Stoney grows Honey Fried Bananas in RDWC SCROG

[steamroller]

Plants look great.
Nice call on just checking the heater.
Did you catch Xfinity last night?
How about that Oregon track~!
Beautiful and challenging.
Would like to see that on the regular schedule for Sundays.

Hopefully this week, would be nice. Today's my last day fishing for a couple daze.

Still have 6 plants left to cut, they get cut this week then I'll start laying all out.

What are you going to use for source water?

 

[doublej]

Plants look great.
Nice call on just checking the heater.
Did you catch Xfinity last night?
How about that Oregon track~!
Beautiful and challenging.
Would like to see that on the regular schedule for Sundays.


What are you going to use for source water?

Just my tap/facet..it's under 75ppm most of the time

 

[stonemason]

Cut the tips!!!!

It'll branch out faster

This I can confirm from my experiments, lol.

Hey budy .i was thinking of your solo cup runs when I planted these. Bottomless half gallon.one hasn't flowered yet pushing 8 foot if I could get them to stand up straight.

 

[stonemason]

Sorry stoney thought this was granny's corner.plants look great

 

[Observer]

Hey budy .i was thinking of your solo cup runs when I planted these. Bottomless half gallon.one hasn't flowered yet pushing 8 foot if I could get them to stand up straight.View attachment 112619View attachment 112628View attachment 112629View attachment 112620

Haha awesome monster healthy sunflower, love it.

 

[Stoneyluv]

Hopefully this week, would be nice. Today's my last day fishing for a couple daze.

Still have 6 plants left to cut, they get cut this week then I'll start laying all out.

hope it all goes together good with no hiccups!!

Plants look great.
Nice call on just checking the heater.
Did you catch Xfinity last night?
How about that Oregon track~!
Beautiful and challenging.
Would like to see that on the regular schedule for Sundays.


What are you going to use for source water?

that was a great race Saturday night, man that last restart was insane!! i had no idea who was gonna come out of that first corner!!

they should swap out sonoma for that venue!!

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last night was a grueler!!! glad to see the 19 punch his ticket!! plus i had the 19 in our office race pool so i'm pretty stoked about that one!!

Sorry stoney thought this was granny's corner.plants look great

no worries my man, feel free to post anything at anytime!!!!

 

[Stoneyluv]

we made it three full weeks so far... i think maybe another week or two till flowering if they keep growing this rate.

i'm getting a crash course in raising the food levels.. three times now i've made significant jumps and they just keep eating it up!!

i'm now at 660ppm and just starting week four since the transplant. these two plants were the runts and never made the cut out of the other 16 in soil. i can't imagine how fast a big plant would grow!!!!

 

[BlueCollarBob]

Wow! Those have really taken off. Is the world losing a soil guy?

 

[doublej]

we made it three full weeks so far... i think maybe another week or two till flowering if they keep growing this rate.

i'm getting a crash course in raising the food levels.. three times now i've made significant jumps and they just keep eating it up!!

i'm now at 660ppm and just starting week four since the transplant. these two plants were the runts and never made the cut out of the other 16 in soil. i can't imagine how fast a big plant would grow!!!!

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Do you think the chiller made a difference?....do the dance buddy...

 

[Stoneyluv]

Wow! Those have really taken off. Is the world losing a soil guy?

no way man... i just stocked up for the next round!!!!

Do you think the chiller made a difference?....do the dance buddy...

i really think they like the stability that the chiller brings. it has been 68.9 and has not moved a single tenth since i turned it on. the chiller itself is set to 71

and even though the buckets are insulated the chiller still helps keep the grow cabinet heat and rh just as steady. i've been keeping it 78 inside

crazy how it all just started clicking... just hoping its not a fluke and i got it all sorted out!!

 

[Max]

Wow! Those have really taken off. Is the world losing a soil guy?

Yep.i reckon one more hydro grow it will have stoney by the balls ..

 

[doublej]

no way man... i just stocked up for the next round!!!!

