First Time Hydro Grower.... Fist Time Grower, actually.

hey guys, I just kinda was looking for some feedback. This is the first time, I myself have grown. I think everyone in my family has had their cards for years so I know a little bit about what I am doing, but everyone in my family has always done dirt. I am using a deep water culture system and stacking the Advanced Nutrients bundles to the Grand Master Bundle (plus the home and garden Roots Excelurator). I think they are looking great and it has been coming along faster than I ever expected...but they are my babies - so I am kind of impartial. Wanted to share some photos with someone! They are just in week three of Bloom and I am finding it is super hard to take photos with that lighting but want to share photos. I mainly have God Berry, but there is a couple Cheesy Dick's, a couple Purple Cheddar's, One Green Crack and then there is a few "Tsunami X Cannatonic". Look okay to everyone? I will keep posting pictures till harvest each week if anyone wants.

Hey dude lookin good! Doing well for your first go, especially with DWC. What size room and light are you playing with?

looks good from where I'm sitting...

JoMammy said:

hey guys, I just kinda was looking for some feedback. This is the first time, I myself have grown. I think everyone in my family has had their cards for years so I know a little bit about what I am doing, but everyone in my family has always done dirt. I am using a deep water culture system and stacking the Advanced Nutrients bundles to the Grand Master Bundle (plus the home and garden Roots Excelurator). I think they are looking great and it has been coming along faster than I ever expected...but they are my babies - so I am kind of impartial. Wanted to share some photos with someone! They are just in week three of Bloom and I am finding it is super hard to take photos with that lighting but want to share photos. I mainly have God Berry, but there is a couple Cheesy Dick's, a couple Purple Cheddar's, One Green Crack and then there is a few "Tsunami X Cannatonic". Look okay to everyone? I will keep posting pictures till harvest each week if anyone wants.

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for sure thats a really nice lookin gro first one or not but i will say that hps lights really make it hard to see anything as far as colors go but looks good

Looks good! I would love to switch to DWC but I just don't have the cash or the knowledge to take on that path yet! Great job so far would love to see updates.

I am running 2 1000 hps's(just about to add a 3rd) and 2 co2 exhale bags and my room is 8x8. My next run I will be moving to a room in my basement that is 12x15 more the size I need. I have a Green Air MicroClimate Control for my lights, humidity, and heat but need a co2 tank and meter to top it off. but the co2 bags I hope are doing their job.

Maine Buds said:

Looks good! I would love to switch to DWC but I just don't have the cash or the knowledge to take on that path yet! Great job so far would love to see updates.

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Oh it is so much easier as far as my nutrients and testing everything. Ive helped my dad and uncle and watch them have to flush their plants and start over so many times because they over fertilize with dirt. With the advance nutrients ph perfect it is so simple, I don't even have to test my ph. I do because I am anal but it never changes. It is always near perfect. I was amazed. All I have to do is scrub out my buckets when I change my water/nutrients, which is once a week. Then I add half nutrients / water through out the week to keep them topped off. Someone told me to keep my nutrients at half level when I am topping off just to keep from the salt build up on the roots. I could walk you through it and what you need to buy to do it if you ever want to change. I have 15 sites and each bucket set up was under around 15 bucks(the pumps are expensive - I did some mad bidding on ebay and got one heck of a deal on mine though ). I am going to do a reservoir set up next time. Changing the water and keeping the buckets all full of water is a workout! Not going to lie! I cannot walk through my room anymore either so every day I crawl through the room under all the plants on my belly filling them up. Thank goodness I am tiny! I think Im going to add some photos to a journal- I have been taking photos through out the whole thing. I bought them as babies in dirt, I didn't start from seeds this time. Right before re-potting them decided to do the DWC. I was worried I would lose some through the change - but they all survived. I added some photos here, you can see the dates and how fast it goes in hydro.

