What’s up everyone. Was gonna start this log on caps bean basement (and still may) but I figure the more I come here the more chemistry info I can absorb. So I’m going to start it here.
Room I am documenting here is as follows
2x fluence 2x 600 watt hps checkerboard
2x 3’x6’ tables
Athena ag pro line nutes + power si
4x4x4 cultilene cubes drip dtw
66 plants
Will probably flip them after 10-14 days
Stuck them Monday so currently I’m on day 4 of veg
Genetics are as follows:
Gary Payton
The soap
Mac1
Apple fritter
Grease monkey f2 (my keeper)
Cheetah piss
Georgia pie
White truffle
2 phenos of grape Sundae I’m still selecting
2 phenos of runtz bx1 (runtz x grape pie x Mac cross from cannarado, still can’t figure out how that is a runts bx but whatever)
It’s a lot of shit for a small room but what can I say variety is the spice if life and I can’t say no to new cuts when they are hype
Soaked clone cubes overnight in 5.5 pH 2.0 EC Athena mix and stuck the clones. Clones were stuck after 10 days. Everything except a couple of the Macs were showing roots pretty well but I stuck them anyways.
After soaking 4x4x4 cubes overnight I stuck plants into them. Plants kinda look like shit right now but I’m not sweating it. This is a stressful moment in the plants life. Up until stick these ladies have a nice peaceful life. As soon as I stick them it’s balls to the wall. Ramping ppfd as fast as I can without pissing them off too much. Getting my sprays in while I can and really pushing them as much as I can.
Right now is pretty boring but stay tuned because there stack can happen pretty quick as long as I don’t fuck it up 
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Where’s the fritter from?
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do you keep them in rockwool the whole time? How? do you root into a mat? By stuck do you mean something like cut the cube and get the rooted clone in? Im new to transplanting aerocloned stuff. The vigor into flower and taking advantage of that stack instead of wasting vegetation is where its at. Its like a teenage weightlifter vs me.
I root into the small grodan cubes, (I think they are 1.5 inch x 1.5 inch) usually 10-14 days and stick them into 4x4x4 cultilene cubes where they live there rest of their life. You can grow a huge high yielding plant in a very small root mass using rockwool.
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you have better canopy management. I had two dosi drivers that throughout my bs moves i left in a 2 gal pot and they fell over a few times/ that garden has no support other than stakes The 3rd dosi driver is the shit.
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And yes I used to grow big tall plants and the entire section I would strip made me feel stupid every time because it’s really nothing more than wasted veg time. You will still see me strip some lowers even with short veg but the goal is to maximize yield while keeping pruning as minimal as possible because I have a shitty back and this small tight room blows to work in.
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Hitting that stretch just right so It ALL stacks. it all starts with vigor into flower like you are doing
Fuck stakes I trellis every run . Usually 2 layers of trellis actually. No 4x4x4 rockwool cube could hold up a quarter pound of wet weight with my heavy late dry downs without it.
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I use stakes to hold up cages of 2 x 4 hole plastic coated wire.
this way I can move it if necessary because im in a sketch situation where ive moved them many times .
I also use it vertically and tie to it or as a circular cage around plants. a flat cage isnt enough unless you are catching the stretch like we said and you can spread it out. i constantly overgrow and end up caging over and over. it worked great on dosi driver 1. I just harvested it and it was baseball shaped bud with no leaves, easiest trim ever, just break down to prevent molding.
Ya God the variable of having plants in a movable state is a pain in the ass. Seen buddies who get their spot inspected once every 6 months and they take their entire room down and keep plants mobile always just incase. I can’t handle that shit, I don’t even want to move 30 plants from one table to the one next to it so I do what I can to minimize time spent per gram while maximising quality.
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it happened to me twice in one month this round??? Water meter replacement? and its below zero outside? fuck So I missed that window and they are all overgrown monsters. I let em veg and recover. the only one into the lights is a gg12 that has over 10 of what looks to be growing into 2 foot long colas, its mosca c99 x gg4. my other gg12 got abused in that cold and isnt finisng but has baseball bat width colas but all whit hairs way late. You are new here, and I would trust to send you pics and you do some magic to make it untraceable to me.
I wanted to put together a rolling saucer that would hold 5/7/10 gallon nursery pots with either a cubic UC cage or a flat horizontral trellis that could move up and down attached. Unfortunately, the cost was prohibitive per unit.
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It looks like it’s going to get good. 
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I also like a short veg period, my current spot is vertically challenged. Most of my plants go 12 weeks from cut to drying.
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Ya it works fine for me because space is small and it’s easy to take 70 cuts vs waiting to veg for weeks longer. I’m trying to hit that 5 turns a year without having a separate veg.
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I can get 6 turns for my 8 week strains. Having a separate small veg and clone area.
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That’s great. You’re really on top of your turn schedule. Doing 5 a year is killing me.
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I’ve been running a flip garden that requires a harvest and transplant once a month for 5-6 years. I need a break from it. Doing last chop this weekend at that place for a while. I love the work but family pays the price.
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