Day 71 - BEAST!
a. her size is so large, and the buds are def "Big Bud"! there is resin everywhere, very fruity like pineapple express
b. will be topping off the DWC all week with 6.0 water.. gradually diluting the ripening formula, 1300ppm right now, end of week should be at 400ppm, then flush week
c. light schedule is now 14 hours on, 10 hours off. this allow the buds to mature properly and become potent, next week probably 12/12.
d. still drinking 6 litres of water a day
Day 72 - fat buds
a. her buds keep swelling outward, the calxes are exploding, some stigmas are turning brown, about 5%
b. these buds are very hard, cant understand how dense these are!
c. really happy with this strain!
Day 73 - 10th day of ripening
a. the pistils are slowly becoming brown, maybe 7% of the plant has matured
b. the smell is unreal, VERY fruity and gassy
c. ppms have been controlled at 1300ppm with plain water diluting the pool
Day 74 - flush beginning
a. pumped out 10L from the DWC, and added 10L of 6.0 water, 650ppm
b. the flowers are smelling very strong
c. the buds are becoming ripe, the stigmas are turning colors
Day 75 - pistils 30% orange/red/brown
a. set lighting intensity to 50%, simulating the sun moving farther away from the plant like in fall
b. drinking 5-6L a day still
c. the buds are very hard, thick and oily, the resin on my hands smells very good
Day 76 - maturing great
a. cutting down the temperatures, and humidity and lessening the intensity of the light always causes nice dense matuation
b. DWC running de-chlorinated tap water, 140 ppm
c. next week is all flush week, and turning to 12/12
d. she is still drinking 5-6 litres of water a day!
e. the buds are maturing very nicely, the smell is INTENSE!
Day 77 - mature buds
a. the buds are maturing, calyxes are swelling, and the buds are getting heavier
b. about 50% orange stigmas, trichomes there are still some clears left, no amber visible yet
c. DWC is being kept full of plain water, 160 ppm in DWC
Hi bro, I would like to tell you that I am learning a lot by looking at your journals. In a few months I will start my first crop ever and I decided to do it in dwc. Let's hope so.
Thanks
@DeepWaterGrower, Yo man that is awesome! Please DM me with any questions. Tip.. make sure to use the basic cheap chemical PH testing kits. The electronic PH pens are never accurate for DWC, and they are expensive. Your first plants will be monsters. Which line of nutrients are you thinking of running?
Looking beautiful, great structure , now you are starting to feel what I feel with ridiculous amounts of nutrients, you are doing very well to contain the concentration of the solution , I’m glad you using ph6.1-6.3 as this is much easier to keep level , than sub 6, I think you could pull 10 oz if you keep it up 👍🏽 nice grow 🤞
@BigDaddyK, Thanks a million! im hoping to get around 300 grams here. I find that 5.7 in veg and 6.2 in flower seems to be great for most Indica leaning autos in the dwc bucket. this plant is flowering very fast and drinking so many nutrients. When I do a 4-5 day mineral water flush, then gradually re-introduce the bloom blend, the autos really ramp up their production in the last 2 weeks with amazing sweet flavor.
@JamMAKEcan, oh same here, I have been comparing it to my Pineapple Express grow from Fastbuds which was killer.. it looks like Big Bud may beat it in total harvest. However I am using 2x the light now (:
Nice work👌..
Thinking about trying that DWC in the future, I've seen some impressive results💪..
Just wondering about your banana c02 gen.? I make mine with 1 cup sugar, .5 tsp bakig soda,
1.5 tsp yeast and 6 cups of water lasts about a week, and I add some sugar and yeast as needed after that
to keep the bubbles coming out every 3-5 seconds. I use 2 containers one with the c02 mixture and a smaller one with just water,
because sugar and yeast make alcohol and I don't want that in the tent, so the c02 bubbles out of the smaller container through some water used as a filter.
Works well and is very cheap to make, I'll post a pic in my Cinderlla 99 diary, Later!!!
DWC is absolute easiest way to grow monster yields. None of that water schedule, or guessing nutrient bullshit. I follow all measurements on the GHE bottles with minor deviations. I use the Bannana beer that is made to run through my distiller to make moonshine hooch alcohol. It hits hard. after 14 days in the box is ready to make liquor. The water bubbler is a good idea, but I have never seen any thing bad from just letting the CO2 it vent into a tube under my fans. CO2 is heavier than air so I make sure it blows over the top of the canopy. I only use it during veg period, as all my plants outgrow my tents every time. I use a kilogram of dissolved white sugar made into simple syrup, then I add 2 whole very ripe bananas, puree them by shaking with sugar making syrup. take 40 or 50 grams of instant bread yeast and dissolve it all in about 1/5 litre of warm water. I combine the 2 liquids in a 10 litre water jug and fill with water to the 5L mark, after a week I taste it, adjust my ingredients with another 4L of solution. All of my plants seem to veg huge when I do this. I run my box temps always above 25 degrees when I use CO2, and seal the box up as well. Replace entire system after 14 days. Costs me 2 Franc. Enjoy the alcohol you just made while making your plants absolute monsters. 😎
@Blabina, it seems to work well making a flat canopy. I started doing full HST to where I actually supercrop the stems, it works very well, but Ive noticed that when you do a lighter HST by not kinking the stem on an auto the secondary limbs really become much stronger. I will only HST this plant this single time. 😍
@northernMike, sure is! I am so impressed by this strain, I thought Pineapple Express was a fast strain, but this one at day 15 is almost 2x the size! Happy New Year!