My first grow ever! Sweet Cheese, DWC 3x3x7

Hi guys, it's been a good couple months growing. I've lost two young clones, set me back two weeks.) they started in soil, I didn't know it was a rough start to transplant to hydro).

Currently I have two sweet cheese ladies growing in a 3x3x7 grow tent. I'm running two 5 gallon bucket DWC, with a couple air stones each. My nutrients:


Veg: Ionic grow + cyco silica + special brewed EWC myco tea + RO water + city water

Flower= Ionic Bloom + Ionic PK boost + Heavy16 Heavy Fire + CALiMAGic + EWC Tea + RO water

My I have an intake fan at 190cfms and an exhaust variable speed up to 450cfm

I have a 250 watt ballast on loan from a friend and tomorrow night I'll be putting in a 1000wat digital ballast (set to 50 or 75%) for the rest of flower.

Just thought I'd post up for the rest of the grow seeing as I didnt fuck anything up yet.


Here's the ride home from day one, you can see they're clones cut from an early flowering plant


Had to jimmy rig a humidity chamber because they didn't even have roots when I planted them in their buckets (beginner mistake, but this worked)

They grew alright after this, I topped the one on the left, and trained it really hard. I let the one onthe right grow tall (just experimenting). Made a nice canopy on the left after a while. now we're in flower, and here I am. This was yesterday



And here's today



Tips? Thoughts? Thanks!

Day 17 flower
Got the new lights installed yesterday. It runs a bit hot if I leave it at 600w, so I keep it at 75% and I'm able to maintain about 74f and a reasonable rh.
Smells real nice about now
Here's more from today

Day 20 of flower

Today the oscillating fan I had for the top of the canopy fell on one of my two plants, but it's so tough it just ripped two small branches off the bottom, the rest is just bent over a bit.

Plants still look great, will post pics before lights out.
Also fast drying these puppies now, will post smokability results as well.

Wow so I got too medicated to take more pictures last night. Super strong and only half way there

Here's day 30!

Half way done. Here's some pretty pics (there's a little damage from a lack of space)

Looking pretty good, whatever your doing seems to be working so I wouldn't try changing anything.

Also like how you ran a little mini experiment at the same time. Though from the pics it looks like she stretched up pretty good anyways.

Crazybear said:

Looking pretty good, whatever your doing seems to be working so I wouldn't try changing anything.

Also like how you ran a little mini experiment at the same time. Though from the pics it looks like she stretched up pretty good anyways.

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Yeah I was pretty surprised, at first I thought there might be a bit of a height difference, but she stretched up nice. My next grow is just gonna be one big scrog I think, I could have better utilized my space I think

That one plant sure got tall. Did well for first grow being hydro, I would like to try it sometime. What day total?

Here's some tiny pics from yesterday, which was day 33.
All the stores out of RO water! Had to fill up with tap /; no biggie though, res change soon.

Definitely growin quick today, will post some big pics before lights-out!

Kind Sir said:

That one plant sure got tall. Did well for first grow being hydro, I would like to try it sometime. What day total?

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Today is day 34 of flower for sweet cheese. I read the flower period is somewhere between 59 and 63 days.Can any experienced grower give me an estimate on the yield? I just really hope I can harvest 10oz...

murderdude said:

Today is day 34 of flower for sweet cheese. I read the flower period is somewhere between 59 and 63 days.View attachment 3419348Can any experienced grower give me an estimate on the yield? I just really hope I can harvest 10oz...

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I don't see 10 ounces here but no worries. Keep at it. Your technique is pretty advanced for a first grow. Learn from your first grow and keep learning and things will improve. I see a lot of wasted space for starters.

Hot Diggity Sog said:

I don't see 10 ounces here but no worries. Keep at it. Your technique is pretty advanced for a first grow. Learn from your first grow and keep learning and things will improve. I see a lot of wasted space for starters.

