The Doc's TriStrain adventure: (White Widow, Bubblelicious and Amnesia) Waterfarmed and SCROGed

DrCannaPath

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Hello everyone and welcome back to a new and exciting adventure with 3 new strains (for me) to grow.

The strains are (from top left and clockwise throughout this grow):
1-Green House White Widow
2-Nirvana Bubblelicious
3-World of Seeds Amnesia (free seed)

Medium: Modified Waterpack ACS. Basically, it is a 3x waterfarms all connected together and to a main res. and a top off res that sits above the main res. This was purchased from GHE. I modified the system by adding many 1/4" holes to the top container allowing the roots to grow into the bottom res (in a DWC fashion). Airstones were added to all the reservoirs and the top water dripper works when the lights are on only!

GRoom
: 1.2x1.2x2.0m grow tent (Lighthouse Lite). Mid 70sF average temp and the humidity will be maintained in the 50s and 60s range during veg and much lower during flowering to increase resin production. 2 fans will be blowing lightly on the plants to help strengthen the stems.

Lighting: 600w MH during veg and stretch period of flowering then HPS during flowering. The light is cooled via an 8" glasstube with reflector wings. The tube is attached to an 8" extraction fan by Xplair (rated at 614 CFM). I want to increase the lighting wattage to 1000 in this groom and I want to try mixing HID and LED here. I plan on purchasing an LED around 400w actual but I still don't know what to get (checkcing Optics, area51, Amare's SE350UBV). I got time til flowering as I only intend to increase the light wattage during flowering.

Growing style/training method: SCROG using a DIY screen made with CPVC and 1/8" nylon string (2"x2"squares). An elastic scrog screen may be used later if needed to support the heavy buds and will be placed about a foot above the scrog screen.

Feeding: RO water with calimagic added to about 200-250ppm (any less and I usually get cal deficiency) and little B Essential (by GH which is essentially micro and submicro elements that I'm missing by using RO) to a total ppm of no more than 250-300. My base nute line will be GH FloraNova @ their recommended dosage. Diamond Nectar will be used also at the recommended dose during the veg stage. I may supplement PK later. Great White will be used directly in the res when i'm super busy to brew Heisenberg's tea. My recipe for this is: in 1-2 gal water I add a tablespoon molasses, half a scoop GW and a handful EWC in a sock and a brew for 48 hours in a warmer room so the brew temp stays in the mid to high 70s.20150808_174938.jpg 20150812_131015.jpg 20150808_174938.jpg 20150812_131015.jpg
 

DrCannaPath

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On Thursday August 7th i placed the 3 seeds (from top left clockwise: WW, BB & Am) between 2 wet paper towels. On the 3rd day, Monday August 10th, all 3 seeds had taproots (see pic). PHed tapwater is running in the Waterfarms for this stage. The seeds were placed directly between the hydrocorns which had been soaked in pHed water with flushing agent for 24 hours prior to setting up and recirculating the hydro.


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6 days later, on the 18th, I emptied out all the tap water and replaced it with RO water with GH's Diamond Nectar at the recommended dose, Calimagic to 220ppm (700 conversion) B Essentials to 250ppm and FloraNova grow to final ppm of 550 (x700 conversion) pH maintained around 5.8. Great White added directly to the main res.
The 24th was the start of the Veg stage and the end of the seedling stage.
The pic below is taken on the 28th (4 days in veg).
 

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DrCannaPath

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On Sunday, sept 13, I changed the res water with RO water and Diamond nectar, calimagic and B Essentials at their manufacturers recommended dose. I upped the nutes a bit (FloraNova grow) to a final ppm of 650 (from 550) and the pH allowed to slowly fluctuate a little with 5.8 being where the pH is most the time. The girls loved the increase in ppm. WW roots finally hit the bottom res yesterday and there's already a noticeable surge in its growth as of today, though it's lagging about 4-5 inches behind the other 2. This will be annoying as the other two are about ready to go under the scrog screen. I guess I'll have to train the other two away from the WW reserving some space for the WW. Thoughts and ideas are welcome as always
 

chained

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Hey, the foil on the tubes - is that just to stop the black tubes absorbing some of the light/heat?
 

DrCannaPath

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Hey, the foil on the tubes - is that just to stop the black tubes absorbing some of the light/heat?
Actually it is to bloc the lights from the translucent flexible tubes I got. Was easier than driving all over looking for the black flexible ones. Anyway, I had to replaced the manufacturer supplied tubes because theyre short. I wanted to keep the main and topoff reservoirs outside the tent (more room for plants and less heat absorbed in the reservoirs) and leave only the waterfarms in the tent. So I covered the translucent tubes to avoid getting algae in them ;-)

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chained

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Makes sense, I thought they were black tubes and wondered if it was something I should be doing. :)
 

DrCannaPath

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If you have black tubes, then covering them to avoid absorbing heat. Every little bit helps. FYI, although mid to high 60s is the preferred res temp (more DO and less pythium overgrowth ), if youre running beneficial microbes (bacteria and fungi) whether using any of the premade products or brewing your own tea, low 70s is better for the beneficial microbes to thrive and combat (and prevent) bad microbes.
I recommend reading the Heisenberg tea thread. Do so even if you plan on going the sterile res route. The amount (and quality) of information is priceless.
I do use the tea and not only to combat or prevent root rot, but actually due to the benefits that tea has on the root health and growth and thus the overall plant health

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