Mephisto Genetics Dewey Matter's Mephisto-palooza (ongoing photo-blog)

[Dewey Matter]

I've done 1.75 grow logs and just found that format unsatisfying after the first one. So I'll just use this thread to toss in photos and thoughts about whatever my current grow is.

...I take two types of images, those for informative and those for visual impact or fun. So the image quality will vary wildly.

 

[Dewey Matter]

Grapey Walter

Currently using GW for edibles - my first attempt w/ sous vide decarb - It works amazingly well.

 

[Dewey Matter]

While my former grows have been in soil, the current one is my first grow in coco (Coco Loco). After the "torture" of watering with NFTGs over the past few months, I wanted to try a DIY drip system (DTW) and mitigate some of the labor. Igloo cooler for a reservoir, 4" disc bubbler, water cooled to ~18C with frozen bottles.

I'm running Mega Crop + Sweet Candy (+Zeus Juice, FulOn, Fish Sh!t, Recharge as feeling strikes me) w/ pH 5.8-5.9.5 on Mephisto's 24K, CDLC, Deez Nugs & Ghost Toof. Feeding 1.5g/gal MC + 1g SC starting at D3. Been experimenting with feed schedules, amounts...

Day 9

Day 14

Day 21

Day 28

Day 35

Day 42

Day 49

Day 70 (cut day for Ghost Toof)

 

[Dewey Matter]

Fugue State at Day 75 - like sunshine on a vine...

 

[Dewey Matter]

Updated the Mega Crop drip irrigation DTW grow images (group shot once a week in the top post until done). Been struggling to come down on how precisely to treat Coco Loco. It is soilless coco, just not pure coco. I want to water everyday during veg but am concerned about over-watering, which I would not if it was pure coco (drainage is good). But people do seem to have go results with Coco Loco, I'm just weak on the proper watering schedule.

Is it Mega Crop or the drip feeding - no idea but 'dem stems though...

...21 days old and knotty-stems thicker than my fingers. That's not my previous experience.

 

[jumper114]

Updated the Mega Crop drip irrigation DTW grow images (group shot once a week in the top post until done). Been struggling to come down on how precisely to treat Coco Loco. It is soilless coco, just not pure coco. I want to water everyday during veg but am concerned about over-watering, which I would not if it was pure coco (drainage is good). But people do seem to have go results with Coco Loco, I'm just weak on the proper watering schedule.

Is it Mega Crop or the drip feeding - no idea but 'dem stems though...
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...21 days old and knotty-stems thicker than my fingers. That's not my previous experience.

iME silica is the key to thick stems

 

[Dewey Matter]

iME silica is the key to thick stems

Yeah I knew MC had silica in it and that was likely the reason for the increase in stem-ness. Not sure how much or exactly what type of benefit thicker stems provide in a regular auto-grow like mine.

 

[jumper114]

Big stems are like motorways for nutrients ... also it’s the framework for holding bigger buds

Happy growing

 

[Animatey]

Nice setup with the automated drip! Do you water to run off, or how do you deal with waste water?

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[Dewey Matter]

Nice setup with the automated drip! Do you water to run off, or how do you deal with waste water?

First it's not automated, more semi-automated as I still activate the pump. This is mainly because I have no reason to trust it yet as it's untested and I'm just learning the DTW rigmarole. For the first 10 days I didn't water to runoff, then I started. At this time I'm trying to water 24-36 hours until runoff starts and that drains into a washing machine overflow pan (white & fills the floor space). I attached a 1/4 passive drain tube and that goes into a bucket. edit: they can't re-up the runoff, but if I leave it in the pan to evaporate - much algae forms.