Hi how are we all ?
Well recently I had a few old clones I had to revegetate and I decided to transplant them into perlite 20L pots with feeder rings. Once they recovered from flop they took off as usual. The strains were decent grade smoko in soil. I have grown perlite recirculating systems on and off for 15 years and I find them quite simple and easy to use once you have a feeding regime in place. Most strains are rather universal. Here I have 4 strains, I topped and vegetated in perlite after reverting back from an early flower. The strains are all frosty and over 20%thcs. For higher P.A.R. I have used a bare vertical hps lamp in a parabolic reflector. i stapled up a sheet of panda film and left the rest to the P.A.R. and the nutrient feed. The plants all sit around 3 feet above the ground and all drain back into a 65L sump/reservoir. The pump feeds every 4 hrs for 15 mins at a time using a flawless heavy duty pool timer.
This entire grow was built from old parts from around the home. All I paid for was the lamp itself, the parabolic reflector, some tubing and grommets for the base pots, a bag of perlite ($150 all up). Everything else was laying around the home, wood, wire, timers, ballasts, water pump, aerators, air stones, trellis, screws, nails, cable ties etc.
So here I am after I vegetated, laid trellis, trained the plants, vegetated and flipped to flower.
Feed is kind of a bit of this n that , Ive been growing a while now and I seem to know what to add when the plants need it. Its mineral based, a base nutrient with specific safe organic additives which are basically concentrated minerals I can flush.
Day 23 - 12/12 (expected 65 odd days flower.)
You can see a few burned leaves on the incredible bulk on the far right, this is from when it was in vegetation it grew too tall and touched lamp, i then fed these branches through the trellis and they grew up again lol.\
No biggy. those leaves are coming off after 5 weeks is completed, somewhere soon after day 35 I'll be thinning out the canopy and ridding it of fan leaves.
Well recently I had a few old clones I had to revegetate and I decided to transplant them into perlite 20L pots with feeder rings. Once they recovered from flop they took off as usual. The strains were decent grade smoko in soil. I have grown perlite recirculating systems on and off for 15 years and I find them quite simple and easy to use once you have a feeding regime in place. Most strains are rather universal. Here I have 4 strains, I topped and vegetated in perlite after reverting back from an early flower. The strains are all frosty and over 20%thcs. For higher P.A.R. I have used a bare vertical hps lamp in a parabolic reflector. i stapled up a sheet of panda film and left the rest to the P.A.R. and the nutrient feed. The plants all sit around 3 feet above the ground and all drain back into a 65L sump/reservoir. The pump feeds every 4 hrs for 15 mins at a time using a flawless heavy duty pool timer.
This entire grow was built from old parts from around the home. All I paid for was the lamp itself, the parabolic reflector, some tubing and grommets for the base pots, a bag of perlite ($150 all up). Everything else was laying around the home, wood, wire, timers, ballasts, water pump, aerators, air stones, trellis, screws, nails, cable ties etc.
So here I am after I vegetated, laid trellis, trained the plants, vegetated and flipped to flower.
Feed is kind of a bit of this n that , Ive been growing a while now and I seem to know what to add when the plants need it. Its mineral based, a base nutrient with specific safe organic additives which are basically concentrated minerals I can flush.
Day 23 - 12/12 (expected 65 odd days flower.)
You can see a few burned leaves on the incredible bulk on the far right, this is from when it was in vegetation it grew too tall and touched lamp, i then fed these branches through the trellis and they grew up again lol.\
No biggy. those leaves are coming off after 5 weeks is completed, somewhere soon after day 35 I'll be thinning out the canopy and ridding it of fan leaves.
