Need Help Asap Bennies In Uc

[CaliShark]

You gonna trim the lowers on those bitches and make um pretty before they start to put on buds?

 

[bigdaddyg8]

Hey bud weren't you giving me a hard time a week or so ago in a different thread??? Lol no worries my guy I don't take anything to heart... And i try to share my knowledge with as many people as i can...

I should let u know that this is my first run using the bennies in the UC but its going absolutely amazing..

My nute schedule is really quite easy I follow the recommended dosing of Cultured solutions nutes..I'm only using CS veg and CS flower and will add CS Boost when need be... DO NOT USE CS ROOTS/DM Zone/H2o2 or any other "root zone conditioner" while using caps bennies... CS nutes are the only nutes I would use at recommended strength all other nutes should only be used at 50% of recommended strength

I flush every 8 days (flush meaning I drain out about 90% of the water in the UC and then fill the UC with tap water that has sat out atleast 24 hrs to kill off most the chlorine in it.. I use my bathtub for this, most people will use a 50gallon water drum Rez).

After the UC is filled with the water I add the CS nutes as recommended on the back of the bottle...

Last I dump in caps bennies, I have been brewing/making the Tea that he suggests with the bennies.. It's not very hard at all but it does have to brew for 24hrs so brew the day before you plan on adding it.. My system holds roughly 80gallons of water I add 1 cup of the Bennie Tea for every 5 gallons of water.. So in my system I add 16cups of Tea 1 cup every minute right into my epicenter bucket...

do you have any type of biological media for your bennies to colonize ?

 

[babyhughie586]

do you have any type of biological media for your bennies to colonize ?

No, I was considering putting lava rocks in either the bottoms of the net pots or in mesh bags suction cupped to the bottoms of each 8 gallon bucket..However since i change out the bennies every 7-8 days i feel they dont really have enough time to colonize and even if they do they would be washed out each time i flush the system... I may possibly add lava rock in the future once i get comfortable with them but right now i dont see it necessary..

 

[babyhughie586]

I'm not sure if anyone is even checking this thread givin the title of it but I thought I would leave an updat anyways...

These ladies are still growing strong... I'm honestly a little worried I don't have to much higher I can raise my lights.. The plants are standing just a couple inches shorter than me 5'8" they need to stop stretching... Using the bennies I've noticed a huge uptake in the water they are drinking.. I find myself putting in about 20 gallons a day now minimum... Here's a few pics I just snapped

DAY 15 FLOWER

 

[Amber]

Im checking your rocking it.;)

 

[Amber]

Usually I figure 1st 3 weeks to stretch after that your not really gonna get taller. Depends on the strain and how much nitrogen and what not but generally 3 weeks of stretch.

 

[Amber]

Take out some of the bottom foliage and lower level branches that dont get light and that will help too.

 

[babyhughie586]

Take out some of the bottom foliage and lower level branches that dont get light and that will help too.

The thing that is driving me crazy is this plant barely stretched in soil when i grew it out from seed and i thought it was bubba kush dominate but now after seeing this i have no clue... It smells tastes and couch locks you like bubba but it grows huge nugs like a sativa dominate hybrid.... Im stoked to see these buds fill in like they did in soil, im praying they..

yea for sure though on the trimming, i usually take out most of the lanky/stringy branches that arent getting light between days 14-21 ... Thank you, atleast i know im not the only one in this thread :)...

 

[rick ratlin]

I'm here too baby. Lookin real nice. I'd love to grow in a huge ass bathroom. As far as your water chiller, it may be undersized. Even still, place that chiller out of the room if you want to increase the efficiency. Pipe it through the wall from another room. All the heat that is taken out of the water is released from the back of the chiller and into your flower room, raising the air temp. You can insulate your cold water line going to the rez as well. Hope the girls are all good!

 

[babyhughie586]

UPDATE!!! DAY 21 FLOWER... The ladies are still rocking strong the highest tops are well over 6ft tall, normally I would be disapointed in this much stretch but this strain really fills in making nice HUGE NUGS... Well im hoping she does atleast, she did in soil so why wouldnt she in the UC?? Also the branches are separated enough so the light is really penetrating deep into the canopy... This could be a very very nice yield of some top shelf shiot... If I can remember correctly she put on and really started filling in in week 4 so the next week the pics should be really nice... As for now these are the best I could do, it's really hard for me to get decent shots with how big they are...

