Max’s first HortGrow run

[Maxwell Murder]

I drilled a small hole in the center with an 1/8” bit in my cordless drill.
Pushed a 0.3 Netafim dripper in and hydrated with Canna subtra flores A/B and CES calcium chloride at 2.5 / 5.8 it took about 1200 ml to fully hydrate.

 

[Green Mopho]

I appreciate your precise measurement

 

[Maxwell Murder]

Today is day 8 of veg
Data plant T1 is 14” tall from top of media and is a good example of the average plants.
If anyone knows how to adjust white balance on an iPhone lemme know .

 

[Maxwell Murder]

I have 54 plants - 9 per light.
These HortGrow are the 1 gallon / 3.5 liter bags with some mesh in the bottom which is really nice - one of the reasons I was trying Rockwool again was the mess coco makes and mesh does a great job of keeping the coco from running outta the bags’ drain holes and onto the tray, into the drains, drain res, drain pump etc. or it drys out on the table and finds its way all over my fucking room- fans & lights.

 

[Maxwell Murder]

I have a greenhouse bed that was a little lower on soil than the others so I threw my coco bags from the last run in there today and noticed a huge difference between the Kaya brand and Dutch Plantin-
The Kayas had minimal roots and the horizontal layers of coco were tough to break up and didn’t wanna break up even with a shovel.
The Dutch Plantin had tons of big ass healthy white roots and smashed easily with my boot.
I hydrated them exactly the same but when I used the Kayas at another job a few months ago and hydrated them with a wand in trays with a couple inches of solution it took forever and they hydrated all wonky and shit and I ended up drilling out a hole in the middle after hydrating with a cordless and 1 3/8” paddle bit to drop a clone in. Tons of labor and frustration.

 

[Green Mopho]

I have a greenhouse bed that was a little lower on soil than the others so I threw my coco bags from the last run in there today and noticed a huge difference between the Kaya brand and Dutch Plantin-
The Kayas had minimal roots and the horizontal layers of coco were tough to break up and didn’t wanna break up even with a shovel.
The Dutch Plantin had tons of big ass healthy white roots and smashed easily with my boot.
I hydrated them exactly the same but when I used the Kayas at another job a few months ago and hydrated them with a wand in trays with a couple inches of solution it took forever and they hydrated all wonky and shit and I ended up drilling out a hole in the middle after hydrating with a cordless and 1 3/8” paddle bit to drop a clone in. Tons of labor and frustration.

I just saw the Kaya guys at a cannabis tradeshow. I went up and touched their expanded grow bags and it felt like a brick. It feels like they are using all the fines that HortGrow sieves off. They are using other brand's waste fines . I would def skip that brand, no matter what the price savings.

 

[Maxwell Murder]

Day 15 Veg
I’ve been flipping on day 11 the last couple runs but I’m also vegging for a greenhouse which is running behind schedule due to weather.

I was also running 16 plants per light now I’m running 9 and trying under canopy lights.
Average height is 20” untopped but I pinched the tops of the Table 1 plants and didn’t for Table 2 to see if pinch/bendy evens out the canopy by forcing side branches to catch up.
I grew this genetic at another spot under LEDs and always topped except the last run where I didn’t have the 21 days I usually had to veg - I didn’t top and flowered a few days sooner and the plant stacked way harder than topped. Seemed to me like most LED plants usually have the side branches catch up to the main anyway.

30 minutes after lights on the P1 feeds start , there’s 3-10 min P1’s in the first couple hours to get up to field capacity which is about 12% higher than the overnight dryback.
Up to 5 P2’s now that the plants are cranking, been adding 1- P2 a day for the last week and still staying around 12% ODB.
T1 and T2 data plants are pretty synced up with media temps, water content and EC and a third Teros12 hand held is reading around the same on a few different spot checks.
The picture of the meter screen was taken between the first and second P1’s.

Flipping tomorrow.