Grow Mediums Steely's first hydro grow. LED DWC.

Hey man, I wouldnt increase the ppm to that much, there is only a certain amount your plant can take in, and simply increasing the feed wont make it uptake those nutes. Think of yourself, you could have unlimited food but doesent mean you could eat it all. I wouldnt be surprised if you're PPM is rising constantly? at that size I wouldnt have the ppm over 350 - 400, the idea is the get it so the PPM doesent drift, which would mean the plant is uptaking and equal amount of water in proportion the nutes.

Dont follow those nutrient package guidelines so religiously, you got to try read your plant by how big and strong she is rather than how many days old, as like with many of my grows, seems like you've experienced some stunted growth there at the start, although she looks perfectly healthy to me. Just needs more light, thats all its craving. Soon as she gets more light, she'll grow roots and leaves faster and stronger, and it will get bigger perpetually faster and take up more nutes.

My plants are on like day 85 and I have them on about 1150 PPM as a guideline, and mine were about 2 weeks behind or just slow growers.

Good luck
 
Thanks bambud :) Yes i'm listening to the plant, how long does it take in hydro before you see a change in a plant due to a change in environment like higher PPM ? it's been a few days now and she's a little darker (hard to tell in this pic but she is!) :

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She's also small because of not just the lack of light but a bad start coz loads went wrong and i started her in soil and transplanted twice so she's had some stress!

The light should be returned to me Thursday or Friday i'm told so can't wat for that.

I'm even considering dumping her and germing a new seed and doing it properly in my organic root riot cubes but i hate killing things!

Maybe i'll find a quiet, secluded corner of my garden and put her in a pot there, i dunno ...


Cheers for reading,

steely
 
Maybe she just needs to get her bearings sorted....
 
I managed to pull (hopefully once dried) over an oz from the Roadrunner and you know the issues I had at the start. Don't give up on her man.
Good karma your way mate.
 
I think its still got potential, smother it in light and it'll bush out and get a thicker stem. Maybe consider adding a splitter for the CFL sockets and adding another 2 CFLs, and keep them along with the LED?
 
Ye i should stick with it, agreed!


Cheers,

steely
 
Im an intervener myself and it never pays off. Like everyone else here is saying, up the feeds,light slowly and it will explode. Trimming some non essential fan leaves helps it to grow more bud sites. You will be fine with her.
 
I'm not happy with her bad start, will stick her in the garden and germ a new one for friday.


steely
 
Steely... A difficult call but i know your feeling. You want to give your lady 100% all the way so she can be everything she can :) i support your move.
 
Cheers Tdam.

I just stuck her in a 2L pot of PM soil, gave her 1L of 2ml grow and 1ml silicon.

Gonna stick her in the garden if my gf doesn't find out/mind too much/beat me around the head lol.

Getting pretty smooth at transplanting now, took me 30 secs !

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Now to find a spot in the garden where the neighbours can't see her!

Put her in a normal pot not an airpot, don't want her drying out too quick and me out their watering too often, drawing attention.

This will be my first 'outdoor' grow, kinds looking forward to it :)

Sun jsut setting, view from my loft window :

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Cheers,

steely
 
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