UncleReemis' DWC Grow

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How often you flushing your res? I do mine every 9 days usually. How steady is your ph? I use RO water where the ppm is <3. When I was using the gh 3 part my pH would be around 4.8 so I would bring it up with Silica since I heard pH up and down is not very stable. As it got further into my grow I was having a harder time keeping the pH within range. It was usually dropping into the 4s again. Any advice? I would like to use the Lucas formula soon where there is no flush but I'm afraid I won't be able to control my pH.

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Hmm probably about as often as you. I usually just refill it once the plants have sucked most of it up, check the ppm knowing that 150-250 of it will be from the shit in the tap I just pumped in, then the rest would be left-over nutrients. And YIKES to the pH problem man. :/ it's weird because the pH buffer in the 3-part nutes has always kept mine around the 5.8-6.3 range, usually stabilizes at 6.1. My advice for you would be to adjust your pH level before you add your nutrients. RO water pH SHOULD stabilize easily, since the water is almost virtually pure, by adding small amounts of up or down. After one or two times doing this, you should be able to find an accurate pH up/down dosage for your res and water type to get it to where you need it to be. Then after adding the nutes, the buffer should just keep it right where it needs to be. If not, then I'm not really sure :/

I was using the AN 3-part, but there isn't a pH buffer in them so I switched back to my floras. My pH wasn't staying stable for some reason with the AN nutes. So I share in your frustration friend :P
 
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So my 60x magnifier came in the mail a day ago :P I took this pic with my WINDOWS PHONE of some of the mids I smoke on. It's compressed weed, but pretty solid for mids I must say. Haven't really come across a higher quality "reg" before.
And I got it from Ebay or Amazon, one of the two, for like $5. And it isn't made like shit either, so woo.
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UPDATE:

I switched to flowering today.

Since the two are so large, I yanked one of the small ones, killed it and left the other small one (Mr. Nice) because it's fought for its right to remain. I yanked the one small one because it was just too small to flower with the rest, and even if it did survive, it doesn't have nearly the worth the Mr. Nice has. So now I will have hopefully 2 large females, one small female, and one very small female. Note any of these can turn out males, so it's a gamble. However, I'm hoping for at least 50% female. This way, I'll have plenty of time to branch out the two remainders to really take advantage of the space.

There is some light bleaching on the second plant due to my lack of availability for a short time, and they've both recovered a bit from being moved to buckets. It was rough work trying to get their roots to separate from each other when I moved them, but needed to be done. With all that being said, preflowers are forming but are not distinguishable yet, note that plants will definitely need extra support to hold them in place once flowering is afoot.

As you can see, they've really shown growth since the FIM.
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Just realized I'm an idiot for yanking anything before I could tell its gender. Oh well, been stressed as hell lately so went ahead and did it. :P
 
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Also, I ordered a few seeds today from Herbies Pick 'n Mix. 1 Fem White Widow, 1 Fem Lemon Kush, then 3 freebies: 1 Fem Strawberry Blue, 2 Reg Hawaiian Skunk Haze. Total came to $23.97 including shipping. Damn good prices considering shipping is cheap. Fuck Attitude's shipping prices. Will probably be doing these outdoors :)
 
duudical

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Coming along great Uncle R!

I love DWC. The pH action is definitely interesting using tap water - as I do. I have found that if I let the nutrient solution bubble overnight (or for at least 6+ hours) I can get the pH to stabilize around 5.8-6.0. Usually takes about one or two small adjustments once the plants in the bucket. I too noticed changes in nutes as well. I moved to Canna Aqua Flores for flower and that shit just settles the pH very quickly. Also, switched to AN pH Down. Way more concentrated than GH - have to use a dropper because it is so easy to wind up at 3.3 or some shit, ha ha. I am using House and Garden Aqua Flakes A+B in veg right now. Similar ability to settle pH I have found. I am seriously considering moving to Dutch Master Gold exclusively after the results I have gotten from their products.f

Not sure if you deal with any water temp issues but I have found that keeping the solution nice and aerated and adding Dutch Master Gold Zone + Orca root inoculant has virtually rid me of pythium issues which I seemed to struggle with every grow before. I seriously cannot plug Orca enough. Within 2 weeks of using it, huge results for my root situation.

Your ladies look so hot...they should blow up in flower and give you some huge, resin-dripping goodness. I am watching this one for sure!

Good luck and peace :joint:
 
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duudical said:
Coming along great Uncle R!

