RDWC - Sunset Sherbet Auto

I upgraded my system, so now i can tanke every bucket out of the circulation individually. This gives me the opportunity to react to an infected, weak or sick plant and can simply put a pump into her bucket to make her stand in her own system, so i can test different nutrient solutions, ec or ph, waterlevel, etc. Maybe i can save some plants who can not keep up with her crew elseway. Maintenance should also be easier now. I also installed 2 airstones to the reservoir, because i am too lazy to stirr, when i add something to the solution. Then i got some 45° feeders to make it look better than thje ducktape version. Next run i will bury them right from the beginnig in an ankle but now im afraid to disturb the plants too much in this stage to get them out just to put the feeders in. Nutrientwise i added some iron to see, if the yellowish growth of the new leaves are getting better. The pic shows, that they got way greener, but also looks a little tired. Hopefully they will recover because i also installed the second light, but the timer wasn´t set right, so they got about 2.5h more light. Wasn´t that nice because i measured around 600 PPFD on the plants, so they got to work a little harder yesterday and the time without water in that stage while upgrading the buckets wasn´t helpful either.

Second week and i think she survived the critical phase. Now she can perform like she is supposed to 💪 😁 Look at this from day 8 to 9 😲 She is doing well and can work with the high EC 💪 I had to remove the dripper and set it back to just open hose, because the new dripper got clogged after 1 week. No dripper, no problem 😅 On day 13 i upgraded my setup. It´s just the first phase of an idea i have. More in a few days, when the parts will have arrived and everything is put together and works. 👆 I also got rid of the drift-problem. I added some PK 13/14 and now the PH is that stable, that i can´t bring it down with PH-Down anymore. It´s at 6.1, so i will let it be as it is.

She is doing great and i have nothing else to say atm. Phase 1 was really successfull and i´m really happy with the result. Now the temperature of the solution stays at room temperature no matter how much i turn up the lights. I tried 450w at first for about 7h to see, when the fan starts to switch, but it didn´t, so i tried 600w for the rest of the day. No problem anymore with the temps in the tent or the solution. I absolute recommend it even for soil to prevent heat in the bucket and tent and its easy to clean and it looks awesome clean. I have to wear sunglasses now and I love it!!!😎 On day 16 everything is perfect. The solution PH, EC and temperature is stable like concrete and they are growing. 💪 Second phase of my shadowstage looks sick 😍 On day 17 she got her first leaves cut to get the light into the plant

She is handeling the high EC and the high PPFD well, even she is a little dark.

She is flowering earlier compared to the others as i hoped, so she is kind of on the same level as the rest. Impressive what she can take. Even the flowerin nutrients with an EC of 2.4-2.5 won´t get her in real trouble even i have to admit, that she looks a little dark because of that, but strong and mighty 💪

She seems very fast and can take a lot nutrients. I like that 💪

She is producing nice snowballs and she seems to try to make it first into the jar, even she is 2 weeks younger than her sisters. 💪😎 Her trichomes are nice and she looks frosty af. On day 46 my setup got another light. I took the Lumatek out and changed it for a second Mars Hydro TSL 2000. Now i can use more space in the tent and the light is spreaded way more even than before. I now got about 1000 PPFD at the canopy top and around 800-900 PPFD square. They are running at about 80 % atm. Each side is seperately dimmable and i can set the ankle relatively individually for each plant so i can better react to the different grow heights, which comes automatically with 4 different strains.

Even she is 2 weeks younger than the others, she is keeping up with her sisters and she probably will be the first to get harvested. She got nice frost and is sticky af and i´m looking forward to test the first sherb terps 😋

I lowered the EC to 2.4 and i seperated the two big plants and the two smaller plants systems. I simply closed the tap on the right side of the reservoir, so the two big ones can get nutrients while the other two gets water only now.

I got the nutrient solution out yesterday and now she is forced to use up what she got left. I will harvest in 2 or 3 days i think. The sample tasted a bit sour or gassy.

Today i chopped her. She wasn´t doing anything for the last few days and i´m not very patient when it comes to this. Trim took me about 2 hours and was basically an easy job.