New Grower Adventures of a noob grower.

[Anasazi]

Captains log -





I freaking hate rockwool cubes so much and now I am freaking right the fuck out. I swear my rockwool cube is too wet. I'm scared it's going to ruin my plant again and I don't know what to do. I lowered the water in my bucket even more and it was already a good 1 inch below the netpot. The cube just won't dry out.

Today is also the 3rd day since I put one of the girls in the dwc bucket and her roots still haven't hit the water. I hope I'm freaking out for nothing but I've definitely grown to hate rockwool cubes already I just know I'm going to mess up again and my plant is going to die.

 

[Anthropolis]

Hahaaa probably would just leave it alone for a couple days and see if it dries out. I laughed because I can't get rockwool to the right moisture either and gave up quickly. I'm a newbie too and it's not noob friendly lols

 

[Anasazi]

IT SUCKS!! my dwc plant is looking worse than my soil one. The leaves are a lighter green and I see faintish orange/yellow spots appearing. I wonder if my plant is hungry?

I actually took the pot out of the bucket and set it under some cfls in my kitchen so the rockwool would dry out some.







Any input on this would be great. I've encountered my first boss monster on this adventure and I cannot defeat him alone. ;D

 

[ThaGreenBandit]

I haven't read up on hydro since I started growing soil, so... I'm useless. Hope you get this issue straightened out, Anasazi.

 

[BayLee420]

IT SUCKS!! my dwc plant is looking worse than my soil one. The leaves are a lighter green and I see faintish orange/yellow spots appearing. I wonder if my plant is hungry?

I actually took the pot out of the bucket and set it under some cfls in my kitchen so the rockwool would dry out some.



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Any input on this would be great. I've encountered my first boss monster on this adventure and I cannot defeat him alone. ;D

Not a hydro grower, but it looks like your baby is asking for some nutrients, 1/8-1/4 strength maybe of some help.

Go to the Infirmary thread and post your issue. That way you'll get some good help.

 

[joshua311]

I am going to pull up a chair on this one. I plan on trying hydro one of these days but I need to master soil growing first. The seedling looks a little hungry start them on the 1/8 feed and go from there. Good luck and I will send some good karma your way.

 

[Anasazi]

I am going to pull up a chair on this one. I plan on trying hydro one of these days but I need to master soil growing first. The seedling looks a little hungry start them on the 1/8 feed and go from there. Good luck and I will send some good karma your way.

hehe I know how you feel. I only have 1 soil grow under my belt and I jumped into hydro simply because it seemed like it would be easier. Having complete control over everything seems really nice.



My ph meter came today and after trying it out I'm so happy I got one. So much easier to check the ph over using the drops and it was pretty accurate right out of the box. I think part of my problem with my dwc plant was the ph was a little high. It might have been around 6-6.5.

I have it at around 5.5 right now and the plant is growing. She still looks ugly as sin because of the yellow but she is growing!. I'm still worried about the fact that I have zero roots hitting the res yet. I'm on like day 9 and zero roots. Last time I tried this I had roots hitting the res by now.

pics soon!

 

[ThaGreenBandit]

Did you use a root stimulator?

 

[Anasazi]

Umm I actually don't remember if I did the first time or not but I definitely didn't this time as I was scared to put it in my res.

 

[Anasazi]

pic update!

Today is day 13 or 14 from breaking the ground.

My avg room temp is 79f and res temp stays around 21-23c