GiGaBaNE's 3rd & Final Journal - At Least Until I Change Country

[donpaul.p]

hi GiGa, you see you dwc well you need some growing medium in the top part, and where you see the pic where you have got the stem coming through the lid of the bottle, well you dont want any stem that at all, you need to grow the plant in the top part and allow just the roots to grow down into the res, i use compost in the top about 3 inches and then plant the clone or seedling into this, then over a few days the roots will grow down and come out the lid of the bottle and this is when i fill the res up, then the top part supports the weight of the plant, if you have nothing their then the weight of the plant will just push it into the res and it wont be able to support itself,

so i start mine in compost then fill the top part with few inches of compost and plant the plant in that, then wait for the roots to grow down into the res then fill the res with nute mix, remember to use the stated dose for the age and size of the plant, now im not sure what you want to use in the top part, but you do need to use something, you dont want the stem that low down, all you want is the roots growing down into the res, the stem of my plant sits in the compost in the top part and then the roots go in the res and grow like crazy, ill try and find you some pics and post what im saying

 

[donpaul.p]

if you check out this journal below, its teSmp's and you will see what i mean, he leaves the lids on his bottles though but i found the roots grow through a lot quicker if the lid is off, this is as long as the growing medium dont fall through into the res, with mine i get small amounts of compost dripping in but nothing after a few days once its settled, also make sure the level of the res is right, you want it about an inch lower than the top part, so their is a small air gap between the bottom of the top part and the liquid in the res, this stops the top part getting soaked and stops the stem from rotting.

check this link out below and it should give you some more info, i have also got pics on mine but ill have to find them, ill take a load of pics of mine in the morning and show you exactly how i done mine step by step, so you can compare this with what you have done,
TeSmp's 5 Gallon DWC + 2L DWC-H's + 2L Hempy + 2L Soil

if that link dont work give me a shout back

 

[GigaGrew]

hi GiGa, you see you dwc well you need some growing medium in the top part, and where you see the pic where you have got the stem coming through the lid of the bottle, well you dont want any stem that at all, you need to grow the plant in the top part and allow just the roots to grow down into the res, i use compost in the top about 3 inches and then plant the clone or seedling into this, then over a few days the roots will grow down and come out the lid of the bottle and this is when i fill the res up, then the top part supports the weight of the plant, if you have nothing their then the weight of the plant will just push it into the res and it wont be able to support itself,

so i start mine in compost then fill the top part with few inches of compost and plant the plant in that, then wait for the roots to grow down into the res then fill the res with nute mix, remember to use the stated dose for the age and size of the plant, now im not sure what you want to use in the top part, but you do need to use something, you dont want the stem that low down, all you want is the roots growing down into the res, the stem of my plant sits in the compost in the top part and then the roots go in the res and grow like crazy, ill try and find you some pics and post what im saying

Its all good donpaul, its you im using as my reference point, but im deliberatly being different. if it all goes pete tong ill be following your way to the letter.

im just sick to death of rot. the two mini ones i did the other day, one has gone moldy. My main concern is as you say the plant falling down into the bottom, but i have an idea to adress this in MK2 that is not possible in a 2l bottle. For this attempt i want no moisture to be anywhere except on the actual roots which is why my medium is dry....you cant realy do that with soil as it can cause problems.
i would have had my stem a little higher but for two reasons, firstly there is a cluster of roots coming out of the bottom of the stem, but then there is a secondary cluster forming higher up almost upto 2cm up the stem, secondly and as much the same as the first reason my tape needs the stem to grip to and if i raise it any more ill either be hurting thos top roots or crushing any roots with the tape, which actually is generating a good amount of friction against said stem =)

i just want to see how this goes, because if it works with a dry medium, the MK2 will have no medium at all... ;D

 

[GigaGrew]

if you check out this journal below, its teSmp's and you will see what i mean, he leaves the lids on his bottles though but i found the roots grow through a lot quicker if the lid is off, this is as long as the growing medium dont fall through into the res, with mine i get small amounts of compost dripping in but nothing after a few days once its settled, also make sure the level of the res is right, you want it about an inch lower than the top part, so their is a small air gap between the bottom of the top part and the liquid in the res, this stops the top part getting soaked and stops the stem from rotting.

