New Grower The brewery does it doggystyle
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Starbreaker
☆Midnight Siren☆Female Grower☆
Aw! This tag never showed in my notifications! So glad you decided to share you're journey. I'll definitely be following along!
Hello everyone!
I have been lurking long enough so I figured I'd go ahead and do atleast one journal. Shout out to @Starbreaker for the encouragement to do one. Also, I wanna give a shout out to @hotbuns @derek420colorado and @greenjeans, plus anyone else for any tidbits of info I have picked up along the way.. last but not least a special shout out to my fiance. She helps alot and it would kinda suck to do this completely solo. We have since developed our own method of doing things that makes it all go fairly smooth... I started out with soil but have since taken the dwc plunge, and haven't looked back. This will technically be my 4th run:
My aresnal:
x2- 3.5 gallon dwc buckets with rhizocore lids
x1- O2 Commercial Air Pump, 571 gph 2.47 psi
GH nute line
Silica Blast
HydroGuard
Calmag
PH down and up
x2 @platinum p300's
x1 400 watt Mars
x2 300 watt Mars
I just started a chemdogging from @mephisto. She showed herself to the world on August 24th:
She officially has formed her 1st set of leaves as of the morning of august 25th:
And one more as of yesterday afternoon:
I have started the bucket out with pH tap water til she hits the reservoir, then I'll switch to r/o after that. I don't really give a damn about the temps, which to me have topped out at 80° at the highest, but usually remain in the 75-78° range with absolutely no problems. I should also add that I don't change my reservoir, but only 2-3 times, unless there's a problem that I can't easily correct on the fly.
Here's some quick pics of the @FastBuds tangiematic that should be done in a couple weeks give or take:
After that I'll throw in stardawg to join the party, as I am trying to keep things perpetual.
I will update as much as I can, or atleast once a week or so.. [emoji41] thanks for stopping by
Starbreaker
☆Midnight Siren☆Female Grower☆
That's awesome I wish my husband would grow with me, but it's okay he likes to trim so I'm fine with that haha
No problem!Thanks mate!
I wish my better half would be more intrested in growing, then just smoking...(so I could take over the bigger closet).
(edit: co2 in a bucket? Tell me more)
That's how myself and my lady met a few years ago was by smoking together. When my old neighbor pretty much left the picture she stepped in and stepped up big time.
As for the c02 bucket, I'm not holding my breath. The amazon reviews were pretty mixed. I can't even open it up at this point due to trying to keep the relative humidity and temperature balanced between the tangie that is finishing, and the chemdoggin that is starting. @Duckster is right. It is probably not enough to make a difference and I feel tangie got the size she was due to genetics and environment already provided. I basically wanted to see if it would do anything, and right now i dont have the budget, and probably not any room for a tank anyways.
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Awesome! I was hoping you'd see this journal eventually..haha. thank you for the encouragement to post a journal, the slap, and for following along [emoji4]Aw! This tag never showed in my notifications! So glad you decided to share you're journey. I'll definitely be following along!
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My fiance does hair so I let her defoliate all the time. Haha... She doesn't mind trimming either but isn't really looking forward to trimming tangie...lol. We will just have to crank up some music and get to it. [emoji444][emoji445][emoji444] [emoji418][emoji418][emoji418]
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Sounds awesome man, this flower..brining ppl together!
I see, I've never heard of them before. I don't have space nor a budget for a tank either. Bucket sounded too good to be true. :smoking:
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Sounds awesome man, this flower..brining ppl together!
I see, I've never heard of them before. I don't have space nor a budget for a tank either. Bucket sounded too good to be true. :smoking:
Afraid that it is too good to be true guys, at least the brand that I tested. The normal CO2 levels in air is generally 350-500ppm. I tested a bucket in my cab with no plants and the ventilation off for three days. The CO2 was 410ppm when I started the test and the reading never got any higher than 560ppm. Everything that I have read says you need 1000-1500ppm to have any real effect. The only thing that I know that will reach those kinds of levels are tanks or CO2 generators, but even those can be a waste if they are not used correctly.
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Well it ended up being kind of a late night last night messing around with stuff. The coffee this morning tastes pretty good. We decided to hang this up last night for when the time comes to open and use it. Whether or not the shit works for sure, I couldn't tell you, but we figured why not..?:
Our city water sucks bad and averages around 500ppm with a pH of around 7.0 or higher. Since the city water sucks ball bags and the roots have officially touched down, we dumped the res, wiped out the slime with alcohol wipes, and added r/o water. We added: 5ml hydroguard, 3/4 of a ml each of npk, and added: 1.5ml of rapid start. The ppm came out to be 104 with a pH of 6.7, which we lowered to around 5.5 ph. To me, that's a hell of alot better than our nasty city water.
They can not hurt. But as I once was told it is just compost in there and it does give off CO2, But how much is an open question.
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Good morning all. Happy labor day weekend. It is now officially just over a week since this lady has shown herself to the world:
I will say that i will never use my city tap water again. It left a slime and a stench,but has since been clearing up,thankfully. I'm better off using r/o water and adding a very light feeding of the npk and rapid start. She did get a slight burn on her tips but she's trucking along just fine, and looks like she's starting to take up the water a little more. The tap root is looking healthy,and the PH has held steady at around 6-6.2, which we lower down to 5.5ish-5.7ish. I feel there's nothing wrong with a little bit of a drift. The ppm has rose to around 130 but to me doesn't seem detrimental at all. Current temperature is 86° with a RH of 42%. I'd like that RH to obviously go up but need it to stay where it is currently as tangie nears the finish line.
Btw, I was lucky enough to get the blessing from @Mossy to enter the mephisto contest, although I'm a week ahead of everyone else. I will be posting in there shortly after I tend to a couple things at home.. here's the link:
https://www.autoflower.org/index.php?threads/59871/
I will say that i will never use my city tap water again. It left a slime and a stench,but has since been clearing up,thankfully. I'm better off using r/o water and adding a very light feeding of the npk and rapid start. She did get a slight burn on her tips but she's trucking along just fine, and looks like she's starting to take up the water a little more. The tap root is looking healthy,and the PH has held steady at around 6-6.2, which we lower down to 5.5ish-5.7ish. I feel there's nothing wrong with a little bit of a drift. The ppm has rose to around 130 but to me doesn't seem detrimental at all. Current temperature is 86° with a RH of 42%. I'd like that RH to obviously go up but need it to stay where it is currently as tangie nears the finish line.
Btw, I was lucky enough to get the blessing from @Mossy to enter the mephisto contest, although I'm a week ahead of everyone else. I will be posting in there shortly after I tend to a couple things at home.. here's the link:
https://www.autoflower.org/index.php?threads/59871/
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