DrSbaitso - First Grow HPS DWC

[DrSbaitso]

Hello hello! First time experimenter here, so be gentle! Doing a trial run-through before i setup any permanent perpetual system to see if the process is enjoyable/fruitful. Starting this journal on day 21 of veg, so lets get caught up.

Started with 12 bag seeds in wet paper towels tucked in a dark drawer.
1 week later 7 had sprouted sufficiently.

I drilled 8 holes in the top of a 14 gallon plastic container and fitted them with 3 inch netted pots. Also added to the container were holes for power cords on the side and small holes in the top for the feeding tubes.

I put each seed in a rockwool cube (root down) and filled the rest of the pot with hydroton clay.

inside the reservoir is a 250-gph submersible pump. A connected 8 line manifold supplies each pot with a top down drip system via 1/4-inch tubing. Outside the bin is a 10 gallon air pump which runs into the tank supplying 4 air stones for bubblicious fun.

Overhead is a 600 watt HPS lamp, 6 inch intake fan for cold air, carbon filter for stank, and a 6 inch outtake fan. This is all mounted inside a 48x24x60 mylar grow tent

The tank was filled with 6 gallons of ph neutral(ish) water to start with, no nutes.



plant S1 day 2

 

[Mike Wright]

Cool! Rev up the camera. How are the girls looking?

 

[DrSbaitso]

Day 7

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Day 8
light was set on max, which was a big mistake, nearly wiped out the plants. Ballast set to lowest setting, and raised a few feet.





Day 11
plant s1 looking happy.


plant s5 is either drowning or malnourished.

 

[DrSbaitso]

Day 12
Added a humidifier to the tent, RH changed from 25-30% to 55-75%. Average temp hovering between 72-85.
Added a tblspoon of maxigrow 10-5-14 npk to 1 gal distilled water, synched up ph with resevoir and added to tank.

Day 14
Growth explosion
s5 in recovery

 

[DrSbaitso]

Day 21
The leafys are getting out of hand. Next grow will have less plants per container.




Residual nute/light burns from sapling days

 

[Mike Wright]

Nice pics!

 

[David Bowman]

How did this grow turn out?

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