400w DWC WW/NL Take 2!

[PdoubleOTY]

So this is technically my third grow, but really only my second, and this is my first "serious" grow. I have planted 2 white widow, and 2 northern light seeds. all 4 germinated within a two days, and 3 sprouted in the next 2 days in starter plugs..the 4th bad boy is slooooowwwwwwwly coming out, its growth compared to the other plants is minimal. I'm running two 5 gal DWC buckets wtih airstones, GH 3 part nutes with floralicious plus, fulvic acid, and i just picked up some super thrive today to hopefully ease some stress on the babies. They are almost 10 days old, and just went under teh HPS light the other day, my CFL fixture thing broke and was all ghetto like, so HPS was all i had left...is 24-26 inches too close for such young plants? temps never stray above 80 in the room, and probably mid 70's around the plants since the fan is blowing around there...no tds or ph meter again, but i talked to local hydro store guy and found out tap water around here runs between 200-300 and following a feeding schedule(latewood's GH recipe) should prove to be rewarding and not too difficult. PH is tested with shaker bottle thingy and that was proving to be no problem in the other two grows.hopefully with this grow i will have at least ONE female, two would be fantastic, 3 would be insane, and 4 would be flat out orgasmic...but we shall see!

PdoubleOTY Reviewed by PdoubleOTY on 01-17-2008. 400w DWC WW/NL Take 2! So this is technically my third grow, but really only my second, and this is my first "serious" grow. I have planted 2 white widow, and 2 northern light seeds. all 4 germinated within a two days, and 3 sprouted in the next 2 days in starter plugs..the 4th bad boy is slooooowwwwwwwly coming out, its growth compared to the other plants is minimal. I'm running two 5 gal DWC buckets wtih airstones, GH 3 part nutes with floralicious plus, fulvic acid, and i just picked up some super thrive today to Rating: 5

[PdoubleOTY]

no nutes have been added yet, just a drop of superthrive per gallon...ill start 1/4th strength nutes on the 22nd, 2 weeks after they sprouted..should i wait a tad longer or go for it?

[PdoubleOTY]

so im noticing some yellowing of the leaves on all three plants, but mostly just one..the tips have some brown/white burnish looking spots and the leaves are a bit yellow...the new growth on the plant is fine and green, i just figured the yellowing hasnt spread to anymore of the plant since i cleaned out the whole system and rechanged the rez etc...just let the plant grow and the dead leaves fall off eventually?

[PdoubleOTY]

new growth is staying nice and green, yellowing hasnt spread to any other parts of the plants...1/4th strength nutes start tomorrow, following latewood's recipe.

[BigWeed]

Im pulling up a chair and watching this one. I love WW cant get enough of it. Keep up the good work those plants look good. If you need any input Ill be here. One thing I found out about the WW I grow is that I cant let my ppms go above 800 anything higher they hate it.:rasta::rastasmoke:imp:

[PdoubleOTY]

well i just got my hannah PPM meter today...my water came out to be 178 PPM so not as bad as i thought it would be..im about to mix up my first batch of nutes today, 1/4 strength 1-1-1 grow, micro, broom, with drop of superthrive per gallon, and half dose of fulvic acid(1/2 tblsp per gallon).. any ideas on the starting PPM levels for 1/4th strength? i was thinking 400ish including the base 178..too much or too little? i have no experience with using PPM as a measurement, jsut been following bottles and labels..we shall see!

[PdoubleOTY]

ok so first dose of nutes today..1/4th strength 1-1-1 combo

2ml per gallon of bloom,micro, grow
1 tsp per gallon of Fulvic Acid
1/2tsp per 5 gallon of Floralicious plus
1 drop per gallon super thrive

PPM-475-485

The yellow has all together stopped spreading, new growth is very green and lush..that 4th plant is still struggling but its slowly making it..im not going to kill it just yet, imma see if it pulls through and makes it

[PdoubleOTY]

So growth on the NL's has just exploded. growing like a solid half inch/inch a day, and a new set of leaves. the white widow is growing steadily, one is at least..the mutant midget plant is starting to show new growth for sure, but dunno.

My plan is to screw a bunch of screws halfway in around the rim of the black netted pots.then use those as tie off points for string to train the plants.. im hoping to have em wrap around the pot so taht there is enough room between em for light to penetrate..i know im probably gonna suffer if one is male and the other is female, but hopefully ill be able to submerge the entire pot in deep water and shimmy the male out later without tearing a ton of roots. i know this grow is sitll a bit unplanned, but im stopping growing in this place after this grow untill i get a more secure place to grow. things are fine here, its just an apartment, and its not smart to grow in apartments at all. living by myself and having them in a room that i can lock, and a room that has nothing in it that apartment people would need to check/fix such as heat/ac, or any electrical stuff. also my neighbor is trouble, playing loud music and stuff all the time, and im very quiet and conserved..so the apartment people really like me haha. but hopefully after this grow i shall be moving somewhere new and having a much safer and discreet place to do my business :jointsmile:

[PdoubleOTY]

dont know what is up with the forums but shit keeps getting erased and froze up and what not so here are hte pics for the previous post

[PdoubleOTY]

topped the 2 NL earlier today..i actually FIMed one, or at least tried to. I pretty much completely snipped off the new growth top on one, and 75% snipped off the other one on the other plant. im gonna keep a record of what does what, and then hopefully apply that to future grows..


and i just about had a heart attack. So in the room where my closet of potential jail time is, i have lots of stuff like a weight bench, clothes, and a box of snowboarding equipment including a very nice 250$ jacket. So while in my room this evening, i notice the box of that equipment is open..and my jacket is gone?? I immediately search the entire apartment which only takes about 45 seconds to find such a jacket, but it was no where in site. My initial reaction is holy fuck, apartment people or somebody with a key has been in my apartment and stolen a jacket either A. It was nice they wanted it or B. they saw i was growing weed and figured i couldnt really report it and figured they would take or or C. i have no clue....so yea im flipping out about on the verge of tearing the whole set up down and waiting untill i live somewhere else..but hten i remember my friend evan who gets stoned and accidently mistakes his stuff for mine when ever he leaves. he was staying with me over the weekend and when he left (after like 3 bowls of trainwreck), his thought in a very stoned manner that my jacket would make osmething good to wrap up his steamroller in for the drive back to his apartment 4 hours away in asheville...so yea, he tells me he has my jacket after i call everyone who has been here recently etc...God im so glad i have a few bowls of this trainwreck left to calm me down cause i about destroyed my grow and had a heart attack