Here are my final pictures of my plants before I trim them for one more photo after the pots nearly dry out. :head: For my first grow, I don't think I have done too poorly, with that said, however, the tall plant never did produce trichs nor bud like the smaller one. I had to do a full flush and reduce the PPM of each plant to around 400, as they were finished and I did not have enough time to do a long term proper flush due to their age and the amount of nutes they still had in them. I miscalculated my harvest window, so there is more knowledge absorbed. Whenever the first watering is needed between weeks 9-10 is when I am going to start pure water. Since they stopped growing, I suppose the need for water was severely diminished and it was taking them 7 days to dry out enough to warrant another watering. Which when they are finished growing and I have no idea when their trichs would change, I didn't want to take any chances on having shitty tasting nute herb. :no:
Pic 1. Smaller plant in full glory
Pic 2. Cola of the smaller plant beside a gallon jug
Pic 3. Same beside H2O2 bottle
Pic 4. 5. 6. Cola from different views. I like when you use flash how the trichomes reflect madly in the light as seen in 6 and 7.
Pic 7. Another side bud in flash
Pic 8. Taller plant cola
Pic 9. Taller plant full glory
The hydro plants have to be stunted for their age, however they have all sexed female,
so that's a plus. I made a
K.I.S.S. (keeping it simple stupid for those who don't know) mistake and instead of following that sound advise, I overnuted in week 2 and have those yellow dying leaves that you see on the bottom of the plants. That has stunted my growth and those results are less than desirable. But so far they seem to be true auto-flowers, I digress.. So since they are ALL 42 days old I know something is extremely wrong, especially with the Super Silver Haze which, as you can see, is FREAKING SMALL.
Gah, so I found out 3 of my feeding drip tubes were heavily clogged with algae gunk, which is why 3 are even more stunted than the others. So then I had to do a full system clean and disassembly. But the damage and set back has been done, but I do have a 5 gallon DWC bucket set aside just for her, the SSH, once she gets her roots in the water. I have already learned more than I wanted to know as far as rookie mistakes are concerned, I should of started off with 2 plants, I should of used a lighter hand in feeding, I should of checked the tubes more closely.. So let that be a lesson to all of you who are FNG"s when it comes to hydro.
Does anyone have any suggestions to make my hydro grow go any better please and thank you?
Thanks for looking. I will have trimmed and manicured photos in a week or less.