check this link out below and it should give you some more info, i have also got pics on mine but ill have to find them, ill take a load of pics of mine in the morning and show you exactly how i done mine step by step, so you can compare this with what you have done,
TeSmp's 5 Gallon DWC + 2L DWC-H's + 2L Hempy + 2L Soil

if that link dont work give me a shout back

lol cool, omw....im willing to check out TeSmp any day of the week, lol. i cant take my eyes off his avatar =D

 

[donpaul.p]

i thought you would like his avatar, its his mrs, and the bud she is holding is from his 2ltr hempie.

i only use compost in the top as that is what i had at the time, i sprout the seeds in little compost rooters and then put these in the top of the 2ltr hempie, after about 3 or 4 days the roots then appear and grow out the bottom where the lid of the bottle used to be, this is when i fill the res and just have the res level slightly lower than the lid of the bottle so their is an air gap, then the bubbles bubble up and dont soak everything in the top part, you could use those clay pellets and start the plant in them rooters and out this into the clay pellets, you would need to keep watering to make sure the roots grew down,

the only thing im thinking is if the top is dry and only the roots are hanging in the res would this kill the bits that are dry, if the roots are dry they will die, so you would pretty much need everything but the stem in the res, when i used my aero garden i dont similar to you, i made a sort of foam holder and this held the stem so their was no growing medium what so ever, the foam held the stem of the plant in the hole and the roots went in the res, but doing this method i found the plant was very weak and when it was about 10inches high it was just to heavy for the foam support and just pushed the plant stem into the res and caused it to rot,

but if i had the clay pellets then id start the seed in one of those rooters then put it in clay pellets and let the roots grow down into the res, this way the plant can support itself and should be able to grow as it wants,

when you got it figured out and working let me know how you did it so i can then work in improving mine, plus we can bounce ideas of each other and see what we end up with. but i find the compost works well and supports the plant well, the top part with the plant in only has 2 or 3 inches of compost in it so their is not much root mass in the top part its just the stem and the main tap root, then the rest grows down into the res, and as soon as the roots his the nutrient rich solution they grow like crazy and so does the plant.

teSmp is the one who paid for my 3 part plus bloom booster bpn and also paid for postage, he is a top bloke and will answer any question, he has stopped growing for now as he is at uni or something similar so he is doing that but im sure he will grow again in the future, if it wasnt for him id still be wondering how good bpn is, but thanks to teSmp i now know its as good as i thought it was so ill be placing my own order around xmas as i think corey is improving his product and should have it done by then, or so i read in another journal, bpn is as good as it gets and if corey can make it better then it will be shocking to see how much better it really is.

so you cant go far wrong asking teSmp questions about the 2ltr dwc hempies or the dwc scrog, he got great results with his scrog as well, its all worth reading if you get some spare time, their is a complete build guide in his journal for the 2ltr hempies but im not sure which of his journals its in, he has detailed pics and stuff like that plus he dont use compost in the hempies so you should be able to get some ideas from his grow.

my last 2 hempies which is the afgan skunk that i harvested fully and the reserva privada sour kush which i harvested all of it apart from 3 big buds that are making seeds, now the afgan skunk just had a res with no air pump in it and i got more from that than i did from the sour kush which had the air pump and stone in it, but its 2 different strains so i cant really compare them, but it proves you can grow without having an air stone in their and just having the res works well. it takes longer to use the nutrient solution up without the pump so i was filling it up every 2 or 3 days with the one without the pump, with the pump i was filling the res every 24 to 36 hours, this does use the nutes up quick but i found i gave 3 feeds with nutes then id fill the res with plain water just to give the plant chance to have a break from the nutes for 24 hours, plus the compost in the top would of built up with salts without doing this as i watered from the top so it made sense to do this,

i used the bpn at full strength and got no nute burn but if your using something else id start at 1/2 strength and work your way up.

this time round im doing some 2ltr hempies that are just a 2ltr pop bottle with no res so the res is actually full of soil like a regular pot but using a 2ltr pop bottle, ill be doing the others with an air stone and res and some with just the res, this way i can see how they compare with each other then i can use the best method from then on

 

