Dirtbags Hydroponics Thread.

CosmoGrows said:

I look at this thread.
Look at my horrible almost dying plants.
Stress out.

LOOOOL. Not really, im going to get here one day. God these look clean, healthy. just awesome dirtbag :D happy danksgiving! hopefully yall get properly stoned today hahah.

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I appreciate the compliments. And believe me I've had my fair share of horrible almost dying plants lol.

Update on my seedlings.. I planted 4 each of forbidden zkittlez, dragon cheese, and JOTI Jordan's kush, I took cuts of each and put the moms into flower under T5s. Of those 12 I got 6 females, 2 of each type. After 3-3.5 weeks of flower Its clear which ones are the keepers based on growth structure and smell. And here are the winning fem phenos (in wool cubes to keep with the hydro themed thread..);

JK2, FZ4, and DC3


FZ4 really surprised me when she started to smell. Holy crap, I've never had zkittlez but is it meant to actually smell like skittles? Because this thing smells like straight up fruity chewy candy.

JK2 is the frostiest so far, and DC3 has no frost or smell yet, but is growing by far the most vigorously with the most and largest bud sites.

All the moms have so far passed my stress tests, over/underfeeding, light leaks, pulling leaves etc... So far nothing has gone herm on me.

This is the FZ4 Mom. looks amazingly good for all the hell I've put her through. erratic photoperiod, ec from 0.2 up to 1.5, dryback to full wilt, ph from 6.8 down to 5.5.

Small buds though, but thats what I would expect for flowering under 3 36" T5HO's

The real shame is I have to chop these to make room for vegging moms. Although I'm tempted to stick this FZ4 into the flower room for a small sampler...

Dirtbag said:

This is the FZ4 Mom. looks amazingly good for all the hell I've put her through. erratic photoperiod, ec from 0.2 up to 1.5, dryback to full wilt, ph from 6.8 down to 5.5.

Small buds though, but thats what I would expect for flowering under 3 36" T5HO's

The real shame is I have to chop these to make room for vegging moms. Although I'm tempted to stick this FZ4 into the flower room for a small sampler...View attachment 915240

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Purdy little woman there... Betting she'll be very compact in the blocks under some heavy light.

Whoop, here we go...

Dirtbag said:

I've developed a plan for dealing with the white spotty shit, I'm just not gonna look under there again lol. I'll keep on with the h2o2 treatment and not worry about it. The plants are feeding and sucking back water fast. The little ones in croutons are growing already too. Much shorter lag compared to Hugo's.

Ill do a prune tonight, then a last tidy up a week into flower before I net them.View attachment 914625

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I'm going to high jack your water/pvc idea just letting you know up front.......

basscaptain said:

I'm going to high jack your water/pvc idea just letting you know up front.......

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That's an old-school, High Times centerfold type grow right here!
It's a beautiful thing to watch!

basscaptain said:

I'm going to high jack your water/pvc idea just letting you know up front.......

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Giver bud. Gotta say the riser layout I also stole from @cemchris.

This cycle Is teaching me a lot about my strains, I'll say that. Both Kushes eat about the same and transpire about the same. Platinum cookies is a water whore and spikes ec without a periodic hand watering. And God is on its last cycle I think. Not terribly happy with this pheno, though I think it took the brunt of the ph mishap.

Next run will be nothing but kush. Violator on the outside and bubba down the middle. Should work well together off the same res and irrigation cycles. This run I'm gonna have to babysit the PC... Oh well. Everything looks great.

Dirtbag said:

This cycle Is teaching me a lot about my strains, I'll say that. Both Kushes eat about the same and transpire about the same. Platinum cookies is a water whore and spikes ec without a periodic hand watering. And God is on its last cycle I think. Not terribly happy with this pheno, though I think it took the brunt of the ph mishap.

Next run will be nothing but kush. Violator on the outside and bubba down the middle. Should work well together off the same res and irrigation cycles. This run I'm gonna have to babysit the PC... Oh well. Everything looks great.

