Raspberry Cough DWC Grow

[Niko Bellick]

Day 15 ish: temp 86-68
RH 24-16 (gotta figure out a way to get the humidity up)
PH 5.8
Height 5 inches (I really thought being Sativa they would be getting taller alil quicker)

Friday I'll be adding Two large circular air stones to the res for a total of three. In addition to the air stones I'm going to go ahead and buy four cfl's for when I begin flowering to get as much out of them as I can (I think it's the 2700K cfl's I need for that)

 

[BluBerry]

Try to take a wet rag and put it on your fan so it blows in moist air (this should also lower temps a little bit), lay a wet towel or a cup of water in the room near the plants to raise humidity. 86 is kinda high especially with low humidity. If temps are high then it should high humidity. Once you get above like 90-95 the growth starts to really slow down in the plants. I prefer my cab to be around 75-78 and try not to let it get over 82. It was 88 the other day but it just made them drink more. IMO you should put a cover over those net pots and maybe even the lid of the rez. Every little bit of precaution helps out. That light will get thru that hydroton into the water.

 

[Niko Bellick]

Try to take a wet rag and put it on your fan so it blows in moist air (this should also lower temps a little bit), lay a wet towel or a cup of water in the room near the plants to raise humidity. 86 is kinda high especially with low humidity. If temps are high then it should high humidity. Once you get above like 90-95 the growth starts to really slow down in the plants. I prefer my cab to be around 75-78 and try not to let it get over 82. It was 88 the other day but it just made them drink more. IMO you should put a cover over those net pots and maybe even the lid of the rez. Every little bit of precaution helps out. That light will get thru that hydroton into the water.

I put a foil cover around the base of the plants to block out the light. temp is 77 and dropping right now. good idea I'm about to go put a wet rag over the fan and see if that helps the humidity any. Also gonna put a cup of water between the four plants.

 

[BluBerry]

When you put the rag over the fan be careful and place it where its not gonna fall off the fan onto the plants. And you should have to wet it about 2-3 times a day cuz that fan will dry it out. I place a big wet towel between the plants and it raises the RH. Its only temporary but it does help.

 

[Niko Bellick]

When you put the rag over the fan be careful and place it where its not gonna fall off the fan onto the plants. And you should have to wet it about 2-3 times a day cuz that fan will dry it out. I place a big wet towel between the plants and it raises the RH. Its only temporary but it does help.

okay cut an old t shirt in half wetted them with warm water put one over the fan and one between the plants. I also increased the watering schedule from two minutes every three hours too two minutes every two hours.

 

[Niko Bellick]

as per bluberry's advice i put a wet towel over the fan and one between the plants. temps are hovering around 78 but humidity is at 25 and climbing

 

[Niko Bellick]

pics from today. full shot of all four and single shot of my most vigorous girl

 

[DocGreenThumb]

How long are you going to veg them for? I can't wait for mine to sprout.

 

[Niko Bellick]

How long are you going to veg them for? I can't wait for mine to sprout.

Well that is the million dollar question. definitely going to have to go screen of green because another dude i talked to on here said his was six foot tall before they even finished. I have seven feet eight inches to work with but wouldnt get enough light coverage. I think he said most of that growth came during flower which is crazy. going to put the screen in Friday let it fill about 1/3rd of the way and flip to twelve twelve. hopefully that works out

 

[Niko Bellick]

A new day and a new update. Girls looking healthy as always and a whole inch of growth last night. Friday I will set the screen at eight inches, change the res and add three bubble disks to the mix. hopefully by Sunday or Monday I can start training them and filling that screen in.

Temp: 80-70
RH: 16-38
PH: 6.2
Height: almost 8 inches. long thick root growth.

 

[DocGreenThumb]

Yeah RBC are tall lanky plants hehe. I have never tried the SCROG method. SmellyTreez has had great success with scrogs. I tried LST this time around with my LA Woman mother plant. Good luck with the screen I will be checking on your thread daily. My RBC hasn't sprouted out of the cup of soil yet. The other RBC seed is splitting now ad growing a tap root. Far as the Ice goes neither has popped a tap root yet... Raising the temps to 85-90ish to see if they pop. Nirvana said some of their seeds need to germinate around 90*F. Wish me luck bro. Keep those updates coming.

 

[Niko Bellick]

Yeah RBC are tall lanky plants hehe. I have never tried the SCROG method. SmellyTreez has had great success with scrogs. I tried LST this time around with my LA Woman mother plant. Good luck with the screen I will be checking on your thread daily. My RBC hasn't sprouted out of the cup of soil yet. The other RBC seed is splitting now ad growing a tap root. Far as the Ice goes neither has popped a tap root yet... Raising the temps to 85-90ish to see if they pop. Nirvana said some of their seeds need to germinate around 90*F. Wish me luck bro. Keep those updates coming.

This'll be my first scrog and seems like the only practical approach to get a good yield using t5's and cfl. how long have you been waiting for them to pop? if they still dont do it with the temps raised I would try using some tweezers to give it a slight crack along the seam of the seed. did you soak em before you put em in the paper towel? Don't worry updates will definitely be daily so when something goes wrong you all can look back and point out where I screwed the pooch lol.

