The Capn's Simple Hydroponics Cook Off - Goal: 1lb Indoors - Journal

[s1ingblade]

thank you for the invite!

Your very welcome kingjohnc

thanks for the invite Sling very cool idea guys im subbed

Glad to have ya jon

Submarined.

Glad you Sub'd up shotta

I'm here! Just been uber busy and pretty inactive here the last 7 weeks. Always happens this time of year for me & my work.

Great to see ya bass long time no see, I can relate to being busy this time of the year.

Rock n roll, this will be interesting, especially since you know this strain so well sling!

High there Mc, glad to have ya and I am hoping the OG takes off and gets to be my entry, might have to run the critical+, we'll see in a week or so

Ill be watching

Hey StealthGrow, it ought to get real interesting in a couple

Cheers for the invite to view the joint project s1ingblade

I was rather impressed with this idea & the use of the air pot...




I must admit i've been toying around with doing a hydro grow myself mainly hempy buckets 3 gallon/12 litre perlite & vermiculite mix for my first attempt plus a little bit of LST training.

But i have dreamed up an idea of a hybrid hempy with the use of an air pot sitting inside a bucket to improve aeration to the root zone with a res with a timer for feeding twice day & a run to waste style of system, this way it should eliminate hand watering on a daily basis & minor fluctuations of PH through out the day !


I'm keen to see how the grow goes

Hey Duck that sounds like a really interesting system/setup as well. Glad you made it

great thread, i like the combined journal idea.

Yo ronnie6690 glad you stopped by hope we can help others learn how easily they can increase weights as well as plant health

Subscribed...very interested in seeing how this turns out. I've just started my first attempt at DWC with a two week old clone in a 5 gal bucket and water temps are already kicking my ass. So I'll be watching this one closely.

High There park view, nice to meet ya and welcome to 420magazine, my favoritehome away from home

 

[Alkhemist]

thAnks for the invite S1ing!! subbed 100%, looking forward to this! great idea with the pvc ring.. got me thinking about converting to something similar. should be very very cooL

 

[Hiker]

This outta be fun to watch.

 

[fish cake]

Good weed s1

 

[s1ingblade]

thAnks for the invite S1ing!! subbed 100%, looking forward to this! great idea with the pvc ring.. got me thinking about converting to something similar. should be very very cooL

Your very welcome mate!

This outta be fun to watch.

Well do our best to make it super fun

Good weed s1

Good weed to u to fish

 

[Xlr8]

Subbin' up - should be good!

 

[s1ingblade]

Subbin' up - should be good!

Sure hope so X, glad to have ya!

I have some good news the OG Kush is going to make it and is giving me some new growth. The amazing thing and I know its cuse the clone isnt drinking much but I think the cubes are staying well watered much better than the #4, wouldve never thought it wouldnt need to be watered so often

 

[fish cake]

good weed s1ing and a fine garden soon to be your way is my wish for you

 

[shottafire]

When those roots fill up the pot it will need water at least once a day

 

[TheCapn]

Thanks to all the subscribers and positive comments! I hope you all will enjoy the cook off in the next few months.

Here is my veg watering set up. I'll run this from now until flower. I am using General Hydroponics nutrients. 400W hetal halide on 18 hours, off 6. Here is my recipe for water:

To make my water, in a 5 gallon bucket, I start with 4 gal of RO water, then I add 15-20ml of calmag, 20ml aquashield, 20ml florablend. This should put your PPM around 200 (if you started with 0ppm water). Then, add 15ml grow, 10ml micro, and 5ml bloom. This is about 25% of the suggested dose on the chart, and should put your mix around 600ppm @.5 conversion, which is all I use up until the last couple weeks of veg. After mixing, I check the PH. Mine lands right around 5.8. After a week, there is about 2 gallons left in the bucket. That goes into my outdoor garden, and I make up another 5 gals. In the past, I have done the same exact set up, and hand watered to waste, and it works just fine too, but when the plants get large, you will need to water every day.

