Red Diesel, Midnight Rose, Sweet Black Angel: Indoor, Using Nectar For The Gods #4 Soil & General Hydro Nutes

[GrnRm]

I've been gone a while... Update: I'm a father now, to a beautiful baby boy!!! Which would explain my leave of absence.

Now back to business as usual! My current grow is already up and running so, being it's perpetual, I'll just run through the basics and we can go from there.

Currently Flowering: Red Diesel (unknown genetics) + Midnight Rose (sativa dominant hybrid from Shark Tank Seed Bank)

Soil: Nectar For The Gods #4 + NFTG One Shot Granules in 5gal Fabric Pots, sitting on 8gal Sub-irrigation Reservoir. 24-7 aeration in the Reservoirs.

Nutrients: Finishing my General Hydroponics products up. Next set of clones will start NFTG Nutes.

Lighting: Vegged for 6 weeks, 4 under 430w T5, and then 2 weeks under 1000w MH. They have been in 12/12 for 3.5 weeks now under 2500w HPS, and are going strong!

Feeding Schedule: Hand watered in 1gal Fabric Pots in early veg. During flower, I top off the Reservoirs everyday, and every fourth day they get topped off with full strength nutrients. On average, PPMs stay around 650-850. Ph tends to settle around 6.8-7.0 in the Reservoirs, but the girls don't seem to mind it at all. I'll drop the Ph on feed days and allow it to drift back up until the next feed day.

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• Dec 13, 2018

Early Veg under 8 bulb T5

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• Dec 13, 2018

First day under the 1000w MH

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• Dec 13, 2018

2 weeks of growth under the 1000w MH

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• Dec 13, 2018

Midnight Rose #1 from Shark Tank Seed Bank

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• Dec 13, 2018

Midnight Rose #2 from Shark Tank Seed Bank

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• Dec 13, 2018

Top view of the Red Diesel Twins. Yes there are 2 plants in this pot. That's a 3ft diameter screen.

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• Dec 13, 2018

Side view of the Red Diesel Twins

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• Dec 13, 2018

The new flower room, sporting 5000w HPS!

 

[TurboBucket]

Congratulations! Welcome back Good to see you!
I've been really curious about how you changed your system and how it was doing. Looks great the girls look awesome again. I want to go to a sub irrigated setup when I clean out a tent in a few weeks.

Did you cut a net pot into the bottom of the fabric pots again?

Hopefully fatherhood hasn't been too rough on you yet. Again good to see you back around.

 

[GrnRm]

Thanks TurboBucket, it's nice to be back! My boy is a dream baby, I have not a single complaint!!!

I simply substituted the 10 gallon totes for the 5 gallon buckets. Less holes to drill, and more water for the plants. I used the same fabric pots and net pot lids from the 5gal bucket system. I now have airstones in the totes, which has been a huge improvement. The roots are filling both the fabric pots from top to bottom, and the totes are about half full of roots as well.

 

[TurboBucket]

That's great! Mine were good babies too thankfully. Makes it easier to enjoy.

Awesome. Nice and simple

 

[GrnRm]

The Red Diesel Twins are stacking up nicely!!!

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• Dec 14, 2018

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• Dec 14, 2018

 

[GrnRm]

The room is finally running at 100%! The left side is filled in with the Red Diesel Twins and the Midnight Rose Twins, and the right side is filled in with all Red Diesel Clones.

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• Dec 14, 2018

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• Dec 13, 2018

A full row of Red Diesel

 

[GrnRm]

A few pics of the new Sub-irrigated Planters. I'm using a 5gal fabric pot, and a 10gal tote. I cut a net pot lid down to fit inside the fabric pot, then cut the bottom of the fabric pot out to fit the 6" net pot through. I then cut out the center of the tote lid to allow the net pot to drop through, and the net pot is doubled up to help retain the perlite wicking material. The tote is roughly the same height as the doubled up net pots, so with some minor flexing of the tote lid, the netpot rests on the bottom of the tote supporting the fabric pot. I currently have totes running with 4, and some with 2 1.5" airstones. I'll compare root growth in the totes at the end of these 2 cycles to see how many stones I'll keep running.

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• Dec 14, 2018

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• Dec 14, 2018

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• Dec 14, 2018

 

[GrnRm]

A few bud pics for the end of week 4.

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• Dec 16, 2018

Red Diesel twins end of week 4

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• Dec 16, 2018

Red Diesel end of week 4

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• Dec 16, 2018

Red Diesel end of week 4

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• Dec 16, 2018

Midnight Rose end of week 4

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• Dec 16, 2018

Midnight Rose end of week 4

 

[Curiousnoob]

Wow Looks awesome!

 

[GrnRm]

I also upgraded the lighting controls in the new flower room. I'm running 4 -1000w HPS on two separate 120VAC circuits. Each of the 120 lines run 2 of the lights, and are switched on and off using a 24VAC contactor relay, and a 24VDC timer. I had to run a bridge rectifier in order to get both 24VAC and 24VDC.

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• Dec 21, 2018

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• Dec 21, 2018
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[GrnRm]

The Veg room got a little upgrade today, with the addition of a 4ft 4bulb LED fixture. With T5 to LED conversion bulbs to be exact. The 4 bulb LED fixture has a much better footprint and canopy penetration than the 8 bulb T5 fixture that it replaced.

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• Dec 23, 2018

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• Dec 23, 2018

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• Dec 23, 2018

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• Dec 23, 2018

 

[GrnRm]

A status update on the Flower Room. The Red Diesel sisters, and the Midnight Rose Twins are at the end of week 8. The Red Diesel Clones are at the end of week 4, with the Sweet Black Angel Seedlings and the end of week 2.

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• Jan 12, 2019

Flower room end of week 8

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• Jan 12, 2019

Red Diesel and Sweet Black Angel. It's the end of week 4 for the RD, and the end of week 2.

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• Jan 12, 2019

Look at those legs!

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• Jan 12, 2019

First 2 plants are the Midnight Rose sisters. And, the far planter has the Red Diesel twins...

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• Jan 12, 2019

Flushing these girls requires running fresh H2O2 through the fabric pot, then pumping the water...

 

[Amadeus Forzin]

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