Help a Brutha Out

[Loose Cannon]

All through the 90s I set up numerous locations using exclusively NL5XSK1 with great success.
The amount of snow on this strain was very impressive and kept 'em coming back.
Left the industry 11 years ago but will now return since engineering the indoor garden is what I was born to do.
At the time it appears as though we were cutting edge, no pun, but need advice on current strains.
My future projects will be vertical lighting, clones, and we won't cut corners.
I'll be providing Med-Can in California so sky's the limit for the next production site(s).

 

[yortbogey]

https://www.icmag.com/ic/showthread.php?t=201486

this will be a g00d read for U......

 

[Loose Cannon]

Thanx, Bro.

 

[Loose Cannon]

Holy Shit! I never shoulda' left.
Mine were 7Ks but spread out in Nor-Cal. Usually had 2 or 3 operational.
Now that things have lightened up perhaps this is the way to go.
I'll speak with the investors and will happily share our future endeavors.
I'll read more as I got caught up in the magnitude but will want to produce no more than 3 strains, preferably.

 

[The Revolution]

Sounds like a sound plan brother. Stick with a few and really get them dialed in. Are you looking for a fast flowering type? Indica or fast sativa? anything in a particular?

 

[Hash Zeppelin]

https://www.icmag.com/ic/showthread.php?t=234158

This is one of the most impressive threads i have seen lately. aptus looks awesome, probably changing up. I personally like DWC hydro over soil or coco but to each their own.

I run vert bulbs and like them a lot. heat can be an issue though with out ample ac. always have more ac than you think you need. heat waves can fuck shit up really quick.

http://www.icmag.com/ic/showthread.php?t=127789
vert grows rock. I am still perfecting mine,but it is getting there. the great thing about it is you can go trees for less plant count or small plants for ease of moving and care, and either way your quality will increase.

be careful for aggressive mites. spider mites and broad mites seem to be everywhere this year. Prevent them with avid. kill eggs with take down.

as you know hps bulbs are hot very hot, but if you run cool tubes you defeat half the purpose of vert which is to get 15 to 20 percent better light penetration and distribution when you ditch the glass.so get a stack of something and put a vortex fan under or over the bulb blowing or sucking the heat straight up. give the plants at least 14 inches from your bulbs, maybe more depending on how cool your room is.

 

[Loose Cannon]

I'll be using flood-n-drain so rock wool will be the medium. Unless there's a better one?
A good friend from this site is big on passive and so uses coco but I don't believe that'll work on flood-n-drain. I'll need to travel and leave with a friend so want to make the learning curve as easy as possible.
As far as the strain, the NL5 x SK1 was an F1 as I'm sure most of you know.
3/4 indica, 1/4 sativa. The sweet smell and the frosting was a big seller at the time. Now I'm looking at Med grade soooo...

 

[Loose Cannon]

Hash-Z, my buddy spoke of a very small mite. I'm fully aware of spider mites but he'd said this little fucker is EVIL.
He's also doing the vert and I'm a new believer just from speaking w/ him.
I'm fairly confident of my ability to control the heat and such as given off by the vert bulbs.

 

[Hash Zeppelin]

you should look into nl5 x neville's haze by mr. nice seed company. easy to grow, yields well. dank as anything. that is if you have room. she can be a stretcher. apollo 11 is super easy to grow, and good herb, but doesnt stand up to some of today's strains. People really like SFV OG, and Tahoe OG right now. Also GS cookies is big on the sight at the moment.

flood and drain is easy. a little tip keep some air stones going in your reservoir, and a small pump always on circulating water from the bottom to the top o the res. also have a water chiller for flood and drain if you can

rock wool is a good medium. something i have always wanted to try growing hydro in is glass marbles. if you have unlimited funds maybe try those on a few plants (dont go all out). They are perfect because they give off no dust like hydro ton and hold no water perfect for dwc table. I think they would be great for flood and drain to but I imagine they would need constant drip,and more frequent flooding. They are also re usable so in the long run you save money.


I have never priced them before this but they are 50 bucks or 25 pounds, so not bad. I think am gonna have some fun with this.my roots are gonna be so white. gonna have to cover the top with something though to keep light off the roots or order black. I wonder if they effect ph at all. I highly doubt it.
http://marblesandgemsofcolor.com/pro1222211.html

 

[Loose Cannon]

Thanx All.
Fast flowering would be better....
Off to watch the fights at the guy's house I pay to knee me in the face!

 

[DevilWeedSeeds]

i have always wanted to try growing hydro in is glass marbles.

I would think those would be quite a pain in the butt to clean even more so then hydroton. That's why I switched to rockwool over the years, got sick of cleaning the hydroton every grow.

 

[big twinn]

It's time you break your OG virginity!

 

[Hash Zeppelin]

I would think those would be quite a pain in the butt to clean even more so then hydroton. That's why I switched to rockwool over the years, got sick of cleaning the hydroton every grow.

Im sorry to get a little off subject on your thread loose cannon.

I do rinse before use which is a pain in the ass because it is just non sealed porous clay, but i dont reuse, i just get new hydroton for each plant. cleaning the marbles for reuse would be easy. Just put them in a 5 gallon bucket and dump in your cleaning agent. i would go with a round of hot water and iso alcohol and a sponge, and then water and hydrogen peroxide, and then water and done. not so bad. The worst thing about hydroton is the brown dust it gets in your roots and makes a mess. The glass marbles would have none of that dust, so it would be like rockwool in that respect, but also maintain the perfect and almost instant drainage like the hydroton. Best of both worlds. a dwc growers dream, in theory. I just gotta test is first on a few plants, but i dont see why it would not work. The flush you could get with that would be so clean. That nug would burn so smooth.

back on subject. OG Kush is great stuff but not a big yielder. It is worth growing out a few for yourself, that's for sure. also if you can find real Hawaiian sativas you will like them, for potency.

There is tons of high yielding indicas and hybrids out there to chose from.

 

[Loose Cannon]

Thanx. Always interested in anything "new" since being away from my calling for 11 years now;-)

 

[Loose Cannon]

Lame question but what's "OG"? I feel like a damn dinosaur!

 

[RetroGrow]

"Ocean grown", so some say. Others say different. It's a cloudy area. But it goes with Kush.

 

[RetroGrow]

Hash-Z, my buddy spoke of a very small mite. I'm fully aware of spider mites but he'd said this little fucker is EVIL.
He's also doing the vert and I'm a new believer just from speaking w/ him.
I'm fairly confident of my ability to control the heat and such as given off by the vert bulbs.

That would be Broad or Cyclamen mites. They ARE evil. Just think of microscopic spider mites that have resistant mutants who survive just about anything. While you were gone, the medical and club scene has exploded, accompanied by an explosion in Root Aphids, Spider mites, broad mites, etc, passed around by infected clones. Makes growing from clone more perilous.

 

[Hash Zeppelin]

over grow. or original gansta depending on what. as far as for the kush i am really not sure which. never really thought about it. good question.

 

[Loose Cannon]

Thanx for all the tips. I've got Cinderella99 and a cross with Cindy along with 2 other popular strains going now.
I'll add Romulan or Lavender Trainwreck to have 3 strains.
Now have internet access again so will contribute when merits.