Suh-weet! I am excited for you, I think the increase in growth speed will be worth the change
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Well, the current culture / diy piecemeal system is starting to come together. Everytime I do plumbing like this I have to chuckle to think people can do this with only one trip to the home depot, I also seem to take 6 trips and a pile of extra shit I didn’t really need. But, its starting to get done. Got the hard 3" pvc stuff all primed and glued and set, and got my measures for the soft line I need to run from the filter to the pump, as well as go from the drain ts to drain the buckets. Hopefully in 3 more trips to home depot and another day of work Ill be able to fill and test for leaks.
Moms are growing nice now from the move, so should be pulling cuts of those here in the next couple days as well. I did a grandevo spray yesterday and want to get a suffix oil spray in as well before I pull cuts, then when I pull cuts, I’ll do a lost coast or zymes dunk. I always get extra paranoid when moving, as the plants don’t get ideal conditions during the tear down and setup phase, which always makes it easier for pests to come in.
But, anyway, things are moving along. I know, this is kind of the boring stuff right now, but I promise, bud porn will be just around the corner!
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The diy rdwc setups not bad to watch, I couldn’t do it in one trip lol. You plan on using a chiller and drippers?
Ill only add a chiller once I determine if RDWC is for me or not…Going to run this first run without a chiller, based on what I see. If its a leaky nightmare to run vs easy to keep going good, Ill either go back to soil or ill add 4 more sites and a chiller and really focus on dialing this in. I’m always leary to try new as learning costs time and space.
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Great thread and beautiful plants. I myself love Hawaii. Being from New York… its quite the trip. I’ve been to Maui twice… staying near or in the Lahaina area. I also caught a flight over to the Big Island and visited Hilo and the National Volcano Park… it was beyond beautiful… I’ve been all over North America and the Caribbean but nothing is as beautiful as Hawaii… particularly Maui. Did the Infamous “Drive to Hana” and that was an experience I’ll never forget.
Sorry for ranting… I just love it there. Love Blackberry Genetics too… currently growing Bodhi’s Blackberry Lotus.
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What kind of nutes and water you plan on running?
my tap water comes out around 30 ppms so Ill be using straight tap water.
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Ehh lucky you!! Mine is around 200ppm…but I guess even worse for some other people
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Yea Ive had spots Ive grown at that 800 PPM of just arsenic let alone the other heavy metals. Pretty nice to not have to run ro at this spot.
As far as nutes, I got some from current culture and crop salt as a “sponsor / trial” so Ill do one run with each and see which I prefer.
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Well, Crop salt and current culture both sent me a package of nutes to sample, the current culture stuff fedex left on my porch and it was stolen, and crop salt actually locked it in my box, so looks like crop salt is who I will be running for the first round.
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I got the 4 site system all set up finally, and did the first test fill, and ran it for 24 hours. Have a minor leak at the drain hose connection to resolve, but none of the bulkheads or uniseals (which those uniseals…those are the weak point for sure) are leaking. So that gives me a lot of satisfaction. Even if it took 30 trips into the plumbing supply store. Pulled the cuts for the first run as well. Modified macberry moonshine, blackberry moonshine 12, blackberry moonshine bx1, and haole moonshine #3 are the planned, and I pulled a few of each and are in the aero cloner now, I pulled an extra black velvet just in case as well.
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about 3’ in a week. ugh. FWIW, Orchidland has slightly better weather than my spot. 
the rain even made the news, so it’s not just transplants hating it…but old Hilo people don’t even seem to notice. 
SMH dey neva got shit done anyway 
no expectations
Aloha
Clones doing their thing in the Aero Cloner…soon as they root Im pretty much set now to plug them into the system
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Well, looks like that batch of sour cherry orange og isnt happening, Put 30 in to germ and none popped for me. Looks like time, and all the moves was to much.
So…
I went ahead and popped something newer, that was really calling to me…
Cherry pie “bay cut” x Modified Macberry Moonshine. these ones I made in hawaii, and within 24 hours all popped, so these will be what I look thru next. The CP cut hated Hawaii, so I didn’t get many beans made of this, so the plan is to do an open pollination of what I made, and Ill likely seed the 4 site current culture with the males outta it as well depending on what I seed.
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Next time you try to germ something that is tough or old, try the method people describe on here on pure worm castings. Many people seem to report success with it when all other methods failed. I should have done the same with the Bodhi seeds and the last Missy stash seeds I recently tried to germ. no luck the normal way, will try the worm casting next
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Yea I dont miss that level of rain lol
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Got some good progress, led are hung and test fired. Now just need to get things cleaned up and organized.
Got the cherry pie x modified macberry moonshine seedlings up nicely, and the blackberry moonshine bx1 seedlings up as well. will be the next male hunt…
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Well, got back after a few days out of town, and the clones I need have roots now, so Ill should be getting them plugged into their final homes in the RDWC system very very soon! Just need to grab some PH down
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