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so, you just water once a day with 20% run off?
For me figuring that dry back and feeding out was challenging specially when the room is running at 80/82f. I'm still micro managing it but a lot less then before..
i saw that growtek on reddit, that system looks pretty dope.I recently changed to an automated system like I previously mentioned its an interval based system. I won a coupon code that gave me a pretty good discount off the system so I said why not. Its made by a company called Growtek USA based out of Washington State.
Prior I had been feeding once a day till about 20% runoff leaning on the higher side vs the under. I am using a local nutrient company and just following their schedule which in veg is 15 ml per gallon of each their Grow A and B. My starting water is coming from a Hydro Logic Small Boy starting at 7 PH, 200 ppm and .49 EC.
After Foxfarms PH down and the 30 ML of nutrients per gallon my water is PH 5.5, 106 ppm, and 2.1 EC.
The fertigation system has been live for 4 days and all I do is add 2-4 drops of PH every day to maintain the 5.5 PH, but there has been feeding with some drift. I am still fine tuning the system but as of now I am feeding them 200ml of water every 2 hours.
I was lower but was not noticing any residual water in the drip trays so wanted to up it some to at least start to pool water knowing I am getting runoff. I know I should be allowing some dry back so might have to adjust but so far I am just holding my breath.
It is not for everyone but is pretty cool. I am not even using it to its full capacity as I think the really neat thing is the waste water management. It has an add on that comes with another pump and scales and will measure the weight of the run off for each plant and then based on that turn on the watering.i saw that growtek on reddit, that system looks pretty dope.
that's exactly what i was thinking when i saw these latest pics. you could've flipped sooner and still filled in the screen. you're going to want a second screen in there for support, and i would HIGHLY recommend a defoliation. it'll help keep RH in check and ensure you end up with solid buds all the way down instead of finishing up with a bunch of larf and extract-only garbage on the bottom.@tobh I should have listened to your advice and flipped these sooner. I wanted to try and get that front screen filled out, but I think I am going to have a similar situation on hand to what you encountered.
That’s awesome of him or themIt is not for everyone but is pretty cool. I am not even using it to its full capacity as I think the really neat thing is the waste water management. It has an add on that comes with another pump and scales and will measure the weight of the run off for each plant and then based on that turn on the watering.
So you could set it to have a 20% runoff twice a day for example and it would turn on pump to water at an interval and adjust the amount per plant based on its runoff water weight.
Plus the guy at Growtek is super helpful and can make changes for your system as needed. For example he sent me the standard drip rings and when I explained the rockwool set up I have he created new blocks and sent me for free which are just perfect.
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that's exactly what i was thinking when i saw these latest pics. you could've flipped sooner and still filled in the screen. you're going to want a second screen in there for support, and i would HIGHLY recommend a defoliation. it'll help keep RH in check and ensure you end up with solid buds all the way down instead of finishing up with a bunch of larf and extract-only garbage on the bottom.
Thank you very much.you did perfect! fuckin decent.
they'll bounce back just fine. it's a butthole pucker moment but you did em right in that space. sleep easy man.
you weren't too far off from your goal even after the flowers are cured/yeah, i noticed that with mine too. that second strip completely killed the stretch. like, dead, no more stretch at all. also didn't notice any signs of stress, they just kinda went into suspended animation for about a week it seemed. overall i think the benefit is better than any potential harm caused considering i think i threw maybe seven grams max of larf into the trim pile, and still came out at 1.8lb of trimmed, dried smokeable flower. everything is curing atm so will know a final cured weight in a couple more weeks.
not at all. if it hadn't been for the handful of mistakes, and with heavier genetics, i'm sure i would've easily passed the 2lb mark. next goal is 2gpw, or as close as possible without running co2. that's a serious stretch goal though. everything would have to be perfect.i think that's what happened to the BB cheese of mine. After the strip it kind of went on halt and stopped stretching. However, it didn't bother the Amnesia and Cinderella and to keep the control, i did the temp differential.
you weren't too far off from your goal even after the flowers are cured/
yeah, i noticed that with mine too. that second strip completely killed the stretch. like, dead, no more stretch at all. also didn't notice any signs of stress, they just kinda went into suspended animation for about a week it seemed. overall i think the benefit is better than any potential harm caused considering i think i threw maybe seven grams max of larf into the trim pile, and still came out at 1.8lb of trimmed, dried smokeable flower. everything is curing atm so will know a final cured weight in a couple more weeks.
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