First attempt at Hydroponics

Just letting it grow. Water level is half way up the net pot, I will let it drop to the bottom of net pot after roots show. Just watching PPM and pH. Adjusting as needed.

Jet checking PPM and pH, I seen growth take a large leap over 3 days so I started LST early when 2 nodes were visible.

Let it grow till I seen explosive growth. Then LST, waited a day or 2, then topped, waited a day or 2 then LST, waited a day or 2 and topped a second time, waited a day or two and LST and defoliated. All the training in the description on week 3 started 6/20/21 and ended on 7/2/21. I know that's more then a week, but week 2 ended on 6/17/21. So week 4 should of started 7/1/21. I just wanted to describe shortly everything done in those days. I apologize as I work 12 hour days everyday and lose track sometimes. I'll do a much better job about recording time and training from now on. Waited maybe 3-4 days and just started a Scrog tuck. Still checking PPM and pH daily. Keeping PPM between 400-450, pH can go anywhere from 5.5 to 6.5. But I prefer 6.0 as my adjusted pH. My temperature can climb sometimes to 85F but never drops below 74F. I DO NOT RECCOMEND DOING WHAT I DO. THIS IS VERY AGGRESSIVE TO DO ON AN AUTOFLOWER. I will update again next week, I'll take plenty of pictures to cover everything. Thanks for checking my first DWC hydro grow out!

7/4/21 Day 1 of week 4. I made a few adjustments as you can see. Seen a $1 car windshield reflective and cut it up. Cheap, easy, simple. Looks terrible but it totally works. It's made temperature drop a little in the buckets and added more light to the underside. I had it under a scrog net for 2 days. It pulled everything out nicely. I'll put it back under in a day or two depending on how high it starts reaching. I upped the PPM to 600, pH was adjusted to 6.0. I may top it again if it doesn't show any signs of flowering. But I don't know, I kept it low and it does need to start some vertical growth. Any advice? Suggestions? I've just been winging it guy's. I'll be updating this daily so I don't have to cram everything in at the end of the week Haha. 7/5/21 update As you can see I did some more changes. I moved them to a larger tent with more air flow and lowered the lights to 18 inches and split them to get a bigger coverage. I did LST on all the plants just by bending gently( not supercropping) and tucking leaves. I checked ppm and pH and adjusted to keep in the 550 to 600 range. I was going to top the OG Diesel Kush autoflower again but I get the feeling it will flower soon so I won't. It's growing everyday even though I have literally abused this plant. So it has some hairs going on, does that mean its flowering stage now? Or is there a transition time? 7/6 Well sense its showing hairs I did a transition dose of nutrients at 600ppm, pH 6.0 I did another defoliation as it was really dense with leaves. Got all the cola tops ( branches) exposed to direct light and air. Roots are strong, they got 1 dark spot but I think it's from clumping densely. It smells clean, like no smell at all clean and the mass is very white. 7/7 usual pH check and ppm check, LST and leaf tucking for light exposure to lower nodes to stimulate growth. 7/8 All the strongest branches were selected and trained into position. The rest got chopped off. And as always pH and ppm check.

7/9/21 Between 7/7 and 7/8 I completed the LST and defoliation, I also cut off any weak looking branches. It's recovered like it's never been touched. Hopefully it keeps growing this strong till harvest. Oh there are hairs popping up all over the plant now so I'm going to call this week 1 of flowering so training was finished just in time. Now I'll let it just grow. I don't want to stress the plant at all now that its getting ready to flower. But if some lower weak growth appears I will take it off. I want all the energy going to those colas. 7/10 Just letting it grow and checked the ppm and pH 7/11 I couldn't help myself, I defoliated and repositioned the branches to give them more space. I also checked the pH and ppm 7/12 Checked ppm and pH, plant showed lots of growth over 24 hours so the defoliation and repositioning with LST didn't seem to slow it down. 7/13 pH and PPM check, forgot to take pictures sorry 7/14 pH and ppm check, tucked leaves and pulled the largest branches out again. 7/15 She recovered and grew, pH and ppm check, I noticed the girls were getting light green in color. I've been under feeding because I'm not going to do a res change. I haven't done 1, not even for transition I just let the ppm drop and start adding bloom nutrients slowly. 7/16 Forgot to take pictures sorry. pH and ppm check.