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i really think they like the stability that the chiller brings. it has been 68.9 and has not moved a single tenth since i turned it on. the chiller itself is set to 71

and even though the buckets are insulated the chiller still helps keep the grow cabinet heat and rh just as steady. i've been keeping it 78 inside

crazy how it all just started clicking... just hoping its not a fluke and i got it all sorted out!!

Nah buddy....there health looks great! No flukie...
I would think that little stable temp adjustment is worth the price.

Take a seat up front here...so I can take notes brother....

 

[BlueCollarBob]

Yep.i reckon one more hydro grow it will have stoney by the balls ..

The bad thing about the forum is I don't know how big everybody is. Makes it hard to choose sides in soil vs hydro.

 

[Stoneyluv]

Yep.i reckon one more hydro grow it will have stoney by the balls ..

i've had so much opportunity to bail up to this point, there's no way i'm quittin when things are growing well!!!

Nah buddy....there health looks great! No flukie...
I would think that little stable temp adjustment is worth the price.

Take a seat up front here...so I can take notes brother....

in a way i'm glad i waited to get one or i would have prolly spent more than twice as much on ebay or amazon.. first time going with the ali express.

i'd like to get another chiller down the road, one would work awesome for a large scale canatrol!!!

The bad thing about the forum is I don't know how big everybody is. Makes it hard to choose sides in soil vs hydro.

i say grow both!!!

right now at this moment if i had to choose just one, i honestly don't know which i would choose. i'm kinda in so deep now i really don't have to choose. my only complaint about the hydro is that i lost my veg cabinet. i guess the flip side of that is i get to build a third one now! haha

 

[Stoneyluv]

end of week four since the transplant... all systems a go and we're ready for blast off!!!!!






still chasing the food intake with these plants.. they're eating more than i ever thought they would and they're thirst for it hasn't let up one bit. been a busy week with increases..



and yet ducky is still floating under the lid everyday!!!



today i got my ebay special ph doser!!!! i still gotta put in the probes and calibrate, i printed a couple brackets to custom it out a little...




with them drinking like sailors i'm adding about 1.5 gallons a day so i decided to put together a simple top off circuit using a usb pump. i printed out a new bracket to hold the float and the dosing tube together..



i want to mount the top off stuff in the corner and put the fil tube in the back where the chiller lines are...



thanks for lookin in everybody!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[doublej]

That's Awesome buddy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!¡!!!!!!!

 

[Stoneyluv]

That's Awesome buddy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!¡!!!!!!!

yeah man, they're growing for sure!!!!



i got everything wired and plumbed.. i ended up putting the top off stuff on the left instead.. i already had a hole in the lid from the air line that i never use. i haven't had bubbles in my rez since my whole carbonic acid formation issue so filled the hole with the top off line.



i have the rez at 720 ppm and the top off at 830ppm to slowly increase the solution.. i only have about ten gallons in the top off just to test. but i'm going to have to do something else because this container is not big enough...



so for now my space looks like this....



that black barrel is only about 20 gallons and five gallons shy from my system.. i'd really like to use it but it's not gonna be big enough and i've been warned and i don't wanna have to redo it because i didn't listen!! so i'll probably end up using this white one that i currently use as a mixing barrel and pump the solution into the rez from there. i'll probably end u using the white one for top off and find something else to use as a mixing barrel, or maybe rig it up to use it as both.. idk for now i'll leave it flexible and see what works best as i move forward. ..

but we're all connected and running semiauto right now..

 

[doublej]

yeah man, they're growing for sure!!!!

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i got everything wired and plumbed.. i ended up putting the top off stuff on the left instead.. i already had a hole in the lid from the air line that i never use. i haven't had bubbles in my rez since my whole carbonic acid formation issue so filled the hole with the top off line.

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i have the rez at 720 ppm and the top off at 830ppm to slowly increase the solution.. i only have about ten gallons in the top off just to test. but i'm going to have to do something else because this container is not big enough...

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so for now my space looks like this....

