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I'll keep you in the loop. I also wondered if it had something to do with the caulk that got in the system. I caulked the little hatch on my lids because I didn't want the light penetration. Last night I found cloudy water and it took me a minute to realize what had happened.
That all seemed really clean. The magnet still worked too, it just wouldn't spin it. It would try with my help but only for a few seconds and then it'd wind down to a stop again.
These are clones so the most vigorous ones.
Well i just look at the tops when that small. Typically a bigger plant will have more roots yeah but you can’t really see them all at that size.
I left the two in the ACI dome. I think I'll gift them to my local competition
Following, good luck with it mine are coming down in 2 weeks and you should see the size of the colas now, they're huge I'm gonna try get some decent photos and get them up, biggest colas I've seen no exaggerating I'm buzzing with themHello fellow BudBuilders. This journal will catalog my run towards a third harvest. This grow, I've added a ton of upgrades so I hope it goes as smoothly as my last couple. Nearly every aspect and piece of equipment is new and improved aside from the tent and the AC/Dehuey in the lung room.
For this round, I'll be running Dalato, a cross between Dante's Inferno and Gelato #33. I've always loved the terps on some Gelato so I'm hoping the Dante's adds a unique twist.
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Let's get down to it
Equipment:
SpiderFarmer 5x5 tent
UnderCurrent 8 gallon 4-site system
CLW SolarSystem 1100 grow light
ACI Controller 69 pro
ACI 6" exhaust fan with refillable carbon filter
ACI inline fan for intake from lung room
ACI ThermoForge heater
ACI CloudForge T7 humidifier
2x ACI CloudRay oscillating fans
2x BlueLab ph/ppm monitors
AquaticLife 4 stage RO/DI system
Active Aqua 1/10hp chiller
Alita 15 lpm air pump
Nutrients:
Lotus dry nutrients 3 part blend with Cal/mag
General Hydroponics RapidRooter
Plant Success Orca Liquid Mycorrhizae
Mr. Fulvic organic Fulvic Acid
0ppm RO/DI water
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I dropped some beans into some gro-plugs on Saturday and 3 days later, like clockwork, they've started to make an appearance. They're in an AC Infinity dome/light kit. Once they're healthy and established, I'll move the six best to netpots with hydroton. They'll grow there, in the same dome, until I've chosen 4 winners. After that, into the system they go.
First out of the gate...
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2 more were visible this morning so I expect to see a few more sprouts when I get home from work.
I'll be doing my best to build these 4 plants into 8 cola mainlines following a technique on here by @Jonnyboi84. I love what I've seen from his manifolds and expect to have similar results. I decided against the SCROG for this round because of the added plant sites. I have a root rot paranoia and I'd like to be able to remove plants individually if necessary. That's not doable with all the plants in a single SCROG screen. I haven't done this before, so I'll be sticking with my usual mentality of "Wingin' It".
Thanks for popping in. Feel free to ask some questions and/or dish out some advice. I'm pretty receptive and open to criticism. Wish me luck, folks.
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Hell yeah brother. Can't wait to see it and I can't wait to try the technique.
That's freaking cool. I'll have to look at them through my loupe and check it out.No idea if this is true but I heard a breeder talking about selecting a male and saying cotyledons actually have trichs on them if you magnify them (never tried) and that he looks at those and marks all plants with trichs on the cotys then hopes one is a male when sexing plants.
So maybe you could use that as an indicator? Something to look at at least at this stage when not much else going on
Thanks man. It just showed up today so they accepted the return and it says the new one should be here by the 31st.
I did and it didn't work. It ran almost continuously for a year and a half so it must've just finally had enough.
Yeah I have to return within a month.
I agree. It should be an easy enough fix. Not quite as easy as just swapping out the old one with the replacement, though, so hopefully the new one doesn't leak also.
Ha yeah.. I agree. Paid money and waited on shipping and it's faulty. Lame.
I seriously contemplated waiting til I ran some nutes through it but nah.. that'd take forever.
Whoa you weren't kidding. For a pump with the same output as the one I bought for 89 costs over 450.. not quite sure I'm willing to throw that much money at a pump.
You would only need the model 30 or 40 that are around $240~!
It actually didn't take that long. The towel under it is basically dry and I can barely feel any wetness where the leak was coming from. YOU ALL SAW IT TOO, RIGHT?!
I totally agree. I was not looking forward to swapping out pumps just to do it again next week.
Yeah I sowed directly in the gro-plugs vs. the VG and went with smaller netpots. I was hesitant on going with the 4" pots because of the Power Plant failure, but it allowed for an extra couple inches in the res. Still not sure what went wrong with my Greezy beans, though. Old stock maybe, but they were moved from the VG to the plugs. I'm just not a huge fan of that early transplant.
The other three are doing fine. They're a little lanky but they really stretched in the dome, before I moved them into the tent. The one in that pic has been in the dome. It's now the tallest one in the tent by more than an inch. The other three have hardly stretched since the move.
I actually propped her up straight this morning using one of the pebbles.
