time-lapse teaser

Watching this. I'm Also doing Amnesia lemon. How long do you plan on vegging for? Are you moving them to a different spot for flower? My amnesia lemon exploded and is being a light hog now.



This is the 3 week difference amnesia lemon is the far right bucket closet to the camera

hmm just checked my water quality report, i should be getting either 7-54 ppm Mag, and 52-90 ppm Cal, and a total ppm of 70-200, so i think my meter might also just be shit

fabizpwn said:

Watching this. I'm Also doing Amnesia lemon. How long do you plan on vegging for? Are you moving them to a different spot for flower? My amnesia lemon exploded and is being a light hog now.



This is the 3 week difference amnesia lemon is the far right bucket closet to the camera View attachment 3783252View attachment 3783251

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Dude do you got any more detailed pics of that UC system? And did you buy it or make it? If you made it, where'd you get them buckets?

fabizpwn said:

Watching this. I'm Also doing Amnesia lemon. How long do you plan on vegging for? Are you moving them to a different spot for flower? My amnesia lemon exploded and is being a light hog now.



This is the 3 week difference amnesia lemon is the far right bucket closet to the camera View attachment 3783252View attachment 3783251

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The amnesia lemon has been going pretty strong so far, keeping up with hula haze rather well. Don't know a whole lot yet, but she's the only non hula haze I germinated (lost 2). Hoping she makes the final cut and I get some good variety- although worried about possible feeding differences between them.

Yours is looking great! Hope I can get something that looks half as healthy

Yesdog said:

The amnesia lemon has been going pretty strong so far, keeping up with hula haze rather well. Don't know a whole lot yet, but she's the only non hula haze I germinated (lost 2). Hoping she makes the final cut and I get some good variety- although worried about possible feeding differences between them.

Yours is looking great! Hope I can get something that looks have as healthy

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I'm not familiar with the hula haze. I've been keeping mine at 1100ppm since about 10" tall maybe 7th leafset with no ill effects. I was running them at 600ppm right from the seed tray. That's ro water 300ppm calmag and 300ppm nutrients added. Half strength in my opinion, 1/4 strength on what the bottles recommend.

Airwalker16 said:

Dude do you got any more detailed pics of that UC system? And did you buy it or make it? If you made it, where'd you get them buckets?

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I sent you a pm I don't wanna hijack yesdog's thread

fabizpwn said:

I'm not familiar with the hula haze. I've been keeping mine at 1100ppm since about 10" tall maybe 7th leafset with no ill effects. I was running them at 600ppm right from the seed tray. That's ro water 300ppm calmag and 300ppm nutrients added. Half strength in my opinion, 1/4 strength on what the bottles recommend.

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shit, maybe i am underfeeding them (and under cal/mag). Ill have to try and get some cal/mag and bump up the ppm next change

I use botanicare calmag at 3ml per gallon in the beginning. Now I'm at 5 ml per gallon as they are a bit larger. This is using ro water though. My water is coming out of my filter at 2ppm

I think they look fine honestly. I don't know if I would change a thing.

I'm gonna give em a few days and see what happens- im still seeing amazing root growth, so things cant be going that bad at least

Yesdog said:

thanks man, yea the first month i think will be a really cool clip. week1 was pretty exciting with the seedlings, week2 has kinda been boring so far tho.... so we'll see!

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well you still see a nice growth. the beauty of time-lapse is that you see things that you don't pick up by checking your plants 2-3 times a day hehe

Yesdog said:

yeah i usually see em dropped in the morning, and they're almost cupped upwards by the end of the 'day'. Thought it was odd to see then not as perky... does look like one has some kind of issue starting to show around the edge of the lower leaves:

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i wouldn't worry too much about the yellowing. let it as it is for few days and see if it gets better or worst. the earlier stages of DWC growth in rockwool/perlite are always the trickiest i feel.

for next time you could consider jiffys instead of the rockwool. it works much better imo for the earlier stages, since it provides all the nutrients and doesn't alter the ph (unlike the rockwool)

I've stayed away from jiffy only because in rdwc, there's lots of things un the pellets that can fall off into your system. They have a sort of bag around them though right?
Perhaps try rapid rooters. They're more solid and I use them now over rockwool.

Airwalker16 said:

I've stayed away from jiffy only because in rdwc, there's lots of things un the pellets that can fall off into your system. They have a sort of bag around them though right?
Perhaps try rapid rooters. They're more solid and I use them now over rockwool.

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i was thinking the same, but actually the jiffys never lost anything, because of the net they have around that prevents bits from falling.
on the other hand rapid rooters do lose little bits over time. rapid rooter have the advantage that (as the name suggests) promote root growth in the early stage of seedling (not sure how much of it is true, but for sure more than rockwool), but probably you wouldn't notice any difference over jiffys.

in my experience however i used them only for single bucket DWC, not recirculating DWC. in rdwc with multiple buckets having small pieces flowing around can clog the pumps etc.

In my rdwc I use fish tank filters to catch any particles in the water including hydroton that may fall into the water. They also make inline filters to catch any debris. I do this in the picture but I'll upgrade to the inline filters later on for a accessibility. I use rapid rooters.

fabizpwn said:

In my rdwc I use fish tank filters to catch any particles in the water including hydroton that may fall into the water. They also make inline filters to catch any debris. I do this in the picture but I'll upgrade to the inline filters later on for a accessibility. I use rapid rooters.

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smart! in fact perlite/hydroton falls much more in the reservoir than parts from jiffys (that just dissolve in the water) or rapid rooters.

The filters have saved me several times when I ran into high temp conditions and things were taking a downturn
They catch the roots that might break off, algae that breaks looks from inside of the pipes and areas that are impossible to clean. I had a pump plug up once and had to come up with a solution.

I use micron filter bags to go over my pumps. Never have anything make it into my pumps.

Airwalker16 said:

I use micron filter bags to go over my pumps. Never have anything make it into my pumps.

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I think there's some micron limit with filters too if you run bennies (and want to circulate them)