7/17 She's growing like crazy. I've defoliated this autoflower 4 times and it still needs more done. It's already got hairs all over but not bud formation. I'm afraid to defoliate again. I upped the ppm to 750, She immediately perked up after getting fed more. Any advice on defoliation or what to do from this point would be greatly appreciated. 7/18 PPM and pH check, slightly defoliated. 7/19 PPM and pH check 7/20 PPM and pH check 7/21 PPM and pH check 7/22 PPM and pH check

7/24 Checked ppm and pH. I am very very impressed with this autoflower. It took everything I did and never stopped for recovery. She's a monster. Hopefully she keeps growing this way till the end of harvest! Regardless I'm just enjoying growing this autoflower. Thank you for checking out my grow!!! 7/25 Checked ppm and pH. Did my last defoliation in flowering. 7/26 Checked ppm and pH 7/27 Checked ppm and pH 7/28 Checked ppm and pH 7/29 Checked ppm and pH 7/30 Checked ppm and pH. I can't wait to see this plant actually start to bud. Hopefully she keeps going strong. Thanks for checking out my grow!

7/31 Checked ppm and pH. She's still getting taller and the flowers are getting fatter, Still waiting on buds to start. She's doing well, I got lazy for 1 day. I checked ppm and pH, figure there was enough water for 1 more night. I was wrong, came back from work and the bucket was almost empty with a ppm of 1450 and a pH of 5.8 I quickly topped her off with fresh water, ppm fell to 780. Bumped it up with a dash of grow and bloom to 900ppm and a pH of 6.2 She quickly perked up, haven't seen any nutrient burn, she's still growing everyday. 8/1 Checked ppm and pH 8/2 Checked ppm and pH 8/3 Checked ppm and pH 8/4 Checked ppm and pH 8/5 Checked ppm and pH 8/6 Checked ppm and pH ( Note : I am topping my DWC off daily, if ppm goes below 900 I add a small amount of my nutrients and check it till its around 900 ppm again, I add sink water that sits out for 24 hours, Its ppm is 125 starting. I have not done a reservoir change at all. If ppm climbs to high I just add fresh water till it falls) This isn't recommended, I am doing this as a test run. I don't mind experiments on my plants, I just enjoy the grow and what I get in the end is only a bonus.

Ok so I messed up somewhere somehow. Week 5 of flowering didn't start till 8/10 but I'll just keep going as is sorry! 8/7 Checked ppm and pH. It climbed to 6.3 and 1250 ppm. I decided she is looking a little to lime green, but I did starve all the DWC for the first few weeks. I was scared to raise the ppm. I honestly wish I did it sooner but all good. She still looks decent even lime green lol. I finally did my first Reservoir change. Took grow out completely, added more bloom, cal-mag, and hydroguard. I went this route to see if it was a salt build up or excess nutrients. Hopefully she gets some color back and if not it's all good! I'm still already happy about this grow. 8/8 Ppm and pH check 8/9 Ppm and pH check 8/10 Ppm and pH check 8/11 Ppm and pH check 8/12 Ppm and pH check 8/13 Ppm and pH check Wow. I almost lost faith and thought it wasn't going to fatten up much. But after going through the last week, I can see a BIG difference! Can't wait to see how she turns out. For my first DWC hydro grow and only doing 1 res change the entire time, I'm pretty surprised! Thanks for checking out my OG Diesel Kush autoflower diary!

https://youtu.be/iRVHAkj54c0 ( YouTube video made by my Partner Legion Of Roots of my tent and OG Diesel Kush Autoflower ) 8/14 Ppm and pH check. Wow, I'm impressed with this OG Diesel Kush autoflower. I didn't think it would get so big. I had to really tie it down multiple times and could of pulled everything out even more. Honestly if I'd of done a scrog net I think it would be double in size. I should of ran it in it's own tent and went for maximum canopy exposure. I'm still very happy though.

