6° DWC Biscotti

DeepWaterGrower 🗓️ WEEK RESUME // DAY 8-14 (from dry seed) ⚡- Light: 50 cm / 75 watt; ⌛- Schedule: 18/6; 🌡️- 27° C - 70% RH average; 📑- PH 5.9 - EC 0.7; 💧- Watering every other day trough the clay; 🍔- Seedling blend: Hydro roots 0.6 ml/l + Hydro A-B 0.2 ml/l; 🌱- Huge root system! The #2 pheno leaves pointing down, anyway big progress this week; ⚙️- Air extractor and Air pump ON 24/0. No Humidifier.

DeepWaterGrower 🗓️ WEEK RESUME // DAY 15-21 (from dry seed) ⚡- Light: 50 cm / 100 watt; ⌛- Schedule: 18/6; 🌡️- 26° C - 70% RH average; 📑- PH 5.9 - EC 1; 💧- 1° DWC change, no top watering anymore; 🍔- Seedling blend: tap water EC 0.4 + Silic 0.5 ml/l + Hydro A-B 0.8 ml/l + Oligo Spectrum 1 ml/l; 🌱- They are growing very well, showing their indica heritage, specially the #2 pheno; ⚙️- Air extractor and Air pump ON 24/0. No Humidifier.

DeepWaterGrower 🗓️ WEEK RESUME // DAY 22-28 (from dry seed) ⚡- Light: 40 cm / 100 watt; ⌛- Schedule: 18/6; 🌡️- 26° C - 70% RH average; 📑- PH 5.9 - EC 1; 🌱- No big issues so far, really happy about both. ⚠️- Moved my two F1s (autoflowers) into this box, keeping the 18/6 cycle until harvest and then switching to 12/12. That would allow me to manage just one box in an already very stressful period of my life. That means also 10+ veg weeks for the Biscottis and it's suggestive to me. 👯‍♀️- They're sharing the box with: - MilkyWay F1 - RQS: https://growdiaries.com/diaries/181938-grow-journal-by-deepwatergrower - Titan F1 - RQS: https://growdiaries.com/diaries/181936-grow-journal-by-deepwatergrower

DeepWaterGrower 🗓️ WEEK RESUME // DAY 29-35 (from dry seed) ⚡- Light: 40 cm / 120 watt; ⌛- Schedule: 18/6; 🌡️- 25° C - 70% RH average; 📑- PH 6 - EC 1.6; 💧- 2° DWC change; 🍔- Veg blend: tap water EC 0.4 + Silic 0.5 ml/l + CalMag 0.5 ml/l + Hydro A-B 1.5 ml/l + Oligo Spectrum 1 ml/l + Fulvic 1 ml/l; ✂️- Heavy Defoliation for both on DAY 30; 🌱- Huge root systems, amazing! The #1 pheno showing some problem on leaves, maybe due the EC too high or due PH? Next week I try to lower PH first, then I'll reduce EC. Moreover I guess the lamp is too close to the plants but the F1s begin the flowering stage and they need more light, they have the priority. 👯‍♀️- They're sharing the box with: - MilkyWay F1 - RQS: https://growdiaries.com/diaries/181938-grow-journal-by-deepwatergrower - Titan F1 - RQS: https://growdiaries.com/diaries/181936-grow-journal-by-deepwatergrower

DeepWaterGrower 🗓️ WEEK RESUME // DAY 36-42 (from dry seed) ⚡- Light: 40 cm / 120 watt; ⌛- Schedule: 18/6; 🌡️- 24° C - 70% RH average; 📑- PH 5.8 - EC 1.4. EC is dropping, plants are hungry! 🌱- The #1 pheno still showing burnt tips, I'll move away the lamp; 💀- Removed Titan, she was too small. 👯‍♀️- They're sharing the box with: - MilkyWay F1 - RQS: https://growdiaries.com/diaries/181938-grow-journal-by-deepwatergrower

