My first hydro w.pics

Little update,
I'm 72 days into flowering and have started to flush one of my two plants. The other one looks like it needs another week or two and I do not mind waiting at this point.
It also allows me to rotate my first batch of clones in while the other plant is still finishing up.
I'm gonna attempt something crazy (I think), but I just have to try and see if it will work. I'm planning on rotating 4 5-gallon drippers with 3 plants (same strain,lol) in each 5-gallon bucket. Rotation every 3 weeks. No bushes this time, I'm planning on pruning everything except 4 main stalks on each plant. Pruning will be done in week 1 of flower and week 2/3 we'll see,lol. I'll flower them at 6-7 inches. They are sexually mature already and they are clones from my large producing plant (thank god I had the foresight and cloned it)
I also want to rotate 3 ww in there that my bud is getting ready right now.
The only worry I have is how the Arjan's haze will respond to the heavy pruning they will get. We will see.
In order to do this I build myself 4 new 5 gallon drippers which hold 4 gallons in the res, I think it should be large enough for 3 heavily pruned plants,lol.
If people are interested I'll do a real grow journal this time

I'll post some pics tomorrow!

I also wanted to say thanks to the MJ community and especially to the mates on this forum that are always willing to help out! Cheers to you mates!

Unity

unity said:

Hi there Sean,
IO Right now I have the drips on 24/7
I learned a lot with this grow and I have come to the conclusion that my earlier problems had nothing to do with over-watering! In fact I know now that you can not drown in clay pebbles.

My fresh batch of clones which are only 3" tall get watered during lights on 18/6 and they absolutley love it

Cheers mate,
Unity

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So what do you think attributed to the cause of the plants looking so droopy in the beginning of the grow if it wasnt the watering?

By the way the plants are looking Excellent!!

southfloridasean said:

So what do you think attributed to the cause of the plants looking so droopy in the beginning of the grow if it wasnt the watering?

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Man I have to be honest, if I would look at pics of plants that looked as pathetic as mine back then I would probably recommend to start over,lol.

I still don't know what happened but I think that it was a combination of things, to small for hid lighting or at least too close in the beginning, over nuting/ph imbalance, or my latest guess, big puppy syndrome (they had to grow into their skin,lol)
But seriously, they say that arjan's haze is not a very forgiving strain to grow add that to my inexperience and my early problems with the hid etc. and you got all kinds of case for trouble

Unity



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Ok, here are some pics from the one I started to flush today (72 days flower)

Hey Unity...sorry for not checking back in for a while, I've been busy learning this hydro thing lately. You asked the difference between AH1 and AUH1...there isn't one really, but I decided with AUH1 over AH1 because of the larger yield potential according to the Greenhouse site. But, since I last posted I had to order new AH2 seeds because the others would not germinate. Probably something I did wrong, but I'm new to hydro. I've got 2 going now, one in soil and the other in a DWC bubbler. All is going well besides some minor leaf curl. *Fingers crossed*

I must say you have came a long way from the beginning and the plants look GREAT. Let me know about yield and the smoke report once you finish up. Also, how many of the femmed seeds turned out to be truly female and how many hermied on you? Thanks in advance and again looking good.

I just read this entire post also and am now conviced on hydro being the way i wanna go. I've learned alot and have had answered just about every single question i have had...Thank You for this WONDERFUL Post...

B12...

DND said:

Hey Unity...sorry for not checking back in for a while, I've been busy learning this hydro thing lately. You asked the difference between AH1 and AUH1...there isn't one really, but I decided with AUH1 over AH1 because of the larger yield potential according to the Greenhouse site. But, since I last posted I had to order new AH2 seeds because the others would not germinate. Probably something I did wrong, but I'm new to hydro. I've got 2 going now, one in soil and the other in a DWC bubbler. All is going well besides some minor leaf curl. *Fingers crossed*

I must say you have came a long way from the beginning and the plants look GREAT. Let me know about yield and the smoke report once you finish up. Also, how many of the femmed seeds turned out to be truly female and how many hermied on you? Thanks in advance and again looking good.

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No worries DND
I heard a lot of bad things about Arjan, there is a lot of haters out there but I'm sure that there is also something to it People have been having a lot of problems with greenhouse seeds, especially the hazes. I red one diary were it took 23 weeks of flower to finnish up and then the smoke was no good. Other people have males even though they ordered femed seeds or poor germination rates etc. Maybe I lucked out with mine, all of mine germinated and all were females (4 out of 4)
If I was you I would certainly top the plant at least twice (that's 3 cuts), it gets very stretchy if you don't. I'll post some pics of my second plant so you see the difference!

Good luck to you!

Unity

Edit: Here are the pics from plant two (only side branches were topped) As you can see very stretchy, very loose buds, not stacking nicly
I do have to admit though that that plant has kicked it up a notch in the last week or so and the buds are starting to get tighter so maybe in a couple a weeks it will turn into something more than a bush
Let me know what you think.

here is a comparison between the two plants bud formation. First pic is plant 1 (not stretchy, second is plant two (stretchy).

So, my conclution is that larger plants need to be topped when growing inside and everything starts to shine

Good luck with your grows mates!!!

Unity

Here are a couple pics from my new clone/mother/veg area
Hopefully it will work as a good base for my ambitious 3 week rotation project

Unity

you have quite the production project going on here! very cool!

Indeed he does...thanks for the info, can't wait for them to finish up. Mothers/clones are looking nice also.

hey, i can't remember if you said already in your earlier posts, but do your plants smell skunky? mine are giving off a pretty skunk/coffee smell late in veg to early in flower.

don't forget a smoke report! alot of people do....lol

damn dude how long u veg them. their think as fuck

felix said:

hey, i can't remember if you said already in your earlier posts, but do your plants smell skunky? mine are giving off a pretty skunk/coffee smell late in veg to early in flower.

don't forget a smoke report! alot of people do....lol

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Hi felix, I would say they smell like sewer in a good way if that makes any sense, lol. I'm almost done flushing and the smell has started to get more organic again, also in a good way!


I'll keep you posted on harvest!

Unity

Chop day for one of my ladys
I'll keep you guys posted with pics and yield, the smoke report will have to wait


Unity

wow dude insane product! very nice grow. im also on my 1st hydro, hope it turns out like yours!

Unity how often are you changing the res on the waterfarm & topping off now?

One Plant down, one to go!

Wet between 2 to 2.5 pounds (I do not have a real scale yet, only a floor scale,lol)
But it certainly has some weight to it. I also noticed that the buds are very hard to the touch, I hope that's good,lol

Let me know what you think mates

Unity

southfloridasean said:

Unity how often are you changing the res on the waterfarm & topping off now?

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Hi mate, I have actually started to add back instead of changing the res. I add back at 25% formula that way I only change the res once every 3 weeks. It was depleeding my nutes within 4 days before I did that and that was at 2400 ppm.

Cheers,
Unity