Maturity question

I’ve been a soil grower all of my life and recently tried a DWC grow again after failing my first time.

Anyway, I was looking at the trichomes on my DWC plant and they look further along than the soil plant, which is the same strain and the same age. Is this how it is?

I only grow in soil but I often hear dwc gets faster growth so it could reason they mature quicker but I am just assuming

ALPHA.GanjaGuy said:

I only grow in soil but I often hear dwc gets faster growth so it could reason they mature quicker but I am just assuming

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Right, I’ve heard and seen it before but I didn’t think there would be that much of a noticeable difference in the trichomes.

Ohcrapimdying said:

I’ve been a soil grower all of my life and recently tried a DWC grow again after failing my first time.

Anyway, I was looking at the trichomes on my DWC plant and they look further along than the soil plant, which is the same strain and the same age. Is this how it is?

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Yep. IME, when your dialed in you can sometimes expect to shave a week or even more off. Some strains are able to grow and mature way faster in DWC. Veg and flower. Most do. Faster, bigger yeilds.. whats not to like?

Drop That Sound said:

Yep. IME, when your dialed in you can sometimes expect to shave a week or even more off. Some strains are able to grow and mature way faster in DWC. Veg and flower. Most do. Faster, bigger yeilds.. whats not to like?

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These are an auto strain - Dark Devil by Sweet Seeds. Odd though, the soil plant has turned purple whereas the DWC is still green.

It sounds like different phenotypes to me which is pretty normal.

i too have herd that if your DWC is dialed in, you can get better results then with soil.
with hydro, if dialed in, you have every macro n micro nute available as and when needed,
but if you have two diff pheno's as killaki said, one may mature sooner then another

Ohcrapimdying said:

I’ve been a soil grower all of my life and recently tried a DWC grow again after failing my first time.

Anyway, I was looking at the trichomes on my DWC plant and they look further along than the soil plant, which is the same strain and the same age. Is this how it is?

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well think of it like this.if you over water or underwater in soil your plant presses pause.in hydro you cant do that soo it just grows. that is usually the reason hydro grows better.but in reality if you manage the dry/wet properly it should grow the same.

allsoo it is weidly documented that hydro produces more flowers in different plant species. probably because all of the roots are in max nutes compared with dirt where one side of the pot can have less nutes and those roots produce less.

I have a soil grow and a DWC grow going right now. DWC probably growing 3xs quicker with same strain and seeds.

Ohcrapimdying said:

I’ve been a soil grower all of my life and recently tried a DWC grow again after failing my first time.

Anyway, I was looking at the trichomes on my DWC plant and they look further along than the soil plant, which is the same strain and the same age. Is this how it is?

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I am concurrently growing in the aerogarden and in soil. The aerogarden is moving along way quicker than the soil with the same strain.

Killaki said:

It sounds like different phenotypes to me which is pretty normal.

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Bingo. These are two different plants lol

I forgot I even asked this on here.

so turns out that they both were ready to harvest about the same time. The soil trichomes caught back up with the DWC about two weeks before harvest and were nearly identical.