RDWC - Purple Run

The seedlings are transplanted and ready to takeoff. Its my first time in hydroponics, so I´ve done some minor mistakes, but compared to all other grows i´ve done, it´s the best by far. So please lean back, roll a doobie and enjoy 😁

The seedlings are transplanted and ready to takeoff. Its my first time in hydroponics, so I´ve done some minor mistakes, but compared to all other grows i´ve done, it´s the best by far. 1. I used the wrong PH-Down at first 2. I used the wrong CalMag at first 3. I didn´t rinse the claypebbles enough, so the PH drifted and stabilised at PH 6.4 instead of 5.8 So please lean back, roll a doobie and enjoy 😁

They are growing, nothing special happend

They are growing, EC now on 1.8 Calculated: 0,4 Tapwater + 0,4 CalMag + 1,0 Nutrients Lights at 50%

I switched to flowering nutrients and ph- bloom and installed the scrog-net at a height of 30 cm / 1 ft Both lights are at 75% (estimated around 420 Watt 😎) To get the DLI at around 45 to 50, PPFD at the tops is measured around 600-800 ppfd, 2 or 3 growing to around 1000 ppfd every now and then. Measured with Phantom Photobio Quantum PAR-Meter. I also rearranged the plants. Locations now: Auto Purple - upper left Runtz Auto - lower left Purple Lemonade Auto - upper right Purple Mazar Auto - lower right

Just scrogging and supercropping to get all branches, where i want them. The supercopped ones get bound to the net to break the apical dominace for a while, until all nodes are facing upwards and the wound has healed. Then i sometimes unleash the beast and bend it a little upwards to get back the apical dominace into the tip. The new branches are now realy strong and got their own apical dominance and are ready to get bended or sometimes get supercropped again, if neccessary. This works in RDWC way better than in soil because of the fast grow.

Everything is running perfectly. I don´t have to do anything other than do a little defoliation and lst, making pictures and staring into the tent😁

This week i added PK13/14 for one week to the nutrient solution. They are drinking very much and the roots are unbelivable. They fill the bucket nearly complete now and at start, there were about 70 liters in the Tank, now i just takes 35 to get to the mark i made as i started. RDWC is awesome and i love it. 😍

The interesting phase is starting and now enjoy the nice pics. I try to make as little damage as possible by cutting. Just train into the net, bend a little and if needed i supercrop. I defoliate regulary but start after preflower, not before, exept 1 or 2 leaves, when i bend the main cola. I don´t cut the lower branches and don´t lollipop as high as others. Instead i trys to defoliate from the top of the cola the make the light penetrate deeper into the jungle. It should look like a green carped with a lot of d*gs standing on it. I also train the whole tent into a bowl-like shape to get more ppfd on the outer colas. A bit like the dutch containers with ndl-lights from youtube. This evens the PAR-Map how I need it.

Last week started today with brand new nutients. Today I changed the reservoir and got now a total EC of 1.8 ( 0.4 Tapwater + 0.3 CalMag + 1.0 Nutrients ) I will run this EC until the trichomes are nearly, as i want them. Then i will give Water with 0.2 CalMag, Cannazym and Cannaboost, without nutrients for about three days, until the trichomes are 30-40% amber.

I think i´ll harvest the Purple Lemonade tomorrow and the Auto Purple the day after. The Runtz will get another week or so. She is doing well now, just a little late. Update on last day ( 76 ) of the week: The Runtz is getting big buds i think. She exploded last week and i´ve done some lst to get light to the shorter branches an widens the space up. I also want the big buds to get an ankle, where the whole bud is flooded with light, not just the tip. The Lumatek is at 100% at a height of 32cm or 12", burning the sh!t out of the chubby girl. VPD is a bit high, so i turned up the vent a bit to pull out more heat. The tips are still not burned, so i´ve got no worries about the measured 1300+ PPFD on an autoflower 😎Just put sunglasses on while working and i feel a bit cool about that. I think she will get at least another week or so. She is the high yielder in this run, as the breeders tell, so i am very exited, how much i can get out of a 4x3 tent or 1.08m². At the Moment, i am at the upper limit of what the breeders in average told in their ads, but still got one plant alive. Meanwhile i guess the yield without trim about 700+g in 1,08m², so it could make a yield of about 650g / m² +- some g´s estimated. Thats more than 3x of my organic soil run, which wasn´t bad in total, but could be better, if not outdoors and buds rotted. The myth that organic grows produce just 20 or 30g less and tastes so much better is busted for me. Also the myth that the breeders are overexaggerating, i believed until 2 weeks ago, is busted and even without CO2 these numers are achievable for every homegrower. Also these nice pics are easyly made by myself with a crappy mobile and Windows Pictureview. So now i think there are no lies on breederside, just incompetence on the growers side, what is relatively an easy fix. Just buy and try.