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I totally agree. I was too scared to try a scrog on my first try but honestly I would have been better off.
My next plan is for 1 plant grown from seed (these were cuttings from a plant in flower, which was bogus) and I'm gonna scrog it, and use two reservoirs. Or I'm thinking about switching to a different hydroponic method, the EM Air compressor is just so loud. also I'm gonna try putting my exhaust filter outside of my tent, just air cooling the bulb and supplementing co2 to my tent. There's like a million things I could do better next time haha here's some more pretty pictures do you think the trichomes are pretty good for this stage?

murderdude said:

I totally agree. I was too scared to try a scrog on my first try but honestly I would have been better off.
My next plan is for 1 plant grown from seed (these were cuttings from a plant in flower, which was bogus) and I'm gonna scrog it, and use two reservoirs. Or I'm thinking about switching to a different hydroponic method, the EM Air compressor is just so loud. also I'm gonna try putting my exhaust filter outside of my tent, just air cooling the bulb and supplementing co2 to my tent. There's like a million things I could do better next time haha here's some more pretty picturesView attachment 3419363View attachment 3419366 View attachment 3419368 do you think the trichomes are pretty good for this stage?

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I do. The quality is there and that's the hardest point. Now just work on maximizing your space, your lights, etc.

So these pics are from Saturday the 24th (yesterday) and it seems like growth has sort of stalled. I can't tell if they're filling in any more. Trichomes just don't stop coming though, holy smokes. And the pistils are coloring in nicely.

Here's Day 43 of 64


Here's some of the bud on the walls that droops over from the weight




Wish I had more space!

murderdude said:

So these pics are from Saturday the 24th (yesterday) and it seems like growth has sort of stalled. I can't tell if they're filling in any more. Trichomes just don't stop coming though, holy smokes. And the pistils are coloring in nicely.

Wish I had more space!

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The way I tell if they are filling up more is just to take pictures often and compare say Monday with Wednesday with Friday and see how much you can notice.

Everyone wishes they had more space lol, I know I do.

Nice grow very good for your first time I like seeing others doing they're homework .

I would say for how much your plants stretched scrog would have helped you yield a lot more. Definitely go with the scrog next run

Good Bud Big said:

Nice grow very good for your first time I like seeing others doing they're homework .

I would say for how much your plants stretched scrog would have helped you yield a lot more. Definitely go with the scrog next run

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Yeah plus I'll be using 600w metal halides for veg instead, just didn't have the money from the get go. Also learned that you can't go too far above the wattage of the lights you started with. I've had a verrry slow light burn on only my top leaves after switching from 250w to 600w. I vary the dimming all day, I try to let them cool a bit before bedtime. Not sure if it helps.

But the trichomes are coming in nicely! Here's some pretty pictures. Will document growth later tonight before lights out

murderdude said:

Yeah plus I'll be using 600w metal halides for veg instead, just didn't have the money from the get go. Also learned that you can't go too far above the wattage of the lights you started with. I've had a verrry slow light burn on only my top leaves after switching from 250w to 600w. I vary the dimming all day, I try to let them cool a bit before bedtime. Not sure if it helps.

But the trichomes are coming in nicely! Here's some pretty pictures. Will document growth later tonight before lights outView attachment 3426857View attachment 3426858 View attachment 3426859 View attachment 3426860 View attachment 3426861 View attachment 3426862 View attachment 3426863 View attachment 3426864

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Beautiful photos! Yeah 600s are hot bitches I keep mine 2 feet from the tops

Anyone know why I don't have to ph my water any more? I phd it once last week when I did my last res change, got it down to 5.8 and since then I havent had to add any ph up or down. It's been like that most of the way through flower. I do not ph my RO water, and when I refill (which is 1~1.5gal per day) it stays the same. I'm not complaining, just curious. Wondering if it has to do with the constant presence of mycorrhizae that I suppliment pretty frequently. Water stays pretty clear except for the organic additives.

Here's tues and Wednesday, looking for any changes in growth. Hard to tell, just not as explosive as before.. But I'm entering the last two weeks now, which I hear is great. Let's see.

how far above canopy is your light