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that black barrel is only about 20 gallons and five gallons shy from my system.. i'd really like to use it but it's not gonna be big enough and i've been warned and i don't wanna have to redo it because i didn't listen!! so i'll probably end up using this white one that i currently use as a mixing barrel and pump the solution into the rez from there. i'll probably end u using the white one for top off and find something else to use as a mixing barrel, or maybe rig it up to use it as both.. idk for now i'll leave it flexible and see what works best as i move forward. ..

but we're all connected and running semiauto right now..

I should know this but what's that gray box brother?

Before I signed up here I kinda knew my water packaging days were done or going to be done soon as with my current situation as you know..
Okay I knew I was going to have to graduate to some kind of water program..... your system or systems like yours have too many moving parts for me.
I wanted to do and still do want to build some kind of Live bed indoors but the other building i have for that is far down the road. I'd like corporate some of my native soils, but that's still a idea.

Alright man... oh yeah I almost forgot, I was going to drop my crab pots the other day and check the regulations and it's closed for my area, but I can go out in the ocean and drop them if I do that again, I plan on fishing one or two more days around here town home situation just to run out my bait...

Then I may break it my smoke Pole can't you be that year...

 

[Stoneyluv]

I should know this but what's that gray box brother?

Before I signed up here I kinda knew my water packaging days were done or going to be done soon as with my current situation as you know..
Okay I knew I was going to have to graduate to some kind of water program..... your system or systems like yours have too many moving parts for me.
I wanted to do and still do want to build some kind of Live bed indoors but the other building i have for that is far down the road. I'd like corporate some of my native soils, but that's still a idea.

Alright man... oh yeah I almost forgot, I was going to drop my crab pots the other day and check the regulations and it's closed for my area, but I can go out in the ocean and drop them if I do that again, I plan on fishing one or two more days around here town home situation just to run out my bait...

Then I may break it my smoke Pole can't you be that year...

thats my humidifier, i'm not using it right now. it's a winter needed item. heater and humidifiers for the winter and chillers and dehuey's for summer...

oh i for sure dove down the rabbit hole far... i fuckin reached china!!! hahaha when i very first started this whole hydro adventure i asked all kinds of questions.. but i had no idea i was gonna go automated like this. i remember learning that on top of base nutes i had to buy cal/mag too.. i was kinda bummed bout it like man now i gotta buy this too... HA! if only i knew then!!!! here i am a year later and i'm still buying shit!! i mean i still buy stuff for soil too so it's all gravy!!!

how many miles from shore is that regulation? i assume your boat had no issues with that 33 mile drive?

didn't you say elk season was starting soon?

 

[doublej]

thats my humidifier, i'm not using it right now. it's a winter needed item. heater and humidifiers for the winter and chillers and dehuey's for summer...

Awwh. That hose threw me off.
Acl is supposed to come out with a dehuey that I can put on the outside of my tent and dehuey the inside, waiting to take a look that.

oh i for sure dove down the rabbit hole far... i fuckin reached china!!! hahaha when i very first started this whole hydro adventure i asked all kinds of questions.. but i had no idea i was gonna go automated like this. i remember learning that on top of base nutes i had to buy cal/mag too.. i was kinda bummed bout it like man now i gotta buy this too... HA! if only i knew then!!!! here i am a year later and i'm still buying shit!! i mean i still buy stuff for soil too so it's all gravy!!!

That calmag deal is funny.... Being automated is fine, but that has changed I guess a little bit

With the way I have the plants are set up right now I'm going to have to hand water a couple via the self watering bases
And I'm ok with that, but cannot pack that amount anymore and enjoy the work.
So what do I do.... well now I need to pack a hole bunch of water... hahaha

how many miles from shore is that regulation? i assume your boat had no issues with that 33 mile drive?

Yeah I'm kinda bummed out on this one, I live on the strait of Juan De Fuca (inside) about a 20-minute drive to the boat launch.
The ocean (outside) is a hour and a half drive to the boat launch it's still open outside, I could drop crab pots anywhere I wanted there it's year around out there. HOWEVER...

didn't you say elk season was starting soon?

YEP, I was going to hunt in November.The wife's knee replacement is supposed to be around that same time.

