Taz' First grow

Every time I speak to House and garden it seems they save me money. They said that since their nutrients will not create the salt buildup the other nutrients do that I do not need to empty my reservoir and refill it once a week he said I am wasting precious nutrients I should instead change it every say 3 to 4 weeks or at the appropriate growth stages (end of: veg, stretch, mid flower) since at these times I am changing the supplements!!!!! Woohoo @housegarden.

@growdiaries, what about getting an option for DWC in place/option of pot size? Thanks in advance.

one of the other strains in the tent is a sativa and has started growing again so I am going to abandon the 14h light experiment until the sativa finishes.

Well 1 thing I have learned from my first grow is that 10 sativa dominate plants shouldn't be grown in a 4x4 area 😂.

Not seeing any weird growth. Buds are still maturing. Hasn't started using nutes again. Looks like all systems are go. Of course since this is my first grow I will only know if it works or not as I have nothing to compare with. Seems to me that if it works then you should get bigger buds. 2h/day extra light over a 70d period is 140 hours that's like almost 12 extra days of 12 hour days!!!!

Pruned and defoliated today net has 156 holes and is 1.7m2 last count I had over 100 filled.

@bigdaddyk, great idea with the 2 liter!!!!!

Tomorrow begins week 7 of flower. The Acid Dough against the wall (previously described its geometry) has probably gained another 5-7 inches this week!!! Will they ever stop? That branch has to be over 5' (only supposed to get 4').

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@BigDaddyK Yeah, I have 2, 12" each but it's 1/4" line.

I plan to take 4 clones during week 3 of flower (week7). I read that since the plant is in full flower that a clone taken and revegged will produce a monstrosity of branches. Gotta try it :)

I did a lot of defoliating and LST'ing yesterday. I left the back corner tall for picturesque flowers (Acid Dough's are beautiful near the end of flower) hoping for a wine bottle size one on the tall Acid Dough. Oh and with the LST I did I think that I can turn the HPS back to "super lumen mode" to get more penetration.

Well they are at 100k lux on 1000w so I turned the HPS down to 600w and now they have 50k lux at the top of the screen.

The Acid Dough are unruly they grow with the vigor of a sativa but with the branching and foliage of an indica. I have bent them over again and again and they continue to reach for the light. They stall out when they get to about the 90k lux area which is to much for them. I have one branch leaning from the base at a 45 to a wall 19" away then it goes up. The top of the pot is 15" and the top of that acid dough is 60" so that branch is like 52" long. No idea on the others as they have been bent so many different directions lol. Oh I have added (4) 300watt eq full spectrum including UV and IR LEDs for the short and tall areas. Currently I am still running 1000w on the HPS so light isn't an issue.

I have tried FIM but don't as I felt it took to long to recover so I then started topping above 3rd node they generally grew 2-4 heads. I then read an article on super Cropping and tried that they went crazy and quickly grew 7 heads. I then experimented further and performed super crop until the stem above the node was mush. However, I did not bend the top. They quickly developed 7 heads like before although the main top was still dominate. I have continued this method. They are only 8" tall(and 5w seed to water on 7/19) but they are 14" in diameter and I find that if I don't defoliate they continue to grow wider from the bottom as the lower branches seek light. When a branch makes it to a new hole I let it come through and provide shade for the other lower branches. Once I let them poke through the canopy their stems thicken up quickly.

I have top feed too although it's not on.

Hey guys check out the 3 pics I posted, I guess the comments belong here, I'm still a newbie here....

I damaged the roots of "B" and "C" moving to the veg DWC.

The A/C went out, I raised the light to lower heat Acid Dough "A" responded by stretching so I did some extreme LST.

"B" and "C" have recovered. The Super crop shown is on "C".