Re: Magnus8's - Coco Coir - Big Bud & Pineapple Express - First Grow Ever! - Grow Jou
Hello Everyone!
Back with another update. Things are going much, much better. Thanks and huge kudos to Scrogdawg and Kush. I don't know where I'd be without the two of you. And everyone else, too. I appreciate the help and advice and kind words you all give so very much. I hope you all know that. It's just that these two brought me through my Nitrogen toxicity problem so beautifully that I'm so grateful. As you'll soon see, my plants are doing much better after doing my 2 day flush correctly and adding the proper amount of nutrients, a very much reduced amount. Thanks again, Scrogdawg. I don't know how I'll ever be able to repay you. But I probably don't have to. Just know that if I could, I would...
So onto the pics!
So here's the side pic of the whole setup. You can see straight ahead the table that my wife-bot built for me (the first woodworking she's ever done. i think she did a fine job, don't you?). On top of the table are trays for the flood and drain system that my wife-bot ALSO built for me (she's quite handy to have around the house, don't you think?). Inside the trays are the cloth bags with my plants, and above the plants is stretched the scrog we purchased from my favourite grow store in Edmonton. Not yet sure how well this stretchy scrog is going to work out, but we'll see, won't we? We had to run a broom handle looped through the scrog to straighten it out somewhat and to pull it all forward toward the front of the tent. Not sure if you can see it in the pics, but it's blue and should be visible running along the front of the scrog system. Underneath the table to the right is the dark blue tote (not sure what colour it is under the LEDs) where my new, weaker nute solutions are housed when they're not flooding the trays. All in all, it looks quite good, no? If somewhat jerry-rigged! hahahaha. But anyways, enuf talk, here's the pic:
Here's the same stuff from a little bit of a higher angle. You can see the solutions in the flood tray while the flood and drain system is working like a freakin' charm. My wife-bot... I love her so...
Here's the same view from even a little higher now. You can see the plants in this one, right? I think it's the only one that shows how well the plants are doing right now with all the changes in their environment, their feeding, everything. They ARE doing so much better (kudos again to Scrogdawg and Kush!):
I show you these next two pics to show the extent of the damage that my babies suffered at the hands of the killer Nitrogen! Okay, just kidding. But these two pics are to show the damage to them from the Nitrogen overdose. Interestingly enough, my two strongest plants, my PE, got the worst of the damage from the Nitrogen:
And just as interesting, my damaged little girl, my smallest BB, was damaged hardly at all:
I took this one to show off the connection between the two trays that my love came up with. The guy at the store told us that apparently most people don't think of connecting two trays, but rather set up another complete system when they have a second tray to feed. My love came up with this brilliant idea to connect the two trays and also to put a Y intersection on the feed line to send the nutrients to both trays, knowing that they would both drain through this feed line through the feed hose. Not sure if I explained that fully, but it is all I"m gonna try to do tonight. Ask questions, if you want, and I'll answer them np.
These next two are booooring. They just show the controller for my solution/water bubbler and my timer for my lights. Don't know why I took them. Just felt like I hadn't sent up many pics lately, I suppose, and wanted to send some up.:
Here's how we connect the scrog to the tent pole: with bungee cords!:
This fan setup that my wife-bot put together helps me create all kinds of angles for my fan. Just thought I'd show it, too, because it allows for so much movement:
And this wonderful heater helps keep the tent a nice, balmy 80 degrees Fahrenheit during both the day and the night. Love it:
And so we've come to the end of our show and tell session! I hope you're interested enough to spend some time here with these pics and that they give you some ideas of your own...
