Juicy's Sea Of Green Inn'A SCreeN

Looks great juicy my brother !! My babies are also poppin check them out ... But no props to me please , the credit belongs to about ten awsome MJ growers i know on 420 magazine , for real my bro . Couldnt of done it without you guys help .TY Going to 12/12 in about a week at the bakery, my closet in about three.
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Thanks bro listen . Im really not dumb , I just dont think sometimes..... Never really thought about how tacky and distastfull it is to put a picture on someone elses thread... Much less a dozen of them , that is until someone brought it to my attention! And hes right.. my appologies brother , wont happen again... Oh ill still be watching and taking notes. From the back row though .... Again my bad keep it greene . Gotta go unfortanatly I gotta send this message to about five 420 brothers..........
 
budgreene said:
Thanks bro listen . Im really not dumb , I just dont think sometimes..... Never really thought about how tacky and distastfull it is to put a picture on someone elses thread... Much less a dozen of them , that is until someone brought it to my attention! And hes right.. my appologies brother , wont happen again... Oh ill still be watching and taking notes. From the back row though .... Again my bad keep it greene . Gotta go unfortanatly I gotta send this message to about five 420 brothers..........
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Yeah, Mr. G is right on with that statement!
But dont sweat it bro, its cool. I know the feeling, and i know you meant nothing by it but wanting too share you're grow with us, which is cool! You should consider starting a journal though ;)
Alot of good people\growers are puttin alot of effort into there journals here, some are to teach and show a good example of a grow, and I would understand why someone like that would feel it as rude, too just jump in and show off your pics! And most of the people following those journals really wanna see updates from the Original Poster anyway, too learn about the certain technique or what else that got them interested too come too that specific journal in the first place.
But hey bro, I know you understand, and its all good ;)
You're always welcome too pop in some budporn once in awhile up here inn Juicy's House :high-five:

:peace:-BRA'
 
If you don't mind I have read your whole journal and subbed for some more thanks for sharing keep the green up. I have a brief advice request if you have the time, now I would love to have a mini table but for me the issue is height so I was thinking having the table on the ground and the reservoir next to it but I need a second pomp that will pomp the water back to the res
 
High ya Ketama :high-five:

Well, the res beneath the table is actually what gives the flood and drain system its benefits and ease of use. If you cant fit a reservoir under the table, I would suggest to look into other feeding techniques than the flood and drain.

Maybe a drain too waste system is better suited? You could make a drip system, and dial in feeding times and amount of water fed to minimize runoff.
What's your thoughts on this?

What about Hempy bottles, is a nice way to grow in tight spaces ;)

But if you are hooked on flood and drain, we'll figure it out. What size is you're table and room?
 
Always looking to JS bravo! In my last setup I had 4' ceilings so space was tight. I did the drain to waste using rockwool pots and drip lines. It worked well but was impossible to service half the plants that were in the back.
 
Yeah Northener, that should do it good?!
As I understand it, it should be a great way to grow. I've seen alot of commercial growers doing drain2waste, maybe its not that ecologic, but we're minding the space 4 now right?

@ Northener: How many plants did U grow in that system of yours, drain to waste ?

I've been thinking of a slightly sloped table, rockwool cubes and a hole lot of driplines, how did the pressure out the drip emmitters turn out? Was it controllable? -I am thinking like 100 emitters?

SPAce, I need more SPAce, hands UP! no HANDS down --
 
OK let's think hard... sorry when I have a long post it takes me so long to write I forget important shit. As for the setup I'll just start from the begging. So the space was 4'x4'x16', a long square storage space with only one opening at the front end. Took the space, covered everything in white plastic (black on one side I know you know the shit) and ran 3- 1'x12' trays down the space. Put 11 plants in each for a total of 33 plants flowering at a time. Each tray was 3 weeks apart allowing a perpetual harvest and the newest tray would go in the center to give clearance for the lights and would be moved to the outside as the previous tray was harvested and the next put in the center. My weak point was the lighting. I had 3 400w hps in a line of cool tubes down the center of the space with a carbon filter at the back end and a 4" inline fan at the front. Ducting ran out of the space and spliced into the dryer vent to expel hot air. At the bottom of the door I made a filtered passive intake. For the irrigation system each tray had a 3/4" line with 1/4" feeder lines with dripers stuck into 8"x8"x4" covered rockwool pots. I used a 250gph magnetic drive pump for each tray and fed them different nutes for their stage development. Now to the waste! Its actually not that much different from running a Res. The rockwool only needs 10% drainage to flush well so you learn what your plants need and adjust feeding according to minimize waste. I would feed each plant approximately 2L or 1/2gal per day in late flowering, 1L of nute solution at light on, 1 L of 0ppm water at light off. I would mix up a week of nutes for each tray and just measure the feedings as I fed the plants. Had the trays on a 1" slant over 12' and everything would drain to the front and I would use a small sump pump to drain the trays. The dripers reduce flow so each plant got the same but be certain to put a filter on the pump to prevent clogs and go overboard on pump side and if you feed them all at the same time make a large loop with the irrigation line that starts and ends at the pump this even outs flow. What am I forgetting? Oh yes impossible to acsess rear plants and if anything goes wrong you have a full day of work to repair. If I forgot anything... oh yes 3 weeks from cuttings to 12/12 to keep em small in the short space. As I was saying if I forgot anything let me know. This growing method works vary well.
 