DeepWaterGrower 🗓️ WEEK RESUME // DAY 43-49 (from dry seed) ⚡- Light: 60 cm / 150 watt; ⌛- Schedule: 18/6; 🌡️- 24° C - 65% RH average; 📑- PH 5.8 - EC 1.3. EC is still dropping, next week I'll replace the DWC; ✂️- I made two Defoliation on DAY 44 and 48. I also made Topping on both on DAY 48; 🌱- Root systems are huge!!! 😍 👯‍♀️- They're sharing the box with: - MilkyWay F1 - RQS: https://growdiaries.com/diaries/181938-grow-journal-by-deepwatergrower

DeepWaterGrower 🗓️ WEEK RESUME // DAY 50-56 (from dry seed) ⚡- Light: 50 cm / 150 watt; ⌛- Schedule: 18/6; 🌡️- 21° C - 65% RH average; 📑- PH 6 - EC 1.4; 💧- 3° DWC change; 🍔- Veg blend: tap water EC 0.4 + Silic 0.5 ml/l + CalMag 0.5 ml/l + Hydro A-B 1.2 ml/l + Oligo Spectrum 1 ml/l + Fulvic 1 ml/l; 🌱- These beasts are growing very well! 👯‍♀️- They're sharing the box with: - MilkyWay F1 - RQS: https://growdiaries.com/diaries/181938-grow-journal-by-deepwatergrower

DeepWaterGrower 🗓️ WEEK RESUME // DAY 57-63 (from dry seed) ⚡- Light: 40 cm / 150 watt; ⌛- Schedule: 18/6; 🌡️- 21° C - 65% RH average; 📑- PH 6 - EC 1.4; ✂️- I made a heavy Defoliation on DAY 58, removed most of the leaves and a few lower branches. I also made SuperCropping and several Topping on side branches on DAY 63, specially on the #1; 🌱- No complain at all! Switch in two weeks. 👯‍♀️- They're sharing the box with: - MilkyWay F1 - RQS: https://growdiaries.com/diaries/181938-grow-journal-by-deepwatergrower

DeepWaterGrower 🗓️ WEEK RESUME // DAY 64-70 (from dry seed) ⚡- Light: 40 cm / 150 watt; ⌛- Schedule: 16/8. Reducing the daylight hours slightly to get closer to the switch; 🌡️- 21° C - 65% RH average; 📑- PH 5.8 - EC 1.4; ✂️- No training for them, next week they'll get a new haircut; 🌱- Next week will be the last in veg stage. 👯‍♀️- They're sharing the box with: MilkyWay F1 - RQS: https://growdiaries.com/diaries/181938-grow-journal-by-deepwatergrower

DeepWaterGrower 🗓️ WEEK RESUME // DAY 71-77 (from dry seed) ⚡- Light: 40 cm / 150 watt; ⌛- Schedule: 14/8. Still reducing the daylight hours, we're really close to switch; 🌡️- 20.5° C - 65% RH average; 📑- PH 5.9 - EC 1.4; 💧- 4° DWC change on DAY 75. Only tap water + 1.5 ml/l H2o2. That's a 48 hours flush to clean the root systems till the end of this week, then new change DWC with transition blend; ✂️- A new big haircut for them on DAY 75. Removed most of the leaves and a few lower branches; 🌱- I harvested the autoflower on DAY 74, after that the grow-box is focused only to these Biscottis. This was the last week in veg stage; 🔜- I turned off the light on DAY 76, now dark for 36 hours, then straight to 12/12 light cycle. 👯‍♀️- They shared the box with: MilkyWay F1 - RQS: https://growdiaries.com/diaries/181938-grow-journal-by-deepwatergrower

DeepWaterGrower 🗓️ 1° WEEK FLO // DAY 1-7 (from switch) // DAY 78-84 (from dry seed) ⚡- Light: 40 cm / 200 watt. Added a second lamp to support the flowering stage; ⌛- Schedule: 12/12. First week after veg begins, I hope that the gradual approach to the critical point helps to have a quick transition; 🌡️- 23° C - 65% RH average; 📑- PH 5.8 - EC 2; 💧- 5° DWC change for both after 48 hours flush; 🍔- Transition blend: tap water EC 0.4 + Silic 0.5 ml/l + CalMag 0.5 ml/l + Hydro A-B 1.8 ml/l + Oligo Spectrum 1 ml/l + Power buds 0.5 ml/l; 🥅- ScrOG-net mounted at 50 cm on DAY 4 FLO; 🔄- I reversed the position, the phenotype #1 is now on the right side; 🌱- Pheno #1 shows burnt tips since week 5 but I don't care, she has a great shape, is enormous and gorgeous. The lateral branches are long and strong, the main stem is very thick! Pheno #2, instead, is smaller and the lateral branches are not so long but she has the best root system I've ever seen!

