SisterMaryElephant wrote:Welcome to the forums, I look forward to seeing your results.
I'm one of those growers that believes that LED isn't ready to replace HID and we've all seen LED grows that show poor results. That said, I'm not saying that LED won't grow plants, I just don't believe that LED can do as well as HID in the "bang for buck" test especially. I hope your grow can prove me wrong.
hemivette wrote:I have a 4x4x7 wardrobe, and so far it seems to be plenty of light.
I too was a Blackstar user, and may keep them for under-lighting. We will have to see how the lower areas turn out. About 3 grows ago I had a main cola that ended up 38.8 grams dry and cured 4 weeks. (Pics are wet weight)
Your gonna love the bubble buckets too. I have a few peices of advice. Get a good PH-EC pen. I dont know if you are familiar with Sensi nutes (you'd said you had been growing awhile) but only use half of what the bottle says. 1st week i only use a little clonex rooting solution, 2nd week, half dose, and 3rd full dose. (Which is only half what the bottle says) Also I always keep an air stone in the water I use for my res changes, and top-offs. I bubble it for a min. 24hrs, and more like 48, before using. Doing this will keep your PH much more stable. Make sure you soak the clay for at least 3 days, and keep the PH between 5.5, and 6.0, then wash thoroughly before using. Once they have rooted in the rockwool, you want to plant them as deep as possible in the net pots, (so the roots get to the res quicker) I usually use about 3/4 inch of clay on the bottom, then just fill the edges to the top of the rockwool. You can ad more clay as she grows. This also keeps the rockwool buried nice and deep, so no light can get to it, and cause rot, or disease.
Hope some of this helps, also hope it wasnt too lay for you. Good luck! h
Powerwiz wrote:Thanks for the post! No its not to late for me. Im actually a little head of the ball game. I am getting all my stuff for my set up this weekend then light should come in next week. My current set will be right next to it.
How do you like the SolarStorm?
I appreciate the advice!!! Yea its my first time with bubble buckets. Whats funny is for some reason all this time I never considered hydro or dwc and was smoking and had a moment of clarity on how it all worked a few weeks ago LOL. It was odd.
On the Bubble Bucket stuff ... I actually thought of that. I washed my clay and they have been soaking in ph balanced water. Then the air stone I figured might have particles in it since its machine milled and been running it in some water.
Thanks for the advice on how deep to plant the rock wool that was actually a question I was going to post sometime soon. Right now I just have one germinating in a cool dark place on top of a heating pad with a dome over it.
My buckets are only 3.5 gallon ones. Right now I am excited under my blackstar 240 I have a Paradise Seeds Wappa about a month into flowering. That is one stable good strain. I will be buying a crap load of those seeds on my next order. Very robust and low maintenance.
In terms of nutes my plan was to go with Sensi Grow/Bloom A/B. Do you like Advanced's Bud Candy?
Thanks again man! Stay tuned..journal will be slow going at first since I won't get my light till next week and will only have one bucket going till my seeds come the week after!
hemivette wrote:
So far the light seems to be great. Definitely a different color spec from the Blackstars. Ive only had it going about 10 days now.
No problem on the advice....Just to clarify on the bubbling. I was talking about your extra water you will be using to top up the buckets, and for your weekly changes. I have 2 6gal plastic jerry cans from Walmart, with an airstone in each, going all week. (You will only need 1).
I just posted some results on the Wappa for someone else on here, and they were off the charts. Ive also been looking at the Y Greiga strain. Its the #1 medical strain right now.
Ive only been growing hydro for 2 years. so I havent had a lot experience with the nutes, and I learned the hard way. I bought all Sensi stuff. What I use is A+B, Bud candy, B-52, Big bud, and have recently added GH's Koolbloom, and Floralicious. For the last few weeks, and the they make a huge difference I cant express enough to go light with any of these. I always cut whatever it says in half, and sometimes less. I am now using Blue Planet as my Base nute, and it is a lot more forgiving, in fact for the most part they are the greenest Ive grown.
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