Kalashnikova - made up of half and half, White widow, and AK47
This is day 54 of veg, i am ashamed to say
Current conditions, are 364 watts of CFL. (14 - 26 watt bulbs) in a 3x1.5x3 cabinet, w/ a 180cfm bathroom fan as my exhaust.
The temps in the cab range from 70F at night, to 77F durring they peak day.
I have a low RH of 35-40%, and eventually, will probably get a humidifier going.
PH, i let hover over a 5.5-6.0 range, it wanders out of that range now and then, but for the most part is kept pretty tight.
Current PPM is 450 of advanced nutrients 3 part.
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Well, as a few people know, i have been having my first hand at DWC, and now that things are starting to look up a little,and i know shes going to survive her brutal journey to this point, i figured i would get the journal going.
First things first. I experienced on my first DWC, what i hope no one ever has to experience ever. Period.
This issue, Slime. many DWC growers have seen it, many have cured it, many have lost crops to it. Here is my story.
Day 15 after germination. Things are looking good.... right?
wrong...
being a soil person myself.. didnt think too much of it at the time... but see the roots there? that little bit of slimy gunk on the very bottom (sorry for the shotty quality) That was about to be the start of a complete nightmare.
soon after shooting those pics, by plant started to show defiencies, stress, etc. and why? i didnt really know. Over the next few days... i noticed that slime progress, and jumped into my favorite search engine, and started to worry. So i got ahold of a good friend, who confirmed, i needed to act fast.
I started spraying the roots with h202, bleached all my DWC equipment, added high doses of h202 into my res, (1-2ml 30% h202 per liter of water) to no success, while it slowed it down, and it started to die down slightly... it made a full, fast, and aggressive come back, a couple weeks later... I tried the same process over again, to find no luck
(sorry no pics of roots at this point... not much to show anyways apart from a ball of goo)
It was around this time, i found a post regaurding "bennies" or simply, a tea made of beneficial bacteria, and fungi. I figured i might as well try it, as im losing my battle anyways... So, finding all my roots coming off the netpot were dead.. and no new growth showing anyways. I chopped off all the roots, and pulled as much dead roots/goo as i could out of the netpot with some tweezers, and started brewing the tea. (This is now 19 days after the slime hit, and i'v seen next to no growth.. and have only been loosing roots. Not to mention the plant turning lime, and dying)
48 hours of freaking out later, the tea was ready to be introduced to my system.
i pulled apart the whole system once again, ran h202 threw the netpot, bleached everything else, and put it all back together.
then i added the reccomended 1 cup of tea to each gallon.. and closed the doors once again.
I came back the next day, checked the roots.. nothing new... that got me excieted, normally by now... i would see the slime already starting to build up on the pot.
3 days later... i see a couple shoots!
Still a little dead material in there, and some new brown slime... but its not the slime that i was used to... this slime, is the tea itself. This slime, thankfully, doesnt attack roots, and doesnt grow, its simply solids from the tea, sticking and gathering to spots. rinses off easy with a light mist of water.
another 4 days later
now im feeling better.. shes starting fresh, free of slime! yahoo!
and finally 3 more days later
i assure you, shes not really that light colored, it was the 6500k wall of light + my flash that makes it apear that way. She also has some funky growing tops, because right before the slime set in.. i topped her.. (great eh?.. why not create some more stress!)
anyways, in a week or two, when she has a nice root system going again, ill add up a few more pics, and give an update. probably be starting training her into my screen by then too.
im out for now! have a good one!
This is day 54 of veg, i am ashamed to say
Current conditions, are 364 watts of CFL. (14 - 26 watt bulbs) in a 3x1.5x3 cabinet, w/ a 180cfm bathroom fan as my exhaust.
The temps in the cab range from 70F at night, to 77F durring they peak day.
I have a low RH of 35-40%, and eventually, will probably get a humidifier going.
PH, i let hover over a 5.5-6.0 range, it wanders out of that range now and then, but for the most part is kept pretty tight.
Current PPM is 450 of advanced nutrients 3 part.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
Well, as a few people know, i have been having my first hand at DWC, and now that things are starting to look up a little,and i know shes going to survive her brutal journey to this point, i figured i would get the journal going.
First things first. I experienced on my first DWC, what i hope no one ever has to experience ever. Period.
This issue, Slime. many DWC growers have seen it, many have cured it, many have lost crops to it. Here is my story.
Day 15 after germination. Things are looking good.... right?
wrong...
being a soil person myself.. didnt think too much of it at the time... but see the roots there? that little bit of slimy gunk on the very bottom (sorry for the shotty quality) That was about to be the start of a complete nightmare.
soon after shooting those pics, by plant started to show defiencies, stress, etc. and why? i didnt really know. Over the next few days... i noticed that slime progress, and jumped into my favorite search engine, and started to worry. So i got ahold of a good friend, who confirmed, i needed to act fast.
I started spraying the roots with h202, bleached all my DWC equipment, added high doses of h202 into my res, (1-2ml 30% h202 per liter of water) to no success, while it slowed it down, and it started to die down slightly... it made a full, fast, and aggressive come back, a couple weeks later... I tried the same process over again, to find no luck
(sorry no pics of roots at this point... not much to show anyways apart from a ball of goo)
It was around this time, i found a post regaurding "bennies" or simply, a tea made of beneficial bacteria, and fungi. I figured i might as well try it, as im losing my battle anyways... So, finding all my roots coming off the netpot were dead.. and no new growth showing anyways. I chopped off all the roots, and pulled as much dead roots/goo as i could out of the netpot with some tweezers, and started brewing the tea. (This is now 19 days after the slime hit, and i'v seen next to no growth.. and have only been loosing roots. Not to mention the plant turning lime, and dying)
48 hours of freaking out later, the tea was ready to be introduced to my system.
i pulled apart the whole system once again, ran h202 threw the netpot, bleached everything else, and put it all back together.
then i added the reccomended 1 cup of tea to each gallon.. and closed the doors once again.
I came back the next day, checked the roots.. nothing new... that got me excieted, normally by now... i would see the slime already starting to build up on the pot.
3 days later... i see a couple shoots!
Still a little dead material in there, and some new brown slime... but its not the slime that i was used to... this slime, is the tea itself. This slime, thankfully, doesnt attack roots, and doesnt grow, its simply solids from the tea, sticking and gathering to spots. rinses off easy with a light mist of water.
another 4 days later
now im feeling better.. shes starting fresh, free of slime! yahoo!
and finally 3 more days later
i assure you, shes not really that light colored, it was the 6500k wall of light + my flash that makes it apear that way. She also has some funky growing tops, because right before the slime set in.. i topped her.. (great eh?.. why not create some more stress!)
anyways, in a week or two, when she has a nice root system going again, ill add up a few more pics, and give an update. probably be starting training her into my screen by then too.
im out for now! have a good one!
compost tea is the shiz nit
