Dinger’s Hydro Green Crack Grow Journal 2019

[Dinger]

Good stuff, Dinger. Great stage to be at.
I’d say keep up the grow nutes til the end of stretch - three weeks after flip day.
They still need the high nitrogen mix while they put on volume. That was a mistake I made on my first grow where I was basically just nursing sick plants to the finish line. Managing that better this time - mine’re in their last week of stretch now and still a nice, healthy colour. Hope that helps.

Thank you for the tip. I was just about to switch to transition to bloom which lessens the nitrogen a little bit. I will stick with the vegetative newts for three weeks and then switch to bloom

 

[Dinger]

I'm starting my second week of flower. Still feeding the girls vegetative newts schedule to help with the stretch. pH in my water 6 .0.

 

[Dinger]

Starting 3rd week of flower.

 

[DonkeyDick]

Canopy’s filling in nicely. A well done scrog like this always makes achieving a room full of colas look almost effortless. Fun to see.

 

[Dinger]

This style of hydroponics grow seems effortless, all I really do is change the newts once a week and keep the pH at 6. These girls are growing way faster than my first one in Coco.

 

[Dinger]

Starting 4th week of flower. Been fighting some spider mites off and on with purecrop1.

 

[DonkeyDick]

You scrog is looking good but yeah it’s not helping the fight against mites is it. You got a level of difficulty in front of you there. Good luck mate. Don’t take any prisoners!

 

[Dinger]

Starting week 5 of flower it's on cruise control.

 

[Dinger]

Starting week 6: in the last week or two, I seem to be getting some pH fluctuation. Read somewhere where pH drop in a nft can be caused by the lack of Cal in the reservoir like the plants have already used it up. I normally top up with plain ph water. this time I'm adding cal-mag to the water in it seems to be helping stabilize.

 

[Dinger]

Starting Week 7.
The scrog net didnt really fulfill its duties do to my girls not stretching very much. I have a 315 watt CMH light in the middle of the tent covering all the girls since they are in single file row right to left.

Besides that all is going well and since this is only my second grow I still have tons to learn from experience. I think I am more laid back not trying to diagnose every little thing.

Also trying some microgreens and peppers with the burple light.

 

[Dinger]

Starting week 8:
Took the scrog down since it didn't seem to be needed. Now the girls have spread their branches which may help with light penetration.

 

[Dinger]

Starting Week 9: I've not seen any amber trichomes. Reading up on a plant flushing, drying, curing, don't want to mess it up.

 

[Dinger]

Starting week 10:
Trichomes are clouding up hopefully turning Amber soon. The green crack is supposed to be energizing so I want a lot of Amber trichomes till bring it down.

Found a couple of interesting articles on water curing, does anybody have any experience with this.

 

[Dinger]

Going to shoot for 1 more week. Will flush for a few days then chop and dry.

 

[Dinger]

Starting to flush the girls. I am told since it is hydro it happens fast that only need two to three days.

 

[Dinger]

Ladies have been cut and hung. I wet trimmed one green crack and will dry trim the rest.

Now sitting in a dark tent with a fan blowing below them, not on them. Temp and the RH is below

Sound good?

 

[Dinger]

I forgot to update this thread. After drying for 3 days I put each plant in a separate bucket for curing. One plant I wet trimmed the other two plants I will dry trim.

After a few weeks I'll finish the trim, put them in jars and close out this journal.

Thanks everybody for the help