bigbudz90
Well-Known Member
Why hello fellow growers, stoners and alike!
Ok so ive been growing for some time now and wanted to share some of my experiences, and of course gain new knowledge from all the amazing 420 peeps! so why not journal this grow which im currently entering week 3, also im going to share my mistakes from my last grow after changing my RDWC setup.
Anyway a bit of background, I started with a handfull of seeds some years ago, the odd outdoor hear and their.. had no idea what i was doing or growing but got some decent yeilds and interesting suprises, good buds concidering i knew nothing of what i do now.. Basic right... seed goes in soil and she grows?.. anyway progressed to getting strain seeds online and a basic HPS light setup which i installed in a large wardrobe at the old place, extractor into the ceiling.. soil bags, hardware store grade feeds, messy shit.. but again decent buds.
Right so one day i get introduced to this bloke, we go for a smoke in his garage get talking and he shows me his setup...
Blows my mind, faulse wall in the back of the garage.. huge custom tent and a home made RDWC system with 24 plants, 3 month cycles and a shit load of yeild year round.. impressive stuff.
Moving on the point is it got me thinking about DWC..
So when I moved house i figured why not give it a crack?
Started off tinkering with small DWC setups at first, just basic PVC home made from the local hardware store, changed the design, killed a few plants and grew some crappy buds also lol.. but i learnt a lot.
Anyway few months later I got my hands on some "Incredible Bulk" cuttings... and here i am now, 5th crop with the strain that all started with 2 cuttings I picked up for $25.
OK! ill shut up now you know the background and move on to the interesting shit!
Prewarning ** im a cowboy grower yeah, i have learned a lot of shit over the years. But my main sources for help are the Hydro store and what I research when i get stuck, so please pull me up if im doing shit wrong.
We all learn thats why im here. im no horticulturist thats for sure**
----GROW NUMBER 4---- **ALGAE ISSUES!** Febuary 11th Clones transplanted
Setup:
INSIDE
2 x Incredible Bulk
Hardware:
DIY RDWC system
Castnoo 1000w full spectrum LED x 1
LAgarden Tent 80 x 80 x 160cm
Nutrients: (Didnt take note of feeds and dates for this grow unfortunatly)
Rock Ignite Grow A+B
Rock Supercharge
Rock Nitro
OK so first thing i did wrong was not clean the RDWC properly from the last grow, i got lazy which was the start of my problems.
Second was using clear feed tube and this grow i changed the water storage and decided it would be smart to remove the lid for easy water changes... dumb, anyway heres the results, impressive considering how sick the plants got when algae took over the root system.
WEEK 1: Febuary 11th
WEEK 2: Febuary 18th - Note you can already see the algae forming on the roots, which i didnt notice at the time
WEEK 3: Febuary 25th - Algae takes over!
Ok so ive been growing for some time now and wanted to share some of my experiences, and of course gain new knowledge from all the amazing 420 peeps! so why not journal this grow which im currently entering week 3, also im going to share my mistakes from my last grow after changing my RDWC setup.
Anyway a bit of background, I started with a handfull of seeds some years ago, the odd outdoor hear and their.. had no idea what i was doing or growing but got some decent yeilds and interesting suprises, good buds concidering i knew nothing of what i do now.. Basic right... seed goes in soil and she grows?.. anyway progressed to getting strain seeds online and a basic HPS light setup which i installed in a large wardrobe at the old place, extractor into the ceiling.. soil bags, hardware store grade feeds, messy shit.. but again decent buds.
Right so one day i get introduced to this bloke, we go for a smoke in his garage get talking and he shows me his setup...
Blows my mind, faulse wall in the back of the garage.. huge custom tent and a home made RDWC system with 24 plants, 3 month cycles and a shit load of yeild year round.. impressive stuff.
Moving on the point is it got me thinking about DWC..
So when I moved house i figured why not give it a crack?
Started off tinkering with small DWC setups at first, just basic PVC home made from the local hardware store, changed the design, killed a few plants and grew some crappy buds also lol.. but i learnt a lot.
Anyway few months later I got my hands on some "Incredible Bulk" cuttings... and here i am now, 5th crop with the strain that all started with 2 cuttings I picked up for $25.
OK! ill shut up now you know the background and move on to the interesting shit!
Prewarning ** im a cowboy grower yeah, i have learned a lot of shit over the years. But my main sources for help are the Hydro store and what I research when i get stuck, so please pull me up if im doing shit wrong.
We all learn thats why im here. im no horticulturist thats for sure**
----GROW NUMBER 4---- **ALGAE ISSUES!** Febuary 11th Clones transplanted
Setup:
INSIDE
2 x Incredible Bulk
Hardware:
DIY RDWC system
Castnoo 1000w full spectrum LED x 1
LAgarden Tent 80 x 80 x 160cm
Nutrients: (Didnt take note of feeds and dates for this grow unfortunatly)
Rock Ignite Grow A+B
Rock Supercharge
Rock Nitro
OK so first thing i did wrong was not clean the RDWC properly from the last grow, i got lazy which was the start of my problems.
Second was using clear feed tube and this grow i changed the water storage and decided it would be smart to remove the lid for easy water changes... dumb, anyway heres the results, impressive considering how sick the plants got when algae took over the root system.
WEEK 1: Febuary 11th
WEEK 2: Febuary 18th - Note you can already see the algae forming on the roots, which i didnt notice at the time
WEEK 3: Febuary 25th - Algae takes over!
