Raspberry Cough DWC Grow

[Niko Bellick]

3/24/10 update: one day over three weeks into this grow and they are doing fantastic. All four of the canopies are starting to even out with the lower branches almost equal with what would be the two main colas.
For once I have almost no PH fluctuation compared to my previous grows (musta been that nasty ass houston water.

Now for the question part. I have always been weary about trimming to much. I am wondering if it would be okay to trim off the largest older fan leaves towards the bottom and middle so that more light can reach the plant. I know plants use the fan leaves for alot of things so I would like Opinions. Plus Reps for advice btw

 

[DocGreenThumb]

Glad to hear bro. My RBC's are looking good too. The Ice's have started to pop out of the soil Got my MH all setup can't wait for a few weeks to pass.

 

[Niko Bellick]

Glad to hear bro. My RBC's are looking good too. The Ice's have started to pop out of the soil Got my MH all setup can't wait for a few weeks to pass.

glad to hear that you finally got some ICE to pop. That's the roughest part about growing, we can manipulate the plant to yield us unimaginable amounts of bud but we cant do anything about the months that it takes us to get there.

 

[Niko Bellick]

Okay, Today a grow update and a smoke report! Bought my first bong yesterday, I had been smoking this "fire kush" for a few days now and it had been getting me a nice head high. I loaded a bowl of it into my bong (my first ever time hitting a bong) took two man size hits and next thing I know I'm the highest I've ever been in my life! Picked up some White Rhino today can't wait to smoke it tonight.
Plants are doing great, no issues whatsoever. Five more days and I'm flipping to 12/12. Pic's tonight if I'm not stoned into Narnia!

 

[smhsmichael]

3/24/10 update: one day over three weeks into this grow and they are doing fantastic. All four of the canopies are starting to even out with the lower branches almost equal with what would be the two main colas.
For once I have almost no PH fluctuation compared to my previous grows (musta been that nasty ass houston water.

Now for the question part. I have always been weary about trimming to much. I am wondering if it would be okay to trim off the largest older fan leaves towards the bottom and middle so that more light can reach the plant. I know plants use the fan leaves for alot of things so I would like Opinions. Plus Reps for advice btw

Here's my take on trimming lower fan leaves. Plants have adapted over many years and only the best processes have been passed on thru natural selection. So basically what I'm saying is that the plants will self regulate and "kill off" the unnecessary leaves by depriving them of nutes.
I grow in a small tent and getting light to lower branches is a real challenge for me by the time I go 12/12. But I just let the plant take off the leaves it feels is unnecessary. But that's just my opinion

 

[DocGreenThumb]

I remove damaged and nute deprived leaves. They invite insects, usually if you wait they become hard and brittle and pull off with little to no effort. Glad to hear everything is going good without issues. I think I'm going to start 1 plant in some sort of hydro setup just to see how it goes for me. I want to switch everything over to aeroponics in the setup I have now but think I should get a successful hydroponic grow done first. I think it will go well for me though. Plus the switch will be perfect for me. Easier feeding of all plants by each res, use my space better, NO SOIL BUGS, and no soil costs/carrying. Not sure what kind of power increase I'm looking at for aero setup.

 

[Niko Bellick]

Thanks for all the input guys. Been stoned something stupid the last two days and apparently my plants looked great to me stoned. Upon a sober inspection I realized I was getting nute burn on the lower leaves, upon inspection of the res i found that it was about two gallons low and the ph was off. fixed all of that and did some light trimming to the dead and or dying leaves. I have decided that tuesday is the big day, Going to do a res change and put in flower nutes switch out the bulbs and set the timer for 12/12 and pray I dont get any hermies.

 

[Niko Bellick]

I remove damaged and nute deprived leaves. They invite insects, usually if you wait they become hard and brittle and pull off with little to no effort. Glad to hear everything is going good without issues. I think I'm going to start 1 plant in some sort of hydro setup just to see how it goes for me. I want to switch everything over to aeroponics in the setup I have now but think I should get a successful hydroponic grow done first. I think it will go well for me though. Plus the switch will be perfect for me. Easier feeding of all plants by each res, use my space better, NO SOIL BUGS, and no soil costs/carrying. Not sure what kind of power increase I'm looking at for aero setup.

I've always heard that aero is the hardest of all the set ups but the best way to go. If it was me I would do a dwc for your first grow. for less than fifty bucks you can build a bad ass dwc set up. As far as power increase I doubt youll see a difference at all. That's why I didn't go with soil that and didnt want peeps seeing me carrying potting soil in and out but never have any visible plants lol

 

[d6520]

loks good man, i love the stem on it

 

[DocGreenThumb]

I've always heard that aero is the hardest of all the set ups but the best way to go. If it was me I would do a dwc for your first grow. for less than fifty bucks you can build a bad ass dwc set up. As far as power increase I doubt youll see a difference at all. That's why I didn't go with soil that and didnt want peeps seeing me carrying potting soil in and out but never have any visible plants lol

Right before I read this post I was researching DWC lol think I may start here. Same thing except your roots sit in the nute solution with no misting correct? Oh and of course air stones for oxygen. Low start up cost. Do you bring res level up to bottom of your containers all the time or just until the roots grow down into the solution?

 

[Niko Bellick]

Right before I read this post I was researching DWC lol think I may start here. Same thing except your roots sit in the nute solution with no misting correct? Oh and of course air stones for oxygen. Low start up cost. Do you bring res level up to bottom of your containers all the time or just until the roots grow down into the solution?

well the set up I built has a submersible pump that feeds one hose that has outlets for each individual pot. so my set up is actually top drip/dwc. I would keep the res level about two to three inches below your net pot and just hand water a couple of times a day. you want a gap between the water and the net pot so not all the roots are completely submerged. The more bubbles you can get in that res the better the oxygen level will be for the submerged roots. yup no misting, every now and again I water where the rapid rooter plug is just to moisten it but that is it everything else takes care of itself.

 

[Niko Bellick]

Alright tell me what you think folks. The leaves curling like that is probably my PH being off the other day. Any and all suggestions would be appreciated. Heading in there now to vacuum everything, scrub the walls with bleach and organize abit. Tomorrow starts 12/12 just mixed up Canna aqua flores a and b.

 

[Niko Bellick]

Thought I'd throw up a pic of the root mass on my tallest one. nice and white and much longer than whats in the pic

 

[Bloomin Irish]

I've got a clone raspberry cough goin right now about 4 weeks into flower. Its been plagued by spider mites the whole grow so I'm not expecting much yield but it definitely has a typical sativa bud structure and is very leggy compared to my skywalker og. Somehow they have both maintained similar heights during the grow but the skywalker is a bush. Cool to see this in hydro I'm switching back from soil after this round.

 

[Niko Bellick]

I've got a clone raspberry cough goin right now about 4 weeks into flower. Its been plagued by spider mites the whole grow so I'm not expecting much yield but it definitely has a typical sativa bud structure and is very leggy compared to my skywalker og. Somehow they have both maintained similar heights during the grow but the skywalker is a bush. Cool to see this in hydro I'm switching back from soil after this round.

Thanks for swinging by bloomin. You wouldnt be talking to me from Eire would you?

 

[Niko Bellick]

I've got a clone raspberry cough goin right now about 4 weeks into flower. Its been plagued by spider mites the whole grow so I'm not expecting much yield but it definitely has a typical sativa bud structure and is very leggy compared to my skywalker og. Somehow they have both maintained similar heights during the grow but the skywalker is a bush. Cool to see this in hydro I'm switching back from soil after this round.

BTW how do you know if you have spider mites?? I had a random leaf where the side looked like it been eaten on by bugs and started to get crispy, its got me worried

 

[Niko Bellick]

Okay boys and girls, I can barely control my excitement at the moment. in 45 minutes my lights shut off and the second they do ill be pulling down the t5 fixture and switching the bulbs out for flowering bulbs resetting the timers to come on at 8 am instead of ten tonight. Also I'll be adding four Cfl bulbs to the closet one for each plant. Only eleven more long weeks til Harvest, I'll be back to posting daily updates along with photos every day so that everyone can see the progress of my prized girls

 

[DocGreenThumb]

That's awesome bro. Luckily I have some buds to look at in the flowering room while my RBC and Ice mature. I hope the RBC finishes in less than 11 weeks lol hopefully 9-10. The Ice is 7-10 weeks.

Looks like I'm going DWC for the RBC's and Ice.

How many plants do you think I should do in each 18 Gallon container. I'm using 2" net pots to fit as many as I can. I'm going 0 veg clones forced into flower So they won't need as much space, they will be growing mostly vertical in the tight spacing.

Can't wait to watch your RBC's start shooting up and packing on buds.

 

[Niko Bellick]

Okay guys I am paranoid now heres what happened. I made sure my room was completely dark, opened the closet door pulled down my light shut said door switched out the bulbs put it back in the closet hooked up the timer set it for 8 am to 8 pm and plugged it in....I didn't realize the timer was already on when i plugged it all in. lights came on for maybe 2.3 seconds or some shit before i flipped em off. Any clue if thatd be enough to fuck em up and turn em into hermies??? I don't think so but who knows

 

[Niko Bellick]

That's awesome bro. Luckily I have some buds to look at in the flowering room while my RBC and Ice mature. I hope the RBC finishes in less than 11 weeks lol hopefully 9-10. The Ice is 7-10 weeks.

Looks like I'm going DWC for the RBC's and Ice.

How many plants do you think I should do in each 18 Gallon container. I'm using 2" net pots to fit as many as I can. I'm going 0 veg clones forced into flower So they won't need as much space, they will be growing mostly vertical in the tight spacing.

Can't wait to watch your RBC's start shooting up and packing on buds.

Hmm, what are the dimensions of that lid? I would want to leave an inch or two between each plant. I'm assuming that your going to do this as a sort of sea of green grow??? Well they say Hydro finishes two weeks sooner than soil, but who knows how true that is. Me neither gotta decide between a hepa air purifier to put in the closet or the gel that they sell at the hydro shop to control odor with. any opinions?