[GigaGrew]

aww man. ive had a eureka moment! im not talking just a macguyver either, but a fully commercially viable combination of growing styles and widgets which i believe will be the perfect pot. i dont want to say too much right now because i honestly believe this will make me a lot of legitimate money and thousands of growers very happy, so i have to take some time to complete the design to a commercial level and get a patent on it.

however....along this eureka path i have come up with a lesser idea that i can macguyver up in my own home that will make you smile when you see it and im fairly confident you will try it along with a whole swathe of other growers on this site...unfortunatly my lights went off at midnight so i cant get into my grow room to build it, but i know what ill be doing with my saturday.

lets just say its a soil grow (or perlite e.t.c) ill be using perlite, that absorbs the 2l hempie idea and makes it even more cool, but is just a shadow of the new pot.

i dont want people to think im being greedy here, i am on the breadline and if i do create something that could change the face of growing i should be able to make a little something off it, but ill tell you now, once its in production i would be more than happy to send a letterheaded official exemption to anyone on this forum to produce their own for personal use free forever...i will make more than enough money from standard gardeners =D

i got 6 hours till i can start work on the lesser prototype that i will be using instead of 2l hempy style that i hope will be adopted here as well as the gigapot was....man im so excited!

 

[Fluffy Haze]

ive had a eureka moment! im not talking just a macguyver either, but a fully commercially viable combination of growing styles and widgets which i believe will be the perfect pot. i dont want to say too much right now because i honestly believe this will make me a lot of legitimate money and thousands of growers very happy, so i have to take some time to complete the design to a commercial level and get a patent on it.....etc

Ooh Giga, this sounds intriguing and I really hope that it does bring you the success that corresponds to your passion for it! Go for it. One of my particular skills is business document presentation, layout and checking for clear english etc. So if you need a hand with anything let me know.

P.S. Still replying to previous message and not got any further reading through lol. I'm starting to get myself all confused!

P.P.S. MacGyver is just brilliant! So funny. I think he is playing pretty much himself in the role, and in Stargate too. Cranky but with a heart of gold and a crazy noggin. Just my kind of person!

 

[GigaGrew]

lmao ive never seen it, i call everything a bodge job or ill 'jimmey' one up, but ive picked up the term constantly talking to yanks who wouldnt get the jimmy thing i think

lmao im a HUGE fan of stargate, seen almost every episode of every version and all the films.


as to the pots, we shall see but i have a nose for business products. i had one lucky break in my life and the owner screwed it up, but once i went into a shitty little computer shop that was failing badly and told him he needed a manager and amazingly he accepted, i turned that place from junk into a successful internet business, for a brief time we were making stacks of profit and the cashflow projections managed to hit for 1 month a rate of half a million £ per year till the moron screwed the pooch and cut into the cash flow not understanding the difference between that and profit...i didnt have enough left in the pot to pay the creditors and buy new stock....my dream crashed and burned in a single day, but it took me 6 months of living in a foregn country trying to give it CPR before i finally came back home defeated and with IBS as my only reward from all the stress =(

i never recovered, ended up having kids and just have been essentially rotting my life away since, nearly 7 years now.

thats kinda what got me into wanting to grow on a BIG scale, i blew my one big chance in life, i need to manufacture another or i will fade from history

anyways im sure the pot will work, hell it even needs batteries, lol

 

[Fluffy Haze]

hehe, heya cute and fluffy or should i call you miss grumps(well Mrs if i remember right ;D)

Lol. Well, technically not married yet, but we are hoping for on pretty much our 10^th anniversary in 2014 I call him hubby because, well, he is! I’ve gone through years of his stinky feet and he has gone through years of me taking over the bed in my sleep so I reckon we are definitely “married”! Miss or Mrs will do me just nicely, Ms and I will be cross. Don’t know why that irritates me but it does!

LOL i can understand with the puppy, this staff i got recently is such an emo and constantly wants my love and attention. im suppose to be getting rid of him because of growling at the kids, but to be honest im in love with him already and just cant do it and to be fair, i was very tough with him and he is under no illusions about his standing now compared to the kids and hasnt growled at any of them again since we had a little chat about it .

