• There has been a recent cluster of spammers accessing BARFer accounts and posting spam. To safeguard your account, please consider changing your password. It would be even better to take the additional step of enabling 2 Factor Authentication (2FA) on your BARF account. Read more here.

The Home Grower's Thread

Ha, well played. I get the desire to open a second account on this topic.
 
nakedape said:
You mean drips from the top? DWC as I experienced it was an aggregate (expanded clay pellets) fed continuously from the top. Once set up and balanced, it was the easiest, fastest growing medium. The maintenance during a 6-8 week cycle was: add nute water, check ph. That's it.

For sure two plants with 500-600W of light can oversupply a person doing 5 cycles a year. Having a small space a few plants allows for much more pampering, and gets better results.
Click to expand...


Yes exactly.

I want to do the sea of green autoflower next but in that 3 month period I'll buy a second kit and prep for the DWC 2 plants.
 
So it looks like we can have the meet-up in a couple weeks, then?
 
So I accidentally screwed up my timer when moving the tent this weekend and it stayed on past the dark cycle so I've switched it immediately to dark. So it got an extra 12 light.

Buds are growing steadily but I am already being a pessimist thinking "oh well that's it...but I know I'll likely get SOMETHING out of thius.. :) One of the plants buds are quite purple.
 
You can screw up the light schedule for one day no problem, just go back to the regular schedule.

So you're about halfway through flower?
 
I know people are stingy with info, but we should all post up our nutrients and schedules and stuffs. Basically the full grow plan in one post.
 
So Grow Weed Easy is my main site and it seems pretty spot on but it directly contradicts what you guys have told me about cococoir:

http://www.growweedeasy.com/250w-hps-beginner-tutorial

Now that your plants are a little bigger, you should start watering your plants this way from now on:

Wait to water plants until the top of the coco is dry up to your first knuckle
Alternate each time between giving plants nutrient water and plain water
Water plants thoroughly (always check pH right before watering plants even if using just plain water), until 10-20% extra runoff water comes out the bottom
Remove all runoff water about 5 minutes later (to give it all a chance to get out)
Click to expand...

They treat it like soil
 
HappyHighwayman said:
http://i.imgur.com/r2nvnX2l.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/I7nyRlal.jpg

I started with the first one and switched to the second one. It says coco coir and use water every 2nd time but I've done 2x a day watering/nutes based on your recommendations.

For the soil I'm alternating nutrients and water again.
Click to expand...

The first one being the first link being the coco coir schedule? And now you're on the second link, which is the GO schedule?

And with 2x/day, you're mix/volumes are unchanged and are essentially doubling water/nutrients, or you've halved them and are feeding/watering the same, just more frequently?
 
Full strength twice a day now

What do you recommend I do to finish off this batch?

The plants grew great until flowering when they turned yellow. I clearly screwed up somewhere.

I am doing the coco schedule, the GO was a long time ago. For the soil I'm only watering as needed.
 
HappyHighwayman said:
So Grow Weed Easy is my main site and it seems pretty spot on but it directly contradicts what you guys have told me about cococoir:

http://www.growweedeasy.com/250w-hps-beginner-tutorial

They treat it like soil
Click to expand...

The danger with treating it like soil is that it dries out very fast and doesn't retain water/nutrients like soil. It behaves more like a hydroponics medium than it does soil.

Here's a fun thread you could lose yourself in...

https://www.icmag.com/ic/showthread.php?t=300255
 
See he's watering them 6x a day. I've not noticed them hurting watering every day twice a day.

Should I halve the nutrients?
 
Ha, was just writing up a response to the other post. Yes, I'd treat them like people in that you can only eat so much in a day and increasing the frequency would equate to smaller portions. I think this is where the nute burn likely came from.
 
I really like the idea of one plant per 3x3 or 4x4 tent, but it depends on what you're doing. If you're a weed factory running multiple rooms and pumping product in and out, you need short veg and you're stuck running a sog setup. But, if you have the time to veg a larger plant, then a single plant in a scrog setup is the way to go, imo. Top the plant a few times, bush it out, bend the main cola under trellising and let all the others shoot up. Sea of green really only exists for the fast turn growers.

If you do go with a single plant, ditch the auto-flower seeds and take control over your veg growth, which is the basis for your yield.
 
HappyHighwayman said:
See he's watering them 6x a day. I've not noticed them hurting watering every day twice a day.

Should I halve the nutrients?
Click to expand...

If you're going there ^^ get a TDS meter. Useful tool anyway when you go hydro, or making solution for soil.

Flowering ratios sometimes short N in the real world. Bump that up. Unless it's really hot and dry, small plants won't need 6X per day usually. Aren't you at 6 weeks? Half strength foilar feed 5-5-5 and start flushing last ten days.

Do you have CO2?
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top