First Hydro Grow

[Gavinsgardens]

Best bit of info I’ve got on here is this little gem .

 

[Gavinsgardens]

Yea a journal of me fucking up ! Lol .
I am keeping my own notes , but I haven’t got a keyboard and I would be All day typing out what I’m At .
basically I started them in root juice and Rockwool cubes under a home made mini cloche to keep humidity up high , two weeks I planted them in the clay , watering with ro water with basic ec of 0.4 to buffer the ph then added quarter strength nutes , flushing the Res out every month with canna flush and using h202 and neem to keep the nasties away from both the tank and leaves . Start of week four now and really seeing buds starting to clump up . Ec is around 1.8

 

[Gavinsgardens]

Yea a journal of me fucking up ! Lol .
I am keeping my own notes , but I haven’t got a keyboard and I would be All day typing out what I’m At .
basically I started them in root juice and Rockwool cubes under a home made mini cloche to keep humidity up high , two weeks I planted them in the clay , watering with ro water buffered with cal mag . To ec 0.4 plus my nutes to about 0.6 ec up to 1.8 ec now In week four of flower . Using h202 in the Res every week . And neem to keep the nasties away . Prevention is better then cure .
lights . Budmaster cob x 4 to start .
then lumi 600 mh / for veg
Then hps with the led
Ps the white light on the led makes it very easy to see what your leaves are doing in a natural light , very handy .
I stabilised the clay with ph corrected water . And hand fed them when I transplanted the Rockwool cubes . Using ring feeders instead of drippers to make sure if even water distribution.

 

[Gavinsgardens]

Warning Res water drop , ec drop and ph drop ,, Change Res time ...
this is a new one on me being my First real crack at hydro .
janey macker you really have to be on top of shit constantly !
noticed roots growing down into the res and was a bit worried when putting in the cold ro water so I reached inside and removed as much as I could , I’m sure it will shock the plant , might not do a complete change of Res from here on In , four weeks or so left .

 

[Gavinsgardens]

Pushing the girls up to 2.0 ec in forth week of flowering it was about . 1.8 , and I think the added cO2 is causing the plants to use up a lot of nutes and water

 

[Dusty Kiefers]

Gonna grab a seat for the rest of this ride

 

[Gavinsgardens]

More then welcome dude

 

[Dusty Kiefers]

The best lessons learned are from straight fucking it up yourself.
School of hard knocks only one teaching lessons. Lol

 

[Gavinsgardens]

The best lessons learned are from straight fucking it up yourself.
School of hard knocks only one teaching lessons. Lol

Well I figured out they needed a nighttime water , I added a third small fan pointing up through the canopy in the bare Scrog , temps and humidity are spot on , I was really not expecting the stretch on these sativas , the scrog has turned into a hybrid sog / scrog thingymajigger and at the start of week five I don’t want to do anymore bending or de defoliating so I’ll be gently moving buds apart on the net to stop budrot .
ps four plants would have been enough in the Wilma , too close together for the beasts I’ve grown

 

[Gavinsgardens]

Well I figured out they needed a nighttime water , I added a third small fan pointing up through the canopy in the bare Scrog , temps and humidity are spot on , I was really not expecting the stretch on these sativas , the scrog has turned into a hybrid sog / scrog thingymajigger and at the start of week five I don’t want to do anymore bending or de defoliating so I’ll be gently moving buds apart on the net to stop budrot .
ps four plants would have been enough in the Wilma , too close together for the beasts I’ve grown

Also running out of headspace for the light omg
Might have to side light them if this continues much more

 

[Northern Hydro]

Best bit of info I’ve got on here is this little gem .

The hydro bible

 

[Gavinsgardens]

It’s Already saved my bacon , takes any guess work out

 

[Gavinsgardens]

Lovely buds

 

[Gavinsgardens]

One of my ladies , the biggest one got a shock and is lagging behind a good bit but I’m holding out for her ! About three weeks left .. not much smell yet but I know that’s in the post

 

[Gavinsgardens]

Double scrog , had to set up another layer of wire to strap the bitches down !

 

[Gavinsgardens]

And yes I did go over the top with the nurse a bit , think I caught it in time , they are quite happy at Ec 2 . I’ll hold it there now for another two weeks before dropping it off in week six .
dragon force time baby

 

[Gavinsgardens]

Nutes

 

[Gavinsgardens]

Well I found out why the big one was getting shocked , she put roots down into the res and I didn’t cop it , being very careful to add Warmed water while changing res in future , plus running the system for a feed at half strength nutes each change 14 day interval , when putting fresh stuff in , no chance of salt buildup ! Had a bit of nitrogen toxicity so dropped my levels below 2.0 ec and they have responded quickly

 

[Raz]

Looks like you have quite the jungle growing there. I guess it will be tough to get in there and do any trimming or anything. But it looks great. Oh and you have to watch those nurses! 'haha

 

[Gavinsgardens]

I’ve a dehumidifier three fans and a gas burner and an electric heater to fine balance my temps and humidity ! Nurses ?