Must have been a nice grow m8 ;

How would you go about feeding R.O. When lights out and nutes when on. Do you have a second res for the R.O. Water.
There is some work with three stages of flowering at once, did you grow the same strain in all three tables?
Have you used R.W. Slabs before? I've seen lot of growers just placing the 4" cube on top of the slab, i reckon you veg for 14 days in cubes, and then on the slabs for the flowering.
Could you explain the loop thing too even out the pressure?
 
For res I used 3 60L tubs for each week of nutes and one 200L Res for all the RO water. Each day I would feed the plants nutes in the first hour of the lights being on and I would use a 5gal bucket , I would fill out of the 200L tank, to water within an hour of lights off. So I did all my feeding with the lights on, once at light on and once just b4 the lights turned off.

You ask about slabs? I hate them! If you are growing vertical it makes sense, but for standard growing I prefer to be able to remove individual plants if they are not healthy. If you have a plant that dies in the center of a slab all the plants will suffer. Individual rockwool squares are much preferred.

For veg I would take my cuttings and place into 2" rw cubes, root in 7 day approx, veg for 2 weeks by placing each cutting cube on its own 8"x8"x2" rockwool square and feeding by hand each individually. When I transplanted from veg to flower I would place each plant on another 8"x8"x2" rockwool square.

As for work load, the perpetual harvest helped even out the labor intensive work like harvesting, cleaning, clipping so I wouldn't get overwhelmed cutting down everything at once. Doing a small chop every 3 weeks beats a big one every 9 weeks and I think my yield improved because the plats along the sides of the space were not shaded by the younger plants in the center row.

For strain, I have been trying to find something with a short stretch and quick flowering. So needless to say I haven't kept my strain constant for too long, trying to find what works best. I would often go 18 weeks of trays, in one stain then toss one tray of a different strain in to compare against the previous.

For irrigation, if you were to feed 100 plants at a time I would get at least a 500gph mag drive pump. Use a 1" outlet on the pump that would go into a 3/4" T. So a one inch line from the pump to the T, and a 3/4" line in each direction. Run the 3/4" line around to every plant making a large circle starting and ending with the T, this let's the water pressure even out so the sprayers close to the pump use the same amount of water as the ones in the vary back, far away from the pump. When using a long straight irrigation hose with a dead end ( like what my system has if you can remember) the plants at the front get more pressure and the ones at the back barely piss out anything. I use 1/4" valves to each plant to even out flow in my system because I only have 11 plants running off the same 3/4"line

I hope I got some of your questions. Let me know if I'm giving complete information or missing key points.
 
I think you explained it very well, no stones left unturned;) Will be re reading this more than once 4 sho, I've always had a fantasy about drip irrigation, haha :)
One thing tho, so you had too hand feed before lights out with R.O. Every day?

Makes sense about the irrigation loop, think I've got it.
Solid info, thanks bro :high-five:
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The strain I have grown the most in that type of system was white widow. Wonderful all around good stain. Good taste, high potency, easy to grow, easy to clone, easy to keep short.

No hand feeding in flowering at all. I would use the same pump for the nutes and the ro water, just move it from the Res to a 5gal bucket full of 0ppm water. The only hand watering was in veg.
 
UPDATE DAY 14 IN VEG

Still vegging! This batch will get 3 weeks of veg time, last batch only got 10 days.. :popcorn::hmmm:

Nearly all got topped a couple of days ago, to promote some branching out.

Before topping.
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After topping.
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2 days later (yesterday)
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:peace:-Out N stay safe ;)
 
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