Yo, yo, yo!
I was away over the weekend (2 days) and when I came home, she was about 1/3 full, so she drank about 5 liters in 2 days. I'm not complaining though, 'cause she also grew a lot of new roots and stretched even bigger, almost filling out the tent. I wasn't planning on that since she's an auto, otherwise, I would've trained her a little differently.
We got 8 really thick and healthy main branches, she topped wonderfully. Just one branch is lagging behind because it was growing when my pump emptied the bucket and filled my tent (week 5, kekw). Since late veg, I've been pruning some tops because they would've just turned into popcorn buds, and I wanted to get big, fat buds this time.
Growing in hydro is really, really fun if you understand how to fix problems and can actually fix them.
I plugged the output of my water pump into the netpot of the plant and I think she really loves that. Now it doesn't matter, even if she gets low on water, the pump will start every time the temperature is above 21 degrees and new, cold, fresh water runs into and out of the netpot. I hope you understand what I mean by that.
I cleaned out the old water (picture 1). Now you can see the low water and filled it up with 1ml/l nutrients from Terra power and calmag from biobizz (picture 2 shows how much I fill it and how much I top it off EVERY morning when I check pH and ppm). I'm getting used to the Terra power products and really like them. They're really strong, but I think they're also really good. I like the products so far and the idea behind them.
I hope the higher nutrient strength is alright for the ztrawberriez, but I'm sure she will handle it fine because she looks NICE. Like really, really healthy. She had some pH problems, but that will be gone in 2 days after the water change. (I refused to change the water regularly because it was such a hassle and I wasted so many nutrients, but since I do it around every 10 days, it makes everything SO MUCH easier. No crazy pH fluctuations, no nutrient problems despite having enough. You get NICE healthy plants as long as the pH fits 5.8-6.5, the water doesn't go above 22 degrees, and fresh water & nutrients every 10 days, you can just watch how the plant grows from day to day.
I'm really high, smoking some cherry cola from fastbuds, by the way, the densest buds I ever grew. So, I wrote a lot, but I'm having a lot of fun growing these ztrawberriez and growing in DWC at all. Thanks for listening (: