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Tents up, all new supplies, ran her for a couple days to see what temps would be like, I’m in Central Cali and the days have been hot 108+, evening’s been nice 65, Ive set it up in my garage on slab foundation stay pretty cool in there. Exhaust out the window, the in evening time to get the temp down been putting the intake up to the other side of the window. Water temp staying around 74 to 79. 1st purple haze just showed up this morning, waiting on the 2nd imagaine she’ll come up in the next 24hr’s.
Going into 2nd week, added a little bit of nutrient, not much. At the 13 day for the one in the red rock the other 15th day. Added Exhale Co2 bag the other day. Just put the last of the 1st advanced nutrients bottle in i mixed up the other day. I have noticed the blue bucket has consistently been 3’ warmer then the black bucket. New black bucket on order should be here tomorrow.
Hi @Bub1972! In hydro setups, the reservoir needs to be fully changed/refreshed every week. Indeed, you can make some daily adjustments (pH up/down to stick in the right pH range) but don't change the water more than once a week, it's going to stress your babies. Now about the nutrients, you can start from week 2, once roots has developed and the seedlings are a few centimeters above the ground. I'd recommend to start with 1/4 or 1/2 of the recommended doses, then you'll see how your plants reacts and you'll be able to increase the nutrients intakes slowly but safely. Hope this will help, keep us up-to-date and happy growing 👊
Just starting the 3rd week, I’m at 1/2 strength on the nutrients, will be changing water and nutrients every Saturday. Looking good. Roots coming thru. So far so good coming into second weekend of clean water and more food on Saturday. Really starting to get full. 8/18 Fresh water and nutrients today and both topped. Finishing out the 3rd week all topped and ready to bush out.
Just coming up on 4th week. Just topped 2 days ago starting to really bush out. Still looking good, temps here are coming down so a little easier to keep the right temp in the tent. 8/25 really starting to bush up very healthy looking main stalk. Tomorrow is feeding day. Saturday 25th Aug. fresh water and food. Look at that stalk. Really looking good. I topped a few more side shoots. Monday the 27th grown 3 inches in 2 days.
Exactly start of 5th week. Really looking good, temp is awesome right now here on the central coast very mild heat in the day and cool 50’s in the night. Watering day and nutrient. Looks like about 1 1/2 was gone from last Saturday. Only put 1 gal in today’s possibly start changing water every 4 days instead of 7. Will keep posted. Happy birthday to my beautiful wife. Added 1/2gl of water to each today mixed with Sensi bloom.
Looks like you’re ready to flip to 12/12 now. But you could keep them in veg longer if you want larger plants. At this point it’s up to you. Looking very nice btw. Well done so far. 👍
Week six this will be the 1st full week on 12’s plants are looking really heathy. Feeding lots of water she drinking tons. I’m going to be too tall for this tent. 9/8 really filling out. My tent might be too small for 2 plants running out of room. Gonna get interesting next couple of weeks. Was able to get the lights higher only so the plants can grow taller. Lol, White pistols are coming out all over the place
Start of 7th week,, a little burn on the top of the front one. Raised the light farther up, almost topped out on the front one, I’m thinking i should just order a taller tent at this point. Buds are forming and nice little hairs coming out 9/15. Found some leaf curl when I got home today from work found out the stone was plugged. Fresh water and went with half nutrients this time see how she comes back. On a bummer note I broke a top off. Total rookie move. 9/16 fresh water last night went easy on the nutrients for both put a new air stone in been a day still hasn’t perked back up yet. 9/21 one looks great still, the other isn’t pulling thru st all. At this point need some help on what to do with it. Looking like a total loss.9/22 Fresh water/nutrient day I went ahead and trimmed off the dead looking leaves and tops on 2nd plant see if any life comes back.
8th week was a crazy week, almost lost one of the plants after coming home from work and seeing it curled up, air stone had plugged and stopped working for close to 12 hours, plus it was close to light, just a terrible ordeal. Other plant is still looking great and really blooming nicely.
11th week. Starting to get that purple hue in most of the buds. SMElls really sweet., added Overdrive nutrients this week, do that for the next week maybe week and half, the start flushing. 10/15 smell has really picked up. Buds are thickening up very nicely. LIGHT purple hue to all the buds now.
Looking great smelling even better. Winding down on the nutrients here real soon. Probably start flushing here in the week not sure maybe that will be by next question. Trimming up
I’ve always been told that when all the hairs have turn colors that’s when you should harvest. I’m low on funds so I can’t buy any fancy ultra powered camera. When is the best time to cut?
Hello ! The best time is based on the trichomes , the hairs is an old school method assuming that when all the hairs are brown then the plant is ready ( can be true but can be false , depending on the strain) , because when all the pistils are brown and the plant doesn not seems to produce more you can assume that the plant will not make bigger bud but you can have a 50% amber trichomes ratio with that method which mean every puff will be more narcotic than ever. Like @hltrskltr told you you should buy a magnifier , for less than 10$ on amazone or ebay. I hope it will help you 😁👍
Went real good, trimmed up nice, still has nice size to the top kolas, lots of purple mixed in, I’m really loving the purple haze. Smoke smells sweet and taste great, goes down real smooth.
Bub1972
