Re: LA's Continuing Adventure Feat: Budmaster II LED & Oxygen Pot Systems - Ebb & Flo
Firstly Enki, I'm on it my man it shall be sorted asap!
Cajun my friend, I haven't been able to finish my novel, as I've been without a proper computer for ages now. Yet my pal dropped his mom's old PC tower round the other day, so I'm starting up again soon.
Now lets get this journal all sewn up with a nice little bow!
Firstly let me thank this great community at 420 and of course its great
sponsors, as without you and them this thread would never have been possible!
A special shout out goes to Onavelzy on this run, your a diamond my friend. Put simply I was blessed with some Gorilla Glue!!!
CATCH UP;
I was always a baseline grower, I live in a unfriendly country! I worked with low budget equipment until my sponsorships through this great site. This has meant for the first time I've been able to play like a big boy
Unfortunately this brought new challenges such as security etc. (Now my equipment was worth pinching also!!!) This lead to myself having to run this journal scraping time here and there to build a time frame buffer. This on top of the grow being at my friends place! (Safety first and all that lol)
Now I walked into this run with pretty high and quite silly expectancies. I've never ran LED, or ever even thought of anything but straight dirt in a pot grows before. So this was all new ground an if truth be told I thought I'd walk it lol!!!
NAH!!! Stupid thought
Negatives this run!;
My set-up this run had no air stones for res or pot bottoms.
I ran norm tap water instead of RO (which my nute line requires)
My PH meter was off for a good while and caused lock out!
My NON Oxygen Pot Reservoir failed and leaked on me during flower. (Switched to top feed)
My access to the girls this run was quite limited, so my ability to manage low down growth etc was poor!
I also probs overcrowded the tent, I'd have done loads better off 4 girls instead of 6 with a bonus 7th.
Running differing strains in an Ebb & Flow system is problematic.
Unknown ground with the GG genetics lead to some piss poor production with those two plants!
ISSUES CAUSED:
PH imbalance caused lock out and loss of prime budding time.
Differing time frames on girls caused me to cock up a foliar spray with some. this caused halt in budding!
Reservoir failure caused my extended root mass in the bottom of each pot to fail and rot away. (Stunt caused)
I also suffered the first decent summer in years lol (Sodding UK
)
Now we will have some pics with some explanations along with em!
We start a way back at first!
As you can see I've already started to harvest the Cream Caramel Fast at this point. Most girls were taken in 2 stages! Everything is yellowing up, not due to my work more due to my cock-ups!
This is my second bonus girl a Skywalker Kush!
So now some bud pics of the CC fast.
Some early low and little GG nugs for testing
Back to the tent we go!
More GG bits! and some AH tester buds
and will have more time here
plump 
