What new plans do have for your next grow ?

HeadHunterpipes · Jun 24, 2024

I grow in hydroponics.
Its so stupid of me because I want put in too many plants and wait too long to flip to flowering.
Plus the learning curve of growing water .
Right now pretty much take up allot of time.
I am always ordering macronutrients and micronutrients and changing the water.
That is the main reason to switch to 30 gallon systems .
My two 4x8 tents are not together or I would make 100 gallon reservoir and tie all the RDWC systems together.

Silly but thinking of just growing one large plant in one of my 4x8 tents.
I change something every year..
I wanted to take the 5th wheel and boat and be gone for the summer camping and fishing .
Again I wasn't thinking and started a grow.
I was down medically........now I am back up one ,,,my feet. or real foot and a not real foot .
I am a hard core stoner ..
Just pics ...

Tent two.
Yup plan is to install the new HLG lights I assembled into this closet .will be changed to nursery.
Tent 1
What changes do have planned for your next grow?

Natep · Jun 24, 2024

The more I think about it the less I would recommend this. It is going to take a lot of time. You could put a shit ton of clones and flip them super fast. Run 4 cycles a year. You will have to veg that thing for 6 months to fill a 4x8.

Beachbumm · Jun 24, 2024

I taught myself how to grow cannabis hydroponically from the mid 80s to the mid-90s with no internet, no mentor, no nothing except high times articles and books I bought

I lost garden after garden, I fought heat & mites, I learned everything there is to know about fucking pH back then the hard way!

Grew in soil for the last decade up until I moved in the end of 21, haven't grown since

Now I'll grow in pro mix when I start my new grow in my new house this fall, right now I just have three plants outside in the vegetable garden but I'm setting up a small indoor just to feed my own head. Haven't finalized the design yet

I go old school HID's and I need their heat here in northern Maine, but I will use leds next summer for a few months and then back to the HIDs

Edit: your setup looks amazing by the way, but I have absolutely no jealousy! I have no desire to ever grow hydroponically again

HeadHunterpipes · Jun 24, 2024

Natep said:
The more I think about it the less I would recommend this. It is going to take a lot of time. You could put a shit ton of clones and flip them super fast. Run 4 cycles a year. You will have to veg that thing for 6 months to fill a 4x8.

Bolo has a 65 day flowering time ,so does the next strain I am developing
I will have my plants/clones that I am training in the veg room. I have 3 months to train each set of plants .
within two weeks of the trained plants no matter what size go into the 4x8 tents they will go into 12/12 lighting .
all my plants are in DIY RDWC systems .
Right now I have 3 plants in my4x8 tent and one plant is always going for more light .
to crowded .
They are too big, I waited too long to flip.
As of growing one plant in a 4x8 tent ,,, I have one that is about 30 days old and I am main lining/trimming/training it .
I am going for 4 cycles per year

Natep · Jun 24, 2024

HeadHunterpipes said:
Bolo has a 65 day flowering time ,so does the next strain I am developing
I will have my plants/clones that I am training in the veg room. I have 3 months to train each set of plants .
within two weeks of the trained plants no matter what size go into the 4x8 tents they will go into 12/12 lighting .
all my plants are in DIY RDWC systems .
Right now I have 3 plants in my4x8 tent and one plant is always going for more light .
to crowded .
They are too big, I waited too long to flip.
As of growing one plant in a 4x8 tent ,,, I have one that is about 30 days old and I am main lining/trimming/training it .
I am going for 4 cycles per yea

It gets hard in a tent because of the stretch. I have had strains grow past my lights. I had to bend the shit out of them. I veg bloom and dry in the same tent. It has 160 gallon bed so there is not much moving things in and out.

HeadHunterpipes · Jun 24, 2024

Beachbumm said:
I taught myself how to grow cannabis hydroponically from the mid 80s to the mid-90s with no internet, no mentor, no nothing except high times articles and books I bought

I lost garden after garden, I fought heat & mites, I learned everything there is to know about fucking pH back then the hard way!