Botanicare 22" x 36" tray, showing the manifold I made out of pvc pipe, top hat grommets, and some 1/4" hose from hardware store:

Ecoplus 185gph pump:

Showing water flow:

Timer turns on pump 15 minutes a day, one hour after lights on:

Here is the complete set up in operation. Cook off plant on the left. Notice I am using plain ole nursery pots, and I slowly increase the pot size every couple weeks, as the plant becomes root bound. This creates a mass of roots. If you plant your clone straight into a large container, roots tend to grow to the sides and circle. My final flowering container will be a 6-8 gallon superoots air-pot.

I know you all have seen a rooted clone before. So nothing too impressive yet with my cook-off plant, but I wanted to show you the veg set up I use. This is a cheap, simple setup anyone can do, and shows the results (plant on the right). That tray was $80 but you can also use a $15 cement mixing tray from the hardware store and have the same results. I can leave this setup for a week at a time.

This demonstrates another advantage to growing fewer, larger plants. I only need to worry about watering 2-3 plants in veg, instead of a dozen. And with the rock wool, I can water for 15 minutes a day from rooted clone, all the way up until flower. It is nearly impossible to water too much in the rockwool cubes. Simple!

I'll post another update in a couple weeks. In the meantime, check out my latest article: How veg time affects yield.

Capn

 

[s1ingblade]

Sure looks nice, simple and super clean! Way to go Cap'n. Gotta get my veg room put together right. It gets so windy where I am at I have to vacate everything in the room and dust, vacuum and scrub to get it sano like yours. Maybe thats something I can do this weekend lol

 

[s1ingblade]

When those roots fill up the pot it will need water at least once a day

Yeah I hear ya bro, thanks!

 

[Fuzzy Duck]

Potting up into larger pots should improve plant mass/growth

This should in turn effect yield over all, but light source/wattage of bulb & brand name of bulb also is another factor we must consider in the end results !

 

[Fuzzy Duck]

Root balling does appear to have detrimental effect on plant growth which may effect yield !

But all depends on space available to grow at the end of the day, root balling could be used as a method of controlling plant height in stealth grows or in small areas

 

[TheCapn]

Potting up into larger pots should improve plant mass/growth

This should in turn effect yield over all, but light source/wattage of bulb & brand name of bulb also is another factor we must consider in the end results !

Hi Fuzzy. Good point.

>>>source/wattage of bulb
I agree. It's arguably the most important thing you can do to increase yield.

>>>brand name of bulb
I'm about to test a theory. Bulbs lose lumens after age. So what do you think is better?

A. Use a $80 bulb for a year?
B. Use a $20 bulb three months?

I have been using the $100 horti-eye bulbs, and I run them for a year and then throw them away. On this grow, (in flower) I'll be using a 600W "Apollo" brand HPS bulb you can get on ebay for $20 with free shipping. Then, I'm going to throw it away and buy another one every three months. Same cost over a year. I won't be doing a "side by side" comparison, but my thinking is: over time, I'll have more light with the cheaper bulb.

 

[s1ingblade]

Root balling does appear to have detrimental effect on plant growth which may effect yield !

But all depends on space available to grow at the end of the day, root balling could be used as a method of controlling plant height in stealth grows or in small areas

I got a hortilux eye 1000 watt HPS bulb on its way and will install it with my reloads first week of next month. The smaller containers I use to house them straight out of the turbo kloner seems to get them going quick, if I leave them in there too long it always seems like when there crammed for space they stretch and increase the distance between nodes or is it internodes? lol not sure, sorry

 

[NEPharmer]

Hey, I'm here, better late then never. I've been very busy lately.

 

[fish cake]

Happy Frieday s1ing

 

[Parkview]

I have been using the $100 horti-eye bulbs, and I run them for a year and then throw them away. On this grow, (in flower) I'll be using a 600W "Apollo" brand HPS bulb you can get on ebay for $20 with free shipping. Then, I'm going to throw it away and buy another one every three months. Same cost over a year. I won't be doing a "side by side" comparison, but my thinking is: over time, I'll have more light with the cheaper bulb.

Being only 17 days into my first indoor grow, I don't have any experience to draw from but from what I've read on the subject, this makes very good sense.

 

[TheCapn]

>>>Being only 17 days into my first indoor grow

Welcome Parkview. First grow - Very exciting. Did you start a journal? If so I want to come check it out.