DeepWaterGrower 🗓️ 2° WEEK FLO // DAY 8-14 (from switch) // DAY 85-91 (from dry seed) ⚡- Light: 40 cm / 200 watt; ⌛- Schedule: 12/12; 🌡️- 23° C - 65% RH average; 📑- PH 6 - EC 2; 🥅- Bending the #1 branches trough the ScrOG-net, the other one just touches the net; 🌱- By the end of this week they begins the flowering, I can clearly see preflowers! We can definitively say that gradual approach to the switch doesn't make things faster; 🔜- Next week I'll make a new heavy defoliation.

DeepWaterGrower 🗓️ 3° WEEK FLO // DAY 15-21 (from switch) // DAY 92-98 (from dry seed) ⚡- Light: 40 cm / 200 watt; ⌛- Schedule: 12/12; 🌡️- 23° C - 65% RH average; 📑- PH 5.9 - EC 2; 💧- #1 is drinking a lot! Love it! 😍 ✂️- A new big haircut for them on DAY 15 FLO. Removed most of the leaves and a some lower branches, specially on the #1; 🥅- Still bending the #1 branches trough the ScrOG-net; 🌱- Flowering is ongoing, they're pretty fine. Both are not stretching as I expected, maybe due the gradual approach to the switch. That's a good info for the next time but I would have appreciated a bit more stretching, specially on the #2.

DeepWaterGrower 🗓️ 4° WEEK FLO // DAY 22-28 (from switch) // DAY 99-105 (from dry seed) ⚡- Light: 30 cm / 250 watt; ⌛- Schedule: 12/12; 🌡️- 22.5° C - 65% RH average; 📑- PH 5.8 - EC 2.2; 💧- 6° DWC change; 🍔- Flowering blend: tap water EC 0.4 + Silic 0.5 ml/l + CalMag 1 ml/l + Hydro A-B 1.6 ml/l + Oligo Spectrum 2 ml/l + Green Sensation 1 ml/l; 🥅- Still bending the branches trough the ScrOG-net. That was the last week, branches are stiffening; 🌱- I did my best to flat that canopy, next week I'll remove some leaves and some branches.

DeepWaterGrower 🗓️ 5° WEEK FLO // DAY 29-35 (from switch) // DAY 106-112 (from dry seed) ⚡- Light: 30 cm / 250 watt; ⌛- Schedule: 12/12; 🌡️- 22° C - 65% RH average. Unfortunately the last month has been very cold and this has slowed things down a bit, next month should be cold anyway so I don't expect an exceptional yield this time. I'm worried about the root zone: cold is good, too cold means problems; 📑- PH 5.9 - EC 2.3; 💧- That's the 2° week with the same solution. I'm just doing some top up when needed. The phenotype #1 is drinking about 2.5 LT/day, PH is swinging between 5.9 and 6.2. The phenotype #2 is drinking about 1.5 LT/day, PH is swinging between 5.6 and 5.9; ✂️- A new big haircut for them on day 29 flo. Removed a lot of leaves and a few lower branches. Due the lack of stretching I removed something under the net but not everything, so I let at least 30 cm of buds. That's my goal, as always! 🌱- We are in full flowering stage, let's see how things develop. Pheno #1 is doing great so far, a way better than pheno #2. I think we need 4/5 weeks to harvest. 🆕- This week I got the TrolMaster TCS-1 (@TrolMaster_Europe) and I started to track my grow box data. I will add these info once I harvest!

