Yeah bro, trichs are everywhere, even under close-to-bud fan leaves, their main "veins", lots of them. Everything is sticky and smelly,that LED light and bio stuff is totally awesome. Cant wait to rip a good vapor of it... 
Lighting 60 day Grapefruit auto, HS1+DIY, 0.12m2
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Just some photo update.
+ filled up DWC tank today with 2.5l of tap water and 200ml of bacterial tea. Dropped EC to 1150 again, that is just enough now. All these brown stigmas tells that i should not rise EC at all. Every damn time i tell myself "go easier with feeding" and every damn time im doing same mistake
Made some adjustments for my DIY lights part - instead of older chinese 610nm "lumileds" i got another chinese "lumileds", but this time neutral white ones, with same current as original Lumileds. And i'm surprised how well that works - now i have super nice white lighting of 77W for veg and HS1 part for flowering. WIll see, how this combo is working.
That's it And that's some photos:
BTW that's day 58.
+ filled up DWC tank today with 2.5l of tap water and 200ml of bacterial tea. Dropped EC to 1150 again, that is just enough now. All these brown stigmas tells that i should not rise EC at all. Every damn time i tell myself "go easier with feeding" and every damn time im doing same mistake
Made some adjustments for my DIY lights part - instead of older chinese 610nm "lumileds" i got another chinese "lumileds", but this time neutral white ones, with same current as original Lumileds. And i'm surprised how well that works - now i have super nice white lighting of 77W for veg and HS1 part for flowering. WIll see, how this combo is working.
That's it
And that's some photos:BTW that's day 58.
HolyTHC That's some nice looing grapefruit there
Grim Reefer
DWC & LST
Hey man, i just got bactobloom in the post the other day.
Was considering making it as last time i made a tea it seems to be a little off.
How did you amend the tea with the bactobloom?
Was considering making it as last time i made a tea it seems to be a little off.
How did you amend the tea with the bactobloom?
These are agrobacteria, they are meant to live only in soil, so im not letting them straight to the DWC. Im putting half of teaspoon of them to plastic bottle, putting couple of teaspoons of plain sugar to that bottle and half litre of tap water. Then im putting that closed bottle to a warm place and often (once in few hours) im opening that bottle to exchange gasses - let stinky methane or other stuff out and let oxygen in, and shake everything very well. Doing that for a 3-4 days, till bacterial activity is slowed down due to all that sugar being eaten. I get normal smelling brownish tea with bactobloom, and pouring that tea to DWC then. This way i get bacteria to feed and deliver their subproducts separately in their "better" conditions (more warm, well aerated), and using them for my plant, instead of letting all these bacteria do their thing in cold dwc water, which is not right due to their type. Also i get nice PH readings - 0.2l of tea + 2-2.5l of tap water keeps my ph levels very stable. And also i have noticed that this bacterial tea is best used INSTEAD of nutes with feeding, i started to fill up my dwc one time with water + nutes, other time water + tea, and that works very well!
There are lots of live bacteria in the tea also, im letting them to live in dwc also, but feedin em in bottle and getting their product separately from the dwc seems to work better. They live in dwc for a short time only, mainly on roots, but they never have shown such activity, which is seen separately.
There are lots of live bacteria in the tea also, im letting them to live in dwc also, but feedin em in bottle and getting their product separately from the dwc seems to work better. They live in dwc for a short time only, mainly on roots, but they never have shown such activity, which is seen separately.
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Well, today it is day 61 for this plant. Seems like she went to final phase, buds are ripening fast and i think she will be done in max couple of weeks. As i thought earlier, there is no way she will finish in 60 days
Anyway, this will be pretty good result, buds are fat and heavy, so im pretty satisfied with this plant after all.
Topped DWC today. Gave 2.5l of tap water plus:
Cellmax Hydrobloom 5ml A+ 5ml B
Cellmax Superenzyme 5ml
GT Liquid silicone 3ml
Cellmax flower stimulator 4ml
AN Bud candy 4ml
Cellmax PK booster 3ml
One drop of Hesi supervit
3 drops of Superthrive
5ml of GHE Florakleen
Tea pH is 5.7, EC 1200ppm
No showers has being given for past week and will not be given till the end already.
And here goes some photos
Anyway, this will be pretty good result, buds are fat and heavy, so im pretty satisfied with this plant after all.
Topped DWC today. Gave 2.5l of tap water plus:
Cellmax Hydrobloom 5ml A+ 5ml B
Cellmax Superenzyme 5ml
GT Liquid silicone 3ml
Cellmax flower stimulator 4ml
AN Bud candy 4ml
Cellmax PK booster 3ml
One drop of Hesi supervit
3 drops of Superthrive
5ml of GHE Florakleen
Tea pH is 5.7, EC 1200ppm
No showers has being given for past week and will not be given till the end already.
And here goes some photos
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Plenty of frosty nugs there bro.
And here goes day 66.
