Barney's F - Vanilla Kush / TGA Subcool - Ace of Spades = Waterfarm - 600w

Glad to hear you sorted out your cal problem mate!
I'm so tempted to grow AOS now. Those pics are a beaut!
Need to get started on my screen soon >.<

It's going great Dayzt. Is that tower at the back a fan? The white thing?

Hey Dayzt! Those are looking amazing. My poor little VK.... IS ALIVE! I could not believe it. After all she's been through, she is STILL hanging in there and trying to make it. I'm sticking with her. That has got to be the most resiliant plant ever.


Here's the history of her struggles:
1. Dropped the seed and had to beat out the cat to get it back
2. Accidently planted her upside down in the rockwool so she really had to work to get started
3. Damanged some roots when moving her from the common res to a DWC bucket of her own
3. Root rot!!!
4. Chopped her roots off and turned her effectively into a clone (bare stem, no roots)
5. Rerooted her in the Aerogarden
6. Planted her in soil (FFOF with Perlite)

And after all that, she is still trying to cling to life. I have NEVER had a plant try so hard to exist. I really thought she was a goner on more than one occasion, but last night, I went into the grow room after work and she was a full inch taller than the night before, and suddenly sprouted and grew a whole new set of leaves in one day.

I am beginning to feel invicible!

Alright Dayzt, the jig is up. You're using Miracle Gro aren't ya! No way in hell those plants are that nice off NB alone. What else are you adding? Roids, must be roids. I want some of that freak juice you're using. I want my plant to look that amazing!

hahha^^^ funny
looking smoking hot big D.
i hope the calmag supp works buddy. sorry to see the damage. the buddage looks real real nice.
whats the dealio with the staple gun?lol
take it easy
ambz

Dr.Amber Trichome said:

hahha^^^ funny
looking smoking hot big D.
i hope the calmag supp works buddy. sorry to see the damage. the buddage looks real real nice.
whats the dealio with the staple gun?lol
take it easy
ambz

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Oh yeah! I meant to ask about the staple gun too... did you figure out a way to grow them too?

Dr.Amber Trichome said:

hahha^^^ funny
looking smoking hot big D.
i hope the calmag supp works buddy. sorry to see the damage. the buddage looks real real nice.
whats the dealio with the staple gun?lol
take it easy
ambz

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The Staple Gun Was Used For Some Very Interesting Mid-Evil Scrogging.

Ganjasseur said:

Very nice! I will be getting a couple Vanilla Kush clones here in the next few days. Ill be following along..

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Cool man - good luck with the clones!

forgetiwashere said:

i think i just scrogged in my pants lol looking great dayzt i really hope i can get results like that

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Thanks - I'm sure you can!

nattybongo said:

Glad to hear you sorted out your cal problem mate!
I'm so tempted to grow AOS now. Those pics are a beaut!
Need to get started on my screen soon >.<

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Yep, I think the cal/mag helped. The leaves that were already too far gone, are still looking pretty bad of course, but I'm hoping the deficiency is resolved and not continuing to cause problems. I expect to see noticable healthier plants by this coming Sunday which will be 4 days since receiving the cal/mag...

Bluezdude said:

It's going great Dayzt. Is that tower at the back a fan? The white thing?

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Yeppers - it's an oscilating tower-fan. The AoS seems to like it - and it has a handy remote control!

Bluejeans said:

Hey Dayzt! Those are looking amazing. My poor little VK.... IS ALIVE! I could not believe it. After all she's been through, she is STILL hanging in there and trying to make it. I'm sticking with her. That has got to be the most resiliant plant ever.

Here's the history of her struggles:
1. Dropped the seed and had to beat out the cat to get it back
2. Accidently planted her upside down in the rockwool so she really had to work to get started
3. Damanged some roots when moving her from the common res to a DWC bucket of her own
3. Root rot!!!
4. Chopped her roots off and turned her effectively into a clone (bare stem, no roots)
5. Rerooted her in the Aerogarden
6. Planted her in soil (FFOF with Perlite)

And after all that, she is still trying to cling to life. I have NEVER had a plant try so hard to exist. I really thought she was a goner on more than one occasion, but last night, I went into the grow room after work and she was a full inch taller than the night before, and suddenly sprouted and grew a whole new set of leaves in one day.

I am beginning to feel invicible!

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That's awesome blue - glad to hear it's still alive! I agree - the VK is a super-hardy strain, and handles stress very well.

mr2shim said:

Alright Dayzt, the jig is up. You're using Miracle Gro aren't ya! No way in hell those plants are that nice off NB alone. What else are you adding? Roids, must be roids. I want some of that freak juice you're using. I want my plant to look that amazing!

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LOL...nope, nothing special!! I've been regularly adding H2O2 to my rez which I think has helped alot.. I've been using ice to cool down my add-back water to bring rez temps down.. and I've been going super-easy on the nutes this time around as well...hmm...just trying to think of the things I did differently from before...

