She sure has!!!! I had to move the lights up a bit this morning as it grew into them over night!!! lol The ambient temps are up today, but the humidity is high so I am able to turn down the humidifier and save a couple $$ on electricity. I'm going to be mounting a larger exhaust fan and moving the small CPU fan toward the passive intake to try and maximize more airflow. Eventually, I'm gonna need a carbon scrubber because this thing is already stinky!! I can't imagine what it's going to be like when the buds start coming out!!! I'm thinking it's making a solid turnaround!! I don't want to jinx myself though.. I'm going to take more pictures today and maybe throw them up here..
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Gotta admit, I'm feeling a lot better now than I did last week! This thing is growing and I'm liking the rebound it made!! I took out some CFLs because some small LED's I ordered came in, so I'm going to give it 24hrs and see how they do.. If they don't do much, then I might take out one and throw the CFLs back in.. It's freaking warm out today, compared to what it has been (about 85F) with not much humidity, so I've had to give up on keeping humidity stable since even the big humidifier can't keep up!! The enclosure it at about 82-84F, but it's already past the hottest part of the day, and it's supposed to be cool and drizzly, so humidity and cooling will no longer be an issue.. I was hoping FedEx was going to be so kind and deliver my air-pot today so I could use that instead of the poor-man's version I made, but we'll see.. I have a family emergency, so I have to leave tomorrow.. I've almost completely finished the top-feed set-up and I'll post pictures of it working, later on tonight.. The gf has been gracious enough to take on the responsibility of taking care of my little buddy until I get back this weekend, but with this recirculating top-feed, it's relatively effortless, as all she has to do is check pH, temps/humidity, ppm and make sure everything is still working properly.. The timer has it set to do a 15-min feeding once a day about 3hrs after lights-on.. Simplicity is key!! I hope these little LEDs help out, even just a little bit, since it'd be great to bounce back from the set-backs I had and actually get more than a couple grams of bud after this is all said and done!! I also need to find a new way to rig the clip-on fan, because I think it's hitting the top of the plant a little too much..
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Yeah!! The once-a-day thing threw me off a bit, but the guy who put me onto it has grown several 20oz+ plants from this method, so I figured I'd adopt into into my own, but with my own tweaks.. It's at a ppm of 375 right now, and a pH of 5.9-6.0.. I wish FedEx didn't suck so much, so I'm going with the poor-man's air-pot.. I will have pictures soon.. To the Bat-cave!!
This is all a bit of a learning experience for me as well, so I'm just kinda taking everything in and seeing what works so far.. I got a vial of sample GH Floralicious Bloom last time I was at the Hydro shop, which sounded like a good thing from the reviews I read out there.. I put some in my reservoir for this batch which is roughly 6gals of an assortment of goodies, ppm at ~460, pH was 5.8 when I made the mix.. I ran through a few gallons of regular tap water to test out the system, and so far, so good.. This project has been a huge conglomeration of odds and ends that I've found, snagged, borrowed, purchased, built, took apart, etc... Once this grow is complete, I'm already eager to start my next one as I know about the pH issues with rockwool now.. The growth you see is from a week of just a simple pH'ed water flush down to a pH around 6.0 and then I would run 16-20oz of 350ppm nute mix to get the pH down a bit.. The last 2 days, the pH has stabilized and doesn't creep as much anymore.. I have to devise a new scrog-net because the one I was using won't fit anymore and I used part of it to support my fan.. I'm going to attempt to at least mildly LST and maybe do what you had recommended tomorrow, but since I'm going out of town, it's going to be tough to keep up with it..
Anyway, thanks for the encouragement and maybe we'll both learn a thing or 2 about soil-less mediums!!!
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Anyway, thanks for the encouragement and maybe we'll both learn a thing or 2 about soil-less mediums!!!
