First Grow - Criticism Wanted

5BY5LEC

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Update:
I changed the res for a weekly change. Added Orca and Hydroguard along with Armor Si and GH nutrients. PPM's are 350-375. PH is between 5.7-6.2. Looking good so far....I noticed the plants are growing additonal leaves in a couple different places other than the top of the plant. They grew side leaves overnight. The stems are starting to look pretty substantial as well. In just a week they have doubled in size and seem to be growing faster each day.
OG Kush is still small but I will let it do its thing as long as it is healthy.

Feel free to post comments or concerns!
Mama Mia (Mazari Hybrid) 1
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Mama Mia 2
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OG Kush
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5BY5LEC

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One more. This was a MM on the 14th of July
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This is as it sits today
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I am cool with that. I am seeing results.
 

5BY5LEC

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So I found a guy on Craigslist who was selling three very nice EcoPLus 1/4 horse chiller. I got one for 175. Soaking in Physan because it had water sitting in it. I am going to hook it up Sunday. This will help ensure a juicy harvest.
There is no dust on the filters or the coils. Even the fan is clean. No signs of leakage. I think this was a good investment.WP_20180803_18_06_36_Pro.jpg
 

WaterDog

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So I found a guy on Craigslist who was selling three very nice EcoPLus 1/4 horse chiller. I got one for 175. Soaking in Physan because it had water sitting in it. I am going to hook it up Sunday. This will help ensure a juicy harvest.
There is no dust on the filters or the coils. Even the fan is clean. No signs of leakage. I think this was a good investment.View attachment 4175730
indeed. Nice find. Good luck looking good, plan ahead seems when things take off its easy to get behind
 

5BY5LEC

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Well, take off they have. The first picture is from the third.
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The fucking things doubled at least, in only three days. I took this picture an hour ago.
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5BY5LEC

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In case anybody is wondering, I am feeding them very very light on the nutes. Here is what I am going as far as nutrients
Tap Water - 70ppm
Armor Si - 1.75ml/gal
GH Trio, Equal Parts - 1.75ml/gal
Hydroguard and Orca 5ml/gal each
PPM is at 350-380 total. That is only 250ppm nutes.
PH is always 5.7-6.0 It moves around very little.
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5BY5LEC

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Update:

I topped them all last night and they just kept growing. I never even noticed any growth stopping from the trimming. Here is a comparison from just overnight. You can see the amount of growth just in 7 or 8 hours. Its already pushing out new growth.

Question for the Pro's : My nutrients are quite low. 100ppm base water plus 250ppm GH Trio nutes. SHOULD I leave the nutes alone. I mean the plants are telling me they are happy, best I can tell.
If it aint broke dont fix it right, but I am not sure if it works like that with Herb.
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Redman87

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Nice set up I like how well you insulated the pails. I have a 8 site rdwc on my second run. I’d say u would be ok raising it up to at least 500 ppm. The highest I took mine in veg this go was 1050. FBE9A202-DD65-437E-AC74-2D49D6C71171.jpeg

This is the girls right now 3.5 weeks since the switch
 

5BY5LEC

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Heck yeah, looking good. I am at about 400-450 right now. I had two cheap tds meters. I got a nice bluelab meter and it reads 50 ppm higher than the cheapies. I will post some new pics tonight when the light comes on.
 

5BY5LEC

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Thanks!
Update
I have gotten a chiller and am keeping the water at 66-68. I did not have any rot problems before but the chiller was a great deal.
I changed my reservoir water and upped the nutrients about 70ppm. That made it around 425-475ppm depending on which meter I used. Minus the water which is 100 equals about 350ppm.
Two days later I am showing very, very slight browing/whitening of the very tips of the leaves. I drained and added two gallons of water which got my PPMs back to 350-400, where they were last week.
Growth has not stopped at all so I think I only very slighly overdid it.
I think the nutrient issue is something all people with RDWC run into when growing new plants. I plan on cloning these and if I am successful I will grow another batch so I can further tune the system and the strain.
I am also getting some very slight browing along the leaf edges. I dont know if is has to do with the nutrients or what but I will post a pic of it so I can keep track of it.
If anybody knows what this is feel free to chime in

Looking good overall
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Slight browing of new growth tips
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A slight brown spot
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The browning along the edges
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The system
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Redman87

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I don’t know much about the nutrients that you use. But advance nutrients ph perfect is what I’ve been using I was skeptical at first. But I haven’t touched the ph pen in my whole last grow. I did try mixing hydrozyme in and it shot the ph out of whack. I’m testing big bud this time around although I have nothing to compare it to because I have nothing to compare it to ran a different strain last round.

Also I know it’s not recommended but I’m getting away with res changes every 4 weeks cutting down on work and costs. Anyways I’m not a sales rep but it’s super easy for beginners like me.
 

5BY5LEC

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Well earlier this website kept giving me errors when I tried to upload my pictures. Haha it uploaded them several times. Need to fix that.
I am just going to take a good whiff of the res each morning and when the smell changes I will change it. With the chiller, orca and hydroguard it really does not smell like anything right now.
I have been reading about that ph perfect but I have been so busy with other stuff besides the plants I have not really sat down and studied it.
 

5BY5LEC

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Here is an update. I am trying to sort out a problem with the og. Other than that everything is looking ok. I fixed the heat stress problems and I think I am going to add a little bit of calmag in with my next res change.
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5BY5LEC

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I added 2ml of calmag to the system. The bottle calls for 5ml/gal so that is a good starting point. My water from the tap was 80ppm now it is 150ppm starting.
I also started LST with the plants as I had topped them a week or two back. The stems are nice and flexible and they bent easily. I tied the four main stems down to the top of the buckets. In only an hour I can see all the empty space filling in. These plants grow really fast! I am thinking to switch to 12/12 at the end of this month. They are almost a foot tall now.
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The tent.

A plant tied down.
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I am going to buy the Phillips Agro CMH flowering bulb before I switch. It only about 70 bucks and I think it will pay for itself in yeild, based on what I have seen.
 

5BY5LEC

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Just for comparison, the first picture was taken Aug 3rd.

Aug 3rd
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Aug 13th
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I mean call me a newb but to my eyes that is a hell of a lot of growth for ten days. I am certainly going to be able to switch them to flower at least a month earlier than I thought. Does this sound right to the pro's?
 

5BY5LEC

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For anyone that wants to know, here is what has been in the res the last week.
Ph-5.6-5.8 and slowwwly rising
PPM's started at 350 (100ppm base) and have dropped to 320-330. Any more than 400 or so and it throws tips and does weird shit.
1.75ml/gal Armor Si
5ml/gal Hydroguard
5ml/gal Orca
1.75ml Gal - GH Flora Trio equal parts
PH Down to 5.6 (Around 1.75ml.gal for me)
Water Temp 66-69
 
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