Grew in soil for the last decade up until I moved in the end of 21, haven't grown since

Now I'll grow in pro mix when I start my new grow in my new house this fall, right now I just have three plants outside in the vegetable garden but I'm setting up a small indoor just to feed my own head. Haven't finalized the design yet

I go old school HID's and I need their heat here in northern Maine, but I will use leds next summer for a few months and then back to the HIDs

I use earth alive/active earth
and Plant Pod it has all the micronutrients needed for cannabis.
The PH droplet test kits are cheap and work ...
I like pro mix ... but I still do my own mix with adding topsoil little sand and pea gravel,

Yes, hydroponics without help and not knowing anything about it , you're in overhead for years.
But IMO My plants grow faster than my plants in the greenhouse. Where I am using FF strawberry fields.
Best time to grow is during the winter, the lights heat up my house where I don't have to turn the heater on.

Might be a pain but I love smoking weed .. and I am on the picky side

Beachbumm · Jun 24, 2024

HeadHunterpipes said:
I use earth alive/active earth
and Plant Pod it has all the micronutrients needed for cannabis.
The PH droplet test kits are cheap and work ...
I like pro mix ... but I still do my own mix with adding topsoil little sand and pea gravel,

Yes, hydroponics without help and not knowing anything about it , you're in overhead for years.
But IMO My plants grow faster than my plants in the greenhouse. Where I am using FF strawberry fields.
Best time to grow is during the winter, the lights heat up my house where I don't have to turn the heater on.

Might be a pain but I love smoking weed .. and I am on the picky side

yup I was over my head for about 2 years until I got it figured out . The good part was I was working with real skunk#1 back then and the original Northern lights too which I brought back from California to Boston

Perhaps worst of all I shopped at Wormsway in Worcester Massachusetts, old timers who've heard of Operation Green Merchant will know what that means, but I was at least smart enough to pay cash and I took a friend's car there

Agree on the aquarium drops, I've got a draw full of dead meters from high-end to $10 cheapos, I'll never buy another pH meter

HeadHunterpipes · Jun 24, 2024

Natep said:
It gets hard in a tent because of the stretch. I have had strains grow past my lights. I had to bend the shit out of them. I veg bloom and dry in the same tent. It has 160 gallon bed so there is not much moving things in and out.

I agree, that's why the training and the flip in two weeks of being in the tent to 12/12.
I cheat I guess but all the time the clones developed into plants and then train them, I dont count that time.
Once the plant hits the 4x8 tents it 80 days .....
This is the first time I really have everything set up. 4 more weeks and thats when I can take the plants out of the machine shop and into the closet/nursery 4x5.
I have new lathe and I want finish a pipe for my customer ..

HeadHunterpipes · Jun 24, 2024

Beachbumm said:
yup I was over my head for about 2 years until I got it figured out . The good part was I was working with real skunk#1 back then and the original Northern lights too which I brought back from California to Boston

Perhaps worst of all I shopped at Wormsway in Worcester Massachusetts, old timers who've heard of Operation Green Merchant will know what that means, but I was at least smart enough to pay cash and I took a friend's car there

Agree on the aquarium drops, I've got a draw full of dead meters from high-end to $10 cheapos, I'll never buy another pH meter

Because I have ten hydroponic systems including the cloner. i bought a blue lab PH pen .
So far its worked good , but it dose require to be recalibrated about once a month.
Yes I have bought the cheap ass PH pens and screwed my plants all up.

AZreefer · Jun 24, 2024

Im a skilled engineer and handy building type with year of experience with various sense and despense chemical systems. I want to put my professionally aquired knowledge of different automated rdwc systems into my own hydro set. That my next grow. I have the design in my mind and have set my sights on key componets that are totally unneccassary but i have a very specific design im going to build. So during what is my first grow currently im going to gather and build. I have 5 months to put it together. But 2 weeks into an organic potted grow and im so ready to be rid of the shit smell in my tent.

What new plans do have for your next grow ?

What new plans do have for your next grow ?

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