This is a direct copy of @420autoflower grows. 420autoflower has very kindly been helping me with every aspect of the grow, from building the flood tray table, to germinating, to rockwool preparation and tips. Everything that goes right is because of him, everything that goes wrong is probably because I didn't listen. I would have no grow to post if it wasn't for him. Huge thanks dude!
The strains in this grow will be mostly sativa focused.
2x Strawberry Cough - Master Sensei
1x Green Crack - Sonoma Seeds
1x Acapulco Gold - Sonoma Seeds
1x Zamaldelica - Ace Seeds
1x Cherry Cola - Fastbuds
2x Banana Cosmic - Master Sensei
The gear I'm using will be Grodan rockwool in starter cubes, 4x4 cubes, and 9.5x8x4 slabs, General Hydroponics FloraTrio nutrients with CaliMagic, a 4x2x6 tent, AC infinity 6" inline fan and carbon filter, 3x Spiderfarmer SF1000 lights, 2x holmes clip on fans (will add more later), a small dehumidifer I hung by screwing two little hooks into the top, and a Active Aqua 4x2 flood tray which doesn't properly fit in the tent, but it fortunately still zips closed. 420autoflower I believe has said the Botanicare 4x2 tray fits better.
I'm using a 35 gallon reservoir, which is overkill, but I drill holes in the sides to feed the tubes so that I can fully remove or seal the lid when necessary. The holes eat into my reservoir max capacity so it's likely closer to ~25 usable gallons.
So I have not given the drain hose a shot since I haven't needed to clean the reservoir yet. But the idea came from using a shopvac on my other reservoir. It's super noisy and I have a bunch of cats I try to keep happy so I wanted another solution. I should be able to close the valve going up to the tray, and then open the draining hose valve to redirect the reservoir's flow. The draining hose is a few feet long to drain into a bucket or tub outside the tent. The pump I'm using is a Vivosun submersible pump. It works as the tray flood pump, but also operates in under 1cm depth, so when it comes time to clean the reservoir I can quietly pump most of it out.
I was very clumsy on my germination, some seeds were dropped with the taproot kind of sideways, and some were planted pretty shallow. I will likely drop them a little deeper next time.
They were upgraded from the starter cubes to these 4x4 rockwool cubes about when their first leaves started to open. In germination they were just being fed RO water, but started giving them about 300ppm of nutrients once they were in the 4x4 cubes. They're all being top fed while they establish roots.
A root started coming out through the 4x4 cube after only about 7 days. I needed to quickly put them on the slabs. I followed 420autoflower's advice by adding Mykos root enhancer, but I didn't ask which way to prepare it so I just dumped 1/2tsp of the powder onto each slab and rubbed it in.... Once the 4x4 cubes were on top I flushed them pretty good hoping to dilute the powder a bit and let it spread through the slab.
They're all receiving about 13000-14000 lux right now, that has done my younglings well in the past. I'll fine tune it based on which ones are reaching or laying down.
They just hit 7 days old here, so I'm feeding them my week 2 strength which is about 1.1ec or 550ppm, and 5.7ph. I have the reservoir at the same strength and I'm just going to flood it once a day for now while the roots establish in the slab. In another week or so I think I'll stop top feeding and just flood the tray 3 times daily. That's where we're at for now! Thanks for stopping by, and again big big thank you to 420autoflower!!
The strains in this grow will be mostly sativa focused.
2x Strawberry Cough - Master Sensei
1x Green Crack - Sonoma Seeds
1x Acapulco Gold - Sonoma Seeds
1x Zamaldelica - Ace Seeds
1x Cherry Cola - Fastbuds
2x Banana Cosmic - Master Sensei
The gear I'm using will be Grodan rockwool in starter cubes, 4x4 cubes, and 9.5x8x4 slabs, General Hydroponics FloraTrio nutrients with CaliMagic, a 4x2x6 tent, AC infinity 6" inline fan and carbon filter, 3x Spiderfarmer SF1000 lights, 2x holmes clip on fans (will add more later), a small dehumidifer I hung by screwing two little hooks into the top, and a Active Aqua 4x2 flood tray which doesn't properly fit in the tent, but it fortunately still zips closed. 420autoflower I believe has said the Botanicare 4x2 tray fits better.
I'm using a 35 gallon reservoir, which is overkill, but I drill holes in the sides to feed the tubes so that I can fully remove or seal the lid when necessary. The holes eat into my reservoir max capacity so it's likely closer to ~25 usable gallons.
So I have not given the drain hose a shot since I haven't needed to clean the reservoir yet. But the idea came from using a shopvac on my other reservoir. It's super noisy and I have a bunch of cats I try to keep happy so I wanted another solution. I should be able to close the valve going up to the tray, and then open the draining hose valve to redirect the reservoir's flow. The draining hose is a few feet long to drain into a bucket or tub outside the tent. The pump I'm using is a Vivosun submersible pump. It works as the tray flood pump, but also operates in under 1cm depth, so when it comes time to clean the reservoir I can quietly pump most of it out.
I was very clumsy on my germination, some seeds were dropped with the taproot kind of sideways, and some were planted pretty shallow. I will likely drop them a little deeper next time.
They were upgraded from the starter cubes to these 4x4 rockwool cubes about when their first leaves started to open. In germination they were just being fed RO water, but started giving them about 300ppm of nutrients once they were in the 4x4 cubes. They're all being top fed while they establish roots.
A root started coming out through the 4x4 cube after only about 7 days. I needed to quickly put them on the slabs. I followed 420autoflower's advice by adding Mykos root enhancer, but I didn't ask which way to prepare it so I just dumped 1/2tsp of the powder onto each slab and rubbed it in.... Once the 4x4 cubes were on top I flushed them pretty good hoping to dilute the powder a bit and let it spread through the slab.
They're all receiving about 13000-14000 lux right now, that has done my younglings well in the past. I'll fine tune it based on which ones are reaching or laying down.
They just hit 7 days old here, so I'm feeding them my week 2 strength which is about 1.1ec or 550ppm, and 5.7ph. I have the reservoir at the same strength and I'm just going to flood it once a day for now while the roots establish in the slab. In another week or so I think I'll stop top feeding and just flood the tray 3 times daily. That's where we're at for now! Thanks for stopping by, and again big big thank you to 420autoflower!!
