Diary of my perpetual harvest

[Guest]

First the growroom (The image is very large and detailed in my gallery). Welcome! Can't see the small seating area off the the left, but it's there. Cop a squat while I take you through the room. Bong is on the shelf over your head, right next to the curing jars. The jar with the magnet on it is the one I'm currently smoking out of. Dig in!

Starting at the top left, you can see my twine roll. Usually I have it dangleing down to the ground where I work tieing branches. I love that stuff....

Directly below that is the soil collection box. I reuse my soil with very good results. Somewhere in this thread I expect to detail that aspect of the project as well. That's the bar that shoots across the space and locks my room door on the left edge

Below that is my clone area. You can see my Ortega X Sweet Cindy mother poking out a bit. She is under 6000 lumens of fluoro. On the floor below her is her offspring. I have several generations of clones going at once because rooting speed is pretty variable with my cloning method.

Next to the clone area are my watering containers and next to that is my veg area, 48,000 lumens of fluoro in 12 sqf. Lights are on adjustable rope and pulley setups

Above the veg area is my drying screen, currently holding some seeded females that need work.

Above the screen is my soil accessory area. Fresh soil bags, perlite, planters of various sizes, etc., all go here

The flower room is blatantly visable on the right there, a 400 HPS powering about 20 sqf. In the right foreground is my chemical storage area. You can't see them but this room has two smoke detectors and a medium sized fire extinguisher behind the flower room door.

My perpetual harvest will be using the Ortega mix, a strain I am not familiar with. You will be taking the first examples to harvest with me, if you care to come along. Assuming a normal yielding mix from the Ortega, I fully expect to get a gram per watt from this setup using recycled soil and chemical fertilizers.

Thanks for stopping by and I hope you enjoy the thread. Feel free to leave comments......

 

[zeppelindood]

<cough> that's some tasty bud cap.... mind if i pack another? i brought some shiva bubble hash for you to huff ~

 

[BuzzBob]

:::Copp'n a Squat for the Show!::: Awesome!!!

Zep, pass that bong over, dude...

On with the show, Cap!!!

 

[HOT CARGO]

very nice Caprichoso
planty of space you got i see
i just staring to grow perpetual style.
it sure can save you tons of time and money. taking clones and shit is pretty cool deal i think.

looking goog

peace

 

[Guest]

Mmmmm....shiva. :drool:

Blow your hits down the flower room door folks. The carbon scrubber is between you and the plants and will take it outside.

The first girls to go in when my 15 Sweet cindy are done, the plants under the fluoros, are actully in flower. I have to manually move them to the flower room each night until the SC is done. I'm also hoping the fluoros will minimize the stretch some. It will still take every trick I know to keep these big girls down to 400 HPS size. Thee will be twelve plants total in the flower room at full production, three generations of four plants. I expect to harvest a generation every 17- 20 days.

 

[Guest]

Whats the magnet on the jar do mate?

Looking good btw, take it easy.
Leeroy

 

[Guest]

Thanks Leeroy.

Nothing special, just keeps this poor old stoner with a bad short term memory in the oldest curing jar. That one has been curing for 8 months, I think

No magnet in this pic. When I had this much I was inspired to do something about my recognition problem.

 

[Guest]

ahhhhhh

 

[Guest]

OK, I made room in the flower area for the first generation of the Ortega perpetual harvest. Until now, I had seeded females in this space. They have been harvested and the crate plants are moved in. I was flowering these new plants under the fluoros during the first five days of the stretch, manualy moving them into the flower area every night to maintain my 12/12 photoperiod.



Three across with the Sweet Cindy....



.....and five deep for a total of nineteen plants in the space.



The full room. Not quite four feet across and just over five feet deep.

 

[Guest]

The crates are lined with black garbage bags, holes are poked in the bottom for drainage after being filled with soil. They are 7 gallons when full and the plants in crates will be much larger than with the 3 gallon you see here next to them.

 

[Guest]

Here is the next generation of plants, fully rooted in their little cups and ready for transplant to the one gallon early veg containers





The third generation of clones, just roots floating in water. Four of five have visable roots anyway. I'm curious to see if the one without can keep up with those with just nubs.




