Taste The Rainbow!

Medium: 🥥🥥🥥🥥 If there is one thing I can appreciate about hydro mediums it’s the ease of maintenance . You’re changing out buckets once a week as opposed to mixing and feeding 3 times a week so the care benefits are definitely there. Less mess but also more precise. The plant suffered some early stage nute burn so had to back things off At one point. Big lesson here was distance from res to the mesh pot. This plant was stunted by a full week due to the distance the taproot had to travel (top of the mesh pot) to get to the water. My seedling will definitely be going lower in the pot next run. This was definitely a limiting factor for the grow and the plant never really got its veg. Legs under itself. The most important lesson on growing with this medium for me was finally being able to stabilize the res. Using a diluted mix of 5ml/L H2O2. Without this additive, the water became a breeding ground for bacteria that rotted out the roots in a matter of hours. It clearly has something to do with the nature of our local tap water but as far as I can tell, adding it in didn’t effect the overall growth of the plant. Only subsequent grows will be able to tell us if it’s sustainable and I’m praying that it will be because this method is just too much fun.👍 Yield/Harvest🌴 Yeesh - don’t be fooled by the chunky, football sized colas. The buds grew in very fluffy, the little branches almost resembling a doc grinspoon strain at harvest. There was little to no density in the buds at all which is disappointing. Again, this plant could not escape an aphid infestation in late flower and we had to do a budwash during chop to clean up and sort out the usable bud from within the infested leaves. While I’m happy to report that the 2 stage wash cleared out all the dirt and critters - it was a lot of extra work to end up with a paltry 1.58oz after a 7 day dry. I dried the buds on the stems as opposed to clipping em all off before they hit the rack just because I’ve found this to be a little more delicate for the ultimate curing process. Overall, the grow was a successful attempt at DWC and the next run will be where the system should truly shine. Credit to FB for producing some resilient genetics here. You can punish a plant much more than this without killing it👌🤙💪. Thanks for following along and offering up the comments, tips and support. Next runs gonna be 3 winners for sure😉👍😎👊.