BigPoppaPuff710

God damn! Some pretty wild vegetative growth those first few weeks, and some pretty amazing flower! Good job my friend!

If I may.... The plants look okay but not great. Everyone on here thinks they know what a good plant should look like. They don’t. Most plants on the diary are over feed, over watered, and have too much light. A few tweaks and you will have the best bud anyone of you have ever smoked. 1. the plants looked burned up. Raise your lights. You are burning all the good stuff off of your plants. 2. you have tip burn. lower your nutrient strength. I never go over 500 ppm (200 ppm cal/mag 300 ppm nutes in veg, 800 ppm in flower for RDWC. They just don't need that much. To know if you nutrient strength is correct.... do a rez change, measure your starting ppm. let your plants drink some water (say half the rez). take another ppm reading - the ppms should be the same or less then your starting ppms. If they are higher you need to back off your nutes by a third. The plant should be drinking water and nutrients equally. Nutrients and lights are so over hyped in this game. all nutrients and all lights grow weed. More is not better trust me. Expensive nutrients don’t work any better than the cheaper ones…. trust me. Weight is based on watts. a 600 watt t5, HPS, or LED all make the same amount of Bud and you would not be able to tell the difference in what light was used. 3. you are mag deficient for most of the grow. you should never ever have purple stems... ever. Iime green is what you are going for. Use a cal/mag supplement to fix this. 200 ppm cal/mag with RO water... then add your nutes. keep your nutrient concentration lower than you think. 4. your plants look to be over watered. How can you over water in hydro?... simple... too many nutes. this puts your plants in a reverse osmosis situation or burns the roots. Either one will cause slow growth and puffy, stripped leaves. You have both. Your leaves should never be ridged.… only flat and always stretching for the light. Your leaves are cowering from the light most of the grow. See how they are bending down? You want them to be bending up and stretching towards your light. So you most likely have your lights too close or the lights are way too strong. You did a 19 week grow. I think this is mainly an indica strain. Your plants should be much bigger. I can get this size plant in 12 weeks total. 4 Veg / 8 flower. In fact if you do your veg correctly 4 weeks in RDWC you will almost be overgrown. You did a 7 week veg… Your plants should be HUGE (too big for your space) It looks like you have a hot spot. For this small of a grow T5s work great… IMO the best. HPS and the good LEDs (the really expensive ones over $1500 a light… as long as they are dimable) are good for commercial growers or anyone looking to get 2 or more pounds every 8 weeks on a 2 light rotation. For you I would recommend a 12 bulb T5 for flower and a 6 bulb T5 for Veg. If you run this two light rotation and do what I suggest you should expect to get a pound dry every 8 weeks (hybrid strains) If you decide to keep your current light... put it on a light mover to get rid of that hot spot and raise it up. If you are running cheap LEDs get rid of them. Just go with T5s you’re not growing that much. Last thing. not sure if this is a sealed garden or not. If it is get some CO2 bags like Exhale or something similar. You are close dude so very close. I am sure this bud was good but it is very close to being great and with a few tweaks you could have more and better in less time. For any indica dominant strain. it should be 4 week veg - up to 6 week veg if you want a huge plant (only one.. not two) that will fill in a 5 x 5 area. for 2 plants a 4 week veg is probably too long if everything is going well. 9 weeks in Flower max, the last week being the flush. Everything happens faster in DWC. You are getting results one would expect to get in soil or coco. If that is that case just use soil or coco they are easier, cheaper and much more forgiving. Why mess with hydro. In hydro you want faster and bigger. I want you to realize that I am not attacking you. I just wanted to give you a few pointers to get you to where hydro is supposed to be. RDWC rocks. It is the best, fastest, and you cannot tell the difference between it and soil / coco if dried and cured correctly (slow… the slower the better). I am sure someone on here will disagree with me on that. Don’t care… I have yet to meet someone who would turn down any bud hydro or soil. Very last thing… in week 19 you said you flushed… your plants did not yellow at all. Your fan leaves at a minimum should yellow and start to fall off the plant. Another reason why I think you were running your nute strength way too high. How did it taste once dried and cure? If it was harsh that was because there was way too much Chlorophyll still left in the plant. The only way I could see this being smoke being smooth was a very very slow dry and cure to get all of that out. Keep pressing you are almost there.