 newbie cfl\hydro experiment
i decided to give this another try for the sake of the newbies like me. i don't know if this will help anyone other than how not to do things but sharing it will help me and i guess that's a good thing anyway.
this is my second attempt to grow the ganja and the first in hydro so i am sure i am making many mistakes and the things i do right i have learned here and other forums as well as from Jorge Cervantes and Greg Green's books.
my plan is to have 3 mommas from 3 premium strains (gonna buy the seeds with the money George is sending me to 'stimulate' my 'economy') as my foundation for a SOG with 32 stations, for a weekly harvest of 4 clones.
i'm using DWC exclusively as that seemed to be the simplest way to 'get my feet wet' so to speak, KISS, with the foundation for my SOG being 4 x 5gallon bins(prototype #3), each with 8 stations (each station houses a 9oz, cup filled with hydroton, each bin actually holds 27 quarts, 5 gallons brings the solution to about a half inch from the bottom of the cups).
i plan on rooting clones for approx 2 weeks, then to flower them immediately (hopefully my bins will be big enough).
anyway, here's some pics so you don't die of boredom.
(please don't laugh at my fumblings, i'm a newbie traveling the same road you once traveled and on a VERY tight budget)
1) my old lights ($25.00 Walmart security lights, Mercury Vapor, 170watts each) they sucked, don't buy them, i'm using CFL's now and the growth is far superior
2) prototype #1, just an underbed bin with duct tape and dowels hot glued to provide support system for the cups.
3) just another shot
4) some roots
5) a look under the stairs
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