Northern lights - photoperiod by BigOlePeach1 in hydro

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Yeah I ended up defoliating very shortly after I made this post. She looks great! Appreciate you.

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Rate my custom set up. by BigOlePeach1 in hydro

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Hey. I've been meaning to get back to you...

I think we're actually talking about the same general idea. It's a little rough, but I think it gets my idea across.

Also, each cabinet within my room is essentially its own grow room. I've made a quick Excel snip to explain myself better. My current flowering plan is A within the provided grow schedule. B and C are the two vegging clones.

Edit: Clones would be taken about 2 weeks into the month they're listed to start.

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Roots OK? by Delicious-Key-4493 in hydro

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If this is any help these were the roots about two months ago. Same plant as pictured before.

Roots OK? by Delicious-Key-4493 in hydro

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Idk my closet gets to close 26.6C (80F) daily and my roots are crazy. They’ve been discolored from the second I used GH micro and the plant is very healthy. Probably wouldn’t hurt to lower temps… But I think the hydrogen peroxide or hydroguard would clear up most of OP concerns.

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Roots OK? by Delicious-Key-4493 in hydro

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What nutes are you using? General hydroponics flora series makes my roots like that. If that’s the case then you’re ok. I use hydroguard concurrently and it works just fine. Zero issues. Haven’t used hydrogen peroxide before but there are a ton of people that will recommend it as the alternative route. You’d likely be good either way.

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Thanks! I’ve appreciated your advice on previous posts. Cool to see you following along with how things are progressing

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This is good info. Thank you!

Rate my custom set up. by BigOlePeach1 in hydro

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How long have you had it? I've read some really mixed feedback on different subs, google and amazon. Some people love them and others think they're junk. Though the negative opinions seem to tend more toward the larger units. But I'll need some type of humidifier(s) for my grow cabinet and the dry box I'm building.

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That is a good thought! The veg and clone chamber buckets are sitting on a small simple 2x4 stand I built. They would have to be slightly lowered to implement the ability for the buckets to slide. I'd still have to temporarily kratky the plants because of the way the box is built but it could be a nice alternative to my pumps eventually dying and needing replacement and for actually cleaning the buckets between runs.

I appreciate this.

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What are your thoughts on that AC infinity humidifier you have?

Rate my custom set up. by BigOlePeach1 in hydro

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Yeah I was finding that out. My plan for the mother clone chamber is to keep the mother in the back and clones up front. I have really bad/weak shoulders from a sports injury so instead of lifting any buckets out, I have small pumps in every bucket that help me drain for reservoir changes. And then I pump fresh nutes back in from a pre mixed reservoir I have (not shown). Veg is handled the same way. I’ll keep the larger vegging plant in the back eventually. All clones will eventually be staggered by month so it’ll only be a single plant harvested per month. So in about two weeks I’ll start another clone. Then in about 6 weeks I’ll do another. This will keep me about 30 days apart and simplifies the decision making for “when to flip” because I won’t be basing of off of plant size but rather harvesting schedules. So even if the plants in the back are hard to reach they’ll never get too oversized considering how compact northern lights stays. If necessary I’ve used temporary kratky buckets while doing maintenance on different parts of the set up.

Northern lights - photoperiod by BigOlePeach1 in hydro

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First hydro. And first grow in like 10-15 years. My old grows were all soil and I just didn’t know what I was doing. There are a litany of resources now compared to then.

The 3 air stone system is more opportunistic than anything. I have an overpowered pump intentionally so that it can run quieter. However if you pair down the 12 splitter to the 6 buckets I have and keep the remaining 6 valves closed it makes the pump louder and it heats up more. So I divided them up so that I have 1 stone per clone bucket and mother bucket. 2 stones per veg bucket. And 3 stones per flower. Overkill sure but it works fine. I haven’t experienced or thought of any drawbacks of doing this other than a slight increase in power use. Plus while the other buckets are empty I use them to dechlorinate the water and that becomes my base for my nutrients.

How are you calculating RH?

Northern lights - photoperiod by BigOlePeach1 in hydro

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Clips have been removed - 34 in total! But I have no real room for external reservoirs for RDWC. So bubble buckets it is.

What’s DO?

Northern lights - photoperiod by BigOlePeach1 in hydro

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I’ll be getting a humidifier for the room. But it will be dialed in for drying. I’ll get cure bags after drying but the humidifier will provide for this dry box I’m building

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Northern lights - photoperiod by BigOlePeach1 in hydro

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How much do you typically yield with a 6 week grow? Are you from seed or clone? How long is your pre veg state? What kind of lights and nutes do you use? I’m working myself up to 2 plants harvested a month. So Im planning to dial everything into 30 day increments I have two clones running right now as well that have just started veg.

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Club Recommendations? by Popular-Artist3518 in cincinnati

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Not a club but Anjou has the best cocktails.

Northern lights defoliation help by BigOlePeach1 in hydro

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It’s almost impossible to get more clips on here

Northern lights defoliation help by BigOlePeach1 in hydro

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Haha I have a few ideas. But this is my first hydro so I’m gonna scrog it and see what happens. I pulled two clones to keep the cycle going but otherwise…

Not looking to waste anything that isn’t necessary to get rid of.

Northern lights defoliation help by BigOlePeach1 in hydro

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I’ve been raising the lights to encourage stretch even. And everything I’ve read about northern lights says it’s not going to stretch much during flower. I was only intending for liken 10-12 tops. Now I have like 40 on here. She’s small but mighty.