Lighting 60 day Grapefruit auto, HS1+DIY, 0.12m2

[HolyTHC]

Thanks guys for the rep (i still did not get used to using it here ), but more important is that all this bio thing is interesting and very deep, im thrilled to learn more about that and use that in my hydro. Will buy normal microscope some time soon, then will try to look in to this closer, recognize that and document everything in simple manner. Seems like i found new hobby for me, and what's even more important - it is a part of my other hobby - growing Will share my thoughts with you also.
Anyway, im glad that all this is interesting for someone else too
Borrowed better camera today, just to take small photo session of my little plant. Will harvest her in next 10 days

max, she is almost ready.
Here goes photos of today - it's day 68

 

[trailanimal]

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.
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fast or what!

 

[trailanimal]

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
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beautifully ripening gal

 

[HolyTHC]

Just another thought here:
Yesterday i saw that pH has risen to 6.0 and started to think why that happened. And there i have made a conclusion, that this is because of all sugar or molasses contained in dwc were eaten in past week, while i topped tank with only water. These bacteria have no food, so they stopped to bring atmospheric nitrogen to my tank, as they should. This caused risen pH And then i have decided to give only "sweet feed", added 10ml of Cellmax Flower stimulator + 10ml of AN Bud candy. After that i have lowered pH to 5.9 with drop of pH- and left it over night. And you know what - today pH is stable 5.8, as it must be This means, that bacteria got something to eat and started to dump my DWC with their subproducts, which my plant is loving
Biology that is Back to the damn school

 

[trailanimal]

mystery dance, life feeding on life

 

[HolyTHC]

That is the point of all life on this planet

 

[HolyTHC]

75 day

Damn, seems like i lost like few days in counting, i just look to the calendar and saw, that it's day 75 already
Anyway, things are going on, flowering is good, plant s still eating well and final flowering wave has begun.
Still feeding water only - after adding sweets few days ago, bacteria begun to produce plant food again, EC rises, after adding water it falls and rises again very fast. Knowing that for 2 weeks i have added mainly plain water - these bacteria are really useful One thing i see for sure - that my old TDS meter is showing shit with organics, i believe only my eyes now, not that thing
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Yesterday pH was 5.7, EC was 1500ppm (!!!), after adding 1.5l of water EC has fallen to 1390ppm and pH went to 6, corrected it back to 5.9. Today it is 5.7 again. That is fun

And here goes photos for today. One more week to go

 

[TaNg]

Loving those colours bro.

 

[Bunny]

Amazing plant in such a small space. Getting fat.really interesting thread Holy

 

[Henchman]

So dense in such a small space. 100% bro