sweet dude.. i posted in your journal but its not much.. im not much of a typer but more of a picture reader haha... if i got 3 oz off this plant i would be totally satisfied.. ill weight what i got off these lower branches after a few days or maybe even tomorrow... since you have experience growin lowriders can you give me any advise how to 100% make sure my next batch of lowriders dont grow very tall.. i dont mind if they are wide so long as they arent tall... im considering the cfl vegging or getting a mh to veg with.. prob wont do soil just yet but rather stick them in a small tub for another DWC grow
MH is ideal for keeping the plant short and node spacing tight. But in an absense of a MH, just use cfls in the daylight spectrum. Lot's of em though. You'll only use this type of light fixture for about 2.5 weeks (until you can see sex). Then it's HPS time.
Feel free to LST lowryders as well. Just no topping or fim'ing. They're veg cycle is too short for the high stress training methods.
Also, and this is still theory as I haven't done it enough to prove it but, try to find a shorter rez. Let me explain a bit, say you have a 5 gallon paint bucket that you'll use for the DWC rez...and on the other hand you have a 5 gallon storage tote that's shorter that you can use as well....
With the taller rez, the roots don't meet any "resistance" in their growth until they hit the bottom of that bucket, probably a few weeks in. I theorize that this results in a rather explosive growth phase in those deeper DWC that result in taller plants.
Whereas the shorter 5-gallon rez plant meets vertical resistance much quicker, thereby slowing the vertical height. The DWC that I used was about 4"-5" tall (3 gallon rez) and was modeled after Diggity's DIY tote (you da man Diggity
). She still got over a foot tall, but it was managable.
But obviously lighting and the height of the lighting are probably the 2 most important factors in managing the height of these strains.
And yes, keep the air pumps runnin 24/7. Mo bubbles = Mo betta bud + Mo bud
Saw that you mentioned adding tap water to the rez to lower the ppm in case of nute burn. Did it sit out for 24 hours to let the chlorine evaporate off or did you add it direct from the tap. Not sure but I think that could cause some dischord in the system and the plant.
Thanks for checkin in on my journal boss.
-Butters