Growing Tips Can we grow nice budds,hydroponically,real cheap,and real basic ? | Can we grow nice budds,hydroponically,real cheap,and real basic ? |
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Well you sure can my Smoking / Growing friend ! We can grow budds Hydroponically, extremely cheap, in a small tight area, and with very little set-up and use of materials. After all hydroponics is as simple and as basic as supplying your plants with nutrients, and adequate lighting. Keep in mind that in this page I'm describing how to grow extremely cheap and basic hydroponics. Literally bare bones. Budds grown this way can be achieved but will be small and take a while to budd. Your lighting is a key controlling factor in your speed of growth, overall time of growth, and overall growing and budding yields. Some type of lighting is going to be needed. For seeding and cloning we stay away from all high intensity grow lighting. These strong lights only will succeed in burning out your clones and seedlings. And to also keep this page cheap, cheap, cheap, were gonna need the cheapest lighting we can find to use. Fluorescents are best, and preferably with growing tube bulbs. Your plants growth will be directly associated with the size of lighting you are using. Once clones and seedlings are healthy and growing, we want to use the biggest and best light we can find. (Also see my lighting page) A plastic propogationing tray, or growing tray with a lid, can be bought at any hardware or gardening supply store, and for under $1.00. Most major department stores with a growing section, will have and carry them as well. Pictured here we are using for a rooting and growing medium, 1 inch and 4 inch "Rockwool" cubes. The pictured looser stuff is "Agrigro Horticultural Rockwool". It is essentially Rockwool but has not yet been spun into cubes and comes in a loose form and is cheap. These Rockwool items can be found at any hydroponic gardening store, or ordered from them through the internet. For seeding and rooting clones, you are best using the 1" cubes. Once roots have started showing through the cube, move them to the 4" cube. And again when rooting is apparent through the 4" cube, plant them into the "agrigro" in the tray. There are other alternatives to this Rockwool Agrigro, for rooting and planting your plants. The cubes are still best for overall hydroponic growing, but to substitute the "Agrigro" we can use, Clay pebbles, Lava rock, Small gravel, Perlite, and/or Vermiculite. The nutrients we are using are hydroponic nutrients found at a hydroponic store. Ones for the vegetive stage, and ones for the flowering stage. These particular nutrients also come in a part A and part B form. (two bottles) These are best and the cleanest to use, and also contain all the necessary trace elements needed for healthy plants. Alternatives again, can be as simple as any fertilizer bought at any gardening, or hardware store, anywhere. Since we are not using any pumps and feeding lines here, we don't have to worry about clogging lines. To keep build-ups down and to prevent over-fertilization for occurring, we always always mix these fertilizers weak. If and when excessive build-ups of nutrients are spotted, we can move straight to plain watering for a while. (Also see my nutrients page) A bottle of Phosphoric acid to balance your waters p.h. level and a way to test it. With a P.H. balanced water level, your plants will take up all the nutrients you have made available to them with your fertilizer. To high of a P.H. level your plants will not take in certain nutrients even when supplied. The same is true with a to low of a P.H. level. So balancing your waters P.H. level will increase the overall growth and flowering of your plants. But again to keep it cheap, cheap, and real basic , you can emit this supply and testing of added P.H. to your plants, they will grow. There is Phosphorous in all the fertilizers your purchase. (Also see my P.H. page) A ten litre pail, a cup, and water for the watering. Were going to hand water our plants four or five times a day. The water will flow through the roots and rooting mediums, draining back out a hole in our plastic tray to the pail. This is more commonly called a "flood and drain system" And of course you will need a plant or seed of your choice.
Once you have all of your growing materials together, we can move into the easy setup and maintenance of this simple, basic, and cheap, hydroponic system. There is nothing elaborate, or extensive to this system, simply plant and grow, with watering/feeding on regular daily intervals. Cut a small hole in one of the corners of your plastic growing tray, this will provide the hole needed for drainage. When we water, or flood over the tops of are Rockwool cubes, the nutrient rich water will travel through the plants rooting system. Out the hole we cut, and drain back into the pail or reservoir you are using. Now place your tray on a table, or similar setup, so that one end of the tray is slightly higher and leaning towards your cut hole. Place something at one end, a small block of wood or book will even do. Lift the tray on one side, thus liquid will run down to your cut drainage hole, and out to your pail. Now that are tray has a drainage hole, we plant are seeds or plant are clones. Cloning into the 1" cubes is best. After initial rooting has taken place, roots will emerge from the 1 inch cubes. We then transfer that rooted plant directly into a 4 inch cube. The 4 inch cubes add a lot of stability, and smaller grown marijuana plants stand up nicely in them. Planted into only the loose medium or 1 inch cubes your plants will soon topple over. However in a later pic you can see how well marijuana can be grown, even without the loose medium but only in the 4inch cubes. So nothing left to do but mix with water are nutrients into are pail. Best way when in doubt is to follow the directions and application instructions on the product itself. Having hydroponic nutrients is a asset and following these directions is a easy one, two, three operation. But if your going to use cheaper but easier to find store bought fertilizers, make sure to mix you solution weak. These fertilizers are meant mostly for a once a week or every two week applications, and for use in soil. So for use in hydroponics we mix it real weak, half the recommended dosage. As we are going to be supplying this fertilizer in are water feedings, four or five times everyday, or every time we water. And remember in your seedling and cloning stage do not use any fertilizers at all, only water and when you introduce a fertilizer for the first time, always, always, a weak diluted mix. So lets run this down a bit - We plant seeds or take clones. - We put are plants under fluorescent lighting, on a 18 hour on, to 6 hour off lighting cycle. - We hand water are plants four or five times daily, letting the solution drain through are drain hole, and back to are pail. We DO NOT sit the cubes, or let them stay sitting in the nutrient solution. We flood it, and it drains via gravity. - We daily check are pails P.H. levels and add, or dont add, are phosphoric acid as needed. Phosphoric acis is used as a P.H. down. - We watch are babies grow. We get them as big as we want them to be. We begin flowering when the plants are large or small. Smaller plants mean smaller and less budds, where bigger plants means bigger and more budds. - We move to the flowering stage by changing our lighting to a 12 hour on to 12 hour off cycle. And switch over to are flowering nutrients. - We watch are babies grow and move into their flowering stage. - We harvest are budds and floral clusters - We do it all over again. Not much to this cheap set up, and all for a minimal amount of money. As a matter a fact, let me light this doobie up here, that I have been saving for us. And lets take a look at a $money$ breakdown of everything listed above, to get yourself growing today !!! So for as little as $25.00 to $35.00 dollars you can put this into operation for you. And like anything growing patience is the key, the budds will come. They will not be gigantic, massive budds, as small plants will yeild small budds. But enough budds for a smoker to enjoy their own smokable herb, and for a meer fraction of the price, of what your paying now. From here and when money is not a problem for you, you can start to introduce new things to your little garden to kick up its production. That's when you can worry about moving to, water pumps, air pumps, a real hydroponic planting system, high intensity lighting, different nutrients, foliar sprays, CO2, and a array of other hydroponic gardening equipment on the market today. The budds in this picture were put through their cloning and vegative stages using fluorescent lighting. For their flowering period they had the benefit of 400 watt HPS lighting. |
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