My first real grow on my own was my outdoor this last season. I don't have it down but I know I can grow them big. My avatar pic was planted in July and hit almost a half P. This with missing half of the season for veg. Where I struggled was the finer details of making it a quality harvest. I got a lot of mold and the herb that was saved on that plant and other plants lacked that smell that makes us all so happy
For this grow I'm definately trying to have some really high quality herb. I could have chosen a number of strains but I chose the WW because I just got done growing it outdoors and new a little about its traits.
With that being said I really could have picked any strain cause this is so different in every aspect. A buddy of mine firmly believes in letting the plant fix itself. Well, when you are feeding it light, nutes and Co2 plus climate control...you are pretty much mother fucking nature. It won't fix itself, you have to fix it. Not to mention that 70gal res...it's not like you can just change the way you feed them the next day. Adding nutes is easy. Lowering your PPM you gotta drain the res a little, add some RO water, test...see if it's what you want and so on.
Like I was saying in my first few posts. I can see how Hydro can bury you with time and expenses if you don't stay on things. I litteraly have no fancy sensors. I'm watching my plant, taking very basic readings like PH, PPM and most recently a Co2 test kit and that's it. No $1500 brains...not yet at least
I need to grow really good herb first. Make no mistake, if I have a good January with business and this harvest looks nice. I'm gonna double up my set up for sure. I might run 4 strains. 5 to 6 plants of each.
SCROG to try and keep my height down.