New CFL grow box

bambuddah

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The Think Different seems to be a bit stunted and roots still haven't shown yet, although the seedling looks perfectly healthy. I've had the bubbler running 24/7 which leads me to believe the splashes from the bubbles may have been keeping the large RW cube too wet for roots to develop? Anyways i've turned it off to let to cube dry a bit and see if it encourages to roots to push down a bit.

Any ideas if this could be the problem? Thanks
 

bambuddah

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Quick update, roots have finally hit the water. going to change res within next couple of days and up ppm to around 500-600. Hopefully should pickup soon! added 2 more 30w cfls, got another 3 to add in when i get the time to build the sockets

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Bagseed is looking really bushy and healthy with various chunky stems, topped it another 3-4 times, still unsure on it's sex but releases a mild skunky smell every now and then and i think i've seen some small signs of preflower. Think im going to have to repot it before i put it into flower 10 weeks or so from now, she/he's gonna be big!

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I'll leave you all with a track by the man Wax himself! ;)

[video=youtube;oST3fnZ02Yk]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oST3fnZ02Yk[/video]
 

bambuddah

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Im having a little issue with my Think different plant, it seems that its drooping a bit. With soil i'd say this is cus of overwatering, but since this is DWC what could be causing this? PPM was at around 700 so i lowered that to about 500, and lowered ph from around 6 to about 5.6.

Could it be lack of oxygen? I cant see it being anything like a MG defficiency cus i've been using these same nutes on my soil grow and its fine.

Roots have grow quite alot and are fully submerged, however the rockwool cube is quite wet. Could this be the problem? if this is the problem im not too sure how to go about fixing it, because it seems the bubbles are what is keeping it so wet. At this stage with the roots thriving in the water is it still possible to overwater and stunt the growth with it being too wet?

As you can see from the pic since i used a large RW cube its quite close to the bottom of the netpot

lights on temps are constant between 22C-24C and 14C-15C lights off, humidity about gets lowest to about 30 with lights on and 60 with lights off

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Any ideas if its doing alright? thanks!

EDIT: Lowering the nute strength helped, perked up and doing nicely now.
 

valuablevariable

Well-Known Member
I might just remove the small plants and focus on the big one. The new ones are way too far behind the first to catch up, you could fill in a ScOG before they get anywhere near where that plant is right now. It seems like you are preventing the big one from getting decent light by having the small one take up so much space right beneath the lamp.

Might be hard advice to take but thats by far the best advice I could give.
 

bambuddah

Member
I never had much intention for the soil grow, it was more of a test grow to see what I could do with a bagseed and test the box i built, im not even sure of its sex yet. I plan on re-potting it soon, and once the autofem 'Think Different' DWC grow is done i can switch it to 12/12 and just grow it with another freeby seed i got 12/12 from seed in the DWC. So for now i'll just let it veg away and by the time the auto is done can give it all the light



Anyways here are few more pics, roots have developed nicely and its just incredibly bushy. Never grown an autoflowering strain so quite interesting to see how it develops. From what i've noticed they develop branches incredibly early on, the plant already has 10 branches of near thickness to the main stem, and seems like maybe its got a week or two possibly of growing before it starts to stretch as I can already see signs of flowering.




Thanks
 

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bambuddah

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Lil update!

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PPM is around 650-700, PH 5.8

[video=youtube;JK4Gq4lHu7U]http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=JK4Gq4lHu7U[/video]
 
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