New Grower My third attempt at hydroponics and first grow journal

[Tumbleweed59]

Hello to all! This is day 40 of the flowering of my American Pie and Northern Lights Big Bud. Everything is going good thus far. Colas are starting to fill-in and a nice fragrance is beginning to permeate the room. Both of the girls are sucking up water and nutes at a rate of almost a gallon a day. I currently am using a dipstick to check water level with until I get all my parts for my top off system. That still has to be worked out some as placement of the top off tank is becoming more of an issue than I originally had thought due to the fact that the tent is in a spare bedroom that I use for storage and space Is at a premium. I’ll have to be rearranging the room itself in order to accommodate it. But not to worry the Weed does have a plan. I did rearrange the tent to accommodate the new reservoir for the next crop and I am currently oxygenating the hell out of it. I am going to drop two Blue Dream from Humboldt, one Kush from Seedsman, one Diesel from RQS, and one Alien v Triangle from Mephisto. I’m hoping they all take this time around.

Here are the pics:

American Pie
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NLBB

American Pie NLBB

Rearranged w/ light panel and next crop reservoir

 

[Iriee Vibez]

Looking great, TW! Keep doing exactly what you are doing man! You will have the weed of your labor in a few short weeks!

 

[Mañ'O'Green]

Hello to all! This is day 40 of the flowering of my American Pie and Northern Lights Big Bud. Everything is going good thus far. Colas are starting to fill-in and a nice fragrance is beginning to permeate the room. Both of the girls are sucking up water and nutes at a rate of almost a gallon a day. I currently am using a dipstick to check water level with until I get all my parts for my top off system. That still has to be worked out some as placement of the top off tank is becoming more of an issue than I originally had thought due to the fact that the tent is in a spare bedroom that I use for storage and space Is at a premium. I’ll have to be rearranging the room itself in order to accommodate it. But not to worry the Weed does have a plan. I did rearrange the tent to accommodate the new reservoir for the next crop and I am currently oxygenating the hell out of it. I am going to drop two Blue Dream from Humboldt, one Kush from Seedsman, one Diesel from RQS, and one Alien v Triangle from Mephisto. I’m hoping they all take this time around.

Here are the pics:

American Pie
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NLBB
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American Pie NLBB
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Rearranged w/ light panel and next crop reservoir
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I think they look fine. I really need white light pictures to tell the health of the plants.

 

[Tumbleweed59]

They’re currently in their dark period. I’ll get some new pics with just the CFL‘s when they come back on this evening.

 

[Tumbleweed59]

So here they are under the CFL’s only. The first 3 pics are the American Pie, next 4 are the NLBB:

 

[Tumbleweed59]

I’ve also had to change what I was planting for the new crop. After 5 days only the Kush and one Blue Dream popped and then promptly died within 24 hours.The Diesel, the Alien and the other Blue Dream didn’t pop at all. So I am re-planting the Kush, Diesel and Alien and doing Glueberry OG instead of the Blue Dream after I’ve cleaned everything out again to ensure I have no bacteria.

 

[Mañ'O'Green]

I looks like you might be a little heavy on the nutes. You might consider backing off ~10%.

 

[Tumbleweed59]

I looks like you might be a little heavy on the nutes. You might consider backing off ~10%.

Yeah I’m still trying to get my adjustment right for when I add more H2O to the tanks. I’m in the single digit ML‘s per gallon when adding my nutes. So I’ll back off a little more and see what happens this coming week. Thanks!

 

[Mañ'O'Green]

Yeah I’m still trying to get my adjustment right for when I add more H2O to the tanks. I’m in the single digit ML‘s per gallon when adding my nutes. So I’ll back off a little more and see what happens this coming week. Thanks!

Do you have a TDS/EC meter? If not the two tools you really should have are TDS/EC and PH meters. Buy high quality meters and maintain them regularly. Also plan on replacing them at least every two years. I recommend BlueLab brand.

 

[Tumbleweed59]

I know I need to get them. Been doing about 50% on nutes first 2 weeks then 25% less than recommended on nutes rest of time, and I use ph drops and color code scale to check and adjust H2O before adding nutes.
Just checked out BlueLab and for right now it’s a bit out of my budget. I’ll have to get a cheaper one for now and hope it lasts for the rest of the year. But I’ll definitely get them in January when I can stock up on supplies. In the meantime I’ll get the cheap ones to hold me over. Thanks for the 411!