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250W CFL DWC Chronic SCROG Grow

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krustytheclown

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Yep, there is definitely no smell whatsoever. I had a guest over the other night and he couldn't smell it even after I told him I was doing a grow (yeah, I know...I shouldn't tell anybody).

The yellowing is still there after flushing with plain water for a couple of days, and then only using 15mL/gallon of PBP Bloom and 5mL/gallon of CalMag for a week. The spreado fhte yellowing has slowed, but not entirely stopped.

Last night I upped the nutes to 30mL/gallon of PBP Bloom and 5mL/gallon of CalMag.

I'll take pics in a couple of days to show how things are going.

The cabinet temperatures are quite high: 90F+ when the light is on. Nothing much I can do about that. Will the temps affect nutrient uptake?
 
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suckerrepellent

how often are you changing your res? your nutrient schedule seems fairly light, so i would guess either your water is not being changed often enough, or perhaps you have bad water that is having a negative effect on the plants nutrient uptake. you should get your water tested either way so you know for the future.

heres some amnesia haze at week 13

have fun, i hope your yield is solid!
 
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krustytheclown

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End of week 6; flush or more nutes?

End of week 6; flush or more nutes?

Okay, I am at the end of week 6 and I will be harvesting at the end of week 8 (that's in 2 weeks for all you Borats out there...heh). I lowered the light to 10 inches from the tops of the cola.

Now, I am in a conundrum: should I up the nutes of PBP Bloom to 45 mL/gallon, or keep it the same? Or, should I go with some high P-K additive like Liquid Karma (if I did this, I would use 30 mL/gallon of PBP Bloom)?

Or, should I just start flushing now for the next 2 weeks?

suckerrepellent- I top off nutes every 3-4 days and totally change nutes once a week, btw.
 
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krustytheclown

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End of week 6; flush or more nutes?

End of week 6; flush or more nutes?

Okay, I am at the end of week 6 and I will be harvesting at the end of week 8 (that's in 2 weeks for all you Borats out there...heh). I lowered the light to 10 inches from the tops of the cola.

That goddman discoloration is still there and not getting any better. I want to fucking fix this!

Now, I am in a conundrum: should I up the nutes of PBP Bloom to 45 mL/gallon, or keep it the same? Or, should I go with some high P-K additive like Liquid Karma (if I did this, I would use 30 mL/gallon of PBP Bloom)?

Or, should I just start flushing now for the next 2 weeks?

suckerrepellent- I top off nutes every 3-4 days and totally change nutes once a week, btw.














 
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krustytheclown

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Well, I started to flush today. Colas are about the same size as before. The trichromes are starting to get some amber in them.

I'm going to flush for at least a week before harvest.

The irony is that I may not be able to smoke the fruits of my labour for a while because an old job application was re-activated with a potential employer recently, so I am going to stay clean for a while in case I get a job offer; don't want to fail a drug test for a better job!
 
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Guest

i would flush for two weeks, that'll bring out the taste the best, imho. at least the drug test will allow you to give those buds a nice long cure. :yummy:
 
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krustytheclown

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Harvest!

Harvest!

Okay, after 66 days of flower and 12 days of flushing, I harvested!

I let the water get too low and the plants yellowed quite a bit. Rather, I assume because they went a day or 2 with virtually no water in the reservoir, they yellowed and browned a good bit.

Trichromes seem more clear then before; 80% clear, 15% cloudy and 5% amber.

Weird.

Anyway, I'm going to let them dry and then I'll weigh the buds for a final dry weight harvest.

Oh yeah, I have deemed that homemade DWC was a failure, so it has been completely dismantled it and thrown out (somewhere safe, of course).

Next time, I'll just go do a soil grow in the Rubbermaids to see how it works out.

But not until next season.














 
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Guest

looks like you did alright for yourself. Can't wait to hear how many seeds ya got outa that! I'm in the same position with a potential drug test coming up so i know how ya feel. It sucks not being able to celebrate the biggest holiday of the year.
I think some instructions for growing hydroponically must be overcomplicated or something. I'm doing my first grow in hydro right now using a way undersized swc system (4 plants, 1.5 gallons) with an identically sized soil grow right next to it (down to 3 plants in soil as of today due to sexing). All i'm using is a modified Lucas formula (i've just been gradually upping the GH flora bloom from 16mL/gallon and im currently at 22 mL/gallon). the veg formula was 0-5-10 (grow-micro-bloom), which i stuck to, and the flowering formula is 0-8-16, which i already mentioned i've been devating from. other than that i just use a cheap pH and TDS meter (don't really need the TDS, more a novelty thing i discovered) some aquarium use pH up/down, and a bit of tap water that averages 150ppm with a pH of a little over 7. I just keep the pH around 6.5 and they're happy. lke i said, im just using a little 1.5 gallon sterlite container, tinfoil ducttaped on over the lid and around the base, a 20-60 gallon dual outlet wally world airpump, and a 150w HPS in a 22 gallon rubbermaid, so nothing sophicated.
what im trying to say is, if i can do it, you probably can too. you may have just made it too complicated.
anyway, i hope you don't take this as bashing, im just kinda saying you might want to give hydro another chance if yields and speed are your thing
 
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krustytheclown

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Thanks guys! Yeah, I have a tendency to make things more complicated than they need to be. Next Rubbermaid grow will definitely be in soil with a SCROG: nice and easy.

I'll post dry harvest weight and some seed pics so you know how well they did, too. If all goes well, I'm going to have a metric shit-ton of seeds! :D
 
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krustytheclown

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Weight!

Weight!

Okay, the results are in:

80 grams of dried bud, including seeds.

Not too bad.

Next time, I'm going to go with more plants

I must have gotten several hundred F2 seeds.

I'm going to cure the buds for a month and then de-seed them. And smoke my ass off.








 
milo_xxx

milo_xxx

Stress Tester/Plant Torturer
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very nice grow. can not wait to get a final seed tally........the seeds look nice by the way. :wave:
 
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krustytheclown

Member
Wow, I haven't been back here for a while.

Okay, final tally: I got over 2000 seeds from these plants.

I went to the local convenience store and got a ton of crack baggies, threw on a couple of movies and split them up into 10-seed bags.

Fun way to spend a Saturday night. Woo-hoo!
 
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