600w HPS Coco Sea of Green

Discussion in 'Growing Marijuana Indoors' started by MrMileHigh, Oct 13, 2014.

  1. Trying out a sea of green for the first time in 1 gallon pots of a coco/perlite mix under a 600w HPS. These clones went straight to 12/12 after they were extremely well rooted. In this grow I'm running the following strains:

    Candy Kush (Blue Dream x OG Kush) - 6
    Cheese x Haze - 6
    Strawberry Las Vegas Bubba Kush - 6
    Deep Cheese - 2
    Grape Ape - 2
    Sour Blueberry - 2

    The ones that I'm growing two of each are clones of plants I'm vegging right now, and am too impatient to wait to try :).

    For the first week I kept the light about 3 feet away at 75% and gave them half strength Maxibloom while they established their root structure.

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    Today I moved it about 18" away and turned it up to full power and started them on their full nute program. I'll go into more detail on that later. Even though they have been in 12/12 for a week, I'm calling today Day 1 of flowering. Hope a few if you will stick around for the next couple of months!

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  2. For my feeding schedule, I'm using MaxiBloom combined with some other bottled nutes I had laying around to get a little more flavor out of my buds with the  "organic" ingredients (molasses, kelp extract, fish emulsion, guano, etc.).

    General Hydroponics MaxiBloom (Starting at 5 g/gal working my way up to 8 g/gal)
    Aurora Innovations Soul Synthetics Amino Aide (Extra N during the stretch)
    Aurora Innovations Soul Synthetics Peak (P-K boost at the end of flowering)
    Aurora Innovations Roots Organics Surge (N during stretch, Fish Emulsion, Humic Acid)
    Blackstrap Mollasses (Cal, Mag, Sugars)
     
    Since there are 24 plants in here, I filled up an 8 gallon reservoir, which will give me enough water to feed each plant 14 oz. every other day. The coco I'm using is amended with worm castings, bat guano, perlite, and is performing very well for me using this watering schedule instead of watering every single day.
     
    Feeding amounts per gallon and for my reservoir:
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    Feeding Schedule:
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  3. It is a "washout booth" that was used to clean the screens when silk screening t-shirts. Stainless steel, built in drain, built on legs, fluorescent backlighting (almost pointless), 2 feet deep by 4 feet wide. It really works absolutely perfect for the SOG and my hood.
     
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  4. #8 MrMileHigh, Oct 13, 2014
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    Here's the whole flowering set-up in action along with the "mother" plants that the clones came from.

    EDIT: I posted a video, but everyone would have to download it to watch. Will upload to YouTube.
     
  5. Day 3 of flowering. They are actually adjusting to flowering nicely and quickly with no veg time. It's strange watching the stretch on plants that are this small!
     

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  6. Man that thing is so sweet
     
  7. It works very well, it's even around 8" deep, so I could set it up to flood and drain, or make it a soil bed and do it organic/no-till style. Maybe after this run?
     
  8. #12 CanadianOrganic, Oct 15, 2014
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    Haha it just gets better and better. I didn't even think of that, the organic soil bed, that is
     
  9. Yep its damn nice. But i think it would cost you an arm and a leg to buy if you dident have it. All that stainless.

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  10. It was $1500 when I bought it a couple years ago. But then I moved to Colorado and it fulfilled it's true destiny... and wouldn't fit in my basement.
     
  11. So, here are the mother plants. They are a few weeks ahead of the SOG in flowering. 1413404611762.jpg
    Every 2 months I will be harvest the same 6 strains. As soon as the second mothers flower, I will start my next 6 and take clones off of them 2 weeks into flower. This allows me to harvest every month, mothers one month, SOG the next, while also keeping a good variety on hand so I can feel the effects. Next SOG run will be Jilly Bean, Bubba OG, Black Bubba, Grape Skunk x Durban Poison, GDP, and Headwrecker OG. The next mothers are currently in their 3rd week of veg.

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  12. #20 MrMileHigh, Oct 16, 2014
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