Diary:31/05/07: Flood & Drain 1st Try

[home.grower]

while ammending the reservoir yesterday i noticed a strong smell of piss. I'm wondering if some punk mf visiting in my absence urinated in my reservoir. The odd ocassion has arisen where peeps have mentioned it, and I wouldn't put it past them to be so childish.. I just hope I'm not putting my hands in someone elses piss when i do res ammendments

[home.grower]

The levels are good.

I shall drain the reservoir tomorrow because I am dubious about piss in my reservoir. I hope I'm incorect and people haven't been pissin in my reservoir! Time to introduce a 4inch thick reinforced steel door?

pH 6.1 but downed to 5.7
EC 1.5

Growth is still very good.

Not much else to add!!

[hydrocannabis]

ooooooooooooooooooooooo my goood. these pix look like some marijuana pron.

this grow looks sick in the best way possible.

grow on man grow on.

[home.grower]

Cheers Hydrocannabis...

I haven't done my res change yet, but i reckon today is the day....

I need to have my res fresh for when the plants decide to have a girth spurt (usually happens)... that'll be n e time soon....

Yesterday the levels were ok. The res was low so I topped off with 30L od ap water then balanced the pH. The EC was around 1.5. I added a dash of Carboload and a plop of Barricade to the res...

Today will be res scrub and flush and maybe photo op...

[TheGreenFog]

Nice plants. I have to start counting how many! haha. Looking great, man.

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New Madman Thread. :thumbsup:


Be cool, home.grower. :greenthumb:


The Fog :rastasmoke:

[home.grower]

I didn't manage to flush my res yesterday as I had other duties in the garden to attend to. I did however check the pH and EC levels giving 6.1/1.2

This morning I went in before lights out and scrubbed the system and drained the res. I replenished with pH 5.6 water without any additives and left the system running. I will do a second drain and replenish shortly then apply a full mix of all addatives to EC1.2-1.4.

I have chronic signs of over fert again due to the EC2.2 occuring for a second time... I will take some pix shortly and get them posted.

[home.grower]

Sum pix

[home.grower]

Some more pix

[home.grower]

I suppose I keep loosing sight of the propterties of DWC style cultivation.

The changes in pH and EC are constant variables and demand attention.

I have been quite used to growing in potted coco media and taking EC levels to the max... The signs of over fert come on much slower with soil. Hydro is very much unforgiving to those who do not apply their full attention to their work. but I can see that the rewards can be quite generous.

I've also lost sight of the fact that I'm currently farming very small plants. Some of those small plants are less than one-fith the size of plants that are normally grown, so I should have been bearing in mind that the transportation of nute to the plants vital areas will be quick in comparrison to 4-5 ft tall potted plants... I'm ready to give it another shot, but next time I'll employ factors that will stop over fert problems... ~(over fert seems to be my only major fault, apart from not switching the pump on sometimes for over a day)...

[razzapiggy]

Yeah over ferting seems to be a common problem w. hydro if you don't pay attention. Luckily you can flush em out pretty easily. Nice compact plants, they are filling in nicely. I noticed not a ton of secondary shoots, any reason or just the way the strain grows?

Great work thus far, I think you are going to have a nice ass harvest. What size trays are those? I see you have 16 plants on each...maybe a 5 by 4?