Ganja_smoker's Hydroponic Grow Journal

[ganja_smoker]

what's your camera settings on these shots?

aperture, film speed, all that

I just use the "Close-up" seting.

 

[fallen]

ah ok.

well it looks.. amazing.

how big is the bud?

 

[GanjaMan417]

looking great man.. almost that time where you can enjoy the fruits of your labor ahaha can't wait to see the outcome

 

[ganja_smoker]

Well, I'm down to the last two weeks before I harvest. I have been doing my research, and have decided to go with Stix' final flush method.........

Monday - replace all nutrient in the resevoir with plain ph balanced water.
Tuesday - replace all water in resevoir with plain ph balanced water again.
Wednesday - replace all water in resevoir with ph balanced water and Clearex.
Thursday - replace all water in resevoir with ph balanced water only.
Friday - replace all water in resevoir with ph balanced water again.
Saturday - HARVEST!!!

I will start this scedule on Wednesday June 6. Harvest day is set for the 11th.

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[fallen]

would it be better to flush for 1.5 - 2 weeks? then cure for a month or so

or is it good to just flush for 1 week, then cure for like.. 1 month or so?

 

[ganja_smoker]

 

[fallen]

loving it.

you awesome person you.

 

[thinkGREEN]

----GROW RECAP----
as requested by fallen

Keep in mind, this is a "first grow" There are MANY things I would do differently now that I've got some experience.

To start my growroom, I first decided where it would go and how big. Drew up some plans and headed to Home Depot for some 2 X 4's and plywood. I framed out the space and covered the inside with black plastic and mylar.

------Vegetation------

36" X 28" X 8' room
All walls are lined with black plastic and mylar.
24" X 24" tray

Lighting

T5 High Output Fluorescent Light
Buy New Wave T5 Fluorescent Grow Light 2ft 4 Bulb 192W
8 2foot bulbs - (4)6500K & (4)3000K
18 hours of light per day (6am - midnight)​

Hydroponic System

My hydroponic system is a drip/recovery system. The drippers are 1 GPH. They drip for half an hour, 3 times a day (7am, 3pm, and 11pm). (Water Pump is 150 GPH). The reservior holds 10 gallons. I use the "Flora" Advanced Nutrient System from General Hydroponics - I'm just following the instructions on the bottle for vegetative growth.​

Germinated seeds in a damp paper towel and then planted them in 1" rockwool cubes. Transferred those into 4" cubes. Those were put into 1 gallon pots filled with hydroton. After about a month and a half I was able to ID 3 of my 4 plants as female. So I decided which one I wanted to keep as my mother and I threw the other 2 plants into the flower room.......



------Flower------

36" X 28" X 8' room
24" X 24" tray

First thing I did when I was setting up the flowering room was to make sure it would be totally dark with the lights off. I decided to use doors. I just put hinges on some plywood, covered the inside with black plastic and mylar. Then I got inside and closed the door and checked for total darkness. I had to plug a few leaks. I use the black plastic rolled up into a tube as "weather stripping" around the edges of the door.

Hydroponic System

Flood and drain
2' X 2' tray is filled with hydroton
10 gallon reservior
"Flora" Advanced Nutrient System from General Hydroponics ("blooming and ripening" mix)​

Light

400 watt High Pressure Sodium (HPS)
coolable hood
4" duct fan​

The flower room is the same size as the vegetation room (but I wish it was at least a little bit bigger). I'm using a 400W HPS light with a coolable hood. The coolable hood was definitely a necessity. Without a fan sucking out the heat from the HPS bulb, it would be way too hot. I keep that fan on all the time. There's also another fan in the back blowing air up to circulate. A third fan is outside blowing in at the plants.

The light is on 12 hours a day (7am - 7pm)

The tray floods 3 times a day (8am, 1pm and 5:30pm) for a half an hour. The pump I bought for this was too strong (150 GPH) so I swapped it with the one I had on the drip system. (130 GPH I think).

One thing that kinda sucks is that I have to open the door every morning at 7am and close it up at 7pm. I am still trying to come up with a way to automate that. Maybe with a garage door opener or something on a timer.

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ok so i have a space thats 3X5X7 tall that i would LOVE to turn into a growspace. its located in my bathroom ... i have a big bathroom but the growspace isnt closed off from the rest of it so im thinkin that i am going to have to build a frame very similar to yours. my 1st question is what do you do to close off the flowering & vegitative rooms during their dark cycles? and did you actually build a BOX or you just put up a frame and tacked black plastic and mylar around as walls? again ... i am still in the design stages of my growroom and i'm planning on modeling it similar to yours so if i had n e more questions u mind if i PM you sometime ganja_smoker?

 

[ganja_smoker]

 

[ganja_smoker]

 

[thinkGREEN]

i cant wait to start growing!

 

[ganja_smoker]

I put these clones into rockwool a week ago after they started showing roots through the oasis cubes. They are on the drip system now. Getting bigger every day. I added one more 6500K CFL.

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[ganja_smoker]

 

[ganja_smoker]

Here's my flower room and veg room side by side......the buds are getting so heavy that some of the branches are slumping over.

I started the flush process this morning (monday). Two days earlier than I had planned. Filled the tank with plain water today - no nutrients. Fresh water for tomorrow. .............

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[SIZE="-2"]............................stay tuned..........[/SIZE]

 

[onPOT]

Absolutley beautiful.
Are you going rune those monsters?

 

[ganja_smoker]

today was day 2 of the final flush. Just fresh plain water in the tank.
Tomorrow will be fresh water with clearex added.

 

[Janjaweed]

yum

 

[beensmokin420]

ww..wwooowww!

 

[qWERTY]

Looks great, can't wait for harvest pics.

 

[ganja_smoker]

This bud is so big, it wouldn't fit into one photo......

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