The Crystal Palace is back, now with a Spiderfarmer SE5000.

[Variety719]

Yeah it is on an automated irrigation system. Currently feeding 4x per day.View attachment 1208455

That’s pretty much what I got except in coco. I just love it after the gals don’t need to be hand fed anymore. Makes for more time in training pruning and spotting out problems.

 

[Dirtbag]

That’s pretty much what I got except in coco. I just love it after the gals don’t need to be hand fed anymore. Makes for more time in training pruning and spotting out problems.

Exactly. Really eases up the gardens time management. And of course the benefit of faster growth rates too.

 

[ComfortablyNumb]

You do the whole crop like that? Or just a bit to smoke?
I'm still sitting on a lot of weed and hash that I'm sure will get me through until this crop is ready. I don't know man.. quick dry has never been my style.
I thought the Levo was an infusion machine?

LEVO 2 does Drying, Decarbing, and Infusing. I'm getting to really like this machine.

 

[Moshmen]

Yep. We disagreed on a lot, but that's what I loved about him. If nobody is challenging you, you don't think as hard about why you do what you do. I believe we agreed on more than we disagreed on though. He was just unapologetically honest. I have nothing but respect for the dude.

I’m still growin in pro mix usin pbpg thru flower easy Peasy - been playin with other additives and now the wool but realistically 90% of my grow comes from you 3 guys ! So thankful for the banter and tech talk ! Learned more here than any book I’ve read ! And I see that red Canuck flag flyin . Lol
Thanx
Mosh

 

[Moshmen]

Exactly. Really eases up the gardens time management. And of course the benefit of faster growth rates too.

I figure once I get rolling in the rock wool it will cut my time almost in half!

 

[Dirtbag]

I figure once I get rolling in the rock wool it will cut my time almost in half!

At least. My irrigation maintenance is a 5 min check in once a day to make sure all the lines are flowing and the res is topped up. I make a batch of nutes about once a week and that takes 10 min. Couldn't get much more user friendly honestly.

 

[Dirtbag]

Im gonna put the Dr Dirt Bubag hat on again for a minute.
I was looking for resources of info about the dry koolbloom today and found this video put out by General Hydroponics about it. The stuff that he says in the video line up pretty well with the things I've heard Dr Bruce Bugbee talk about.

Cannabinoids and terpenes are secondary metabolites. They aren't needed for a plant to grow perfectly big and healthy, but obviously their production in abundance is one of our primary goals. It's also known that growers can encourage and stimulate the production of secondary metabolites by shocking or stressing the plants in specific ways at specific times.

Interestingly GH claims that koolbloom stimulates the production of essential oils and aroma compounds, and in the video they even specifically say it does it through shock to the plants. I'm guessing by phosphate shock.
Interestingly in the video they also recommend using a clearing solution after using it instead of just plain water, which lines up with my musings over a hash joint in my video from last night.

Interesting shit. It's starting to look to me, like these nutrient companies might have had things right all along. Certainly not all of the magic bottles they try to sell are necessary, but im starting to better understand some of the science behind flower nutrition and its taking me back to the nutrient recommendations from the 80's and 90's full circle. Very cool. Anyway here is the Koolbloom promo video. Check it out.. kinda interesting.

 

[Dirtbag]

Feel like a bit of a nutrient slut. Just in the shed reading how many different brands I've got going on, dyna grow base nutes, nutrien brand calcium carbonate, Loveland calcium silicate, cannamaxx potassium silicate, GH ripening salts, Advanced Nutrients clearing agent lol.. giving them all a bit of my money on this run hahaha.

Just checked in on them.. no burn from the koolbloom so thats reassuring. Absolutely stinks to high heaven in here

 

[Dirtbag]

 

[Observationist]

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nice looking tops

those crowns

none of that foxtail shit lol

 

[growsince79]

Feel like a bit of a nutrient slut. Just in the shed reading how many different brands I've got going on, dyna grow base nutes, nutrien brand calcium carbonate, Loveland calcium silicate, cannamaxx potassium silicate, GH ripening salts, Advanced Nutrients clearing agent lol.. giving them all a bit of my money on this run hahaha.

Just checked in on them.. no burn from the koolbloom so thats reassuring. Absolutely stinks to high heaven in here

Ever hear of budswell. I just saw where they still make it. Good shit.

 

[Dirtbag]

Ever hear of budswell. I just saw where they still make it. Good shit.

Heard of it but never used it. Is it a pk boost type thing I'm guessing?

 

[Shayne010944]

Thanks Shayne. A lot of it is good genetics but also figuring out the strains requirements over the past few runs helps too. Growing is learning. Keep at it and you'll get there. Do you have a grow diary going?

i havent got a grow diary going but just made a few posts of my wilma setup for a first run in hydro. seems to be going ok so far

 

[growsince79]

Heard of it but never used it. Is it a pk boost type thing I'm guessing?

High P bat & seabird shit. I used to use it when it was cheap. Makes tight fast buds.

 

[ComfortablyNumb]

The auto we have smells like someone shot diesel fuel on the floor.

 

[Shayne010944]

Feel like a bit of a nutrient slut. Just in the shed reading how many different brands I've got going on, dyna grow base nutes, nutrien brand calcium carbonate, Loveland calcium silicate, cannamaxx potassium silicate, GH ripening salts, Advanced Nutrients clearing agent lol.. giving them all a bit of my money on this run hahaha.

Just checked in on them.. no burn from the koolbloom so thats reassuring. Absolutely stinks to high heaven in here

im using general hydroponics trio nutes at the moment. when did you start adding the koolbloom ?

 

[Dirtbag]

nice looking tops

those crowns

none of that foxtail shit lol

Thanks, I've been lucky to avoid the foxtails for a few years now. I think its almost always from being overlit or too hot at the canopy. I did get it a bit when I used GP massive, I'm guessing from the gibberellin in it.

 

[ComfortablyNumb]

I don't use the ones with gibberish in them. It leaves the plants confused.

 

[Dirtbag]

High P bat & seabird shit. I used to use it when it was cheap. Makes tight fast buds.

Nice, I used to use the same stuff under a different brand name. Bat shit was all the rage in the 90's lol. To this day I can taste weed that's grown with it. It creates a distinctive terp profile of its own I find. I enjoy it a lot. Some folks don't.

 

[Dirtbag]

im using general hydroponics trio nutes at the moment. when did you start adding the koolbloom ?

I'm just running it for 2 or 3 days in the middle of week 8 on a 9-10 week strain. I plan to run these plants out for another week or week and a half. Probably another few days of just DG bloom and magpro before starting the flush.