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Hey everyone. I've been working around the grow room recently and have a grow about ready to flip to 12/12. This is a personal use medical grow intended to last me until my next harvest, which likely won't be until January 2012, so heavy harvest is an important factor.
In addition, I'm working on about as tight a budget as I've worked on for a while. I have a few half used bottles nutrients around and I want to use up all the extra stuff. Today I threw away maybe $60 in expired nutrients...
These 6 plants are all clones taken from last summer's grow and they are all monster cropped (taken while in flowering) and topped and LST trained. I've been growing them very slowly with minimal CFL lighting over the last 16 weeks or so. I bonsai trained them to last in a small tent until I could move them into flowering for all this time. They had been in botanicare coco in 1 gallon root makers for like 3 months.
There are 3 unknown plants that could be Cole Train, Lemon Skunk, Warlock, or Motavation, or some combination of those plants. The tags got lost somehow and most of them look the same. The other three plants are Wappa, Cole Train, and Sensi Star. All of them have been half neglected on waterings for weeks now, sometimes I fed them, sometimes I didn't; usually I never cared to measure runoff much or deal with them at all. Amazing how they just kept growing, no problems the whole time in veg. I'd had them on mostly Canna Coco A+B, Liquid Karma, and Potassium Silicate.
I am growing in a 5x5x7 tent, using 3 gallon SmartPots, a mixture of recycled Canna coco and Roots Organics coco mix on tables to lift the plants off the ground. I use trays and a siphon system to manage my runoff on the drain to waste top feed setup. As of right now the plants were transplanted about a week ago, they are on 20/4 lighting until June 8th when I plan to start 12/12.
My flowering nutrient system is going to be an experiment and a test of my merit as a grower. I'll be using Cutting Edge Solutions Micro 6-0-0 and Bloom 0-6-5 in combination with AN Big Bud Dry, Humboldt Nutrients FlavorFul Fulvic Acid, Botanicare Hydroplex and Silica Blast. I found the CES locally for $0.0046 per ml for the Bloom, which is a comparatively good deal on a 0-6-5 nutrient. The Micro 6-0-0 I picked up a liter of, at $0.0096 per ml, not as great a deal but at 4ml per gallon giving me about 70ppm of Nitrogen I'm not concerned about the final cost. I am considering picking up a 250ml bottle of Canna BioBoost Accelerator. I use this as a foliar spray from weeks 4 to 7 and it has a noticeable impact on resin output.
The plants are currently being trained using grow through plant supports which have been modified to angle the screens. This allows me to shape the garden more efficiently around the vertical bulb and independent movement of the plants as they grow.
Here is a rough EC and ratio guideline of what I'm aiming for:
Week 1 - 1.3ec 1-1-1 1% Ca 0.3% Mg
Week 2 - 1.3ec 1-2-2 1% Ca 0.5% Mg
Week 3 - 1.5ec 1-4-5 0.7% Ca 0.5% Mg
Week 4 - 1.6ec 1-5-6 0.7% Ca 0.5% Mg
Week 5 - 1.7ec 1-5-7 0.7% Ca 1% Mg
Week 6 - 2.0ec 1-8-7 0.7% Ca 1.1% Mg
Week 7 - 1.5ec 1-5-5 0.7% Ca 1.1% Mg
Week 8 - 0.4ec 0-0-0 Fulvic Acid and Flushing
Here's some pictures from tonight.
In addition, I'm working on about as tight a budget as I've worked on for a while. I have a few half used bottles nutrients around and I want to use up all the extra stuff. Today I threw away maybe $60 in expired nutrients...
These 6 plants are all clones taken from last summer's grow and they are all monster cropped (taken while in flowering) and topped and LST trained. I've been growing them very slowly with minimal CFL lighting over the last 16 weeks or so. I bonsai trained them to last in a small tent until I could move them into flowering for all this time. They had been in botanicare coco in 1 gallon root makers for like 3 months.
There are 3 unknown plants that could be Cole Train, Lemon Skunk, Warlock, or Motavation, or some combination of those plants. The tags got lost somehow and most of them look the same. The other three plants are Wappa, Cole Train, and Sensi Star. All of them have been half neglected on waterings for weeks now, sometimes I fed them, sometimes I didn't; usually I never cared to measure runoff much or deal with them at all. Amazing how they just kept growing, no problems the whole time in veg. I'd had them on mostly Canna Coco A+B, Liquid Karma, and Potassium Silicate.
I am growing in a 5x5x7 tent, using 3 gallon SmartPots, a mixture of recycled Canna coco and Roots Organics coco mix on tables to lift the plants off the ground. I use trays and a siphon system to manage my runoff on the drain to waste top feed setup. As of right now the plants were transplanted about a week ago, they are on 20/4 lighting until June 8th when I plan to start 12/12.
My flowering nutrient system is going to be an experiment and a test of my merit as a grower. I'll be using Cutting Edge Solutions Micro 6-0-0 and Bloom 0-6-5 in combination with AN Big Bud Dry, Humboldt Nutrients FlavorFul Fulvic Acid, Botanicare Hydroplex and Silica Blast. I found the CES locally for $0.0046 per ml for the Bloom, which is a comparatively good deal on a 0-6-5 nutrient. The Micro 6-0-0 I picked up a liter of, at $0.0096 per ml, not as great a deal but at 4ml per gallon giving me about 70ppm of Nitrogen I'm not concerned about the final cost. I am considering picking up a 250ml bottle of Canna BioBoost Accelerator. I use this as a foliar spray from weeks 4 to 7 and it has a noticeable impact on resin output.
The plants are currently being trained using grow through plant supports which have been modified to angle the screens. This allows me to shape the garden more efficiently around the vertical bulb and independent movement of the plants as they grow.
Here is a rough EC and ratio guideline of what I'm aiming for:
Week 1 - 1.3ec 1-1-1 1% Ca 0.3% Mg
Week 2 - 1.3ec 1-2-2 1% Ca 0.5% Mg
Week 3 - 1.5ec 1-4-5 0.7% Ca 0.5% Mg
Week 4 - 1.6ec 1-5-6 0.7% Ca 0.5% Mg
Week 5 - 1.7ec 1-5-7 0.7% Ca 1% Mg
Week 6 - 2.0ec 1-8-7 0.7% Ca 1.1% Mg
Week 7 - 1.5ec 1-5-5 0.7% Ca 1.1% Mg
Week 8 - 0.4ec 0-0-0 Fulvic Acid and Flushing
Here's some pictures from tonight.