Welcome to my 1st DWC diary. Drop a like if you'd like me to visit your diary. Either way thanks for dropping by. ๐ป
Super lemon Haze, was actually meant to be Super Lemon Haze Auto. The seed bank sent me these instead by mistake. Was asked to send them them back but decided to go ahead and keep these. I'm going to run these on a full Terra Power line up. I'm a bit concerned about root rot and bad bactria and all but I have nutrients to counteract this and break down dying roots. I feel obligated to run a full DWC enzyme grow as I have all these great nutes and 2 Sep buckets. So I'm gonna run this as a enzyme living grow and the other is a toss up for enzymes.
This plant is 80-100cm so I think mainlining this 1 will be the way to go, or not, I'll be mainlining the soil/coco SLH so maybe I'll leave this 1 to be a massive bush not lollipop needing to be done I reckon. Looking forward to getting this going. Gonna read through all my nutrients and pick the best enzymes and make sure I do it right. Will be starting her on a light diet as soon as she shows some leafs. Very small amount like 3-500ppm.
1/5/22 VD1 she has popped and was started on a light mix. I just added some distilled water to my mix for my soil terra power grows and added 1/3 extra water. No need to PH it. By adding mystical green it stabilizes PH and when water gets taken up it should still hold your set PH from start to beginning. This is something every1 needs to get that uses DWC or get something similar that helps keep PH in set level in 15L or a wk later in 5L. The PH should still be the same. In other nutrients this isn't the case. When the water is taken with the nutrients the stabilizer is left behind to keep the PH stable but this all depends on you keeping your water level and nutrient level up as it goes down while your plants eat. That's why ppl get massive PH/EC swings when your
The 3 Nutrients above were just for seedlings. They were left in the rockwool as they would have been left in the soil. They aren't been used since she showed face today.
2/5/22 5x bigger than yday. Looking small on top, she's growing a little to fast by the looks of it. (Not enough energy on the surface to support root growth) she only came out of the shell yday was about .3cm out of the rockwool. Bout 1.5cm now.
4/5/22 Decided to put her on the root stim La Calavera. Aka Voodoo juice. I found a chart saying I should be giving it.
6/5/22 So, it's begun. I've created a negative pressure environment, 1st time, let's see if it makes an impact. On wk 3 onwards I'll be running the intake extraction for 5mins every 30mins and I'll have 2 co2 bags up. If the RH becomes a problem or temp I'll put the extraction/intake back on 100% of the time. The extraction fan/intake is set at a ratio of 2 to 1. (100% extraction 50% intake) making a negative pressure environment, best way to show you have done this, the walls in your tent should cave in lightly
Same Day: Okay, so this my last update. Going to run fans the same right up until flower and then I'll be sealing up my tent and adding 2 co2 bags. And will be adding a dehuimifier and setting at 45% it checks every 30mins and if it's gone up it'll turn back on and bring down to 45 or set RH, so no co2 will escape. The temp will be bordering 30-33c and then when they go into their rest window they'll be transferred to to a negative pressure environment with low temps and 45-50%RH. I'll only be able to do this for the 3 weeks of pre flower. And maybe some more, it depends how hard the dehuimifier will be working, but i want dense buds and only way to improve that is by introducing Co2 and then a negative pressure cold environment for terps. Then I'll be putting them back into full negative pressure environment and the Co2 will be useless, again all depends how it's gonna affect my bottom line. That and I only have 2 intake fans. I'll be going into detail about my Co2 adventures the week before I'll be prepping them to be able to withstand high temps, so I'll gradually bring up the temps the last wk of veg 28c max and that way when I push it to 30-32c in pre flower she won't stress as much, I'll have to add frozen water bottle or set up a copper chiller pump to run into my DWC tanks, as it's only for 3 wks I think I'll stick to the frozen water bottles, if I can't maintain 78f 20c in my buckets I'll build my own chiller that'll run copper pipping into cold water and then into my tanks and recirculate it.
Thanks for reading, this is the last update for this week other than pics/video..
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@LoveGrowWeed, thanks. These seeds were actually sent by mistake. I ordered the same strain but in auto version. Was meant to return and I'd get what I ordered but took it as a sign. Looking forward to getting into mainlining the coco/soil 1. Just gonna veg this for 4-6wks depending on growth and lollipop her. Height says only 80-100cm so won't have to do much. Will be a nice strain to scrog. Maybe I'll do 1 in my 70x70 with my next 3 seeds. Looking forward to trying GHS breeder they have some sick looking strains. So unique looking plants like TH seeds. I find FB strains unless you have the temp swings or unless it's something purple it's very hard to tell their strains apart. But if you got the temp swing they look somewhat dif but still not by much. But you can't beat them for their solid genes. I've yet to see a hermie on any1s FB grows.
@gottagrowsometime, some of my first grow way back in the day were GHS , I think maybe it's time to give them a go and check and see what they got going on ๐
@northernMike, Hey brother. Yeah, I done it wrong from the start right up until I put them in the tanks in wk 3. Should have put them in from the beginning into the o2 filled water. But they taken off now. Once you dial in it, it's fine. Just have to adjust PH every 2-3 days. I'm sure you'd get away with l9nger than that but once mine goes up to 6.3-4 I bring it back down to 5.5-5.8 and just leave it.
Good luck bro.
@gottagrowsometime, I just put two beans in the soil today after a couple days in papertowel, these will go
outside as soon as it's warm enough, Green Potion Fast Fem from Canuk Seeds and U.K Cheese auto from Oasis Seeds.
I'll probably pop a couple more auto's in June. Just ordered some new seeds, all auto's, and I got some feminized seeds for free,
so I'm good for awhile now๐..
Have a good one!!!
@northernMike,
Good to c u man. Yup, been awhile. Things are good here. Decided to go a little bigger this time. Then gonna finish up for a few months and enjoy the summer with a bit of bud stored up. Don't fancy having to do 3-4 grows every 2+ months.
@Tropicannibis_Todd, cheers buddy, she's been a nightmare, or better yet, I've been her nightmare. But, we've seen to have turned a corner. Thanks for dropping by pal
@Grow_for_Happiness, it really is a super light. As for the temps. The driver gets very with my volts. As it depends where you are the driver and bars can be from 30c with 100-110v 40c with 110-200 or like mine which is 50c if your volts are 200-240, so it really does depend where you live pal. bars are around 40 but the heat doesn't really come down onto the plant if you get me. Its a heat sink, so its hot but its spread out so, but yeah, in my country with our volts the drivers on every light I've had gets into the 45-50c range. The bars are cooler, but its a great light. And unless your grow room temperature exceeds 28c like mine atm you won't have any issues. My tent is 32c atm, my plants are having a hard time of it. But air temperature doesn't necessarily mean that's the temperature of your plant, if you have good ventilation and a good oscillating fan you should be able to keep LVPD at a decent level....if I can grow DWC with water temps at 27c and all my soil grows were fine. But most were harvested before the summer hit. At this time of year a lot of ppl don't grow as its too hot, hence why Mars are giving a 13% discount on all their stuff and for an extra discount use my code for a few quid or so off or if you can find a better code.
It really is a good light. Hope this helped..