Dutch Passion TD grow...No meters, round 2

[Wombat Jenkins]

So, I've been absent for a few months, got injured at work, had an a/c failure while I was out of town for a weekend, ended up cooking a crop of WW x The Ultimate that was about a week from harvest and a few dragons too...

But anyways, I'm starting over with what worked the first time only tweaking some things. Right now I'm half way through the grow with three TD's in DWC, they're the standard Christmas tree size. Last time I got 200g a plant without a meter, hopefully I can hit near 300 without the issues that plagued my first couple grows.

Here's what's happened so far.

6/14 planted seeds

6/16 potted seedlings

400w hps...(Not thinking I grabbed a 400w hps bulb instead of the planned 600w MH, absent minded mistake #1)
RO water
1ml/l sensigrow a
1ml/l sensigrow b
1ml/l b-52
1ml/l calmag

7/1 top off with ro water + calmag

400w hps
added to total full volume
2ml/l sensigrow a
2ml/l sensigrow b
1ml/l b-52

7/18 water change(almost out of water)

1200w hps
4ml/l Connoiseur a
4ml/l connoiseur b
1ml/l calmag

7/22 topped off with ro water + calmag

7/26 water change

1600w hps(I have 2 600w and a 1000w, seedlings needed to borrow one of the 600's, so now I have the 1000 and 600 running)
ro water
4ml/l connoiseur a
4ml/l connoiseur b
1ml/l calmag
2ml/l bud factor x
2ml/l big bud
2ml/l bud candy

I'll see what I can do about rounding up some pictures for the next update.

 

[insert name here]

Looking forward to watching, my hat's off to you mate, growing with out meters....but it worked out well last time

 

[Wombat Jenkins]

The metering and constant attention aspect of growing, especially hydro keeps most people that need marijuana from growing it, instead they end up growing an ounce in miracle grow, because they can handle watering, but not much more. I have friends that are growers, running hydro grows that spend hours a day taking readings and adjusting nutrients. For a Newbie grower I would almost say that the meters provide too much information, especially with the amount of questionable growing advice available on the internet.

Currently I visit the grow room, check up on the plants, groom them a little and that's about it. My first reservoir change was 4 weeks in this time, with a top off around 2 weeks. Now that they're flowering I'm topping off water every few days and doing weekly reservoir changes, but I'm not chained to the garden. I also have 3 Automazar, 3 Autoextreme, and 3 staryders going in waves behind the TD's. I've recently added a couple patients, so I'm looking at upping my grow from 12 to 36, maybe 48 plants depending on size, and really don't want to commit the time required for a traditional hydro grow.

 

[Wombat Jenkins]

...Holy hell, properly grown the smell is out of control, there's still a month left before harvest on these. on my last, fairly flawed run the smell didn't get strong till just about harvest time.

 

[Wombat Jenkins]

Day 50, plus new crop!

So, it's been another 10 days since the last reservoir change, tonight I did another reservoir change, perhapse the last one for whichever plant I take down at 70 days(roommate likes the effect from early TD) Also, finally some pictures.

07/30

Topped off with RO water + 1ml/l calmag

08/02

Topped off with RO water + 1ml/l calmag

08/05 - Day 50

Changed Reservoirs with RO water

1600w hps plus spill over from 450w HM(600 at 75%, 100% trips breaker at a/c startup)
4ml/l connoiseur a
4ml/l connoiseur b
2ml/l calmag
2ml/l bud factor x
2ml/l big bud
2ml/l bud candy
2ml/l B-52
2ml/l Overdrive

Forgive the quality, I don't have a ton of room to move and hps sucks for light quality, at least for pics.

Here's a group shot.

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Here's TD #1, the taller bushy pheno

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TD #2 the shorter bushy pheno

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TD #3 the tall not bushy pheno, super sensitive, just like in the first grow.

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The 100 day pheno didn't make an appearance this time, but, it and the other bushy phenos seem to be happy with whatever you do, the skinny pheno without a lot of leaves is never happy.

And as an added bonus, here's the next crop snuggled up in the closet under 450 MH, all planted 10 days ago at the last reservoir change

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Three AutoMazars

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Three AutoXtreme

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All 6 are bubbling away, with roots just starting to break out of the net pots now.

Their log starts with the following

7/23 planted seeds in root riot cubes

7/26 potted seedlings

450w MH, as mentioned earlier, there isn't enough current available to run at 600w with the a/c, fans, and air pumps on that circuit.
RO water
2ml/l sensigrow a
2ml/l sensigrow b
1ml/l b-52
1ml/l calmag

Next week I'll likely top off their reservoirs and top the dosage up to full strength on the nutrients since they'll no longer be seedlings or small plants by then.

Also, this week I have another 3 to add to the closet, a group of StarRyder will be going into cubes likely thursday or friday, with planting in net pots happening sunday or monday.


Added extra bonus...weirdly exposed pic of TD #1
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[flat9]

Updates?

 

[Wombat Jenkins]

Sorry, about the delay in updates.

Between the last update and now the TD's have been using roughly 6 liters of water a day

08/19

Changed one reservoir our TD for ro/water, the other two TDs were the following

2ml/l connoiseur a
2ml/l connoiseur b
2ml/l calmag
1ml/l bud factor x
1ml/l bud candy
1ml/l B-52
2ml/l Overdrive

The 6 mazar and autoextremes were topped off with Ro water and had the following added:

2ml/l sensigrow a
2ml/l sensigrow b
1ml/l b-52
1ml/l calmag



08/24 - 69 days from seed I harvested the plant I switched to water. It yielded 102 grams dried, but the roommate uses it in the daytime, so she needs the energetic high that the early harvest gives...unfortunately it cuts the yield in half vs waiting till day 85 or so when amber starts.