600w DWC Medical Grow- First Timer

[Comando]

Looking good man....EC may be a bit high for the seedlings...also I reccomend reading uncle ben's Topping technique in ADVANCED Cultivation in the forums...It would really produce with your screen program. your bushiest one looks like kush and the others look Kush influenced for sure. Let me know how you like that dynagrow...been thinking bout using that.

 

[defcomexperiment]

i will tell you right now, i love dynagrow. it is a complete food, i just wish i knew more when i bought it, i really should be using their foliage pro for veg nutes. i have read uncle bens topping tutorial, and actually it was his suggestion on dynagro that made me to go with it. the plants were heavily stressed from spider mites and treatment of them. i didnt want to beat them up anymore, next grow i may top, but i think i will still do good off of this one.

 

[bajafox]

Nice set up with the screen man, I'm want to try it soon

 

[defcomexperiment]

Nice set up with the screen man, I'm want to try it soon

thanks man, im expanding to four flower lights for my next grow. starting in december when i get back from st thomas. thats when things should get real interesting. i talked my g/f into taking over her scrapbooking room which is our spare bedroom. as for the screen, im using some polyethelene twine, but would like to suggest wax coated hemp. i only did horizontal lines with the twine, then put some 4" plastic trellis up. i figure i would do that because it would still allow me to do what i need to do to restrict their position, but i would get a little bit more play room to pull leaves out. that and because i was too lazy to weave another string through all them holes lol...

 

[defcomexperiment]

reservoir change, ph was at 5.85 according to my g/f when she dumped it in, and quickly rose to 6.3. apparently, there was some buffers still left, she is gonna pump it out after work and get it down to 5.85 again. she did drop it down by adding some low ph water nute solution @1.0 ec, currently at 6.1. plants looking stellar, pics to come tomorrow when she has some extra time. very excited to get home and kick em into bloom. still on veg nutes lettin the plants stretch out a bit before flower.

EC 1.0
ph 6.0
res temp 67F
tent temp 75F

 

[defcomexperiment]

kk, so ive got some update pics finally. apparently my girlfriend thought it a good idea to tie the branches in bunches to assist with the training. it doesnt look as though it has harmed anything, and helped her get em to lay down. the screen is at about 12" right now, and ive told her to go on ahead and untie those bunches and spread em out tomorrow, probably will fill the majority of the 3x3 section we want to cover. shes been having a little bit of an issue getting the ph right at 5.85, she seems to overshoot it one way or another, but hasnt swung too much to where im concerned. she really hasnt had the time to sit there and take the time to get it to where it needs to be, but tomorrow she should. anyways, heres the pics, i can only imagine how the spread is gonna be once she unties those ribbons.

 

[bajafox]

Can't wait to see how this works out

 

[defcomexperiment]

kk, she spread the plants today, heres the stats real quick, temps and water temp is stable as always, ph 5.85, ec .975... heres the pics:

 

[defcomexperiment]

had her raise the screen a few inches today, she had it just slightly too low... slight splitting on two tops on the plant on the left, but it appears to not be effecting it, flowering to begin on thursday after i take clones. its gettin cramped in there...

 

[defcomexperiment]

she found a cricket in our tent,said it kept her up the night before all night and she was like "im gonna kill that fucker" she sounded real pissed about it once she figured out it was a cricket, and not a fan making all the racket. the other day she found an earwig under the res that was dead, and i just dont know where the fuck they came from, and how they got into the tent. we live on the second floor of an apartment building, so the cricket seems like it would be almost impossible for it to get up there. not sure if maybe they got sucked in through the intake, and somehow they had made it through a gap in the AC unit or something. fucking weird. either way i told her to dust the floor of the tent with DE.

 

[ENDLSCYCLE]

I work in rooms on the roof of 20-30 story buildings and they are loaded with crickets n shit.....would a cricket hurt a plant...IDK...never had a cricket problem?

 

[defcomexperiment]

haha thats crazy about the crickets that high up, i dont think it would hurt a plant, and at least a cricket is loud as fuck so we know we have one in there. i dont think it would hurt the plant anyways...

 

[defcomexperiment]

oh, also the plants are drinking and eatin like mad now! my g/f checked the ec and ph and it was .85 and 5.6, she made a quick adjustment back to 5.85, and raised the nutes to 1.0. werent really gonna raise the EC but we had a bucket of nuted water sittin around, i will be home on thursday and its gonna be time for me to kick it into flower.

 

[defcomexperiment]

well i finally got to see my plants, and they are looking good. sometimes there is kind of wet spots on the leaves, i dont know if this is from the plant transpiring or what, but i adjusted my fan, and plan on getting some smaller fans to move more air around... if anyone knows the best kind of fans to get for a tent like oscilating fans or whatnot itd be great if you told me... other than that the plant in the center looks like it has some slight browning of the roots going on, theres no slime or anything and its difficult to get a good picture cause of the hps light. i dont know what the deal is unless they are just naturally dying. unless some got damaged from the moving of the main stem or something from screening the plants. looks a bit worse in the picture than it does irl, but i plan on hitting em with h202 tonite, and tomorrow will be clone taking and rez change.

heres a couple pics, they are drinking lots and lots of water now...

 

[defcomexperiment]

spent about an hour rerouting branches and whatnot, my girlfriend did a pretty good job though overall... everything is looking good, ph was at 5.4, and ec .80, i just raised it to 5.8 and .950... heres some updated pictures:

 

[jeffdamann]

Lookin good defcom, when those things get situated in their new positions things are gonna be great!

 

[defcomexperiment]

quick pic, plants are growin crazy... tonight im changing the timers and doing res flush and change. everything is stable, looks like i will be weaving some more tonight, runnin out of screen, wish i could have got into town a week earlier.

 

[ENDLSCYCLE]

Yeah I know how you feel...I just found out today I'm leaving Monday for a couple weeks and I just finished 2nd week of flower.....Plants are looking good.

 

[defcomexperiment]

kk bubble cloner is built, really wish i would have been able to find a dark tote but i didnt feel like runnin all over or goin to walmart. either way, lightproofing it was a breeze:



also included pics of my nutes and random shit since i never did at the beginning... tomorrow will be res change to flower nute soup, switch to 12/12, and taking of clones...

 

[NewbGrower^.^]

Nice job with the tub! And that nute lineup looks top notch ;] I'll be following along