 

[aSilvrHaze]

hell yea, lookin good!

 

[babyhughie586]

hell yea, lookin good!

thanks bro.... im really excited to see these ladies pack on sum weight... My past 2 runs in the UC i ran a extremly potent but crappy yielding Extrema from Sannie...

 

[Capulator]

beautiful plants Baby!!!!

Looks like a winning crop to me. just a few more weeks to go!

 

[619ster]

What kind of support do you use for your crop? Or are they strong enough to hold up on their own? Looks killer bruh!!

 

[babyhughie586]

beautiful plants Baby!!!!

Looks like a winning crop to me. just a few more weeks to go!

thanks cap .. im really excited to see this crop finish up.. Im also gonna be stoked to see the roots after i chop them down, I havent looked at the since the last time i posted those pics of them... I got the old snap on lids and the white buckets, so the only way i can check the roots is to lift up the net pot and look but i obviously cant lift out the pot right now...

What kind of support do you use for your crop? Or are they strong enough to hold up on their own? Looks killer bruh!!

Thanks bro :) I normally use the Burpee Tomato Cages to help them with support, However when i grew this Fugu Kush out from seed it BARELY stretched and had nice fat stems the buds supported themselves easily... This same strain in hydro has now stretched and grew atleast 2.5x since the flip... To give a perspective they were waist tall day 1 flower, and now the highest tops are about a foot over my head (im 5'8") I am kicking myself for not using the cages now.... O well though these stems are insanely thick though so hopefully they will be able to support the buds without flopping over everywhere..

 

[babyhughie586]

UPDATE!!!! Day 29 flower

These ladies are starting to stack up and put on sum weight, I'm gonna have some donkey dick colas for sure... Things should get very interesting from here on out.. Nothing really more to say, I'll let the pics do the talking

 

[Capulator]

take more shots like the last one. White balance is perfect there. Looking good man!

 

[babyhughie586]

take more shots like the last one. White balance is perfect there. Looking good man!

Thanks Cap:)

Thats the best i can do with the hps lights on.. i could only get that one like that because it was a lower shaded bud under the main canopy I could light up with the flash... Ill try to get sum better ones before the lights turn on tomorrow... I dont have a nice camera, all these shots are takin with my phone... ill be getting a nice camera though after this grow;)

 

[UCMETOO]

You deserve a nice camera after the hard work,......Thanks for the bennies in the UC info, also here are a few questions: are you putting the bennie Tea into the Res or are you crown feeding it onto the tops of the roots? If your putting it into the Res does it shift the Ph much/at all? Did you folar feed during this grow/ when did you stop?

Im sure ill thik up a few more, thank you for the SHOW!!!!

 

[babyhughie586]

You deserve a nice camera after the hard work,......Thanks for the bennies in the UC info, also here are a few questions: are you putting the bennie Tea into the Res or are you crown feeding it onto the tops of the roots? If your putting it into the Res does it shift the Ph much/at all? Did you folar feed during this grow/ when did you stop?

Im sure ill thik up a few more, thank you for the SHOW!!!!

Thanks bro, I'm super stoked to get a nice camera to really showcase sum of my work.. As for your questions: yes, I am adding the bennie tea directly into the epicenter/rez.. I have not tried adding it into the crowns yet, I don't know why but it kinda scared me a little bit to add directly into the crown, I'm still very new to the bennies.. No I didn't foliar feed at all, I didn't really find it nessecary, my plants have been very healthy from the beginning and no bug issues at all.. If its not broke dont try I fix it or add to it... As for the PH changing it hasn't changed my PH at all... I will be running the bennies all the way until flush..

I was going to try to add some pictures tonight but its extremely hard to get decent shots with the HPS lights on... I will sneak in a few minutes early tomorrow and get some shots under regular lights... Get ready because these buds have BLOWN UP!!!!