First Grow

[Cannabis476]

They look good to me, nice work!

[whatsthatsmell]

Thanks Pro, but i have to admit, it hasnt been an easy road. People may read the boards and think that its easy to grow, and in a way, yes and no. There is an investment of time and money into this project and people should really study and learn as much as they can before doing anything with this type of plant. I started out with growing something like a tomato plant indoors, nice acid plant that is similar to this and gave me some practice. The one thing that doesnt come into play when your researching is the potential for problems, like alot of new people they want to take extra care of the plant and that will kill it quicker than anything else especially with nutes. I think alot of that comes from people hearing that it needs alot of nutes and grows really fast so it needs more. This is not always the case, just cause it grows fast doesnt always mean it needs more nutes.

Thanks Cannabis but the plants are still recovering, i will post a pic later and you can see the difference, they are coming back and looking good, but there still about a week or so away from flowering. I have seen the mother of these plants and the people that are growing that have just started to us sweet and the buds are HUGE. They arent using anything else, so we will see what their final product is compared to mine using CalMag+, Sweet, Molassas, and Pure Blend Pro Bloom and on top of that i can compare them to both soil and hydro.

On the plant that is in the new DWC, i thought that it would take a couple of days for the plant to respond, but to my suprise, amazement it has taken to it like crazy. I am still at 900ppm and a pH of 5.9 but everything is going fantasic. The water level hasnt dropped all the much, but has been only about 14 hours since i have put it in there. The lockout that the plant was in is just about over now and the the ones in the soil are recovering nicely as well. I did some light trimming to help these plants and they took the trimming extremely well. From the trimming i was able to get about 20 clones and they are now sitting in my prop tray which is sitting on a warmer. I think when the clones take root and are ready to be planted i will do a SOG style grow in a DWC, i am in the middle of making it now with parts from wally's world and i am trying to keep the SOG DWC platform to less that $15, since i already have the medium this shouldnt be a problem. Out of those 20 clones, if i get 10-12 to take i will be more than happy. The clones where clipped and dipped into Vita Grow rooting compound and then put into Rapid Rooters. The water mix right now is Bcuzz rooting (cant remember the exact name of it but thats close) and water. I am trying something different on the advice of some more experienced growers and instead of misting the plant itself, i am misting the dome and replacing it. I was able to find a dome that has a couple of vents that i can turn and release of heat, moisture if it gets to be too much. I will take some pics when they have perked up more so you can see what i am talking about and since this was done yesterday there really isnt much to see especially since they are all looking kinda droopy at the moment.

I will post some pics of the mothers of these clones so you can see how they are doing.

[whatsthatsmell]

Ok, so i promised some pics, and here you go, i did have some N burn on the plants in soil, but that has been fixed and they are recovering... You will see the difference already between the plants in the soil and the one that has been in the DWC for less than 24 hours... enjoy...

[Cannabis476]

Wow, I cant wait till my little girls get that big! lol they have a long way...

They deff look better though!

[ProGroWannabe]

WTS...you hit the nail on the head with the above post. So many people think that growing weed is a no-brainer--just like you said---and NO it's not. You also made a great point about their complete lack of research BEFORE the grow.

It's too bad we can't add an aspect to the boards so that a noob had to read a certain number of posts before they could access the grow forums. Lots of reasons why that wouldn't work, but mandatory reading ----somehow---would be nice. How many times have you read, "HELP, my plants are sick"--just to see in their pics that they burned the shit out of them with some 50-10-10 shit, fed twice a week?

I'm rambling again...sorry. Your girls are lookin good though!

[texas grass]

everything is lookin pretty, and thanks for the help

[whatsthatsmell]

Well, its been a few days since i have posted anything and i figured i would bring everyone up to speed. On my last update i had only one plant in a home-made DWC that got from GDSStonerboy (i cant take credit for this setup, i learned from his post and pics). So my DWC setup is pretty simple, and i have posted the setup earlier, but i was able to get started on hydro for less than 20.00, i have taken out the medium cause that can be reused. When i was looking thru the stuff in the pet section i thought to myself, "Why cant i use the stones for a fish tank, they are suppose to neutral"?. If anyone has any thoughts on that it would be greatly appreciated on the feedback (would be a heck alot cheaper but i dont know if there is anything in those rocks that would hurt or harm the plants).

Ok, so i now have 2 plants in a DWC setup, One is going to go straight into flowering and the other i have severally LST'd and have taken ALOT of clones from hoping to get the plant to fill out a little better. So right now the two that i have trimmed are still in recovery, but they are doing nicely. The plants that are in the DWC are now at the following nutes: plant 1: 1550ppm/5.8pH plant 2: 1500ppm/5.7pH. I have already subtracted the ppm from the tap in the measurement, i have straight from the tap 148ppm with nothing added.

The plants that are still in soil are getting the same nutes as those in the DWC so they are getting watered with a 5.8-5.9pH and a 1400-1500ppm nute mix. The plants that i will start to flower this week are the ones that i have not LST'd or done anything to. One of them is in DWC and the other is in soil. So here are the pics of the ones that will be going into flower this week.

[whatsthatsmell]

well its been a few days since my last update and some eye candy, so i thought i would drop some here for you. I havent put any into flower yet because i want to have the one in soil and one in DWC to flower side by side. This will allow me to see which one is best for this plant. Should be either next week or sometime close since they initial shock from soil to hydro is over and the plant is growing nicely. I did have some nute burn before i put it into hydro but that has been taking care of and the plant is doing nicely now. I have the dwc plant up to 1600ppm and the one in the soil is around 1400ppm and working its way up to the 1600ppm as long as the plant will take it and not show nute burn. I think there is some nute def but as i up the calmag the plants are taking in like crazy. So here are they are. Let me know what you think.