my first dwc 2nd grow..... update

crazy7605150

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(7/01/08)
Well i have grown before and it turned out great until it was found and i had to get rid of it but now i have my own apt. so i wanted to give it a go. i have read lots and lots of hightimes, sunk, cannabis culture, weed world and all others and own about 25 and have decided to grow DWC this time.. i thought about making it more of a DWC with a aeroponic twist, but decided not to as it would make more problems and questions.

I have a cabinet that is 34 inch's long 21 inch's wide and 29 inch's high. i have a 2 gallon bucket with a hole cut in the lid and a pot with holes in it. i have sillica stone growing median but planned on haveing a small coco fiber potter inside the sillica stone and put the seed in a peat pellete i think there called.. well put the peat thing in the coco fiber potter...

I have 2 air pumps one is a single and has a stone and the other is a double but i have one hose hooked up to both for more air in one stone. so 2 stones total.. i have 2 cfl's both 23w i think 100w equvilant on a 18/6 cycle about 9 inch from where the seed is ganna be. For reflection i had to go cheap and get one of those things u put in the windshield of the car.. i have a small fan in there for ventillation.

As far as nutes i have super thrive, and was ganna use schultz plant food 10-15-10. and i had this Rootone rooting hormone i was wondering if i should is or is that just for cloning..

I Know im not ganna get much from it but i was trying to do it as a hobby and a lil smoke... but would like to try to get as much as i can and the best i can of course as does about anyone... i want to try and bush it out a lil because of the hight problem having maybe 19 inch's if the lamps are not on top..

i was wondering about co2 i have a small co2 tank.. for my paintball gun i was thinking about spaying in there every once in a while when i start to flower.. and i have another question... how can i make it so u cant see the lights from the outside.. as u seen in one of the pics...

Am i doing things right so far??? Any tips would be nice and if u want to tell me what im doing wrong then thats good too ..



just showing an update on how my setup is going... its been a while but hey ill update it... i made my own dwc and got a plant from soil and transferred it into the hydro. the plant has been doing GREAT.. the plant i put in the hydro had a lil sister that stayed in soil and man has the girl in hydro out grow the soil....
pic 1:leaf: early days both in soil 9-6
2:leaf: girl in hyrdo 7th day 9-30
3&4:leaf: the sister in soil 9-30
5,6&7 :leaf: hydro 12in diameter 11-2
8:leaf: the roots from the girl
9&10:leaf: the soil sister.....
11:leaf: old cab set up...
12:leaf: new cab set up

the hydro i did LST to keep hight down to min after about 5 inch it curves to the side... i have all side shoots tied down .. if it stood up it would be 17 in with about 22 nodes on the main stalk... thats pretty good i think with clfs...

the soil sister is about 14 in with about 18 nodes on main stalk... topped it once at the very top...
 

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thnx.. yeah i love how bushy it is... ganna take a few clones off the bottom soon as i get my clone cab ready
 
Awesome. How did u plan on cloning? Seems like you have taken alot of knowledge and put together a nice system.Dwc is so simple and as you start off into u will notice you can do all kinds of things with water levels and such to mimmick all the hydro styles inside ur buckets.
 
Hey bro ive found cloning in a simple cup of water in indirect light was the easiest way to clone.AS long as you follow normal ways of cutting and scraping the base of ur cutting and change the water in the cup daily.It has already been described thousands of times on this site i think u will find this the easiest technique although there are several ways to clone, this one involves alot less elements. And in my own experience i guess was the easiest.
Here is a pic of some clones i took 3- 4 weeks into flower(notice the fully matured bud sites) using this technique.Keep in mind that clones take more or less time to establish depending on which stage u take ur cutting at. These ones here are about 2.5 weeks in the cup and barely starting to get my first bumps of root formation.Ive had clones take only 2 days for fist signs of root formation. Like i said it depends on flower and veg stages.hope this helps.keep in mind once roots are established u can place clones in any medium u want.

This is a post i placed in another thread hope it helps.
 

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yeah thnx for the info but my internet has been down for a while.... ohh and my girls are doing great tho... i took 5 clones off of the hydro and put them into a SMALL dwc ... i put all 5 into a res that doesnt even hold half gal.... its really small but i love it.. its been a lil over a month now and the clones =have grown a lot... 2 of the 5 are at least a foot tall now with wonderfull buds the other 3 are only about 6-8 inch with smaller buds growing..
when i took the clones i uesd superthrive and clonex. placed them into rockwool and put her in my dwc setup... lots of ppl told me that rockwool and dcw dont mix well. mold will come up manny ppl told me but i have had NO problems.... i just wish i could get some of my pics on...
 
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