LinuxOwners Journal - Season 1 - (LED, Hydro, SuperLemonHaze)

Date:
First day of Fall 2015.


Seeds:
(Super Lemon Haze) Placed seeds in the paper towel today at 18:00 hrs.
Genetics Link HERE


LEDS:
Platinum LEDS:
4 - Platinum P450 LEDS (2 in each tent).
LED Link HERE


Tents:
The tents I am using are Apollo. 2 apollo 3'x3'x6' were installed and aligned today.
Tent Link HERE


Hydro Setup:
The hydro setup is a RDWC setup it consists of 5 - 5 gallon buckets, 4 inside the tent for growing and one outside as a mixing reservoir. I have 2 of these setups, one for each 3x3 tent and they are completely independent of each other.
System Link HERE


Nutes & Supliments:
General Hydroponics: 3 part (Grow, Micro, and Bloom) but will only be using 2 (Micro and Bloom).
CaliMagic
Rapidstart
Botanicare: Hydroguard



Intro:
Spent all day opening things and putting things together. Additionally, I was able to get one of the Hydro setups completely assembled. I will consider that I have one tent mostly done. I will need to get the second tent completed in the very near future but I was short on time today. I still have the lights to hang tomorrow but I think I will have the time to get to that.


The main objective was just to get the seeds in the towel by the first day of fall. I have done that. I still have things to do like setup the timers and what not, but at least the beans are crackin'...hopefully. I think this will do for a starting post except for adding a few thanks where needed. The camera should be arriving this week so as soon as I can I will get a few photos together. I can't be posting a million photos like some of the other cats around here as I am on limited shitty bandwidth, but I will do what I can.


Thank You:
Special thanks in advance to those persons who have answered questions throughout the summer and inspired me to get started. Names will be listed later as there are too many, but Crankz, ~Poke, Guesswhat, and InTheLooperton should suffice for now. Really thanks to all those people here at GC who have assisted in any way, shape, form, or fashion. It all helps in the end.

Thanks and regards,
LinuxOwner

 

Got it today!


Unfortunatly I had to work till midnight and then I have to be to work again @ 6am, but when I get home tomorrow at 6PM or so, ItsFknOn .


Thanks for stoppin by Crankz, means alot that you still had time to swing by with all the posts you have to deal with in your journal. Nice friend.


Catch ya tomorrow,
Linux

 

My Main Mfr Loopy Looperton... What it do, Foo?
Nice to see you man!

You Fellas ready for Tech support? I have taken photos but I have to install the fkn camera software or whatever to download the mfrs from my camera to my PC and then I might be able to upload them from there. So which is best should I use like Photobucket or should I just send them straight through grasscity? I will try to have them by tomorrow night after work.

So I got home today started riggin' shit up lickity-split. My girl said that one of my beans looked liked it popped and was showing tail (not taproot) but tail. I quickly went to the office and got the LEDS hung. NOT an easy task. Maybe for some people it is, for me, not so much, but they are up.

Issue 1,
I have the 2 p450s up and ready to rock and roll save for plugging them in. I have them hung at 40" from the hydroton. This is what PLED had listed for seedling height in the paperwork that they sent. Any corrections there?

Issue 2,
What fkn level should I have the water in the hydro buckets at? I think I remember Crank saying just below the netpots? is that right? If not, answer plz. On the same note, my reverse osmosis setup is not working the way that I want it to. Its just all fucked up so Im aggravated with that. Unfortunatly, my PPM (well water) is sitting at like 200ppm. I have that meter that will do everything that you want it to. I think I have set for PPM/442 I hope you guys know what I mean by that. I chose that because they said that setting was the best option to mimic natural water. I want to say that the PH was 7.9 - 8.0.
Comments?

Issue 3,
I'm fkn exhauseted man.

In closing, I'm not very good with the journal or whatever so excuse all my mistakes and whatever the hell else I have screwed up. I'll get the hang of it soon enough. Hit me up about these water level fellas so I can get these buckets where the hell they need to be and go to be, LoL. Regarding what my girl said, I took a look just a few minutes ago and I can't really see that they have popped to a point where I should be transplanting them tonight, I think it will be a task for when I get hom tomorrow night. I guess I will be dropping my popped beans into 1"x1" Ph'd rockwool cubes 5.5 ph, right? and shove the rockwool cubes right into the hydroton. I'm just too fkn skeered to put my lil seedling into the hydroton.

Thx in advance,
Linux

 

Well, I just got done doing some major changes. Seems like everything was NOT Kosher in the tent regarding the Hydro buckets. The one rez (outside the tent) was not sitting at the same level as the other buckets inside the tent so of course the water level was not the same on the buckets inside as the one outside. In fact, in order for me to get the water level to the bottom of the net pots inside the tent, I had to lower the control rez by 8". So that was fun having to undo/redo all the pvc etc.

Beans are fully popped, both of them and they look a tad bit overdone, they werent dried out or anything in the paper towels, but they were clearly in there like 12 or so hours too long. I say this as the 2 new leaves were looking brownish/red instead of nice green. EIther way, I Ph'd the rockwool cubes to 5.5 put the fkn seeds best I could inside the cubes and stuck them into the hydroton. Other than that shit, everything else with the hydro buckets and the o2 lines, everything seems to be ok.

Temps were sitting ok, like 73 or something. Erm, There's a blade around here goes by the name of IceCreamMan and I like his Journal setup, Im gonna shamelessly steal his format and start utilizing it. I will get on that tomorrow.
Will try to also get the pictures that I have taken this far uploaded too, I just have a few bigger priorities such as trying to actually salvage my seeds, LoL.

