WATERFARM SCROG!!!! ..first frightening waterfarm grow....Dr.Amber Frankenstien

Hi Natty, She is a feminized Northern Lights. Supposedly, she will be shorter than most which I thought would be good for indoor hydro.

DST said:

I once sent a whole load of people an email saying "This is Ham, not Spam," your signature reminded me of that somehow. One guy emailed me back and said that I was a "kut" which is Dutch for the C word, and also recommended me being banned from the internet. I am not sure if there is a body so large as to be able to ban people from the internet. Anyway, made me giggle, CEEJR wherever in your mind it came from, happy days. DST

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haha, no way you didnt really do that did you? too feckin funny man. Oh not the "C" word again. lol.. ill never forget the indepth convo we had about the "c" word a while back that was so funny. Ban DST from the internet.. yeah i saw that petition go by..lol..you truble make you! be good boy..amb lollololloll.

Hey Amber! Hope you and your girls are doing well, I've been so busy lately that no time for RIU . Thought I'd procrastinate my last minute english paper and stop by and say hi hahah . Turkey day is just around the corner, are you ready for this? It's one of my favorite holidays with all the delicious food perfect stoner holiday hahah. Anyways I should prob get back to my early morning homework, have an awesome week everyone!

GreenGiant49 said:

View attachment 1888629New grower here, subscribed to this thread. Coincidentally, I started with a waterfarm about the same time as Amber. I am at 25 days since seed soak. Growing one plant under CFL (so far). Debating in my head about a 150 HPS. I did have some problems initially when moving from "sprouter" to WF. But she has recovered nicely, I think. Planning on changing nutes today, its been 13 days. Thanks for starting this thread Amber. How are your babies?

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Hi GreenGiant. YOur waterfarm baby looks awesome man! YOur very welcome for this thread, i hope you find some useful informtion. Good luck with all your gardening.

I think my MH at 360watts isnt really working very fast right now.
Should i bump it up to 400 watts? is it low enough?

I feel like i have not had much growth at all...
Please look at these pictures and tell me what you think from the last set of pictures a week ago.. is this right on track? I havent fed any nutes.
Thanks
all these pictures are from this morning









My little Deep Blues and Purple Wrecks are about the same size as the waterfarm baby bride. and they are a week younger??? they are in rockwool..

Amber,

could you please tell me how to insert full size pics like the above? What is the age of your plants pictured? As in how many days since tap root emerged. Then I can look up my pics for the same age and post them here.

I did have a problem when I first moved my plants to the farm. It was serious too. I want to warn you now so you dont have to deal with it. The water ring would splatter small droplets all over. Those drops that got on the leaves cause burnt spots. It was ugly and I was worried. I posted some pics on another site and someone tipped me off. The fix: all you have to do is "tent" the ring with some strips of aluminum foil, PROBLEM SOLVED. If you look at my pic you will see the damage made to the leaves if you look at the older leaves. ps. I see some droplets on the plastic around your plant!

I have been wondering how long it will take for the roots to emerge from the basket? Does anyone know?

GreenGiant49 said:

Amber,

could you please tell me how to insert full size pics like the above? What is the age of your plants pictured? As in how many days since tap root emerged. Then I can look up my pics for the same age and post them here.

I did have a problem when I first moved my plants to the farm. It was serious too. I want to warn you now so you dont have to deal with it. The water ring would splatter small droplets all over. Those drops that got on the leaves cause burnt spots. It was ugly and I was worried. I posted some pics on another site and someone tipped me off. The fix: all you have to do is "tent" the ring with some strips of aluminum foil, PROBLEM SOLVED. If you look at my pic you will see the damage made to the leaves if you look at the older leaves. ps. I see some droplets on the plastic around your plant!

I have been wondering how long it will take for the roots to emerge from the basket? Does anyone know?

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GG, to insert a full size picture.. upload your picture as usual. place your curser over the picture and right click. a window opens that has various selections. select large, Ok this will change the size , preview post will show you that it did.
really easy
I was going to use the tinfoil tent but most waterfarmers i saw didnt. Maybe i should . Thankfully i have no burn or any type of leaf damage. ARe you sure it wasnt a nute burn? Im still not feeding nutes but i am so itching to because my growth is soooo slow.

Hey brandon. Im glad your doing well. Nice to hear from you. Good luck with your studies and work. Take it easy

Is ur baby in the farm in rockwool doc? It may be holding a lot of water if it is. I had that problem had to dig it back out and squeeze the excess out the rockwool, eventually i had to remove the rockwool and put it bk in with only the root riot.

