Sweet Valley Kush RDWC Grow

[bobulak]

Hi everyone. My 1st journal In years. This will be a sweet valley kush grow using rdwc.

Heres what Im using:

1 - 12 Gallon reservoir
6 - 5 gallon Home Depot buckets wrapped in black bags to help prevent algae growth
1 - 200w 3500K cob grow light with Meanwell driver for veg/flower
1 - 240w 3500k w/660nm red quantum board with Meanwell drive veg/flower
1- 6 port water manifold
1- 6 port air pump
1 - 420 gph submersible pump
6 - sweet valley kush clones
Tap water
Wild Thing A, B & M nutrients ( Produced locally )
Cal/Mag
Big Bud for weeks 2 - 5 of flower

Humidity 47%
Water Temp 20.8 C
Air Temp 23.3 C
ppm 400
ph 5.6

Just did slight defoliation on the leaves that were damaged from the cloning process. I picked up the 6 clones off of a friend who decided he couldn't grow and needed to get rid of them before they died. When I 1st brought them home they were in bad shape but they are doing well now. Keeping the ph between 5.5 and 5.9 and the humidity between 45% and 60% for now. I leave these ladies to veg for another month or so then Ill flip to flower. Ill be topping next week and might try tying down this time around. Roots are looking good and the water has no algae growth so far. Ill be doing regular updates until the end of harvest. If you have any input or questions feel free to post.

 

[r0am1ng st0ner]

Looks good I love rdwc

 

[bobulak]

Looks good I love rdwc

Imo its the best way to go

 

[bobulak]

Well today was a full water change. I usually do a water change every 10ish days this early into veg. The 6 plants are really looking good and the root systems on all the plants are really starting to develop and are nice and white. There is no algae growing in any of the buckets or the reservoir so the black plastic bags wrapped around the buckets seem to be working. I think for my next grow Ill just break down and replace the buckets to nice black ones. I'm also going to replace the submersible pump I have running now to something a little more powerful. Ill hook it up during the next water change.

The parameters before the watch change were:

PH: 5.8
PPM 406
Water Temp: 22.3 C

Parameters after water change:

PH: 5.5
PPM 485
Water Temp: 19.7 C

Humidity is stable in the room at 52% & air temp was high at 26.8 C.

With the weather being so hot lately I'm going to start adding frozen 2 liter bottles to the res to keep the water temp in check. I also topped all six plants today. I'm going to give them a week or so to recover before I start doing anything else to them.

My last grow was 8 Violator Kush plants that I got just over 1.7 pounds (see Pic) of very nice smoke.

My hope is that with a little bit of work Ill be able to get the same yield from the 6 Im growing now.

Until next time happy growing and smoking my friends

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