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Chronic
Custom Breeder & Strain
White Widow
Custom Breeder & Strain
Borderliner
Custom Breeder & Strain
FL/400W
Light
HID/600W
Light
Indoor
Room Type
ScrOG
weeks Technique
Topping
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Grow Conditions
Week 14
Flowering
106.68
cm
inch
Height
12 hrs
Light Schedule
12+ conditions after
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Nutrients
ml/l
ml/gal
tsp/gal
Cal mag
6 ml/l
Fl
1 ml/l
Silica
1 ml/l
5+ nutrients after
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Kirby08 Kirby08
7 years ago
Week 14 was by far the toughest week of the grow so far. Hurricane Irma put me out of power for 3 days and as anyone knows 24 hrs with no power in dwc usually means a lost crop. Seeing as the plants would drown with no air. To buy time I took a battery powered aerator and rotated it between the plants. This was a task in itself because I only had two working battery powered bubblers and I currently have 7 plants in dwc, the 3 in this diary and 4 more in veg. For this I rotated the bubblers every few hours between the plants so everyone got a turn. They just had to deal with no light. This process lasted roughly a day and a half and it sucked. Later in the evening I had a relative call and say they got power back pretty quick and I could borrow their generator After I got off the phone with them I dropped what I was doing and immediately drove to pick it up. Once I got the generator going the first thing I plugged in ( even before my fridge with my food) where the aerators, after that I plugged in the fridge,carbon filter,dehumidifier and the light in the flower tent and at this point I new I didn't have much power left. The generator wouldn't power the tents 8000btu window unit but it would power a small 5000btu window unit I have in the next room. Not wanting to sleep in 90 degree rooms at night I came up with the plan to just leave the tents open drag a air mattress in the room and crank the little window unit as low as it would go and we all seemed to be alright lol. That lasted a day and a half and then power was restored. Hurricane Irma defiantly set me back a few days but everything else seems to be good considering. Other than Irma my only issue seems to be the chronic. She's got a cal mag deficiency or something going on. I upped the cal mag per gal so we'll see. The borderliner and widow are really stacking on while the chronic just seems to be swelling if that makes sense. However the smell from the chronic is amazing it's very strong. I hope everyone else is doing well and I apologize for the delayed weekly update but I've had a lot going on. If anyone has any suggestions on what might be the issue with the chronic I'd love to hear it. Thanks and have a good one.
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Kirby08
Kirby08week 4
The chronic and borderliner notes on the pictures are switched and I'm not sure how to go back and edit the picture. Sorry about that, I'm still trying to learn and figure everything out. Any advice or tips are greatly appreciated. Thanks again.
BigDaddyK
BigDaddyKweek 11
One question if the canopy is tied to the netting , how will you flush ? Or change water 💦
Kirby08
Kirby08
@BigDaddyK, right now the plants are about 9" to 10"away from the bottom of the hood. Wayyy closer than I like I can already see the side effects. All the buckets are already tapped so I'd only have to raise them up unfortunately that's not a option this round. Next time I won't veg as long and maybe then I can have some options.
BigDaddyK
BigDaddyK
@Kirby08,you could add a tap to buckets and raise a little on concrete blocks or wood , then gravity would empty - just a thought 👍
Kirby08
Kirby08
@BigDaddyK, i admit dwc in the Scrog isn't the easiest thing to do especially since I change the water every 7 days but after a lot trial and error and more spilled water and nutes than I care to admit I feel that I finally came up with a descent sytem. To remove the water in the bucket I use a shop vac with a screened tip. To add my new res water I pre mix the nutes in another 5 gallon bucket then pump the water into the bucket using a bilge pump. It isn't the easiest system but it works for now. On my next run I'll probably build a mini Scrog that is on the bucket itself or something so I can remove the plants if I need to and they are not locked in.
BrokenArrow
BrokenArrowweek 1
I really liked this diary. I thought you did amazing work here. I'm looking forward to seeing the harvest 👻
Kirby08
Kirby08
@BrokenArrow, thank you for the kind words, I hope not to disappoint. Should be switching to flower Wednesday or Thursday !
BigDaddyK
BigDaddyKweek 11
Excellent so far 👍
BreakingBud
BreakingBudweek 7
thanks for the info man. what do you think of the nutes your using?
BreakingBud
BreakingBud
@Kirby08, ok I appreciate your honesty! I had a few oh problems in Dwc also. I found my plants always flowered later in Dec for some reason.
Kirby08
Kirby08
@BreakingBud, honestly I'm probably not the best person to ask. I don't really have much experience with other nutes to compare from but I will say it's a pretty simple system. I wouldn't buy it for the perfect PH however. In my dwc system it tends to rise for the first two days and It usually takes adding PH down once each of those days before it will stabilize. The only problem I've ever had when when I first got it and I went off the manufacturer recommend strength. Other than that I just do roughly quarter strength of the recommendation then I add cal mag , silica ,nectar and great white to the mix and I haven't really had a problem since.
Wilmaponics
Wilmaponicsweek 14
That's not cal deficiency. More likely mag. Cal is a inmobile nute, so will only effect the new growth where it needs it. Mag is mobile so the plant will take from the shade leaves from the middle of the plant and use to keep the new growth growing.Cal I'd expect to see the tips of the buds yellowing
Wilmaponics
Wilmaponicsweek 14
I used advanced nutes for a couple of grow in my Wilma used as a DWC. Nothing but problems. The pH was uncontrollable, raised all the time. Sometimes I'd had shit load of pH down to correct the tank which will do nothink. Then 3/4 days later will would drop 2.0 over night. All there claims on pH perfect are rubbish.
Tryhard
Tryhardweek 13
love your forest dude very intresting that much so I'm goner follow