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Kingbrite Electronics 480w lm301h 3500K Light Emitting Diodes/480W
Kingbrite Electronics 480w lm301h 3500K
Topping
weeks 4-5
Defoliation
weeks 5-7
HST
weeks 7
20 L
Pot Size
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Week 1. Vegetation
5 years ago
18 hrs
25 °C
5.5
No Smell
65 %
18 °C
20 L
50 cm
Started March 5 with 30 feminized seeds in rock wool blocks. I have 16 buckets in my flower room and will have 8 in my growth/mother room. Almost all seeds germinated by the end of the week. I noticed that Cream Cookies did absolutely nothing the first 6 days while the rest was popping out, but on day 7 a few finally germinated.
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Week 2. Vegetation
5 years ago
10 cm
18 hrs
25 °C
6
No Smell
400 PPM
40 %
18 °C
20 L
50 cm
This week I filled the RDWC systems in my flower room with 16 plants and left the rest in the propagator while I finalize my grow/mother room. on the left 3 x girl scout cookies 2 x gorilla glue 3 x ghost train haze on the right 3 x bruce banner 3 x hulk gorilla 2 x cream cookies I can't get the humidity up which is currently between 35-40, so not comfy for the girls. A few already tell me through their leaves, so I ordered a beast mode humidifier and hope to have it within a few days.
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Week 3. Vegetation
5 years ago
10 cm
18 hrs
25 °C
6
Weak
400 PPM
50 %
18 °C
20 L
50 cm
Got the humidity up to 50 with my new humidifier. Most plants will have 5 finger leaves within a few days, so I think 2 weeks before I go to 12 hours so they can flower.
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Week 4. Vegetation
5 years ago
25 cm
18 hrs
25 °C
6
Weak
450 PPM
50 %
18 °C
20 L
50 cm
4 weeks are done at the moment and I just topped all the plants yesterday. Today I'm gonna up the food to 0.9 EC and will gradually go to 1 EC. Week 5 is gonna be the last vegetation week, after that I wanna get huge monsters! I've added a few pictures. I'm very happy with most plants. Most are getting pretty big and I only have a few left-behinders.
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Week 5. Vegetation
5 years ago
35 cm
18 hrs
26 °C
6
Normal
500 PPM
65 %
16 °C
20 L
50 cm
Cleaned them up real nice and topped some of them again. Increaed food to 1 EC yesterday and a few of them have a bit of burned tips, but not too bad and the rest of them have no issues. Tomorrow 12/12 !
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Week 6. Flowering
5 years ago
40 cm
12 hrs
27 °C
6
Normal
550 PPM
65 %
18 °C
20 L
50 cm
Lots of pictures this week! I made one of every plant and as you can see they are all doing really good! Cleaned them up again a few days ago and they're very bushy again. I've increased the EC again, till 1.1 EC, and will continue to increase it coming weeks.
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Week 7. Flowering
5 years ago
45 cm
12 hrs
27 °C
6
Normal
600 PPM
65 %
18 °C
20 L
50 cm
Nutrients 3
TriPart Bloom - Terra Aquatica
TriPart Bloom 1.5 mll
TriPart Micro - Terra Aquatica
TriPart Micro 1 mll
TriPart Grow - Terra Aquatica
TriPart Grow 0.5 mll
In the first two pictures you can see I've just cleaned them up and gave them some high stress training by bending branches to spread the plants out a bit. In the last two picutres you can see how they look a week later. The Bruce Banner III's are already flowering after 1 week ! A bit of a side story but I'm also creating a mother room which is on 18/6h where I'm also growing a Bruce Banner III which ALSO started to flower.....weird right? This weekend I'm gonna replace the water and add Florakleen 1,5ml/L so about 270ml per system. After that I'll replace the water again with the feeding tank filled with 1 part FloraGro, 2 parts FloraMicro and 3 parts FloraBloom making up 1,2 EC
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Jonkomaster
Jonkomasterstarted grow question 5 years ago
I'm also creating a mother room which is on 18/6h where I'm also growing a Bruce Banner III which ALSO started to flower at the same time her sisters did at the 12/12h room. I have more plants in 18/6h and they don't have this problem. What can be the problem ?
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OutForReal
OutForRealanswered grow question 5 years ago
It is very weird , if she is not auto she can’t bloom under 18/6 and she should only be able to show sex by pushing a few pistils but that’s it , she is not supposed to go into full flowering mode. Is there a difference between the Bruce in bloom and the one in veg in terms of growing? I mean does the one in veg stretching? If she is not stretching then she is not in flowering modes
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Week 8. Flowering
5 years ago
65 cm
12 hrs
27 °C
6
Normal
650 PPM
65 %
18 °C
20 L
50 cm
Nutrients 3
TriPart Bloom - Terra Aquatica
TriPart Bloom 1.5 mll
TriPart Micro - Terra Aquatica
TriPart Micro 1 mll
TriPart Grow - Terra Aquatica
TriPart Grow 0.5 mll
Cleaned them up and supercropped them for the last time. The Bruce Banners are all flowering, even the one that was in my vegetation room so I added her to the group.
