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I decided to reveg BM, and was thinking to try a method whereby nutrients recirculate 24/7 through a daisy chained bucket system

There may be a benefit for the roots,, but there is also the real possibility of soggy roots, which significantly reduces their nutrient uptake ability

Instead I decided to employ a technique I experimented with last year- Flooming

Flooming is what happens to water running down a river, which basically enriches and aerates the water, essentially making whatever is mixed in the water more bioavailable

When I first experimented I was trying to create a water fall (using a ~ 10" wide dust pan) with the water/nutes splashing onto a bed of polished ornamental stones some 10" below the lip. It took up a lot space, and did not provide the turbulence I was hoping for, but, I had a damned fine result combining it with a top feed Hydro Halo drip rings. Alas, the drip rings clogged from algae build up. This led me to develop my Mini-Me F & D system, which works fantastic

This time I simplified it to just having the water flow into a large net pot lid, recirculating 24/7

I will probably use a hole saw and make a hole in the net pot lid to accommodate the vertical tubing, which will make it more stable

I'm thinking to start a new thread for it

In the mean time, Midnight Rider now has tons of pistils. She's loving the extra 190 watts provided by the SS 260

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You could try a cheap powerhead off of ebay. Saw a guy using rockwool slabs use them in the side troughs, kind of like your rushing river idea. I bought one and put it in my res, its fun.

I got mine for $9 + shipping I think
 
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I decided to carefully cut away the remaining buds on BM reveg, keeping a few leafs to promote new growth

Surprisingly, I got 23gms of trimmed bud
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I received an order of 1/2" marbles which replaced some of the stones in my rez. Round is better to re-energize the water
 
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The first 2 days of harvesting the smallest buds has been drying in paper bags.

Bud weight is 23gms



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The bulk of the buds (and much bigger/phatter buds) are still drying
 
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Thought you might like to see BM all jared up. She grew under one SS 260

Note the Boveda 62* humidity pack is doing its' job. This is a large pack. I now know they are available in smaller packs, which would be good when/if moving to 1 qt/liter canning jars

Will wait about a week before final weigh in


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Midnight Rider is chugging along.

I have been foliar spraying the yellow leafs to little benefit, but note the bottom bud leafs (younger) are a lovely green. They have also fattened up quite a bit under the SS 260


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For your flooming idea you could easily mount an over the top aquarium filter on any tub. If you remove the filter it will act as a great aerator.
 
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grouchy said:
For your flooming idea you could easily mount an over the top aquarium filter on any tub. If you remove the filter it will act as a great aerator.
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That was my first thought, too. I tried several. They don't pump fast enough. Water barley trickles. The benefit is from faster moving water

The pump I am using is 260 gpm. I could go bigger, which would probably require a funnel to catch the splash.

That would alsoy add vortexing, another benefit
 
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Midnight Rider

Guessing she is within 10 days

Changed nutes to ~ 50/50 V+B & +Size @ ~ 400ppm

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I decided to sample the BM. It's still on the moist side although humidity is 61*, it's only been jarred 4 days

Tastes on the hash side (yummy) and feels like it's gonna be a long elevator ride to the top

[Edit: one hour later] It definitely dials me down. Time as slowed way down, and I'm feelin good and introspective
 
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No substantial changes to warrant pics, but I changed the light over BMex reveg to 24/0

2 days ago I turned off the whites over Midnight Rider and added ice bottles to the rez, hoping to trigger faster finish


Made fresh nutes for MR ~ 150ppm V + B + ~ 200ppm Size
 
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Day 10 in the jar with the Boveda 62.

I had to open the jar daily and move the buds around as they tend to stick together

[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Dry weight 93gms. She sure lost a lot of weight, but the early reports are extremely favorable. One is a Jamaican who texted me twice while enjoying it (~ 2gms of samples have already been given out)[/FONT]

I know some of you are all about the gpw, which is only valuable when comparing a previous result to a new result using the same strain/pheno to whatever has been changed from the original result.

I know people will gladly pay $15/gm for this, meaning the 260 paid for itself twice over, and more wattage would not have added to the yield of this single plant in a 32 x 32 tent

This plant came from a back-cross, where I used a BM male to pollinate a BM female. The Skunk side of this cross is not a big yielder

This plant was closer to 50/50 sat/indica, whereas the mother and father were sat dominant

The good news is I have a bunch of seeds from her to find the sat dom expression, but it's been hot here for a couple weeks with mid 70 nights.

I will probably take a break after bringing home what's left, including the BM reveg. FYI, she has a couple tiny leaf nodes appearing now

 Vortex/Flooming set up for BM reveg

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Midnight Rider will go dark in 3-4 days

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Dry weight 93gms. She sure lost a lot of weight, but the early reports are extremely favorable

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Midnight Rider has gone dark

I diluted her nutes ~ 50% this morning

Since then, most of the white pistils have turned.

Not sure whether going red only for 3 days did this, but looks like it's time for 3-4 days of dark.

I will reduce ppm by 50% again in 2 days, for a strong flush
 
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I ordered a bunch of neodymium magnets to replace the iron magnets I have been using and to set up my 2 other rezes the same
 
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It didn’t occur to me to preplan harvesting a special sat polycross MidNight Rider*. until 4/20, but that’s what happened. Honest

Took pre chop pics

She smells just like fresh peeled ripe citrus

After chopping, went to kitchen to trim

After trimming 5 smallish colas, I got the stoopid
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idea to take a small toke... you know to help me concentrate while trimming

Shit, I can barely sit and type.

Buds in the frig
 
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I finished trimming and harvested MidNightRider just a few minutes ago


She had very little primary leafs and they were quite small

However, the colas are mostly donkey dick size. The lid is 11.5" long

I left a good bit of bud on her to reveg (see pic)

Wet weight with some stem, just to hold properly 231 gms + 28gms larf

Pretty damn good for a plant that nearly died from DM Zone 'root treatment'

Placed in heavy duty paper backs into dark drying closet with fan

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