So now I suggested that I go in October...... With the muzzleloader. Didn't really want to do that this year. I wanted to do the lazy manhunt with the rifle the driving around and looking around and now I actually have to get out of work for it... dammit...

Coffee, and then a fishing trip on the inside,try for a Big fish

 

[GrumpAzz]

The bad thing about the forum is I don't know how big everybody is. Makes it hard to choose sides in soil vs hydro.

Well I'm 6'1" buck 50.. so not big. But I don't fight fair.

i'll probably end u using the white one for top off and find something else to use as a mixing barrel, or maybe rig it up to use it as both.. idk

I mix in my Top-off. It hasn't inconvenienced me yet.

 

[BlueCollarBob]

Well I'm 6'1" buck 50.. so not big. But I don't fight fair.

We're about even on height, but the doc weighed me in at 218 this morning. Trending down, but still slow. I'm not looking for a fight. but have a plan for defense. If I get jumped by a rogue water man, I'll try to weather a few blows until I can get in close enough to grab him by the gills.

 

[GrumpAzz]

We're about even on height, but the doc weighed me in at 218 this morning. Trending down, but still slow. I'm not looking for a fight. but have a plan for defense. If I get jumped by a rogue water man, I'll try to weather a few blows until I can get in close enough to grab him by the gills.

Just release all your fruit flies to keep me at bay.. I hate bugs

 

[Stoneyluv]

Awwh. That hose threw me off.
Acl is supposed to come out with a dehuey that I can put on the outside of my tent and dehuey the inside, waiting to take a look that.

i was thinking of putting inside with the plants this winter. i have it out there because it's easier to fill sitting there, but now that i have that 1/4" water line ran above it i think i'll tee it off and add a float so it fills itself... Grump's idea..

That calmag deal is funny.... Being automated is fine, but that has changed I guess a little bit

With the way I have the plants are set up right now I'm going to have to hand water a couple via the self watering bases
And I'm ok with that, but cannot pack that amount anymore and enjoy the work.
So what do I do.... well now I need to pack a hole bunch of water... hahaha

can't you pump it through a hose? fuck lugging water around man!!

Yeah I'm kinda bummed out on this one, I live on the strait of Juan De Fuca (inside) about a 20-minute drive to the boat launch.
The ocean (outside) is a hour and a half drive to the boat launch it's still open outside, I could drop crab pots anywhere I wanted there it's year around out there. HOWEVER...

damn an extra hour just to drive around the ocean!!!! they really know how to take the fun out it!!

YEP, I was going to hunt in November.The wife's knee replacement is supposed to be around that same time.

So now I suggested that I go in October...... With the muzzleloader. Didn't really want to do that this year. I wanted to do the lazy manhunt with the rifle the driving around and looking around and now I actually have to get out of work for it... dammit...

Coffee, and then a fishing trip on the inside,try for a Big fish

yeah, you should go early.. get it done butchered and in the freezer before her surgery!!

my dad loved muzzleloaders... it was always his favorite season. he didn't really get into them until i was in my teens. i remember one year i heard him shoot way out back on the other side of the mountain and i rode my four wheeler out to see and he was shaking his head with it down.. i pulled up and the deer were still standing there.. he said fuck i missed!!! the he got all anxious because they didn't run away so he went to load another round and forgot to pour the powder in before he packed another ball in!! hahahahaha he says to me quick go home and get my 06.. i did, they were till standing there.. got the kill in muzzle loader season with the rifle.. yea i'm son of an outlaw!!!!! haha

I mix in my Top-off. It hasn't inconvenienced me yet.

oh.. okay... so you have your RO on a float going into your top off and just leave it turned off while your nutes are in there? i think i can make something like that work..

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so i went to check on my plants tonight and there was nothing for me to do... i was like shit i guess i'll go find something else to do!!! top off must have worked because the rez was at the correct level and i also gained 10ppm.. i think this method of making the uppers hotter than the lowers is something a much more established grower would do... i think this could be dangerous for me if i'm not careful. i could quickly overdue it.. but in this case right now i know for fact my uppers are not too hot even straight up so adding it in shouldn't be a problem.

spray painting an RC car with my spare time!!