That’s it! I knew there was something I wanted to post about! I saw the pic of doggie and some of your posts about him. I like your approach. My dog is like our child in the sense that he is part of the family (and in a very weeny family of me, hubby and mum he has a much more prominent role) but I do believe in treating dogs like dogs. The only time I will buy him a coat is if we take him hiking in the hills on a cold day. You did absolutely right here. You were being the pack leader, simple as that. Kids and wife first, dog at the bottom. It’s the way it is. I think as long as you stay strong on the really important stuff (like not growling at the kids, absolutely) then you can be a softie on the little things, like when they decide to be little buggers and make you chase them round the house to get the sock back! Methinks doggie will be staying with you, if he is behaving! I don’t want to post anything too identifiable really (especially as people know us by beastie and not by us!) but if you want to swap doggie pics and stories let me know and I will PM you.

Thanks so much for the compliments, you have made my day. sometimes i feel like the village pauper in this community, but i never feel too bad about it as i get a huge amount of pride from the adversity of making it happen without harming the family budget, tho of course its days like this when i can feel the THC has all left my system that i struggle to be anything but a miserable bugger. its all good tho as from tuesday onwards things should start to improve. all this poverty came about because of 1 work paycheck turning up a week late and a few direct debits bouncing, then the banks just added insult to injury by charging the hell out of us then charging on the charges for not being able to pay the charges...bankers have a lot to answer for this last couple of years. =(

Credit where it’s due my dear. I love the fact that there are so many ways to grow decent weed, some more advanced than others but the individual can decide what they want to do. A couple of years ago I would have been going into every little detail and becoming obsessive about it (partly my nature, I was a seriously competitive athlete for years and again recently so it goes with the mindset lol). I’m trying to give myself a break though and just do what I can, and what I have the physical and emotional energy for. Life is difficult enough to manage at the best of times, so if someone wants to try and grow a plant in little pot on the windowsill, go for it! All I ever ask is for people to think for themselves and do their best and I will be there all the way with them if that’s the case.

I really really feel for you here, I went from a 20K job to minimum wage to walk away from a bully, then got made redundant. It’s rough, proper rough and I so hope it improves for you soon. I’ve just been thrown a lifeline, yours is coming.

I don’t think there is a best way to grow this wonderful plant, and ain’t that fun?!

your welcome to beg borrow and steal anything i have to give hon, especially sig entries, lol. there are far more advanced guides for this out there, but i deliberatly went for the simplest to aid those that dont want an IT qualification just to join in the fun, lol.

Mucho grassy arse (gracias ). I’m all for advanced guides, I’ve written some myself for work on some pretty mind numbingly red taped bollocks, but you can’t beat something that makes life easier. I struggle to remember where I am half the time so I need all the help I can get!

awesome! a clever woman that loves weed and can command authority in a mmo and your already married I played wow for a bit, was in a guild called Balls of British Steel =D its a fun game, but i found the tradeskill side to be to simple for myself, im a real geek for things like that, i get much less fun out of playing a character in the game world than i do from being there for the guild and crafting the things they need e.t.c EQ 1 is the first and best MMO i think and although its pretty ugly by modern standards its still the one all others are compared to.

*blush* thank you kind sir! I rather like being an unusual girlie. I just went and had a look at the EQ website, it looks very tempting indeed! The problem I have is 1) my laptop is a bit too creaky now for such heavy games and 2) my gaming days, including on the PS3, are limited now because I simply can’t cope with the pain in my arm for as long anymore. I’m just playing quick bursts of Infamous 1 on the PS3 at the moment so I get to blow some shit up at least I wish I could come play EQ though, I am definitely a crafter. I stopped playing WoW before I got to top level because the crafting just lost all appeal by the time you got there and there didn’t seem to be the right atmosphere within various guilds to encourage the kind of role you describe. I love running round gathering crap to build other bits of crap to sell to buy more crap and so on! I rocked the auction house. I found it rather repetitive as a game as a whole though, wouldn’t go back to it now.