Fingers crossed,
Linux

 

Hi Gerrit,


Thanks for checking it out (my journal), nice to have you here.


I haven't been able to get the pics done quite yet, but I'm working on it. As this is my first grow, I have all the issues that come along with being a greenhorn. Right now, I am working on dialing everything in and fixing things like leaks on buckets and fighting with ambient temps etc. Currently the biggest issue is the commercial air pump, it is actually quiet noisy. Once a get a few of these major issues taken care of, I will work on getting the pics uploaded. I actually did take a few pics, I just have to get them uploaded. I finally got them off the camera onto the flash drive.


Looks like the seedlings are fighting to stay alive, but they might make it. Yesterday, I was not so sure. Gonna close up this post so I can go fetch the template I was wanting from IceCreamMan.


Linux

 

24 hours since transplanted.


DAY: 02
PH: 6.0
PPM: N/A Yet
TEMP: L/H: 66/84
HUMIDITY: Current 51, L/H: 51/81
HEIGHT: 01"


Most of these readings are all over the place as I have been working in the room. Hopefully, they will settle down within the next few days.

 

Giving a shot at posting some pics.


The chiller and some toys.


The basic setup.


The 2 P450s connected.


Reverse Osmosis setup and wet bar


Ventec 6" Filter mounted w/duct.


The left plant.


The right plant.

 

Thanks Crank. Great info. I'll make sure that I ease up on the watering, The water level in the pots are just below. I think what you might have been seeing was that I took an eye dropper and had added some 5.5 water to them since I was going to be letting them be for the night. I'm really not sure if they are as bad as they look in the photo, but I will def cut back. I will be at work from like 6am to 6pm tomorrow so it will be easy for me to LITFA.


Thanks for all the help as always,
Linux

 

Nice that you are back around.

No, I do not have a fan for the inside of the tent yet, I will be ordering a few very soon. Feel free to post a link or two if you have some suggestions (amazon prime FTW). I figured it best not to blow anything in the tent as I might knock the little fuckers down.

It has been one hell of a fight. I was trying to kick everything off by the 1st and didn't make it, then I opted to go for 1st day of fall (23rd) and got it, but I have been fighting with anything and everything since then...fkn leaks (Light and water ffs). I only have the one 3x3 tent setup and running. I hope to get to the other one and the clone machine within the next week or 2. Tis true that I should have taken the photo of the back side of the tent where the 6" Ventec Vortex fan is and the control rez is, whatever, maybe I'll get to it tomorrow, prolly not though.

I really don't have a lot of faith in the little fuckers as everything that has been going wrong has been. I'll try to keep the journal updated best I can. Hopefully I will have some time to work on everything tomorrow when I get home.

I'll check your thread and shit before I go to bed. Later HomeSkillet.
Linux

Ps, wait, cover up around the stem, wtf should I use to do that? ...and the temps are being measured by the little thermo checker that everyone has, its sitting right next to the hydroton on the skirt of the lid. If you look closely, you can see the bottom of it in one of those plant pics.

 

Thanks man, Just like Crank you have provided some great info. Good thing too man, I'll take all I can. When I get home from work tomorrow, I will take care of all the things you mentioned.
Additionally, Thanks for the links to the fans. I will be checking the links and subsequently buying a few of them.


Ill hit you up more tomorrow when it isnt so late for me.


Regards,
Linux

 

DAY: 04
PH: 6.0
PPM: N/A Yet
TEMP: L/H: 77/88
HUMIDITY: Current 40, L/H: 39/55
HEIGHT: 1.5"(est)


Still trying to dial things in. I should be able to fine tune things a little better by this weekend. Posting pics for records sake.


Left Plant


Right Plant


Specs

 

Guess,


Thanks man, your vote of confidence is nice. I'll tell you what sucks though, it seems like for all the researching and reading that I did this summer, everything that I learned is not applicable yet, LoL.
For Example, I posted in Crank's tread earlier regarding the amount of water that the little seedlings should be using. What I mean is, everyone--- I mean, EVERYONE apparently saturates the rockwool cubes and has horrible results. I have been very sparce on my watering since I don't want to do what everyone else seems to be doing. I basically said that within like the last 24 hours I have given the guys like 3ml from an eydropper of PH'd 5.5 water. That really seems like nothing to me. I kinda am hoping that I will notice if they are starting to suffer from lack of water, but I'm gone to work from like 6am to 6pm.
I have the rockwool cubes in the Hydroton just so I dont have to transplant later, but they are in no way getting water from the buckets even though I have that setup and running. Additionally, if you looked at the photos you will notice that I made a feeble attempt at shoring up the stalks with the hydroton like you suggested.
I am just worried that those cubes will be drying out faster than I think (since I have no experience) with my mid 80's temperatures and the double p450 lights running.

Do you have any recollection from when you had seedlings how much agua you were giving on the first week or so?

Thanks for checking on my Journal too man, means alot that you swing by to check on the status. Hope all is going well. I'm gonna go check on them about now before I go to bed. Oh hey, I have another question real quick since I am thinking about it. You know I have the Ventec 6" fan and filter etc. I have the stupid shit all hooked up and what not (sock included), I was wondering, I technically don't need to be running that filter to flower time, right? Even if thats true, I just kinda figured fuck it, less I would have to do later.

I like the fans you suggested, however, I am going to be running a scrog and I am not sure that they will be the best suited for my needs. I am looking for some clip-on oscillating fans, but damn if that isnt proving to be a little bit of a challenge. I think they would be better suited as they can be above the canopy once established.

Thanks again for all the help,
Linux