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That exact same thing happened to me on one res change. Crazy and scary and after I'd seen preflowers too. Since then I do as quick a change as I can and no problems since.

I pump the res dry, let the tub outflow empty the grow tub via gravity, and pump dry again ("dry" meaning all that the pump can get, the bottom of res is still wet). Then I quickly dump in a few gallons ASAP. Then nute it and top it off and adjust PH a bit later.

I think it'll be fine as long as you go quick. Some people told me they keep a second container of water handy and set the roots hanging in it while they change the res. I cant lift mine off anymore, so I just sprint.

Perhaps our girls are just super-sensitive about being rez-less, even briefly, once they begin to flower.

Champ is still pouting. She really doesn't look any better, but also not any worse.

How long did it take yours to recover?

I'd been planning to change her out tomorrow, but went early because he showed just the tiniest touch of tip burn this morning that wasn't there during our photo session yesterday. I hadn't added nutes in a few days, so I figured she must've been drinking more than she was eating and the nute concentration had gotten too high.

Now I almost wish I hadn't changed the rez at all! A little tip burn is better than a pitiful, wilting Champ!

I think after about a day and a half or so they were ok again. Mine were maybe 2 1/2 feet tall at the time, so the droop looked pretty severe, but I just gently trained the branches as well as I could as they straightened back up and now you'd never tell there was an issue.

As of last night she's been holding herself upright - just not proudly. *chuckle*

Thanks for the encouragement!

Hey what up everyone, just signed up today. Me and a friend have invested some money in a grow project. The bubbleponics system from stealth hydro is in route and i just had a question about germinating. Can we just stick the seed in the rock wool and plug in the system and it will just germinate on its own or should we germinated first before putting it in the rockwool. Any help would be appreciated or if theres somewhere else on the forum i can go to read about it more let me know. Thanks

Champ is flowering along beautifully. I've got a clear/cloudy mix of trichs, percentage depends upon the bud in question. Keeping an eye out for amber to start flush. Harvest will probably be modest, but it smells divine, and I'm very happy with my first hydro effort! Pix to come in a few days.

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Question: I did some pruning about 2 weeks ago of some scraggly stems, to keep them from diverting resources from the more abundant ones. I stuck them in some water, and true to Champ genes, they rooted like crazy. They've been under the same lights, so they are producing teeny little flowers. Is it possible to revert these to veg as clones at this late point?

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Manwithbike: If you've not already discovered, you're more likely to get prompt answers to this type of question by starting a new thread or posting in a newbie question thread, but I'm happy to throw in my 2 cents here!

I prefer to germinate before placing in rockwool, and here's why: You can then place only growing sprouts in rockwool, thereby avoiding wasting space on seeds that weren't viable.

Here's how I germinate:

• 1 pint of tap water
• 3 oz of 3% Hydrogen Peroxide
• 2 mL of bleach
• seeds
• paper towel, folded in quarters
• source of heat (I use an electric heating pad like you'd use for sore muscles)

Put 'em all together, soak seeds for 24 hours. Keep an eye on them - if you see cracked ones, take them out and place them inside the dampened (wet it, wring it out) paper towel. Place paper towel near heat source, put whole schmear in a dark place (I keep mine in a foil-covered Jiffy Propagator). After the 24 hour soak, put all seeds in the paper towel. Check regularly for sprouting. Once you have some white poking out, you either open your propagator a bit and remove the foil, or jump ahead and place the sprout in your rockwool, pointy-seed-end up. Give them gentle (or distant) light while they toughen up.

Good luck!

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Hi all!

Went to 12/12 on JAN 7th.
First flowers showed on Jan. 25th.
Off nutes on 3/9.

Now she's from bag seed, and I suspected early on that she had some sativa genetics due to her fan leaves' more narrow fronds, but Holy Hannah, I never expected to be flowering for 60 days!

Champ's trichs are still cloudy with some clear, no amber yet! It is tough to be patient, but I know she's close.

For all you naysayers, Champ has been on CFL since her sprout days, and CFL and incandescent (for red & far red) since 1/15. She may be slow, but she's filled out nicely.

LSTing gave her 5 heads, and a few minor ones. As you can see from the last photo, she's spitting buds out of every possible spot.

Photo Guide:
a) Whole plant - Yep, that's just one. Coke can for size reference.
c) One of 5 colas - not the main cola.
d) Top view of main cola
e) Buds, buds, everywhere...
f) Even buds here, and there...

Here's Champ's best portrait - Brighter & tighter.

I've found that if I keep my girls in the mist chamber and move the whole set off the res they seem to be fine for a while but if the roots are hanging in air they tend to droop and look wilted very quickly...about 15 minutes and I can start to see negative signs but in the mist chamber they're good for an hour or 2 before anything seems to happen

Champ looks nice yer gonna get some nice green off that baby

How much longer you have with her? I've been in flower for 2 weeks and just saw my first pistil so I'm expecting I'm gonna go way over the 60 day mark