Dutch Passion My first hydro grow: 2 DP StarRyder, GHE Waterfarm, 150W HPS and tons of questions

[Keyser]

It seems I was wrong about having more time now, shit's still piling on as usual. Anyway:
- went back to EC 2.4; switch to 2.6 seems to have almost halted bud formation and hurt some leaves though maybe I'm just imagining things
- the plants get a lot of light, between 50-100k lux at the various tops; 100k is the max of my luxmeter
- no more small pics, everyone else seems to post big ones right away too. I hope the one person still following this diary can deal with that adjustment

Day 86 from seed

Day 89 from seed

I ran out of weed in the meantime but luckily I still had my hash bags and some saved trimmings, earning me a few grams of very enjoyable smoke

 

[insert name here]

Starting to bulk up a little Keyser, nice looking hash too bro!!!

 

[kfigerm]

:thumbs: you say keyser - I say soze
tourtured with growth - blessed with yield

edit - changed umlaut to o - system doesn't seem to like umlauts :-/

 

[Keyser]

Good day gents! Today I thought was a good time to get rid of all of the lower growth that was never going to turn into anything but food for my hash bags - and so I did:

Day 93...

According to my schedule we have 12 days left. We'll see :smoke:

 

[Keyser]

Day 96. Possibly the last time I fed the plants with anything but plain water, at least if I want to cut them down by day 105.
I'm a little on the fence on the subject and will decide that when we enter week 15 from seed in 3 days, I might give #1 an extra week.

I've had a chance to smoke some quick dried buds from the lower plant levels and was astonished by the smell: a very fruity, sweet, almost strawberry like aroma, especially when cutting/grinding the weed of course.
I only had very little to smoke and it wasn't cured correctly so I can't really judge the high yet but I think I'll be very happy with the end result, that little preview was very nice. It reminded me of summers past.

I think the two worst mistakes I made this time around were:
a) keeping too big a distance between the MH lamp and the plants. They didn't really grow vertically at first so I thought moving the lamp away might help; then suddenly they put on a meter within 3 weeks.
b) removing the remaining lower foliage too late. I never had plants this big or with that much leaf growth so I wasn't sure when (and how much) I should remove.

Next time I'll also try to keep them lower and in the original closet, that 120x120 room is wonderful and saved my ass this time but it's pretty hard to hide.

Any other hints or tips for my next grow? So far the only things I could think of were slight modifications to the Waterfarms to keep RH low and water from spraying out of the buckets.
And I think I'll just grow one plant next time...

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Hm, well, I would have loved to post the newest pics but apparently I have reached my album quota - every time I try to upload an image I get an error message saying I exceeded my quota by 19.74MB.
Since I will not be using an outside service to upload pictures it seems this is where this diary will end.

This limit seems to apply to all albums combined so I can not upload any more pics at all - so apparently no more grow diaries from me (unless I delete some of the old pics but I don't plan to).

Oh well. It was fun while it lasted. Thanks for your attention, I hope I'll remember to at least post the dry weight once I know it.

 

[c@b420]

What was the dry weight?

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