New Grower DWC COBS Megacrop first grow ever

[Frenjamin Banklin]

They just keep getting bigger
Feeding
5g megacrop
5g maxi bloom
1g sweet candy
Per gallon every two days, drinking a gallon every other day. EC up around 4.5 with only minor tip burn. Might be the 70f room and 65f res temps helping them from not getting cooked. COB rail over big plants is at 200w at wall now and they are stacking flowers.

Have no clue how I got this far being this lucky but just hanging in for the ride now.
Sharing pictures

Enjoy

 

[Frenjamin Banklin]

Update
So I was wrong, 100 watts of COB was to much, they were getting very droopy towards the end of the day do back down to 75w per plant.
One rail had to be tilted to account for the size of the glueberry although I could have probably gotten away with the light being high go the other I decided to tilt.
Dropped the Megacrop today and just using Maxibloom for a bit to see how they do. I think they have had enough nitrogen for a bit
I think my light setup is definitely affecting the plant structure. It doesn't seem like all the flower sites want to fight to get to the top. Side nodes are turned towards the next plant getting bathed in the overflow. Very round plants.
Pictures for fun

 

[STILLSMOKIN]

Looking good! Only thing i would do different is tie sides down and try to give light penetration and help fight pm. As they flower they bush out even more. So if you start to tie before flower stretch they will shoot right back up. Still very awesome for first grow. Some microbes would also be a good thing to use.

 

[Frenjamin Banklin]

Thanks @STILLSMOKIN any recommendations for microbes? I use hydro guard but was looking at Mammoth P and wondering if it's worth it and when it typically gets added. It's pricey and I'm cheap, anything better ?

 

[Mañ'O'Green]

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So I was wrong, 100 watts of COB was to much, they were getting very droopy towards the end of the day do back down to 75w per plant.
One rail had to be tilted to account for the size of the glueberry although I could have probably gotten away with the light being high go the other I decided to tilt.
Dropped the Megacrop today and just using Maxibloom for a bit to see how they do. I think they have had enough nitrogen for a bit
I think my light setup is definitely affecting the plant structure. It doesn't seem like all the flower sites want to fight to get to the top. Side nodes are turned towards the next plant getting bathed in the overflow. Very round plants.
Pictures for fun

@Frenjamin Banklin Looking good. Hydroguard will not change the PH or PPM (if you have a lot of dead root material that can raise PPM slightly as the HydroGuard digests it - rare). I am so cheap my Mother used to call me names . I used Dyna-Gro (least expensive of all hydro designed for cannabis nutrients) very successfully in DWC.

I went to a hydro seminar at a local shop last spring and got talked into running rockwool cubes with House & Garden nutrients. I was trying to solve the really high heat problems I have running DWC in the summer. I had reservoir temps almost 90°F a couple summers back. I swear by HydroGuard. The challenge was that I could run a six plant grow for less $$ using this method and the much more expensive nutrients and it has. I still have not equalled or bettered the yields I had in DWC but the quality is better to much better. Anyhow in a cooler location I would grow DWC.

Do you have a medical need?

 

[STILLSMOKIN]

Walmart is stocking some liquid alaskan nutes and they are cheap and good so far. 10 a quart

 

[Frenjamin Banklin]

Knees and shoulders are shot, trouble sleeping looking to try nany rubs and tinctures over the next few months. Hate the legalized narcotics companies killing people . Let the experiments begin. Legal Med grower .
Luckily I gave some pretty low temps in my basement so temps in res have been easy to maintain

 

[Mañ'O'Green]

Knees and shoulders are shot, trouble sleeping looking to try nany rubs and tinctures over the next few months. Hate the legalized narcotics companies killing people . Let the experiments begin. Legal Med grower .
Luckily I gave some pretty low temps in my basement so temps in res have been easy to maintain

I was taking so many NSAIDS for my back pain it was negatively affecting my kidneys and liver. I won't touch opioids too many of my friends in the 70s died from heroin; a few years back a sister-in-law OD on Oxy. My doctor suggested Cannabis and I am glad he did. It works well for the pain. It is a balancing act to relieve the pain and not get too stoned to carry on. But no matter how stoned I get I am not going to OD.

 

[Frenjamin Banklin]

They are getting frost and bulking but not sure they look much different. Picture update anyway

 

[Frenjamin Banklin]

Girls are getting fat and frosty, just a waiting game now. maxibloom now at 10g per gallon topping off. Watching closely to not burn them. Thinking of transitioning to dry koolbloom soon to completely eliminate N except for the 1g per gallon of MC.