New Bubbler Grow Coming Soon - Input Welcome!

Hi Weed!

Yep, I may very well switch to some more intense lighting when I go on to the good seeds, but for my trial run it wasn't worth the investment (to me).

This round I get to make a bunch of mistakes and questionable decisions, and learn from them. *grin*

I have done soil grows in the past, but this is my first hydro grow... And yeah, I did a lot of research first, especially on lighting. I love the clamp lamps, and was hoping my half-assed lighting scheme would work out ok so I don't have to buy new fixtures. *chuckle* We'll see, I guess!

I'm not in flower yet... Thought about skipping the LST and going 12/12 yesterday since Champ was about 14 inches. I opted to try the LST, and I'm gonna give it a week before flowering.

I've not done as much LST research, but many I read started much earlier than I did. I'd love to know what advantages you've found from waiting until flowering to do LST - I have no idea what impact the timing has, other than not wanting to start with a plant that is too small/young.



I'm pretty sure it was my rez nutes that burned the tips - Foliar seems to have had no negative impact on the leaves. I do mist (w/o additives other than pH down) regularly, because humidity is on the low side in my closet.


Champ is of unknown sex & strain... Bag seed. I don't even know of what batch he came - I had seeds from over the years all in a pill bottle, and Champ was the only one that made it past one inch. I'm figuring he'll probably be male since he's had a pretty stressful veg. Of course I hope she's female, but I won't be too bummed if he's male - I really wanted to try everything out on a plant I don't care about all too much (i.e. not my purchase Sweet Tooth #1 seeds) so I didn't have to cry like a baby if I killed it. *smirk*


PPMs - Not a clue. Haven't yet purchased a meter.

Water - "Rested" tap w/H2O2. Have good tap water here - Read the city's Water Report and the only concern was chlorine, hence the resting. pH is 7.0 before nutes, and I've had no trouble with pH flux. I do have to change rez water more often because it seems to cause curl down after about 5 days... Probably due to build-up of misc. stuff in the tap water, or the unknown ppms. I've developed a system of swapping out about a gallon or two after 3 days, then the whole rez after 6-9 days. This seems to do the trick, but I'll likely use a combo of tap & distilled when I do my next grow.

Thanks for stopping by!

Hmmmm, afraid it's pretty hard to say if you can't count ppms but to each his own as my old man always said. My only real advantage of waiting to lst is that I only want to do it to the females given space, lighting, and most of all my lack of work ethic. The males can pretty well blow off in my book. Right now I'm growing from seed not clones so until i go to 12/12 and determine sex I'm not working on anything. Period. During the veg stage they either grow like they are supposed to or I drop a light on them (j/k)

Champ has been on 12/12 for 5 nights now. Tomorrow I will peek at his/her privates in hopes of glimpsing sex traits. Camera batteries need charging, but I'll get a new photo up ASAP. Champ has probably doubled in size & fullness since LSTing!

And yes... the light is now 2 incandescent grow bulbs and 1 CFL. A couple of burns on the top leaves whilst I found the right height & configuration for the clumsy bulb set-up, but overall, looking good.

Cigars all around if it's a girl!

Congrats, I wish I'd started to flower mine about a month sooner too,lol. They're starting second week of flower now and taking up almost half of my 5x7 foot room. 2 plants.
I think if I'd gotten some clones this go around, I'd put them directly into 12/12 after rooting honestly.

Champ is beginning to preflower, but it is still too soon for me to be able to tell sex. I know some of y'all can differentiate just that little green nub that appears, but I'm not that tricky. *chuckle*

I'm fine it the plant grows into a monster, since it is the only one I'm growing this round, and I have enough lamps to provide side lighting and such. It has stretched some in this past week under 12/12, but a little stretch during flower is okay by me.

Hope to announce sex in a couple of days! Pix then.

Flowering has stalled - I believe due to low RH. Working on correcting this problem now. Growth continues, but no definite sex traits that I can ID have appeared yet.

Out of boredom, I have water cured some of the smaller leaves from pruning. My tolerance is currently ZERO, and I do get a mild effect after a full joint of this crapola, but I suspect it is the other misc. cannabinoids that are responsible.

Yummier than a cigarette though - Full of the taste of hope. *grin*

lol, my tolerance is zero too and I smoke some leaf now and then and definitely get some effect.

I dont know about low RH being something that stalls flowering? My humidity gauge goes down to 15% and below that it just shows --, and there's many times it's pegged on the low side. It's so damn dry here you can't make spit or tears!! I have to run a humidifier just to make it tolerable for myself to live, lol! Would like to hear more about that though.

Hope you have a female!

Cigars (stuffing of your choice) for everyone!

Here are some photos of Champ's preflowers and new flowers. I did some image tweaking with the preflower shots (taken thru a magnifying glass) to enhance the edges and increase brightness & contrast to make the preflowers more visible in the photos. (To the naked eye, they are clear as day.)

She seems to have 4 or 5 tops from the LSTing. Sweet...

I am truly shocked that Champ is female - She had such a rough life! Tough girl, this one.

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Mister E - Thanks for your good wishes! I shall have you bless all my future grows. *grin*

On humidity: Since you want to maintain RH of 40-50% during flower, I figured it is only logical that having RH significantly lower than that will stunt flowering.

Must be something to my theory, because in the 2 days since I posted & raised the humidity, Champ burst forth with both preflowers and baby flowers!

I went low-tech to raise the humidity: I hang a damp towel behind the fan, and have a shallow tray with a bunch of Hydroton rocks in it that I water daily.

Cool, congrats.

I've got a humidifier slaving away here and raised my RH up to a bone dry 21%, lmao. Thank god this weed just wants to live no matter what abuse we subject it to, lol.

I changed my rez this morning, and while I usually let the pH settle for a bit before replacing Champ, I had to rush her back in today - She was wilting drastically after only about 15 minutes out of the rez. I've never had this problem with her before, and I did everything the same as I always do, including misting the roots with a pH adjusted H2O/H2O2 mist a couple of times while she waited. After replacing her, I sat with her for a good 10 minutes, holding her stems upright so they didn't get any severe bends. Eventually I just kinda propped her. She seems to be slowly perking back up.

Any idea what her problem is? Or is she just being tempermental, as pubescent girls are wont to be?