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Thanks!! I knew I needed to get the enclosure off the ground and higher than the res for drainage, I was at my storage unit yesterday and saw this odd, out of place end table, and the lightbulb came on!! Since this is a mix between a top-feed to waste and an ebb-and-flow it uses the benefits of the 2 systems, and the rockwool holds a lot of air (aeration of the medium), and is pretty hard to over water.. Unlike soil or other mediums, it doesn't make for much salt build-up since it's a recirculating sytem.. I'm using a 12gal tote w/ about 6gals of nute solution and a couple air stones.. The only thing that might suck a little is doing pH testing, but the way I set it up, I can just disconnect the drip ring's hose at the barb and put it in a bucket, and just use the pump to facilitate a faster change.. I want to put a port on the side where I can put a funnel in it and just use a 5-gal bucket to slowly fill that way but that would take some engineering, and I just want to keep it simple for now.. Not that anything I've done has been all that simple lol
Sooooo.... Been outta town for a few days and my gf was keeping watch.. She did a good job of recording all of the stats, and finally, I feel like I have everything dialed in, with regards to temp, pH, humidity, ppm, etc.. This thing nearly doubled in height, I swear, since I left!!!! when I came home, the res was low and I wasn't expecting my gf to mix up nutes or even have to pH water, since I didn't have time to teach her before I left.. Such is life, but when I came home, ~7gal res was down a little less than 2gal, which was good, but was also only down about 35-40ppm which I thought was odd, but anyway.. Lots of what I presume to be bud-sites all over this thing.. I switched the 6500K lights out with some more 2700K bulbs as well as re-positioned the LEDs and lights a little to get better coverage.. I have a feeling if I don't mess anything up, I could probably get a fair amount of successful growth yet!! I'm really maaaaaaybe close to halfway, maybe a little less.. Depends on who you talk to.. Some folks say 10wks, the manufacturer of the Blue Amnesia says 60-75 days, and I think the La Diva was about the same, maybe a little longer?? Anyway, I'm thinking closer to 75-100 days, just to play it safe.. I'm loving this recirculating top-drip!! My res temps have been steady around 67F without any chiller (it's still nice and cool outside here, so it helps a lot!) and the humidity and temps in the enclosure have been nice and firm in the 70F's.. I'm happy so far, but there's much work to be done..
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Not a ton to update on, except for the fact that I cleaned up the inside of the enclosure a bit to organize the wiring a little better and to fit a smaller catch basin in. I'm still not happy with the lighting arrangement because I feel like I'm missing some spots, but what can you do with CFLs?? I've got 4 small LEDs at the top and with all of them together, it puts out a relatively decent amount of focused light. The leaves all appear to be healthy, but this thing is a scrawny one!! I'm not sure if that's because I left the 6500Ks in too long, or if maybe this thing was supposed to be waaaaaay more full, but since I stunted it a little, it didn't want to fully develop. There are bud sites forming all the way down to the base of the plant!! I'm not really doing LST in the traditional sense by tying stuff down. I have these bamboo skewers that I'm using to sort of push the fan leaves aside to bring more light into the middle of the plant.. I think ultimately, I may just use a larger LED panel (that I was supposed to be constructing, but at this point, it may be easier to just buy one) over the top of the plant and use either T5/T8 single-bulb fixtures on the corners for side lighting and just swap out color spectrums.. I don't know.. I feel like It'll take a while to get the set up exactly how I want, but it's getting there!
Did a nute change yesterday after 8 days, ppms were a little low as I had topped off with just pH'ed water for the last couple days. pH was 6.2 (still creeping up a little) but with the new batch, I pH'ed it to a 5.6 counting on a little drift. I also did a full switch to the bloom-heavy nutes with a ppm of about 480-ish to see how it reacts.. If it seems more hungry or if it starts to get fatter, I might bump it up a little with the next res top-off later this week.. Temps and humidity have been awesome and consistent so I'm hoping maybe another 4-6 weeks?? This is day 40 since sprouting, but they state this is a 60-75 day strain, so I figure it's a 75-90 day expected time.. Actually, I'm HOPING, just off the of the fact I hope this thing fattens up a bit!!!
My nutes are as follows:
25ml GH Florablend
25ml Botanicare Aquashielf
10ml GH Grow
15ml GH Micro
25ml GH Bloom
10ml Botanicare Cal/Mag+
10ml Botanicare Silica Blast
5ml GH Floralicious Plus
6gal distilled water w/ slightly varied pH between jugs, 6.1-6.6
Anyway, any comments, suggestions, questions?!?
Did a nute change yesterday after 8 days, ppms were a little low as I had topped off with just pH'ed water for the last couple days. pH was 6.2 (still creeping up a little) but with the new batch, I pH'ed it to a 5.6 counting on a little drift. I also did a full switch to the bloom-heavy nutes with a ppm of about 480-ish to see how it reacts.. If it seems more hungry or if it starts to get fatter, I might bump it up a little with the next res top-off later this week.. Temps and humidity have been awesome and consistent so I'm hoping maybe another 4-6 weeks?? This is day 40 since sprouting, but they state this is a 60-75 day strain, so I figure it's a 75-90 day expected time.. Actually, I'm HOPING, just off the of the fact I hope this thing fattens up a bit!!!
My nutes are as follows:
25ml GH Florablend
25ml Botanicare Aquashielf
10ml GH Grow
15ml GH Micro
25ml GH Bloom
10ml Botanicare Cal/Mag+
10ml Botanicare Silica Blast
5ml GH Floralicious Plus
6gal distilled water w/ slightly varied pH between jugs, 6.1-6.6
Anyway, any comments, suggestions, questions?!?
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