05]

You got promoted because you spread your wife's bronchitis to all your coworkers? That's an oddly run workplace...

I actually got promoted 2 weeks before the spreading of the germs. Then I promptly had to take on the extra responsibility as everyone else called out.

I am so not used to seeing untrained bushes in your tents!

These things didn't really stretch which is when I'd attempt most of my manipulation. Don't know if it's the strains or if it was that they started to show deficiencies right when they'd normally stretch.

 

[Flatfish]

Sorry. I've been MIA. Wife decided to share her bronchitis with me the day before Thanksgiving. Then it tore through my workplace and I was recently promoted so guess who got to work while sick and all my other employees took off. Yep, me. Had a 24hour shift I had to do last Thursday.

These are 5 gallon buckets with a 1 gallon reservoir and 4 gallons of Pro Mix.

Despite adding plenty of Cal-Mag and Potassium to supplement the Osmocote, I still can't get them back to green. The last 2 days I've went ahead and fed them the full compliment of FN Fertilizer ™ (FN Silica, FN Micros, FN A, and FN B). We'll see if they were just running out of Osmocote.

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• farside05
• Dec 6, 2022

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• farside05
• Dec 6, 2022

Glad to hear you are doing better Farside !
When you supplemented with FN nutes, did you top feed or did you add them directly to the reservoir ?

 

[Carmen Ray]

Sorry. I've been MIA. Wife decided to share her bronchitis with me the day before Thanksgiving. Then it tore through my workplace and I was recently promoted so guess who got to work while sick and all my other employees took off. Yep, me. Had a 24hour shift I had to do last Thursday.

That sounds rough! No worries Farside, thank you for responding. I hope you feel better.

 

[farside05]

Glad to hear you are doing better Farside !
When you supplemented with FN nutes, did you top feed or did you add them directly to the reservoir ?

Reservoir

 

[Flatfish]

Reservoir

Thanks Farside ! Hope this gets them back on track. Thinking in the near future of trying a SIP and using the interior float switches and a supply reservoir of FN RO nutes.

 

[Mars Hydro]

Sorry. I've been MIA. Wife decided to share her bronchitis with me the day before Thanksgiving. Then it tore through my workplace and I was recently promoted so guess who got to work while sick and all my other employees took off. Yep, me. Had a 24hour shift I had to do last Thursday.

These are 5 gallon buckets with a 1 gallon reservoir and 4 gallons of Pro Mix.

Despite adding plenty of Cal-Mag and Potassium to supplement the Osmocote, I still can't get them back to green. The last 2 days I've went ahead and fed them the full compliment of FN Fertilizer ™ (FN Silica, FN Micros, FN A, and FN B). We'll see if they were just running out of Osmocote.

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• farside05
• Dec 6, 2022

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• farside05
• Dec 6, 2022

They are so lush.

 

[farside05]

They are so lush.

Thanks. I still think they could be better. Switching feed seems to have stemmed the deficiencies. Lower temps in the grow area always seems to slow growth and lead to less consistent green foliage this time of year too. I'm still at 75% power on the FC4800. It doesn't seem necessary to go to 100% in a Mars 39"x39" tent with this fixture. It's more light than the space requires. I don't mind saving on the electric bill either.

 

[farside05]

Got into the tent with some scissors for some defoliation action. It actually looks like I'm trying to grow flowers now instead of leaves.

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• farside05
• Dec 10, 2022

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• farside05
• Dec 10, 2022

 

[farside05]

Some pics of the girls. They've been much better since I started feeding them the regular FN Fertilizer™ lineup and act like the Osmocote didn't exist. Couldn't get the SaugaView™ pic of the larger OGesus between the light bars. The Purple Sunset is on the right and has the top down pics.

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• farside05
• Dec 17, 2022

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• farside05
• Dec 17, 2022

 

[InTheShed]

I hope those Fn nutes bring them back up your standards!

 

[farside05]

I hope those Fn nutes bring them back up your standards!

The bud that's there looks like it will be good, but it's too late to get the plants any larger. Live and learn. Osmocote plus FN Supplements did well with the Summer's outside girl, but evidently 20 hours of LED lighting puts additional stresses on them that it can't keep up with. Too bad since it is easier just feeding them water up until bloom. I've got a grow that will use the standard FN lineup starting soon. We'll see how that goes.

 

[farside05]

Not much to report other than I pour water (includes 10ml each of the 4 basic parts of FN Fertilizer™) down their esophagus to refill the reservoir when needed.

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• farside05
• Dec 23, 2022
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• Dec 23, 2022

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• Dec 23, 2022

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• farside05
• Dec 23, 2022

 

[Azimuth]

Not much to report other than I pour water (includes 10ml each of the 4 basic parts of FN Fertilizer™) down their esophagus to refill the reservoir when needed.

Seems sufficient.

 

[InTheShed]

The leaves are a bit ratty but the flowers look nice!

 

[farside05]

Day whatever. I haven't kept good track and would have to dig through the journal to find that info The smell is unlike anything I've run across before. Fruity, funky, and frosty.

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• farside05
• Dec 27, 2022

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• farside05
• Dec 27, 2022