Ok so I'm really impressed with this autoflower. It's a monster in my opinion. I really pushed it hard for a day or two during a heat wave. Temps were 88F, I gave it a Full dose of PK booster ( LiquidKool Bloom ) and some Raw Citrus. Plant suck the bucket DOWN FAST. I thought alright its liking it. It did but it also burned it pretty badly. So I watered it down and got a cal-mag deficiency lol. Then during the heat wave I was being to brave and left to work for 12 hours with high temperatures and the plant tops at about 2 and a half feet when its recommended 3 feet. Totally my fault. But man oh man, she took all of it pretty well in my opinion. She's a little burnt but the FROST on the buds are insane outside the tent lights. It hasn't even had 1 night of sleep its entire life. 8/15 Checked ppm and pH, felt brave and added full dose PK. 8/16 Checked ppm and pH, pH remained steady at 5.9, ppm climbed to 1200. I let it run. 8/17 Checked ppm and pH, pH remained steady at 5.9, ppm climbed to 1400 and the bucket was empty. I knew I'd see burned tips soon. Added plain pH water, dropped to 800ppm. Left it to drink water. 8/18 Checked ppm and pH, tips showing burn but its definitely swelling, was it worth it? So far I'm thinking yes. Definitely yes. Ppm 950, pH 6.0 8/19 Checked ppm and pH, ppm at 1100, pH at 6.2 I watered it down with plain pH water to 700. I was feeling brave again, added more sweetener and PK booster. Ppm at 900. ( I made a mistake over the last 2 days and forgot to add cal-mag) 8/20 Checked ppm and pH, ppm went down to 800, pH at 6.2. Made no adjustments just added Cal-mag. I already had a slight deficiency going but not adding ANY to a plant that drinks 2 gallons a day was a huge mistake. It got a lot of brown patches and yellow but not everywhere. I also realized it was to close to the CMH. Plus a heat wave sent my temp to 88F while I was at work, not sure how long. I think I got a little bit of foxtail going on the very top tips. Adjusted temperature and raised light as high as I could. 8/21 Checked ppm and pH. This plant just eats and drinks to much. None of my other plants come close to this one. I have to check it everyday. My others can go up to 3 days untouched. This monster is impressive. I would reccomend this autoflower to anyone, but it says it's an intermediate grow level. It's been super easy for me. Really hope this monster finishes soon. All trichromes are clear. Still got awhile to go. 8/22 Checked ppm and pH 8/23 Checked ppm and pH 8/24 Checked ppm and pH 8/25 Checked ppm and pH 8/26 Checked ppm and pH 8/27 Checked ppm and pH

8/28/21 Checked ppm and pH. Oh my god!!!! I feel like a fat kid in a candy shop!!! I LITERALLY want to eat this thing.... when you move, touch, bump, or push to much airflow on this plant, it puts off a serious odor. But if it's not being disturbed it's a stealth grow. When you touch it tho, god it smells soooooo good. Sweet candy Lemons. Can't wait to try this out ( I've had before but never grew myself). Oh and you can't tell she is still fattening up nicely. Still no amber trichromes Yeah let some hot days warm the tent up a little to much and got some foxtail tips going on lol. Sucks a little but I kinda like the structure of it. Not too bad, but not quite ugly.

8/29/21 Checked ppm and pH. Today I will do what I call a slow Hydroponics flush. I will only be adding pure pH water over the next week letting the plant lower the nutrients itself. At the end of the week I'll do a full 2 day flush with a res change and pure water. I'm only about 5% Amber trichromes and lots of cloudy. I wanted to wait longer but I really need more space as my Black Domina clone is becoming a monster. 8/30/21 Checked pH and added pure water 8/31/21 Checked pH and added pure water 9/1/21 Checked pH and added pure water 9/2/21 Checked pH and added pure water 9/3/21 Checked pH and added pure water 9/4/21 Emptied the bucket for a res change to pure pH water. Full flush beginning.

I’m really sorry guys. I got real busy with work and all the plants. All I can say is I am still growing. I got a harvest off all my plants and I got lazy 😅 I pulled 9 dry ounces off this autoflower. I didn’t weigh it wet. Took me months to finish it off. Like the yellow Gatorade in flavor and smell. But sweet. Definitely an all day smoke but I just liked it and would smoke this till I would pass out. I couldn’t put it down until my Skywalker Kush was harvested then 🤷‍♂️