First grow DWC - bag seed lottery.

Followed GH recommended ratios for the flora trio series but mixed to ~EC1.0 (on top of EC0.4 tap water) She didn't care for getting transplanted into the netpot, frizzled up and stunted a bit after sprouting like a rocket. I can't remember if I had a humidity dome on her at this point, or how much light I was pushing.

Nutrient solution was ~ 4:3:1 ratio of Gro:Micro:bloom to EC~1.0 @ pH6 Didn't really have control over the tent and was checking on them every 15 minutes, LJ's first leaves were pretty bad but Purple Haze bounced back from the initial shock around transplant time.

Changed purp's res solution, still a 4:3:1 ratio of Gro:Micro:bloom, with a bit of CalMag and great white. EC2 pH6. pH drifted up the following days. Wrapped buckets in mylar and made a top cover with cardboard and white tape to keep the lights from heating the bucket as much. Petioles started to go red, backed off light for a couple days but then decided to crank it back up. Starting to really show off how vigorous she would grow, I didn't know any better so I never topped her.

Purple haze started REALLY started to grow this week. Pruned a bunch over the week because they were pretty bushy. Writing this from memory, I kept tweaking my nutrient solution but staying around EC2-2.1, my notes are not great. At this point light was 100% @ ~20" Purp started to show pre-flower so I flipped to 12/12 at weeks end.

Week 1 of flower, she just kept growing like mad, kept pruning low leaves/branches here and there. I had lost power for ~5 hours one day this week but even that didn't slow purple haze down. At the end of the week I had thought she would calm down and start flowering, little did I know...

Kicking myself for not taking more photos this week, she was stretching like crazy. This is when I started to regret not topping. I had accidentally left my pH meter on in the tent the first week and a half of flower, I'm thinking this delayed her and might have caused lemon jack to herm.

Purple haze kept growing, and growing and growing. I was continuously pruning lower growth, topping off the res and moving the light up. First stigmas!

I was not ready for just how much Purple Haze would drink, another week of continuous pruning and topping off the res. Lemon Jack started to really flower, sugar leaves started to get frosty.

Lemon jack was coming along really nice but then started to herm out. I plucked balls for a couple days then noticed some nanners. Didn't want to risk purple haze getting pollinated so she got the axe on 4/20 :( Moved purp under both lights as she was plenty big enough for it anyway. Started to be really concerned about running out of tent height at this point, she was still growing taller. Still doing ~2 week res changes at this point.

Another week of crazy growth, I was now blasting her with 300w of LEDs @ 12" and she wanted more. I really learned what not to do with pruning/training here, with how many sub branches I left on it really started to become evident that I was going to have way too much light at the tops and not nearly enough getting down onto the rest of the leaves. Didn't want to do anything drastic and stress her out however, so let it be.

Went a little overboard on light, some top tips started to get burned. Had to take off all of the adjustable ratchets and mount the lights right on the top of the tent. Put the bucket on a box to raise it up so top of plant was ~16" from lights. pH started to go a little crazy this week so started weekly res changes (instead of every 2-3 weeks) Started to struggle keeping RH where I wanted for appropriate VPD.

4' 8" tall, she's starting to take up the entire 4x4 tent. Fought with pH more this week but she kept growing and stacking on flowers.

This was the start of serious fighting with pH, res would tank down to pH 5.3 overnight sometimes. I was trying different nutrient mixes but just couldn't get ahold of it. She kept going with little complaint however.

pH was still being crazy all week, all over the place. She would stop drinking for a little bit then drink like a fish, otherwise no real signs of stress aside from top leaf tips getting burnt from the light. Trichs were only just starting to go cloudy on the tops.

Still struggled with pH while she continued to fatten up. Started to foxtail on the top due to light so I turned them down to ~60% Trichs were not going cloudy, pulled a tester nug, dried it quick and it does pack a wallop, fairly nice sativa high. Fought daily with pH but wanted those trichomes to mature.

Trichs just started going cloudy, foxtailing and new pistillate growth pretty much stopped. pH was still all over the place and I wanted to give her another week or two. Half way through the week she developed something I never figured out on some leaves (see pictures) It was not WPM, it looked like leaf surface cells were enlarging and turning glossy/whiteish. My guess is it was from continuous pH shock and me faffing about with nutrient mixes. Any insight as to what this was would be appreciated. Trichs were still maybe 60+ % clear but I wanted to play it safe so gave her the chop.

Dried over 6 days (faster than I wanted) in 50-55% RH ~70f. Took my friend and I 6 hours to trim it all (first time trimming). Been curing since the cut and even the low growing popcorn nugs smoke great, Smells fantastic, doesn't have a whole lot of taste beyond subtle pine when smoked, good active high. Most nugs are pretty dense for such a sativa growing plant. 298g flower + 2g booger hash/trimbin hash + 49g trim. Tops of sugar leaves were not exactly frosty, bottoms were, made cannabutter out of the trim and it's actually quite potent. I don't know what happened toward the end with the bi-polar pH or the few leaves that went glazed looking, but she put up with my abuse, taught me a TON about growing DWC, and will be getting me ripped for some time to come. Added a couple of pictures after ~2 months in an airtight pet food container w/62% 2-way humidity packs. Smokes great, pine has mellowed out considerably and made way for a touch of sweetness, still not much flavor beyond than that but it smells really good. Great daytime high and will also chill you out pretty hard if you sprinkle on a little kief. Big time munchies, I have 2 more diaries/plants going now and plan to keep learning, growing and getting a bit more sciency, Thanks for taking a look!