Coco Hempy & Smart Pots, Multi-Strain 800W

[The Frost]

Howdy All.
New here, Have a year of growing under my belt now, started with pretty much the same setup and got great results..
1x1m tent, 600w hps & 250w cmh sharing same cooltube.
Not the best pics, but i will get some better ones very shortly.
Atm i have in 4 weeks flower,
Seedsman Top Skunk 44 Coco 3gal Smart Pot

Barneys Farm Blue Cheese Coco 3gal Hempy

Dutch Passion Auto BlueB Coco 3gal Hempy

Barneys Farm Red Diesel Coco 3gal Hempy

Figure this is the best way to get it all down and let you all track my grow :D.
Have run the Red D And Blue Cheese 2 times before with dissapointing results, so hoping to nail this one.
Some pics of my first coco grow under a 600w HPS

Female seeds Ice.. Killer Plant!! Yielded and smoked like nothing else, Week 5 pics.

And an earlier Dutch Passion BB

Also have a veg cab with a Critical + under a screen, More pics to Come!
Comments very welcome!!

 

[Top Shelf]

Nice Looking Ladies, great job

 

[The Frost]

Thanks TS, i try to keep my girls healthy all the way through.

A little run down on nutes and what im using..
Nutrifield coco and nutrients.
Canna coco a+b
Canna PK13/14
Canadian Express Head Masta
Cannazym
Bloom Roots stimulant
H&g Drip Clean

I have just started using NF nutes for this run, but i had bottles of canna a+b left from previously, so now that i am starting to add PK13/14 will be using the canna a+b with it..
Started using the Headmasta from Week 2.
Havnt gone over 1.2ec all run, and always PH 6

What i just mixed up into a 30L rez and into it went.
40ml Canna a+b
30ml Head Masta
15ml Pk13/14
25ml Cannazym
3ml Drip Clean

PH 6 1.15 ec

Couple more quick pics..
Ts 44 drinking around 2L a day in the smart pot being bottom fed.

And the BB. This thing stretched massively standing at around 5ft, and is crusted in resin already, but seems to have stunted on flower production.

And this is the Critical + just gone under the screen, 10 weeks from seed, recently potted up in a 3gal smart pot.

A shot of the last run, bigger is Blue cheese, other is Red Diesel.

And some roots.. 5 weeks from seed, this is the TS 44. I start all with roots organics oregonism mycorr added.

Am probably missing lots, but will get everything up.. Also have an Auto Royal Dwarf going outside which has just started, and an Alquimista for the next run.

Keep em green.

 

[The Frost]

Hey guys, Little update..
Just hit 35 days marking 5 weeks since the switch..
Have diluted the rez with 10l with 20l already in there.. All showing sings of some sort of over fert.
So backed it from 1.15 e.c down to 1.0 e.c.
Added 10ml cal mag to the water to keep that at a constant level.
So time for some more pics.
First the lanky Auto BB, Standing at around 5ft tall.
The stop in bud production has been to make some nanners, So i have pulled what i found and hopefully dont return.

This is the Red Diesel #1

And Red Diesel #2

Barneys Blue Cheese.

And The Seedsman Top Skunk 44

And an overhead shot.

And finally in the veg cab the Critical +

Hopefully start seeing more bud production on the red diesels shortly, they are just hanging back a bit..

Cheers guys.

 

[The Frost]

Some quickies of the Top Skunk 44. Taken yesterday, First of the hairs starting to die back..
Backing off on the pk13/14 on it now, and will be just Nutrifield nutes and Head masta till flush..

 

[The Frost]

Touching down on Week 6 now!
Things are looking ok!
The Red Diesels are still clawing down and a dark green, have been giving them plenty of run off with a weaker mix.
Throwing out a new lot of pistils now, looking like golf ball nugs..
Looks like i fkd them up again, and this was their last chance. Very Sensitive.
RD#2

The Blue Cheese is finally putting some size on and looking healthy, so hopefully will start blowing up, there are quite a few large colas on this one as its a decent sized plant.
The weight is starting to spread the plant apart more giving it more light everywhere, and now i have the room to spread it out some more with the BB taken out.

