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“Science is based on experiment, on a willingness to challenge old dogma, on an openness to see the universe as it really is.” -Carl Sagan
Hello. Hello....... Is anyone there? Is this thing on? Well.. if we manage to reach you, we have something to share. We have journeyed far and wide and tall (too tall) and have come to a new place. This place is much like the old, yet very different. Many things are familiar from our last trip but slightly skewed. We welcome you all on this new adventure. As we traverse a familiar path to some, yet in new to many. Here is our project.
Welcome back again my friends. While our first attempt did not go as well as we wanted, we did learn a lot from our failure and shortcomings. As such this has giving us a chance to make some changes. I'll detail these below. If you want to skip the details, feel free to just glance to list.
The first of these was height. Our previous system of flood and drain was pretty standard minus the enormous amount of growing medium we used. This also required we have the table suspended off the ground for proper draining. This forced us to lose almost a foot and a half of grow space (40-50cm). So we decided this wasn't going to work. We really wanted to put the flood table flat on the ground. So we did some searching and asked our local hydroponic store, to which they had never heard or seen anyone do that. Well than... Challenge accepted lol! Now I would love to say it was just a matter of putting a pump in the flood table but I would be lying. Physics of water pressure, gravity, airflow etc do not like this idea. But after a few days of trial and error we got her to work. She is basically a carefully balanced system of timers, inline pumps, venting and custom draining. Ive had her running for a few days now and she is purring.

The 2nd issue we had was our growing medium. I love the clay pebbles so they stayed. The idea of soil or coco just sounds so messy. But we did have an issue of not knowing what was going on with anything below the surface ( Like when we found a foot of roots being sucked down the drain) Where the table was flooding too, root health etc. We also could not move any of the plants.
So this round we decided on smartpots ( fabric pots). Filled with our favorite medium. Which btw, is also not very common. Most people do a mixture it seems. We also changed our table from a 3x3 to a 2x4. Giving us more room to train the plants vs an unnecessary amount of space for root growth.

Some of the last issues were minor but worth changing. Things like getting a tower fan to save space and with lower speed settings for safer direct air movement. Additional power outlets for timers and devices.
One last thing worth mentioning is the Nutes. We are going with the Mega Crop 2.0 formula and plan to out it to the test. We will not be using any other product ( hopefully) unless of course things go wrong. Say we realize we need to supplement cal-mag. We also our going with more recognizable breeders this time. We have 2 Alien vs Triangle ( thus the title) from Mephisto and 2 Royal Jacks from Royal Queen Seeds.
Medium/mix: Clay Pebbles
Grow Method: LST and most likely topping at 4th node.
Fertilizer: Megacrop 2.0
Supplements: Hopefully None
Water Source: Tap water, de-chlorinated and PH'd between 5.5-6.5
Sex: Feminized
Breeder: Mephisto/ Royal Queen Seeds
Strain: AVT, Royal Jack
Indica, Sativa or Hybrid: Sativa Dominant
Light: Horticulture Lighting Group HLG 300 LED
Light Spectrum: 3000K for veg and bloom
Light Schedule: 20/4
Set-up: Gorilla Shorty
Dimensions: 5' x 5' x 5'8"
Hydro or Soil: Hydro
Container volume: 2x4 flood table with 5 gal smartpots
Reservoir: 20 Gal
Number of plants: 4
Temperature/Humidity: Currently fans and ventholes but looking to upgrade soon.
PH: General Hydroponics PH kit
Tools: TDS meter, Infrared thermometer
Odor Control: none
Enjoy the ride!!!!
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