Date: 3/26/22 - Day 42 in buckets
Strain - Purple Haze photo clones x 4
Medium - 8" Netpots with clay balls in 5g buckets (DWC)
Water - Carbon-filtered well water (100ppm)
Before the move (The Playpen)
Grow space - 32x32x60 grow tent
Light height and reading - Viparspectra P2500 @ 100% 12" away - >50k LUX
Extraction - 4" Mars Hydro variable speed fan on medium
6" Oscillating fan x 2
Nutrients - Advanced Nutrients pH Perfect M+G+B, Voodoo Juice, Pirhana, Hydroguard, z7
After the move (The Bud Factory)
Grow space - Vivosun 48x48x80 tent in basement
Light height and reading - Vivosun VS4000 400w LED @ 100% 20 Inches away - 45k LUX
Extraction - AC Infinity 6" extraction fan with Controller69
2x 6" oscillating fans + Tower oscillating fan + 12" floor fan
Nutrients - Mega Crop, Voodoo Juice, Pirhana, Hydroguard, z7
Wow, what a day. I got the RDWC system set up in the flower tent and got all of the clones moved over.
First the RDWC system. I purchased my RDWC system from PA Hydroponics back at the beginning of February. I'm glad I did, too. They're about $100 more now and sold out for a while. I was amazed when it was on my doorstep less than 24 hours after I ordered it. I put it all together in a couple of hours without any tools.
It's a 4 plant 13g falloponic system with an external reservoir. Water flows from the outside reservoir thru 3/4 inch tubing and pours into top of the grow chambers with an inline 400 Gallon per hour pump. Each plant site gets about 100 gallons of nutrient solution per hour. Included in the kit is a 265 GPH bottom draw pump with 10 feet of 1/2 inch tubing used to drain the system and reservoir. Each plant site has an airstone and 10 feet of airline to run to a 4 output air pump that's included.
The only change I had to make was to switch the pump and sightglass. When I tried to lean the caterpillar over the pump was in the way. I switched the pump and sightglass and it worked great.
I started by moving the ladies in flower over to their new tents and cleaning out the 4x4.
Then I set up the RDWC sysem in the tent. I filled it 5 gallons at a time and calibrated the site glass as I went. It topped out at 44 gallons, leaving about an inch and a half under the buckets.
Then I added 16ml of pH down to bring the water down to 5.8. I added 150ml Rhino skin (Silica) and let that circulate for about an hour. Then I mixed up 220g (5g/gal) of MC with a gallon of water and shook it up real good. This bought the system to 880ppm and 5.6pH. I then added 50ml Voodoo Juice, 50ml Pirhana, and 50ml Hydroguard.
Putting the plants in the new system was not easy. First we had to get them out of the bucket. I had to remove the airstones since the roots had swallowed the airlines. Then I removed the netpot from the bucket fitting and installed it in the new lid. The first one we moved almost fell right out of the netpot; we were much more careful after that. Finally we put the plants in the new RDWC system. I must admit they are bigger than I thought.
Then we put up the scrog net and started spreading them out. That was about when we ran out of gas and decided we would finish the scrog and defoliation tomorrow. After a couple days of recovery I will flip them to 12/12. Then we see what these big girls can really do
Happy Growing.
Hopefully by next week I'll have these girls in the RWDC in the 4x4 working on filling a SCROG!
hey they're healthy and I'm sure they'll bounce right back.
There are some branches that won't make it, but there are lots of buds that are popping back up. I spent a little time weaving anything that popped up back under the net, and pushing anything under the net back to the top. For right now I am trying to keep as much as possible at net level. In the next couple of days I'll remove anything that won't make it and spread the buds out as much as possible. As soon as I feel they've recovered enough I'll flip to flower. I'm hoping that's in the next couple of days. I believe I have enough room to flower in this tent as long as I do it soon.
It looks like they will survive, though. Next time I'll just start in the RDWC and train them through the net as they grow.