Ha ha eBay is the place to get it cheap! I love buy stuff off eBay. I would love to learn how to do it. I guess just the thought if having all that water in buckets that can spill! Lol

JoMammy said:

hey guys, I just kinda was looking for some feedback. This is the first time, I myself have grown. I think everyone in my family has had their cards for years so I know a little bit about what I am doing, but everyone in my family has always done dirt. I am using a deep water culture system and stacking the Advanced Nutrients bundles to the Grand Master Bundle (plus the home and garden Roots Excelurator). I think they are looking great and it has been coming along faster than I ever expected...but they are my babies - so I am kind of impartial. Wanted to share some photos with someone! They are just in week three of Bloom and I am finding it is super hard to take photos with that lighting but want to share photos. I mainly have God Berry, but there is a couple Cheesy Dick's, a couple Purple Cheddar's, One Green Crack and then there is a few "Tsunami X Cannatonic". Look okay to everyone? I will keep posting pictures till harvest each week if anyone wants.

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take the photo's through a decent pair of sun shades,or i take them just min's befor the lights are about to come on with flash on.
Looking great just a few pointers that i would add for one either polli the walls with black and white polli or paint the walls in matt white paint i would also have the lights running along side each other instead of side by side you will get far better coverage,Looking good though dude have ya thought about what ya gonna do when they get heavy,i would think about building a scrog table now before its too late just use polli tubeing plumbers use ya can get all the joint i have found the polli table better because it is light weight and can be hung over each plant,or just one big one over them all,but this can cause problems with getting to the plants,hands and knee job i would spread the light and each plant or two get there each table.

Can you get cannatonic regular beans

tyke1973 said:

take the photo's through a decent pair of sun shades,or i take them just min's befor the lights are about to come on with flash on.
Looking great just a few pointers that i would add for one either polli the walls with black and white polli or paint the walls in matt white paint i would also have the lights running along side each other instead of side by side you will get far better coverage,Looking good though dude have ya thought about what ya gonna do when they get heavy,i would think about building a scrog table now before its too late just use polli tubeing plumbers use ya can get all the joint i have found the polli table better because it is light weight and can be hung over each plant,or just one big one over them all,but this can cause problems with getting to the plants, hands and knee job i would spread the light and each plant or two get there each table.

Can you get cannatonic regular beans

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Yeah actually I can, but it wont be for about 30 days or so. A family member seeded a couple plants. My fiancé has been diagnosed with arthritis, ankylosing spondylitis. That is mainly what the cannatonic strain is for. All we could find was a cross though, at that time anyway. As for the scrog table.... I have been looking every where for how to do my room with one of those tables - but I really don't think I can. I take off those lids once a week wash out the buckets... Next time Im growing in the garage though!! Screw it! So I can walk around - so I don't have to pull those guys out of that room every week. I am always feeling bad trying not to bang them around much when I just want to feed them and clean the buckets. Yeah I have been rotating those plants because of that lighting in there too. there is just the one sturdy beam in that cellar ceiling, so I thought I would use that. I gotta head to work - Im out! Thanks for chatting with me! I did go watch your video by the way! I love watching seeds grow up are you going to keep video's of them as you go?

JoMammy said:

Yeah actually I can, but it wont be for about 30 days or so. A family member seeded a couple plants. My fiancé has been diagnosed with arthritis, ankylosing spondylitis. That is mainly what the cannatonic strain is for. All we could find was a cross though, at that time anyway. As for the scrog table.... I have been looking every where for how to do my room with one of those tables - but I really don't think I can. I take off those lids once a week wash out the buckets... Next time Im growing in the garage though!! Screw it! So I can walk around - so I don't have to pull those guys out of that room every week. I am always feeling bad trying not to bang them around much when I just want to feed them and clean the buckets. Yeah I have been rotating those plants because of that lighting in there too. there is just the one sturdy beam in that cellar ceiling, so I thought I would use that. I gotta head to work - Im out! Thanks for chatting with me! I did go watch your video by the way! I love watching seeds grow up are you going to keep video's of them as you go?

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i putting my up date on now there easy to make