bakermancanvw
New Member
Hello 420 members!
Back for my second journal. My first was not very thorough looking back and i've done a few runs since then. I am still learning a lot, but I have a had a few successful grows now and would like to try and journal this one all the way through to get some advice along the way. This will be 5th total run with this gear.
System:
I grow in a spare room inside my house. Inside of the room I have a 5*10 tent. The environment is clean.
I have a soleus air 13,000 btu mobile ac unit inside the tent which is more than sufficient to make sure there is fresh air with enough CO2. The ducts from the AC run outside the tent right outside the window. Have 1 large oscillating fan hanging on peg board on the wall of the tent to circulate air around.
Have been running greentrees flood/drain hydro system, 8 buckets with hydroton, 30 gallon res.
H&G nutes:
PH Stabilizer
A&B
Amino Treatment
Roots accelorator
Bud-XL
Top booster
Top shooter
Drip Clean
Hydrogaurd
Orca
also splashing a little Mad Farmer B-1 and MOAB
Lights are 2 led panels from advanced LED. 360 watt extreme flower.
We will be growing 8 cuttings of Chronic Thunder from a local nursery called soothing seed. I read that this is an indica strain which may not ideally be suited for hydro but I am giving it a shot. I like to try all different kinds of strains to see what likes the LED lights. On my last run the moonshine haze made super dense nuggets while the great white turned out fluffy for some reason.
I'll be scrogging to make best use of the lights and keep an even canopy.
My goal is to hit a full pound. For a very experienced grower I know that's a low bar especially for 8 plants but i've just trying to take it in steps. Last run I got a little over 12 oz which is only .46g/w. I also am just running more plants to keep veg times lower.
From my last grows i'm trying to really just figure out the roots. Most of the roots look fine but after i harvest and I yank out the pots i notice some dark roots and want to be able to keep pythium from growing. I don't have a chiller but my res temps don't ever seem do go over 22c when measured with a myron PH pen. The only thing I can think of is simply that the roots spend too much time under water when it floods. I think I might need to switch to DWC to see bigger yields and will probably try it next time.
Things I need to improve on from last time:
Mainly my scrogging. I need to make the full use of all of the net and all the space. Too many patches last time and I think this is the main thing behind maxing yield with LED. Also I need to keep the roots from turning brown at all and figure out what is causing it if it happens.
I will be getting my clones tomorrow morning. Will be posting pics of the setup in a little while. Just finished seterilizing the whole system from my last run with hydrogen peroxide and got fresh rocks and all new tubing. Should be a solid run, everything is plugged in, dialed in, cleaned, timers are set and we are ready...to...grow!!!
Back for my second journal. My first was not very thorough looking back and i've done a few runs since then. I am still learning a lot, but I have a had a few successful grows now and would like to try and journal this one all the way through to get some advice along the way. This will be 5th total run with this gear.
System:
I grow in a spare room inside my house. Inside of the room I have a 5*10 tent. The environment is clean.
I have a soleus air 13,000 btu mobile ac unit inside the tent which is more than sufficient to make sure there is fresh air with enough CO2. The ducts from the AC run outside the tent right outside the window. Have 1 large oscillating fan hanging on peg board on the wall of the tent to circulate air around.
Have been running greentrees flood/drain hydro system, 8 buckets with hydroton, 30 gallon res.
H&G nutes:
PH Stabilizer
A&B
Amino Treatment
Roots accelorator
Bud-XL
Top booster
Top shooter
Drip Clean
Hydrogaurd
Orca
also splashing a little Mad Farmer B-1 and MOAB
Lights are 2 led panels from advanced LED. 360 watt extreme flower.
We will be growing 8 cuttings of Chronic Thunder from a local nursery called soothing seed. I read that this is an indica strain which may not ideally be suited for hydro but I am giving it a shot. I like to try all different kinds of strains to see what likes the LED lights. On my last run the moonshine haze made super dense nuggets while the great white turned out fluffy for some reason.
I'll be scrogging to make best use of the lights and keep an even canopy.
My goal is to hit a full pound. For a very experienced grower I know that's a low bar especially for 8 plants but i've just trying to take it in steps. Last run I got a little over 12 oz which is only .46g/w. I also am just running more plants to keep veg times lower.
From my last grows i'm trying to really just figure out the roots. Most of the roots look fine but after i harvest and I yank out the pots i notice some dark roots and want to be able to keep pythium from growing. I don't have a chiller but my res temps don't ever seem do go over 22c when measured with a myron PH pen. The only thing I can think of is simply that the roots spend too much time under water when it floods. I think I might need to switch to DWC to see bigger yields and will probably try it next time.
Things I need to improve on from last time:
Mainly my scrogging. I need to make the full use of all of the net and all the space. Too many patches last time and I think this is the main thing behind maxing yield with LED. Also I need to keep the roots from turning brown at all and figure out what is causing it if it happens.
I will be getting my clones tomorrow morning. Will be posting pics of the setup in a little while. Just finished seterilizing the whole system from my last run with hydrogen peroxide and got fresh rocks and all new tubing. Should be a solid run, everything is plugged in, dialed in, cleaned, timers are set and we are ready...to...grow!!!