I think its awesome that you live in the uk!! lol a lot of these guys here have a bit of a boys club thing going were they all meet up and help each other harvest and smoke e.t.c i miss out on such being on our little island so im always chuffed to bits to meet other UK growers. Im based in Hampshire btw, you miles away from me? Think i already meantioned in some other thread ill be setting up a house somewhere for my 420 friends to be able to all meet up one day and get ripped together =D

Sadly my dear I live closer to Scotland than I do to you! I live about 30 minutes from the western edge of the Lake District. What a pity, I really miss having real people to smoke with, get silly, have intelligent conversations and conversations about why craving fruit yoghurt with ready salted crisps in it is not weird! I may be a loner but I do like company and the company of friends who smoke, love and appreciate the plant in an adult and intelligent way. I’ve never been able to find that in 3D so I am so very glad I found you all here! But yes, I think we should find all the UK buddies here and arrange somewhere in the middle of the country for a get together!

lmao ive never seen it, i call everything a bodge job or ill 'jimmey' one up, but ive picked up the term constantly talking to yanks who wouldnt get the jimmy thing i think

lmao im a HUGE fan of stargate, seen almost every episode of every version and all the films

Hahaha... in my rather complicated past I married a Texan and have had a lot of American friends, I love all the language confusion that arises, very funny

Jack O'Neill is one very cool and tasty dude. Cracks me up. I love grumpy people with hearts of gold. Takes a lot to make it to my list but he is there without a doubt.

And to you for the rest of the post ...

 

[GigaGrew]

Lol. Well, technically not married yet, but we are hoping for on pretty much our 10^th anniversary in 2014 I call him hubby because, well, he is! I've gone through years of his stinky feet and he has gone through years of me taking over the bed in my sleep so I reckon we are definitely "married"! Miss or Mrs will do me just nicely, Ms and I will be cross. Don't know why that irritates me but it does!



That's it! I knew there was something I wanted to post about! I saw the pic of doggie and some of your posts about him. I like your approach. My dog is like our child in the sense that he is part of the family (and in a very weeny family of me, hubby and mum he has a much more prominent role) but I do believe in treating dogs like dogs. The only time I will buy him a coat is if we take him hiking in the hills on a cold day. You did absolutely right here. You were being the pack leader, simple as that. Kids and wife first, dog at the bottom. It's the way it is. I think as long as you stay strong on the really important stuff (like not growling at the kids, absolutely) then you can be a softie on the little things, like when they decide to be little buggers and make you chase them round the house to get the sock back! Methinks doggie will be staying with you, if he is behaving! I don't want to post anything too identifiable really (especially as people know us by beastie and not by us!) but if you want to swap doggie pics and stories let me know and I will PM you.

Definatly =)

Credit where it's due my dear. I love the fact that there are so many ways to grow decent weed, some more advanced than others but the individual can decide what they want to do. A couple of years ago I would have been going into every little detail and becoming obsessive about it (partly my nature, I was a seriously competitive athlete for years and again recently so it goes with the mindset lol). I'm trying to give myself a break though and just do what I can, and what I have the physical and emotional energy for. Life is difficult enough to manage at the best of times, so if someone wants to try and grow a plant in little pot on the windowsill, go for it! All I ever ask is for people to think for themselves and do their best and I will be there all the way with them if that's the case.

I really really feel for you here, I went from a 20K job to minimum wage to walk away from a bully, then got made redundant. It's rough, proper rough and I so hope it improves for you soon. I've just been thrown a lifeline, yours is coming.

I don't think there is a best way to grow this wonderful plant, and ain't that fun?!



Mucho grassy arse (gracias ). I'm all for advanced guides, I've written some myself for work on some pretty mind numbingly red taped bollocks, but you can't beat something that makes life easier. I struggle to remember where I am half the time so I need all the help I can get!

haha im obsessive about every little detail in order to make life simpler i love geeky things like time and motion, time management and when i have the time i want to study the japanese historical art of simplicity in living


*blush* thank you kind sir! I rather like being an unusual girlie. I just went and had a look at the EQ website, it looks very tempting indeed! The problem I have is 1) my laptop is a bit too creaky now for such heavy games and 2) my gaming days, including on the PS3, are limited now because I simply can't cope with the pain in my arm for as long anymore. I'm just playing quick bursts of Infamous 1 on the PS3 at the moment so I get to blow some shit up at least I wish I could come play EQ though, I am definitely a crafter. I stopped playing WoW before I got to top level because the crafting just lost all appeal by the time you got there and there didn't seem to be the right atmosphere within various guilds to encourage the kind of role you describe. I love running round gathering crap to build other bits of crap to sell to buy more crap and so on! I rocked the auction house. I found it rather repetitive as a game as a whole though, wouldn't go back to it now.

i notice you have mentioned this a couple of times and ptsd, wanna talk about it? we can go PM for this if you want. im pretty scarred up and got a mangled arm myself and certainly have a few mental issues of my own, tho mine is mostly about my childhood.

