Dontcough's First Hydro Grow (2 Plant Closet DWC) White Widow & Critical + Automatic

toastynoodles said:

Plants looking good bro,Your ppm meters is on what scale .5 or .7 ??

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I wish I knew, it didn't say anywhere in the instructional booklet or the ebay auction unfortunately.

Dontcough said:

I wish I knew, it didn't say anywhere in the instructional booklet or the ebay auction unfortunately.

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On it somewhere it should say if it is calibrated with NaCl or the other calibration (Not remembering that one right now). If it is the NaCl it is .5. It's actually kind of important to know so that you don't drastically overfeed or underfeed your plants. My bet is that you have the .5 scale based on what you've posted about your PPM levels.

I've been keeping up with the plants, both are going nicely. The Widow has finally started to flower about 4 days ago, it has stretched quite a bit and finally caught up in height to the Critical +. I will clean reservoirs and swap nutrients sometime this weekend. Pics to follow.

looking good man. im finding dwc a lot easier than soil. my ppm has been around 1100 with white widow from the start, she is a hungry fucker... what height did she start flowering and how long after the switch did it take to start showing pistils. mine's been flipped a week and has grown 11" but no budsites forming yet

brettsog said:

looking good man. im finding dwc a lot easier than soil. my ppm has been around 1100 with white widow from the start, she is a hungry fucker... what height did she start flowering and how long after the switch did it take to start showing pistils. mine's been flipped a week and has grown 11" but no budsites forming yet

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Hmm, well the height of the plant will vary according to environmental factors of which the plant resides in so my setup can differ from yours according to light levels, factors that may need to be considered is topping/fimming/LST, amount of light, and the light absorption factor of nearby walls if applicable. Having said that my plant was about 4' from the top of the medium when it finally started to flower and show pistils. It took about 2 weeks after switch to show up. I'm definitely enjoying DWC as well, so much O2. Your budsights will be there soon enough

Took some pics as I changed the water and cleaned the reservoirs, added nutes and measured

White Widow



Critical + Auto



Just got a new addon and a part of it repaired

Wow nice grow,i got 1 of those and i have found when you get high Res,temps over 70f causes alot of issues.Instead of putting frozen bottles i n res.I have mine sitting in a plastic box full of water and put the frozen bottles in that water.Less stress from rapid temp.change,i keep a probe from a digatal meter i use in my HVAC bus.Just my 2 cents.WW looks awesome and you wont be dissappointed.BEECH, SUBB +rep

Cleaned and changed out reservoirs today, week 9 of nutrients added. Not sure if my tds meter is acting up or not but the ppm was quite a bit lower this round but the feeding schedule did change so that may explain it. Might have to harvest C+ earlier than I planned, I'm going to go magnifying glass shopping soon so I can get a closer look at the trichomes to see if their cloudy as I read thats the best indicator of when it's time to harvest. Talk about delayed gratification

White Widow
75 F
5.5 pH
380 ppm



Critical + Automatic
75 F
5.5 pH
380 ppm

Yeah when u start ur nutes use 1/4 strength at first then work ur way up

radio shack on the scope

Woo lotta love in here. Glad I can have you fellas along for the ride. Closet is smelling extra good today, I guess that flora nectar is working properly. I tied some of the smaller branches on the Critical + to the main ones due to the bud growth being too heavy for the stems lol. Took a couple pics of the closet today; although the plants look great their are definitely some slight modifications I will make on the next grow. I will highlight concerns I can improve on after this harvest.

Dontcough said:

Woo lotta love in here. Glad I can have you fellas along for the ride. Closet is smelling extra good today, I guess that flora nectar is working properly. I tied some of the smaller branches on the Critical + to the main ones due to the bud growth being too heavy for the stems lol. Took a couple pics of the closet today; although the plants look great their are definitely some slight modifications I will make on the next grow. I will highlight concerns I can improve on after this harvest.

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Harvested the Critical + Auto today after purchasing a good 60-100x microscope and getting a good look at the trichomes. The White Widow will keep growing and now I'll be able to add the two air stones from the other bucket to this one. The White Widow is looking like it will be yielding even more than the Critical + Auto. Unfortunately I do not have a scale so I don't know exactly how much yield but these pictures should help.

Very nice,Well done DC.Yea the WW can be or mine were great yielders and one of my Favs.Will look like it snowed on em when done.
BEECH

woohoo. waitin on the smoke report.

Some pics of the Critical + Automatic harvest a 3 days into drying.

nice bud porn.... im hoping for something similar. hows the WW doing? im doing WW dwc at the minute so it will be nice to compare..

brettsog said:

nice bud porn.... im hoping for something similar. hows the WW doing? im doing WW dwc at the minute so it will be nice to compare..

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Ask and you shall receive,

White Widow



Made some isohash with the trimmings from the Critical + Auto yesterday, tasted wonderful very fruity and sweet (Flora Nectar?). The White Widow is looking great, I'm going to have to raise the light yet again soon looks like some of the leaves have a bit of heat stress but damn does that bud look good. It gets a little bit bigger every day. Looks like when it's finished I'll have about two arm size colas to drool over.

Timber.How much time till harvest