Soil to DWC grow

[AquaponicHerb]

good work:rastasmoke:

[drudown11]

i have no problem with growing in dirt.................................. except for the fact that my plants grow twice as fast in the water!

[drudown11]

Here the ladies are week 2 1/2 of flower. They have done quite a bit of stretching but i think that theyre done. Now im starting to see alot more growth going into the buds. I hope theyre done because im running out of height.


I wish my camera was better because i would show you the buds turning purple. Its only on the two plants on the right(the one on the left is a monster that smells like vanilla, shes my best growing strain). By the end of flower they will be the most beautiful shade of purple ive ever seen on marijuana(that ive personally seen and smoked.) Only a couple of weeks and its going to be a NUGFEST!

[drudown11]

I have some t5's that i added to the sides for additional lighting. Im hoping theyll do better with the extra blue light, they should be getting the full spectrum now. I am seeing ONLY bud growth now.






This is where all of the fun begins.

[drudown11]

on the picture of just the cola, if you look at the bottom you can see the buds turning purple

[tinytoon]

nice job!!

oh btw Rockwoll sux. I use to use it but graduated to Rapid Rooters which work real well :thumbsup:

[drudown11]

ok so I bumped the PPM's on them to about 1200. When it gets to about 1300 ppm i notice some burning on the tips of the leaves.

Ive also noticed something about this stuff ive been using Called Dark Energy. Honestly, When i add it to the res i notice a huge increase in growth opposed to when i dont use it. It stinks but it really does rock.

in one of the pics you will see a picture comparing all of the plants. The one in the middle is the same strain(same mother) as the plant on the left. The DWC is easily twice the size than the soil plant, and the clones were taken at the same time.


In the third pic you will see a top cola of my Giant purple plant. Im getting a little bit of burning on the leaves because she sucks so much water/nutes that PPM's jump by the end of the day. Im getting quite a bit of resin starting to frost over. Ive never had this much this early.


The quaility of the Hydroponic bud is way better than anything ive ever grown in soil. I just wish i had a system that had a more stable PH, and PPM. When the girls get big its hard to keep PH and PPM dialed in because they get so thirsty.

[drudown11]

Alright so the guy at the hydro store gave me a sample of Bloombastic. I am very cautious about using it because as you can see in the first pic, it tends to burn the shit out of them when the PPM's spike when Im at work. I definatly noticed a difference though since I put it in the mix. 2 ml per gallon is all you need. Ive noticed increased resin, as well as thicker and chunkier new growth.

Things are starting to fill out in there. You will start to see alot of purple soon. God this is my favorite part about growing marijuana. I just stare at my plants and everything in life is ok for about 10 minutes.

[jtsik330]

wow drudown congrats, the ladies look like they are going to be quite tasty, I'll be keepin an eye out for the purple nugsimp:

[drudown11]

There is aboslutely no smell in my house when i have the outtake fan on. when i turn the fan off when i Put Dry Ice in there for co2, my whole house smells like ganja.

My 3 100 watt odor eating cfl's have no effect when i have my plants out of the closet. They work good to mask the smells of vegging and work well when used in conjunction with outtake fans and ventiliation. They dont work well enough to conceal the smell of flowering plants on its own. I wish marijuana was legal so i didnt have to worry about odor. I happen to love the smell