Sonora;2851523 said:It's Friday, which means updates! Happy weekend from The Box!
Last Friday all three girls had popped, and had just gone under the 400W Metal Halide. All 3 girls were basically just stem and cotyledons (the round baby leaves), and they were in a very diluted nutrient mixture. They've had a really good week, as you'll see below, although I have a few issues.
First issue - temps. My box regularly gets up to 90 degrees on the inside. I've increased air flow all I can, but ultimately I'm growing in one of the hottest places on plant Earth, and those temps are making an impact.
Second issue - cleanliness. The box's design makes it really hard to keep things clean. I had a fishy-aquarium smell when I changed the nute solution out today, and WWI (my biggest girl) had some brown on her long taproot. I've ordered some H2O2 and will need to start running a regular peroxide bath to keep pythium at bay.
Third issue - changing out nutes. Holy cow, this box makes that such a messy, pain in the a$$. I'm really unhappy with the hydro-setup in the BloomBox. The box itself is very nice, but the hydro system is just a cut-rate homemade...well, it's crap. No better words I can use for it. However, the good news is I can move all the hydro stuff and still use the box to grow soil, which is what I think I'm going to end up doing (or maybe 3-gallon hempy buckets or something). I'll finish this grow out, get me a mother (which I'll grow out using a 1-gallon hand-watered hydro bucket with coco), and then future grows will be in some soil or soilless mix that don't rely on water reservoirs and pumps.
Anyhow, with all my griping, I do have to say, the girls look good for being above-ground for basically a week. To the pics!
White Widow I (WWI): the oldest girl, also the tallest. She has one long root dangling in the nutes that got a bit of brown on her. I tried cleaning her with a gentle spray of some H202 (not food grade) and some water, cleaned out the res with bleach, and am hoping that will intercept the issue until I can get the 35% H2O2 here and start cycling it through the system.
Above the water
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Below the water
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Next, White Widow 2 (WWII). She's the one with scoliosis. She's growing fine, she's just funky. Her roots don't dangle in the nute stream quite yet.
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The roots
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And finally, White Widow 3 (WWIII). She's interesting - she was "born" last, a full day after WWII and 3 days after WWI...but she's caught up almost all the way, and her root structure looks best. I'm hoping for great things from her.
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Roots
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Family shot up top
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Family root shot, with a view of my ghetto res chiller (frozen water bottles, changed 2x daily)
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