So there I was, smoking and thinking. I wanted to come up with a way to pheno hunt a large quantity of the fem seeds I just made to try and find a keeper. I could do several runs with a few plants and spend my entire life seed hunting or I could build something to do it for me. I ended up settling on the idea of a solo cup style grow straight to 12/12, but I wanted to do it better. In solo cup grows the plants can't express their true potential because the small containers limit their ability to uptake water and nutrients. They also get root bound rather quick.
I decided to build a 24 site system that would let each plant shine. So I got 2 totes and cut 12 4" holes in each lid. Each hole gets a net pot. Each net pot gets a 3x3 rockwool cube. Each cube is attached to a drip emitter set on a repeating timer that waters it 1 minute every hour. This is a cross between dwc and flood and drain. The roots can grow down into the water and the constant watering creates tons of ripples on the surface every hour to oxygenate the water. No air stones, no chiller (shoutout to Orca), just a 30w pump that runs 1 minute every hour.
The system has an inline filter before the drippers to prevent clogging of the drippers. I hook up a 1/2" hose every 2 weeks and pump the old res water to my banana trees, which are bigger than my house now. To fill the system I just mix my nutrients and use that same hose to cyphin the water into the system. Takes about 5 minutes to empty and refill.
Chris sent me some Chill Out OG seeds for helping answer questions on the forum (hope he isn't sick of me yet) and I am running 2 of those as well to try and find a female (not ideal but it was the space i had). I will cut clones off of them when they get big enough. Didn't want to waste time growing out males so I will reveg the females when they are large enough if I am so lucky. My original plan was to run 3 of them this round but only ended up with 2 due to time constraints. I will run the remainder of the seeds he sent me next run. Can't express my gratitude enough Chris. Thank you so much! Probably a small thing to you but it meant a great deal to me.
For anyone following my other grow, it's fine. Sorry I missed the post last week. Life doesn't wait for anyone. I will post an update tonight. Anyway, here are the pictures. The Chill Out OG started later than my other seeds so they are smaller due to that. For anyone interested, they are the 2 seedlings on the right closest to me in the pictures.
I was out of coco plugs so I used loose soil when sprouting the seeds (do not reccomend). They were pissed when I moved them to the rockwool. They have all pretty much recovered at this point though and are just starting to take off. No signs they noticed the lights are on 12/12 yet. I will try to post an update next week. Thanks for checking out my system and thanks again to Chris!
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Sorry to anyone following. I got pretty busy with life. The 3 plants I kept from my cross have been dried and pressed into rosin. The Chill Out OG I have been growing out is finally ready for flush for a few days before it too comes down. The buds on this plant are uniformly dense and smells uniquely of apricot and bubblegum. It's not quite the lemon/lime earthy smell I was expecting but I'm quite satisfied with it. I will be featuring a clone of this in an upcoming grow in my larger and more cared for rdwc setup for anyone who wants to see how it performs. I will be popping some more of the seeds to try and find a plant more true to what he wanted to express soon.