 

[DocGreenThumb]

At 9:30PM tonight(7:42PM now) It will be 48 hours. No I figured they would be fresh so I didn't soak them in water. Just soaked paper towels in 6.5 ph'd water and put paper towels in between 2 plates(did this for each strain) and this how I germ seeds every time except for when their old I put them in a cup of water for 24 hours then do the paper towel soak.

I think everything should be fine I'm just impatient LOL.

The Ice seeds were kind of pale looking whitish. If I were to collect seeds out of a bag or something these would have not been chosen. I never bought feminized seeds before so wasn't sure about it.

 

[Niko Bellick]

At 9:30PM tonight(7:42PM now) It will be 48 hours. No I figured they would be fresh so I didn't soak them in water. Just soaked paper towels in 6.5 ph'd water and put paper towels in between 2 plates(did this for each strain) and this how I germ seeds every time except for when their old I put them in a cup of water for 24 hours then do the paper towel soak.

I think everything should be fine I'm just impatient LOL.

The Ice seeds were kind of pale looking whitish. If I were to collect seeds out of a bag or something these would have not been chosen. I never bought feminized seeds before so wasn't sure about it.

Yeah im impatient to bro no worries. weird all the fem seed's ive bought were kind of a light oaken color. but 48 hours makes sense if you didn't soak them. what method you gonna grow your rbc with? you mightve said already but im already drinking my Guinness for tomorrow so I don't recall haha

 

[DocGreenThumb]

LOL Budweiser here. If everything goes as planned will be flowering 1 of each strain when they reach about a foot tall. The other 2 will be transplanted in 5-7 Gallon soil containers. After that harest will be switching to 4 separate home made aeroponics tubs. Will be getting a larger reflector for this and the aero tubs will be on a 2 week rotation. I do not know how many plants per rotation yet because the aero tubs are not built yet. It's going to be fun though. Going to check these seeds....

 

[Niko Bellick]

LOL Budweiser here. If everything goes as planned will be flowering 1 of each strain when they reach about a foot tall. The other 2 will be transplanted in 5-7 Gallon soil containers. After that harest will be switching to 4 separate home made aeroponics tubs. Will be getting a larger reflector for this and the aero tubs will be on a 2 week rotation. I do not know how many plants per rotation yet because the aero tubs are not built yet. It's going to be fun though. Going to check these seeds....

Sound's like you got it all planned out. Aeroponic's has intrigued me abit. Ive done drip, dwc and next up I saved one RBC to use for a soil grow (heard soil produces the best taste) Might have to find a decent aero set up and try one, definitely seems interesting and probably harder than what I'm used too.

 

[Niko Bellick]

Whether your a Mick a spick or a dick happy Saint Patricks Day.

Refilled my yeast c02 generator last night and today It's like they are on steroids, bushing out very nicely. even more root formation now that I'm foliar feeding Rhizotonic twice a day. temps are mid seventies humidity mid twenties.

Tomorrow a res clean and change adding three five inch air disks to the res and will probably build my screen as well. That's it for today, time to go get plowed on Guinness and Bushmill's

 

[Niko Bellick]

Came home and checked the girls when the lights came on at 11pm. Sides of leaves were curling up on one plant. Being that I use T5's this grow it's not heat stress but my damn Hanna meter calibration was off (high by .5) re calibrated brought the PH to 5.7 and decided since tomorrow there do for a res change I may as well go ahead and top them tonight. With that done I'm off to mix up a new batch of Canna Nutes to let them sit over night.

 

[Niko Bellick]

Little bit of cupping but only on the right two...wtf is that about? otherwise they took well to the topping. need to hurry up and get my screen built. flipping the lights on april 1st. I've heard when switching too 1212 you should leave the lights off for some extra hours before coming on that first time. anyone got some input? I hand out plus reps like it's candy ya'll cmon

 

[Niko Bellick]

Okay completely lost count of the day I'm on but they are doing great. You will notice from the above pics that they began cupping upward. This was the night before I introduced the two extra air stones and now it doesn't appear to be getting any worse so I believe that it was do to lack of oxygen in the roots. Did a res change yesterday PH meter worked fine and then last night it went haywire and kept spinning to random numbers now the screen is stuck on 1 .....Called Texas Hydro (my local store and the only one i will shop at) and he told me to bring it in and he would take a look at it. hopefully there isn't a hassle about getting it fixed or replaced. OTHERWISE I'm gonna put the screen in tonight since I'm flipping them on April 1st.

Now the question part. give me some good answers folks and I'll start slinging some plus reps
1. Should I give them 24 hours of dark before turning on the bloom lights and switching to 12/12? I've heard that this stimulates growth.
2. Should I flush them out for a day or two before putting in the bloom nutes?
3. I desperately want to give them a trim before I flip the lights, already topped them (even though I'm gonna scrog this grow my bad) but I think a pruning would do them some good. opinions?
4. Random question. I've been a hard man to budge from smoking my weed either blunt or joint. I've been told you can taste the flavor better in a bong, any truth?