Competition GROW CONTEST WINNER: Noreason gardens

[noreason]

i have been following this grow for ages and ages...

again well done noreason...

as a suggestion you could put down a shallow layer of clay balls in the tray....they can work well to keep the roots cool

cheers

Thanks buddy

I was taking into account to add some clay pebbles in the trays…it should work, but there is one problem, the clay pebbles themselves. Every run I have to buy and carry between 30 and 45 liters of clay for every tray, no one should see and pebbles are pretty heavy and obviously I have to trash the old ones. So I guess it's not the best option only for this fact, however many thanks for the suggestion, I always take 'em into account.

At now I choose to use a spreader mat, the classic one for NFT. Will see this summer if it can work as I want. More pics soon

 

[idrobud]

Hi Man!!!

IMHO cut off the runner roots is the way!!!!
Simple and effective!!
By the way Noreason's plants looks all time amazing!!

 

[noreason]

Hi Man!!!

IMHO cut off the runner roots is the way!!!!
Simple and effective!!
By the way Noreason's plants looks all time amazing!!

Yo Nice to see you around bro

I need outer roots to cool plants, so I don't want to cut 'em, but keep 'em and let develop the best way to form a root mattress exposed to air and water in a different atmosphere from the upper parts of the plant. This should allow a ''natural'' cooling as the air and the water always stay a little cooler than the air just under the lamps.

Will explain this better with pics

 

[noreason]

Used a 16mm feed line till the pot, this way no occlusion will occur for many cycles. No need to clean it after every run. This line is working during one year and it's still fine.

Usually I find this kind of rooting, where the upper part of the medium has not been colonized by roots.

Used a 2-way irrigation for each pot. It didn't work as good as I wanted to.

 

[noreason]

A good rooting in a 6,5 lt. pot

And the new irrigation system implemented

 

[noreason]

Various pictures of the actual irrigation system. Much better than before with just two spots. Now it's much more similar to a little shower and roots are appreciating it, avoiding any risk of collar rot for too much water near the stem and not enough oxygen.

Having 10+ little water flows for each pot, water oxygenates itself more (I suppose) than having just two spots. This is very good for a system where no air pumps are added to oxygenate the nutritive solution, like mines.

I also used old clones in small coco&perlite pots transplanted to see how they work directly in the clay, having two different mediums with different properties. It works very good, instead of the old 2way method where I had some collar rot using coco&perlite. However I prefer to use clones without any medium, grown in areoponic cloner. It's more clean.

 

[noreason]

Along other things I'm having some fun selecting (if I'm lucky) a good AgentOrange pheno. Sprout 15 seeds, got 10 female. Transplanted in 3,5 liter pots with coco and perlite.
Vegging with 400W MH till flower's formation and flowering with 660W HPS.

Pics are from 12 days after the switch still with MH. Many of them already show a nice purple I wasn't expecting.

Here some pictures

 

[noreason]

Some years ago I crossed a couple of Pakistani Chitral Kush phenos from Cannabiogen, with a ChocoTonic male.
The resultant cross I called Pck-Tonic is a fast flowering strain, with a good smell, mixed between solvent/diesel and some sweet citrus.

Being a fast flowering strain it usually yields less than others, but I maybe found an high yielder pheno that flowers under 60 days. It yielded 140gr out of one plant in 55 days, under a 600W with other 3 plants, so further growing will tell me if this pheno is really a yielder or it was just a single occasion.

This strain usually show some purple on calixes/leaves and it's pretty dank!

Fresh trimmed flowers

 

[fonzee]

The leaves looks like amazing materials for hash production ~

 

[DanaD]

Noreason this pics are fantastic! Ho sfogliato alcune pagine e voglio dirti che hai un talento speciale.. Grande, spero un giorno di poterti incontrare.

 

[CalMag]

Very beautiful plants, i can see those fresh trimmed buds very thick and rich in trichomes!

I love the structure of your pck-tonic, and she had a lot of sugar too!

 

[noreason]

The leaves looks like amazing materials for hash production ~

You're right bro!

Noreason this pics are fantastic! Ho sfogliato alcune pagine e voglio dirti che hai un talento speciale.. Grande, spero un giorno di poterti incontrare.

Thanks a lot

Very beautiful plants, i can see those fresh trimmed buds very thick and rich in trichomes!

I love the structure of your pck-tonic, and she had a lot of sugar too!

You're pretty right. I found these buds were heavier than other strain I have. I guess all those trichomes are a good part of the total weight!

 

[Killer 82]

Some years ago I crossed a couple of Pakistani Chitral Kush phenos from Cannabiogen, with a ChocoTonic male.
The resultant cross I called Pck-Tonic is a fast flowering strain, with a good smell, mixed between solvent/diesel and some sweet citrus.

Being a fast flowering strain it usually yields less than others, but I maybe found an high yielder pheno that flowers under 60 days. It yielded 140gr out of one plant in 55 days, under a 600W with other 3 plants, so further growing will tell me if this pheno is really a yielder or it was just a single occasion.

This strain usually show some purple on calixes/leaves and it's pretty dank!

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Ciao Noreson... Sono stupende... Ti faccio i miei complimenti... Spettacolo...
BUON CULTIVO

 

[noreason]

Thank you Killer!

Some root porn

These cuts rooted in a small hydro/aero cloner named X-stream from Nutriculture. It's pretty simple and effective. Not the best one for sure, but it works pretty good, so I bought various versions. The small one for 20 cuts, and the medium one, with 40 holes.


I let clones vegetate directly in there, until they are moved in the flowering room. Usually 96W of fluorescent light, out of a good panel from Growth Technology. Used it in years and it's still rocking. Plants love that light.

 

[fonzee]

I use the X-Stream 40 for cuttings, works well. Did you tweak it? Do you run the pump on a timer?

 

[noreason]

I use the X-Stream 40 for cuttings, works well. Did you tweak it? Do you run the pump on a timer?

Nope. I let it runs 24/7 but I would try 15 min. ON - 15 min. OFF with a cheap timer. Did you try something similar? I guess nutritive solution will stay a little cooler having the pump timed.

 

[fonzee]

I go 15-15 cycles with straight tap water.

 

[noreason]

I go 15-15 cycles with straight tap water.

I'll try it for sure then!


Here some random pics from a vegging box

Boxed fan = very low noise

96W T5

Pretty hard and healthy stem

 

[CalMag]

Very nice, you are sharing a lot of good and helpfull informations to everyone too!
And bro those steams are not just healty but also colorfull!

That extractor.. have you just packed it inside the box or did you use some rockwool inside too? Is that a centrifugal extractor?

 

[fonzee]

I was hoping to get your word on it, I only had it for 2 cloning cycles...