Day 78 - Amazing Buds! WOW!
a. this plant's buds just keep maturing! Pistils are going red/orange/brown
b. the trichome heads are mostly white, not seeing amber yet
c. i cant believe how dense these buds are!
Day 79 - she drinks!
a. she is drinking 4L a day right now, slowing down a little
b. pistils are about 50% colored, and the trichomes are very milky, a few clears
c. she is ripening up nice in this flush, many fan leaves are being disconnected by the plant, she is near the end of her life, I am removing many fan leaves per day without force, they just fall off the bud
d. the effects are really good, I dried a small bud, and the effects are nice
Day 80 - ripening nicely
a. the buds are all maturing, pistils turning brown
b. the resin is building up on all the buds, the trichome heads are mostly milky white
Day 81 - DWC change
a. another change out for fresh water, the flush is making the buds so frosty and smell so good!
b. drinking about 4 litres a day still, 12/12 hours light is working well
Day 82 - real monster plant
a. her buds are as big as my arm, and the smell is so intense!
b. the fresh water flush is the way to go!
Day 83 - trichomes are 90% milky
a. she is ripening very nicely, has about 80% brown pistils
Day 84 - iced out
a. the amount of resin that is being produced is unreal!
b. I dont see any amber trichomes yet, she has some time!
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!