50% lighting even bulbs for 1 day/ odd bulbs for 1 day and so on placed top of the ceiling for 1st week (panda poly is bright)
humidty 75%
temp 70 constant
added .2 ec of kind cal/mag
and 1.2 ec of kind base
5.5 ph to start (let drift to 6.2 then drop to 5.5)
1200gph mixer pump
750gph feed pump
top off with hydroton. triple rinsed. keep flow on blast till they are all in for a nice soak. once they are all planted and soaked nice, trun drip line down to a slow stream, about 50% off
i like to try to plant when they need to be fed daily. its a great sign they wont wilt once under the drip line. which will happen for premature plants, but thats fine you will just miss a couple days of growth
med-man method - select the best 50% of all the preveggers based on size/vigor/root mass
kinds
purple head-band - pics 1-2 found this one in 10 seeds sprouted. she is an unreal specimen. all pk in look, smell and taste, all white and vigorus from the head-band. a perfect marriage.
1980 nl#2 - pic 3 - i dont even know if this is an nl. i would say its a skunk plant. all road kill on the stalk rub. my hopes are high, this will be my first run with her
maple ridge rock-star - pic 4-5 2nd place ty expo 2013
you can always start a perfect number of cuts rooted in 3 inch if you cant do the med-man method selecting.
they may droop only due to water flow, i mean really wilt or curl or go pail. do not worry. the combo of the poly and lights and water can stress em a tiny bit, this is normal. do not try to make it better
keep lights on 18/6. plants/roots will grow way faster and respnd way better to the shock treatments i give them 2x per day in veg.
add 35% h202 every 2-3 days to the rez @ 1.6ml/liter
plants in these tables respond really well to a weekly foliar feed. i use my cannabolic stacker, with the dose of hyox above.
it is important to give them a good start, this is not soil. that why bad stress cannot be tolerated
i like to let the ec get up to or steady at 1.5. but 1.3-1.6 is tolerated
This is basically an NFT/drip hybrid technique am I right? Question on the lighting. . .How do you run that many lights in BC and get away with it? I thought that BC Hydro was monitoring power usage like a mofo these days. Are you just going for it, knowing that the grow-squad police goons are backed up way too far to get around to your grow?
and that law was abolished in supreme court for privacy infringements.
ya dude. medical film technique is a drip/nft hybrid. but the tables are pennies on a dollar to set up, and very inconspicuous to carry around or in, and so easy to store, toss, reuse in renos, burn whateves, and most part come from hardware stores, not hydro stores where cops and robbers are watching :-)
Very cool, thanks for giving me a new idea! I'm helping someone set up their first grow they want me to manage basically and was thinking of building wood flood tables but now I'm thinking of this MFT idea.
Small-time, nothing to brag about. But I figure less water in an elevated table is better than more water. You got maybe a gallon or two at any one time in the system instead of 30 gallons pumped up into a flood tray. Also liked your drippers in the corner of the rockwool cube to keep it from being swamped, little things like that are genius!
I really want to get some of your conkushion beans when I have some spare dollars, glad to see your lineup here on the farm.