Hope this may be of some help

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Is ur baby in the farm in rockwool doc? It may be holding a lot of water if it is. I had that problem had to dig it back out and squeeze the excess out the rockwool, eventually i had to remove the rockwool and put it bk in with only the root riot.

Hope this may be of some help

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wow, that might be it.. yeah i have noticed that the rockwool is very very moist all the time in the waterfarm. yup im pulling it tonite.. thanks for the info.. thanks alot ..!!
have a sweet day

Hi Amber,

any chance you would change your avatar back? I miss her!

Well, no wonder you have not nute burn on the leaves! You have not put any in yet! Even I can figure that one out. But, no I am not sure that it was nute burn, but I believe it was. Here is a pic of my poor girl when she was afflicted! I felt so bad for her!

still no large pic. I am doing it as an attachment. Wish i could figure this out.

Dr.Amber Trichome said:

wow, that might be it.. yeah i have noticed that the rockwool is very very moist all the time in the waterfarm. yup im pulling it tonite.. thanks for the info.. thanks alot ..!!
have a sweet day

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Not a problem doc glad to help... They seem to be quite bad for it in farms if i hadnt drowned ma white siberian i would probably dne the same to my cotton candy.

Well have a good one doc hope shes ok

what avitar do you want back? the black chick naked on the couch or Tiffany smoking a cig?

What size are your cubes Ambs? the slow growth maybe attributed to the cubes holding a lot of water, rockwool holds a lot of air but even more water your girls are still very small and won't use up the water in the cube quick enough to keep the water pump running for a while yet, the roots in your air pots have grown through which is good, you also need to do this with the cubes, when i put clones into cubes after they root i put them on something like a mesh and prop it up so air can circulate underneath when the root pops through it will wither and the tip will die back BUT the root will start to push out to the sides when the cube is full of roots pop it into the water farm and the plant will go like fuck, when i'm root pruning like this i dip the cube into a bowl of weak nute solution then let it dry out not bone dry but dry enough so the cube stays damp enough for the root to search out whatever it needs

3eyes said:

What size are your cubes Ambs? the slow growth maybe attributed to the cubes holding a lot of water, rockwool holds a lot of air but even more water your girls are still very small and won't use up the water in the cube quick enough to keep the water pump running for a while yet, the roots in your air pots have grown through which is good, you also need to do this with the cubes, when i put clones into cubes after they root i put them on something like a mesh and prop it up so air can circulate underneath when the root pops through it will wither and the tip will die back BUT the root will start to push out to the sides when the cube is full of roots pop it into the water farm and the plant will go like fuck, when i'm root pruning like this i dip the cube into a bowl of weak nute solution then let it dry out not bone dry but dry enough so the cube stays damp enough for the root to search out whatever it needs

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Thanks for the info 3i's. The rockwool cube in the water farm is the smallest ones out there. It is very saturated and has been for a few days now.
Should i be keeping the white plastic around that cube still ..? as you can see in the picture, the white plastic on the cube is still on...
do you think i should take the cube out of the waterfarm and put mesh under it?
What if i break the rockwool cube up and take the baby out of it and just stick it right back into the pebbles..lol..?
The waterfarm pebble are very wet with the system pumping water contiueally into the pot.

The root might have grown down into the hydroton by now so taking the plant out might harm the roots, how long is your dripper running for? it might be better to just have the dripper running for a couple of mins an hour starting off to give the roots some o2 then increase the flow as the plant gets bigger

thanks threeI's. Dripper runs 24/7..

Hey Ambs, howzit! Just popping by to see whats what. Sheesh, thems is big cubes you got there graaaanmaaaw, lol. You are going to have some monsters on your hands! Have a chillfull one. D

I want Tiffany back!! Shes for me!

Hi again. I chanced it and removed the rockwool took a small bit of the lead root with it but it bounced back you can see in ma thread. After putting it bk in i ran the pump only wen the light was on until the growth started again. Just depends on whether you want to take a chance. Oh yeah and your best to remove the plastic

some pics of my SLH waterfarm for ya ambz , its taken off well

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Dr.Amber Trichome said:

Thanks for the info 3i's. The rockwool cube in the water farm is the smallest ones out there. It is very saturated and has been for a few days now.
Should i be keeping the white plastic around that cube still ..? as you can see in the picture, the white plastic on the cube is still on...
do you think i should take the cube out of the waterfarm and put mesh under it?
What if i break the rockwool cube up and take the baby out of it and just stick it right back into the pebbles..lol..?
The waterfarm pebble are very wet with the system pumping water contiueally into the pot.

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yes keep that tape around it it makes it like a funnel for instance you water one without and it stays very wet you leave it on and its like a suction cup if you catch my drift