You can see the RD# 1 poking his head to the right in last pic.

And the Top Skunk 44 still producing new pistil growth on top, so still packing on the weight which is good to see..
Loads of massive colas on this bitch.

And finally that messed up auto BB that was having a midlife crisis got pulled from the tent and left in the dark for 4 days.
The crystal coverage on this is unreal, and only if it had filled out to its potential.
Hard taking photos as the flash washes the crystal covered tops.

This will all go to bubble hash..

Enjoy :banana1sv6:

 

[The Frost]

Howdy..

Whacking up a few more quick pictures.. Mid way through Week 6
The Blue cheese looking good still stacking calyx's.
Another 3 weeks off..

And the Top Skunk 44.. Smelling beautiful, with that floral skunk, you can never get enough.
Probably give this another week.

And a bit of a tent shot

I also had on their way some 12" Auto pots...
I have put both plants in the smart pots into these..
The top skunk and the C+ in veg.
Hoping for great results..

And finally the C+ starting to spread her wings.

Cheers.

 

[The Frost]

Just over Week 7 flower now..
Still putting on weight, the Top skunk 44 in the auto pots are really taking off, Throwing new pistils everywhere. Have upped feed strength to 1.4 e.c to compensate for yellowing.

Blue cheese towering and leaning under weight.

One of the Red Diesels, they are putting out some new flower growth but nothing special..

And the Critical +, due to time restraints had to put it into the tent and with the Top skunk still not done there is not enough room for the screen to fit.
So will just have to tie the branches with string to keep an even canopy..

 

[Jellybean]

Plants look lovely frost!

Im about finishing my first run did a mix of soil and coco in smarties. The cocos are just kickin ass, cleaner and easier IMO. Can you break down exactly what ur coco hempy mix setup is. Like a for dummies version I'm trying to bite ur style :hi

Also that veg area looks cool as hell, can we get a little peak at that. Right on. :banana1sv6:

 

[The Frost]

Thanks Jelly. :D
The hempys are approx 9L/ 3gal containers, 1" hole 2" from bottom of pot.
Pure coco up top with expanded clay balls filling the bottom up to the drain hole.

My issue with the red diesels in the hempys is that they are too big and not enough veg time to fill them out with roots, so running into lockout issues with them due to them not drying out fast enough and watering regularly.
If I had of mixed a 50/50 perlite coco mix they would of breathed much better.

From this run I feel it's alot easier to keep the plant happy in the smart pots as the roots always have so much air, especially with coco.
Although when matched right the hempys kick ass too, that blue cheese is turning into monster. It got a much better start from clone than the Rd's. And I still had my fair Shair of issues earlier in the grow.

If you have any more questions fire away.

 

[The Frost]

And the veg area is a combined veg/ drying cupboard I built from scratch, all decked out with fans and carbon scrubbers too, it has been shut down now but will try to put a pic up with next pics ;).

 

[Jellybean]

Oh ok. Somehow I thought you were combining the hempy buckets with the smart pots. For sure smart pots kill it!

 

[Jellybean]

And the veg area is a combined veg/ drying cupboard I built from scratch, all decked out with fans and carbon scrubbers too, it has been shut down now but will try to put a pic up with next pics ;).

Yeah man please do. I'm trying to get my Tim Allen on:banana1sv6:

Been putting off buying a tent save some $$$$

 

[The Frost]

I have combined the smart pots with the auto pot system.
They are a self watering bottom feeding system. No power, just works via gravity.
The valve in the tray detects when there is no water and floods it to
a certain level till it dries again. Gives the plant what it needs when it needs, they drink so much more in the autopot.