Transplanted last night, these will have much more veg growth than generation two due to my own problems timing things out. I cold let gen two get bigger but i would rather maintain the harvest schedule of every 17 days of so and suffer yield loss with a small generation

 

[Guest]

Here is the other side of the room. Glass table on the left seats three and doubles as a kif collection space. The triple sink was rescued for free from a restraunt going out of business. It drains many plants simultaniously and removes the chore of hauling drain water out of the growspace.



I still have to hook up a removable flow to the faucet with a garden hose. I know it can be done I just havent done it. That would take care of the last water hauling chore.....the one to the room in those 2.5 gallon containers.
Here you see the PVC/silicone combination that connects the drains and leads out of the room. My incoming water would come in this way as well.



The two uprights are simply holding the drain in place as the silicon cures

 

[BuzzBob]

Awesome Cap! I luv it!!

LOL... Can you say, "Well packed?!?" And the flower area is all under a single 400; Right?

You may have said, and if so I apologize for being too lazy to go scrounge it up... But what will your average dry yield be on your 17 day cycle?


-BuzzBob

 

[Guest]

Yup, all this for a measly 40,000 lumen flower light. But I'm making each of those lumens go a long way.

When the 400 was over 14 sqf and nine plants, I was getting just over three ounces per harvest minimum, about 90 grams total per three plant harvest or 270 - 300 grams per full floering cycle. I have hit 115 in that setup, so it should be no stretch to hit a solid QP every 17 days with four plants X3 in the space. I expect more than that even.

Ah, here is the pic of the nine plant operation

 

[zeppelindood]

extreamly well done. great job cappy ~

 

[Guest]

Things are just ducky in the Caprichoso production room. Generation 1 in the perpetul harvest is doing great. The Ortega is a much more compact plant with a tighter node spacing and shorter stature that seems to pack in the same amount of bud sites as SC in 25% less space. This is just one of the four, no stretch in this girl like you see in the SC in the first pic on this page



This is an interesting contrast between the plants about to be harvested and the ones in the first week of flower



Gratuitous bud shot!

 

[Guest]

This is going to be my next clone mother. It has seven fingers on all leaves. A knowledged friend told me that the way I keep my mother plant does not allow for the physical development of plant to maturity in veg. He believes that you should keep taking generations of clones until you have at least nine figered leaves growing off your mother plant full time. I inspected the pics from my last mom, and damn if I never let that girl get beyond five. Constant trimming to keep her small removed anything that got beyond that many. Which means that my plants in veg barely had time to hit seven fingers bfore decreasing in flower. I'm planning on cloning my clone mother until she hits nine fingers and all my plants show that many as clones. Some of these mothers may have to get quite tall to hit that goal.



Here is generation 3, the cuttings that were in water at the beginning. It took two days for them to strike roots int the new soil. You can see them in these two cups.



They are moved closer to a light source to fully harden them off for the main light intensity. Tomorrow I will have directly under veg fluoros. That's gen 2 directly under them now.

 

[basementbandit]

nice constant supply source u got goin, i do the same thing but do both soil (in 5 gal pots) and dwc tubs with bubblers in 10 gallon tubs with 6 plants per tub. built a sweet little aero cloner for cloning.

so i know you told the lights in veg at the begining, but could u translate lumens to watts? i do a perpetual as well and do alot of my veggin under lots of flouros. then flower with 2 x 400 hps, and i float a 400mh between the flower and veg depending where its needed.

anyway sweet job! enjoy the fruits of your labor

 

[flipmastermike]

Hey Cap looks.Your cramming alot of buds in that space but looks very nice.

Cap is it possible to get 9 fingered leaves on pure indica mothers? I have no problem doing 9 leaves on my sativa doms but not been able to on my pure indicas.Thanks Cap,Mike

 

[deZerTomB]

beautiful, man. Keep up the good work & thanks for all the tips, detailing everything out like that. I'm sure I'll steal some of your ideas, hehe.