1st grow in a long time⁴

checked on her this morning temps are low 70s. rockwool still seems pretty wet and i havent watered in 2 days [31grams weight] so intook her out of the bucket and placed the cube on top of the netlid only because she looks anlittle droopy. ill check on her around 2pm today see if it dried out a little bit. root looked white except a tinge of brown in the middle.. also i moved the light down to 29 inches it was about 33

rockwool is starting to dry out plant looks like she isndrooping from overwater. rockwool is on the topnog the netpot and the solution is on the bottom may raise it s little bit. hoping it dries out more and she perks up. temps are 72f 33 humidity and light is 30inches away

day 4 above groubd
after drowning her a little she recovered and everything seems ok
root is poking out of the bottom of the netpot. i put a lid to get rid of light going to res.not sure how long before she roots out the net pot. i have the water touxhing the bottom of the netpot so its sbout inches away from roots through growstones
res, control bucket and dwc bucket are 5.7ph with an ec of 0.7. (0.4 calmag 0.3 maxigrow)
yayyy i think i can i think i can

day 6
My new net pot came in today with the air channel I lowered the water down to 3 gallons which put about an 8th to a quarter of an inch below the mat put the rock wool on the channel after I cut a slightly larger hole surrounded it with rock and covered it with mirror tape looks pretty good the test rock will I had was getting very very very lightly touched by bubbles not enough to even so get after 2 hours so I wanted her were day 6 I can see 2 to 3 roots poking out the bottom hopefully she will start to take off

day 14
ph was 5.6 climbed to 6.0 reset to 5.7
ec went from 0.8 to 0.9
1 gallon mixed tap 0.4, rapids 0.1ec, maxi 0.1
reset ec to 0.8.
white foam is present but with pondzyme res smells clean roots are white and she looks a little more healthy. i raised the hlg135 all the way up thinking maybe its too strong ill just let her grow into it although i wish i could mount it to the top of the ceiling and not hang 12 inches. [may extend ballast out of tent with longer wire. hoping by sunday she starts taking off

day 23
do u guys think i should keep pushing it doesnt look any bigger to me rootwise or plant wise. or should i scrap clean and restart.
i got new airstones and valves. ph started at 5.6 at 7am yesterday. raised to 6.5 tonight so i reset to 5.6ph. ec is holding at 1.0. i have wettable mykos coming tonight from extreme gardens i was gonna throw 2 tsp in and see if it helped roots. ineed suggestions

IMO your EC is a bit high for this stage, your PH is a little low, I have found 5.8 - 6.1 to work best in DWC but I think your biggest problem is your air pump if my calculations are correct it's only about 4l per minute? I'm from the UK so not sure about gallons lol.

Also that tin foil will cause hotspots so I would remove it.

Oh damn I never noticed you were doing an autoflower and it looks like its starting to bloom?

no my airpump is 750gph which is about 12 gallons per minute which would be around 48lpm
it is an auto and has white hairs i stunted her for 2 weeks being an ass so thats why im not sure.
i let my ph swing from 5.65 to 6.2

sigh well my basement closet is almost done so maybe this weekend ill tear down and start again down there sighhhhhhh

MrGreenFingers99 said:

IMO your EC is a bit high for this stage, your PH is a little low, I have found 5.8 - 6.1 to work best in DWC but I think your biggest problem is your air pump if my calculations are correct it's only about 4l per minute? I'm from the UK so not sure about gallons lol.

Also that tin foil will cause hotspots so I would remove it.

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not.tin foil its HVAC foil tspe

Huh it sounds like you have everything in hand set up wise but your roots should be a lot bigger, man normally I wouldn't advise to pull a plant but your not going to get anything off that really if it's starting to flower already.

If you do restart though I would go with photoperiod instead of autoflowers, yeah it takes a few weeks more but autos can be fiddly, you can get bad genetics, easy to stunt and considering you are doing 1 plant in a 2x2 you will have a lot more control in terms of training it into the space and flipping when your ready.

MrGreenFingers99 said:

If you do restart though I would go with photoperiod instead of autoflowers, yeah it takes a few weeks more but autos can be fiddly, you can get bad genetics, easy to stunt and considering you are doing 1 plant in a 2x2 you will have a lot more control in terms of training it into the space and flipping when your ready.

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yeah im good eith everything what screwanke everytime is the seedling sprout phase. i can get then to germ i movr them to rockwool but inalways seem to over or underwater before the roots get intk the rez....once im in the rez im golden i leave july 1st tonthe 4th ill restart then i have sll autos except 1 zkittles thats a photo so maybe ill try that

jtrain252 said:

yeah im good eith everything what screwanke everytime is the seedling sprout phase. i can get then to germ i movr them to rockwool but inalways seem to over or underwater before the roots get intk the rez....once im in the rez im golden i leave july 1st tonthe 4th ill restart then i have sll autos except 1 zkittles thats a photo so maybe ill try that

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I just keep it simple, soak rockwool cube in root stim and PH water, gently shake off excess water, put the seed in the hole, cover hole with a corner of cube, put cube in a tupaware box with the lid on, wrap a towel around tupaware box and place on router, normally sprouted within 3 days max, then when the taproot has pierced the bottom of the cube its straight into my system, IMO the quicker the taproot gets into the res the better especially with autos as time is against you.

looks pro man, good luck, ill be checking

This is how I set up my net pots so there is a direct route into the res, I cut a hole in the main net pot and then get a smaller cloning pot and turn it upside down, then place the cube on top, this way roots are in the res within 3 days of sprouting.

MrGreenFingers99 said:

I just keep it simple, soak rockwool cube in root stim and PH water, gently shake off excess water, put the seed in the hole, cover hole with a corner of cube, put cube in a tupaware box with the lid on, wrap a towel around tupaware box and place on router, normally sprouted within 3 days max, then when the taproot has pierced the bottom of the cube its straight into my system, IMO the quicker the taproot gets into the res the better especially with autos as time is against you.

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so u keep the rockwool cube in the tupperwear when it sprouts until the root pokes out? inwaitedbuntil it sprouted and then put itninto these then i had issues determing whether it was wet or notm what root stim do u use

MrGreenFingers99 said:

This is how I set up my net pots so there is a direct route into the res, I cut a hole in the main net pot and then get a smaller cloning pot and turn it upside down, then place the cube on top, this way roots are in the res within 3 days of sprouting.

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i bought a rhizocore netpot same concept

jtrain252 said:

so u keep the rockwool cube in the tupperwear when it sprouts until the root pokes out? inwaitedbuntil it sprouted and then put itninto these then i had issues determing whether it was wet or notm what root stim do u use

i bought a rhizocore netpot same concept

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Yeah I leave it in the tupaware box but with the lid off and under the lights in the tent, I mean you could just put it straight into the system but I like to see where the taproot comes out as not always in the centre of the cube as I like to position it so I know it's going straight to the res.

ahes def srunted and tiny statted blooming i think itll be 3 grams lol next time ill do the tupperwear thing itll be easier tonsee if its drying out snd i wont overwater and slmost kill her

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ahes def srunted and tiny statted blooming i think itll be 3 grams lol next time ill do the tupperwear thing itll be easier tonsee if its drying out snd i wont overwater and slmost kill herView attachment 4585887View attachment 4585888

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Yeah that's the problem with Autos, you never know if your gonna get a beast or a runt and they are very sensitive which is why I suggested doing photos if only doing 1 plant