Rifleman's Roost Open 24/7: Perpetually Perplexed

I've read several comments where this is a point of interest so I figured a small tutorial wouldn't hurt. So today I'll give y'all a peek at what I use to do what I do here at The Roost.

It's Day 14 for a Mephisto Northern Cheese Haze that's growing in ProMix HP.


She will be sprayed with this commercial colloidal silver solution to reverse sex and produce female pollen for herself and four plants I'll be growing in my dwc buckets. The hope is to produce a few feminized seeds from each.

So what are the other plants you ask ? It's an all Mephisto grow once again. :eek: Who'd a think it huh ? :D The line up will include a Sour Crack, Sour Stomper, Four Assed Monkey, and a Blue Tooth-Special Pheno.

Edit: Damp paper towels, zip loc bags, heating pad, and a dark towel on top to insulate. Seeds placed down for germination this morning.

Here's where the magic will happen. Notice where my airlines connect with the buckets at the top of the sight tubes. That's the only oxygen input I use. No airstones or any other diffusers.

Air will be supplied by a small semi-quiet four outlet air pump. Run wide open of course. :)

Lighting will be with seven 50w cobs from CobShop. "I wear my sunglasses at night.":theband:



And finally the only nutrients and additives. Nothing more than the basic Advanced Nutrients pH Perfect m,g,b, some cal-mag, Hydroguard, and Z7. That's it. Simple, simple, simple.

Stay tuned, when the other four crack I'll document my planting procedure, and nurturing the babies until the roots reach the reservoirs. Until then if y'all know anybody wanting to learn how easy DWC can be, or tired of buying seeds and wanting an alternative, send them over. There's more than enough room on the porch for everyone to have a seat.

Don't forget to pass this left though. :passitleft:
Love those buckets! No air stones, easy check of water level. Can't wait to get some!!!
 
Yo yo there brother! Great harvest there! I've been lurkin.....the DDA is still a staple here......keep kickin ass man....thanks for sharin all the great knowledge
 
Hmmmm. :hmmmm: It's been nearly a month since I've looked at my own journal. Yep, that's how you can tell I'm working harder outside and not gardening inside. Now who wants fried green tomatoes later? :drool:
 
Hellllllllyyyeeeeaaaahhh on those fried green maters!!!! Talkin my language now!!!
 
Planting procedure 101. :laugh:

Get your ...er... stuff together for the job.

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Clean the razor blade and tweezers with the alcohol. Use the razor to slice the Rapid Rooter and the tweezers to gently places our baby in the plug like this.
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Close it up. Again, gently.
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Place it in the bucket. The bottom of the plug around the area of the net pot where the openings start.
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Backfill with your media.
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Until it's covered and the basket is full. The full basket will help keep the plant stable when it's mature and top heavy. You can research crush factors of gravel and get an idea of why this is important.
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Once everything is in place I take a solo cup and dip out a cup of the nutrient solution from the bucket and pour it all across the top of the media. This will insure your baby is damp, and it will help move moisture up from the reservoir by capillary action. I'll pour a cup of solution like this once each day until I see the plant sprout and maybe even until roots emerge from the basket.

That's it. The Sour Stomper is planted in a bucket. The other three will follow soon. Holler at y'all later. :ciao:

EDIT: There is a sprouted seed in that first photo. If you're on a phone exclusively like I am, you may have to zoom in tight. Lol
I love this thread!! Quick question, what nutes are you using at this stage? I'm getting ready to start my first ever DWC grow this weekend once my fan shows up.
 
I love this thread!! Quick question, what nutes are you using at this stage? I'm getting ready to start my first ever DWC grow this weekend once my fan shows up.

The only nutrients I use anymore is the Advanced Nutrients pH Perfect 3part. Good luck, if I can help just holler. I'm on the road now, but check in a few times a week.
 
This is a very public forum... :rolleyes:

I myself have disengaged from all other forms of social media. I want to chat with folks that have similar interests, not the people that I disliked in high school that want to be friends decades later just to share memes and stay up to date on reunions, :cough:
 
:surf::surf::surf: yep just cruising through to say hey and I'm still alive.

We'll that and I'm doing my obligatory post for the month to keep from getting shitcanned into the abandoned journal wasteland. :rofl:

FWIW it appears as if I'll have the garden back up and running around Aug 10th. Possibly both tents and some photo plants this time. :thedoubletake: ....or not. Lol, I never plan and never know until after I start. :hmmmm:

Suggestions, recommendations, tips, technique ? What say y'all?
 
I say you do your obligatory 4 buckets with autos and a tent full of photoperiods.


