Six plant tidy cat deep water culture. Blackberry cheese quake, blue Magoo, and 4 Tahoe seeds

I had been meaning to start a grow journal and had never gotten around to it. The set up is this...

Recirculating deep water culture. A 20 gallon reservoir and 4 tidy cat buckets. There is a water pump in the reservoir, in an aquarium pump bag, timed to 15 minutes every 3 hours. There are two 900+ gph air pumps, one for the reservoir and one for the tidy cat buckets. One air stone each for the buckets and air stones and a flexible hose for the reservoir.

The whole exercise was flipped to 11.5/12.5 on June 8. At the time, there were 5 Tahoe plants, one was male and had to be eliminated. That puts us at day 34.

Lights. A 1000w hps, a 300w led, and some assorted led and CFL. The hps is bare bulb.

Ventilation. A 480cfm exhaust and a 225 intake drawing hepa filtered outside air with a duct from the larger house heat pump. There is the slightest of negative air pressure in the grow room, by design, to facilitate smell control.

Nutrients. Dyna gro foliage pro in veg and early flower, switched to straight bloom today. I add some ful-power, southern ag fungicide, and subculture-b in the reservoir. I don't change the reservoir if I do not have to.

The progression through veg was easy in 3.5 gallon bubble buckets. Blackberry cheese quake had such extensive roots that it drank too much toward the end of a 2 month veg. After adjusting the ph with foliage pro, mag pro/cal mag, and protekt, I could leave it alone and just refill to ppm balance.

At the end of veg, I was sort of forced to flower them. The ph in the buckets were dropping like lead and the plants appeared to be over fed. I cut the nute schedule to 1/2 recommended with a partial flush and introduced the ful-power on the off chance that my not flushing was the cause. I have read about salt buildup in dyna gro and resultant problems. That fixed it but the plants do not want much more than half the recommended. From my perspective, that's ok, unless they're stunting, but I don't think so. When the ful-power first was given, the ppm, started to rise and I augmented the reservoir with ph'd ro staying around 1.4ec. The dyna gro recommendation in week 5 is about 1.5ec.

The most interesting feature of it is the surprise in the seedlings. I have two Tahoe that look as they should. Then I have two runs that look like very tight Christmas trees. I will post the pics, first blue Magoo.

Blackberry cheese quake...


I should also say that I am a resident of a state where personal growing is legal and there is a card holder in the residence.

And now the weird part, the Tahoe og..... Here are the first 2, typical.....



And the tiny type.....



The leaves and buds are very different....


And some perspective on the growth pattern. Anyone seen a Tahoe do this?
The short type is literally half or less as tall as the other and they sprouted and have lived identically.

Oh, a pic of the hydro setup. Bulkhead for reservoir outflow and tub fitting for drainage. The tidy cat buckets each have a 1/2 in and a 3/4 out, both near the top. Because of the airstone and the huge pump, I get lots of mixing in the buckets. I was too lazy to lightproof the buckets, so I wrapped each one in four tough black plastic trash bags. They catch water leaks when I pull the hoses out a bit and provide a darkness for the roots. Plus the pulls give me access to each of the individual plants that sit in a coco/grow stone/perlite mix in 5 inch net pots. I should have screwed hooks on the buckets in the beginnings to hold the plant in place, now I have to improvise.

This blackberry cheesecake smells sooooo cheesy....


And this blue magoo has leaves that bud..

According to the calendar, day 42. The answer to life, the universe, and everything else.

The overfert is still a fight. Just plain ro with a bit of bacillus for a week and a partial res change. The ec has been dropped and the ph is rising to 5.9. Now let them canna alive themselves and we are home. Some pics. Blackberry cheese quake required a net.



A Tahoe
And a bud.

And here's blue magoo....

We should be getting close to flush and harvest on some plants. The closest should be blue magoo.



One of the Tahoe is fairly far along too.


and



Blackberry cheesequake is supposed to be 9 to 10 weeks according to the breeder. It hasnt really swollen yet. More pics of the bigger plant stuff in a weekly tomorrow.