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Pictures, Pictures, Pictures

Aqua Man said:

Pictures, Pictures, Pictures

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I'm trying to spread the pics out a bit lol. I'll snap a few when I'm in there next. Right now they look about the same as the last pics just a bit taller.

Dirtbag said:

This cycle Is teaching me a lot about my strains, I'll say that. Both Kushes eat about the same and transpire about the same. Platinum cookies is a water whore and spikes ec without a periodic hand watering. And God is on its last cycle I think. Not terribly happy with this pheno, though I think it took the brunt of the ph mishap.

Next run will be nothing but kush. Violator on the outside and bubba down the middle. Should work well together off the same res and irrigation cycles. This run I'm gonna have to babysit the PC... Oh well. Everything looks great.

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I've had this problem with growing Indica's and Sativa doms within the same watering/feed system, the Indica's seemed to like it hot, the Sativa's seemed top prefer warm and breezy, goes with out saying that the Sativa's burned, while the Indica's fell over the cola's were so big.

Here is where they're at now.. Would have liked one more week of Veg, but not much I can do about that. These girls are on a schedule.. Next round I'll have more time to play with dialing in nice healthy cuttings.

Dirtbag said:

Here is where they're at now.. Would have liked one more week of Veg, but not much I can do about that. These girls are on a schedule.. Next round I'll have more time to play with dialing in nice healthy cuttings.View attachment 916739

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I would have a hard time complaining about that grow man....

Dirtbag said:

Here is where they're at now.. Would have liked one more week of Veg, but not much I can do about that. These girls are on a schedule.. Next round I'll have more time to play with dialing in nice healthy cuttings.View attachment 916739

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I agree but that looks super nice man. You have really taken to the new style. I cant believe you switched after that super fast successful peat mix grow you just had. But wow!

Looking killer my dude

Thanks fellas. I'm pretty happy with where they're at. And @MIMedGrower I know...lol that peat grow was awesome, and honestly had I identified the sulphur burner as the culprit for the mid flower stall i might not have switched to wool at all. But I've been considering it for a couple years and I'm honestly kinda happy I did switch, it was a blessing in disguise. I'm definitely enjoying the automated watering and level of control over the feeding it gives. And it really was a very smooth transition from the way I was growing already.

Decided to keep the little forbidden fruit mamma flowering in the corner. She just smells so damn unique. It's taken on an orange creamsicle smell the last couple days. Really excited to see how it finishes. Thankfully, and surprisingly it loves the hydro nutes at ph 5.7.

that dirtbag! mentioned so many current, trend strains- that i was ripping my hair out, with each one, saying, "!!!"... that i forgot what i was going to say.

5 days of 12/12, 50/50 MH/HPS

Decided to put the rest of the keeper moms in there too. Fills up the space and I'll get to smoke it before running a crop of it.

Dirtbag said:

5 days of 12/12, 50/50 MH/HPS

Decided to put the rest of the keeper moms in there too. Fills up the space and I'll get to smoke it before running a crop of it.View attachment 917481

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Showing some nice little bid sites already

how many times, u tried this, in this way/space?

I'm just thinking of the peace n tranquility of your zen garden... 6 wks, from now. i see prisoners, chained to walls. that gonna b enough spacing? u gonna have access? tell me they slide out, for grooming, n cantilever, over?

i get weird so I'm hard to decipher, but i get great "visuals", in my imagination and if these get big... you'll b wantin some lithium... perhaps, thorazine. so i hope u done it, b4... and if not- i might try to guage, from some grow-op, bporn. spacing, that is. i see u skippin veg, to keep control! but it's extremely clever, ingenious n creative, for sure! now, just need a waterwheel, or wind turbine, feedin the flow.
I've seen MAYBE one setup, that techy/diy handy, where they didn't look too, ocd requiring and i think it was YouTube... but i don't recall seeing harvest time. obviously, i have some control issues, too.

sorry. 24pgs deep, i knew it'd b covered info. i thought I'd pm'd this.

nm. ignore me, sir. I'm not even sure i asked for the right stream/person. rough night. "hi, mom!".