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Week 9. Flowering
5 years ago
70 cm
12 hrs
27 °C
6
Strong
650 PPM
55 %
18 °C
20 L
50 cm
Nutrients 3
TriPart Bloom - Terra Aquatica
TriPart Bloom 1.5 mll
TriPart Micro - Terra Aquatica
TriPart Micro 1 mll
TriPart Grow - Terra Aquatica
TriPart Grow 0.5 mll
Everything is catching up a bit with the Bruce Banners luckily, so no problem with keeping the same schedule for all plants I guess. The Ghost Train Haze powers are growing insanely so I had to put the led board at the heighest, so I hope they don't get any taller haha
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Week 10. Flowering
5 years ago
75 cm
12 hrs
25 °C
6
Strong
650 PPM
55 %
17 °C
20 L
45 cm
Nutrients 3
TriPart Bloom - Terra Aquatica
TriPart Bloom 1.5 mll
TriPart Micro - Terra Aquatica
TriPart Micro 1 mll
TriPart Grow - Terra Aquatica
TriPart Grow 0.5 mll
Keeping them on 1.3 EC for another week because some plants got burned tips a bit. Less is more I guess :-) On the right side I switched a small cream cookies in the front with a huge bruce banner from the back. Space is more balanced this way.
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Week 11. Flowering
5 years ago
100 cm
12 hrs
28 °C
5.6
Strong
700 PPM
55 %
20 °C
20 L
45 cm
Nutrients 3
TriPart Bloom - Terra Aquatica
TriPart Bloom 1.5 mll
TriPart Micro - Terra Aquatica
TriPart Micro 1 mll
TriPart Grow - Terra Aquatica
TriPart Grow 0.5 mll
Yeah what's there to tell? :-P I'll summarize last week for you guys, but feel free to ask if you like to know more. 6 weeks floweringand they're still going and growing strong! Still not any troubles with weird leaves or anything and gladly so. I'm far from a pro so I expected I'd have more problems like I always have when I grew on soil, but the only thing so far where a few burned tips here and there when I increased the nutrients. The bruce banners seem like they can be harvested within 3-4 weeks for sure while the rest seem to need a few weeks longer.
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Week 12. Flowering
5 years ago
100 cm
12 hrs
28 °C
6
Strong
700 PPM
55 %
20 °C
20 L
45 cm
Nutrients 3
TriPart Bloom - Terra Aquatica
TriPart Bloom 1.5 mll
TriPart Micro - Terra Aquatica
TriPart Micro 1 mll
TriPart Grow - Terra Aquatica
TriPart Grow 0.5 mll
7 weeks of flowering done After 8 weeks I'll put in ghe Ripen en then start harvesting 2-3 weeks later Only 3-4 weeks to go and I'm a bit worried! I know the last weeks buds can grow a lot, but should they not be bigger at the moment ?
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Week 13. Flowering
5 years ago
100 cm
12 hrs
28 °C
6
Strong
1100 PPM
60 %
20 °C
20 L
45 cm
Nutrients 1
FinalPart - Terra Aquatica
FinalPart 5 mll
I've removed all the water from the systems and replaced it with fresh water with Ripen in it. I also turned on the infra red on my lamps.
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Week 14. Flowering
5 years ago
100 cm
12 hrs
28 °C
6
Strong
1100 PPM
60 %
20 °C
20 L
45 cm
Nutrients 1
FinalPart - Terra Aquatica
FinalPart 5 mll
The buds are still fattening up so I think I give it another week and cut everything down to dry
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Week 14. Harvest
5 years ago
Happy Harvest Day!
Spent 99 days
Ger Veg Flo Har
103.13 g
Bud dry weight per plant
16
Plants
10
Grow Room size
Normal
Difficulty
Positive effects
Euphoric, Happy, Relaxed
Positive effects
Sleepy
Energy
Indica
Hybrid
Sativa

Height
Day air temperature
Air humidity
PPM
PH
Light schedule
Night air temperature
Pot size
Lamp distance
I got 1650 gram (6 kinds of weed) this first timer so I'm really happy with the outcome! I had no problems with bugs or diseases.
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grower_not_shower
grower_not_showercommentedweek 25 years ago
With that many plants, in flower you will have to top up the rez with nute water at least twice a day. I estimate in flower you will use 48L of nute water a day for the whole grow. Setup looks nice though. Do you have a carbon filter?
grower_not_shower
grower_not_showercommented5 years ago
@Jonkomaster,Yes, PH from 6 to 6.5 in one day is ok. I used to have wild PH swings, from 5.5 to 6.8 in 6 hours. If your water temps are over 16C, you must use Hydroguard or other beneficial bacteria to avoid getting pythium or root rot. I had huge problems with pythium because of the high water temps. The dust from the clay pebbles is fine, it won't affect your plants.
Jonkomaster
Jonkomastercommented5 years ago
@grower_not_shower, Yeah I;ve heard they drink a lot in flower. Yes I have a huge carbon filter for 1500 cc to avoid any smell problems. Is it normal the ph goes from 6 to 6,5 in a day in the current phase? I didn't know I had to clean the hydro granules so just added them to the buckets, so a bit of the dust is now sitting on the bottom of the buckets. Will that be okay? I'll flush the whole system before going into the flower stage tho.
RussianGrower
RussianGrowercommentedweek 75 years ago
Greetings from Russia! Your plants are great! Keep it up!
Mongo28
Mongo28commentedweek 45 years ago
Looking good, starting to get nice and big
KurbinTurbin
KurbinTurbincommentedweek 25 years ago
Nice and clean attic grow👍👌
Growingkitten
Growingkittencommentedweek 115 years ago
Looking nice! How do u like the ghe nutrients?
Jonkomaster
Jonkomastercommented5 years ago
@Growingkitten, I'm am very inexperienced with growing and especially RDWC (first timer!) so I'm not sure what I can say about GHE. I sure don't have any complaints ! Everything is going really well and I'm totally in love with RDWC cause: - no bags of soil - no bugs (also cause I grow from seed ofcourse) - EC/PH easily measured
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