Blue Berry DWC

Mar 14 – Mar 21 -A quick rundown on my setup. • Grow tent 2'x2.5' • 1x5g Bucket x2 large airstones (*edit: added 2 additional medium stones and turned output on the pump way down, there was just way too much vibration in the floor all throughout the place) • 45LPM airpump (overkill, but I don't run a chiller so I like to replace as much DO as possible, I've never had root issues because of this and using Hydroguard) • T5 fluoro for seedling stage I usually use for clones/moms • 400w MH/HPS combo • 6" 440cfm • Carbon scrubber for flower • Thick rubber anti-vibration mat (most of my noise comes from bubbles inside the bucket) • 24/7 Nutrient monitor Nutrients: 300 PPM of GH Gro and a couple drops of rapid start. Lights: I had the 400w MH running at 50% for the first few days. I bumped it up to 75% on the 21st and a day or two after roots hit water I'll switch it to 100%. Seed was started in a Rapid Rooter, I kept it inside of a water bottle I cut in half then put it back together to keep humidity high. My PH diode went bad while it was in storage after moving to a new apartment, so I had no idea what my PH was for the first week or two. I'm guessing it was between 7 and 8, I knew it was high by the deformation of my leaves and twisting. Not a big deal she will grow out of it. I'm using tap water at this point. Nutrients fed at recommended Ratios per GHE charts (I do not follow recommended dosage only ratios) I monitor the plant how it looks and feed dosage based on eye and nutrient PPM uptake. For example, GHE recommends 2.5 ML/gal for the 3 part Flora series in early to mid veg 1-1-1 ratio, and a Ratio of 2-2-1 (Gro-Micro-Bloom) late veg I add my base until I hit the approximate concentration I'm looking for. When I top off my water every day I check PPM to see what the plant has used if it's used 20PPM then I add 40ppm (essentially just doubling what the plant used) of my base in whatever ratio for the stage of growth the plant is in. I change out my res every 2 weeks in veg, and every week in flower. Sometimes I skip a week, no big deal. I add nutrients in this order: Armor Si, CaliMagic, Micro, Gro, Bloom, Hydroguard