McBudz - Twilight, Great White Shark, Master Kush - 2009

Man sometimes you get so busy with your own stuff that you neglect to look in on things that can be very informative. This is one of those times. I am so impressed with the production you are turning out, but not only that, the health of your plants is unbelievable. Keep it up brother...and good luck with the switch to hydro. It intimidated the hell out of me for years, but thanks to great help, I am starting to get my hands around it. I have no doubt you'll do fine with the hydro setup. +rep for you!
 
Honestly I disagree you can get a digital soil ph and fertility (ppm) meter for 50 bucks which has worked very well for me. I also like soil because it is a lot more stable your ph won't change much at all especially if you use fox farms and ph adjusted water. I think that organic soil grows also produce a more tasty rich smoke the good thing about hydro is plants grow extremely quick in the veg state and produce much higher yields. I used hydro and I didn't like how the water seems to be so tempremental adding ph up and down once a day and changing the res once a week. That's just my experience though.
 
pan4gold49 said:
Mcbudz you can count on my help for your hydro transion. Have you decided what nute system you'll be using yet.?

Pan4
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hey pan thanks man. I am going to be running GH 3 series. I got a gallon of each I figure it will be just about enough for 1 grow.. we'll see it it goes with that. I acquired these through stix's recommendations a while back.

I have a small ebb and grow I made from a converted 10 gallon DWC table/container I added a flood and drain kit to it and will be using a 20 or 25 gallon botanicaire res underneath in my closet. I forget the size now.. lol. Paid like 100 for it.. wtf? I could have spent 9.99 on a rubbermaid not sure where my brain is at sometimes lol. So when I get back from camping this weekend I am going to convert / finish up my closet and drill holes through the bench for the flood and drain fittings to fit. and will just keep the res underneath, naturally. It will still leave me room to keep a mom or 2 off to the side in dirt.

I figure I will clone for a week or 2, veg for 1-3 weeks in the closet ebb/flow then put into flower in the tent. The tent will always be 12/12 I do not intend on vegging there just to keep short harvest times and don't need to be running 2-3 600's for an additional 6-12 hours a day. Ideally I'd like to pick up another controller and keep 2 x 6-8 pot 4 week offset bloom cycles. Would like to be harvesting about once a month. I'll just pickup a trash barrel for my second res. But this is if/when I can nail down hydro. I'm sure with everyones help here in that area It will be a piece of cake ;)
 
mellowman164 said:
Honestly I disagree you can get a digital soil ph and fertility (ppm) meter for 50 bucks which has worked very well for me. I also like soil because it is a lot more stable your ph won't change much at all especially if you use fox farms and ph adjusted water. I think that organic soil grows also produce a more tasty rich smoke the good thing about hydro is plants grow extremely quick in the veg state and produce much higher yields. I used hydro and I didn't like how the water seems to be so tempremental adding ph up and down once a day and changing the res once a week. That's just my experience though.
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Yes once you get the feel for what your soil is in respect to acidity etc it does become quick and easy to mix your nutes, adjust and water. I just dont like that in full on bloom I need to be in there every 3 days or so watering/feeding. They really suck that soil dry once they get going and thats with 5 gallon buckets. I haven't measured the pH runoff of my soil grows in months thats how well I can read my soil grows now. I do measure whats going in every time though. Also dirt disposal, soil cost etc all becomes a burden especially as you grow becomes larger. except I am beginning to think that the "grow"cery bill for nutes with hydro kills the savings on dirt. You use a hell of a lot more nutes in hydro than with soil. So that is a considerable factor to deal with too.

My hopes with hydro is that if I maintain a 5 gal + per plant res I will have to make minimal compensations throughout the week and could safely go away for 5 days or so and not really have to worry. I travel for work occasionally and with the ex moving out soon I need to worry about the daily up keep. She handles simple waterings on my extended trips.
 
mellowman164 said:
I think every 3 days isnt as bad as adgusting your res 2 times a day and weekly emptying and changing the res water.
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Weill I'm hoping with 5 - 10 gallons per plant I would not have to adjust much. But we will see when things are in full swing.

To start I will have the 55 gal res doing 6 sites. Thats a lot of solution for 6 plants so it should be pretty stable.
 
Yes its a lot of water for now but if all works out I will have 55 gallons for 12...maybe 15

Can anyone point me to a horizontally mounted float valve I could install in the lid of my reservoir that accepts 3/8 inch RO line from my merlin GP? I'd rather install through the lid than tap one in the barrel.


Thanks!
 

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