DeepWaterGrower 🗓️ 6° WEEK FLO // DAY 36-42 (from switch) // DAY 113-119 (from dry seed) ⚡- Light: 30 cm / 250 watt; ⌛- Schedule: 12/12; 🌡️- 22° C - 65% RH average; 📑- PH 5.9 - EC 2.3. PH is dropping on the #2. I'll change the DWCs next week, meanwhile I'm trying to keep the PH in the right range; 💧- 7° DWC change; 🍔- Flowering blend: tap water EC 0.4 + Silic 0.5 ml/l + CalMag 1 ml/l + Hydro A-B 1.8 ml/l + Oligo Spectrum 2 ml/l + Green Sensation 1 ml/l; 🌱- Things are moving forward, both are gaining weight. 🆕- Last week I got the TrolMaster TCS-1 (@TrolMaster_Europe) and I started to track my grow box data. I will add these info once I harvest!

DeepWaterGrower 🗓️ 7° WEEK FLO // DAY 43-49 (from switch) // DAY 120-126 (from dry seed) ⚡- Light: 30 cm / 250 watt; ⌛- Schedule: 12/12; 🌡️- 22° C - 65% RH average; 📑- PH 6 - EC 2.3; 🌱- During this week the difference between the two phenotypes became even more evident, despite the environmental and nutritional conditions being the same. Pheno #1 is continuing to swell its buds and it's starting to slowly fade. Pheno #2, on the other hand, is getting darker and darker and its buds are not as big as the other one; 🌸- According to the trichomes stage they still need 2 weeks. 🆕- On week 15 I got the TrolMaster TCS-1 by @TrolMaster_Europe and I started to track my grow box data. I will add these info once I harvest!

DeepWaterGrower 🗓️ 8° WEEK FLO // DAY 50-56 (from switch) // DAY 127-133 (from dry seed) ⚡- Light: 30 cm / 250 watt; ⌛- Schedule: 12/12; 🌡️- 22.5° C - 65% RH average; 📑- PH 6.2 - EC 2; 💧- 8° DWC change; 🍔- Ripening blend: tap water EC 0.4 + CalMag 1 ml/l + Ripen 5 ml/l + Power Buds 1 ml/l; 🌱- Both are producing a lot of resin on their buds, the phenotype #2 is very sticky; 🌸- Trichomes are turning milky, some amber here and there. Harvest in 7 days; 🔜- We are almost at the end and I am already organizing my next two diaries, I really like this initial phase of organization and planning for the next four or five months. The "modus operandi" will be the same adopted in this cultivation, I will start with two very fast autoflowering plants and in the meantime I will give the two photoperiodic plants a long vegetative growth. I still have to decide on the strains, but I already have an idea. As far as the nutritional regime is concerned, there will be big changes, for the first time I will be using beneficial bacteria in my DWCs and anyone who has any advice on using them in this setup feel free to write to me and share some thoughts. 🆕- On week 15 I got the TrolMaster TCS-1 by @TrolMaster_Europe and I started to track my grow box data. I will add these info once I harvest!

DeepWaterGrower 🗓️ 9° WEEK FLO // DAY 57-63 (from switch) // DAY 134-140 (from dry seed) 🌸 Below is a focus on the last four days of cultivation, my harvest routine: 🌸 [60° FLO] ⚡- Light: 30 cm / 250 watt; ⌛- Schedule: 12/12; 🌡️- 23° C - 65% RH average; 📑- PH 5.8 - EC 0.4; 🍔- Ripen is done after 10 day. Flush begins; 💧- 9° DWC change, 20 liters tap water in DWCs; 🌱- Phenotype #1 is showing spots on leaves, not a big issue at this point. Looking at the trichomes, phenotype #2 is ripening faster. [61° FLO] ⚡- Light: 30 cm / 250 watt; ⌛- Schedule: 12/12; 🌡️- 23° C - 65% RH average; 📑- PH 5.9 - EC 0.4; 💧- 10° DWC change, 10 liters fresh tap water in DWCs. 🌱- I cut a small branch from the #1, very frosty and shining! [62° FLO] ⌛- Schedule: 0/24; 🌙- Light off until Harvest; 🌡️- 18° C - 65% RH average; 📑- PH 5.8 - EC 0.4; 💧- 3° day flush. [63° FLO] - Harvest day ⌛- Schedule: 0/24; 🌙- 48 hours in dark done; 🌡️- 18° C - 65% RH average; 📑- PH 5.8 - EC 0.4; 💧- 4 days without nutrients in DWCs. I removed water 20 hours before the chop; 🌸- Trichomes: Phenotype #1: Milky 90% - Amber 10% / Phenotype #2: Milky 85% - Amber 15%. ✅ HARVEST - After 4 days flush and 2 days in the dark, I cut both plants on DAY 63 FLO; - Wet trim, removed fan leaves. 🔜- We are at the end and I am organizing my next two diaries, I really like this initial phase of organization and planning for the next four or five months. The "modus operandi" will be the same adopted in this cultivation, I will start with two very fast autoflowering plants and in the meantime I will give the two photoperiodic plants a long vegetative growth. I still have to decide on the strains, but I already have an idea. As far as the nutritional regime is concerned, there will be big changes, for the first time I will be using beneficial bacteria in my DWCs and anyone who has any advice on using them in this setup feel free to write to me and share some thoughts. 🆕- On week 15 I got the TrolMaster TCS-1 by @TrolMaster_Europe and I started to track my grow box data. I will add these info once I add the harvest week!

