The Great and Secret Garden of Ganja Ged - Indoor-Ebb&Flow-LED-2 Tent Perpetual

[GanjaGed]

The company that made it is out of business or at least out of mfg Hydroton, it was a secondary product. Hydroton is a trademark bought by Mother Earth.

A different company bought the old Oketau foundries in Germany and makes a similar product called Cyco Hydro Clay

[abadtrip]

Hydroton is still around I use it, love it bought 2 bags yesterday.

[GanjaGed]

The stuff is really trippy. basically they take clay balls and run them through a rotary kiln at 1000+ degrees. They quickly form the outside shell and the gasses and moisture mace a micro honeycomb structure inside.

Being inert you eliminate so many pest problems.

Many people will tell you it doesn't wick or retain water but they are incorrect.

You can't over water with LECA, but you do have to keep them damp so hand watering would be a bitch but an auto system like E&F is great. My pump cycles on every 3 hours for a half hour.

Because there is no sitting water trapped and extensive air flow to the roots, root rot is virtually eliminated.

[Tika]

Cool image...thanks

[Tika]

What a blast! Great over grown tent. ❤️
VBG!

[GanjaGed]

Lightweight Expanded Clay Aggregate

A lot of people call it Hydroton, which was actually the company name of the primary maker before they got shut down or something. Kinda like Xerox, or even more like Perrier for those old enough to remember when they were synonymous with bottled water before the contamination disaster.

Also called clay pellets or balls, expanded clay, coco puffs etc.

[D.A.A.S.69]

I think it's growing material, OJH, similar to those pebble looking things used in hydro, but I ain't sure.
PS, I sure hope your new medicine will work out for you whenever you get it Ganj.

[oldjarhead100]

the VA put me on prazonin supposed to help with the ptsd but it wakes me up all night haven,t slept good since I started on it and it gives me a headache , I have an appointment next week going to tell her to change it

[oldjarhead100]

wow did she fill the box looking good Ganja ged, what is a leca GG ?

[GanjaGed]

Let's see:

Tent A

10/20 - Sprouts into rooters in prop tray on heat mat, same solution. Under 2 normal bulb LED's.

10/21 - Fill reservoir to begin charging LECA. Sprouts straightening out and reaching up. Solution in res = 10gal RO, 15ml ProTeKt, 30ml KLN, 20ml Foliage-Pro

Sprouts still in prop tray with seedling solution. Cotyledons are not quite open yet but working at it, E&F is running on normal schedule to pre-soak LECA with light nutes and watch for any problems before everything's set.


Tent B

Day 33 from switch


Honestly just cruising to harvest. Tent is a damned jungle and totally overgrown, lol. The Northern Light just went crazy in the stretch and just ate up all the real estate. It easily tripled in size, which with 4 plants and 3 strains has been insane. I'm pretty sure I'm going to have to harvest in 2 or 3 layers.

Some pics



Northern Light




Wonder Woman

(Forgot to get one of the Candida







It's CRRAAAAZZZZZZZZZZZZYYYYYYYY in that there tent!


Got me one of these (black) and loving it!

[GanjaGed]

TY sir.

[Mr.furley]

Definitely pulling for you ganjaged, hope you're feeling well soon.

[GanjaGed]

Thanks OJH. I'm here and alive, lol.

I'm weaning off the steroids currently and each down dose puts me in more pain. I'm only half way off them at this point. looking forward to getting on the replacement med because this is miserable. I'm still adjusting to the increase of my other meds a bit and some of those increases are being dragged out by the insurance company. Between that and smoking pretty heavy for pain I'm sleeping a lot, well, too much actually.

It'll all come around, just gotta get past this new rough patch.

I'll have an update today at some point

[oldjarhead100]

good morning GG hope you are doing ok

[GanjaGed]

No problem, I love talking about grows

Yea the roots grow both out the bottom and up the sides as far as I put LECA in the tray. You can also see where they come out above the LECA but they prune themselves off.

My plan was to start the plants in a 1gal and then place that inside a 5gal but I really don't see a need, at least yet.

The current idea for the next grow will be clones from Tent A and either test GH Flora Trio against Dyna- Gro by using a separate res for each tray or more likely right now run 3 clones i ea in 1gal, 2gal, 5gal pots and see if there's a difference.

I've pretty much got both tents set up for the "gen 2".build which means I can start trying some experiments and fine tuning as well as start planning the next gen for the tents, custom DIY frame work to hold the trays, ScrOG, lights is the main part as well as some system for easier draining and filling of the reservoir.

The other decision I'm still wrestling with is do I want to run a nursery in one tent or run both as I do now one in flower, one in veg. I'm leaning towards sticking to what I do now esp. if the ScrOG runs well for me and after I try running a 2 or more strain grow under it. If I can run multiple strains well under the ScrOG I can just clone from the current veg tent flip the lights to flower and start vegging the clones in the tent that just finished flowering. Fortunately I don't really need to decide right away, but I'd like to get back to not dealing with seeds every grow.