Dr.Amber Trichome said:

hahha^^^ funny
looking smoking hot big D.
i hope the calmag supp works buddy. sorry to see the damage. the buddage looks real real nice.
whats the dealio with the staple gun?lol
take it easy
ambz

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Thanks amber - yeah I hope the calmag solves the rusty leaf issue. All the research i did pointed to that, and my hydro guy confirmed my suspicions when I told him I'm using RO water... apparently it's typical to see calmag problems with systems using it, since the water has lower than normal levels of calcium in it. I've learned so much from this grow so far!

Bluejeans said:

Oh yeah! I meant to ask about the staple gun too... did you figure out a way to grow them too?

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Ha ha... that staple-gun (and the flahslight to the left of it) are just heavy objects that I have hanging from the bottom of the screen at the corners, to pull the plant out a bit. The plant is pulling up on the neeting there, so the heavy obhects pull it back down and 'out'.

The Dawg said:

The Staple Gun Was Used For Some Very Interesting Mid-Evil Scrogging.

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Oh yeah, and it was also my medieval scrogger...that's right! Thanks for reminding me Dawg!

Sat evening pic update! Tomorrow will be the last day of week 4 of flowering... looking good so far - half-way there, or maybe close to half anyways...

-=Vanilla Kush=-




-=The Ace of Spades=-







Here's a focus pic showing how frosty these leaves are getting...

smashing update Dayzt! your pix just keep getting better and better. the frostie ness of your leaves make me want to go grab frosty beer.
thanks for some sat night budprOn big D! hit the spot on. have an awesome weekend tangerine dream dreaming on sunday afternoon.lol
im going to grab me a frosty mug o beer and crank up sabbaths sweetleaft nooowww.. thank you thank you ... Dr.Amber Sweetleaf

So nice Dayzt, so much bud porn. What's your current pH and ppm? Are you still adding micro?

Looking simply delicious! Very nice Dayzt.

love it dayzt at this rate im going to be updating my phone wallpaper weekly lol

Dayz... Wicked as usual. On the VK, is the screen purposely set low? Hard to tell from the pics.

mr2shim said:

So nice Dayzt, so much bud porn. What's your current pH and ppm? Are you still adding micro?

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No more micro - I noticed as well that it was staining my roots on the AoS so I've stopped using it. The ppms of t he VK are at aroun 700 right now, and the AoS is around 1000. The pH had been around 5.7 for a while up until I started adding cal/mag to my mix - now it's around 6.2, which worked out because calcium uptake is better above 6.0...

I've been watching my ppms pretty close this time around, and I'm hoping to prevent anything from going toxic in my reserviors.

Fuzznutz said:

Dayz... Wicked as usual. On the VK, is the screen purposely set low? Hard to tell from the pics.

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The screen is about a foot and a half above the top of the waterfarm - just enough room to get under there to pour water in through the top of the hydroton. This was done at that low level of purpose - with the early LST work, it allowed me to keep it low and spread it out horizontally more. It pushes up on the center of the screen the most, and that's why you see it bulging in the center of the canopy. The tops really stayed even though - and now that the stretch is over, the majority of the tops are really starting to put on the weight. With 4 more weeks at least, I can't wait to see what these tops will do with even access to the light!

I really wish I could've used a scrog setup... buuuut then again, for my first grow, I'll just be happy getting my babies to flower correctly Are you planning on adding sugar to your res at all Dayzt? I've heard that adding sugar during the last 2 weeks of flowering makes the buds more dense... not sure if there's much merit to that.. just what I've heard

Yeah, adding extra carbs towards the end of flowering is a common technique to push out more resin - I used to use molasses for this, but the waterfarms tend to clog easily with molasses in there... I hadn't planned on adding any carbs towards the end, but we'll see. Things are rolling along quite nicely right now, so as long as everything looks good, I'll just let them do there thing.

Cool - this is officially my 1,000th post on RIU! Thanks again to everyone who's following along - as always, feel free to post any suggestions, questions or comments!

How about a quick question. I have a waterfarm under a 250cmh. I did a rez change and set the EC to 1 (500ppm on 500scale) which I thought was about right for veg, low strength with these farms correct? anyways after topping off with about 1.5 gals of water over 3 days I checked the EC and it had dropped to 0.5 (250ppm). I was just wondering if you have seen plants eat food that rapidly before? I've never had a sudden drop like that.

Thats normal. The way I monitor mine is before my first add back I check to see how much they have dropped then I do an add back. Let it mix in the res for about an he come back and write down my new Pons then check again the next day to see how much that drops. Otherwise u could just be measuring how much u r diluting it instead of how much shed actually eating. Plus yes my girl eats loads like 400ppm a day.