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The Home Grower's Thread

Right on. And are you just manually running a pump for X minutes, or is it more automated?
 
byke said:
Right on. And are you just manually running a pump for X minutes, or is it more automated?
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I have the pump turn on every two days with a digital timer . I just keep the res topped up and slowly increase ppm through weeks
 
So I watered both plants thoroughly yesterday and today one of them was still pretty wet on the top of the soil while the other was dry enough to need water. I thin it's either because one covers the soil more with the leaves or one is sucking up the humidity from the humidifier a lot more efficiently.
 
byke said:
Ahhhh okay, that sounds like a nice drip system. I figured big pro indoor grows used some gnarly six figure setup, but this is great. It's just gravity fed? Does one big reservoir feed the entire pod, or do you use a reservoir per row? Anyway, I love it. Tour please. :teeth
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I have installed More complicated systems like injectors, but I have learned over the years to keep it as simple as possible.

One 150 gal reservoir per row. They are all pipped from a 1hp pump too the row, and feed through a manifold. after going through the pot the mix is drained off the tray and into a return 3/4hp pump to fill the reservoir back up with what's left over.

Every Tuesday all 12 tanks are drained, cleaned, and a new mix is added with the corresponding weeks mix (the mix changes as the plants progress through flower). I also have a large manifold that allows me to switch the return of a row straight to waste for a flush, or when the tables are cleaned after take down.

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The tanks are low because it's the end of the week.
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The manifold to drain the system on a flush.
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HappyHighwayman said:
I am in awe of your setup's greatness
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Thanks. It's really a labor of love.

Here is todays hang. It'll cure in the room at 50% humidity/68º till Friday afternoon.

On Friday it gets cut off the stick, and put into large tubs to slow the cure down. Saturday and Sunday we 'burp' the tubs until we get a cure ready for trimming. After they are trimmed they go into bags and the 'burping' process continues for another week.

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Any room left in this thread for amature outdoor?

Cool stuff J.
 

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Mike95060 said:
Any room left in this thread for amature outdoor?

Cool stuff J.
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Haha! Yeah, sorry about that. I love looking at all your grows. Reminds me of my roots (punny!). You guys are doing a great job of it too.

When I started everything was hush hush, you always had to talk about tomatoes, and very few quality products were available in the industry. Now the sky is the limit, and I apparently sound like an old man...

Carry on gang, sorry for the interruption. :thumbup
 
shouldnthave said:
Haha! Yeah, sorry about that. I love looking at all your grows. Reminds me of my roots (punny!). You guys are doing a great job of it too.

When I started everything was hush hush, you always had to talk about tomatoes, and very few quality products were available in the industry. Now the sky is the limit, and I apparently sound like an old man...

Carry on gang, sorry for the interruption. :thumbup
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Awww man your contribution is rad. Thank you. I really hope there will always be hobby and professional grows. Us newcomers have it really easy. The stress from having a few plants in the bad old days would have kept me out of it. Its a shame such a fun hobby isnt avaliable to anyone who wants to do it. /hippy.
 
shouldnthave said:
I have installed More complicated systems like injectors, but I have learned over the years to keep it as simple as possible.

One 150 gal reservoir per row. They are all pipped from a 1hp pump too the row, and feed through a manifold. after going through the pot the mix is drained off the tray and into a return 3/4hp pump to fill the reservoir back up with what's left over.

Every Tuesday all 12 tanks are drained, cleaned, and a new mix is added with the corresponding weeks mix (the mix changes as the plants progress through flower). I also have a large manifold that allows me to switch the return of a row straight to waste for a flush, or when the tables are cleaned after take down.

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The tanks are low because it's the end of the week.
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The manifold to drain the system on a flush.
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That's Matrix Shit right there.

I keep on looking for a slimy hand poking out.
 
HappyHighwayman said:
Can I come intern for a few weeks?
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I would love to have a few weeks where I could teach people some real hands on, but as far as security is concerned we just aren't at that place right now in society. Hopefully some day soon it will be as easy as visiting a beer brewery.

I can however recommend Oaksterdam University. It's run by several people I used to work closely with back in the day, and they know everything I know and more. Check them out if you haven't already. http://oaksterdamuniversity.com/
 
shouldnthave said:
When I started everything was hush hush, you always had to talk about tomatoes, and very few quality products were available in the industry. Now the sky is the limit, and I apparently sound like an old man...
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I was going through some old tubs of stuff in the garage and found a faded box of tomato food. :laughing

Phototron ftw!
 
mean dad said:
I was going through some old tubs of stuff in the garage and found a faded box of tomato food. :laughing

Phototron ftw!
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:laughing do you remember VegBuddy too? It got the job done at the time, but holy hell how things have improved.
 
This plant looks pretty male right? I'm thrown off by the white hairs

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My buddy got pretty unlucky...seems like 3/5 are male...the big one isn't blooming yet so hard to tell.

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100% male

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Hopefully female?
 
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Looks male to me, but the photo is pretty blurry.

If you're going to grow from seed, make sure you only buy feminized seeds from now on.
 
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If that's a good strain, take a cutting FAR away from the girls and collect the pollen to propagate seeds later in the year on lower branch. You bag the branch and harvest the plant above it to let them fully mature. 50/50 is a normal ratio.

You never know when a super nice strain emerges out of random seeds. It's haphazard breeding but you never know.
 
Wow 4 of my friends 5 plants are male. Sucky.

I think the females may have been the ones eaten by animals and bugs
 
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