I'm currently running 4 autos (2 QP auto x Stardawg autos, 1 SSDC, and an Incredible Bulk) in my new auto/veg closet and 13 photoperiods of various strains and ages in my tent. 2 Northern Lights and a Harlequin get the axe on Friday!!!

Been continuing to work my DDA cross.



Hope you're enjoying your summer break!!!
 
:surf::surf::surf: yep just cruising through to say hey and I'm still alive.

We'll that and I'm doing my obligatory post for the month to keep from getting shitcanned into the abandoned journal wasteland. :rofl:

FWIW it appears as if I'll have the garden back up and running around Aug 10th. Possibly both tents and some photo plants this time. :thedoubletake: ....or not. Lol, I never plan and never know until after I start. :hmmmm:

Suggestions, recommendations, tips, technique ? What say y'all?
Any idea of the strains you might be running?
 
I say you do your obligatory 4 buckets with autos and a tent full of photoperiods.


I'm currently running 4 autos (2 QP auto x Stardawg autos, 1 SSDC, and an Incredible Bulk) in my new auto/veg closet and 13 photoperiods of various strains and ages in my tent. 2 Northern Lights and a Harlequin get the axe on Friday!!!

Been continuing to work my DDA cross.



Hope you're enjoying your summer break!!!

Looking good. Did the fruity flavor follow the genes or the fuel flavor?
 
Any idea of the strains you might be running?

Don't hold me to this, but if I get both tents up early enough this year I'd like to grow out 4 of the Northern Cheese Haze (S1) I just made since the mother plant only gave up a little bit of bud. I also have some photo period beans I'm eager to try. Drum Roll Please.....................:tommy:
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Elemental Seeds, True OG. 100% Indica.

Yep, I'm looking for something to break through my tolerance. :lot-o-toke:
Big plus if it causes me couch lock as nothing has in over 5 yrs.
 
Looking good. Did the fruity flavor follow the genes or the fuel flavor?
Odor wise the two I have growing are very similar to the DDA. I have not sampled these, as they are a couple weeks from being done, in my opinion.

I did manage to breed a purple Male to a green female, both autoflowering phenotypes. The green female was finished under a ghetto led fixture with crappy diodes so she was not impressive in height, yield, bud structure. Her smoke was very earthy but clearly a good sativa hybrid.

Now that I have F3 auto seeds, I can really start to sort phenos and breed for what I am looking for... I am trying to get a Columbian Punto Rojo growth structure (not neccesarily plant size) with some of that psychedelic buzz and DDA color with some of that exotic flavor and of course the autoflowering trait.

I hope to have something stable in a couple of more years.
 
So... lemme ask this odd question.
Do you use your RH pack (sorry... the brand name is escaping me at the moment, but I use the same as you) to bring your curing RH up to 62% (As I recall, you use the 62's), or are you trying to lower the RH down to 62%?
I've been using them to bring the RH down to 62 from my normal 80 or 90 and I'm kinda finding them not great for this. I'm considering an RH controlled room with a dehumidified devoted to it.

Summer in NOLA baby! No breaks from the moisture.
 
I'm still alive and kicking. Be patient with me though, due to some major home repairs the gardens are on hold. The worst part of that. I'm going to run out of smoke before the next harvests happen. :thedoubletake:

I'm in ration mode and not happy about it. :lot-o-toke: With any luck I'll have a crop sown by mid Oct.
Anybody want to trade lives right now? :rofl:
 
So... lemme ask this odd question.
Do you use your RH pack (sorry... the brand name is escaping me at the moment, but I use the same as you) to bring your curing RH up to 62% (As I recall, you use the 62's), or are you trying to lower the RH down to 62%?
I've been using them to bring the RH down to 62 from my normal 80 or 90 and I'm kinda finding them not great for this. I'm considering an RH controlled room with a dehumidified devoted to it.

Summer in NOLA baby! No breaks from the moisture.


Damn man, I don't remember if I sent you a reply or not. Boveda 62% is what I was using when I was keeping large canisters full or weed. I quit using them after I switched to qt mason jars and a vacuum sealer. I would just get within a few % either way and toss them in the cVault. After some Very Dry smoke... like over a lb of it... I disposed of them and keep a closer eye during drying before sealing in jars and burping for a week or so. Then vac sealed and put away in the root celler.

Sorry @Tead it's been a madhouse of problem after problem lately and I've not kept up journaling or anything else. If things aren't right by Nov I might call my favorite Southern landlord and see what he has for rent until Spring returns. :hmmmm:
 
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