Alien NLX Flowering day 30

Mr E...;)

When I weigh things wet I try to figure they will dry out at about 25% of wet weight and I have found this to be pretty accurate as a rule in my scientific tests. Let us know how much beauty there is weight wise.:)

I will do a thorough job when they're dry to weigh things really well.
I just clipped one other decent branch and took a pic, and indicated which one it is in a previous pic.

My back is sore after one or two branches, so weighing wet is just a step that's painful, lol.

This branch was jammed up against a wall for a couple of months. I'm surprised it filled out as well as it did really.

PS: My hands are sticky. :p

Sweet MrE

Lookin Tizzzzite!

After I added the Big Bud Bloom enhancer it seemes like she took a liking to it! Looking at the pic thats an 18 gal res. There is no way there would be room for 2 plants as I origionally planned. Shes bushen out nicely. She is in her 11th day flower. When will I start seeing the formation of buds?

I am having to tuck the fan leaves and do some tieing so that the bud sites get as much light as possible. One thing I am noticing is that my PPM are rising dramatically. I believe this has something to do with the amount of water she is drinking is that accurate? If thats the case do I top off with just Ph'd water or do I top off with nutes/water.

Nice Pics

Peace :thumbsup:

MisterE just read thruogh this thread thread, fucking awe inspiring plants.:)

Hey thanks. It's my first hydro grow, and I made plenty of mistakes and was chasing problems with brown spots on leaves the entire time. But I'm happy with the outcome.

GodBud, yeah both of mine were in a 10 gallon tub! There is absolutely no question whatsoever that my plants suffered from severe overcrowding because I let them veg a long time and they branched really perfectly and WIDE. They were shoving against each other the entire time, once one of them tipping over. Some buds are much smaller on the crowded sides obviously. I bet you get about as much from your 1 plant, as long as you keep it healthy and growing and it has enough space and light.

This strain worked great. I've only sampled a small bud that I clipped 2 weeks or so ago. It is not cured properly, but the effect is very strong for me.

I did weigh the main cola of the smaller plant last night and it was over 4 oz wet. No idea what is common, but there was actually one branch that was even larger than the main top.

Busy today chopping and trimming the larger plant and rearranging things for drying/curing.

Thats cool yeah she is looking very healthy and I am checking on her quite often. Still confused about the ppm rising. Looks like your going to have a nice stash for awhile.

Peace

Well, as plants uptake nutrients they give off waste if you read Zandors threads he talks about it. How long has it been since you completely drained and changed the water? It could be time. I never went longer than 10 days or so, and if I thought there could be an issue, I changed in between.

I change every 7-10 days. Thats whats weird is that as the the plants take up the nutes my ppm should go down but instead its rising. I am thinking since water is being consumed through the plants and also through evapration that the nutients per water ratio is whats changing the ppm to rise. Meaning I am thinking the nute ratio to the water would be higher for the amount of water thats in the res. I bet if I just poored a gallon of Ph'd water with no nutes into the res my ppm would lower. You smell what im steppin in?

Peace

Well another possibility is that the plant is only taking up water but not nutes.. so as water drops, the effect is higher PPM. I'd probably make sure the water doesn't smell nasty, keep an eye on new growth etc. You shouldnt get too much evaporating to make the ppm change I dont think. Does it recirculate really well enough?

Well, I got the other plant all trimmed and hung. The beefcake cola weighed 6.5oz wet. The far side of the plant was alot smaller than it could have been if I had more light/bigger light/light mover.

I was right about the roots in the drain pipe. I think I pulled about 4 feet of root out of it, lmao.

I found the same problem (well not really a problem)....in my first grow they drank more water....left more nutes. Second grow....ate more nutes....ppm's went down instead of up. This grow is the same. I'm figuring it's the time of year. My first grow was in summer.....AC on constantly. Next grow in fall and now in winter.....I'm actually seeing it stay more even in this grow. Could be coincidence but.....??