I love DWC. The pH action is definitely interesting using tap water - as I do. I have found that if I let the nutrient solution bubble overnight (or for at least 6+ hours) I can get the pH to stabilize around 5.8-6.0. Usually takes about one or two small adjustments once the plants in the bucket. I too noticed changes in nutes as well. I moved to Canna Aqua Flores for flower and that shit just settles the pH very quickly. Also, switched to AN pH Down. Way more concentrated than GH - have to use a dropper because it is so easy to wind up at 3.3 or some shit, ha ha. I am using House and Garden Aqua Flakes A+B in veg right now. Similar ability to settle pH I have found. I am seriously considering moving to Dutch Master Gold exclusively after the results I have gotten from their products.f

Not sure if you deal with any water temp issues but I have found that keeping the solution nice and aerated and adding Dutch Master Gold Zone + Orca root inoculant has virtually rid me of pythium issues which I seemed to struggle with every grow before. I seriously cannot plug Orca enough. Within 2 weeks of using it, huge results for my root situation.

Your ladies look so hot...they should blow up in flower and give you some huge, resin-dripping goodness. I am watching this one for sure!

Good luck and peace :joint:
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Thanks for stopping in, I appreciate the kind words. :) I'll be heading over to your current grow soon as I finish this reply to sub up haha. Yeah, man pH pisses me off so much sometimes. I really want to just RO my water, then adjust the pH but I don't have a filter just yet. Mine are around 6.1 pH which is a little high, but tampering with it usually just makes it unstable. I'm going to have to experiment a little with that. Maybe just a very minimal amount of pH down, like 2-3 drops for each bucket. Just enough to at least take that .1 off there hah. But yeah, they're doing good. I'm still not sure if they're female yet, but I hope so. I really like the strain so far. The smell is already getting nasty strong, which I know most plants smell in veg, but it's very earthy and skunky. More than usual. I like to break open the stems of the dying leaves when I cut them off so I can get a good whiff 8D
 
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Figured out a few of my problems. If you noticed on the recent pics, there's some yellowing happening on a lot of the leaves although it's slight. Well that's telltale nitrogen deficiency, and some leaves have leftover cal/mag deficiency damage. That's the easily diagnosable stuff. I already knew I needed to adjust their nutrient levels so no surprise there. However, there was slight leaf curling/withering and minor drooping. This, at first, I thought was a pH problem. Well, I'm sure the pH being 6.1-6.2 was slightly out of the range desired, but that isn't what I believe to be causing it. I believe it's heat stress and I know why: one of my passive air intake vent flaps (say that 5 times in a row) had closed by itself leaving no other entryway for fresh, cool air. So I finally put a weak-ass fan in there to stir up the plants a little and fixed the flap. Hopefully things shape up but I'm not worried as they're clearly quite healthy, just little scratches here and there. I'll be picking up a room thermometer soon, can't find my old one. <--- I've been sitting right here refusing to enter the reply because there's always something I wish I would have posted but forgot and I don't wanna clutter it up with dumb double posts anymore xD hmmmmmmmmrmmm. Ohhhh, so I've got all the parts to make a 6-bulb CFL vertical light that I plan on hanging down the middle of the plants. Or I may find another purpose for it not sure.
 
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Does anyone think this would fail to work as a net pot stabilizer? It would be made out of strong metal wire, similar to that green fencing wire. And it would be twisted on the ends. Probably 4 lengths of 1' would do the trick.

The pots are actually threatening to fall through the lids because the lids are cracking and breaking from previous use.
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So after doing some research, I think I'm going to try using jasmonic acid on one of the plants when they start showing trichome production. I'd also like to acquire a supplemental UVB (<320nm) light but that probably wont happen this grow. I understand that increased trichome production does not always indicate higher potency, however it is often such. UVB wavelengths aid in the chemical breakdown of w/e that predecessor THC form is called which is the process that produces THC delta 9. It stands to reason that more trichomes means more opportunity for this chemical process to take event.

This is the theory of it anyway.
 
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Update: Yanked the left one due to male..................
I'm thinking the remaining large plant is a male.... But waiting.............
This leaves two plants........ Gender not distinguishable yet.............
This will be the last time I mess with bagseed. The genetics just aren't good, they're corky as all hell and wasting my time growing males is too much fun. Herbies from here on out. I honestly may just restart this grow when my seeds arrive, then order more for outdoor later. In which case, I'll probably just grow two at a time in the tent so i have room to really manipulate them.

Fuck me sideways.
 
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