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Gwe: Solo cup grow off : 2020

Here she is. I had some germination issues *cough* (read that as I cooked my sprouts under the 600W MH like a dope) so am a few weeks behind the pack. But she is loving the home made drip feeder and is really into her stretch. We have ratched up the feeding schedule and volume and still almost no runoff - and what little there is evaporates quickly. Maybe can up the volume even more. I am daily at 400 ml. She disappears into the clone canopy but I do have her on a short riser.

Loving the solo cup grow as a way to add a nice dimension the growing experience. If the yields are interesting then this could be a really nice way to grow for places where plant count is not limited like it is here (6 per adult 12 for any household/postal address).

Big defoliation coming tomorrow.

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I am very pleased with how the "intensive care method" lets me deliver nutes on a specific feeding schedule which is very measured. And I only used a tiny bit of solil and a few handfuls of perlite.

In the soil grows I am feeding 1200 ML a day and in the solo cup 400 ML or less. A 70% reduction in water and food is nothing to sneeze at. Also I am only 6 weeks in and I am in flower. Pretty cool experiment.
 
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My solo cup drop out. Was going to manifold, but after topping just didn't have the heart to continue the amputations. "How does it feel to kill? Like dying lonesome and unloved yourself. Like cutting LIVING grass. Or losing all your marbles in a match that wasn't right." Oh jeez I'm getting the weepies.

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And here's her back up that finally made it out of her latent infancy. She's the one who had the impossibly reluctant helmet head. Getting ready to replace the venerable T5s with the CMH lurking in the corner.

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And here's the rest of the brood. Got some veggies in there too. I am reluctant to transplant into grow bags as I may well run out of room before I can transfer to the grow tent in the barn. I have 5, 10, and 15 gallon bags with the two latter being out of the question.
 
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they sell a 1 gallon bag ,tall and skinny ,gives the girls just a little more room while use the same space and easy to handle the plants if you move them
 
That's quite the fracture you have there in your foundation. Never like to see horizontal cracking, more vertical is quite common (this one looks like it's beginning to spider). Is that a form tie where the chunk is missing? Almost looks like it got whacked with an excavator bucket when it was being backfilled or it was still a bit green at the time. Doesn't look like it leaks much
 
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GreenState My ten year old home was built on the foundation of a hundred year old farm house that burned down. It's a two room basement with a ceiling roughly 6 feet in height so I cant' utilize my 80" grow tent down there. As my house is quite large i have 4 crawl spaces surrounding the basement rooms. For the basement's age I do not expect too much. In Colorado most homes do not even have a basement. Since this temp grow area is in the boiler room the heat is free. I try to avoid heating the barn, or other out buildings.
 
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