Sadly my dear I live closer to Scotland than I do to you! I live about 30 minutes from the western edge of the Lake District. What a pity, I really miss having real people to smoke with, get silly, have intelligent conversations and conversations about why craving fruit yoghurt with ready salted crisps in it is not weird! I may be a loner but I do like company and the company of friends who smoke, love and appreciate the plant in an adult and intelligent way. I've never been able to find that in 3D so I am so very glad I found you all here! But yes, I think we should find all the UK buddies here and arrange somewhere in the middle of the country for a get together!


Once my grow is up and running properly the measly distances we face in this country wont mean squat, i would think nothing of riding up there on a motorbike with a backpack full of bud and grabbing a hotel for a few days so i could come visit. i desperatly miss having friends i can toke with, i dont get to have friends, they have all been driven away by my bunny boiler, the further away from my current location the better, lol. but yeah ive met a few tokers round my own area and to be blunt most are unimaginative plebs who's sole benefit to this planet is as co2 producers for our worlds greenery, lol. im already mentally prepared for the fact i will have to travel far and wide to meet worthy friends...lmao if i do ever get rich im buying an oil tanker and parking it out in international waters and ill buy the tickets for all my 420 mates to come and meet there =D

Hahaha... in my rather complicated past I married a Texan and have had a lot of American friends, I love all the language confusion that arises, very funny

Jack O'Neill is one very cool and tasty dude. Cracks me up. I love grumpy people with hearts of gold. Takes a lot to make it to my list but he is there without a doubt.

Agreed, he is exactly the kind of person i try to emulate. im a bit of a paradox sometimes. i sleep with a machette and am always ready to return trouble to its sender, but then in my spare time i do bunny hugging things like design inventions to fix africas water problems oOAnd to you for the rest of the post ...

Aww thanks hon right back at ya =)

 

[GigaGrew]

just a micro real time update for anyone wanting pics or is expecting PM's and such.. you know who you are, lol.

working my ass off at the moment trying to improve my 'grow tent' and the grow room its in (tent is only needed to improve co2 when i get it up and running)

im also working on a slightly improved DWC as i mentioned during a rant about a pot that can take over the world...(last you will hear of that till it becomes real...i dont do pipe dreams too much, cept on the days i concieve them)..
it actually takes a lot of bloody work to drill hundreds of holes into a conventional pot. but i will have 1 done today and my bonsai sativa is going in there as i want to flower it soon.


hoping to beat my midnight deadline before the lights go off, if not i wont post the grow tent till i finish it, but will post the DWC.
one must prioritise =)

 

[WizHigh]

30-07-12 (Day 30)

Ok guys radical change to my grow that warrants an instant update.

I have gone balls to the wall and chopped up my 'monster' sativa.
im doing 1 plant at a time to make sure i dont have a total loss.

Here is a 'before' look at the progress i have made so far(the clone that is sat in the Indica pot is actually from the left sativa, the one in the black pot is the top from the right sativa).

This is what the top of the monster sativa looked like before i started this next phase.



This is how far i got into rooting the top in a glass (Before i trimmed the big leaves and added to the incubator)


These are what i have named my 'live cloning' sites. i have not checked for any form of roots yet, its too soon.


(left sativa)


(Middle plant - Indica - Top site)


(Middle plant - Indica - Bottom site)




And now the prize of the show, my work at the end of the day (Left to right)






And finally, the moment youve all been waiting for...
Think my monster sativa now has 5 clones. and the main plant is starting with 2 tops. im going to top each top every time it produces a node that can make 2 tops...if this survives its surgery, this is now my candidate for plant of the month, several down the line....Im going to see just how many tops i can have on a single plant....does anyone know the world record?

And finally, i ran out of battery power on my camera, so you will have to wait for more pics...
Questions?

