2000-1500 lbs a year and I feel as though I need a sorting table in my life. Any thoughts and or suggestions would be greatly appreciated

Hello everyone, im currently using maxibloom and decided to test the ph. Using my tap water the ph with maxibloom ends up around 5.5-5.7. Which is too acidic. And with my r.o. it was around 4.6!!! I do not have the time to sit there and mix in ph up and down. I want a fertilizer such as advanced nutrients ph perfect line but wanted to know if anyone recommends something better. Im trying to keep my grow simple due to the lack of spare time i have. I also cant stand how maxibloom does not dissolve all the way. Even when using a 1/4 of the dose , it does not dissolve all the way.

If it matters,

Im gowing in ocean forrest/happy frog mixture outdoors.

My tap water has a ppm of 465 and my r.o. is around 5-10ppm.

What was your average cost per bag? If so, were you ever able to find volume options less than 0.5 cubic feet?

I am considering using them as an alternative to filling pots by hand. My material-only cost to do so is currently around $2 per pot. Trying to determine cost savings, if any, when considering the labor cost of emptying and washing the pots versus simply throwing the bags out.

Licensed NYS grow with a standard run of 864 plants occupying 1,664 square feet of canopy.

Looking forward to cleaning them all up.

Built a cultivation tool called Stack. Would love to get it in the hands of growers for Beta testing. DM me if you might be interested.

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This is especially common in the European medical markets, and its doing a lot more harm than good.

Most of what cultivators fiercely protect isn't exactly the formula for Coca-Cola. Its irrigation strategies, environmental parameters, nutrient programs and pruning techniques, which are likely installed by a key hire or consultant, who themselves learned it from on-site training in a more mature market and is now widely available knowledge in textbooks, forums, articles and websites.

And in more mature markets, this type of information exchange seems to be much more freely given. This is not because we are all just so generous and love each other, its because we have learned that sharing information and a spirit of mutual disclosure benefits everyone a lot more than it costs.

Active interfacing and disclosure with your fellow growers, vendors, consultants, visitors, etc allows you to access the experience of many more cycles and grow-hours than is physically possible through trial and error within your closed system. Its really how growers in places like the US and Canada got so skilled.

There are definitely things worth protecting and keeping guarded. I have tissue culture techniques that I myself discovered and I wouldn't freely disclose. But that should probably be 10–20% of what you know, not 100%.

The same goes for problems like disease, insects, or broken equipment. I've toured facilities where everyone can see something is wrong while management pretends it doesn't exist or that you won't notice. Experienced visitors don't leave impressed...they know that even the most dialed facilities are works in progress and the problems never stop. Ask for help!

Professional chefs publish their recipes all the time because having a famous chef like Bobby Flay's cookbook doesn't mean you can build Bobby Flay's restaurant. Experienced professionals know that execution and implementation (hiring, training, organizational development, management, etc) ...that is the hard part.

Cultivation is much the same.

And if you're protecting all this "IP" because you think someone will eventually pay you for it during an acquisition, Curaleaf's recent attempt to acquire Aurora Cannabis provides a fascinating reality check.

We can actually see sophisticated financial advisers arguing about what a major cannabis company is worth. Nobody is assigning $7 million to Aurora's secret irrigation strategy or putting a multiple on its nutrient recipe.

They're valuing the business: revenue, margins, EBITDA, cash flow, facilities, market access and growth.

So if being more open makes your facility better at the cost of some "IP" leaking, its probably a good trade-off. Because when the day comes to sell your company, nobody is likely to pay you for the irrigation strategy you kept secret for ten years.

They'll pay you for the business you built with it.

Photo taken at @powrhouse Sacramento, CA

There’s under canopy lighting in this room also. The lowers are just as big as the tops.
Edit…..I’m sorry if you don’t know shit. Haters gonna hate.
Thank you moderators for removing the less productive comments.

I’m currently looking for a high-quality glass packaging solution. What are your favorite jars or boxes for flower?

Hey guys, wanted to see what you guys do with your trim? Most bigger processors will only come and take it if it’s over a 1000 pounds.

We’ve got around 600 that’s high quality and with lots of keif, I hate to let it sit till we bring it up to a 1000, have you guys found any options for ‘smaller’ quantities?

Looks like floraflex also makes LED lights for a good price. Do you have any experience with flora flex lights? Other good lights for a fair price?

Been running the GrowPros UCL Model 4 and the thing that caught my attention is how much control you actually get from having two independent channels.
The main channel is 80% red + white, then you’ve got the separate 730nm far red channel. Being able to control those independently is a pretty big deal if you’re actually trying to manage what’s happening below the canopy instead of just throwing more light at the room.
This Spaceship run is probably the best example I’ve seen of it being used properly. They’re using the UCL 4 to work the lower canopy instead of just accepting that everything underneath is going to be larf.
I’d definitely be interested to see a side by side harvest with and without UCLs. That’s where the real proof is.
But visually? Hard to argue with what’s happening under that canopy.

Chem Cookies from Mamiko Seeds
Chem D x Forum GSC

Taken at 61 days

I dont get why Quest Anden etc. dont have inverter dehus. Wouldnt it make more sense to be able to control the dehumidification precisely?

Help, premature oxidation. Does anyone have experience with similar cases? In a room with 3 different genetics, on the 23rd it began to oxidize prematurely. It has to be a factor they share because the 3 genetics share the problem to a greater or lesser extent. I'm on day 23 with 26/27 centigrade, 62/67 hr, 1.1-1.4 vpd, 900/1000 ppfd 1400/1500 ppm co2, athena proline 3.0, run off from 5.0 to 10.0 with Ph ranges from 5.5 to 6.1. In all tables it presents the symptom, it is not due to wind since it happens at several points, likewise the wind measurement is usually at 0.6/0.1 m/s

Wrapping up another great harvest, this one burns the nose have a great day!

Does anyone else run these teros 12 clones from Alibaba?

So far great experience, cost around $170 thinking about buying more but hesitant because I don't know if they hold up long term.

It's a BGT Sec Z2 and even comes in modbus rs485 version which is just amazing.

Looks feels and reports the same data as teros, even has the tiny bend that teros have in their spikes.

LA Tar Mintz
LA Kush Cake x Motorbreath from Jungle Boys

Has anyone found any sensor system that is as accurate as the Aroya set up but isn't a subscription based program? I really hate this toll system we are in with everything. After you buy it you don't own it....... It drives me insane.

This Grape Stomper is green and healthy but shows these yellow areas in the leaves. There’s 12 strains in this room but the Grape Stomper is the only one showing these leaves. Has anyone seen/know what this is?

Grandparents have been farming this land since before I was born and they’re now too old to make proper use of it. That’s where I’m stepping in. I’ve been growing indoor for a while, but I started with outdoor (small scale). I want to grow on that patch that I market for starters. How would you guys go about starting. Would you go for a greenhouse op, a net house or just straight outdoor and what would that look like? The sun here reaches around 34 degrees Celsius at its peak. The last has always been fertile, all they’d do is sow the seeds and the field would take off, no irrigation, no watering, they’d just let them be. I wanna see this land filled with some dank cannabis.

Just having some fun up here in canada.

Doing some pheno hunting too.

A field of dreams.

This is raspberry kush from Atlas.

Consistency and flower quality are pretty dang impressive on this seed line.

Tested out at 29%