Dropa Dope My First Grow Journal 400 Watt RDWC 02/17/2010

Dropastone said:

What's up man? Yeah I'm really pleased with the bubble cloner. I had roots just starting to show @ day 7.

Although I got give all the credit to my main man ClosetGrowth for giving me the info on how to make it.

Don't be a stranger.

Peace.

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Thanks for the words Dropa,

Just wanted to help ya out is all.

Its a pain in the ass to sex, and get em mature if your growing from seed..yadayada..

Now, you have the plants for the next round.

Easy...

Yea, I really dig the cloning bucket myself.

Always roots the clones, and the fatality rate is next to nothing.

I like to keep things uniform around here(not cop uniform).

All Dwc buckets at this pad.

But, I will try 2 soil plants with my favorite soil ferts.. Jacks' Professional..Aka Peters.

So, Ill be doing 8 under my thouie next round.

6 bubblers and 2 soils.

And im very excited to be adding the Northern Lights #5.. awesome strain.

Sorry for rambling..

CG Out!!

Not a problem CG ramble all you want on my thread brah.

I got to get off this computer for awhile. I've been on here since 6AM this morning. I think I'm gonna go play fetch with the beast for awhile. He's been grunting and groaning for me to play with him for the past 2 hours.

I'll be back.

Peace homey.

your setup looks very pro. sub'd. i'll take a better look when time allows. peace

donkey.420 said:

your setup looks very pro. sub'd. i'll take a better look when time allows. peace

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Right on man and welcome aboard. I"m glad you stopped bye.

Drops, what up man, nice job on the clones, wish I could do that but because of the heat my grow season is coming to an end, hopefully I will have enough to last till next time, after this harvest of course. Getting close... This new RUI is fuckin me up, I like it though.
Peace

Hey LZ. Yeah thanks bro. I was going through withdrawals for the past 24hrs with the site being down. I'm not sure if I like this new design just yet but I guess that I'll have too.

Peace.

Here's an update for all my dedicated followers.

I don't know if it's just me or if it's because this is my first indoor grow. Or maybe I just don't know what to expect but I feel this plant is on the skimpy side. I guess I leave that up to the experts to decide.

On with the show followed by some Q&A.















Here's the clones at day 13. Them roots are really starting to take off.



I'm getting some discolored leaves on my girl. I think I've diagnosed it to be a pH problem or possibly nute lockout. It's most likely the pH. My PPM has been around 1200. I don't think its nute burn because It seems to be just affecting the main sucker leaves and a few smaller ones.

Would that be normal for a plant 3 weeks into flower to be losing color and start dieing off already?

I just did a complete res change again and calibrated my pH meter. It was 4 tenths off. I had been running about 6.2 but actually it was more like 6.6

Take a look at these leaves and tell me what you think.





I could use a little feedback on this one please.

Another Question for all you experts out there. At what point should I start trimming some of the lower branches off to increase production up top? Would now be a good time?

Good Morning Dropa

I looked at your thermometer, and does it read 89 degrees?

Or is that something else?

May be getting too warm in there.

One more thing, 5.8-6.1 is where it should be at.

CLOSETGROWTH said:

Good Morning Dropa

I looked at your thermometer, and does it read 89 degrees?

Or is that something else?

May be getting too warm in there.

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Yeah good morning to you to CG.

Good eye man but that thermometer is on its way out I just picked it up and it went dead. It's a low battery giving false reading.

Here what the real temp is in their at the moment.

CLOSETGROWTH said:

One more thing, 5.8-6.1 is where it should be at.

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Yeah at the beginning of the last res change is was 5.5 but over the course of the week it slowly rose to 6.2 and leveled off. SO I just left it there for about 2 days. It's reading a steady 5.9 now and the ppm has dropped down to 1120 since 3AM this morning.

Oh, Ok.. Gotcha.

Hmmmm... And what nutes or additives have you been using?

How Ironic,

I just bought a new digital meter yesterday!! hahahaaa!

Should be getting my Digigro co2 controller today

Like Christmas all over again.

Just GH nutes at 1-2-3. plus I added flora shield to the last batch but this batch is just straight GH nutes . I'm really starting to wonder about that flora shield because I never seem to have any problems until I put that stuff in my res. You know it was in there the whole time for about a week. Maybe it acts differently with MJ than it would with ordinary garden vegetables. What ever the case may be I'm not gonna use it anymore until it's ready to chop.

CLOSETGROWTH said:

How Ironic,

I just bought a new digital meter yesterday!! hahahaaa!

Should be getting my Digigro co2 controller today

Like Christmas all over again.

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Nice...........

Might wanna think about the lucas method brah.. Its working fantastic on this end. 0-8-16 change res every two weeks. Just top off w/ water Simple as that.

How about chopping off some of the lower branches? At what point in time do you start getting rid of the lower growth?

I hate additives... They always fuck shit up..

Dropastone said:

How about chopping off some of the lower branches? At what point in time do you start getting rid of the lower growth?

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I usually get rid of the lower branches the first day of 12/12, and 30 days later I remove only the leaves that are covering bud sites..

Cool I think I'm gonna start getting rid of some lower growth then. Yesterday I strung up some branches to get more light to em. Also at what point in time do your leaves start dying off in flower?