And on the cab, it's pretty cool and stealthy. Was originally going to be my flower room, but over grew that idea very quickly.
And even now I am finding myself with not enough room in the 1x1 tent haha.

 

[The Frost]

Also on the hempy smart pots I was kind of doing that with a pot base that fit snuggly around bottom of pot. And 1.5" high around.
Would of held a bit of water. And watering everyday.
The bottom of the smart pots have expanded clay balls in there 1.5" up.

 

[The Frost]

Slapping up a few quick pics with lights on, not the best but a good size indicator of how things are going. Will be getting better pics than all these shitty ones shortly i hope..

Ok, mid way through week 7 flower. Temps stable 77f and humidity 45-55%.
Top skunk 44 starting to get a bit envious of the Blue cheese foxtailing, so she has started stacking some calxys a little on too. Will get a better close up photo tomoz, i can just stare at how pretty its bud structure is. And the smell on her is getting even stronger too, knockout just after lights on.

Blue cheese is really starting to impress me now, thickening really low on its stems, due to the buds separating under weight and exposing more light to lower areas, and a great low fan leaf ratio.
She is foxtailing really nicely too, reaching for the sky. Calxy's large and swollen, iced in short trichomes..... NICE..
You can also see to the right in this pic a fat TS 44 cola..

And a shot of the buds behind that one ^^^..

The Critical + growing like a train in the auto/ smart pot combo. Stretching fairly evenly, lightly tying the shooters.
Mixed 10L for it last night with.. 20ml a+b nf coco, 5ml cannazym, 5ml cal-mag due to a slight calcium def with some necrosis spots on a few leaves.
ph 5.8 e.c 1.4

And finally my ghetto cab.. Top section originally for flower and bottom for veg.. Still a great veg cab, but will be looking for something bigger shortly..
The heater and air pump are for my bubble cloner.. and the BB hanging for hash, with some Ts 44 buds in between the jar and hanging. with that jar almost full too, there is a good 1/2 oz just from some popcorn that was hanging to wide to fit the C+ in, with loads more on it..

 

[The Frost]

Just creeping up on 8 weeks now.. Hopefully a lil better pics.
Top Skunk 44 has been flushed with 10lts with just 3 tspns of molasses.
its now going into 3 days of darkness. Will take photos after to compare trichs.

Blue cheese.. Will let it go till its done to see its potential..

And a full shot.. The C+ shooting up at the end of its first week of 12/12.

 

[The Frost]

Throwing up a few quickies.
Top Skunk 44

Here is one of the Red Diesel.

Blue cheese

 

[The Frost]

Well the Top skunk has come down.. Only was approx 20mins to trim, with it being super easy, barely enough trim to even hash..
Weighed out wet with stem to 530grams.
Im sure it would of yeilded even better if given more time to fully swell and finish.
The colas are so super dense and heavy, Certainly havn't felt anything like it.
Here it is after 3 days of darkness..

The critical + with loads of tops forming with the first of the pistils being thrown, i let it stretch out so much to try and get some nice long colas, as long as i can get plenty of light down the middle, will stretch it open a bit when there is some more room in tent.. Have started doing a little trimming of the smaller shoots that will amount to popcorn.. just a few stems every few days not to stunt it too much.
Drinking around 2L a day atm.. Its mix in 15L 35ml a & b, 10ml cannazym, and just started adding Fulvic at 10ml.. Ph 5.9 e.c 1.45.

And the Top skunk hanging..

 

[The Frost]

The Blue Cheese mid way through week 8 since 12/12.
Packing on some good weight, though im sure still not its potential, as this was put into the hempy just after the flip, if it had a week or 2 before to root in properly im sure would be even better..
Any guesses on weight? :party0044:
and still looks like another 2-3 weeks to go!

Feeding her to 10L 25ml NF coco, 10ml Headmasta, 10ml zyme.
1.3 e.c ph 6
Will up the feed to 1.5 e.c next.