Closet Doms in Water.... An Ad Hoc Log of Black Dominas in DWC Hydro

Hello again, nice to see a lively discussion on growing going on here. Hound, sorry to hear the f'ing board swallowed many of your words. Opie, no take over apologies necessary....

I am in the middle of flushing BOTH the MK clones that I am flowering as well as the Dominas. I found Mr C and he has a lot to report, but it will be in an hour or two as I have my hands full with the little green ones right now.....

MVP :jointsmile:

MVP....how are the leaves looking.....any signs of defs/lockouts etc?

opie, that made me nearly wet myself, im cryin over here:S2:

id agree with WH too.. i hate taking anything off, and laugh at me, go ahead, but i name every girl in there, lol. freak out at a little leaf curl, yellow tip. i know where every bud in that room is... thats why i've been knocking the SCROG around in my head, scared ill hurt one:(

opie, you are the funny one tonight...lol, love the monty quote

No, none so far... just a bunch of brown crumbly fan leaves under the canopy.

So.... the long awaited Mr C now has his report: Mr Clipboard says... we have not changed nutes until now, which is a flush (tonight) followed by fresh nutes tomorrow.

I have checked the girls every couple of days from 1/20 (last update on 1/24... see above in thread) and the PH and PPM floated around a bit as shown by Mr C below:

1/23 @ 7pm
BD1 = 1270 PPM, 5.1 PH. Added 1/3 gal RO water and UP, final numbers are 1206 PPM, 6.0 PH, 3.3 gal total in res
BD2 = 1258 PPM, 5.7 PH. Added 1/3 gal RO water and EJ Micro, final numbers are 1111 PPM, 5.7 PH, 3.0 gal total in res

1/26 @ 10pm
BD1 = 1332 PPM, 5.6 PH. Added 3/4 gal RO water and UP, final numbers are 1110 PPM, 6.2 PH, 3.5 gal total in res
BD2 = 1440 PPM, 6.0 PH. Added 1-3/4 gal RO water and Bloom+EJ Micro, final numbers are 1245 PPM, 6.1 PH, 3.75 gal total in res

1/30 @ 9pm
BD1 = 1215 PPM, 6.0 PH. Did nothing. Final numbers are 1215 PPM, 6.0 PH, 2.4 gal total in res
BD2 = 1395 PPM, 6.1 PH. Did nothing. Final numbers are 1395 PPM, 6.1 PH, 2.2 gal total in res

At this point I have not been too gentle with them. I have removed a half dozen leaves from the under canopy per night for 3-4 days, along with the shoots below that will not reach the canopy. I have also removed 2-3 fan leaves a day from the canopy that were shading the bud sites.

That is the update, let me know your questions and comments...

Yes.....one question. Are you planning on staying with that ratio of CalMag and base nute? I've gone back and forth with this issue so much in my grows ....just want to know and follow whatever your ratios on that are going to be. The dominas are very indica dominant right? I seem to have much less troubles with my indica dominant varieties......sigh.....

Anyway please let me know what the plan is with your ratios. Thanks. ;)

So far as I know Black Domina is an Indica strain. Not dominant, but Indica. That is what I have heard and how they are responding. I plan to treat them as such through flowering, so I will be increasing the Bloom, Micro, Sweet, etc but not the CalMag. I'll post the 'secret formula' once I figure it out... :D

WH,

Sorry about the bummerish conditions as of recent. I absolutely hate it when my long posts just go away to fucked post land. Perhaps you should consider your clipboard more. Seems I have no, or at least much less problems on other sites, so when I'm on this site my clipboard and and word processor get a work out. Often, especially if I think it might be a long post, I compose in a different app. and paste it in the reply box. That way I still have it if it goes away. An even faster method is to compose in the reply box and hit control-A, then control-C just before clicking the reply button. (The cursor, or mouse pointer must be in the reply box when you do this.) That way, unless your computer crashes, you'll still have it when cancom fucks you. Although, pretty soon they'll probably figure out a way to make your computer crash at the same time.

Sigh... I sure wish I could get you to understand the little amount of extra stress a scrog creates when done properly. Other than trimming the popcorn buds that most people would trim anyway, and the excess foliage under the canopy that's not receiving light anyway, there's not really much additional stress as opposed to other "normal" grow methods. The aforementioned pruning should only be done once, during veg. Shouldn't really slow down flowering at all. Long story short, the seed sellers say that AK-47 finishes in 45-50 days of flowering. My scrogged AK-47 finishes in 48-52 hours of flowering. Not a big sacrifice to get a larger yield IMO, and that might not even be caused by scrog stress. Maybe something else is causing the 2 day delay, or maybe the seed sellers are referring to "finished" as 8% amber rather than the 10% that I usually go for. DAMN IT. OK, you're right! Scrogging is absolutely ridiculous and a complete yield buster in bad way.

SnS,

Thanks. It must be the couple extra meds due to the 3-day-long headache.

Oh no....if I somehow gave you that impression....thats scrog was bad...then I apologize because thats not what I mean to say at all. I'm just trying to find out IF it does take longer, if the yield is that much better, and whether.....IF both are true.....how much longer and how much better yield?

Opie.....here's what I'm really trying to say.....is it worth me getting off my butt and trying it???? :D

Do the math yourself WH!

Opie said that AK-47 takes 45-50 days of flowering. His grow finished in 48-52 hours. What is better? :D

Just kidding Opie ;)