Night Queen in RDWC 2014 - My First RDWC

[MedFarmer]

Day 87 from seed and these girls are having their first night on 12/12 and will soon be ladies.

 

[NuttyProfessor]

excellent work my friend !

 

[MedFarmer]

I've been trimming the underbelly and tucking on the net. Still got some trimming to do tomorrow before they start their stretch.

 

[MedFarmer]

Day 98 from seed.
Day 11 of flowering.

I've been trimming the girls bushes down below. I've also done some tucking of longer branches. It's not completed yet but here is a picture update. The girls are showing their first flowers.

 

[MedFarmer]

Day 105 from seed.
Day 18 of flowering.

Dopey, the plant on the left has a stalk over 2 inches thick.

Plenty of bud sites showing.

I'm happy with progress so far in my first RDWC and first Scrog.

 

[toker69]

It's doing great man. Congrats!!

 

[outdoormaster]

A bit of advice for anyone reading this who wants to do something similar.

Turn off the pump and let the buckets equalize before filling to your chosen water level. As you can see in this following picture I have a line drawn where my water level is at its maximum.

I can top up my reservoir to this level only when the pump is off. Once the pump goes back on, this water level will drop quite a lot(as seen in the above picture). If you tried filling the reservoir whilst the pump is on, you would end up putting too much water in and you know what will happen.

Your line in the bottom of your buckets are to small. 2" at least it will equlize your flow. I run 3"

 

[MedFarmer]

It's doing great man. Congrats!!

Thank you. I'm happy where I'm at with this at the moment.

 

[MedFarmer]

Your line in the bottom of your buckets are to small. 2" at least it will equlize your flow. I run 3"

I could not find a way to fix bigger tubing into the buckets so went with the 22mm as the tank adapters were all that was available. I originally wanted 40mm but could not find a connector that size.

Apart from the first couple of weeks where roots started growing down the tubes, I've had no problems at all with this setup and the flow is good enough for my needs. I think that if you run more buckets then bigger piping would be necessary.

outdoormaster, do you run more than 2 buckets + res? Are your buckets round or square and what volume are they?

 

[MedFarmer]

Day 117 from seed.
Day 30 of flowering.

Just a quick lights-out shot. All's going well I love the flash shots as they really bring out the frosting.

 

[MedFarmer]

Day 146 from seed.
Day 59 of flowering.

Everything is still running sweet. I've got the EC between 1.6 & 1.8.

 

[MedFarmer]

Day 156 from seed.
Day 69 of flowering.

These ladies are getting the chop tomorrow. They have flowered for 10 weeks against 8.5 weeks claimed by Dutch Passion. They are by far the stickiest and stinkiest flowers I have grown. Those disposable gloves are going to come in handy.

 

[CO Finest]

Outstanding grow. You scrog the heck out of them girls.

 

[MedFarmer]

Outstanding grow. You scrog the heck out of them girls.

Thanks CO. You were my inspiration for this scrog.

 

[MedFarmer]

One day and one backache later, I have weighed 1025 gr(36.6 oz) wet weight which I estimate will dry to 205 gr(7.3 oz) based on previous dry weights being one fifth the wet weight. Oh my back

 

[MedFarmer]

Less than I thought @ 172 gr(6oz) dried but there are no complaints here

A big to all followers and those whose encouragement makes it worthwhile making a journal.

 

[MedFarmer]

Last post from me.

Here are a couple of roots pictures.

They were just like big sponges when feeling them.

 

[David Bowman]

Thanks for sharing your grow with us.

Please head over to the 420 Strain Reviews forum and post your smoke report there too.

I’m moving this to Completed Journals now.

Hope all is well in your world.

Love and respect from all of us here at 420 Magazine.

 

[NuttyProfessor]

you do know how to make people jealous lol.... super work mate , started a fresh journal my self today ,

paddy goes auto for the winter

be nice if you join me , keep me right

 

[Budddyy]

Last post from me.

Here are a couple of roots pictures.

They were just like big sponges when feeling them.

Thanks for the heads up of this journal, mirrors mine in many ways so should come in handy for me
you think bigger buckets next run would be better, maybe you would of pulled more weight (never a bad thing)
ive read both your journals tonight, tomorrow ill start your current one