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[a senile fungus]

Hey, I'm impressed fucker! You're not doing bad at all

I know, right?

I came here and was pleasantly surprised.

Now, we just need to teach him some sarcasm and how to take a joke!

 

[a senile fungus]

Someone told me they had successful grows without cleaning the res out not even once so I decided to go ahead and do that I use the second plant site to see in what the water level and take ph and ec readings but if I'd had two plants in there I wouldn't of had a way to look in lol going back to the 5 gal buckets after this run I have a tap on them so it will be easier!

I've done whole grows without changing the res out. As long as everything looks healthy it wasn't an issue for me...

At that time I was doing Lucas formula, it worked well but I always felt that the plants weren't growing to their full potential and were too light green.



As far as changing out the res, you could build a support for the plants that is separate from the res, and the res will slide in and out as necessary. Once those plants get big they're not going anywhere...

 

[THCBrain]

Lucas formula? I only did a 80L bucket cause I initially thought bigger means better, I know I was right and wrong. Bigger buckets are too much work carrying all that water about.

After taking a buddy of mine to go look at the plant he strongly advised me to flip earlier than planned, for the only reason my bud storage jar is low so why wait another 4 week to flower when I can do it now and still yeild a half decent amount finishing 4 week earlier than planned! Guess I'll be having a bumper 25th this year!

Think I may build a new net from pvc pipe for the regular 5 gal buckets for the next run!

Here is a few pictures from this morning after tucking the tops back under. Oh today is the 1st day of 12/12 though I won't start counting just yet!

 

[a senile fungus]

Lucas formula?

http://lucasformula.com

I initially thought bigger means better

We're not going there, lol

Bigger buckets are too much work carrying all that water about.

Some people get water pumps and tubing to move water around.

After taking a buddy of mine to go look at the tent he strongly advised me to flip earlier than planned

Good idea

Guess I'll be having a bumper 25th this year!

If you just flipped to flower then they won't be ready by the 25!!! Wayyy too early
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I won't start counting just yet!

Why not?

 

[THCBrain]

Haha you tool 25th I meant birthday in February lol

Not moving water around with pumps I have a rented house so don't want to put holes in walls and ceilings if it was my house I'd have no problem doing anything and I wouldn't be restricted to a tiny closet!!

I did a little research this morning and read all I needed to about the lucas formula

And I'm not counting as such only the which week it is for feeding and boosters but as far as days go I'm not doing that again it, I'll go by the trichomes and overall look of the plant, my first grow paitents got the better of me and I have regretted it ever since!!

 

[a senile fungus]

Haha you tool 25th I meant birthday in February lol

Not moving water around with pumps I have a rented house so don't want to put holes in walls and ceilings if it was my house I'd have no problem doing anything and I wouldn't be restricted to a tiny closet!!

I did a little research this morning and read all I needed to about the lucas formula

And I'm not counting as such only the which week it is for feeding and boosters but as far as days go I'm not doing that again it, I'll go by the trichomes and overall look of the plant, my first grow paitents got the better of me and I have regretted it ever since!!

I was gonna say, dude those Christmas buds will be some dank!



LOL

 

[THCBrain]

I would of been nice to have a 20 day flower lol

 

[THCBrain]

Update** The plant has responded well to 12/12 I added some 1/4 strength bloom nutrients today!

Not got much space left on the net pretty much every square has 1 or 2 tops in it.

Checked ec and ph.

EC : 1.5 / 764ppm
Ph : 6.0

 

[Mineralz]

I use a similar setup in a 27G Tuff Box. If you felt the urge to rez change just snag one of those kerosene hand pumps. They even have battery-powered ones to speed up the process if you wanted to syphon out the rez and change Future reference

 

[THCBrain]

Good advice thanks dude!

 

[Mineralz]

Np man Just do yourself a favor and make sure to defoliate once she's got the screen filled and don't stop your training until you see the preflowers and you're golden

 

[THCBrain]

Last night before the light went out I supercropped her and gave her a good spray with plain water. Woke up this morning and found my girl like this.


You can't even tell I did anything lol!!

 

[THCBrain]

Picture #1 was taken 03/12/2015
Picture #2 was taken 08/12/2015

Big difference 5 days can do

 

[THCBrain]

Pictures from today** Scrog net filling out nicely it's nearly full, I'm sort of thinking by the end of the 2 week"preflower" phase the net will be filled.

I gave her 20ml of vega flores (A&B), ph'd to 5.8, EC 1.6.

 

[THCBrain]

Hi guys, so the other day I was trimming away the underside of the plant I was expecting each leaf as it came off, I found spider mites, I thought shit, fuck what do I do! So I grabbed some cash and drove to the grow shop got myself a couple of smoke bombs. Well I never! Didn't realise how much smoke they let.off I only have a small room lol anyway I'm hoping this will help in fighting the mites off! Plant is as big as ever! Will get some pictures when I can

 

[THCBrain]

 

[THCBrain]

 

[THCBrain]

Battling spider mites at the minute have released a smoke bomb, that didn't seem to do much. Gonna get myself some spray and try that! Will keep you all posted!

 

[calliandra]

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wow WHAT a leaf haha
dam you DWC guys ARE tempting me to abandon my flowergirl-style living soil path!

 

[THCBrain]

It certainly keeps us on our toes well it does me anyway!!