First DWC White Widow Auto

So far we're looking pretty good I think. If anybody sees this and says "sweet hell man, why did you do that?", don't hesitate, just yell at me! Watching your diaries has been essential, so thank you all for the documentation. 3/20 (after one full week in the tent) I bumped up their light and turned out to be the wrong move. Of course the problem child loved it. I enjoy having my light meter handy, but decided to get faster/easier/more precise and use a power consumption meter on my outlet. Now documenting lighting based on wattage draw, not lux. A solid $12 investment and less starting at diodes (which is giving me some issues even with strong LED glasses). I made a pH down buffer which adds back at 2mL/bucket/day. Blindly testing with the new meter but so far it's consistent, so that plus some extra fungicide has been my only supplement in 8 days. Can't complain about 5min/day maintenance on this. Soil what?! 3/21 I upped their nutes to veg week 2. Waiting until the weekend to do a full res change. One thing I'm loving about DWC - instant reactions. I'm doing all modifications first thing in the day, and by dinner I can see if something had an impact. As long as you're smart/conservative with adjustments, nothing looks like it will go tragically wrong in hours and it can easily be fixed. Log everything! **end of last week I did big (cheap) upgrades - larger air pump, bigger stones. Took the lid of my Ruby who wasn't looking so hot and her airstone wasn't producing a lot. The new gear corrected her overnight. Still need to calculate the true air volume I'm moving (for the records) but I can //hear a major difference in the buckets, especially compared to an awesome and silent pump. **Bluelab pH meter is my new friend, along with my old/cheap/bulletproof Dr. Meter light meter. I've checked it against the big brands, and the relative accuracy is fine for me at 1/10th the price.