GiGaBaNE's 4th - HydroGanics 600w HiD + Flouro

beans ,beans the musical fruit the more you eat the more you toot! the more you toot the better you feel so eat some beans with every meal!! feel free to insert weed references as needed, yes i like to let the beans go a month from pollination many guides say 3 weeks but honestly a month to be sure they are all viable, i have some i took at 3 weeks and yeah they germ but rates are low lots of duds, any i let go a month have been close to 100% on my cream caramel (the 1st 1) i let the last self pollinated one go till they were falling out of the buds and germin in the pot with mom! just thought id share that:thumb:
 
Great info BID!!
 
Looks like things are coming along beautifully Gigs!
Thanks for the reps brother.
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no prob you know im always willing to help with whatever i can even if its just telling a joke to turn a frown upside down!!! hhehhehehe !:party::ganjamon:
 
Happy Birthday Gig hope you have 70 more:party::happy-birthday::happy-birthday::theband:
 
the new face of CMH bulbs?

GE | Lamps | High Intensity Discharge | ConstantColor

check out the beam angle.

they sell in 3 different beam angles. for different applications.

a few wide beams for general plant light and then some tight beams for pointing at buds? =D

do these mess with inverse square law? i just figure the tighter the beam the longer the range.

maybe now cmh replaces cfl instead or as well as hps/MH =D

PS looks like my internet is going down now, back in a couple of days. maybe sooner if i can.
 
welcome aboard Mountain goat! =)

good timing, things are starting to blow up.

got a pay day imminant.
getting a dual spec bulb for my hps (later i may get an empty rig for it and a mh rig so from left to right it will be HPS-dual-MH) in a factory line type scenario...or just go for several dual spec)
im also going to try and get the following all as a package, a paddling pool, lots of hydroton and net pots.

ill also be getting some organic additives for my chosen soil type.
and of course yet another 20 KC45 seeds

unlike other forms of hydro, my net pots will be filled with organic soil. hydroton will fill the bottom 3rd of the swimming pool and then my net pots will just sit on top, then ill add more hydroton in between the pots, mainly just to lock it al in place, if roots can grow sidwards and survive, well thats just a bonus =D


and dont i feel like an ass. woke up from my nap and the internet is still bloody on :rofl:
anyone else here use virgin? you can always tell when you owe them a payment overdue, the internet quality drops to next to nothing and then gets cut within 24h oO


im dying to use CMH bulbs. once i have a few crops done and dusted i can move my family away from my grow.
the one downside to CMH bulbs...they are so good at replicating the sun that they can cause skin cancer =(
and a good tan =D
 
20-12-2012 (day before armageddon?)
Day 27 batch 1, day 14 batch 2 (i think) :rofl:





Before and after, Total defoliation of batch 1 on day 23 (from dry seed)
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This is Bigbud 2 removed from my prototype hydroganics...it was topped the day before this, sry i forgot to take a pic of topping, but just the top node, so it wasnt much bigger than this...look at the length of roots for its size...think hydrohanic makes them dig deep =D
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Now this seedling repotting method is experimental and i muffed up a few times till i found the correct procedure.

basically use a sieve to make a fine soil (compost and perlite in my case).
this stuff is very easy for the tap root to dig down into. (warning: super fine soil is ultra resitant to watering once gone dry)

soil is damp initially and sprayed during the shedding of the seed case, then left to go dry.

prepare new pot when its time to transfer and wet the surface of the new soil, this allowed a much better hole to be made.

pour out the dry fine grain soil whilst holding the seedling, almost nothing sticks to the roots and no root hairs get damaged if done correctly.

hold seedling roots suspended in the hole and sprinkle the dry dust gently down there with it. same soil, same soil texture and virtually no damage at all to the roots except maybe 30 seconds of light exposure.

once you have barely covered the roots with the fine soil, keep the rest for future seedlings. place a layer of normal soil over the top of the powdered soil (this accepts water better for the initial watering) this powder might possible become a dry spot later, but its at the transition zone between roots and stem so i think its harmless and may even be useful.

then water liberally, let settle, then sprinkle a fine layer of the dry dust on top (to help prevent damping and to deter gnats)
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And here they are repotted, notice i put one of the healthiest looking ones in a 3L. this will help me determine gain per L so i can calculate the exact size pots i need for my strain/room
put in a tub just for symetry, stability and watering, but they are soil grow not hydroganic, even tho i bottom water.
15x2l of soil failed miserably to bottom soak a combined 10l of water. ill find my right watering volume soon, 5l next time
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Ran out of soil so i didnt put all 3 in my big air pots, but i will before they get root bound.
bb2 then critical mass then delahaze (i think the dela is finally losing the battle, its just not doing much any more to stretch in any way)
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ROOT PORN!!!
These look great.
who needs hydrohassle. still no PH,ppm,slime,algea,temps issues at all.
Im begining to thing the plant doesnt really care what ph the water is at unless it contains food.
seems PH is an eating issue not drink. (yeah i know hydroponics has water in it, but so does soup and thats a food) :rofl:
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ok guys and gals, my heads all over the place at the moment, missus late from shopping and im panicing about the school run
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Nice update Giga! You have so many little babies there! Everything looks neat and tidy, and the set of pics you posted like a conveyor belt of activity and organisation! Nice one! :popcorn:
 
Fantastic! Great amount of info with great results. :thumb:
 
wild n interesting happenings in the gigazone!:thumb:
 
woke up today to signs of nute burn and algae in the water =(

still dont have any pyrethium product yet so i have spraying the crap out of them with bug free. it just says active ingredient: fatty acids. wondering if that is causing the harm. have to replace the water, trim the escaping roots and try to clean them up as best as possible.

i only have a tiny air pump and i turned it off for 8 hours or so. had an electric shortage while shop was closed, entire house was powered down to a single 20w cfl in my grow room to maintain the light cycle.

im not actually sure what pest im infested with. i looked at a few random fly corpes and their abdomens are almost wasp stripes with yellow/gold.

i might just bight the bullet and but some gnat off online, seems the most easily accesable online in my area, its just stupidly expensive.
 

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