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The Home Grower's Thread

byke said:
I'm about an hour east of Sac, so not great for meeting bay folks. Maybe if you head out to Mike's sometime I could meet ya?

I've never used LED and have read some conflicting things about them, but I feel comfortable "knowing" they're at least good for veg. Two 315's in a 4x4 would be great as long as you can manage the heat. My guess is that each light tech has it's own strengths and weaknesses at various spectrums and the "ultimate" light would be a mix. If it were me and just because I like playing with this stuff, I'd probably have a 315 in the center with a square fixture surrounding it that has a 30-50 watt COB LED at each corner, for somewhere around 500 watts total. You generally want 50 watts per square foot, so I'm thinking a 3x3 tray in a 4x4 tent with 500 watts would be good.
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How many plants of what size pots?
 
Hey guys,
What about a little harvest fest at my house in Placerville on December 29 (Saturday)? I'm pretty flexible but since I've burned through ALL of my vacation time, it's gotta be a weekend. I know Jordan mentioned possibly being available to cruise up here during that week.

Lemme know. I have room to spend the night too.

PM for address or discuss alternate dates here. All are welcome.
 
My 6" duct filter is coming on 2 years old. How long do they last? I vent it to one of the garage door holes via duct tape (I can't think of a better way of attaching it), and I'm getting a 4" fan to suck in air from the other hole so I can keep the door closed. The humidity is quite low but results in mid 80s in the tent.
 
I think the 29th works for me.

HappyHighwayman said:
How many plants of what size pots?
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They're white plastic 7" square pots with Floraflex 6" caps. I think they're just under 2 gallon. Twelve per 3x3 tray, four trays. It's been a lot of fun setting things up. I check on it everyday, but it's totally hands off for four days, then fill/flush the plants and refill the reservoir, then nothing for four days.
 
byke said:
I think the 29th works for me.



They're white plastic 7" square pots with Floraflex 6" caps. I think they're just under 2 gallon. Twelve per 3x3 tray, four trays. It's been a lot of fun setting things up. I check on it everyday, but it's totally hands off for four days, then fill/flush the plants and refill the reservoir, then nothing for four days.
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Is 2 gallon large enough for full grown plants?
 
It is, but the frequency of feeding goes up as the pot size goes down. There's a thread about it, google something like "beds are for fucking, small pots..", I don't remember the rest, but that should bring it up. Think it also links to another big thread on a different forum that also has a bunch of info. Gotta be a little careful because they dry out faster, so things can go wrong faster.
 
Yeah that cake is in a 5g pot and is only fed once every four days, but it could maybe go a week. The rest are fed twice per lights-on cycle. It's only being done this way to reduce veg time and thus electricity usage.
 
byke said:
Yeah that cake is in a 5g pot and is only fed once every four days, but it could maybe go a week. The rest are fed twice per lights-on cycle. It's only being done this way to reduce veg time and thus electricity usage.
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What's your medium and when you say twice per light cycle do you mean 2x per day? Is it an automatic feed?
 
Medium is Royal Gold Tuper. Word, twice per day, but some of the straight coco folks are up to five times a day. Pump is controlled by a cheapy Nearpow timer which works really well
 
byke said:
Medium is Royal Gold Tuper. Word, twice per day, but some of the straight coco folks are up to five times a day. Pump is controlled by a cheapy Nearpow timer which works really well
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If they're watered every day when do they get the dry cycle?

Because I wait until mine are dry. I use coco/perlite. Do you water every day 2x a day or just once every few days?
 
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Twice a day every day, plus 4x feed volume on flush every four days. This is the benefit of a root bound plant, they dry out fast and if you keep them fed, you remove the "bound" part.
 
What % of a full measure of nutrients do you use per feeding?

Would my plants benefit from more frequent feedings instead of once a week?
 
You're wondering if there's extra dilution to offset the increase in frequency? Negative and the mix is actually a bit stronger than recommended.

No, I wouldn't make any changes from what you're doing. The cake in the 5g pot would drown if it were on the same schedule as the 7" pots.
 
byke said:
You're wondering if there's extra dilution to offset the increase in frequency? Negative and the mix is actually a bit stronger than recommended.

No, I wouldn't make any changes from what you're doing. The cake in the 5g pot would drown if it were on the same schedule as the 7" pots.
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I see, you run yours hydroponically while I run them as standard plants.
 
So running the exhaust and duct taping it to the air hole in the garage has been a game changer. Before I could keep the garage cracked but besides the massive rat moving in and shitting everywhere, I couldn't control the humidity which I now can. Just went in, garage cool, tent ~80 F but humidity low.
 
Had to run multiple bamboo stakes to prop up a lot of the flowers. Also with the lower humidity the watering time is a lot shorter like 4 days.
 
Love bamboo stakes. You can stick four in there and wrap the whole plant with trellising, or get some goat fence and just tie wrap it around the whole pot and plant.

Yeah my buddy freaks out about low humidity, but they sure don't seem to mind it outside.
 
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