Em-dog DWC

Well this was an interesting grow. I’m really not sure if this was the second low yielding plant in a row I’ve gotten out of HSO seeds or if this has something to do with my current setup (more on that later). This was a plant that could easily yield half a pound if it filled out the way I hoped it would. It had a lot of really skinny, airy buds and I wasn’t super impressed. And this particular plant was also pretty sensitive to nutrients. Again, this could be the environment but I’m not so sure. I was only feeding at 1/4 strength and any attempt to go beyond that resulted in burn. All that said, changes must be made to my grow tent. First, the temperature topped out around 85F during flower with my 600w HPS lamp. This is way too high for DWC. I’m planning to get an LED board to solve this issue. I’m looking at an HLG 300 Rspec. My suspicion is that the higher temperature, combined with low Colorado humidity results in more nutrient uptake which makes it easy to burn plants. It also doesn’t help with water temperature in the reservoir. Second, I’m working way too hard during peak flower and I can’t leave for more than a couple days without needing someone to top off the bucket. Also, I’m hauling buckets of water in and out of my crawl space. This has got to stop. So, I’m going to do one of two things. Once I have the LED I’m going to test and see how warm reservoir gets. Depending on what happens I’ll either turn my buckets into a basic RDWC system or run a larger tote, but no matter what I’m going to set it up so I can easily pump water in and out. Also, I’ll be building out a top off system with a float valve so I can leave and not worry about plants drinking themselves dry. Since I only run one plant at a time it doesn’t need to be fancy. Lastly, I’ll probably run this strain again once I’m a little more dialed in for DWC, as I think there’s some really nice plants in these seeds. For now though I’ll be turning away from HSO strains and I want to try something I know should be a big yielder just to prove I can do it in my setup. Veg has gone great but the yields in flower have me scratching my head so far.