Malawi Gold ScrOG with Magenta Kessil

Originally Posted by Mohican

Hey Slanty - Thanks for the cool recipe! How often do you change your res water?

Cheers,
Mo

Hey, I take no credit for that tea recipe. That all goes to Heisenberg: DWC Root Slime Cure aka How to Breed Beneficial Microbes. I just use it and know it works wonders!!

As for changing my res. I only change it when necessary(which is not often). Most grows only get changed a couple times.

As far as I am concerned, there is a HUGE misconception about changing out your reservoir weekly. If you keep everything in check, and don't run into any major issues, you should be able to run the same res for just about the entire grow TBH! When we are growing our style, DWC, water is our medium! People don't go and change out their soil several times during a grow now do they? Why on earth should we have to do the same when using water as our medium? I have grown several successful nft grows without changing my res once during flower. I used to like to change my res when going from veg to flower if in the same system, but now that I am using AN 3-part base, it is the same mixture regardless except for extras, so I just keep it going without a flush.

Now, as I said, you must make sure you keep everything in check. If you aren't seeing your res nutrient values dropping and PH rising as it should, then you must be pro-active and keep on top of it!

It basically comes down to using some common sense. Learn to read your plants and figure out what they need, instead of just throwing stuff at them!

I am still having trouble reading the indoor girl. The outdoor girrls are easier for me. I will get there in time. I should have tried an easier indoor Kush strain.

Hey Slanty - what pH does the tea run? What pH range do you keep in your res?

Thanks,
Mo

OK - Here is my update for today. I am trying to post pictures I have taken over the last few days and I am getting totally confused. I had to add a few more columns to my spreadsheet and now I think I have all the dates right.


I checked on the indoor girl. The flowers are OK but the leaves around them are pale and nothing seems to help. They look like the tips are burning, getting curl... uhg! Why is this so hard? The roots still look good.

ppm - 640
pH - 5.9
Added water

Outdoor girls look good. The big clone is still suffering from some sort of nute issue. I will keep giving her tea until she gets better. I hope the wind dies down this weekend so I canuse all of my new pest gear and sprays. The beer is working well. I will get pics tomorrow. It does evaporate in the sun quickly so I added some water to fill it back up. I hope the bugs still like it.


New gear:






Giant sunflower:





Flower Clone:












Micro Clone:


















Big Clone:









Flowers:















Cheers,
Mo

Happy Friday All! Don't forget to smoke your dads out on Sunday!

Let's see - indoor is all fucked up - roots are going bad again, new growth is yellow and twisted. Flower and Micro clones are going great. Big clone is suffering from some kind of lockout or deficiency. :P

Put out one of the new fly traps to test it on the big clone.

I will do a res change, flush and try the tea stuff for the roots. I need to find out what the secret is to keeping this Malawi happy. She starts out great and then just starts to lose it!


Flowers:









Micro Clone






Flower Clone






Big Clone








FIM Top






FIM Side






Fly trap












Fly trap - Hung up a bunch more!




Cheers,
Mo

crazy Mo
You have a wild(life) grow I think you're indoor will recover, all is not lost yet by the looks of those pics, i see resin production happening, either because she's in shock (unlikely the cause) or things are getting better!, do the root idea for sure, follow what Slanty said i believe you will turn this grow around! She is in need of some food for sure!! and if i were you, honestly turn those cfls back on any extra lighting will help you grow roots/leaves!!! more light = more photosynthesis. + with nutrient fix you will get her to happen. she's hangin on, can't you tell! no seed growth = keep going. It is a weed all it wants to do is grow, give it the right conditions she will finish

edit : don't be afraid of plant food . They can handle more then people think

Hang in there Mo! You can do it!

I am not sure what the PH of the tea works out to be after I brew it. I have never checked it tbh. I just add it to my res and top up with water to the proper levels. I usually only top up my nutes every 2nd watering, to let them fluctuate a bit. I also try to keep my res in the 5.7-6.2 ish range. Once it gets up to 6.2, I drop it again. I was just in there this morning, and my plants look better now than they have in the past month!