Im loving this journal. giving me great ideas and what I like to when my plants get this point. still reading lol

 

[WizHigh]

Your journal is so raw. No boundaries, No ceilings, No sky. No limit to this journal. Good inspiration. Cant wait until my young ladies get older.

 

[GigaGrew]

man my plants looked so much healthier back then...cant wait to restore my grow to its former glory...working hard, things will be better than ever so far....i had some real bad look, i overstretched trying to make tons of clones that all failed and ruined the plants that would probably be harvestable about now...but its worth it as my grow knowledge has grown so much since then its unreal...yours will to =)

 

[WizHigh]

I completely understand. I went threw the same with my first grow and I start taking clones early and they all died and the mother suffered dearly. It was a total waste but Ive learned alot and it made me not slack or take the plant for advantage. So I start learning more and started from the basics again. I have to understand the basic before doing vet status ya know. Cant rush things. I look at this as an art. Great learning while growing and to see the beautiful ladies mature is a beautiful sight. Then Our reward is the smoke

 

[GigaGrew]

DWC Update!

Hi guys, looks like this is similar to what ill be using from now on if its sucessful. There are some obvious probems with this particular version as we will see.
one of the advantages of this method is because the roots are contained, you can put several in a single res and standardise all of the sizes. i water by filling the res to the exact level it needs to be at, then grabbing some jugs out of it to top feed the soil.

i hate having to use a standard pot as the top half, but im just working with what i have availible.

this top emulates an air pot, not so much for pruning (tho it will do that) but for airating the soil and improved drainage.

this is a very crude job on the bottom, the big hole in the center is put in for plants with existing root structures, but normally it would just be lots of small holes.

A second pot goes directly beneath it to contain the roots and block out the light. It has to be a perfect fit and you can if you wanted, tape the two together as a single pot.

This is my bonsai dela haze - sativa, as you can see it has quite a small root structure so i had to plant it very shallow. in a normal grow you would fill the pot with medium and plant your seed or clone much higher for a large above water root structure too.

Any old bucket will do for the res and its so easy to change to liquid that you can keep bottles of nute water in the fridge to keep cool and just swap out as many times as you want. Simply lifting the pot out and putting it back in again causes a waterfall effect to add air to the water.
I will improve upon this design when i have some cash and can go shopping but you get the general idea, i think the next version will use some mesh like my giga pots that will sink halfway down a conventional pot, almost like a scrog for the roots, then these standard size pots could sit in a much smaller drip tray like the foil cooking trays i use.

and finally a group shot with my prototype taking center stage...will have another update for you probably tommorow now with my grow room completely overhauled. mainly its just cleaning work which is why you cant tell too much from these pics =p

 

[Fluffy Haze]

I did it! Read it all! Now ask me to remember anything other than my name and you probably wont have any luck

I am so very impressed Giga. I mean, the GiGaGargantuan? Come on, that is a stroke of bloody genius right there. I love your inventions and your commitment to getting this right for you. Will be with you all the way, I probably won't be much use in terms of knowledge but I can do the mascot duties!

When you harvest, it is so gonna rock, you just wait and see

 

[GigaGrew]

I did it! Read it all! Now ask me to remember anything other than my name and you probably wont have any luck

I am so very impressed Giga. I mean, the GiGaGargantuan? Come on, that is a stroke of bloody genius right there. I love your inventions and your commitment to getting this right for you. Will be with you all the way, I probably won't be much use in terms of knowledge but I can do the mascot duties!

When you harvest, it is so gonna rock, you just wait and see

Thank you! =D

im only just getting going, thats for sure. im not naive either i know the risks and am willing to take whatever i get if i get into trouble..i will not stop now, they can do what they must, but ill be totally unrepentant. i just need to rech a certain point in order to achieve my real dreams and become almost untouchable

 

[Fluffy Haze]

I think as long as you are careful most small growers here (UK) will be fine. Sure there is always a risk but when you really are only doing it for yourself then the level of risk is really small. It only really gets worse when other people know about it or know you have a lot.

Shhhh....I won't tell anyone

It's all good Giga. All will be well.

 

[GigaGrew]

anyone reading that can help, pls check out my post (advanced nutrient Q)

Urgent DWC Nutrition help needed!