First time grow KC Brains Skunk #1 & White KC

I'm going to go back and read, but in case you didn't say. How long were those under Veg. growth?

Thanks WH, I picked of all the suspected bits, when I poped them later in another room they simply had white stringy bits in them that could have been pistils. There is a couple of bits on some of the branch flowers that could be either way so watching what happens with them. Would it be normal if it did hermie to grow female flowers & males nanners in the same branch node? I'm feeling confident enough with KC2 that I have ordered those Canna additives I mentioned. They are meant to increase bud mass and enhance the end flavour.

I'll see if I can get some better pics.

Without looking back myself FreeVenice they took 2 weeks to get out of beanling phase, then I vegged for 3 weeks untill they were five weeks old. I was going to leave them a bit longer but the average height was already a foot. If you look at the older pics when there was seven in there it was a bit of a hedge. However when I switched over from the MH to HPS bulb it was a race each day to see which plant could touch the bulb. I wouldn't put that many in my set-up again but got caught out with a 100% germination rate & all but the NL's survived the propogator.

wow very nice grow. but what is in the coke bottels. Is that co2 or somthin.

Thanx HydroCannabis, yes thats an adaption of a link I found on here, the only thing that was wrong in the info was the claim Co2 is lighter than air. All the info I have read otherwise states Co2 is heavier than air so thats why I hang them. Basically you pierce holes in the top of the bottle tops & make your Co2 mix up in the bottle. You have to watch the mix strength & don't hang them directly over the plants as there is a risk of frothing.

There is a lot of good pro & con points regarding Co2 on threads here in the forums, but the only thing I can say for sure from experience of what I have seen. Is that the Co2 seems prevent the room heating up as quickly. I know this doesn't make sense with regard to the greenhouse gasses debate, but I know my temps stay lower when I am using the Co2.

Great job, those things are going to be so big. . . do you plan on adding more light?

Cheers FreeVenice, I have had good help along the way from Weedhound & Dusto so props to them. :thumbsup:

I bought a 600W HPS on ebay the other night while on a spree so I am waiting for that to arrive. Going to start by switching the light over to the 600W & monitor my temps, if they stay low enough I will add the 250W back in giving a total of 850W HPS. If I can't add the 250W back in then the 600W on its own should be a decent increase.

An issue I have at the moment is due to the height of S1A aka (Big Bessie) I can't slide the NFT tak in and out the closet to chenge the res. Is it all right to pump out as much as possible then add back water conditioned on a per 5ltr bottle basis?

How much water will be left that you can't get to? That's usually what I do with my waterfarms...pump the extra out.... and there is always about an inch that is left....I never worry about it. I do use h202 though every other day to fight of pythium, algae etc so that may help keep the older water from causing problems in my setup....just guessing.

That would be about what I'm left with or maybe sligthly less. I can't use any H2O2 product now as I have started with the Canna Boost which arrived today. It has a warning not to use H2O2, I think because it already contains it maybe. I haven't ever seen algae build up in my tank, but I reckoned that was because I sealed it from light & have an air pump in it. It has always been completely changed at max every 10 days so not sure how it will play with old water.

I use the cannazym for the roots and it says the same thing about the h202....something about beneficial bacteria or something....don't ask me.

I don't think I would worry about a small amount of older water....like i say there is always some in mine....even when changing over to bloom nutes or whatever and I've never had a problem. (knock on wood :) )