Plant seems to be close to finish, but her appetite is still pretty good, so that is surely still not the end. She drinks stable 750ml per day now. Experimentation with Bactobloom goes further, and so far, seems to be a success. These bacteria have colonized all root zone, they also are making plenty of food for my plant. I am judging so, as all last week there is very interesting process ongoing - pH constantly drops down (from 5.8 to 5.4-5.3 every 2 days), i'm feeding water only now and EC is rising also constantly. No deficiencies appeared, no troubles of any kind yet. This is clearly work of microorganisms, they feed on sugar, molasses and dead root mass, digest everything and release plant food very actively. Every day i'm inspecting my DWC tank and looking for any sign of trouble (bad smell, dead rotten roots) - there are no such things. Roots are covered in brown stuff, but that is alive and roots itself are quite strong, does not fall off or break easily, also they seems to be healthy under that brown stuff.
Took a look to all these things thru microscope, seen only known positive micro organisms there, such as good bacteria (which exactly comes with Bactobloom), also micro worms, which feeds with microalgae, mycorrhizae. Also these are not parasitic, so its still ok for now and experiment with that simple bacto tea continues.
Here is feeding for last few days:
05 03
Ph dropped to 5.4 and EC rised1250ppm
gave 1.5l of water, got ph5.7, 1140ECppm
07 03
Ph dropped to 5.3 and EC rised1240ppm
gave 1.5l of water, got ph5.7, 1100ECppm
09 03
PH dropped to 5.3, EC rised to 1320ppm
gave 1.5l of tap water + 150ml of Bactohemp tea, ph dropped to 4.9, added some ph+ to rise it back to 5.8. These bacteria are very mean, it seems. Judging by what i see, they do what their manufacturers say.
And here is some visual stuff from my DWC setup. Taken from tea DWC tea itself, from small piece of floating dead root, from that brown slime on roots, etc.
It's a Bactohemp tea X100, brewed for 3 days and made of 1g of Bactobloom + 5g of sugar and 200ml ow water.
And here goes X400 of that same tea.
That is a micro worm of rotifer class, more about them can be found here
Here is nice video of it. Just look in to that small monster feeding
My videos of it (it scarred my when i first saw it, but i was so glad to found what it is
After short search i found that these can be bought on ebay And these are found in all good bacterial organic teas. So i have made a conclusion, that this micro guy is my friend in my next grows for sure.
Here are bacteria on piece of dead root
Here you can see a piece of root, colonies of bacteria and mycorrhizae.
These are also bacteria, feeding on dead root
Im pretty thrilled with all that. Next grow i'll try to make real biofarm out of my DWC, this will be lots of fun
And for now, here goes few photos of my plant today. Seems to be quite happy with all that.
Plant seems to be close to finish, but her appetite is still pretty good, so that is surely still not the end. She drinks stable 750ml per day now. Experimentation with Bactobloom goes further, and so far, seems to be a success. These bacteria have colonized all root zone, they also are making plenty of food for my plant. I am judging so, as all last week there is very interesting process ongoing - pH constantly drops down (from 5.8 to 5.4-5.3 every 2 days), i'm feeding water only now and EC is rising also constantly. No deficiencies appeared, no troubles of any kind yet. This is clearly work of microorganisms, they feed on sugar, molasses and dead root mass, digest everything and release plant food very actively. Every day i'm inspecting my DWC tank and looking for any sign of trouble (bad smell, dead rotten roots) - there are no such things. Roots are covered in brown stuff, but that is alive and roots itself are quite strong, does not fall off or break easily, also they seems to be healthy under that brown stuff.
Took a look to all these things thru microscope, seen only known positive micro organisms there, such as good bacteria (which exactly comes with Bactobloom), also micro worms, which feeds with microalgae, mycorrhizae. Also these are not parasitic, so its still ok for now and experiment with that simple bacto tea continues.
Here is feeding for last few days:
05 03
Ph dropped to 5.4 and EC rised1250ppm
gave 1.5l of water, got ph5.7, 1140ECppm
07 03
Ph dropped to 5.3 and EC rised1240ppm
gave 1.5l of water, got ph5.7, 1100ECppm
09 03
PH dropped to 5.3, EC rised to 1320ppm
gave 1.5l of tap water + 150ml of Bactohemp tea, ph dropped to 4.9, added some ph+ to rise it back to 5.8. These bacteria are very mean, it seems. Judging by what i see, they do what their manufacturers say.
And here is some visual stuff from my DWC setup. Taken from tea DWC tea itself, from small piece of floating dead root, from that brown slime on roots, etc.
It's a Bactohemp tea X100, brewed for 3 days and made of 1g of Bactobloom + 5g of sugar and 200ml ow water.
And here goes X400 of that same tea.
That is a micro worm of rotifer class, more about them can be found here
Here is nice video of it. Just look in to that small monster feeding
My videos of it (it scarred my when i first saw it, but i was so glad to found what it is
After short search i found that these can be bought on ebay
And these are found in all good bacterial organic teas. So i have made a conclusion, that this micro guy is my friend in my next grows for sure.Here are bacteria on piece of dead root
Here you can see a piece of root, colonies of bacteria and mycorrhizae.
These are also bacteria, feeding on dead root
Im pretty thrilled with all that. Next grow i'll try to make real biofarm out of my DWC, this will be lots of fun
And for now, here goes few photos of my plant today. Seems to be quite happy with all that.
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What an amazing post bro those pictures and videos are out of this world....max rep coming your way.
Very cool!!! DWC is once again amazing!!! rep slap!!!
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