The Purple Mazar Auto was really huge and used easily 1/3 of space. So it took me about 4 hours to trim and put them into the tent. I think i need a second one for drying 😅really exited about the dry weight!!! I calculate with a loss of about 5x or 6x so i will be around 250 to 300g out of one plant out of 4 in a 4x3 tent. Thats amazing for me and my goal was only 420g in total. Looking good so far i think. The Auto Purple and the Purple Lemonade Auto will follow tomorrow evening i think and Runtz Auto will get another 7 days or so.

Even that she only got 1/2 of room than the Mazar, she performed well and delivered really dense and quite big buds. She was easy and fast to trim and the amount of leaves stayed at a managable level.

She is fast, resistant, not much to do exept defoliation and LST is needed like every other strain too. Yield was between ok and good while staying relatively short. Nice strain which deserves a more interesting name.

Day 77 She is producing and gets fat now. Seriously i didnt expect much of her after she exeeded her timelimit, but she is a beatuy now and still grows after 77 days. Seems like she just waited for the others to finish to launch her real potential. I did some LST, because there is enough space now and the branches were relatively close together. So the light couldn´t penetrate deep enough for long buds and i fixed that. The Lumatek runs at 100% 12" / 32cm above the buds. Day 80 On day 80 i´ve done some more LST to widen up the branches or lay them as flat as possible. I also trained the buds to help them bulk or widen out. They are so sticky, that they aren´t able to do it by themselves. I think it helps the plant to use her energy more efficient, instead of fighting against herself. Sometimes i feels and sounds like opening a zipper. After that, there is more light in the bud itself because of the greater surface, without giving more light intensity. The Lumatek delivered now 1500 PPFD on the top of the buds and around 750 PPFD at the lower branches for 3 days. She takes it well, so i turned on the second light to spread the light a bit better. Now i have around 1000 PPFD on the tops, but also on the side. Its an experiment just to see, if i can kill her with light. If not, i can go up to 600W and if she survives or maybe even doing well, i will use more light in the next run. I was a little bit scared at first, to go over the recommended DLI, but now i´m not shure, if the DLI-Chart is a bit cautious. The tops startet minor foxtailing as expected, but no burned tips or white tips, what i think is impressive. These buds are getting huge for what they were behind the others. I think the pics don´t show the real size of the buds. 4 of them got the diameter of my fist and are about 30 cm long. The plant uses a space of 65cm x 60cm and i expect the yield to be over 200g dry buds without trim. I hope she´ll make it 😅 Day 81 I decided to start a test, how much light an autoflower can take. Now i give her 420 Watts from 2 dimensions. Measured with Phantom Photobio Quantum PAR-Meter, there is around 1000PPFD at the buds, some of them from 2 sides. My goal is to see real light burning and feel, how much room is for experiments or where the limits really are. In the beginning i was scared about give her 800 PPFD on the tip of the bud. Now i don´t care about 1500 PPFD on the tip and i think thats beautyful. I testet it in small scale with one bud from the Mazar with 1000 PPFD at first, because 650 PPFD 18/6 / DLI 45 is the recommended chart-thing. I expected the bud just simply to die, but instead doing it, it produced the biggest bud without any damage. Now i will try to kill the plant with up to 600 Watts on one plant with around 2x2 ft or 60x65 cm of used space. I don´t think she will die, but i will know it in a few days 😆 Tell me your guess in the comments, will she die?!? Day 82 She didn´t die yet, but the trichomes are slowly getting amber now. I dropped the EC by 0.2 to 1.6 now and she will only get water from now on with only a bit Calcium to preserve the CalMag relationship (need to bc. of my tapwater) and a PH of 5.8 as usual. I think i will flush her complete in a few days to let her mature and let her use her last nutrients stored. I also want to see her colours ;) Also i need space for the younger generation so i will put her down. Day 84 Because she didn´t die but eats money af, i will end the test. I learned, that the plants are very resistant against "too much light" and won´t get hurt, if i push them a little harder and where the limits of efficiency are. I also learned from this run, how and where to measure the temperatures, to dial in the VPD. I´m sure that the next run will be way better, but i don´t know how much better the yield could be possible, looking at my results and the breeders decleration. This morning i changed the reservoir with tapwater + 0,2 ml/L Calcium, 3 ml/L Cannazym, 1,5 ml/L Cannaboost and a PH of 5,8. She will get about 3 days while i turn down the light every day by 25%. Start with 300 W / 100% Lumatek only.

Day 85 I dimmed the light to 75% today. She slowly gets yellow. I think she will get cut in 2 days, maybe tomorrow evening. I only gave her Cannazym, CannaBoost and Calcium. EC is at 1.0 just with tap water and calcium and it feels very high for what is in there. But they all got it to the end so i won´t be concerned about that. Day 86 Let the light at 75% today. Nothing else happened. Day 87 The EC driftet to 0.8 and the PH to 6.9 over night. Senns like alle nutrients are gone and the plant uses up her savings. She gets more yellowish, but the photos doesn´t show it that well i think. Light was at 75% today.

The grow wasn´t that easy because she was very slow and 18 days behind the others / over breeder recommendation and still got barely amber. Now she is dried she delivered very well. Way better than i thought she was able to, awesome genetic 👍