Juanitos 2016 Grow

FiresOfNil · Apr 12, 2016

Awesome Juanitos! Very excited to see it all planted out!

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Comptine · Apr 13, 2016

juanitos said:

Are those the type of bags that you just cut a hole in and put the plant in directly, or will you be using some sort of pot that you fill with coir?

juanitos · Apr 16, 2016

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got some of my drippers installed.
now it's raining forecast for the whole week so can't do much.....

juanitos · Apr 18, 2016

FreeportBum said:
Ok just wondering. I have mine under led and they are crazy purple.

yeah a few days under the stronger red leds and they started turning purple more. my little white leds are just a little weak lol

i'll be doing little coco plugs next year for sale. here's a test run oh aji omnicolors

I figured plants would not get very big in plugs.... i was wrong lol this ghost is crazy!

some cardis

some i started from the scorched train a month after the others.

Scuba_Steve · Apr 18, 2016

Just read through, and your looking awesome!

Sorry I didn't buy some from you this year, but it looks like you are sold out anyways according to your website... Regardless, I don't have the room for 8 plants with all I managed to start.

I will admit, I umm borrowed some of your concepts from 2015 for this years grow. I may have to borrow your LEDs next year if I decide to go over 8 trays. I have enough aquarium LEDs to cover 8 if I need to, but they are higher wattage...

Keep up the good work, and best of luck when you plant out!

Ozzy2001 · Apr 20, 2016

Looking great! I am definitely going to focus more on weed control this year as well. Last year was ridiculous on the weed front. They got way out of control.

juanitos · Apr 20, 2016

moved em outside to do some hardening before transplant

Devv · Apr 20, 2016

Nice and healthy!

Good work!

Blister · Apr 20, 2016

Very nice results with the coco plugs! I'm going to give them a shot next year

juanitos · Apr 21, 2016

bit the bullet and bought another injector for 2 part fert injection..
also ordered more drip stuff because i ran out.

i like the 1/4 vinyl tubing over the poly because it's more flexible easier to position the drippers with it.

also bought my nutrients... 50lb bags of them. looks like i'll be around 4 cents per gallon of mixed nutrients.

so by next weekend:
1. drippers installed
2. fert injectors / nutrient reserviors installed
3. charge coco bags
4. transplant

Trident chilli · Apr 22, 2016

Great to see them all outside hardening off ... not long now I suppose until they hit those bags

queequeg152 · Apr 22, 2016

impressive collection of slabs.

what are you paying on a per slab basis? i ask because you can get rockwool very cheaply at pallet quantities. hell if you get with a hydro store and you could probably get an even better deal.

i think im done with coco personally.

year to year variation in coco blocks is very annoying. this year i got blocks of very very fine almost 100% pure coco dust thats not expanding for shit. peat costs are back down to under 30 a bail... so i dont see the point with coco anymore.

the coco dust is actually a premium form of coco coir... it should be more expensive owing to the processing... its EXCELLENT for propigation and seed starting, but not so much for bulk density and pore space. i blended it with very larger perlite, but id be suprised if i could get under .2 grams for bulk density with this stuff.

juanitos · Apr 22, 2016

was 4.49 ea shipped
was only like 1/3 of pallet.
would have been closer to 3.50 ea for a full pallet. (dat LTL freight shipping $_$)

after the cost of buying the bricks and bags, then doing the work of mixing stuff... this was just easier. simply buy bag and cut hole good to go.

the company's coco seems good, but i haven't used them before so i don't really know about the consistency.. they have different grades so you know they are controlling mix based on particle size. I was trying to get as close to 'professional' grow as possible while still being in my backyard.

queequeg152 · Apr 22, 2016

your coco seems to be good quality, good for mature plant growth, unlike mine.

coir seems to be getting more expensive year over year... but peat seems to have stayed the same save for the last few years where it spiked to like 30 something a bail.

i just picked up two 2.2 cubic foot bails to test out. its fertiloam canadian spag so it should be good quality, but its not cheap, comes out to 7.3 bucks a cubic foot compressed....not great, but better than the coir dust.

anyway what ever.

im still curious as to why you landed on the coco though and not rockwool? are you going for organic or something? or are you just more familiar with coir?

from what i can tell rockwool slabs cost around the same at the retail level, and at the pallet level they cost less, getting cheaper the farther north you go.

i ran slabs one year back in the day and they were amazing... most remarkable growth.

juanitos · Apr 22, 2016

just more familiar with coco, its newer more hype lol.

after seeing blisters coco roots wanted to try it out.

queequeg152 · Apr 22, 2016

coco roots?

oh i see. the root pics on his glog?

thats cool i guess. but you can grow roots like that in any medium. organic soil included.

lol you wanna see roots...

thats just air lol.

cubbieblue82 · Apr 22, 2016

holy shit.

dragonsfire · Apr 23, 2016

That's a good chunk of Furr!

juanitos · Apr 28, 2016

got my double fertigation system running, the calcium actually disolves!

started planting a few, first was habanero paper lantern because they were over a foot tall and flopping over in the plugs lol.
they look a bit rough from hardening off but the new growth seems all healthy.

some ghosties getting ready to transplant

queequeg152 · Apr 28, 2016

are you going to lash the slabs down? when the plants get bigger they will roll over rather easily i imagine.

most slab setups use crop hanging systems for big plants like this. toms and bell peppers get hung from rollers usually.