DeepWaterGrower ⭐ TrolMaster tracking ⭐ I started to track my crop during week 15, when I got the Tent-X TCS-1 by TrolMaster. First impression was: this is too professional for me, I can't handle setting it up and using it well. Then I started reading some posts on Instagram, I visited their site and in 5 minutes my cultivation experience took a huge step forward with disarming simplicity, I couldn't believe it. I have uploaded tracking videos from the TrolMaster app for each week from the 15th to the 19th, as well as the two weeks of drying stage. ⭐ Controller Chronicles ⭐ Day after day I appreciated the clarity and precision for data, access to all settings and instant readings by connecting a WIFI router to the controller's LAN port. I loved the possibility to dim my lamps remotely, or even automatically based on the temperature in the box! 🌱 GERMINATION (2 days) Seeds in a glass of EC 0.4 tap water for 10 hours, then in root riots and under the lamp. They sprouted after 48 hours from dry seed. 🌿 GROWING STAGE (10 weeks and half) I decided to give these plants a long vegetative growth and this allowed me to do a lot of training on both. Starting from the 4th veg week I started with defoliation sessions every two weeks, for a total of four during the entire vegetative phase. The last defoliation was done a couple of days before the switch, in order to allow the lower parts of the plant to get as much light as possible. Furthermore I did Topping on week 6, cutting the apical branch, then on week 8 I did Topping again on several sites, as well as SuperCropping on the highest branches to make the canopy uniform. The light cycle I used is 18/6 and the last two veg weeks I lowered the light hours to 16/8 first and 14/10 then. During the veg stage I made 4 DWC change, PH was always between 5.5 and 6, about EC I started with 0.6 and was 1.4 on the last veg week. 🌸 FLOWERING STAGE (9 weeks) I started this phase after 36 hours of darkness, I then changed the DWCs solution (adding a flowering stimulator). Then I mounted the ScrOG-net about 50 cm from the base of the plants and I wove the phenotype #1 through the net occupying at least 60% of the available space; the phenotype #2 stretched shortly after the switch and I used the net only to widen the central branches. They showed the pre-flowers two weeks after the switch, then I made two defoliations on week 3 and 5 flo. During the last four weeks of flowering (weeks 6-9) I simply paid attention to the PH-EC levels to provide the roots with optimal conditions. I then kept the TEMP-RH-VPD-PPFD values ​​under control and this also thanks to the Tent-X controller by TrolMaster which allows me to provide optimal conditions also above. I chopped them when trichomes were about 85% milky and 15% amber. During the flowering stage PH was always between 5.8 and 6.2, about EC I started with 2 and was 2.3 on the last week before flush. ✅ HARVEST - From dry seed to harvest: 140 days (2 days germination + 75 days veg + 63 days flo). - Chopped after 4 days flush and 48 hours in dark; - Wet trim, removed fan leaves. ✅ DRYING STAGE - Time: 14 days; - Average: 20° C - 50% RH. - After that I made a dry trim, removed branches and sugar leaves. ⚖️ DRY WEIGHT - Phenotype #1: 230 gr buds + 25 gr larf; - Phenotype #2: 105 gr buds + 50 gr larf. So, the overall dry weight is: 335 gr buds + 75 gr larf. ✅ CURING STAGE - Curing is done after 30 days with Boveda 62%.