Well this is kind of a sad week, I had to take one girl out of the garden and I unfortunately couldn’t keep them all.. the coco and COBs in combination with a good nutrient feeding schedule caused massive growth...! Much more than I predicted at the start of this journal. I figure it makes more sense to have 5 healthy plants in the garden than keep an extra one and possibly cause mold or humidity problems.
Super impressed!
On the bright side, the plant I kept looks awesome. It has lots of tops on it and should be a good yielder ! I’m hoping it delivers some tasty buds like it’s predecessor did. It’s starting to get some pistils showing up so it’s on to flowering now! Can’t wait to see how she turns out!
Building a Great Drip Irrigation System
Items Required:
5 gallon bucket or larger
Drip Irrigation Manifold
Garden Staples
Digital timer
Submersible water pump
1/4” drip irrigation tubing
1/4” T joints
Power drill
1/16 drill bit
1. Acquire the items above and get ready for some easier waterings from now on! Recommend to use with coco and the water table we built in the previous week for hassle free automatic waterings!
2. You can measure this or just guesstimate a little extra length, it’s not super important. Cut the length and number of tubing you need to reach the water storage to your growing area.
3. Cut 10-12” lengths of 1/4” tubing. You want one piece for each plant you plan on growing.
4. Connect each end of the 12” tubing together with a T-joint. This should make a circular shape.
5. Get the drill bit and drill , set it up. Now you want to drill small holes into the tubing. I placed holes all in a line around the circle about 1/3” apart.
6. Once you have all the circles drilled out you can connect these with the T-joint to the longer tubes you cut at the start.
7. Screw the drip manifold onto the submersible water pump output tube.
8. Connect the remaining ends of the tubing to the drip manifold outputs.
9. Place the water pump with manifold connected to tubing into the water storage.
10. Run your tubing to the desired locations in your garden and place the circles we created around the base of your plant.
11. With the circles around the plant , you want to use the garden staples to hold the tubing in place.
12. I recommend using this device once the plant is about 3-4weeks old, this ensures it has established a good root base already.
13. Fill the water storage with appropriate nutrients and water. See the video watering guide for more info.
14. Plug the water pump into a digital timer. You need one that has multiple on/off times per day and 1min settings.
15. Plug the pump directly into the power to for the watering , time it, see how long it takes to get a good full watering with 10-20% run off.
16. Set the timer to the timing length you learned from the previous step. Set this time for the future waterings - as the plant grows it will need more frequent waterings.
17. That’s it! Now you’re set to make your life a little easier with less time spent watering coco!
*Everything in this tutorial was acquired from Amazon.ca or Amazon.com
Total cost: Under $100 Canadian Dollars
Wow ! We have made a lot of progress on this journal .. I hope everyone is enjoying this as much as I am! The garden is looking fantastic and we’ve made a lot of improvements so far.. We got the best Coco, the plants are trained, we have an easy watering area and now this basically takes care of itself .. just add water to the storage tote. It’s a fucking jungle in there..
So what else can we possibly improve? Well the last thing I could think of covering was adding some of the newest(and most expensive) LED technology to the garden!
Next week we will cover what we need and getting started on building a frame for this beast! TEN CREE CXB3590s, 500w !
You don’t wanna miss this!
Happy Growing!
-TheWeedMan
Its Charles Parato....I have one question about WEEK 1 your feeding during that week...how many days after you planted did you wait for the first nutrient feeding? I think I am going to use this feeding schedule for Fast Buds Zkittlez...in the germination process now....will have a diary started next week or so...already putting together some videos and photos....probably post my diary a week behind my actual process...more or less I want to know HOW SOON CAN I USE THE RAPID START???
@@TheWeedMan, well I jumped the gun loaded my first diary....I didnt know you could easily edit it for each week....I will add a Day-7 slide show of each plant again....THEY LOVED THE 1ML CALMAG & RAPID START each..green'ed right up even started TINY TINY TINY little serrated leaves in like NO TIME FLAT....they were looking a bit purple...on the first round leaves......BUT GOING GREAT.....got what 14-15 likes on my diary in my first hour....THANKS AGAIN YOU DID A GREAT JOB LETTING SOMEONE TEACH THEMSELVES.....im going to nail this thing,,,,I DONT HAVE ANYHTING ELSE TO DO BUT GIVE PLASMA TWICE A WEEK AND PLAY ICE HOCKEY TWICE A WEEK....well thats my physical therapy...Ice Hockey....payed for it all with BLOOD MONEY from the Plasma center...O'yeah that reminds me I need to list my expenses for my $1000 4x8 tent budget grow....this new light I think even you would approve of....I LOVE IT...so much better....photos of it in the TENT SET UP SLIDE SHOW....totally impressed...compared to the others I thought were good....brighter to the eyes, and better spectrum according to the camera
https://www.amazon.com/Anjeet-Hydroponic-System-Spectrum-Replace/dp/B01LPVGBVY/ref=sr_1_57?keywords=1200W+LED+Plant+Grow+Light+Full+Spectrum+for+Greenhouse+and+Indoor+Plants+Veg+and&qid=1558815421&s=gateway&sr=8-57
@@TheWeedMan, whelp I said "FUCK IT" which is actually a BOOK TITLE I started....I said all 8 look great its day 3.5-4 lets go for it....so I hit them with a light quick watering at Ph 5.8 with 1ml Rapid Start & 1ml CalMag both GHE....based on the color...RAPID START is just more Magnesium in it...TOTAL RIP OFF....but I got it for $7 so im not going to complain....WOW THAT TOOK MY Ph WAY DOWN...had to check three times before I had the right amount of Ph UP in there to put it at 5.7-6.0....I CANT AFFORD A QUALITY Ph meter and the cheap one NOT GOOD AT ALL...so using the chemical Ph test kit....but rinsing things off...My R/O/ water is already perfect at 6.0 so I have to love that for $0.87 a gallon from the store...have to see how my tap water is after my R/O filter system arrives...BUT FOR $90 it will pay for itself in under a month.....GOT 8 UP ALL ABOUT 2 INCHES...LOOKING REALLY GOOD...should have a diary worth looking at come Tuesday night Wednesday afternoon....I THINK IVE GOT IT....went all Zkittlez figured trying to deal with four different genetics to soon would be a disaster for at least half the plants...I have to heavy's and two moderate to light eaters....LOOKING GOOD....hope they can handle the CalMag & Rapid Start...1ml each to about 1.3 gallons...BUT VERY LIGHT WATERING......will Ph water again later to make sure it hasn't changed to much....but I use a CHEMICAL PUMP SPRAYER...they work great nice reach controlled flow and precision watering...not to mention great reach in tough places....JUST TAKE THE TIP OFF ITS A REGULAR WATERER....I love them for $10 use those to RAISE HUMIDITY in my tubs for Boomer Asiansan's
@@TheWeedMan, Welp, got all 8 up and growing...about one inch each...3 are still kicking the seed shell off...day 2 since they all broke the surface.....looking good so far...not bad for a first time rookie...gotta get through this first week they seem to all be responding well to the coco I placed them in...nice dark green leaves....first diary will go up on Tuesday or Wednesday....that first 24 hour part is nerve wrecking
@OutForReal, training works great. I haven’t done any other plant training as I worry it may stunt growth. But with aggressive LST training I got these lovely plants 👊🏻👍🏻🇨🇦